Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum, Ocean City, Maryland
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Thanks to Vicky, I’ve rediscovered a whole new realm of cool, awe-inspiring, fascination-evoking, wonder-inducing material with the Robert L. Ripley’s Believe It or Not cabinet-of-curiosities style collections of natural oddities, science facts, and anthropological anomalies1. The Ripley’s website is a great resource for daily fun facts, which I hope to start incorporating into my daily links on occasion.
Check out the complete flickr set here.
1 I know it offends modes of multicultural thought to use the word “anomaly” in reference to other cultures, but when a Medieval Culture or isolated tribe commits torture, manufactures art from non-consensually obtained human body parts, or commits murder in honor of their deity, that’s abnormal.
Nice footnote disclaimer :)
I will be re-working some of your pictures for my flickr and will probably post them as picture-comments on your original pictures. Yay creative commons!
That museum was pretty cool. And since every one is different, they are all probably worth checking out.
Comment by ClintJCL — August 17, 2009 @ 6:43 pm
I am glad this phony “show” is named:Believe it or NOT, because a large % of it is FALSE and so obviously so I’m amazed it is still on. Among many, way too many is the one about the rubberband ball! ca’mon now, at least try to be a little real. The size of the “rubber bands” are a joke, the strips are about 1-2inches in width, at least. It is NOT rubber bands, also the”wolf man”!And the actors are as phony and bad as the issues are. Why do you do this? I guess there is not enough realness, so you have to make crap up,but can’t you at least be a little less insulting to the viewers intelligence. That show is a comedy, laughable. It is a shame, being RIpley’s, yrs.ago was real and interesting, long pre t.v., that is. Oh yes, then there are some real things,which looses all of it’s credibility due to the phony crap. STOP IT
Comment by 100py — August 24, 2009 @ 1:32 pm
Thanks for the great blog post! Would you mind if I featured it on our Ocean City site? I also went over and asked if you would mind sharing some of your awesome pics on our flickr feed. :) Oh, and I just followed u on twitter…I know I am a nerd…but I love making new friends!
Your blog is great! I have been reading all morning…adding to my netvibes. :)
Comment by Marcie — August 27, 2009 @ 10:56 am
Oh, and commenting to 100py…I have to say, The Wolf boy is totally real. There are a few different gentlemen that that we work with…I personally know Larry Gomez…( this is him here: http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/10/1959109.aspx ) have had dinner with him, even shared a strawberry shortcake with him. He is such a NICE GUY! And you know what, after hanging out with him for a few hours, you TOTALLY forget he has hair covering his entire face and arms (and the rest of his body, but I didn’t see all that! :) ) He is really handsome and charming. He has the BEST eyelashes too! Truly…honestly…Believe It or Not!
I hope you reconsider your thoughts about Ripley’s. Yes, our TV show can be a bit over the top, but sometimes that is out of our control…TV has to be dramatic, but here, at the World Headquarters where I work, we strive to give you true Believe It or Not!’s…just like Robert Ripley would have wanted.
Sincerely,
Marcie
Comment by Marcie — August 27, 2009 @ 11:05 am
Marcie,
Glad you enjoy the site. Everything I post is Creative Commons, so please feel free to use anything you like.
: )
ry
Comment by ideonexus — August 27, 2009 @ 5:17 pm