Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 17, 2019

Hammmerstein co-wrote wonderful Broadway musicals with his buddy Richard Rodgers in their day.

Maybe they should have explored third grade before Antarctica.

Sounds like a fish tale to me.

Fishermen never tell lies.

At least they didn’t think polar bears were yeti.

You’d think that poor bass would learn to keep his mouth shut!

That’s only like 3 or 4 fish a day. Even I could do that. What I find amazing is that people pay him to do this and he can make a very good living at it.

The penguin misinformation continued until the Great Antarctic Census…..you know, the South Poll.

Now that is some really.dumb.explorers.

My guess is they saw the penguins out in the ocean, and they swim much like dolphins. I doubt if they saw them walking on land, they would think they were fish; well, maybe Darwin would.

The explorers smart enough to use dogs in the Antarctic were also smart enough to know that penguins were not fish.

Did they still think so after their fish fry?

Early explorers thought this land was India and named Native Americans as such.

Well, I guess there are worst things to be addicted to than catching and releasing an average of three bass a day for 25 years.

The word “fish” used to have a different, more broad meaning.

Antartica is not the only place where penguins live, there are penguins in South Africa, the Galápagos and other places. They should have been familiar with them before they reached Antartica.

They just wanted an excuse to eat penguins on Fridays during Lent.

Hammerstein won the Oscar with Richard Rodgers for “It Might As Well Be Spring” from Twentieth Century-Fox’s “State Fair” in 1945.

Dave was later busted when it was discovered to be his pet bass…

Because you know he’s all about that bass, 

’Bout that bass, no trout.

The Arctic evolutionary equivalent of the Antarctic penguin is the puffin. I don’t know if the puffin can swim like the penguin, but it can fly.