Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 26, 2022

The Art Of The No-Intro Intro:

A man walks into the telegraph office (suspend your disbelief, Gen Xers and younger) and says, “I want to send a telegram.”

“Yes, Sir,” the telegraph operator says. “What would you like to say?”

“Galumph, galumph, galumph, galumph, galumph, galumph, galumph, galumph, galumph,” he replies.

“Um, well, I suppose we can send that for you,” the telegrapher responds. “You should know, however, that we have a minimum charge of ten words, and that’s only nine. Did you want to add another word?”

“What would you suggest?”

“How about another galumph?”

“Certainly not! That would be silly.”

Well, Canooks, what is the coin limit to carry for said single transaction?

(I wonder what’s the cricket technique when approximating Celsius?)

What if the temperature is less than 40?

I’ve known that cricket fact for a while. Problem is, I can’t count chirps while also counting fourteen seconds.

No tribute to “Sparky” Schulz on his 100th birthday?

John, Paul, and Bill sit around a campfire.

John turns to Paul, and asks him “Why do you think we are here?”

Paul says "Man, I wonder that all the time. Some people think we exist on Earth in purgatory. We suffer here through the trials and tribulations of life in order to determine if we are good or bad, and where we should end up afterwards. Some think we are in a constant cycle of rebirth, and every life we live is in order to improve our karma and eventually escape the terrible cycle. Or maybe, we’re in a simulation created by some extremely advanced civilization with unlimited computing power, with the goal to see how “primitive life” was lived. Personally, I think we are the universe experiencing itself, after all, we are made of star stuff and everything out there in space is just the same sh‍it we are made of, but in a different form. Or maybe nothing matters at all, and we are all truly lost. Or maybe…"

Paul continues on, offering many ideas into this human condition.

John and Bill zone out, listening to the crackling of the campfire and the crickets and locusts and the bullfrogs and the noises of the outdoors.

Finally, Paul stops. And John says “Yeah man, that’s crazy. Hey Bill! Why do you think we’re here?”

Bill says “Well John, you told us your parents were out of town for the weekend, and you said we could come over and smoke a bunch of weed.”

Why not say that Charles M. Schulz was the son of a barber, hence Charlie Brown was also a barber’s son?

The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as the Monument, is a fluted Doric column in London, England, situated near the northern end of London Bridge.

The fire was the year after the Bubonic Plague hit London. Although many lost their homes, the fire may also have been instrumental in eradicating the plague…

Is that why Canadian women have small purses??

Hardly anyone pays with cash these days, let alone coins. The ones who really hold up the lines are the ones who bring competitors flyers for price matching.

Is that the temperature where the cricket is or where I am?

Take care, may beloved finger snapping guitar chord maestro Buddy “The Little Things You Say And Do Make Me Want To Be With You” Hollyord be with you, and gesundheit.

This means that vendors can reject your payment if you use more than 20 coins of the same denomination in a single transaction.

Nothing Peanuts related today? How about the number of newspapers worldwide carrying that strip? Most number of tv/movie specials made from a cartoon? Value of merchandise? Come on RBION!

My latest avatar is my painting of two fur babies that are in Dog Heaven!

The Great Fire lasted four days. Although there were proposals to rebuild the area on a new grid structure with wider streets, they used the old street layout. St. Paul’s Cathedral was one of the many new buildings.

For his 100th birthday today, Ripley Should have reprinted the first published cartoon from a very young Charles Shultz about his dog Sparky.

now, if there were only a limit on the amount of time you’re allowed to stand there fishing around in your coin purse for the limited amount of coins permitted…

Turnabout: Charlie pitches a baseball to Lucy, but the ball swerves away every time Lucy tries to hit it.

I wonder. Will other cartoonists be so celebrated on their 100th birthdays as Sparky? I hope so.

When did the stupid “welp” thing start, anyway? Why does it feel like anytime someone uses it, they’re just pandering to teens and hipsters?

I used to collect pennies in jars, but they filled up so quickly that I ended up buying a large urn to keep them in.

So a penny saved is a penny urned.

Each year, some peoples used to protest against the raising of their municipal taxes by paying it exclusively with pennies. Same thing when they want to pay their driving license, their speed ticket, etc. So, the government made a limit on the number pennies you can use.

About the removing of the penny: 1 – The problem was the cost of making a penny: it was more than a penny !2 – When you pay cash, the amount is rounded. During the first year with no pennies, a retired man decided to add all the differences between the real amount and the rounded amount. Conclusion: in 12 months, he made a benefit of 15 cents !3 – A last cue: at the central canadian government, they now regularely discuss about removing the nickel.

The Brits couldn’t find a cow to blame