Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 14, 2024

It’s a good thing they didn’t get the stones from a non-extinct volcano.

Three American men are sitting on a beach in the Caribbean sipping their rum and they get to talking…

The first man, twirling a matchstick in his fingers, says pensively, “I used to own a matchstick factory back in California. But one day there was a fire and the entire factory was burned to the ground. I collected my insurance money and decided to retire here in the Caribbean.”

The second man says, “Oh, how odd! I used to own a jewellery store in Chicago. One night there was a break-in and I lost all my wares. So I collected my insurance and headed down here.”

The third man looks at the two of them and says, “You won’t believe it! I used to run a warehouse in Kansas. One day a tornado destroyed the entire business, so I collected my insurance and here I am!”

The first two men look at each other for a while. Finally one of them asks, “Just how do you make a tornado happen?”

I misread the one about the “the Mactchs Tick”. Really!

If I don’t misread the Wikipedia, he didn’t obtain a patent because he refused to apply for a patent…

Wrong! He did not get a patent because someone else got it!

What’s a matches tick

He’d have been famous if he patented it and people would ask “Have you got a Walker?” Instead of have you got a match.

I wonder if that tuff is tuff to carve? Or chisel, whatevs.

“I want a head like the heads you see on Easter Island.” Moxy Fruvous

In testing the claim that the moai were walked from the quarry to the ahu, the researchers made a small moai out of cement. But, they wanted the result to have the same density as the volcanic tuff. So, when they mixed the cement, they included plastic beads. YouTube video yvvES47OdmY Easter Island moai ‘walked’

Maybe that’s the mushroom Stormy described.

Without a patent, Johnny Walker was in the Red

I thought the Moai statues were carved from basalt

Ah,but can you EAT them?