Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 05, 2014

Oh, quelli italiani stupidi.

That was a good movie ! The German crew was great ! Ha Ha !

“Those magnificent men in their flying machines,They go up up, Tiddley up, up,They go down, Tiddley down, down.”

Some of us remember and appreciate the Saturday matinee classics, either from the movie theatre or the tv.

Parmesan cheese, wine, olive oil……what are the Italian fraudsters gonna come up with next?

@Alexikakos, keep the recipes coming. I enjoy them and have tried a few. The corn relish recipe of a few weeks back has become an instant classic at home.

Thanks for reminding me of that movie. I loved it when I first watched it on the Disney Channel.

To obtain the best uplift for his long journey, Damian flew off the west side of the ramparts’ highest point… To the repeated scorn of the poet William Dunbar, he landed in a midden and broke his thigh bone. He was ridiculed and the attempt dismissed.

Anyone looking over the west parapet of Stirling Castle would realise that someone tumbling down the rock at that point would end up very dead.

Moreover, the royal gardens lay at its foot. Although the exact processional route between castle and gardens remains unclear, this was no place for a midden.

A 1702 plan of the town, on the other hand, indicates the nearest midden half a mile away, beyond the current Smith Art Gallery. If that was the one in which Damian landed, there is but one conclusion: the wings worked…

http://www.danielmitsui.com/hieronymus/index.blog/2020701/early-catholic-aviators-john-damian/

What did you learn today?

Just before his fatal crash into a cesspit, James Dean broke all his teeth by trying to eat an umbrella handle he thought was made out of cheese.

Well Damian’s big mistake was using chicken feathers. Why use the feathers of a bird that really can’t fly either?! Now if he’d used Canadian goose feathers or albatross feathers or some other bird that can actually fly… :D