Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 22, 2018

so are you saying Calif is good for something after all or not?

I am thinking Moose didn’t really get any of the money.

Where is the other 10% of Uncle Sam’s broccoli?

Yet another reason to let California slide into the Pacific.

My pet pangram peeve: “The quick brown fox…” has the word “the” twice, which is redundant. You can replace either of them with “a”, which still makes perfect sense and is two letters shorter.

A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Suddenly I have lost my appetite for Broccoli!

The quick brown fox bored Navy Radiomen to death in “A” School…and probably many others….

As the old comnercial goes: one more reason to hate california

No wonder the rest of he country hates us out here…Phew!…..

California is good for the Wisconsin cheese industry.

And that is why Broccoli is part of the California blend vegie mix !

Except the colorist thought the DOG was supposed to be brown… and the fox is for some reason GOLD… :-P

That broccoli thing. I knew it had to be from somewhere not of this Earth. I just knew it.

90% huh? And there it can stay!

Well then California is good for something!

California also produces 90% of democrats, must be because of all that broccoli.

Broccoli? Ok, California is good for something…

I like “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow”.

That puts the San Francisco broccoli pizza from “Inside Out” into perspective.

Arnold Ziffel from the show “Green Acres” was paid $250 per day and had a union contract.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ziffel

I phrase we used in typing class was “The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.”

When I was in the Air Force, teletype school, our practice sentence was “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’s back.” Never occurred to me that the phrase contains every letter of the alphabet. You have to forgive me I was very young at that time.

For those bashing California:

California leads all of the other states in farm income. It’s positioned as the agricultural powerhouse of the United States. About 73% of the state’s agricultural revenues are derived from crops while the other 27% of revenues are generated by livestock commodities.

In terms of revenue generated, California’s top five agricultural products are dairy products, greenhouse and nursery products, grapes, almonds, and cattle and calves.

California produces almost all of the country’s almonds, apricots, dates, figs, kiwi fruit, nectarines, olives, pistachios, prunes, and walnuts. It leads in the production of avocados, grapes, lemons, melons, peaches, plums, and strawberries.

The most important vegetable crops grown in the state are lettuce and tomatoes. Again, California leads the way. Broccoli and carrots rank second followed by asparagus, cauliflower, celery, garlic, mushrooms, onions, and peppers.

So I take it that if California sinks beneath the waves the rest of us are saved…

“The quick brown fox …” is not a “perfect” pangram as many letters are double. In some languages, there are perfect ones. Have not seen one in the English language so far.