Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 10, 2021

Continuing our Irish bashing theme…

A man in a pub sees another man drinking alone at the bar. In a hospitable mood, he raises his glass in greeting. “I welcome you here as an Irishman,” he begins.

“Why, I’m Irish meself!” is the response. “Tell me, where in Ireland are ye from?”

“County Cork,” the first man answers.

“That’s amazing! I’m also from County Cork!”

“But tell me this, now – are ye Catholic or Protestant?”

“I’m a good Catholic, of course.”

“Faith and Begorrah! I’m that, too!”

Just then the phone rings, and the bartender picks it up. “Murphy’s Pub, Murphy speakin’…Oh, not much, just the usual goings-on. The O’Brien twins are here, and they’re drunk again…”

Cessie Boleman

Kian Ranouff One time I went skydiving 61 times.

Saadhav Ugumar One time I was 10 years old. One time I climbed 51 steps while hula hooping in 18.27 seconds after one year of training.

May the Lord be with you.

So every 24 minutes without breaks for eating and sleeping? How is that even possible?

Poor Rian, all that flapping in the breeze must have been quite rough on him.

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems a little dark to continuously jump from a great height to make people more aware of suicide prevention.

Lo and behold, it has been 100 years since Bessie earned her flying license.

I wonder what altitude Rian Kanouff was jumping from? Obviously he had to have a team pre-packing his parachutes and at least two planes rotating to take him up to jump height but that still works out to one jump every 24 minutes.

Based on the couple of times I went sport sky diving (as opposed to military jumps) and excluding equipment checks prior to each jump, the average jump from 5,000 feet takes close to that between take off, and climbing to altitude, with approximately 5 minutes in the air (descent time) depending on time of day, air temperature, thermals/updrafts, etc.

Bessie sure looks portrayed an awful lot White here, for being a Black woman.

Move over, Amelia.

I don’t know about suicide prevention, but he certainly raised insanity awareness.

Suicide prevention, my eye. Just a exhibitionist freak who likes to show off his naked body.

I’m guessing Rian’s efforts at raising awareness were not too successful. I certainly hadn’t heard of him. Maybe on YouTube?

flap flap flap flap FLAP FLAP FLAP FLLLLLLAAAAAPP!! .. aahhhhhhhhhhhh…

Take care, may Masters’ Johnsonord be with you, and gesundheit.

The lettering looks very different today than the last few months – it’s wider and more expanded. I don’t know if this is a new look or whether the regular person was off today, but it will be interesting to see what it looks like tomorrow

Is that a font they’re using the for the text? The spacing is too wide between the letters, and too narrow between the words – makes it unpleasant to read.

I’d like to live to see the day when achievements are recognized for their own personal worth, instead of being tied to the first “race or gender” cravat. Bessie Coleman has a lot to brag about – her race and gender are irrelevant to her achievements.

That’s not true. Look, he’s wearing shoes.

This joke is wearing thin Jason. Try something original.

I see the new artist is at work.

My ethnic story today involves a Jewish Attorney and his young son! The father places the boy on the mantel, steps back a foot or two and says “Jump Izzy daddy will catch you!” The boy is very frightened and refuses to jump at first and his father says “Trust me I will not let you fall!” So the boy reluctantly jumps, the father steps back and lets him land face down on the floor! He says “Let that be a lesson to you son!” “Never trust anybody, especially a Jew lawyer!” I might be in trouble for that one so I’m goin on the lam! Bye! ;o]

I’d be impressed if the guy skydived 60 times in 24 hours while juggling chainsaws. That would take skill. It requires no skill— unless you consider lack of embarrassment a skill— to be naked while skydiving. Also, no obvious connection to suicide prevention. If anything, I’d call what Rian Kanouff did ‘kinky’.

Rian tried suicide 60 times, but that darn parachute kept deploying.

And how did that guy skydiving naked make a difference? I’m puzzled!

It’s a tradition for sky divers to make their 50th jump naked, so maybe that’s where he got the idea, but yeah it is puzzling.

so why do people jump out of a perfectly good airplane? they love the feeling of the air rushing through the holes in their heads

After the first jump Rian was nicknamed “the Brown Streak”…

And to think, France is one of our strongest allies, yet France was criticized during the Bush/Cheney Administration.

This new typeface is tough to read.

I don’t get how being naked and suicide prevention are tied together.

is this a new artist?