Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 05, 2016
Transcript:
A shaman buried 12,000 years ago in northern Israel was treated to a bizarre six part funeral, including being laid to rest with an eagle's wing, 86 tortoises, a human foot and a leopard's pelvis! Extreme rock climber Sierra Blair-Coyle scaled a 460 foot tall, 33 story skyscraper in Korea's Songdo International Business District using just two vacuum cleaners! Lyndon B. Johnson used 72 pens to sign the Civil Rights Act into law in 1964!
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
Did LBJ run out of ink that quick or something?
Aussie Down Under about 8 years ago
Tongue in cheek, I guess the vacuums really sucked.
cripplious about 8 years ago
I dont see the Shaman’s funeral as bizarre. Ive been to one where the deceased was sat in a rocking chair during the service.
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 8 years ago
Bilan, Templo … right, and they purposely use as many pens as they can…enough, for instance, to give to the authors and supporters of the bill they just signed.
Chad Cheetah about 8 years ago
Why 72, of all numbers?
elysummers about 8 years ago
Who started the whole pens, pens, pens thing anyway.? Is it really that important? How big are the egos of the people wanting that pen? How insignificant in the scheme of things.
Max Starman Jones about 8 years ago
I had a pen like that once.
John Bollinger about 8 years ago
Hee!!
aimlesscruzr about 8 years ago
72 documents? 72 signatures? 144 signatures? Or did he use multiple pens in one signature?
fuzzbucket Premium Member about 8 years ago
72 pens to give away as “LBJ used this to sign—-”. That is the real reason.RE: the climber- what kind of batteries did she use?
awdunn2484 about 8 years ago
Most people do not know the exact words he said to his cronies when he was trying to get the bill passed. Look up the video.<><me
usnelsons Premium Member about 8 years ago
That’s a pretty long cord, and it gains weight as she climbs.
comixbomix about 8 years ago
One pen is for each virgin…
LV1951 about 8 years ago
Good thing the electricity didn’t go out during Sierra’s climb!
Petemejia77 about 8 years ago
I wonder what color ink he used?
markhughw about 8 years ago
Cordless vacuums, I assume.
wjones about 8 years ago
Actually she used four vacuum cleaners. She stopped to change vacuums half way up.
Thehag about 8 years ago
I want to know the brand and model of those vacuum cleaners.