Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 12, 2019

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 6 years ago

    ¿Cuántas palabras por minuto habla la persona hispanohablante media? (Quantas palavras por minuto fala a pessoa lusófona mediana?)

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    Spock  almost 6 years ago

    In German, you will sometimes need a few seconds to say one word…

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    Spock  almost 6 years ago

    Will the guests be stoned, too?

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    James Wolfenstein  almost 6 years ago

    100 to 150 words per minute? How many of them are meaningful? :D

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    Breadboard  almost 6 years ago

    Sort of hard to smoke under water ……. shotgun effect ?

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    Strider Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    For some strange reason I have a hard time seeing Abe Lincoln speaking the Gettysburg Address 110-150 words per minute. I mean the address in my opinion would have a more of an impact at a lower rate. Like I said just my opinion.

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    tkcoker  almost 6 years ago

    I don’t know what the rate of their speaking mut it sure seems to me that most young girls today have never heard of enunciation of words, especially while singing. My hearing has deteriorated to the point that I can no longer understand the words to almost any song. Strangely I can still understand those on recordings from back in the 50’s and 60’s with no problem. I once heard a singer from back then talk about how enunciation of words was drilled into them by the record producers. As for Rap music when people talk about the lyrics I always say that it doesn’t offend me because I have never understood a word of it. I can’t complain about something that I have no idea about. I do think that the speed that people talk is getting faster, however I am from the South so we have always talked and listened slower.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 6 years ago

    A lot of people die after getting stoned, too.

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    Max Starman Jones  almost 6 years ago

    I like the courteous reference to Abraham Lincoln. Happy 210th, Mr. Lincoln, wherever you are!

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    Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Eeeeeeeverybody must get stoned, alright!

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    clancy.4233  almost 6 years ago

    Stoned on what? And how?

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    Crandlemire  almost 6 years ago

    Yes, Maine has given a whole new meaning the the term “Lobster Pot”!

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    joefearsnothing  almost 6 years ago

    Is it just me, or is today’s RBON Ripley’s Interesting or Not? I choose not! ;o{

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    comixbomix  almost 6 years ago

    Shouldn’t that say, “at a rate of five score and ten to seven score and ten words per minute”?

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    bookworm0812  almost 6 years ago

    Does eating a stoned lobster get ME stoned? Let me have at it!

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    russef  almost 6 years ago

    My wife speaks at 140 to 170 words a minute. With gusts to 195.

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    RetFor  almost 6 years ago

    The bears are a baseball team, right?

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    Leojim  almost 6 years ago

    So you put the Lobster in the pot and the pot in the lobster! This is rather confusing. I’m beginning to feel stoned just thinking about it.

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    Thehag  almost 6 years ago

    So the lobster doesn’t feel it so much when it gets boiled alive?

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    craigwestlake  almost 6 years ago

    That’s nothing to brag about; in Washington they speak twice that fast and still say nothing…

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