Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 03, 2022

Our founder, Steve Silver, usually includes a preamble. I will once again forgo one:

It was the postman’s last day on the job before retiring, and when he reached one particular house to deliver the mail, the wife greeted him at the door in a sexy negligee and invited him in. Once he was inside, she took him upstairs to the bedroom and made mad passionate love to him, and then excused herself and went back downstairs.

Once the mailman had composed himself, he put his clothes back on and went downstairs, where he found a place setting with a full, hot breakfast on it. Right next to the plate was a dollar bill. The wife explained:

“I told my husband it was your last day on the job, and I asked him what we should do for you. My husband said, ‘Oh, screw him! Give him a dollar.’ Breakfast was my idea.”

That Japanese IKEA flat: is that 86¢US which is ¥99 (thanks, Siri, for converting that) or ¥86 which is 75¢US?

I wonder what Q-tipped off the police that they had… forget it.

And it said error 404

In Tokyo, it’s usually the apartments that are incredibly expensive and the old desktops are cheap.

“Innocent worker….” She’s a genius! It’s the perfect alibi!!! :D

The DNA on the underpants of Jon Bene Ramsey (supposedly) came from a worker in the Chinese factory where they were packaged and all such garments have trace DNA from when they were manufactured and/or packaged. Believe It or Not!

So that factory was shut down due to contaminated cotton swabs, I trust.

Take care, may floppy disc collector Gladys “Everything Else In My Life Is Floppy So I Might As Well Have A Collection” Ramsord be with you, and gesundheit.

What does Ikea want with that apartment?

Cotton swabs used for collecting DNA from crime scenes are pre-contaminated with DNA?? That factory needs to fix its manufacturing process!

Does the Apple I computer go “thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack” when you power it on like the Apple ][ used to do? The floppy disk drives were cost-reduced within an inch of their lives, including not bothering with a home sensor. So they just banged the head against the stop when homing, producing the signature wakeup noise.

I find it hard to believe that only one person’s DNA was found on all those swabs. Unless this employee deliberately contaminated the lot.

Of all the fruits in the world, what made Steve Jobs choose an apple?

Sometime in late 1989 I got a Macintosh SE FDHD, with a 20 Meg hard drive. When the hard drive failed I replaced it with a 100 Meg hard drive. When the tech opened up the case we discovered facsimile autographs of the team that created the model embossed in the hard plastic case. At some point I gave the computer to my kid. No idea what happened to it after that, but I sure wish I knew what it would be worth today. Or maybe I’m better off not knowing.

I’m too lazy to google/wiki it, but I’d like to know how that DNA testing finds DNA among the zillion other chemicals present in the sample…

The Ikea apartment in Japan (article with photos): https://news.yahoo.com/look-inside-tiny-apartment-ikea-132354678.html

I guess wearing rubber gloves wasn’t an option at the cotton swab plant back then.