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Longest kiss in history: 46-hour Thai smooch
Thailand - It was one long kiss _ one world-breaking embrace for mankind.
One determined Thai couple locked lips for 46 hours, 24 minutes and nine seconds to celebrate Valentine's Day in this southern beach resort town, emerging victorious and exhausted after a landmark "kissathon" that organizers claim marked the longest recorded smooch in history.
The previous record of just over 32 hours was set in 2009 by a couple in Germany, according to Guinness World Records, whose officials will have to verify the latest milestone for it to become official.
Fourteen mostly Thai pairs entered the contest when it kicked off Sunday morning at 6 a.m. local time. By Monday afternoon half had already beaten the record and were still puckering up on the white-marble corridor an ocean side shopping mall in Pattaya. Passing tourists gawked and smiled at the spectacle, snapping pictures with glowing mobile phones behind a red rope.
"We didn't think we would find anybody that could break the record," said Somporn Naksuetrong, the manager of Pattaya's Louis Tussaud's Waxworks museum, which organized the competition. That seven couples apparently did, he said, "is amazing."
The winner was announced before dawn Tuesday: a Thai couple from Bangkok named Ekkachai and Laksana Tiranarat.
The pair won a diamond ring worth 50,000 Thai Baht (1,606 dollars), and a 100,000 Baht (3,213 dollar) cash prize.
According to the rules, the lovebirds' lips could not part at any time. They were allowed to drink things like water, coffee, milk or juice _ but only through straws while continuing to kiss. They also had to remain embraced during bathroom breaks possible every three hours _ accompanied by contest monitors.
The harshest rule: no sitting or sleeping. One woman participating with her boyfriend fainted just half an hour after it began Sunday.
Longest kiss in history: 46-hour Thai smooch
Thailand - It was one long kiss _ one world-breaking embrace for mankind.
One determined Thai couple locked lips for 46 hours, 24 minutes and nine seconds to celebrate Valentine's Day in this southern beach resort town, emerging victorious and exhausted after a landmark "kissathon" that organizers claim marked the longest recorded smooch in history.
The previous record of just over 32 hours was set in 2009 by a couple in Germany, according to Guinness World Records, whose officials will have to verify the latest milestone for it to become official.
Fourteen mostly Thai pairs entered the contest when it kicked off Sunday morning at 6 a.m. local time. By Monday afternoon half had already beaten the record and were still puckering up on the white-marble corridor an ocean side shopping mall in Pattaya. Passing tourists gawked and smiled at the spectacle, snapping pictures with glowing mobile phones behind a red rope.
"We didn't think we would find anybody that could break the record," said Somporn Naksuetrong, the manager of Pattaya's Louis Tussaud's Waxworks museum, which organized the competition. That seven couples apparently did, he said, "is amazing."
The winner was announced before dawn Tuesday: a Thai couple from Bangkok named Ekkachai and Laksana Tiranarat.
The pair won a diamond ring worth 50,000 Thai Baht (1,606 dollars), and a 100,000 Baht (3,213 dollar) cash prize.
According to the rules, the lovebirds' lips could not part at any time. They were allowed to drink things like water, coffee, milk or juice _ but only through straws while continuing to kiss. They also had to remain embraced during bathroom breaks possible every three hours _ accompanied by contest monitors.
The harshest rule: no sitting or sleeping. One woman participating with her boyfriend fainted just half an hour after it began Sunday.
Longest kiss in history: 46-hour Thai smooch
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