Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 24, 2021

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    jasonsnakelover  over 2 years ago

    One time I had 422 words for snow.

    May the Lord be with you.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 2 years ago

    If there is any Scotsman/Scotswoman here, can you give at least a few examples of your word for “snow” and/or a phrase related thereto?

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    pearlsbs  over 2 years ago

    Q: Why did they bury the Scottish man on the West side of the hill?

    A: Because he was dead

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    in-dubio-pro-rainbow  over 2 years ago

    There must be some different words for snow in my mothertongue – but I mainly use “@#$&€%!!!”

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    Caldonia  over 2 years ago

    Saber-toothed oats? Amazing. (jk, I know it’s cats.)

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    UmmeMoosa  over 2 years ago

    Does one of the words happen to be McSnow by any chance?

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    sandpiper  over 2 years ago

    5k lady bugs? Keeping track of the color scheme must be confusing even for them.

    The La Brea Tar Pits seem to be the most prolific fossil deposits. Wonder if they have found species that have never been represented elsewhere? Also wonder how they get the stuff off their boots?

    According to comic lore, average Scots are extremely parsimonious with most things, especially money. Maybe because they spent so much of their national language on snow? Do Eskimo languages come anywhere near that number?

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    aimlesscruzr  over 2 years ago

    The La Brea tar pits used to be on my bucket list… a couple of the coolest things that I remember from my visit: There is still tar coming up through the asphalt in the parking lot in places. There is a display of a 1 yard or 1 meter cube (I don’t remember exactly) of clear acrylic with all of the fossils that were recovered in that cubic yard displayed in place; and it appeared as if there were more bones than space between the bones.

    And they are still actively excavating and studying…

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    Saddenedby Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I wonder what the Inuit and Scottish people talk about when they sit around and have coffee.

    There is a pothole in the street by our house that could use the tar from the tar pits.

    A designer could take the color patterns and make a complete line of summer dress/shirt colors

    3 believes to start the day

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    tremaine53  over 2 years ago

    Aye, and fer sure! The Devil’s Dandruff, it is!

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    poppacapsmokeblower  over 2 years ago

    Scots and Eskimos (Inuit?) should compare their varieties of snow to provide a definitive list of types.

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    pbr50138  over 2 years ago

    I guess just using SNOW wasn’t good enough.

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    Jogger2  over 2 years ago

    Ladybug larvae look like adult insects of an unrelated species. When humans see an enlarged picture of one, they typically don’t like it. It looks ugly; an insect they should be afraid of.

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    oakie817  over 2 years ago

    i’m Irish and feel the need to joke about Scotland — i’m surprised they have 421 words in total

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 2 years ago

    And a corresponding number of gentlemen bugs.

    Take care, may deposed Scottish tar sculptor Angus “Sticky Fingers” McGeeord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    stamps  over 2 years ago

    And 400 of those Scottish words can’t be printed in a family column.

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 2 years ago

    Given how far north Scotland is, you’d think they’d never wear kilts without underwear.

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    markhughw  over 2 years ago

    O would have suggested, There are more species of ladybugs than there are species of mammals.

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    spaced man spliff  over 2 years ago

    I only see two types of ladybugs: with or without dots.

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    spaced man spliff  over 2 years ago

    To use bad English is regrettable.

    To use bad Scotch is unforgivable.

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    Caeruleancentaur  over 2 years ago

    I believe that it would be more accurate to say that Scots Gaelic has 421 words for snow, unless we’re talking about words for snow in all the languages spoken in Scotland: Gaelic, English, etc. I wonder how many words there are for snow in all the languages spoken in the U.S. of A.

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    Artie Adams  over 2 years ago

    You can have a quasi-infinite number of “phrases for” something if you’re creative. This one I choose to NOT believe.

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    Dan Tooker  over 2 years ago

    Be sure to watch La Brea premiering on NBC on September 28, 2021! From the creator of great television shows like Wisdom of the Crowd and The Enemy Within.

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