Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 05, 2012

Another reason the US hasn’t been sucessfully invaded. Too many guns.

Explain to me again exactly why USA still uses the Imperial System of measurement..

Most scientists.

The Swiss are issued SIG SG 550 assault rifles, not pistols as the pic implies. They also keep all their personal military issued equipment, less ammo.

You’d have to ask the Swiss high command, but I’d expect a basic load for each member in a community would be kept in a secure, but easily accessible point in each town (like our NG armories. Must work though, they have an incredibly low gun violence rate…

Mr. Gaziano, why are your exclamation points nearly sideways?

I mean to your reference about most of us in the USA being able to count above 10 w/o using our fingers and toes?

does the gun come with a screwdriver built in? Both flathead and Philips? Plus a bottle opener?

it’s a swiss army gun. you can also clip your toenails with it

It had better have a corkscrew.

The metric system got its start in France, where prior to it each part of France had its own standards, making commerce a nightmare. Then, other European countries switched over.The English system has been entreanched in the US for so long, conversion would be a nightmare. Can you imagine all the land records at the court-houses being rewritten?Especially if when all that was done, someone else comes up with another bright idea for measurements.But some things in the US are hybrids, ie home movies processed in 8mm wide by 50 feet long?Question of the day: Originally, the meter was defined as a certain fraction of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. At that time, no one had yet been to the North Pole!(When I was in school, some courses were taught in Metric and others in English, but fortunately the volt, ampere and ohm are the same in both)Whatever happened to speed measured in furlongs per fortnight?

The Swiss do not need to worry about invasion. The banks will buy-off the aggressor with the profits from laundering Hitler’s Bank Heists and Plunder.

I’d like to have a bazooka. Always wanted one. But alas, I’m mentally ill.

I talked to a man that lives Switzerland. He was here visiting friends. And he says there are issued ammo. It is in a sealed tin and they are not allowed to open it unless given the order to do so.. And every 5 years they trade it out for a fresh tin.

You can whack somebody over the head with it. if it has a bayonet attached to it, you can do a heck of a lot of damage.Any thing else you’d like to know?