Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 12, 2012
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Transcript:
If you weigh 150 pounds on earth, you would weigh only 10.5 pounds on the dwarf planet Pluto! 10,000 miles and still running! Charles Wilson of St. Augustine, Fla., USA, has only missed 5 days of running his 8 mile barefoot trips along the beach since 2008! Canada will soon eliminate its penny, which cost 1.6 cents to make!
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Aussie Down Under over 12 years ago
In OZ the 1 cent and 2 cent pieces only lasted from 1966 to 1990 for the former and 1966 to 1989 for the latter.
Jogger2 over 12 years ago
How about 100,000 miles? There is a list of people with running streaks going back decades without missing a day. http://runeveryday.com/lists/USRSA-Active-List.html
upanddown17 over 12 years ago
I’m going to miss Canada’s 1-cent coin. I like the stem with the 2 maple leaves on it.
roscoedog55 over 12 years ago
I reckon they are calling a “dwarf” planet.
walruscarver2000 over 12 years ago
Every time they talk about it here, a great hue and cry goes up from some familar quarters, ditto the paper dollar. I’m still trying to figure out how these things are somehow “socialism”.
flagfly over 12 years ago
I wonder if that guy has ever stepped on a piece of glass.
Stephen Gilberg over 12 years ago
Not to be confused with the protagonist of “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
Regardless of how it is classified, Pluto is what Pluto is.
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
A journey of 10,000 miles begins with the first ten steps!
charliefarmrhere over 12 years ago
If you weighed 150 pounds on earth, I don’t think your actual weight would change elsewhere. Just the difference in gravity, would make it feel like only 10.5 pounds? In zero gravity on the Space Station, wouldn’t a 150 pound person, still actually be a 150 pound person?
Semper Fido over 12 years ago
Who said anything about socialism? We’ve needed to get rid of the penny for at least ten years…
6turtle9 over 12 years ago
I enjoy reading this strip, but this is not the Ripley’s I am familiar with, and at times the stories are banal trivia at best.!0,000 miles? Really? How pedestrian ; many, many have done this and for longer and with more miles. The penny- not only is it old news but it is boring to boot.Just sayin’.