Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 11, 2020

I think we’re safe today, fellow Readers — short of “Soshitaka Yakurada” I don’t think there’s anything you-know-who (shades of Harry Potter!) can do…

Sakurada-san must’ve been chosen to be that governmental position for a reason. (If I were a Japanese governmental official, I would’ve gone with someone like Shigeru Miyamoto.)

Well, if he never used a computer his information was probably pretty secure.

I hope no one tries to make out on the space station. Those things are almost impossible to get off when you’re excited.

OK; I was wrong — it doesn’t matter if someone gets here first to mock him. He has no shame.

Well…he’s a trouper, he is…

Back in Maries day (whether she ever said that or not), the word “Cake” had an entirely different food meaning, than what we consider cake to be today.

So Japan got Trump’s advice on who to appoint LOL

Pie?

Yoshi probably still hasn’t. Senior Japanese executives think computer usage is beneath them. They have secretaries do all their research.

Brioche and gateau (cake) are two different things.

Because she spoke Italian, German, and French, she might have called cake one of the following.

torta

Kuchen

gâteau

It’s almost certainly true that she did not call it cake.

In other words, the real work is being done by very efficient underlings! Sounds about right!

Isn’t that like a Samurai chief who never held a sword all his life until now?

lucky him……

Anderson Cooper…and then according to our sources, she said, “Let them eat cake!”

Well the bra company did a good job on the cod piece.

“I am the very model of a modern major general…” the sequel.

The Japanese guy probably was a good choice, because he had no preconceived ideas. Gaston Glock, the gun maker, was a plastics expert, and really had little knowledge about guns. He was trying to get the Austrian military contract for small arms weapons. He went around and asked military, and police personnel, what the ideal firearm would be like. From their input he designed his firearm.

How does the Peter Principle translate into Japanese?

The Marie Antoinette “quote” was one of those infamous miss-translations. Since it was in vogue at the time for nobility to speak Latin (so as to understand what the clergy were saying) the word was probably “caque” which is Latin translated to feces*

(*edited from the common four letter word that means the same thing, just in case there are kiddies reading these comments)

Hell, we elected a president who’d never been in politics, have him as the leader of the armed forces when he was never in the military and have him handling the economy when he’s been bankrupt several times.

Bread was scarce when Marie said that. She meant “If there is not enough bread, let them eat cake”

A Cybersecurity Minister doesn’t have to use or know about computers. He just has to hire people that does. Same as most companies here in the US. BTW, he most likely dictates his emails to someone.

“A spacesuit is made out of a flight suit, a Goodrich tire, a bra, a girdle, a raincoat, a tomato worm.”…https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-did-playtex-have-to-do-with-neil-armstrong-16588944/#:~:text=The%20astronaut’s%20lunar%20outfit%20was,series%20of%20space%20age%20fashions

Double kudos to mister Sakurada for his success in spite of being saddled with doo-doo in the middle of his name.

Take care and gesundheit.

Sakurada Yoshitaka is the Japanese way of saying “Ben Carson”.

Yeah, she said let them eat croissant. ;)

So, Sakurada is the Jen Barber of the department. ;)

on this day in history on September 11 2001 In an unprecedented, highly coordinated attack, terrorists hijack four U.S. passenger airliners, flying two into the World Trade Center towers in New York and one into the Pentagon, killing thousands. The fourth airliner, headed toward Washington likely to strike the White House or Capitol, is crashed just over 100 miles away in Pennsylvania after passengers storm the cockpit and overtake the hijackers.

Two things:

One, according to biographers Marie Antoinette, while undoubtedly a free-spending party girl, was also very charitable and concerned about the poor, so such a remark seems uncharacteristically callous.

Two, the wife of Louis XIV supposedly said something similar a century before, and an account of it appears in a book written by Jean Jacques Rousseau when Marie Antionette was only ten and still living in Austria.

Of course Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake”, She probably said: “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” if she said anything like that. I don’t think she spoke English

So, we all know who the first man to step on the moon’s surface was. But… who was the first astronaut to take a leak on the moon (in his suit of course). Did anyone ever make a note of that? LOL

A company that also designed bras, designed the Apollo space suits. Fify

Next they will try to tell us that Washington never chopped down his dad’s cherry tree.

huh, hmm, and how ’bout dat?

Before Lou Gerstner became chairman and CEO of IBM (in 1993), he had not used a computer. Before IBM, he was CEO of RJR Nabisco. Prior to that, he had a senior position at American Express.

japanese cabinet ministers are rarely awarded positions based on their abilities – allocation of jobs is mainly based on seniority, factions, and voting blocks…

No problem; if Yoshi has a child over the age of four, they can help him…

Many people move up the ladder, not because they know what they’re doing! But because they know who they’re doing!

International Latex Corporation: Playtex. Their seamstresses were exceptionally adept and the materials the company had experience with were perfect for the space suits. This sounds trivial but these suits were (and are) extremely complex.