Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 28, 2022

Costco $1.50 hot dog? Not any more!

Please explain what they fed that chicken

I was talking to a shop keeper that sells piglets about the absence of a scale at his business.

He explained: “We sell piglets by weight and my wife has a unique way of weighing them. She grasps their tail in her mouth, lifts them, then proudly announces their weight.When checked on a scale, she’s never wrong!”

The other day I stopped by to chat, and a customer showed up to buy some piglets, and my friend’s wife was not around to weigh them.

“Where is your mother?” he asked his son.

The son replied “Oh she’s in the house, weighing the mailman”.

But the next one is a terrific follow-up to the RBION story.

Two firefighters save a mother cat from a tree. The owner promises them the kittens once they grow big enough, and the firefighters happily accept. Half a year later, the kittens arrive and they bring great joy.

The next day, the two firefighters receive an emergency call stating that a barn is burning. The men rush there and learn that a bunch of piglets are stuck in the burning barn. They rescue the piglets and the owner promises them sausages once the piglets grow up. The men, reluctantly, accept it, knowing the kittens brought great joy earlier.

Half a year later the promised sausages arrive. Ironically, they are smoked. The firemen are contemplating over life while they are having a BBQ and are playing with their cats. Suddenly, one of them turns to the other:

“You know, Jim, we have saved a lot of lives, but I still can’t figure it out.”

“Figure out what?”

“Why the heck are we never called to a burning brothel?”

Until next time.

This requires an update to an old joke:

Mike the chicken is wandering aimlessly around Beverly Hills because he can’t see where he’s going. Mike shouts out Help! I haven’t eaten in 17 months!

A passing woman says Oh, I wish I had your willpower.

I’ve heard of running around like a chicken with its head cut off, but this is a bit much.

Talk about a good deed that didn’t go unpunished.

They tell me if someone had pulled the skin away from his windpipe, Mike might have lived longer. Don’t think they fed him enough either.

One time I had $1.51.

One time I was 19 months old. Do they mean the head survived that long without the rest of Mike’s body?

One time I was seven months old.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

No matter what Mike the chicken did, he just could not get ahead.

https://www.britannica.com/story/how-mike-the-chicken-survived-without-a-head

Mike the chicken is one weird story…they have him on film too

Not sure I could’ve eaten the sausages after having saved the piglets.

Three darkly gross entries in today’s RBION. Worst being those hotdogs at Costco.

Take care, may bored dreamer librarian Myrtle “The Dewey Decimal System Won Over Both The Huey And The Louie Systems So There’s That” Millord be with you, and gesundheit.

Once at Yankee Stadium, about the sixth inning, I thought that I would be traditional and have a hot dog. After paying $13.50 for a hot dog and Pepsi, I decided that next time I would not be so traditional.

I didn’t even know Costco was that old.

If the farmer let the piglets grow for a year, how much more sausage would the firemen receive?

I’m not sure how to think about the sausage’s thing, but I sure laughed for a while. :-)

The $ loss on the inexpensive snack pays off many times over.

You are wrong Cool Hand. The CEO just said in an interview that they plan to keep the price the same.

Only postponing the inevitable with the piglets.

“Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” covered Mike the Chicken in the 50s (or maybe the 40s).

Gee …… now I’ve got to grill some hotdogs ….. guess supper is decided ….. :)

Did anyone besides me notice Mike’s beak is a hawk beak?

I’m disturbed by that piglet to sausage story. Not that I think it’s inappropriate for Ripley’s. I just find it disturbing.

Biden has done the chicken one better!

Yes it is still $1.50 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-1-50-costco-hot-dog-combo-that-defies-inflation-11657753870

Without his head?? It’s right there!