Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 11, 2014

When my brother left for China to do an English-teaching internship a few years back, he asked what I’d like for a souvenir. I pondered and came up with a Great Wall of China snow globe. He gets me one. As for Hungarian king, must’ve been very cheap wood or something that killed him.

A ciggy is a substance? That’s over simplifying. It’s more like a compound substance with over 700 “in-greedy-ents”!

According to the following site, Béla’s mortal monarchy malfunction occurred in 1063, not 1603: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/59031/Bela-I

I grew up with goats, and though I don’t know about creosote, they love poison ivy and relish a good (non-filter) cigarette. No, they don’t smoke ’em. Hard to use a lighter without thumbs!

King Bela I died in 1063, not 1603.

What did you learn today?

King Isabella was having a smoke by the Great Wall of China when someone killed him with a wooden hedgehog.

Guess King Bela didn’t get any luck from knocking on that wood!

Yawn! Get a blog!

Assassin termites?

@ Bruno Zeigerts

No, he should be chastised for plagiarism. Although embellished from when I first heard it 50 years ago.