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Video: Guinness World Record Holder Uses Tongue To Paint Beaver Portrait
A Los Angeles man who currently holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest tongue recently lick-painted a beaver (no, not that beaver—get your mind out of the gutter!).
Nick Stoeberl, the 26-year-old artist and stand-up comedian with a 3.97-inch tongue, used his licker as a paintbrush, dipping it in acrylic paint (with his tongue covered in plastic wrap), and painted a portrait of a giant beaver over the course of six hours. The result was rather impressive, considering he was painting with his tongue on a 24 inch by 36 inch canvas.
It even snagged him the record of "Largest Painting Of A Beaver Painted Using Tongue" (a record we're pretty sure nobody else has attempted to snag before), on RecordSetter.com.
"It's a gift," Stoeberl told the Huffington Post. "I have to use it."
This is A THING for Stoeberl, who also has apparently painted a portrait of Steve Harvey. If you venture over to his YouTube channel, you'll find his other works of art. He has a web series called "Tongue Show," which seems to be a weird variety show where he plays an instrument or licks a raw squid and then paints something with his tongue—like a martini.
And if you've fallen in love with his rare beaver painting, it can be yours for the going price of $1 million, according to Stoeberl's Craigslist ad. "Serious inquiries, only."
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