Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 04, 2021

Not a personal story tonight, but a cherished one nonetheless…(Catholics, beware!)

Bill Clinton and the Pope die on the same say, but there’s a mixup: the Pope goes down, and Clinton goes up. Well, it doesn’t take long for the problem to be resolved, and soon both men are traveling toward their respective final destinations. As they pass each other in the middle, the Pope says, “I’m so glad this got resolved! I’ve been waiting my entire life to meet The Virgin Mary.”

Bill Clinton just says, “Oops…”

Ripley people, now might be a good time to stop making “8s” look identical to “3s”.

I hope he put the swordfish back in!

The Shehata siblings are still growing, but not because they’re children. The two are in their thirties, and likely have an issue with their pituitary glands which will hopefully be treated soon.

I hate this new font, I thought that said combined height of eighteen feet and seven inches. Thirteen feet and seven inches isn’t that remarkable, it simply puts both of the twins and approximately six feet and nine inches

The Shehata siblings may have acromegaly. Pituitary surgery may be indicated if they can find and afford a really good hospital. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/acromegaly

Combined height of 13 feet and 7 inches? Since when is combined height of two peoples compared to one? And they isn’t even standing one above the other. As if there’s no other groups of siblings whose combined heights isn’t more than 13 feets. Geeez.

Any idea why he does that?? Not funny at all!

The siblings, I don’t think they can walk like an Egyptian anymore:

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2021/6/egyptian-siblings-claim-five-records-including-largest-feet-and-hands-663739

Stack 3 and you’ll really have a record height.

Take care, may chitlins aficionado Robert Bob Bobby Bobord be with you, and gesundheit.

Did they change the script back or did I just learn to read it?

Today’s offering provides….yawn

“What was your last job?”

“Professional mermaid”

“And why did it end?”

“They ran out of sailors to lure”

I can’t imagine spending eight hours trying to kill a particular animal for sport. If it wants to live that badly, let it.

I hope they had more than one air hose for that mermaid show, otherwise they would have had the biggest underwater mermaid fight in history.

Shades of “The Old Man and the Sea”- Spencer Tracy, short story by Hemingway…..

Looks like the Ripley’s research department ran out of new and interesting world oddities.

I don’t have the Stones to do anything for 8hours straight [except sleep] I fought a Tuna foe 45 min once and didn’t fish again the rest of the day. I was exhausted and could use my hands for a hour.

Did they get it back to shore before the sharks got to it?

The swordfish was 318.5 pounds.

Those “combined” measures mean nothing. When you put together enough people, their combined (height, age, years of marriage, whatever) will break all the existing records. How tall is each of them? That’s what counts.