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What? No threads on the amazing Monsieur Mangetout as mentioned by David on this weeks Paracast???

And yes he wasn't joking (yeah I know its sometimes difficult to tell:p) ... Monsieur Mangetout really did eat a Cessna light aircraft. As a kid I used to get the Guiness Book of Records Annual every year for Xmas, and Monsieur Mangetout was one of my favourite things to check up on along with Robert Pershing Wadlow (the worlds tallest man).

Anyway just checked Monsieur Mangetout on Wikipedia, and apparently he died in 2007 just after his 57th birthday ... which is a bit sad really considering I always thought he would live forever. Well if he could eat large metal objects then he must be some sort of superhero ... no?? Oh well ... another illusion shattered.

Heres the link to the very short wikipedia entry on the greatest gastronaut in the entire history of the universe, Monsieur Mangetout:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

Oh and here's the great Monsieur Mangetout in person on youtube:


Now where are those antacid tablets? ...
 
David Biedny said:
Wow, thanks for digging that up! I can't believe he died - I also thought he would live forever. Truly a one-of-a-kind.

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Thanks for that dB. Yep he was bit of a god really :D. Definitely one of those people fiction writers could never dream up unless they were intoxicated with some mad drug or other ... and, of course, possibly yet another piece of proof that God does not exist. Well him, platypuses and those strange fish with mirrors for eyes rather than lenses anyway :D.

RIP Monsieur Mangetout
 
A real shame that he died...I wonder how many kids tried to copy him by eating a pencil or their homework only to find out that paper and plastic etc... doesn't taste that great? And he did it all without ketchup or chutney!

Truly a great and fascinating man.
 
Bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him sick?! I remember seeing that guy on 'That's Incredible' when I was a kid. I believe they showed him eat an airplane and a television set, one of those funky old '70's models, with a light-bulb thrown in for an appetizer. I remember wondering, as a young child, what kind of a poop that's gonna make. I wonder what caused his death.
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