https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/10954546 ... r-orthmannWalter Orthmann started working at a textile company in Brazil as a teenager. Now, after turning 100 this month, he has shattered the world record for the longest career at the same company.
For 84 years and nine days, as verified in January, Orthmann has been working at what is now known as ReneauxView, according to Guinness World Records. In those eight decades, he has collected pay in nine currencies.
Not quite amazing, but still...
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Not quite amazing, but still...
I'll start:
“The Turkey Trot, Grizzly Bear and Other Naughty Diversions”
“Starting as if in the good old-fashioned Two-Step, the dancers suddenly let go hands, the man slipping behind his fair companion, there is a little step and a hop, something like a turkey might be expected to do, then a fresh grip around the waist of the young lady, the man snuggles up ever so closely behind her and they hop, skip and jump and half run along.”
“Starting as if in the good old-fashioned Two-Step, the dancers suddenly let go hands, the man slipping behind his fair companion, there is a little step and a hop, something like a turkey might be expected to do, then a fresh grip around the waist of the young lady, the man snuggles up ever so closely behind her and they hop, skip and jump and half run along.”
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Re: Not quite amazing, but still...
Makes my 41 years at the one school look a bit minimal... 
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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