Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 04, 2013
Transcript:
In March 2013, a Norwegian drinks company released a 26 foot long bottle containing a 129 square foot letter into the Atlantic Ocean! The Golden Gate Knights teach classes in light saber skills in San Francisco! This piano really socks! In 1917, inventor Max Rothfeld of Pennsylvania patented a piano that doubled as a vacuum cleaner!
jack fairbanks over 11 years ago
ah, duet for piano and pink bassoon!
edclectic over 11 years ago
Only in San Francisco…
BearsDown Premium Member over 11 years ago
“Play Dusty For Me”
milano99 over 11 years ago
The piano would have been better if it made mixed drinks. Complete “piano bar” in one package.
alan.gurka over 11 years ago
Not as portable as an Electrolux, so how do you go about vacuuming in other rooms? Or do you have a piano in every room?
emjaycee over 11 years ago
Disney’s Hollywood Studios (FL) has the “Jedi Training Academy” daily (multiple times per day) for kids 4 through 12. Very popular, as most of the sign-up slots are gone within a half-hour of the park’s opening. “Star Wars Weekends” (late May to early June) ramp this up a couple of notches.
terek over 11 years ago
When the Star Wars films were made,various forms of the Martial Arts and unarmed combat were incooperated and used in the movies. The lightsaber dueling is a martial Arts dueling form called “Kindo”.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 11 years ago
The piano/vacuum cleaner: Two ways in one to scare a dog.
slypuma over 11 years ago
Cause we don’t have enough pollution in our oceans already?
CrimsonFoxx over 11 years ago
Because lightsaber fighting was based off of the sword techniques of the ancient samurai since Star Wars itself is actually loosely based off of the times of Feudal Japan, which is also one of the reasons for the line “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”. Feudal Japan was also a long time ago in a far-away place.
boldyuma over 11 years ago
Wonder what key that vacuum plays in/drones in?60 hz?(my brother did this to his 1888 pump organ. I should have reminded him to put the Hoover on the other side of the wall)
tigerchik32 over 11 years ago
I’ve heard of some dopes who do lightsaber fights with flourescent light tubes!
Marvin3 over 11 years ago
The letter! The letter! What’d say?