clippings from the bathroom floor

AP Photo/Guiness World Records Book Launch, Ronald Mackechnie

Here's a photo of Melvin Boothe and Lee Redmond, who were the man and woman with the worlds longest fingernails. Unfortunately, Ms. Redmond, a 68 year old great-grandmother from Salt Lake City, who last cut her fingernails in 1979, tragically lost hers when she was injured in a four car pile-up in February.

This raises a few questions:

• Was she driving?
• How did she brush her teeth?
• Did the nails come in handy for raking leaves?
• How many times in thirty years did she poke herself in the eye?
• To put it delicately, (admit it, you're dying to know) did she need one of these?