Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 12, 2019

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    Earthling Premium Member about 5 years ago

    What great idiot thought that would help a person breathe? Proof that dumb has been around since the beginning.

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    oldpine52  about 5 years ago

    So that is where the phrase ‘blowing smoke up your/their a$$’ comes from.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 5 years ago

    A hydro-powered computer sounds unbelievable to me.

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    pearlsbs  about 5 years ago

    In 1936 Soviet scientist Lukyanov built an analog water computer

    http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/338106

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    Bilan  about 5 years ago

    Oh, goody! More than an hour has passed, but I still get to be the first one to point out that planes don’t go very fast in the open ocean.

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    jasonsnakelover  about 5 years ago

    Now build a car that can run on water.

    Take care and may God bless.

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    mudleg  about 5 years ago

    Was that computer installed on a boat?

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    James Wolfenstein  about 5 years ago

    Policeman: “Sir… what are you doing?” Jack the Ripper’s brother: “He’s drowning. I’m trying to resuscitate him.” Policeman: “OK. Carry on.” :D Later on, he wrote a report that ended up buried somewhere, a historian found it… then, the WWW showed up!

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 5 years ago

    The birth of some or other movement.

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    comixbomix  about 5 years ago

    Didn’t the Chinese use computers that ran on fingers?

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    WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Could’ve done without the graphic representation of the smoke enema…

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    TelcomSam Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Don’t inhale!!!!!

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    wizengy  about 5 years ago

    Amazing but the water computers solved analog partial differential equations for a variety of industries up into the 1980’s when digital computer became powerful enough to replace them.

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    Gent  about 5 years ago

    Did the computer run on the land too? And did his shoes byte?

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    Gent  about 5 years ago

    Smoking is injurious to health, folks. Whether inhaled from your mouth or through your posterior.

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    craigwestlake  about 5 years ago

    For god’s sake just don’t inhale…

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    namelocdet  about 5 years ago

    Smoke enemas… I wonder what “plant” that smoke came from.

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    Andrew Bosch Premium Member about 5 years ago

    The smoke enema also originated a certain phrase used to describe one person’s attempt to lie to another.

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