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COUCH POTATO

Topics: Achievement; Emptiness; Entertainment; Laziness; Sloth; Television; Time

References: 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 2 Thessalonians 3:6–15

Suresh Joachim is the world’s most incredible couch potato. In September 2005, Joachim broke the Guinness Book of World’s Records’ previous mark of spending the longest time watching TV.

Joachim spent sixty-nine hours and forty-eight minutes in front of the tube, with only a five-minute break every hour and a fifteen-minute break each eight hours. The rest of that time he had his eyes on the screen.

—Associated Press, “Toronto Man Breaks ‘Couch Potato’ World Record” (September 17, 2005)