Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 13, 2024

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    Pickled Pete  about 2 months ago

    Topic ~ Eggplant

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    ENGLISH IS A FUNNY LANGUAGE

    Let’s face it — English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, not ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.

    We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

    You don’t have to be crazy to use the English language, but it sure as heck helps!

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    The Duke  about 2 months ago

    The only question I have for Andrew Stanton is, Why?

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    Zykoic  about 2 months ago

    But did Dave grow it?

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    A Common 'tator  about 2 months ago

    Just as well there’s only one Wimbledon in the world… RBION forgot to tell us which country it is in…

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    Old Tarf Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Didn’t know mice needed conserving. Oversized vegetables are easy to grow. Just leave them on the plant. They aren’t fit to eat.

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    kaycstamper  about 2 months ago

    You could make a lot of eggplant parmesan with that!

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    kaycstamper  about 2 months ago

    Here we don’t build houses for mice, we buy electronic zappers for them! Crazy!

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    fgerbil46  about 2 months ago

    I like the Wimbledon item. :-)

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 2 months ago

    So we have too few mice?

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    John Wiley Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Wimbledon promoting pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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    Tee hee  about 2 months ago

    Eye sockets? That’s got to hurt!

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    Gameguy49 Premium Member about 2 months ago

    The dolphin info is good but the rest is as dumb as a 8.33 pound eggplant.

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    h.v.greenman  about 2 months ago

    As a senior who had to use a walker for the last three months, those tennis balls would be far more useful donated to charities to be used as “feet” on walkers. I can’t speak for other people, but I was wearing out a set a week, at $12 a pair just walking the 200 yards to get the mail daily. (cement walkways are worse than sandpaper)

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    e.groves  about 2 months ago

    The mouse thing is probably sponsored by pest exterminators.

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    oish  about 2 months ago

    Tennis Balls? Gives new meaning to the term “Room Service”

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    poppacapsmokeblower  about 2 months ago

    Why, Dave, why? The world won’t eat eight pounds of eggplant before it goes bad.

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    oakie817  about 2 months ago

    i have a picture of me taken when i was 3 hours old – i was born with sideburns – they fell out but i grew them back when i was a teenager

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member about 2 months ago

    I have whiskers and if the air is charged with enough static electricity, they’ll stand on end, BION.

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    daisypekin01  about 2 months ago

    tennis balls: coffins for “rain frogs”?

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 2 months ago

    Not the same Andrew Stanton as at Pixar, I trust.

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    kaboobs  about 2 months ago

    Ought to donate to people that have to use walkers. They make great pads.. stops scratching the floors.

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    Aimless Melissa   about 2 months ago

    FGS, somebody, give that poor fool something safer and saner to do with his free time!! It’s a boredom emergency!

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    chain gang charlie  about 2 months ago

    It only takes the smell of the skin of one eggplant to make me PUKE…..Hated being a Mess cook in the Navy for two months…They are banned from my house….

    Barf……

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    Snuffles [Previously Helikitty]   about 2 months ago

    That’s one heavy driver!

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    Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Mr. Stanton needs a mental health check.

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