Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 09, 2021

Benson Jutton He obviously didn’t have the driver’s ed instructor I had because he said none of his students flunked the test.

One time I texted enough words to write 92 novels.

One time I spotted a snowy owl twice in Central Park in January within a century.

May the Lord be with you.

Of course Jenson Button failed his first driving test. You can’t be driving 180mph in and out of traffic. ; ) Kidding, I’m kidding.

How did they figure out that texting fact? Texting hasn’t even existed for an average human lifetime yet.

Why would I give a hoot that a snowy owl showed up in Central Park? Now, if it were a well-tanned owl in December, I’d be curious. That would be one wise owl looking for a white Christmas.

Driving tests have nothing to do with the ability to drive. They are only about rules of the road.

Jenson kept failing the driving test because he didn’t know how to make a right turn or parallel park.

And Einstein flunked math…

Dang. I never knew that I could be writing 91 novels instead of wasting my time texting on comment boards of comic strips. Bye, folks. I’m retiring from comics commentary and off to write some novels now.

i only text one word at a time, NO!

I haven’t even texted a paragraph yet.

And what is an average person?

Take care, may Apple sales rep Adolf Genghis Ord be with you, and gesundheit.

91 novels! Why, that’s almost as much as Stevesilver48 has written on Ripley’s.

My texting total is up to about 25 words. I only text if there is no other option, my fat fingers don’t find the correct letters.

I must not be an average person. Or is it that the average texter could have texted that much? Or do they a median texter? Reclining minds want to …… Z-z-z-z-z.

I failed my first driver’s test. I think they had a “quota” of how many to pass. The reasons were pure stupid stuff – like driving down a very narrow road that was virtually one lane, and losing points because he said I “dove down the middle of the road.”

Steve Silver has left a very tough act to follow today as usual but, as you might have guessed, that isn’t going to deter me! The local minister of “the Church of the Little White Dove” always rides a bicycle wherever he goes as he doesn’t know how to drive a car. One weekday morning he is spotted by one of his young parishioners walking and the young man says “Hey Rev where is you bike?” to which The Right Reverend Deuteronomy Brown responds with “It’s missing and I fear it was stolen and it almost has to be an inside job!” The young man says “Well, if you believe some member of the church is guilty why don’t you give a sermon on the Ten Commandments next Sunday?” “When you get to the part that says Thou Shalt Not Steal, kinda stress that one a little more and maybe you’ll get your bike back!” The next week the Reverend Brown is seen riding his bike and the same young man said “Hey..my plan must have worked!” Reverend Brown said “Well sort of.” "When I got to the part that says Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery, I remembered where I had left So long fellow GoComicers!

I was just knocked out of GoComics due to a web site overload. It took several minutes to get back in.

In December of 1920 Snowy told his wife he was going out for a pack of cigarettes.

I am well below average. As I tell my son all the time, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone to replace texting.

The Drivers License Examiner didn’t like his ‘Button Maneuver’ while parking.

When I tried to get this 30 minutes ago I got this – “This website is under heavy load (queue full)We’re sorry, too many people are accessing this website at the same time. We’re working on this problem. Please try again later.”

The snowy owl was later seen making out with Punxsatawney Phil.

How many rolls of toilet paper does the average individual consume in a lifetime? How many Q-Tips used? How many pounds of toe nail clippings? How many nose hairs plucked? And, of course, the collective weight of those nose hairs? THAT’s what people want to know! BELIEVE IT, OR elect not to!

Isn’t Jenson just cute as a Button?!?!?

And not a one of those novels would make it past the grammatical errors editors.

Somehow there’s a connection between the texting factoid and the theoretical infinite monkeys writing Hamlet thing, but I’m not clever enough to find it.

Ratings: The snow owl on not to interesting but kind of Rating: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪The typing one is really interesting and i didn’t know that over all rating: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪Jenson button I don’t know him so overall rating: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

One of the funny “games” on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” is where the stars are only allowed to respond by reading texts from the phones of selected audience members…

The owl’s been there all along, they just finally cleaned up the park…

The texting thing is completely bogus – it may be an extrapolation of existing data, but obviously texting hasn’t been around for a lifetime yet. It may go the well got the way of writing actual letters, when the next new shiny thing comes around.

They showed pictures of that owl right next to a crow. That owl was BIG!

Was he licking a tootsie pop and counting? The owl, not Mr. Button.

The thing I text most often is: Please call me on my landline at 555-….

While living in Alaska I was lucky to see snowy owls a few times. Unbelievably large and beautiful. Very hard to spot when the ground is covered in snow. They spend most of their time on or near the ground rather than in trees mainly as they dwell on the tundra where there aren’t trees.