Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 06, 2019

Ewwww!

Sounds like restaurant serves some crappy food…

In the language of Hawaiʻi, the apostrophe-looking mark is also a letter; its sound in a glottal stop.

I never did put Taiwan on my bucket list.

Lightning strikes have so much current that the wire trailing on the ground would first burst into flame. Then jump through the person holding the umbrella.

The pointy rod on top [many of today’s umbrellas have shorter, but just as dangerous points] is a hazard to others sharing a crowded sidewalk.

So that’s what the pointy thing on the umbrellas was originally supposed to be.

Mele kalikimaka

When you eat their spicy food, you feel all flush.

I don’t get the restaurant thing at all. What’s the point?

Maybe that explains why those Hawaiian’s talk funny.

If they serve appetizers in the same appliance, it ain’t gonna do the job! ;o{

I can’t decide whether those Taiwanese restaurants are cutting out the middle-man…or adding one.

Is it for food or those who drink too much?

The lightning rod / umbrella was in honor of Ben Franklin’s lightning rod, but it took time to realize, as mentioned above, that it was more likely to attract lightning than protect you from it. Lightning rods on buildings have a large braided copper cable to ground, NOT a dragging chain!

Grounding chains…..whatever works!

Why we will never have a global language:

Hawaiian has no consonants

Polish has no vowels

English has no sense.

:-)

That fashion is very mid-nineteenth century for eighteenth century Paris.

The Hawaiian alphabet is more complex than I would have ever imagined.

I’ve seen many English names converted to Hawaiian cognates. My favorite is “Kiwi” for Steve.

Despite which it has 437 words for pineapple.

Only the French would worry so about keeping their phones charged…