diarist par excellence

this guy has got to take the utter fucking cake.

Wikipedia - Robert Shields (diarist)
Daily Mail - Discovered: The world's longest diary - all 3.75 million words of it
NY Times - Robert Shields, Wordy Diarist, Dies at 89

37.5 million words (the daily mail got their decimal point wrong lol). wtf. including 3 dozen ways to describe urination -.-

does anyone else notice the similarity between diarist and diarrhoea?