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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Strong" data-source="post: 262306" data-attributes="member: 3">Does the pin really capture the show? Well, it's not based on the modern show, but instead on the life and more specifically the travels of Robert L. Ripley, "a cartoonist, explorer, reporter, adventurer, and collector, who traveled to 201 countries in 35 years seeking the odd, the unusual, and the unexplained...He was nicknamed “The Modern Marco Polo”, and in his endless search for unbelievable stories to draw in his immensely popular newspaper cartoon feature, he acquired hundreds of exotic artifacts from around the world."<a href="http://www.ripleys.com/our-story/robert-ripley/" target="_blank">http://www.ripleys.com/our-story/robert-ripley/</a>He was born in the late 1800's and adventured extensively in the early 1900's, so as you can imagine, tales of far-fetched happenings were much more believable and captivating in those days.If any shows were used as inspiration, it would probably be his early radio shows, which I haven't personally heard, but I'm guessing they're pretty far out and wild.</blockquote>

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