Happy New Year
As you probably know, 2007 has been officially designated as The Year of the Sprout and to celebrate I intend to attempt to break the world record for the most Brussel sprouts eaten during the course of a year.
The record is currently held by Elmer Hogwash of Des Moines, Iowa, USA who ate over 280,000 sprouts between January 2002 and the following September when he suddenly gave up for reasons that still remain unclear.
Well, I'm going to try to reach the magic number of 500,000 sprouts eaten. That's half a million sprouts eaten over the course of a year. This works out at about 77 sprouts an hour, assuming I'm eating for 20 hours a day.
I'll be helped in my quest by the knowledge that every sprout I eat is raising money for a good cause. I'm asking people to sponsor me so that I can raise money for the Greater Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Little Children.
So that's where you can help. Even if you only sponsor a penny a sprout that will still be 50,000 pounds raised just by your contribution alone.
So don't be stingy. Anyone offering ten pence or more per sprout will be entitled to have a sprout named after them.
And now I must go to get in some practice before the serious eating starts tomorrow.
A sprout-related link:
Sprout record
1 comment:
I may have made an error in my sprout eating calculations.
500,000 divided by 365 days of the year = 1369.863013698630136986301369863 sprouts per day, give or take the odd sprout.
Let's call it 1370. And I think I'll reduce my sprout eating day from 20 to 10 hours.
So that's 1370 divided by 10 equals 137 sprouts per hour(sph).
If I aim for 150 sph, then I could build up a surplus and have a day off every eleven days or so. Or more likely I would still eat a few sprouts on that day, but not quite so many.
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