Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 01, 2021

Hey, Ripley’s readers – I’ve come up with a solution for animals trying to sell us stuff. Here it is…believe it or not!:

First, the insurance lizard eats the breakfast cereal bee.Next, the insurance duck eats the lizard.Then the car fax fox eats the duck.The insurance Emu pecks the fox to death…Which is then stomped to death by the chicken sandwich cow…Which finally gets impregnated by the securities bull.Meanwhile, the beer horse and the Dalmatian are laughing themselves silly.

The world’s first television commercial aired on July 1, 1941, before the beginning of a baseball game in New York between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies.

https://medium.com/knowledge-stew/the-worlds-first-television-commercial-cb51fd0acb18

I usually think otters are adorable, but if I saw a giant otter I’d back away very slowly.

At first I thought it said “giant otter hugging an iguana”.

It was eighty years ago today

When The Bulova Watch people paid to say

Central Park is only the fifth-largest park in New York City. But you probably already knew that.

JoshHere made clear about 13 hours ago

@Gweedo it’s legal here Murray

Inspired by the marsupial mole, the penguin is saying Chicago’s citizens can survive on the minuscule amount of money left over after taxes. He is making a point about over-taxation in that city. Right, WC?

I got the tax angle right away but took forever to tie the moles into it. I must be a mole. They keep me in the dark and take all my money.

Why are people being asked to kill iguanas?

In the UK the first TV ad was for Gibbs toothpaste, can’t remember the date, sometime in 1955 I think.

That screen size looks too big for a 1941 tv.

I saw a TV in a 3 Stooges short and it was in a table pointing up. The screen was about 9" or so and round.

Aw c’mon, I saw that just the otter day on TV.

Take care, may Yanomami speech critic Mukashi Rerebaword be with you, and gesundheit.

Televisions in 1941 didn’t have the big screens like that. They had tiny screens that you had to sit very close to see. And they were Very expensive.

So, on July 1, 1941 Pandora’s box of advertising was opened. I’m so glad we don’t watch any “live” TV here now. It has decreased/changed my reading opportunities though as we always used to mute the TV and read a book for 3-4 minutes during commercials.

Enter 1941 tv sets in Google and catch the image page. Lots of different sizes. But that first ad was the beginning of a long and eventually very tedious interruption to the enjoyment of complete programs of all kinds.

Giant otter? Wonder if they would eat moles and voles. Nothing else seems to work in our garden since we don’t use pesticides or herbicides. But then I guess we’d need a wild cat to get rid of the GO’s, then a wolf to get rid of . . . Oh well. The heck with it.

At least New York City has had the good sense not to turn Central Park into a housing plot. Worth a lot of money to somebody, but, given the current digital style or total lack it of architecture, buildings would include flat slabs of siding, ‘decorated’ with gunmetal gray trim, and phony brick trim, with a carport type awning on the roof. U-G-L-Y!!! Keep it green and safe, NY.

And to think that the USA entered WW2 just five months later – coincidence?? – it gets harder and harder to believe researchers in our modern-day supposedly ‘scientific world’ – and what’s so unusual about NYC politicians paying way too much for anything? so 1 believe 1 only when I see it duplicated with my own eyes and 1 meh!

That big console TV was years away in 1941.

wouldn’t the DATE of each purchase be more telling?

And Central Park has fewer caribou, bears, fish, bison, musk ox, eagles and wolves and ptarmigans, and lynx and arctic hares and salmon and cloudberries and blueberries and even pumpkins than Alaska. But that’s because god has lived in Alaska ever since the Dodgers moved to LA.

Quick – no time to spare: Bring giant otters to Florida!

July 1, 1941 the first TV ad. And it’s been down hill ever since.

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Re: Central Park, remember the old adage: “location, location, location”.

And the first online clickable web ad was by a law firm…

Is that price difference before or after adjusting for inflation?

That’s because NYC is a much more desirable place to live than Alaska. You couldn’t pay me to live in Alaska.

My first watch was a Bulova!

And today, TV commercials are almost 1/3 of a 30 minute program.

TV in 1941? Then the illustration is inaccurate! The first televisions had small screens that were round.