Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 21, 2021

Sorry Ripley, but I’m afraid you missed some research here. That alarm clock actually COULD be set to any hour of the day. The user simply had to move to a different time zone.

Getting up at 4am isn’t a problem, as long as to go to bed at 8pm.

Who in the late 18th century would wake up at 0400 every day? Farmers, yes, but who else?

that’s ‘yinmn blue’, not ‘ylnmn blue’

It seems like to me you could just set the clock two hours behind and have it go off at 6:00am, or even more behind if you wanted to really sleep in.

If I was around in 1787, that alarm clock would have lasted less than one day.

How on Earth do you discover a new blue pigment? All you need to do is mix magenta and cyan in the right ratio.

I would have chucked that darn clock hard against the wall if it went off at four in the morning and got me up!

YInMn Blue is synthesized from the metals Yttrium, Indium, and Manganese.

Blue is blue, Who cares what pigment it comes from.

There’s a video of a “Star Wars” scene in which the super-tall actor who wore the Darth Vader outfit uses his own voice, before his lines were dubbed in by James Earl Jones. I don’t know why, but I thought it was funny to hear some other guy saying that stuff. His name was David Prowse.

Let us know when they discover how to pronounce it.

Too bad Yinmn Blue never became a Crayola Crayon color.

4:00 is ok. I can turn it off and go back to sleep.

4 A.M. “TIME TO MAKE THE DOUGHNUTS!!!”

Meanwhile the Canadians invented an alarm clock that same year that never went off because that would be mean.

Take care, may Scarborough taxi driver Todd Ford be with you, and gesundheit.

Thinking burns calories, which explains the obesity crisis in this country.

And the first Canadian alarm clock only go off at 6:00 am

Wow – I really need to start playing more chess!

That clock was set to go off at 4:AM. Settings can be changed.

Luke, I am your scuba instructor

But only when playing with King Louis’ chess set in ‘The History of the World, Part One’

King Louis: “Knight jumps Queen! Bishop jumps Queen! Pawns jump Queen! Come on jump the Queen!”

It’s good to be King!"

My Uncle breathed the same way from smoking 4 packs of Lucky Strikes every day. He was disappointed that they didn’t name a new blue pigment after his.

The alarm clock went off at 5 A.M. Central, perfect for the Midwest farmers.

ylnmn spelled backwards is nmnly

Regarding the chess factoid – you’re right. I don’t believe it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YInMn_Blue The discovery lead to the discovery of other brilliant colors: orange, green and purple.

Have a great Sunday everyone.

A 4am alarm would tell me it’s time to go to bed.

Being color are made of chemicals, do any react with each other?

Did Day Light Savings Time break that alarm clock?

The chess thing is really hard to believe….maybe this was an entry in the Russian version of this strip….Believe It or Else!

If I had one of those alarm clocks that went off at 4:00 A.M., it’d only go off once.

The clock sounds like my old girlfriend…

The SCUBA sound has been a secret all these years?!?!

That makes absolutely no sense. How does the alarm clock know it’s 4a.m. It has to be set to a specific time to start with to establish when 4 a.m. is. Altering the set time, alters when 4 a.m. is therefore making this claim bogus.

Another shade of blue!?… :-O

That’s not a picture of an alarm clock movement. It’s actually a tall case (“grandfather’s clock”) movement. There’s no alarm mechanism, the bell is there to strike the hours.

Ylnmn Blue, think while they were inventing it, somebody would have designed a couple of vowels for it, too?