Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 10, 2019

Oh, the dogs are gonna love the mail cats.

what gave that 19th-century community from Belgium the idea to let the post be delivered by the felis domesticus?

Then that drawing of the Parthenon is misleading, because it looks like there are quite a few straight lines.

I guess, that the no-straight-lines statement is incomprehensible to anybody who doesn’t already know more about it.

Whoever tried that mailcat scheme obviously never had a cat.

So somewhere there were tiny grizzly bears? Small but deadly. :)

The Greeks used “forced perspective” on the Parthenon. They wanted it to look perfect so they had to compensate for the distortions the eye creates.

Funny about the attempts at training the cats. My cat has us trained.

I can accept the pillars not being straight lines; your perspective on vertical lines never changes. They are all seen from below. But the horizontal lines: ie.: the floor, the steps, the gables, and the roof lines? Your perspective on those change as you move horizontally. That is going to take some convincing.

Caterpillars and butterflies

There is a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Memphis, TN. Built and painted to duplicate the original as much as possible. Built of plaster and wood for the 1897 TN centennial, it was meant to be temporary. The citizens loved it so much it had to be rebuilt after the exposition in more permanent materials.

The brilliant ancient Greeks knew that parallel lines extended over distance appear to converge at the center so they compensated by making these architectural elements slightly wider at their centers to overcome this illusion! Thus no straight lines.

The mail idea was a CAT-astrophe.

What is that supposed to be in the bottom-right? Looks like a bird with creepy tree legs.

The should try femail cats instead. No nevermind they would probably pay them less.

I wouldn’t even trust pigeons to get that right.

On the Parthenon, none of the lines are straight, but they look that way to the human eye – Just the opposite of what it said.

And poor people in England were much smaller than people that could afford better food.

200 years from now, people will look back and be amazed that in the 2000’s some thought that men could become women and vice versa.

And the Parthenon was built using 400 barrels of Uzo…

I guess I’ve either not registered on the curves of the Parthenon or I’ve not seen a photo that was close enough. It has always looked like straight lines to me!