Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 03, 2019

Out of those eight escaped assassinations, how many of them had Prince Albert by Her Majesty’s side?

The term “jumping flea” came about because the fingers picking at the strings looked like a flea jumping up and down.

Pareidolia has been attributed to the human tendency to seek out “meaning” even in the chaotic or random. You glimpse a random cloud formation or a movement of leaves and the mind “fills in the blanks” to make a mental image of something familiar. Carl Jung did not believe or disbelieve in the reality of what we’ve come to call UFOs, but he thought that the majority of claimed sightings were instances of pareidolia. You see something in the sky and you can’t really make out what it is, but the idea of alien craft is all over the zeitgeist, so it’s not unusual at all if that’s what you “see”.

Otherhandwise, as regards humans as meaning-making animals,John Powell has written…

We try to make sense out of everything, including music. We find it pleasant if our expectations are frustrated occasionally, but we don’t expect to be wildly donkey, like the way you didn’t expect the word donkey just then.

Please don’t take me more seriously than I take myself which is not very.

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Believe it or Don’t!

The wood chuck is not made of wood and it is not named Chuck. At least, usually not.

Jealous would-be assassins.

I wonder who sent eight lousy assassins for the job.

Pareidolia. That explains the peeps that see faces in the rocks in one of the comics here.

There was a reason she dressed in black – so was her belt.

Suddenly seeing a familiar face in an unexpected place has often led to divorce…

So Herb Alpert’s “Tijuana Flea” would be “Jumping Ukuleles” in Hawaiian?…