Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 25, 2020

Did Ms. Wedell even get her cassette back? Must’ve cost a fortune (in Swedish krona).

Vealentine’s Day!

Proof that plastic never really decays.

In Aunty Acid yesterday I discovered that an American bobby-pin doesn’t have a point and is a hair-clip or hair-grip in English…

Today I discover that an American clothes-pin doesn’t have a point and is a clothes-peg in English…

I love learning about foreign cultures…

But is it art?

I bet someone made some pretty good money selling that tape to the Art Exhibit!

I’m impressed with the clothes pin. Granite is not that easy to carve.

Does the clothespin work?

Google search “jack crowell grave stone” to see Jack’s grave stone. When I initially looked at the drawing it looked like it could almost be a functioning clothespin, but the gap between the two halves behind the spring is really just solid granite that’s recessed and in shadow. On closer examination of the drawing and compared to other pics on the interwebs, it’s a pretty subtle detail that I see now…

I had thought the clothespin would have been in this cemetary https://vermonter.com/hope-cemetery/

Mix tape? Might have to explain that to a few of the younger readers.

I wonder how many people DON’T try to push open that clothespin?

Much to my surprise, Jack W Crowell (and his grave) is not listed in findagrave.com

They dare not show the headstone for the guy who invented the vibrator!

That’s not a perfectly shaped heart pattern, that’s the shape people use to represent an actual heart.

American English is weird. We drive on a parkway, and park on a driveway. Go figure.

After a lot of looking I guess somebody finally pinned him down…

and they only have to have somebody come by twice a week to “trim” the calf to look like that.

That cow is so cute. now let’s shoot her in the brain with a passive bolt gun so we can dismember her and eat her flesh.