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Old 06-15-2007, 04:34 PM   #7 (permalink)
emjay
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Originally Posted by j69
Wow short film makes it in the records book.
Yeah, there's all sorts of stuff in there. Like Les Stewart from Australia. On 25 November 1998, after 16 years sitting on a typewriter, he reached his goal of typing all numbers from one to one million - in words (not numbers) on his manual machine.

It took seven manual typewriters, 1000 ink ribbons, 19,890 pages, 16 years and seven months later, he finished with the lines.

Sad guy.

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