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Feb. 5, 2008
I always wanted to be Robert L. Ripley.
The cartoonist, adventurer and eccentric collector of odd
stuff behind the "Ripley's 'Believe it or Not!" franchise,
is arguably the man who first inspired me to travel.
By the time he'd died in 1949, Ripley had visited more than
200 countries, by his own count.
Believe it or not.
In this week's issue:
* RIPLEY’S ODD EMPIRE
* FROM LAWNMOWERS TO LOOS
* WHERE PRIVATES ARE PUBLIC
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RIPLEY'S ODD EMPIRE
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Ripley was known as the modern Marco Polo during his heyday
in the 1930. He traveled the globe in search of the unusual,
and returned with shrunken heads, torture implements,
stuffed creatures, and models of famous monuments built out
of pennies or match sticks.
Much of this stuff ended up in some 20-or-so Ripley's
'Believe it or Not!' museums around the world.
I visited the oldest of these in St. Augustine, Fla., when I
was a kid, and marveled at the mummified mermaid and the man
with four eyes.
This year, I took my 10-year-old son to the Ripley's museum
in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and he had a similar bug-eyed
reaction to the mock iron maiden and the petrified cat.
The chain of Ripley's offerings now includes wax museums,
theaters, aquariums, mini-golf venues and other family fare.
There are 64 attractions in all, spread across 11 countries.
You can check out the entire menu at the official Website:
http://www.ripleys.com.
But Ripley's doesn't have a monopoly on bizarre museum
exhibits. The world is filled with strange museums devoted
to unusual topics. Here’s a list of a few of them:
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FROM LAWNMOWERS TO LOOS
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* British Lawnmower Museum
Southport, Lancashire
http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk
This museum, which operates under the slogan, "It's Mower
Interesting" has more than 200 vintage lawnmowers, ranging
from early horse-drawn models to machines that look a lot
more like the one I try to avoid on weekends. They even have
a section on lawnmowers of the rich and famous.
* Devil's Rope Museum
McLean, Texas
http://www.barbwiremuseum.com
The largest barbed wire museum in the world includes 6,000
exhibits in 12,000 square feet, including tools, fence posts
and thousands of bits or sharp, twisted wire. The specimens
were provided by barbed wire collectors from the United
States, Australia, and Canada.
* Sulabh International Museum of Toilets
Mahavir Enclave, Palam Dabri Marg, New Delhi, India.
http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org
The premise behind this phenomenal potty collection is that
the evolution of the toilet is a critical development in the
history of human hygiene. It’s tough to argue with that.
Exhibits begin with the first primitive toilets circa 2500
BC, move through basic chamber pots and carry visitors to
ornately carved stoneware port-a-potties used by medieval
British royals while away from the manor on hunting trips.
There’s a French toilet disguised to look like a stack of
books, a copy of the throne /commode that King Louis XIII
used to relieve himself while receiving visitors and
examples of newer composting and microwave toilets.
* National Museum of Funeral History
Houston, Texas
http://www.nmfh.org
The museum features a recreated, early 1900s casket factory,
a 1921, 19-foot-long motorized hearse, and an extensive
exhibit on Civil War embalming.
There are also a dozen, hand-carved fantasy coffins designed
to capture the essence of the life led by the departed. They
include coffins shaped like an airliner, a lobster, a canoe,
a Mercedes Benz, a chicken and a Yamaha outboard motor.
After going through so much trouble to have designer coffins
made for themselves, I can't help but wonder whatever
happened to the intended occupants of these imaginative
corpse boxes. I guess I'll focus on the museum's official
slogan "Any day above ground, is a good one."
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WHERE PRIVATES ARE PUBLIC
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* Icelandic Phallogical Museum, Husavik, Iceland
http://www.phallus.is
Yes, it is what you think it is: A penis museum.
Visitors to the museum will encounter 38 specimens from 15
different kinds of whale, a penis taken from a rogue polar
bear (without his approval, I‘m guessing), and 19 specimens
belonging to seven different kinds of seal and walrus. The
crowd pleaser is apparently a nearly six-foot long penis
from a sperm whale (no jokes or double entendres intended)
"This gets the most attention, but I have more than 200
penises," museum owner Sigurdur Hjartarson told a reporter
for The Sunday Times of London this summer. "They include
examples from every mammal native to Iceland...except one.
But an Icelandic gentleman who is 91 has pledged to donate
his phallus when he dies, so it’s only a question of time."
* Banana Museum
Hesperia, Calif.
http://www.bananaclub.com
After 33 years of collecting, Ken Bannister has 17,000
exhibits ranging from a rare, petrified banana (a woman
left in in a cupboard for two years and it basically
became mummified) to a sequined "Michael Jackson" banana.
Bannister boasts that it is the world’s largest museum
devoted to a single fruit.
Well, that's it for this week, group. Thanks again for
reading, and please keep those comments, complaints and
questions coming in.
You can send me an e-mail message at: Email Pierce
Until next week, thanks for reading.
Your Tipmeister,
Pierce
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