Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 17, 2014

O.K., what does a pregnant polar bear smell like anyway? And I thought only snakes, not polar bears, weren’t present in Ireland due to Saint Patricius.

That looks inkorrect.

SOoooo that is why dogs like to smell butts !

Believe the “correct” miss-spelling is “OLL KORRECT” a fad that swept the country for a few years… also think there are a number of other sources for “OK”, including a rail yard worker who checked boxcar bearings and chalked his initials over each wheel “OK”

Another one of Snoopy’s fantasies?

OK dehn, dat sowng karek!

I guess it’s safer for zookeepers to send the beagle in than administering the EPT test themselves.

you can tell they’re irish, they turn green in zoos.

“Oll Korrect” was one of a whole collection of silly misspellings that were popular for a while, just like “I can haz cheezburger” or “ketteh” or “teh”, today. Martin van Buren, known as “Old Kinderhook” is the reason “OK” is remembered while the rest are forgotten.

And the bear ate the dog?

Ripley’s once mentionned that “OK” came from the “0 Killed” mentions on battle reports during the civil war.

Why not just call it “AC”? Or “acee”?Seems kinda silly to do that.

The polar bear fossil found at Kew Bridge in London (the Irish bear) is only 70,000 years old, while a 100,000 year old polar bear fossil was found in the Arctic north of Norway. In any case, polar bears descended from the brown bear, which seems to have come from Eurasia.

I read somewhere that “OK” started with Andrew Jackson, then they jokingly added a footnote to the effect that Jackson may not have been able to spell worth a darn, but even he knew not to spell “All Correct” as “Oll Korrect”! :-)

O.K. is a pair of initials with a multitude of uses — not to mention a number of different explanations of how it came to be. An upcoming anniversary is the occasion for Mo Rocca to investigate:Time for a little word history, OK? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/time-for-a-little-word-history-ok/

CBS did a thing on this expression and say that it is Martin Van Buren who coined the phrase. Find it hard to believe that both of you are correct.