Monsieur Mangetout, Where Are You
February 10, 2006 10:12 AM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

I'd like to write an article about frenchman Michel Lotito, a.k.a. Monsieur Mangetout, a.k.a. the guy who got into the Guinness Book Of World Records By Eating A Bicycle. Better yet, I'd like to interview him. But I can't seem to find any contact information for him on the web -- in fact, I can find very few articles about him at all, aside from his Wikipedia entry and a bazillion nearly identically-worded factoids on assorted "zany facts!!' webpages. You'd think a professional entertainer would provide an easy method for getting in touch, but, if he has, I'm unable to find it. How do I go about finding an email address for celebrity from Grenoble, France?
posted by Shadowkeeper to computers & internet (11 comments total)
Well, you could try calling all the Michel Lotitos that live around Grenoble:

Lotito Michel
525 chem Levet 38330 BIVIERS
04 76 52 27 76

Lotito Michel
6 all Cerisiers 38640 CLAIX
04 76 99 70 79

Lotito Michel
2 r Fernand Rouvière 38000 GRENOBLE
04 76 46 21 50

Lotito Michel A proximité
356 chem Vieille Eglise 38660 SAINT VINCENT DE MERCUZE
04 76 92 31 60

Lotito Michel
5 r Liberté 38180 SEYSSINS
04 38 12 80 86

Lotito Michel A
9 chem Agnelas 38700 LA TRONCHE
04 76 42 06 11

Lotito Michel dit M Mangetout
33 bd République 38500 VOIRON
04 76 31 62 06

Information comes from the France Telecom whitepages
posted by blue_beetle at 10:25 AM on February 10, 2006


Perhaps you could call the Guiness Book of World Records themselves and ask. It appears from their WHOIS domain record that the telephone number is 044-2078-914567. (Append 011 if you're dialing from the United States.)
posted by WCityMike at 10:38 AM on February 10, 2006


WCityMike meant 'prepend', not 'append'
posted by lowlife at 10:43 AM on February 10, 2006


Oh, and drop the first zero from the number too, it's not needed when calling internationally.
sorry for the double-small!

posted by lowlife at 10:44 AM on February 10, 2006


I feel like "Bonjour, est-ce que vous mangez des bicyclettes?" should be in this article on useful phrases abroad.
posted by sixacross at 11:03 AM on February 10, 2006


I think I remember reading that M. Mangetout died some years ago.
posted by tangerine at 12:37 PM on February 10, 2006


I have a vague recollection of reading "Guinness stopped the food records after some idiot ate a bicycle and died a couple of months later." I never knew the nom.
posted by Aknaton at 2:03 PM on February 10, 2006


I'm pretty sure the ban on food records was preemptive, not reactive. The whole thing is pretty stupid if you think about it - today I break the world record for eating a shower curtain, tomorrow you break the world record for eating a mailbox. The bicycle was pure novelty, but the slope is slippery...
posted by Saucy Intruder at 2:19 PM on February 10, 2006


Lotito Michel dit M Mangetout
33 bd République 38500 VOIRON
04 76 31 62 06


Did everyone else miss this?
posted by cillit bang at 4:18 PM on February 10, 2006


Whoa, I sure did. Thanks!
posted by Shadowkeeper at 4:46 PM on February 10, 2006


Bicycle, shmicycle.

According to Wikipedia, the guy ate an entire aircraft (a Cessna 150).
posted by sour cream at 4:13 AM on February 11, 2006


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