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Gordon Bennett! Who was he?
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Nothing peculiar about that, better than the wardrobe...[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6226293.stm]BBC [/url] said:...Gordon Bennett Jnr, son of the newspaper magnate, he certainly holds one honour - holder of the Guinness Book of Records entry for "Greatest Engagement Faux Pas". One very drunken evening he turned up late to a posh party held by his future in-laws, and ended up urinating into a fireplace in full view of everyone. The engagement, unsurprisingly, was broken off, and Mr Bennett left New York to pursue his playboy habits in Paris...