An lighthearted argument with a friend of mine revealed to me that he does not believe that most of the Ripley’s Comic-page feature panel are false. I disagree, in that most, if not all of them, are completely true. That is the reason I publish this eensy column that I should update more frequently.
That being said, let’s clarify (that is, provide more true facts about the truth portrayed in the feature panel, “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” .. and we’ll take today’s (found here) that notes: a 94-year old has opted to stop driving after a 82-year spree of no citations or accidents; someone from the Philippines has created a 5.7 ton flag of Israel; and a particular nightclub in London holds only 14 people.
Now, I’m not sure which papers in the UK are the tabloid variety, but at least three sources (one, two, three) are carrying the story — the first of which carries the picture from which the RBIOR panel makes its illustration. Also pictured is apparently some ancient driving license.
According to Ripley’s feature panel, Grace Galindez-Gupana created a very large, 5.7 ton flag of Israel. While the sources aren’t necessarily of the utmost credibility being blogs (what am I saying?) the first two are almost redundant, but the third actually has a photo of the award certificate from Guiness as being the largest. So there ya go.
And thirdly, Ripley’s reports that The Miniscule of Sound (a pun on the Ministry of Sound perhaps, which in itself is a play on words, considering what American government would call a “department of”, the UK declares a “ministry of”, whereas the Ministry of Sound is a UK rock band). It was reported on BoingBoing as far back as 2004. Wikipedia confirms my suspicion of a pun. Perhaps if not equally entertaining to know that a nightclub can only fit 14 people — is that their official website (the little pop-up window when you click something) is equally cute and minute.
And there you have it! Ha!
