Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 02, 2018

This is a Slazenger 7. You must have played the wrong ball somewhere on the 18th fairway, Captain Shepard. We are playing strict rules, so I’m afraid you lose the hole and the match.

The ladder is there to get away from the rodent with very big teeth.

The ladder: Apparently the ladder has only been moved twice in more than two centuries because the six churches who govern the site can’t agree on who’ll take possession of it.

According to something I read, the position of a ladder against a building symbolizes the Trinity. Hence both the decision not to move it, and also the superstition about walking under ladders.

What’s one more piece of symbolism at a place full of it?

In his EVA suit Alan Shepherd could not hold the club as he normally would, he made the stroke one handed.

A record drive.

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The guy who was cleaning the windows died and nobody else wanted the job.

What, they never heard of a fire escape in Jerusalem?

Thanks, Alan Shepard. The moon project was already in trouble, and when he pulled his little trick, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The idea was, “Why spend billions so some guy can hit golf balls?” Some people think that was the thing that finally lost NASA the funding on the rest of the Apollo missions.

The ladder was left by a union worker.

Neil Armstrong used to tell intentionally bad jokes about the moon, to draw blank stares. Then he’s say, “I guess you had to be there.” Then he got his laugh.

It must be the ladder to heaven!

Two centuries without moving a ladder. It probably won’t support someone’s weight anymore after someone attempts to climb it.

And the condition of those golf balls after decades in the Moon’s harsh environment?

A church is an unusual place for an elopement.

We never went to the moon. It was all a staged event. So fake that I feel stupid for ever believing it! Most people still believe it! Amazing!

The ladder is there because of a century-old agreement to resolve disputes over which Church had jurisdiction over which parts of the building. Known as the status quo, that ladder is part of the deal. It’s only been removed twice; once a tourist pranked it by hiding it behind an altar; it took two weeks to find and replace it. One time the person whose job it was to watch the ladder to be sure nobody removed it, moved it a foot or so, so that he could sit out of the sun. Fisticuffs resulted. Yup, sad commentary on human nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immovable_Ladder

It’s a really, really heavy ladder…

I know that I’ve seen that rat(?) before, but I can’t quite place it. Was it in the poster for a horror movie?