Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 13, 2022

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    monkeysky  about 2 years ago

    The original original version of Monopoly was called The Landlord’s Game, and it was meant to illustrate the benefits of the Georgist/Geoist economic system by providing two different sets of rules: a competitive “monopolist” version and a cooperative “non-monopolist” version.

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    Bilan  about 2 years ago

    Hearing somebody shout Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting may not be the safest thing while driving.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 2 years ago

    I never liked Elton John. Consequently I’ve been in 7,956 crashes and survived none of them. ~ Gus the Ghost

    Take care, may sleepy board game enthusiast Wanda “Trade For All Four Railroads And You’ll Always Have A Place To Bed Down For The Night” Nicklebagord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    Teto85 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Love Norah. I’ll try playing her music the next time I’m driving.

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    oish  about 2 years ago

    Ironically, “The Boss” from NJ, Bruce Springsteen, is the most dangerous music to listen to while driving… My first car, a 17 year old Ford and a “craft car” that was a vo-tech project car, used to stall whenever Springsteen was playing on the radio almost killing me several times. Even today, I change the station if he comes on while I’m driving.

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    Spider-UK  about 2 years ago

    I like to think the Monopoly guy is actually an elderly Richie Rich

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    ekke  about 2 years ago

    HOW is clinomania a “condition”? I’d call it completely normal, even desirable!

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    Jogger2  about 2 years ago

    That “fact” about Monopoly is well known. But, I wasn’t aware names of properties in the standard United States edition Monopoly had changed since then.

    Charles Darrow falsely claimed to be the sole inventor of the game. He had seen The Landlord’s Game, and based Monopoly on that.

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    Buckeye67  about 2 years ago

    I would be very interested in knowing how the research was conducted on safe driving music. Also in the interest of public safety shouldn’t RBION have provided the names of the most dangerous musicians to listen to. I would hate to think my playlist is putting my driving safety in danger.

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    Buckeye67  about 2 years ago

    For those of you who share my safe driving music interest, I offer: https://www.etags.com/blog/how-listening-to-music-in-the-car-affects-your-driving/

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    mindjob  about 2 years ago

    It was 3 AM, I just got done working the night shift at UPS. I was driving home and something startling came on the radio. I lost control of the car and drove off into a ditch! The song was In The Dead Of Night by UK.

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    sparklite  about 2 years ago

    There’s also a name for the pulse you hear/feel when you rest your head and press your ear on the pillow. I forget the word and am sorry I ever learned there is one.

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Francis in Momma and Garfield have Clinomania. BION

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    198.23.5.11  about 2 years ago

    MOST DANGEROUS MUSIC WHILE DRIVING—-Crash.

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