Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 28, 2015

A pub in a tree. What will they think of next?

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g312611-d2630904-Reviews-Sunland_Baobab-Limpopo_Province.htmlThe “bar” is called Sunland Baobab; while Tripadvisor reviews seem to say that it is no longer functioning, tourists can still see it. Limpopo province in South Africa.

I heard of tree house bars with a hell of a fall off the stool, but a bar in that tree should serve a better and safer “Root Beer”

All of the distances between towns in Puerto Rico are in kilometers and the posted speed limits in MPH. If you’re trying to calculate the time of arrival, it can be confusing.

At some point, we in the US need to get with the program and convert to the metric system…

Nope, that’s not true in the metric case, it’s just simpler. “Having to convert everything” is a myth.

Isn’t Arizona the only state that doesn’t observe Daylight Savings Time? They just like to be contrary. Or maybe it’s an aid to the Mexicans who travel between the US and Mexico.

“Or not. Maybe we’re right? Oh yea, I forgot America-bad, rest of the world-good.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Wow! You’ve got s great non-judgmental way of looking at the world, don’t you?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Isn’t Arizona the only state that doesn’t observe Daylight Savings Time? They just like to be contrary. Or maybe it’s an aid to the Mexicans who travel between the US and Mexico."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Are you serious? Arizona is not my favorite state (too dry for me! I like Florida better, that’s why I live here.)

But I don’t think they just like to be contrary. If anything, I think it’s the rest of the country who are being contrary.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Or maybe it’s an aid to the Mexicans who travel between the US and Mexico.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For the life of me, I simply cannot find any dots to connect in that sentence, so I’ll just leave it at that.

“If the ’Markin inch was good enough fer Jesus Christ …”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For Christ’ sake, leave religion out of this!

Actually, we in the US are waiting for the next bright idea and be first on it. Remember when movie film was measured in 8, 16, 35 mm width, but so many feet long?And the counting system – a base eight would work out better than the present base ten. In computers to counter for ten has to be capable of counting to sixteen and then be degraded! And where did 360 degrees in a circle come from?

……just walk a few kilometers in his shoes…..

The Sunland Baobab isn’t 6000 years old. The tree has been carbon dated and its age is estimated to be 1,060 years, plus or minus 75 years.

Wow, that pub must be awesome!

It might have been in the very late 1970s or the 1980s, that some Michigan freeways had signs showing both the metric and English distances to cities posted on them. I specifically remember a sign on eastbound M-14 north of Ann Arbor showing the distances in miles and kilometers to Livonia. Such signs were up for less than six months.The weight machines used at my L.A. Fitness club have the weights marked with both pounds and kilograms.

Back in the 70s they said the US would be metric by 1978.