Single Breath Sentence
An Oxfordshire woman today became
the first ever to break the
thirty-minute barrier for talking
without drawing breath. Mrs.Mavis
Sommers, 48, of Cowley, smashed
the previous record of 23 minutes
when she excitedly reported an argument
she'd had in the butchers to her
neighbour. She ranted on for a
staggering 32 minutes and 12 seconds
without pausing for air, before going
blue and collapsing in a heap on the
ground. She was taken to Radcliff
Infirmary in a wheelbarrow but was
released later after check-ups.
At the peak of her mammoth motor
mouth marathon, she achieved an
unbelievable 680 words per minute,
repeating the main points of the
story an amazing 114 times whilst
her neighbour, Mrs. Dolly Knowles,
nodded and tutted. The last third of
the sentence was delivered in a barely
audible croak, the last two minutes
being mouthed only, accompanied by
vigorous gesticulations and indignant
spasms.
