Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 18, 2013

I wonder if the girl on whom Charlie Brown has a crush attends that convention.

That’s a very good question Roadrunner.

Think of all the paternity suits I can be involved with in the Netherlands each September…IF I decide to go there on vacation…

A fine place to film a new version of the Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League!”

As someone from Cedar Rapids, IA…them Des Moinsians be crazy! (and yes, I know that’s terrible English, that’s the point)

@Prof danglais – the only explanation that I can think of is there are two different teams with different processes. The folks doing the strips use gif “cause that’s the way it’s always been done…”

Beware of spider much more effective than beware of tiger.

Poor aim made Mike a soprano, ouch.

All those Ginger Nuts in one room, give you high blood pressure.

Do the redheads have to prove they are redheads? Or is red hair more an attitude thing than factual?

Locate any Homer and Jethro music yet?

So Mike survived. How healthy afterwards?

I have a red haired daughter. She has a son with red hair. My younger son is a red head. I wonder how they would fare at this convention?

Gif format is quick and easy to render, but carries less information and is therefore more suitable to images that are already small to begin with and don’t require as much detail. Jpeg, as cooncat yesterday pointed out, has an effective compression that combines more information into a relatively small file, but in order to do that takes longer to compile. Therefore it is reasonable to surmise that it is used only for the larger original images such as the Sunday strips because it is only worthwhile when more detail is actually required.

guard cat??!!!!!!…I’ve heard of guard dogs but guard cats??

also that piece about the redhead day convention in the Netherlands is interesting my Uncle Victor could’ve fit in there he was a redhead

ever heard of red hair dye?? you could dye your hair back to red

Prof danglais; what makes you think the weekly strips are not jpeg? I magnified the weekly strip to about the same size as the Sunday and could see no difference. However the explanation gocomicsmember gave is the correct one.

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