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Most useless hobby

  • 11-05-2006 10:35pm
    #1
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭


    There are some odd hobbies out there - ships in bottles, collecting stamps, golf, landscaping for trainsets, building things using burnt matches etc but I think this one takes the cake.
    After 16 years at the typewriter, Les Stewart from Mudjimba (Australia) is a millionaire. On 25 November 1998, he reached his goal of typing all numbers from one to one million - in words (not numbers) on his manual machine.

    Now why would someone even think of that in the first place, never mind sticking to it for sixteen years?

    I guess it's world record rather than a hobby but still...

    http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/typing.html


Comments

  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Probably had a couple of sponsors and some money on himself :)


  • #3
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    A couple of sponsers does not condone spending 16 years on a typewriter!! He needs to get a life... or a girlfriend!


  • #4
    Blackjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭Blackjack


    Way too much time on his hands, clearly.


  • #5
    Dirk Gently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    even with one finger, what took him so long?


  • #6
    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    Yep, I think that takes the biscuit as the most pointless thing for someone to do. Imagine he had put his mind down to something useful like helping build world peace or something.


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  • #7
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Les wrote:
    Les says that he has little else to do now that he has been classed as an invalid, and can no longer work
    And that's the thing that he spends all his time on?

    Biggest waste of time EVAR!


  • #8
    18AD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭18AD


    Pfft, it's not backwards.


  • #9
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    I'm gonna get my dad to do that... it's the only way he'll learn to poxy type!!!


  • #10
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    You're aware that he completed this in 1998? Clearly, if he's still classed as an invalid now and still has nothing to do all day, he's playing WoW.


  • #11
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Well, a hobby isn't necessarily supposed to be useful - all that matters it that it allows a person to spend their spare time in a way they enjoy. Although, if he enjoyed that he has problems says Dr. Simu.


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  • #12
    conky_05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭conky_05


    he should start his new project and count backwards from a million. that'll be 32 years in total ! and 32 years well spent, may i add ...


  • #13
    pbsuxok1znja4r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭pbsuxok1znja4r


    I don't think he actually even made any money out of it, BTW. Horribly regrettable waste of time.


  • #14
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    OCD.


  • #15
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    It looks like quite a weighty tome. I think I'll just wait for the movie version.


  • #16
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    I don't know.... I spent 14 years learning Irish. Not exactly a hobby, I know, but I think I've got him in the pontlessness stakes...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #17
    blu_sonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭blu_sonic


    Ikky Poo2 wrote:
    I don't know.... I spent 14 years learning Irish. Not exactly a hobby, I know, but I think I've got him in the pontlessness stakes...
    ha ha

    what does he do now?


  • #18
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Try for a billion?


  • #19
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,574 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    biko wrote:
    Most useless hobby ...
    ... posting on the intarweb!!!


  • #20
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    blu_sonic wrote:
    ha ha

    what does he do now?

    Writes out all the numbers in Irish, obviously.


  • #21
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    was watching a program on tv earlier and it had a guy who collected football boots...


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  • #22
    Teg Veece
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭Teg Veece


    If someone with a wpm average of 0.1183 can set a record in the field of typing then I think there's hope for us all.


  • #23
    spidermonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 490 ✭✭spidermonkey


    maybe he's publishing it on the internet?


    any day now...


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