Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 04, 2024

One time I had five extensions altogether.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

I was shocked by the last earthquake J was in…

Yes, some flights arrived very early, but some flights were very late.

Early Arrival

Steve arrived early for his haircut appointment and was patiently waiting while the barber finished up with another customer..

The customer was loudly bragging about how he is not only the best mailman in the area, but he has slept with numerous women over the course of his career.

“Why, I’ve even slept with every woman on Maple Street except one,” he boasted. Steve’s ears perked up because he and his wife live on Maple Street, but Steve chose to say nothing.

The mailman finished up, left the barbershop and Steve received his haircut. He quickly went home to his wife and told her about the mailman that had slept with every woman on the street except one.

Steve’s wife exclaimed “I bet it’s that stuck up Karen across the street! She’s such a prude!”

How long was the flight for those going the other way?

Flew from Montreal to Rome this past November, arrived 50 minutes early…lol

the only good snake is a DEAD snake

What’s funny is the equal number of flights in the opposite direction were late or had to stop for fuel.

For you science people:The lightning also causes the piezoelectric effect, which generates high enough voltages to initiate plasma flows —electrical breakdowns via magnetic forces (q.v., Faraday’s Law)— within the crust and fusion which produced new chemical elements, many radioactive. Also, it can accelerate break down of radioactive materials by an unreal speed (in 1999, Germany’s Dr. Fritz Bosch showed that, for the rhenium atom, this “decreases its half-life more than a billionfold—from 42-billion years to 33 years.”).

Get this, scientists now claim that lightning does not go from the atmosphere down to the earth, but actually from the earth up to the sky.

Reminded of the play Boeing, Boeing in which the advent of faster planes upsets a swinger’s schedule with three stewardess fiances arriving almost simultaneously.

I always wondered how a skinny pimply faced teenager like me could attract some of the loveliest girls in town until I read about pheramones.

800 mph is still slower than the Concord

Anybody here who likes to explain in simple words how it works that earthquakes can generate lightning? I really would love to know but have kind of a mushy brain right now.

i wafted reading this

When I waft, it’s not pheromones

Thanks for jogging my memory, in reading about the New Madrid Earthquake and the Mount St. Helens eruption both instances created lightning from what I remember of my reading about them.

I have often wondered if the USGS Geologist that Radioed the Vancouver USGS office telling them “this is it” and the trailer he was in were ever found?I do know that the Washington National Guard collected many dead sasquatch bodies in the blow down area and tarped them and eventually burned all the bodies in place.

I wonder how the airplanes flying against those winds made out.

Thank you for giving me a heads-up on the moth. Maybe now won’t stop the presses when on lands on my face.