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

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    eromlig  over 2 years ago

    This is a long one, AND a shaggy dog to boot (aren’t all shaggy dogs?) but hang in there:

    A traveling salesman has just been awarded a new territory, and when he came into a small town on his route, he saw a big sign over the theater: TONIGHT ONLY – THE AMAZING GOLDBERG! Well, the town was all a-buzz about the act, and even though no one could tell him exactly what the act was, he went to the box office and bought the only remaining ticket.

    Well, the appointed time came, and the salesman took his seat in the theater. The lights dimmed, the curtain came up, and there stood a table with three walnuts on it. A small, weasened old man came out, walking on a cane, and stood in front of the table. He then unzipped is pants, took out his schlong (I used that word in your honor, Silver) and WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! He smashed the walnuts into smithereens. The crowd erupted into tumultuous applause, the curtain came down, and the act ended.

    “Strange act,” the salesman thinks. “But worth it.” So he goes on with his career, and decades later, he finds himself in another small town, and once again sees the theater marquis: TONIGHT ONLY – THE AMAZING GOLDBERG! The salesman says to himself, it can’t be the same man; all those years ago, he was so old…but I’ll check it out anyway.

    So he bought a ticket – the only remaining ticket – and when the appointed time came, he sat down in his seat. The lights dimmed, the curtain came up, and there stood a table with, instead of three walnuts, three coconuts. Then a very small, weasened old man came out, walking on a walker, and stood in front of the table. He unzipped his pants, took out his schlong, and WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! He smashed the coconuts into smithereens. The crowd erupted into tumultuous applause, the curtain came down, and the act ended.

    The salesman couldn’t contain himself, however. He fought his way backstage and found Goldberg. He asked him, “Mister Goldberg, I saw you years ago, and I was impressed! But all those

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    eromlig  over 2 years ago

    years ago, you were smashing walnuts. Tonight, you used coconuts. Why the change?”

    Goldberg looked at the salesman, and sadly shook his head. “Mine eyes, mine eyes,” he said. “They just aren’t vat they used to be.”

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    jasonsnakelover  over 2 years ago

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    Kandeep Saila I haven’t even seen any of the Globetrotters do that.

    So does this mean they could make it possible to pass air through my phone and for the one who opens the text to put up with the smell?

    May the Lord be with you.

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    monkeysky  over 2 years ago

    A study from a few years ago estimated that the human nose can sense and distinguish approximately a trillion different scents.

    If a device had just one scent releaser for each of those scents, the size of a single pixel on a conventional computer monitor, it would need to have more than a square foot of surface area to contain them all.

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    pearlsbs  over 2 years ago

    I would be impressed with Sandeep if he could also brush his teeth while he is balancing the spinning basketball on the toothbrush.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 2 years ago

    so Malaysians are working on smellevision — but for mobile phones — already, huh?

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    Bilan  over 2 years ago

    For his next feat, Sandeep will balance a spinning toothbrush on a basketball in his mouth.

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    Dr. Quatermass  over 2 years ago

    If only John Wayne Gacy was more into basketball.

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    Zykoic  over 2 years ago

    Soon to follow;

    https://robots.news/2018-08-02-scientists-create-an-electronic-nose-that-can-smell-potential-hazards-such-as-spoiled-food.html

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    Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I found a toilet and a brick chimney in my back yard. I don’t dig there anymore.

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    Caldonia  over 2 years ago

    How does a person think to himself “I wonder if I can spin a basketball on a toothbrush in my mouth?”

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Regarding spinning the basketball: why?

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    Detroit Dan  over 2 years ago

    John Waters predicted it in his movie Polyester, too…https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082926/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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    James Wolfenstein  over 2 years ago

    Researchers in Malaysia and Sandeep have too much time on their hands… :D

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Olsen was shocked as it made it harder to bury his wife!!

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 2 years ago

    Believe Irrelevancies Or Not.

    Take care, may budding ink sorter Marcia Stainord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    theincrediblebulk  over 2 years ago

    I guess the guy who buried all those bowling balls needed the bowling ball bags for something and thought buying the bags, and not the balls would look overly suspicious. I really did not realize that so many beheadings occurred in cities hosting bowling conventions where the bowling ball bags could be used to carry away the heads. I can;t imagine any other reason for all the bowling balls.

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member over 2 years ago

    What a stinker!

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    FassEddie  over 2 years ago

    What chain of events got Sandeep to try this basketball trick in his bathroom?

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    dv1093  over 2 years ago

    I’d like to know the history behind those bowling balls.

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    ncorgbl  over 2 years ago

    Michigan Olson beats Indiana Jones to the legendary ‘bowling ball graveyard’! Film at 10.

    Sandeep should buy a new toothbrush that comes with directions rather than a used one.

    If your nose runs and your feet smell you were built upside down.

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    JoshHere  over 2 years ago

    People will be very sorry, if the smell tech comes to pass.The world will be even more disgusting.

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Now this is the RBION stuff we used to get. Thanks.

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    David_J Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Bowling balls under a house. Must have been a dump site for a local manufacturer. Reminds me of what my dad told me, of DOW turning one of their chemical dumps into a playground for the neighborhood kids where he grew up. Such a nice gesture.

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    Indianapolis Smith  over 2 years ago

    I was wondering where I left my bowling ball collection.

    And if you can send a scent, can you not also spam a scent? So you can send Chanel #5 to everyone and they won’t have to buy it ever again.

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    Dkram  over 2 years ago

    On Rt. 58 in Lowell, VT there are two pyramids made of Bowling Balls.

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    marc rossi Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Why did they stop counting the bowling balls at 150 and then go to an estimate? Couldn’t they count above 150? Big reflection on how bad math skills are in this country now!!

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    globalenterprize1990  over 2 years ago

    Now that NASA has put sophisticated rovers on the planet Mars, we now have both video and audio. Can smelling what Mars smells like be far behind?

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    Scott S  over 2 years ago

    They also found several dozen white rabbits in the trunk of his car!

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    tostevin  over 2 years ago

    basketball on a toothbrush? Why?

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    Tym Macaleer Premium Member over 2 years ago

    So glad the authors heard our complaints about the typeface and made it darker! So much easier to read.

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    gopher gofer  over 2 years ago

    once the technology is perfected college boys will immediately want to send durian-scented texts…

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    craigwestlake  over 2 years ago

    Sandeep’s attempt to make a new style of vibrating toothbrush is just sad…

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    DudeHoldMyBearandWatchThis  over 2 years ago

    But if he holds it for less than a minute, he can’t balance the ball.

    I.e. GRAMMAR and SENTENCE STRUCTURE, people; learn it…use it….

    “Sandeep…can balance a spinning basketball for longer than a minute on a toothbrush held in his mouth.”

    …shaking head…

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    pbr50138  over 2 years ago

    I wonder what he did with all of those bowling balls?

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