Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 29, 2012

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    That dwarf star might look good on the surface, but don’t get your hopes up!“The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s, but the earth has he given to the children of men. Psalm 115:16

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    hokiebird6552  over 12 years ago

    Needs more debate at 6 star hotels in Switzerland, Paris, etc.

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    Sirzanne  over 12 years ago

    Sheesh… this strip is so small today that it’s hard to read the text!! What the…?!

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    silvrGrl123  over 12 years ago

    If you’re suggesting that AshburnStadium’s comment that remaining smallpox virus stockpiles should be eradicated is outdated, then it’s you who should be paying attention: “UN Decides Not to Destroy Last Known Smallpox Stockpiles”

    http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/un-decides-not-to-destroy-last-known-smallpox-stockpiles/239382/

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    walruscarver2000  over 12 years ago

    Even here, we can’t get away from the constant flow of rightwing misinformation…Believe it or not.

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    engineman  over 12 years ago

    It’s the Goldilocks star!!!!

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    PappyFiddle  over 12 years ago

    I’m gonna have my dead body fitted up with a hinge, and at the viewing my wife will have a remote. When somebody we don’t like comes thru she’ll push the button and sit me up

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    iced tea  over 12 years ago

    That was great to hear about a devoted Steelers fan and his funeral. I live near Pittsburgh and those are our boys! I heard the smallpox stockpiles are in the hands of the Russians. I even heard some years back, they destroyed the entire stockpiles.

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    Pygar  over 12 years ago

    Smallpox is still out in the wild, so a ready supply of it needs to be kept for quick manufacture of vaccine, should it be needed. All we need is for someone to dig up an unusually well preserved smallpox grave, or, as happened not so long ago, find samples of smallpox scabs tucked away in a book, anything like that… and smallpox will be out again. It’s not extinct in the wild- we’ve just been lucky. So far.

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    Pygar  over 12 years ago

    The embalming of today is intended to keep the corpse looking good long enough to get it in the ground. It’s not as if they preserve people with arsenic any more, like Elmer J. McCurdy. When they dug up Oswald, he was a mess, after no more than decades.

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    tuslog64  over 12 years ago

    the organic material being buried is only a small fraction of the “through-put” during a person’s lifetime. I’m considering cremation – why take up 1/100 of an acre for eternity?

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