Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006 - Dick Cavett - Dave Barry -
In Waterloo barbers are forbidden from eating onions between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his .22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder. Dick Cavett
But Nebraska was not always a bed of roses. When the first settlers arrived, they found a harsh, unforgiving place, a vast treeless expanse of barren, drought-parched soil. And so, summoning up the dynamic pioneer spirit of hope and steely determination, they left. But a few of them remained and built sod houses, which are actually made of dirt. Think about that. You can’t clean a sod house, because it would be gone. The early settlers had a hell of a time getting this through to their children. ‘You kids stop tracking dirt out of the house!’ they’d yell. Dave Barry