Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 08, 2014

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 10 years ago

    And an awesome game it was (coming from a Seahawks fan) of course I wasn’t at the stadium at the time of the “earthquake.”

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    bluegirl285  over 10 years ago

    I want to know which is more sadder, the 2.8 million dollar all-blue painting or the fact that someone bought said 2.8 million dollar painting.

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    Dkram  over 10 years ago

    Fierljeppen sounds easier on the body then tossing the Caber..\\//_

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    Don Winchester Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I’ve gotta believe that Wes Klein even had to be thinking, “I can’t believe people will buy this crap!”

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    Guilty Bystander  over 10 years ago

    That’s the nearby “University of Washington.” Washington University is in St. Louis, which halfway across the country from Seattle. And, living fewer than 100 miles from Seattle, I remember watching that TD run by Marshawn Lynch on TV (earth-shattering in its’ own right).

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    Guilty Bystander  over 10 years ago

    That’s the nearby “University of Washington.” Washington University is in St. Louis, which halfway across the country from Seattle. And, living fewer than 100 miles from Seattle, I remember watching that TD run by Marshawn Lynch on TV (earth-shattering in its’ own right).

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    Marv Walker  over 10 years ago

    And Tom Thumb replied, “Sometimes two. I’m here to pick up my check.”

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    loner34  over 10 years ago

    Triggered an earthquake?How about COINCIDENCE.

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    GeorgeJohnson  over 10 years ago

    Did they actually trigger an “earthquake”? Or did their screaming and shouting and jumping, just simply REGISTER on an earthquake detector??Two VERY different things. One is the actual movement of tectonic plates, the other is just detecting the vibrations of them jumping up and down.

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    loner34  over 10 years ago

    As for the painting, I have absolutely NO artistic ability, anything I can do is not art. I can paint a canvas one solid color.

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    chabias  over 10 years ago

    He said no such thing. It was a competitor who made that statement ABOUT P.T.

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    jimeguess  over 10 years ago

    I am totally astonished that someone thought a canvas painted one color was worth $2.8 million.

    corpcasselbury is right.

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    Eugeno  over 10 years ago

    MicroGuy’s got it right – the UoW set up seismic sensors around inside the stadium, and measured the ‘vibes’ – There was a short-lived ‘school’ of painting called ‘Colorism’ in the late 60’s early b70’s – several ‘artists’ tried to make a go of it. If asked ‘what does it mean?’, they always answered with the old cop-out, ‘What does it mean to you?’ It didn’t last long … this is first I’ve ever heard that any of that ‘work’ sold for anything more than the cost of the canvas and paint …

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    joe piglet Premium Member over 10 years ago

    From Wiki

    Although Klein had worked with blue extensively in his earlier career, it was not until 1958 that he used it as the central component of a piece (the color effectively becoming the art). Klein embarked on a series of monochromatic works using IKB as the central theme. These included performance art where Klein painted models’ naked bodies and had them walk, roll and sprawl upon blank canvases as well as more conventional single-color canvases.

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    GerardoDreadful  over 10 years ago

    Is it a Windows dreadful blue screen?

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 10 years ago

    Nah. The buyer knew what he was doing: getting attention.

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    sdjamieson Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I seriously doubt they triggered an earthquake.

    Also, P.T. Barnum did not say that.

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    english.ann  over 10 years ago

    It’s good to hear about the Dutch doing something athletic with their numerous canals besides skating to get from here to there, or Olympic speed skating.

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