MAN DOESN’T BLINK FOR OVER AN HOUR

A TV host in the Philippines set an unofficial world record for not blinking for a one hour, 17 minutes and three seconds during an on-air contest. Paolo Ballesteros took part in the “No Blinking Challenge” on the TV show “Eat Bulaga!” (pronounced “boola-GAH”) over the weekend. He beat out his co-host Pauleen Luna by a landslide, who went 30 minutes and 44 seconds. There is no official record for the longest time spent without blinking. But a man named Julio Jaime from Colorado kept his eyes open without blinking for one hour, five minutes and 11 seconds in 2016.
* When they told him he’d set a record, he looked surprised.
* Then he told everyone they were a sight for sore eyes.
* He’s got a new nickname: The Staremaster.
* This hurts just thinking about it.
* Filipinos spent an hour and a quarter watching a man not blink. We’ve really got to get them satellite dishes.
* Eat Bulaga? As in, “Hey – don’t step in the bulaga.”