Normally I would never post anything like this, but I found it fascinating that the Guinness Book of World Records actually developed protocols for measuring the volume of someone burping!
Surprisingly, the winner for the loudest burp ever was a very pretty and somewhat demure looking American housewife. She came onto the set of an Italian variety show to demonstrate.
It's an interesting cultural study (boy, is Italian television bad)! And the burp war thing is just gross, but hard not to watch. Skip ahead to 2:20 to see all the burping.
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