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1. 6 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Also not strictly a seaside-oceanside dwelling bird. We have three mated pairs in an eight mile stretch in the Stillwater Valley between Columbus and Absarokee, MT, hundreds of miles away from the Pacific.

2. 10 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   A spoonerism (pronounced SPOON-er-izm) is a transposition of sounds (often the initial consonants) in two or more words, such as " shoving leopard" in place of “loving shepherd.” Also known as slip of the tongue, exchange, metaphasis, and marrowsky.

   A spoonerism is usually accidental and may have a comic effect. In the words of British comedian Tim Vine, “If I ever find out what a Spoonerism is, I’ll heat my cat.”

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3. about 1 year ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   The Torah is the first 5 books of both Bibles. It is not a term for the entirety of a Jewish Bible.

4. about 1 year ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   It hasn’t been the same ladder since 1759. It’s periodically replaced as each individual one eventually rots.

   There has to be one there after the accord reached by the eight church sects controlling various parts of the Holy Sepulchre…nothing can be changed without a unanimous vote, including vestments of individual sects.

   Such a wonderful representation of Christ…SMH

5. about 1 year ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Never blown that second headlight after ignoring the first one to go, or had your fuse pop to the headlights?

6. over 3 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Unfortunately, until your final statement, not so much. Wcraft’s comment above works for that.

7. over 3 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I’ve studied paleontology since I was about 5, and if independently wealthy it would be my constant vocation. Pterosaurs have not, at least for the past 40+ years, ever been classified as dinosaurs. That’s true for the aquatic like forms such as ichthyosaurs, mososaurs, plesiosaurs, etc. They are certainly related by common ancestry, but just as reptiles, birds, mammals, amphibians, and fish are distinct, so too are these. It’s only a common layman’s misconception that gets them lumped in with dinosaurs, because of the similarities and lack of interest in the distinctions.

   Your response to J. R. M. seems a bit bitter, and indicative that you are not open to correction, so perhaps I am tilting at windmills here, but you really ought to accept correction more gracefully, and realize “tongue-in-cheek” doesn’t translate well in a text medium.

8. over 3 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Marsupials are mammals. They differ from placentals, which make up the bulk of mammal species, but they are mammals.

9. over 3 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   So?

10. over 3 years ago on For Better or For Worse

    Labs…try to keep them out of the water!