Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 09, 2021

Wow… all England-themed tidbits. (Just imagine Andy Capp during WWI trying to mooch someone to get him a pint.)

That explains why the Londoners call their apartments Flats.

“And another day goes by, the water flowing underground. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.”

There are some older English traditions that carried into Canada.One of which I recall, is an old Scottish lady who will never eat rabbit again because her family ate so much rabbit during WWII.

From the theatrecrafts.com website:“There are two ghosts in residence – an unknown ballerina (who has been known to pirouette across the stage) and the famous actor Ivor Novello, who apparently watches performances from the magnificent Dress Circle.”

Andy Capp must have been devastated.

A lot about London today. I read someone gets stabbed in S. London on average approx every hour. Poor guy.

Eh, today’s British day or something?

6’ wide. So-o-o-o-o no furniture that fits, single cots for beds, one wooden chair, window out of which to jump when the walls close in.

Lots of old memories in the Palace. Great actors, royal patrons, famous writers and artists.

England was a wonderful tour even in 1960 when the war damages still covered whole blocks.

Rationing

I saw a movie featuring one of those houses. It had a scene where people were trying to move back and forth thru the narrow rooms.

Happy Mother’s Day Ladies.

That is not a picture of the skinniest house in London, which is blue, is six feet wide across the front and very deep on the lot. That is the Thin House which is triangular shaped, thin on one end and wide on the other end.

Yes but they’re quiet ghosts.

Take care, may prolific cutlery salesman Aaron “Jack” Kozminskord be with you, and gesundheit.

I remember there was a house in The Netherlands that was only something like 28 inches wide. It was made in the space between two other houses. My family photos would show it if I could find it. It was touted as the narrowest occupied house in the world.

Lacking an explanation for the ‘WHY’ of things makes SO many of the examples presented in Ripley’s far less interesting. Like, you can say 100 three-headed children have been born in the last 40 years!" but unless we’re told that 39 of them happened within 30km of Three Mile Island, it’s just a statistic, not a story.

Warm beer, cramped living space, water underfoot, and haunted theaters spelled wrong. It’s no wonder the Brits are really messed up.

Is today Britek day?

And all of it just spiteful work to ensure “chubby” Johnson couldn’t rent it…

Shades (?!?) of “Phantom of the Opera” at the Palace?

Connection to an Amplifier

You can only listen to DVD playback using COAXIAL (X) and AUDIO OUT (A2) connections. The VCR will still be heard through the DVD/VCR AUDIO OUT (A1) jack.Connecting to an amplifier equipped with two channel analog stereo or Dolby Pro Logic II/Pro Logic

Connect the Left and Right AUDIO OUT (or DVD/VCR AUDIO OUT) jacks on the unit to the audio left and right in jacks on your amplifier, receiver, or stereo system using the audio cables (A1, A2) supplied.

Connecting to an amplifier equipped with two chan- nel digital stereo (PCM) or to an Audio/Video receiv- er equipped with a multi-channel decoder (Dolby DigitalTM, MPEG 2)

1. Connect one of the unit’s DIGITAL AUDIO OUT jacks (COAXIAL X) to the corresponding jack on your amplifier. Use an optional digital (COAXIAL X) audio cable.

2. You will need to activate the unit’s digital output. (See “AUDIO” on page 17).

That building could fall, if the wind was strong enough.