Talk:Pole sitting

message: *Delete patent nonesense! Jschwa1 12:57, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Delete proposal

message: Why does the article say the fad started in 1924 when the Recent Additions page speaks of an 1842 occurence???
:Yes, and the article also mentions that a record was broken in 1930, but that the fad lasted from 1924 to 1929. Can this be fixed? Badagnani (talk) 06:26, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates of fad

message: According to numerous web pages, the record is held by Frank Perkins and is 399 days. http://www.trivia-library.com/b/biography-of-father-of-flagpole-sitting-saint-simeon-stylites-part-2.htm
Unfortunately this is confused by the fact that there is also an urban legend using Frank's name which states that he came down 8 hours shy of the previous record, and his girlfriend left him, and some other nonsense. Snopes says in their write-up about this urban legend that Frank Perkins is in fact the real record holder but the rest of the legend is false.
I wouldn't want to think poor Frank sat up on that pole for 399 days only to be forgotten! I don't know anything about editing wikipedia but if someone out there does, please confirm this information and add it. Thanks. 67.168.84.233 17:14, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Record

message: "The gimmick he pioneered was ruined by people trying to cash in on his idea without being willing to take it all the way. Kelly died of a heart attack, penniless, on the street nearby the same movie theater at which he performed his first 13 day sit, clutching a binding of newspaper clippings from his time as the king of flagpole sitting. [I made this account to do Alvin Kelly some justice on wikipedia, everything is true, check archive.org or yourememberedthat.com or bathroomreader.com, please cite this for me, I don't have the time to learn how to properly cite these additions when I will never use the knowledge again as I don't plan to work on anything else on this site]"
That is heavily biased. Whilst there does seem to be some useful information, it lacks objectivity.
In addition, i have no idea what is going on with those square brackets.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.160.250.14 (talk) 07:02, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed (by someone else). Maikel (talk) 19:59, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup Requested 

message: The information given here about St. Simeon does not agree with the information on the article on St. Simeon. Here it is said that he sat on a pole for 92 years and died impaled by the pole. Whereas the article on him says only 37 years and he was found dead still sitting on the pillar. This must be averiguated. Lucasdealmeidasm (talk) 01:47, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  On St. Simeon 

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