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Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 10, 2016
March 09, 2016
March 11, 2016
Transcript:
Did you know? Sign language can have an accent! Oops!! Stationed on the International Space Station, British astronaut Tim Peake accidentally phoned the wrong number when calling home on Christmas Eve! No mourners attended Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's funeral.
I believe that the goal in life is to live like there is only one and to make the most. So at a funeral or memorial service it should be a celebration of that life and no mourning allowed.
I live in the Atlanta area, We can call free for miles and miles, but we have three area codes, and I must dial an area code to call my next door neighbor.
There were a few mourner’s at Mozart’s funeral . The mourners, included Mozart’s wife, Constanze, and his older son, Karl Thomas (the younger, Franz Xaver, was only several months old at the time of his father’s death).
At one time, we only had to dial 847-#### to reach Hamilton, Illinois. Then, Chicago needed a new area code and used 847. Now we have to dial 1-217-847-#### to reach Hamilton. Then a few years later, I read in the paper that there were complaints that another split caused “inconveniences” in the 847 ac.(Don’t look to us for sympathy!)
johnt204 almost 9 years ago
Sign language accent?Like a British accent?Or a stressed syllable?
Templo S.U.D. almost 9 years ago
Well, of course no one attended Mozart’s funeral: he was interred in a pauper’s grave! (I’m not deaf, but I never thought of SLs having an accent.)
Chad Cheetah almost 9 years ago
It looks like Mozart’s hand is feeling the sign language
aimlesscruzr almost 9 years ago
And just think the recipient of that call thought they were being pranked: “Hi, this is Tim from the ISS, is mum there…”
quinones.felix almost 9 years ago
I believe that the goal in life is to live like there is only one and to make the most. So at a funeral or memorial service it should be a celebration of that life and no mourning allowed.
Brown Leghorn almost 9 years ago
Accent? Like the ‘bird’?
linsonl almost 9 years ago
I live in the Atlanta area, We can call free for miles and miles, but we have three area codes, and I must dial an area code to call my next door neighbor.
comixbomix almost 9 years ago
“TP phone HOME!”
Max Starman Jones almost 9 years ago
Do people ever stutter in sign language?
meg_grif almost 9 years ago
Mozart was composing up until he died. Then he started decomposing.
MY DOG IS MY CO PILOT almost 9 years ago
There were a few mourner’s at Mozart’s funeral . The mourners, included Mozart’s wife, Constanze, and his older son, Karl Thomas (the younger, Franz Xaver, was only several months old at the time of his father’s death).
tuslog64 almost 9 years ago
At one time, we only had to dial 847-#### to reach Hamilton, Illinois. Then, Chicago needed a new area code and used 847. Now we have to dial 1-217-847-#### to reach Hamilton. Then a few years later, I read in the paper that there were complaints that another split caused “inconveniences” in the 847 ac.(Don’t look to us for sympathy!)
finnygirl Premium Member almost 9 years ago
I guess Tim was just spaced out when he dialed.
tuslog64 almost 9 years ago
cheap cell phone – no memory beyond about last 6 calls.