Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 24, 2023

“Mama Llamas” sounds like a great name for a band.

I wonder what was the very first silent film on a plane those 98 years ago.

Apparently llamas don’t know the words.

And the title of the film shown?

[drum roll goes here….]

I saw a later, about 1960 version of The Lost World as a little kid. I still remember the scary lava river flows inside a big mountain.

I bet the momma and baby llama songs sound better than yesterday’s bagpipes!

Years ago, out in the Virginia countryside, I saw a llama on a farm. The road there was always named Llama Lane.

They hum mamma llama ding dong.

I wonder how many people in the U.S. incorrectly pronounce Llama starting with an L sound instead of a Y sound? Remember, it’s a Spanish spelling so the two L’s together are pronounced as a Y sound. Think of saying tortilla, it’s Tor-tee-yah not Tor-till-a. Go to a South American country and say "L"ama instead of "Y"ama. They’ll laugh at you!

How silly. Most art is composed of not just music, but paintings and sculptures and.. oh, you said Mozart. Never mind. ~ Emily Litella

Take care, may famed singing Llama Fernando “We Were Just Glad Our Mom Admitted The Whole Llama Thing” Llamaord be with you, and gesundheit.

The one-l lama, He’s a priest. The two-l llama, He’s a beast. And I will bet A silk pajama There isn’t any Three-l lllama. Ogden Nash.

It’s pronounced Yama.

They can surely hum, but can they whistle?

Yes, but was it good music?

Pretty sure I had created that many songs by the time I was 10, too. However, nobody has ever hard of them…

Hmmmmmm…hummers?

The poor Llamas hum because they don’t know the words to the tune…

Mozart wrote over 600 pieces of music and died when he was 33, so you can do the math

Was there an attempt to keep the music synchronized with the movie?

An 8 year old boy asked Mozart to teach him how to write a symphony. Mozart says, “Well, you’re young yet, how about a simple ballad instead?” The boy says, “But Mr. Mozart, you wrote a symphony when you were only 8 years old”. And Mozart replied, “Yes, but no one had to teach me”.

Mozart was a true wunderkind,it was probably more than 20.

A sadder fact—Mozart’s wife gave birth to 6 children and 4 died in infancy.

I think I wrote one decent song and taped it with a little rock band in my unfinished concrete basement, with a booming church organist singing. I played electric organ. The acoustics must have been awful!

Mozart was not the Wunderkind he’s hailed to be. Many of his early works were actually written, totally or partially, by his father Leopold – a great composer on his own – obsessed by turning his son into a gold mine. You won’t find any original W. A. Mozart works before his late teens.

Yes, llamas do hum a bit.