Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 04, 2014
September 03, 2014
September 05, 2014
Transcript:
A company in the Netherlands has designed an aquarium on wheels that is controlled by the movements of the contained swimming fish. Boston, Dodge City, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Cleveland and Buffalo are all windier cities in Chicago, which is not even in the top 20 windy cities in the US! A woman could duel with a man medieval Europe if the man stood in a 3 FT deep pit with a club, with one hand tied behind his back, and the woman was armed with rocks.
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BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 10 years ago
Chicago is known as The Windy City.
TURTLE over 10 years ago
Maybe they meant the hot air politicians are famous for in which case that would make Washington D.C. the windiest city. LOL
Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
I have one word concerning the duel: ow.
spaced man spliff over 10 years ago
One more windy city: San Francisco.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 10 years ago
Probably because it is often windy there, but not as windy as people seem to think it is. Ask somebody from Chicago.( I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard that Chicago means “stinky onion” in Iroquois.)
James Wolfenstein over 10 years ago
I though it was about broken winds…
jgryr over 10 years ago
I thought it was Winless City.
Red_Fez over 10 years ago
Maybe they now ought to refer to Chicago as “Wild West City”.
BearsDown Premium Member over 10 years ago
So, a woman could duel with a man as long as they played baseball.
Kimber Forrester over 10 years ago
Chicago is called the Windy City because of political reasons. Its politicians were so full of wind the name stuck.
Brown Leghorn over 10 years ago
Chicago in the 50’s was just right, I walked all over, went in bars and burlesque shows, never noticed the wind or got mugged. Visited Skidrow also!
Brown Leghorn over 10 years ago
Not any Medeval Eurpean Lesbians back then huh? Simple, if there were then they would have been required to stand in the hole!
alan.gurka over 10 years ago
If you count tornados, then cities like KC and OK City would definitely be in the top 5 windy cities.
Mneedle over 10 years ago
I was in Chicago when you could go to the beach without worrying about getting mugged.
Mister Mean over 10 years ago
What is the deal with all these pop up ads? Can’t do anything without several pop ups blocking my usage. This is too much every second another pops up.
bookworm0812 over 10 years ago
Buffalo doesn’t surprise me in the least. I live in Buffalo. And yeah, it gets windy. Kind of windy today, in fact. NOT looking forward to the winter winds. Cleveland and Boston weren’t windy when I visited. At least Boston wasn’t. The weather was perfect, in fact.
slypuma over 10 years ago
Not really a duel. More of a lesson it seems.
JAMES09 over 10 years ago
cities windier than Chicago?sounds like little more than hot air to me,,,
Karptaz over 10 years ago
Chicago I believe is “garlic fields”, not “onion fields”
meg_grif over 10 years ago
There’s a wikipedia article on that:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Chicago’s_%22Windy_City%22_nickname
Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member over 10 years ago
People complain more about Chicago.
Tossle Premium Member over 10 years ago
I’m assuming the autofishtank was funded by a government grant.
MetalOverCountry about 10 years ago
girl power? not hardly