Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 04, 2020

Fenjamin Branklin’s hand fins must’ve not caught on

I did the twist with my girl friend’s aunt in 1960. Never told her though.

Chebby Chucker I remember hearing two renditions of the same song performed by him. They had different melodies. If anyone does the twist inside a tornado, I’ll give you a dollar according to whatever it is on the fujita scale so if it’s an EF0 or EF1, you get a dollar, and EF2 will get you two dollars; and it goes all the way up to EF5. If they could find a tornado with 5 billion MPH winds that they’d be willing to categorize as being an EF5 Billion tornado on some planet, then you’d have to figure out a way to get there to collect 5 billion dollars.

Fen Branklin

Ben Franklin, with a name like that, what would one expect !

The wet nose applies to almost all species that rely upon their sense of smell

There was a beer commercial with some fat guy in a t-shirt doing the twist. And he kept looking down. Then the closeup on a beer cap, Twist To REMOVE!! I really liked that commercial.

Probably won’t be for long. I’m thinking few people under 40 know anything about “The Twist”—-and would probably laugh in scorn if they did hear it!

…Chubby Checker deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame…

How does Billboard define the Twist as the #1 hit song of all time? It spent three weeks at the top spot while there are plenty of other songs that spent much more time there. (For instance, they list Santana’s hit “Smooth” from 1999 as the number two of all time and it spent 12 weeks in the top spot. Why isn’t Smooth considered the #1 of all time over the Twist?)

I know Wikipedia isn’t really that great of a research device, but it does efficiently list all kinds of Billboard music lists…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_chart_achievements_and_milestones

Most of us that were around back then heard Hank Ballard and The Midnighters version of The Twist before Chubby’s. Chubby’s won, and Hank’s version is all but forgotten.

Take care and gesundheit.

Ben Franklin, the greatest President of the United States who was never President of the United States.

I thought “Having My Baby” was the number one hit song of all time…

The Twist? Really? Hard to understand that, but whatever..

One thing Franklin DIDN’T invent was a popular fashion.

Big deal. Fish invented them a lot earlier…

What were they made of, I wonder.

well, you can pick your nose, or you can pick your dog, but you can’t pick your dog’s nose.

I believe I’ve heard that ol’ Ben taught himself to swim, which was not common at the time? May be wrong about that.

Did ’Old Ben have particularly small hands and feet (as well as other body Parts)….

Might be why , he’s not wearing a Speedo…