Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 20, 2019

how DOES an extended tongue help concentration?

Sorry but I find the syrup swimming unbelievable. The viscosity of water is 1-5 whereas maple syrup is 150-200.

Swimming in syrup; Who tested this one out?

… but it is hard on the pancakes.

While trying to take a picture of a pair of red-tailed hawks perched on a power pole in front of my house the other day, I concentrated so hard on getting the shot despite my phone screen being flared out in the sun that I managed to take a selfie instead, and I have the tongue -out shot to prove it.

And if you stick out your tongue while swimming in syrup, you’ll realize you are a waffle.

Seriously? Who wants rain at a wedding?

Yes, it gets pretty boring in Minnesota during those loooooooooooong prairie winters.

Well, it’s been said that Minnesota is the California of the midwest. There you go.

If the University was given any kind of a grant for that study the taxpayers got screwed. How many people do you know that care if we can swim fast thru syrup? I don’t recall any syrup lakes or seas when studying geography. Anybody???

I bet those scientists didn’t test swimming totally under syrup vs. under water.

Take 1 Olympic size swimming pool, add several hundred gallons of Log Cabin syrup, add test subject swimmers following this test dunk world’s largest pancake [see earlier RBION] into said pool and invite two thousand friends to breakfast.

In syrup you say? But only if you use waffles for flippers!

I just want to know the why of swimming in syrup. And where that syrup went. Even a body sized test would take a lot of sap . . . to test speed . . . what a waist, opps, waste.

God I hope that absurd ‘study’ in Minnesota wasn’t funded with taxpayer money!

Sweet.

So that is why Michael Jordan was such a good shot!

hey, the university of Minnesota peer reviewed the Mythbusters!

Is this the silliest RBION! Ever? When something is too silly for me, that means it’s unbelievable silly.

No, whenever I (rarely) find myself sticking out my tongue to concentrate, all it does is sidetrack me into wondering why I’m sticking out my tongue. I mean, it’s really disruptive; derails me completely. But the behavior is sure hard-wired in there somewhere.

syrup swimming could become a new olympic sport. 100 yd Mrs. Butterworth’s butterfly?

Yes….while licking a frog with you tongue out!

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And those that can walk on water can really speed along…

yuck