Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 02, 2022

This joke or one like it has been posted in the last year. But it involves an Albatross!

A woman and her son were walking on the beach when a giant wave swept over them. The woman was separated from her son and she looked all around and couldn’t see him anywhere. She looked up at the sky and screamed “Whoever is up there please help me. My son is everything to me, I can’t live without him. Please return my son to me alive”.

Just then a beam of light lit up the and an albatross appeared with her son riding on it’s back. It flew the boy back to the beach where the Mother was waiting.As the mother embraced her son she looked up at the sky and said “He had a hat”.

Until next time.

Isn’t that peachy. One time there were 72 streets.

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

The Atlanta post office must have it easy memorizing all those Peachtree streets, boulevards, avenues, etc.

(No left turns for UPS trucks?)

I just saw that we have an “Easy Street” in Ocala, Florida. I would LOVE to have that as my address. That’d be so cool!

That factoid about Peachtree in Atlanta was just on Jeopardy.

I visited a mall on one of those streets when I decided to have dinner at Checkers.

I don’t get it. How do you save gas by avoiding left turns?

That’s a Jumbo!

So, can someone explain the left turn business???

RBION doles out misinformation again. Those big birds have only two feet. It is terrible that we have to correct … er, what’s that? Oh, the wingspan thingy. Okay. Never mind. ~ Emily Litella

Take care, may relentless TV rabbit ear adjuster Barbara “Usually The Best Reception Is When They Face My Ceiling Leaks” Frumpord be with you, and gesundheit.

I would not want to have to try to follow someone else’s directions driving in Atlanta. “No, dang it, I said ‘Peachtree Lane,’ not ‘Peachtree Boulevard!’”

okay…how can they avoid left turns…doesn’t sound right

Do they know how much more than 11 feet an albatrosses wings can measure? Otherwise their building measurements won’t be very precise.

I live in Fayetteville NC, and this is an accurate example of driving directions: “Go down Raeford rd until you get to Reaford rd, turn onto Reaford rd, go past Reaford rd until you get to Raeford rd.”

I’ve seen UPS making some left turns. I agree. UPS should be making more right turns.

I’ve been in towns littered with street signs like that.

No left turns for UPS drivers in busy cities. In less trafficked areas they still make left turns.

That Peachtree thing must be pretty confusing. And, from now on, I’ll never make a left-turn again. Must be murder on NASCAR.

UPS will save even more gas when they switch to electric vans!

Yay team Brown!

Tourist in Atlanta, receiving directions from a native: “Head south on Peachtree, then turn right onto Peachtree then go about 3 blocks until you come to Peachtree than take aright again. After two blocks, turn left onto Peachtree….

Ah, but how many peach trees has Atlanta got?

Well now we know why Atlanta is so confused! Atlanta like Chicago both need to be annexed from their respective states!

Atlanta must drive GPS users crazy.

Can someone explain to me why an albatross wants to fly around measuring things.

There are intersections here that I will go blocks out of my way to avoid turning left through them. At certain times of the day it’s all but impossible.

The Peach Tree reference was a Jeopardy answer this past week or so…..

I knew one driver who wasn’t comfortable making left turns from busy roads without a traffic light. She would often go a few extra blocks to reach a light.

Albatrosses (albatri?) need a good running start before they can take off, due to their enormous wingspan.

It’s getting late in the gocomics day, but I just found a very short joke I wanted to share. So I am.

I went to the funeral of man who wrote the hokey-pokey song, but it was quite a mess as they couldn’t get his body into the casket.

They put his right foot in . . .

Until next time.