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

Never thought of pea-shooting being THAT old of a gimmick.

Can you order a snooze peashooter?

That lawsuit adds up to $ 2 × 10**36th power. Sounds like the math of a politician.

And did the knockers up protest that the alarm clocks made them jobless?

That’s entirely impractical surely? You could just throw the pea much more easily?

No mention of bugle calls.

I have a pee every morning.

So, that’s where the quaint British request for a phone call came from. As a lad I met a young lass in Greece while she was on holiday. When I mentioned I was soon going to England she said" Oh, please knock me up". I think I ran.

Who woke up the pea shooter?

The outrageous amount in the lawsuit was a standard negotiating ploy. You always ask for more than you expect to get, figuring the other party will make a counteroffer. I’m sure this guy would have been quite happy with one undecillion dollars.

The doctor was apparently a pioneer in LSD experimentation.

. . . Anton Purisima sure has kept himself busy! What a jerk! :o

https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/160578/losing-a-middle-finger-new-yorker-anton-purisima-files-worlds-biggest-lawsuit/

https://commonplacefacts.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/the-lawsuit-for-all-the-money-in-the-world-and-more/

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4537334/anton-purisima-v-city-of-philadelphia/

Yeah, getting knocked up sure would be a wake-up call.

I always figured that Joshua trees must have been an inspiration for Dr Seuss, as well.

The wake-up procedure reminds me of when I worked in a prison, where the prisoners would gently toss pab bles onto the windows of the guard towers to wake up the guards when they were supposed to report in (by phone).

I read the cypress tree that may have inspired Dr. Suess recently died. He lived above the cliffs where it lived until his death. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/la-jollas-lorax-tree-has-fallen-180972442/

Oops spelled Seuss wrong.

Wouldn’t that be $2 novillion or something like that? Working backwards, don’t the zeros go hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillions, sextillions, septillions, octillions, then novillions? I might not have the prefix right on the last one, but undecillion doesn’t seem right.

That lawsuit just proves the guy was did indeed become rabid; did he live to claim?

The 33 zeros makes that number two decillion, not two undecillion.

These gents were the inspiration for Rusty Warren in 1960…