Posted in clarifying ripley, wiki-ref, youtube on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I was doing my regular rounds on the comics page features and such, coming across this entry for Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, featuring quite the small gal named Jyoti Amge who, per the panel, is 15 years old, but only 23 inches tall. Google time!
There’s actually a wikipedia entry for her, not to [...]
Posted in clarifying ripley, wiki-ref, words on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
The May 22 Ripley’s Believe It Or Not comic panel had a blurb about “Federal Hill”, a mansion in Bardstown Kentucky that has 13 windows in the front, 13-inch thick walls, 13-foot high ceilings, 13 mantels and 13 stair steps.
I tried looking it up and found all sorts of picture galleries and such, including [...]
Posted in clarifying ripley, heads up, news, pwn on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in General Stuff, clarifying ripley, heads up, images, news, unlikely wallpaper, words on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
A recent Ripley’s Believe It Or Not newspaper panel told readers about a 6-legged, 4-kidney’d pooch named Spider and had a simple illustration — but not many more details. I tried all kinds of searches but eventually this search was the only thing that turned up anything (Ok I admit I stopped looking after than [...]
Posted in clarifying ripley, heads up, well you see officer on December 20, 2007 | No Comments »
This Ripley’s daily newspaper comic-page panel falls short on the details about an explosion caused by building up of internal gases during traport of a whale leaving quite a mess everywhere. I decided to look a little further into it. Wikipedia offers a few paragraphs about the incident in a larger whale-explosion collection. [...]
Posted in clarifying ripley, liveleak, news, wtf on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
The Ripley’s daily newspaper feature panel for today describes Austin Askins, a gentleman who coughed up a bullet he had previously be shot in the mouth with that surgeons dared not remove. Naturally, there were no futher details other than his home city of Liberty Lake, Washington (although all the other reports seem to [...]
Posted in clarifying ripley, well you see officer on December 13, 2007 | No Comments »
A recent Ripley’s newspaper comic panel described Gisela Leibold, a patient in Munich who is seemingly incapable of perceiving moving objects, instead “recording” with her eyes only still images. A Howard Hughes Medical Institute article describes this “blindness to motion” as the result of a stroke that damaged specific areas of her brain. A [...]
Posted in clarifying ripley, well you see officer, wtf on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ripley’s daily newspaper comic-section panel describes a man by the name of Li Man-Yiu of Hong Kong who purportedly drank two vials of blood from a hospital. However, I needed more details =)
The fellow was, according to Reuters, on a drinking binge at the age of 28, and stumbled into a hospital looking for [...]
Posted in clarifying ripley, news, wtf on November 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Every so often I see a local newspaper comic strip Ripley’s Believe It or Not? and wonder if I could stand just a few more details than were given. Just such an event occurred today when seeing the illustration of Liu Hua’s oversized hand that doctors operated upon to give Liu a more feasible [...]
Posted in clarifying ripley, news, wtf on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Every once in a while, the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not daily comic-feature page of the newspaper has an item on it that doesn’t really provide much details, and I want to learn a skosh more. Here is the feature in question, about 16-year-old Rachel Worthington of Preston, England, who was speared in the face [...]
Posted in General Stuff, clarifying ripley, heads up, news on October 7, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m not really sure what to call the feature yet, but I plan on taking snippets from this giant book of kid-targeted trivia about the known world (published in the 1970’s) and either proving, disproving, or expounding upon it by linking to various sites that offer pictures or more detailed (or clarified info from what [...]
Posted in clarifying ripley, google, heads up on October 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Every once in a while, the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not daily comic-feature page of the newspaper has an item on it that doesn’t really provide much details, and I want to learn a skosh more. Here is the feature in question, remarking about an Asian dude who was pretty much cut in two [...]
