Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 07, 2015

That doesn’t make his playing cool cause it’s hot!

So how many dimples does the not-so-average gold ball have: 335? How do they even keep track of the number of dimples anyway?

Was Yosuke playing Ein Kleine Feuermusik?

I guess that’s what Jerry Lee meant by great balls of fire

The golf ball used to have 250 dimples, had to increase the number due to climate change, I am waiting for my $5 million in research grant money.

They make the ball fly better somehow. It’s an aerodynamic thingee. So a better brand of balls might be more consistent on the dimple number giving you a better shot.

I see stupid people… playing a piano.

So do his friends call him Lightning Rod?

I’ve collected many stories about lightning over the years. My favorite appeared in a Florida newspaper. Two young ladies walking down the street were stuck by lightning. All they had on after the strike were their shoes.

Jerry Lee Lewis made his own fire, and he didn’t need an asbestos suit either!

Professor Phineas B Goofenbal traveled the USA and Scotland collecting golfballs at every golf course he could find, and mailed them back to his students in MIT who diligently counted the dimples on each ball and entered the figures into a supercomputer which calculated the exact average to 15 decimal places. The number was then rounded off to 335.9, which the press further rounded off to 336, and reported it to the world in a journal popularly known as Popular Mechanics.

I fell into a burning ring of fire

Maybe Rod Wolfe is aptly named because he keeps pet wolves?

Golf ball manufacturers have done a lot of research on how the dimples affect the flight of the ball. How many, their depth, to 1/10,000 of an inch, their shape, from hexagonal to triangular, diameter … I think, now, the USGA has settled on a fixed number, size and shape for any ball used in tournament play. Too many variations made for an unfair advantage for the larger manufacturers, that could afford to produce them. The USGA also sets the overall diameter, and weight of the ball. The only variations allowed are in the internal structure of the ball, and the rebound coefficient.

My late brother was struck by lightning at least three times. It wasn’t the lightning that killed him though, it was COPD.