Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 06, 2016
Transcript:
If you yelled for eight years, seven months and six days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat an 8 ounce cup of coffee. Excavated ancient mummies were so common in late 19th-century Egypt that they were used as fuel for locomotives! Mosquitoes prefer blonds.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Would that yelling experiment work on herbal tea in order to soothe that sore throat?
deepstblu over 8 years ago
Mosquitoes prefer blondes. Gentlemen prefer blondes. Therefore, mosquitoes are gentlemen. (Your bad logic for the day.)
SharkNose over 8 years ago
Oh, watch the above video for about 2 minutes. The professor mentions a couple of ways to heat the cup of tea.
e.groves over 8 years ago
I’m not blond and the little blood-suckers love me.
Space_cat over 8 years ago
My father in-law yelled everyday for 47 years at his wife and family. that must mean there is a bucket of really hot coffee around the house somewhere.
CeeJay over 8 years ago
Regarding the mummies, folks back then also had mummy parties. Let’s unwrap that beauty and see what we’ve got!
Chad Cheetah over 8 years ago
And then immediately after all that yelling, you’ll dump the coffee in the sink and make yourself some sweet, sweet tea.
Kerovan over 8 years ago
Per Marquette Education magazine http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/recent.php?subaction=showfull&id=1277906400 Mosquitoes really do prefer some people over others, but nobody knows why. However blondes are not the preferred group. They list people wearing dark clothes and those who drink beer as preferred.
wjones over 8 years ago
It’s your hot breath that does the heating, not the yelling. Actually every action causes heat by friction.
j over 8 years ago
The mummy story is not fact. It’s Mark Twain humor. “Innocents Abroad” if you want to read the book.
ekke over 8 years ago
Nerd alert (I’m being the nerd): “Blond” is male, “Blonde” is female. We have a mismatch here, folks.
bookworm0812 over 8 years ago
So that’s why the mosquitos have been pretty much leaving me alone the last few years. I’ve been dying my hair!
MY DOG IS MY CO PILOT over 8 years ago
I will have great -pleasure in telling my blonde niece this especially as I’m a brunette.