Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 14, 2021

Um…how can it be leucistic and red at the same time?

Cash informed everyone that Stalin had fallen into a burning ring of fire. Believe or Not.

If he was leucistic (partially lacking coloration) how did they know Cosmo was a red kangaroo? Why not yellow or blue?

Ha. But Arne Saknussem did it long ago!

Holy felinies, Batcat. It’s Splitface!

Narnia the cat reminds me of the original Star Trek episode “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” that starred the late Frank Gorshin.

Let’s leave Cosmo’s religion out of it.

The evenly split face is the primary characteristic of a chimera. It is not genetic, but actually a birth defect, so not passed down to the offspring. It occurs in both plants and animals. Google it…it is really interesting.

A neighbor had a black cat who gave birth. One kitten was black, another white. The rest were all gray.

My new avatar is my latest painting! A Pelican at the Marina here looking for a handout!

actually cool about Mr. Cash

oh and so much would improve if you actually posted photos…art is excellent though, just sayin’

Center of the Earth? You can’t get there from here.

‘I hear the train a comin’

It’s rolling round the bend

And I ain’t seen the Moscow since I don’t know when

I’m stuck in Gulag prison, and time keeps draggin’ on

But that train keeps a rollin’ on down to Stalingrad’

How do they know it’s a “red” kangaroo?

My cat has white fur under it’s black coat. Every spring I use a clippers and cut out the White Sox logo. Like my Sox, it’s gone by fall.

Leucism – is that what Michael Jackson had? (Serious question)

What is a Leucistic Red Kangaroo? Leucistic is not in the dictionary.

His great grandfather wanted to go into space instead of Laika.

Take care, may Russian code breaker Ivan Youtruck Shovitold be with you, and gesundheit.

One November morning in 1963 while serving my sentence as a"Mess cook", I was preparing the Vat of coffee for morning chow about 5:am when I dialed on the local Japanese radio and heard that President Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas…Also being a Radioman I rushed up to theRadio room to ask what are, if any, plans…(we were SOPA- SENIOR OFFICER PRESENT AFLOAT – REAR ADMIRALS STAFF for supply and delivery for the western Pacific.I told them what I had just heard and asked what are the plans…They looked at me and said I was “Drunk” and go back to making the coffee…

I said I may be “Hung-over”, but the President is still dead…And left…

Military “Intelligence”…..

How deep is the DEEPEST part of any sea/ocean in the world?

The myth of Cash intercepting a Soviet message about Stalin is pure bunk. It actually started in the early 1970’s when Cash told the tall tale to a publicity flack who was asking about his early life. It is true that Cash was serving in the Air Force in Germany at the time of Stalin’s death, but he was just a low-level radio operator listening to Morse code signals from nearby Soviet bases. Cash did not know the Russian language and the Morse operators he was listening to had no knowledge of Stalin or his condition, not to mention that those code senders would have been in deep trouble had they made any reference to Stalin in their messages. Johnny simply imbibed a little too much prior to the interview and thought it would be amusing to exaggerate his military record for people who had no understanding of his background.

Narnia has been that way ever since he wandered into the wardrobe…

If one could ever make it to the dead center of the earth, would they just float around as if in space, with no gravity?

Perfect!

That post about Johnny Cash was a complete surprise to me.