Sporting a tuft of dyed, slicked-back hair, the world's shortest man said on Friday there was every reason to think big about being tiny.

A British man on Thursday failed in his record-breaking attempt to pull a 7,5-tonne red London bus over a distance of 10m, using his ears. Manjit Singh (57), a former police officer who now owns a security services company in Leicester, central England, managed to pull the Routemaster Bus over half the distance, about 5m.

With lots of stretching and reaching toward blue, red, yellow and green circles, about 450 high-school students played Twister on 180 mats in what they hope will set a world record for the largest Twister game board. Sunday's night attempt took place during a conference held over the weekend.