Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 11, 2020

For anyone that is interested, here are pictures of Houdini’s draft card.

https://www.archives.gov/atlanta/wwi-draft/houdini.html

He was 44 years old at the time.

In their parapsychology statistics class they teach you about the paranormal distribution.

Erik Handcuff Weisz? (Similarly with Johnny Cash — born as J. R. Cash — when he enlisted in the military, they wouldn’t accept J. R. as his real name.)

What was it a comedian once said? He had a friend whose name on his birth cert was J. B. (I’ll use Smith for his last name). No first and middle name, just an initial. When he went to the BMV for his license he wrote "J only, B only, Smith. His license was printed with the name Jonly Bonly Smith.

Then you become a certified ghost buster.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me, but I can’t see how stating that you have a degree in parapsychology on your resume is going to do anything but get you smilingly and cautiously escorted to the exit.

I would take those classes just to know how to do all that stuff.

Shows how legitimate a degree in psychology is. Better the candidate be a plumber or electrician – same remuneration.

What species is the Pink Panther? XD!

What does T’Challa say about this?

Paranormal SCIENCE! Quite the stretch of the word science.

If two Ph. Ds get together is that a paradox?

The panther is not a specie on its own, it is a melano version of the leopard. Melanoma is found in the cougar, leopard, puma, and jaguar, sometimes even the tiger. A cat with melanoma is commonly referred to as a panther. According to experts, melanoma in cats is akin to red hair in humans.

Huh, just learned the Houdini fact the other day.

Houdini was the original Tripple H!

We don’t have useful degrees like that in the USA. Only degrees in comics, movies, and mythology.

Erik Handcuff Weisz?

I haven’t seen any Black Panthers since the 60s…