Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 03, 2012
August 02, 2012
August 04, 2012
Transcript:
111-year-old Mollie Wood of Virginia, USA, is the oldest member of a family with 6 generations of living women! Done yet? It would take a person 120 years to type the contents of the complete 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary! Chambered Nautiluses have been swimming the seas of Earth virtually unchanged for 500 million years!
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ransomdstone over 12 years ago
Any relation of Holly Wood?
scrabblefiend over 12 years ago
And if they start typing the dictionary, they will never finish, as the dictionary gets reviewed every so often and they drop and add words. So you are already behind in the typing.
TeeVee over 12 years ago
Oh Nautilus, sigh, maybe in 500 million more years you can actually evolve into a squid. Or maybe they can evolve into you. It’s just a theory though!
comicnut4636 over 12 years ago
She might as well start typing the Dictionary, she’s going to be there at least 120 years!
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
I didn’t know that chambered nautiluses wore diapers!
Casey Southards over 12 years ago
Really? 500 million years. WOW!
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
Apparently natural selection ignored …avoided, even, (Snagglepuss) chambered nautiluses.
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
Chambered nautiluses evolution has developed at less than a snail’s pace.
slowtrain over 12 years ago
How could the Nautilus have been this way for 500 million years when God only created the earth 6000 years ago?
Squirrelchaser over 12 years ago
Yes…but who will police the police?
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
@Cullen Reid,I’m with you, but I’ll allow a few thousand more years if the bible chronology isn’t complete (has any gaps, [but not the gap theory]) :o)