Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 21, 2020

He was warned about the unicycle up there.

Lo and behold, the rope walker is on Find A Grave.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18616194/rope-walker

I can understand that the female got hair in her gum, but part of her eye?

But seriously, I though blue eyes didn’t develop until much later in history.

Calculus is from the Latin word for stones, or pebbles. I have joked that is because anyone who willing takes calculus must have rocks in their head.

Did the gum chewer have a twin?

Walker’s wake at IHOP.

You must differentiate between dental hygiene and mathematics, never integrate.

And on the next episode of Ancient Aliens, the story of ancient extraterrestrials giving the ancient humans some chewing gum!

One-legged tightrope walker? So, is that how the poor fellow died?

The stones in my kidney are called renal calculus…

‘One legged tightrope’, huh?

Probably more of a tightrope bouncer.

That last one just isn’t adding up for me…

Did they find her chewing gum on her bedpost and did it lose its flavour overnight? So many questions are still unanswered!

Shouldn’t his stone have said “Rope Hopper”?

one-legged tightrope walker on his first attempt?

One legged tightrope WALKER? Don’t you mean tightrope HOPPER?

Where’d they find that gum?" On the bedpost?

“Have gun, will travel. – Wire Paladin, San Francisco”

So was his given name “Wire?”

I thought that gum belonged to bratty, prize winning gum chewer Violet Beauregarde, guess I was wrong.

Yes, but the question is, did Rope Walker die of a career-related injury?

I knew a family named Walker who considered, for brief time, naming their firstborn son “Forrest.”

And in other news, a tightrope-walker is a funambulist.

Apparently, he had a groove carved into the end of a peg leg so he’d actually have two limbs to walk on (i.e. he didn’t have to hop.) And he was carrying a heavy iron stove on his back when he slipped from two stories up and was crushed and he died from the injuries.

https://www.texascooppower.com/texas-stories/history/the-rope-walker-of-corsicana

♫Hey Joe! … Where are you going with that gum in your hair?♫

from what I understand blue eyes are very rare in dark skinned populations, that’s pretty cool.

I wonder if that one-legged tight rope walker was the same guy that was always in a one-legged a$$ kicking contest……

“The Afghan Girl” from National Geographic!

I live in Corsicana and wish I knew where “Rope Walker” is buried!

“Calculus” – Latin for little stone or pebble used in “calculations” – hence the dual paths of meaning.