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Nor the credit cards necessary to put deposits down prior to the record attempt.

"To enable us to continue to be a part of thousands of personal achievement journeys, we can only provide access to use services such as an official adjudicator through our fee-based Consultancy service."

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/faqs

So? Is this meant to be some kind of gotcha?

My guess is that both your old life as an attorney and current life as a IT/IP consultant involve some kind of "fee-based Consultancy services"

Guinness world records is a publicity/marketing company, not a record keeping company.

https://youtu.be/0twDETh6QaI had a great side thread on that topic

>> current life as a IT/IP consultant

Lol. If you are going to get personal, at least read to the end of the bio. I am 100% definitely not any form of IT consultant.

Taints the meaning of holding the record when you have to pay for it.

at some level, the act of record keeping requires time and materials.

If a record falls, and no one is around...

Guinness judges are just local, independent experts. She had enough of them. But she had to leave the cave for a few days, not mentioned there.