Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 16, 2019

What would headphones 109 years be used for if they weren’t sold to the Navy or any of the other military branches? Listening to music (on the Gramophone) privately, yes, but seriously.

Those boneheads…

I’m lucky if my ear buds last a week.

In the middle ages Christmas was a drunken brawl

I think we used those same headphones in the 1965 Navy.

Much of what is now observed during Christmas comes from pagan customs. Take a look at:https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas

The christmas tree was considered a pagan symbol. It was something that looked alive even though all the other trees around it were “dead”.

I just realized how whimsical the exclamation points are in this strip. That’s a good thing.

Puritans did not celebrate anything.

ain’t that something times 3

If Puritans didn’t celebrate Christmas, what displays did they put up in their stores from September to December?

About that same time period in England, children would purposely be bad so they could get stockings full of coal to help with the heating of the family home…

Explains the navy seen using headphones in silent movies.

I’ve often thought they had those buckles on their hats to keep their brains from falling out of the holes in their heads…