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basic_mystifier New user 51 Posts 
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You have to keep in mind that the original Ripley's was from back in the day.
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trickymagic New user 81 Posts
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Wow! I thought it was reliable as Guiness book of records...
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18128 Posts
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On 2009-02-08 11:52, Psychic Samurai wrote: They will be giving away over $25,000.00 in loot that day ... FREE !!!!! On the radio or online internet radio. No need to be there.
THE MAN THE SKEPTICS REFUSE TO TEST FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS.. The Worlds Foremost Authority on Houdini's Life after Death.....
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sacerdote dpn bpsco New user 7 Posts
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Not is an option
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18128 Posts
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Here's a link to the links ...
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......rum=15&4 Ripley's was a FANTASTIC place !!!!!!
THE MAN THE SKEPTICS REFUSE TO TEST FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS.. The Worlds Foremost Authority on Houdini's Life after Death.....
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DATMagic Veteran user Shreveport, La 304 Posts
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Ripley did leave the loop hole of "or not" in his wording that leaves the decision to take the information to heart to the reader, but Guiness on the other hand in 100% bonified, real, and unquestionably legit.
David A Trombetta
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StPaulMagician222 Regular user Saint Paul, MN (Cathedral Hill) 104 Posts
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I really enjoyed my tour of the Ripley's on the wharf in San Francisco during my last visit. I only wish that it would have been just a bit longer or bigger. It certainly left me wanting more and thinking of how much fun the Curator must have giving his personal tours and how I need to place a visit on my life list to go to Belgium and see it all for myself.
Here in Saint Paul, MN we have a place called 'The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices" that is now in it's permanent home at the New Science Museum building. It is interesting all by itself but even more fun when the Professor is on site and showing how many of these devices were used on the people going through the exhibit. It seems the placebo effect has been in use for a very long time and I am continually amazed at what people will believe as truth. It certainly makes my job much easier. k
"One can't believe in Impossible things" said Alice.
"I dare say" said the Queen, "Why when I was your age I believed more than 6 impossible things before breakfast. -Thru the Looking Glass- L.E. Carol |
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts
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Ripley's Believe It or Not book "Strikingly True" page 220.
 I can vouch for it.
Higley's Giant Flea Pocket Zibit
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Jim Sparx Inner circle Far Out, Texas 1144 Posts
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A question for Mr. Higley
Mr. Higley, first off, a compliment, you really do look like Gepetto, one of my grandfatherly heroes when I was a child. Now the question, there is a roadside attraction not too far from the New Mexico - Arizona border, near Dragoon, Arizona. It is called, The Thing. Is that one of your fabulous discoveries? They must have made millions of dollars with that exhibit because its been around for a lot of years and I always see the parking lot full of tourists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nizektEOGdc
Et tu, Spartacus?
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Jim Sparx Inner circle Far Out, Texas 1144 Posts
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On 2010-04-04 13:12, StPaulMagician222 wrote: I had a radionic instrument that was built by J.G. Gallimore that I sold for $600 about ten years ago. Those "questionable" devices are still being used today. I'm on the U S Psycotronics Assn mailing lists and the have conventions every year and they have dealers who still sell the instruments. google JG Gallimore and the U S Psychotronics for more interesting information. Do they work? Absolutely....... ;-)
Et tu, Spartacus?
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Decomposed Eternal Order High Desert 12056 Posts
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Love urband legends, thanks!
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danhughes Regular user Champaign, IL 115 Posts
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On 2008-05-27 15:15, stoneunhinged wrote: Don't know Wholler, but the Great Wall of China urban legend is that it is the only manmade object on earth than can be seen from the moon. Totally false - It may be several thousand miles long, but it's only 15 to 20 feet wide! If you could see something 20 feet wide from the moon, you could see just about every man-made building on earth. An author named Henry Norman published this bit of nonsense in a book in 1904, and it's been circulating as fact since then.
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danhughes Regular user Champaign, IL 115 Posts
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I might add that I wrote all the questions for a central Illinois "College Bowl"-type TV show, in which high school scholastic bowl teams competed. The show (which I also hosted, brag brag) ran for 25 years, and I wrote something like 50,000 questions in that quarter of a century.
And one thing I learned fast is that it is unbelievable how many "quiz" books have wrong information in them. And when a false "fact" appears in one book, it's picked up by other books and just keeps on keeping on. One author who wrote a lot of trivia books (Fred Worth) would put a few false facts in each book he wrote, so he could catch plagiarists. I had to double-check and sometimes triple-check my questions and answers to be sure I wasn't perpetuating any myths.
---Dan, http://danhughes.net
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bigcheese New user Sacramento, CA 56 Posts
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On 2012-07-28 18:12, danhughes wrote: I'm man enough to admit that I was told this as a child and have never questioned it. Now it seems so obvious, and I feel more thna a little dumb! As for Ripley's - I loved the museum I visited, it's a must do regardless of how true everything is. |
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scottds80 Special user Victoria, Australia 730 Posts
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Internet killed the wonder of it all
"Great Scott the Magician", Gippsland
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jugglestruck Inner circle Wales 1038 Posts
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I think the intertnet has just created new wonders.
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madelaine New user 91 Posts
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The connection between the great wall of China and Robert Whooler (not Wholler as mistakenly noted) - who was of Belgium origin and a bicycle manufacturer, by the way - is that Mr Whooler (also known as 'Coopertwix') was the first European to tricycle the Great Wall BOTH WAYS, in each direction. He did this in 1923-4. It took him 584 days.
'Coopertwix' is today the brand name of a make of European uni-cycle created by his 2nd daughter, Elizabeetha Whooler, to honour her dad; it was the nick-name she gave her father early in her life. So, that's the story and it can be read about in Elizabeetha Whooler's (1967)autobiography - "Come Bicycling through Belgium with me". Faber, London. |
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hypnoman1 New user 77 Posts
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Ripley made very strong efforts to stay with facts and truth at the beginning of his long career. I believe that his reputation was genuine. I can't speak for what they have done with it today!
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Wravyn Inner circle 3667 Posts
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On Nov 5, 2012, jugglestruck wrote: I read it on the internet... It has to be true! |
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DaKine Oregon New user Medford, Oregon 50 Posts
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Bruce Campbell, of Evil Dead and Burn Notice fame is hosting a reboot of Ripley's Believe It Or Not TV show starting tonight on The Travel Channel. (While he does live near me, we've never met and I have no connection with the show or network.)
https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ripl......t-or-not |
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