I'm speaking, of course, of Lluis Colet and what he did on a railway station platform in Perpignan, France, a week ago. Oh, give me a break. Babe Ruth hit 60 homers while drawing his sole sustenance from beer, hot dogs and whatever he could snag off his teammates' dinner plates before they smacked his hand away.
Wimps take steroids.
Real men put their bellies into it. Colet, for those of you who haven't heard, earned a place in the record books for delivering the world's longest speech. He spoke nonstop for 24 hours and 21 minutes, aided only by sips of water, beer and wine. The subject of and inspiration for Colet's speech was the surrealist painter Salvador Dali, who 33 years ago stepped out onto the railway platform at Perpignan and loudly declared it the center of the universe. Why Dali did this no one really knows, because he quickly got back on the train and left, apparently never to speak of Perpignan again.