Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 27, 2023

It’s called a Frigatebird becase it friggen ate bird vomit!

The Tree Hotel grows on you.

There’s a hotel in Tanzania where the room is on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

They probably got the idea from Swiss Family Robinson, who lived in a treehouse.

… and the supervisor of the tree hotel is the branch manager…

Yup them Canes used keep me up all night knockin’ like that. ‘Til Mrs. Cane finally come up with a bun in ’er oven, then things quieted down fer a few months or so. Then it started up again. Ahma movin’ outa here tuh Slidell where they pace themselves a little bit. ~ Cowboy Bob, needin’ mah sleep fer th’ rodeo

May the gored be with you as she is with the tree. And gesundheit.

Getting, up, there, is a challenge !

Reresection rule #1: was don’t come back as a donkey, now it is don’t come back as a Frigatebird.

That bamboo item reminds me of the 1950s song “House of Bamboo”. It’s on YouTube!

Okay,I’m going to exaggerate a little for comic effect—-but the basic facts can be confirmed through the Yale Museum of Natural History—New Haven,Connecticut.

A Yale professor decided he could find dinosaur skeletons in acertain area of South Dakota in the 1870’s or so.

Being an “absent minded professor”,he was unaware that he had arrived in the Dakotas at the height of hostilities between the US Cavalry and the local Indians.

So he just wanders in and starts digging, and in no time he’s surrounded by Indians who ask him what he doing there.

The p rofessor says—“Well,Chief,I’m out here looking for dinosaurs!”

Chief says—“White Man wacky. Bring-um strait jacket”.

The tribe allowed the professor to excavate under heavy guard—-and the Prof hit the mother lode discovery that made his scientific reputation for life.

When the Prof was in his old age and they were giving him a banquet in his honor;he discovered the Chief was still alive and insisted he be brought to Yale as an honor guest.

One of that Chief’s more elaborate headdresses is in t he Natural History Museum.

Regurgitated food? I’d rather starve.

The Sagano Bamboo Forest is near the Tenryū-ji temple on Kyoto. An incredible zen experience.

https://youtu.be/7br9bTprpBk

I’d hate to be the bellhop at that hotel.

That’s one hotel that’s easy to leave.

On a cruise, I watched a frigatebird soaring back and forth over my ship. I worried that it would take a dump any minute. It did — on my sister. My mom likened me to the Twilight Zone boy.

The frigatebird thing, if true, is a most peculiar, oddball even, corner of evolution. The bamboo thing is…meh. It’s like someone hasn’t spent much time around growing things or wind.

I’m guessing the Tree Hotel is not ADA compliant, but then again it is in Sweden….

Sweden tree hotel -

https://treehotel.se/en/