Lol.

[Ersan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6178659.stm

[leet_muffin]

Hahahha. Wish I could have seen that in person. Heheheh.

[Blaze]

Pffft. I've seen bigger. 

[disco]

Keep it on the basketball court, pal.


Wait, what?

[Joe]

How credible is that article? Wikipedia says the tallest man was eight foot eleven. And if they're talking about tallest man alive, IIRC, half the Wisconsin Badgers (football) are over 8 feet tall.

[dark_drake]

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How credible is that article? Wikipedia says the tallest man was eight foot eleven. And if they're talking about tallest man alive, IIRC, half the Wisconsin Badgers (football) are over 8 feet tall.

................Xishun is the tallest man alive according to Guinness World Records; Robert Pershing Wadlow is dead, so that automatically disqualifies him from this contest.  On a side note, Wikipedia has two other men listed claiming to be 8 ft. 4 in., but apparently those results have not been verified independently.

[Killer360]

x86] link=topic=8164.msg102922#msg102922 date=1166260539]
How credible is that article? Wikipedia says the tallest man was eight foot eleven. And if they're talking about tallest man alive, IIRC, half the Wisconsin Badgers (football) are over 8 feet tall.

Wikipedia isn't always right.  :P

[d&q]

In this case, it is. I have the latest edition of the Guinness Book of World Records and they list Xi Shun as the tallest man alive.