Noted & quoted.

• Position: Soundbites: extreme edition

'I'm happy and proud that I can get Turkey in the record book, even if it's for milk squirting.'

--Ilker Yitmaz, 28, who hopes to be recognized by Guinness World Records for snorting milk up his nose and squirting it 9.2 feet out of his left eye, due to an anomaly in his tear gland. (Associated Press, Sept. 2)

'It's my extreme sport, and I don't even have to wear a helmet.'

--A.J. Jacobs, 36, of New York, on reading the Encyclopedia Britannica's 32 volumes, 33,000 pages, and 44 million words. He wrote a book about it: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World...