Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 11, 2019

“On second thought, hand me the Bible.”

“You have the right to remain silent—unless you sit on this guy’s knee.”

What did they make the women swear on?

Jewish men in the Old Testament did that. And when they swore an oath promise to another person to do something for that person, they swore by holding that person’s testicles.

So that’s why that frog was cleaning out his stomach after reading Mary Worth.

Thanks for sharing that frog info at breakfast time.

To be honest, I’ve had a few times the frog method sounds like it would have been a great improvement. Spit up my stomach, give it a good scrub and a rinse and swallow it again.

Frogs have hair balls?

Whole new meaning to got you by the _alls ;-)

Testicles, dummy cops and frog puke. Batting a thousand today, Ripley. :)

Which one played the good cop?

And thus ball sports involving throwing, hitting with a large stick, kicking, and holding tight while running down a field.

The dummy may not look like Jerry Mahoney, but Officer Geary looks an awful lot like how Paul Winchell used to look

I lived in San Francisco for over 30 years and met Officer O’Smarty several times. He was pretty cool.

So Michael Jackson was paying homage to the ancient Romans! Hee hee.

That is a fallacy. Even though we can’t be 100% sure, it’s highly unlikely that this is the case for two main reasons. Yes, the word testify does come from testis, but the word testis in Latin has two meanings: witness and testicles. I don’t really think that i have to explain why witness makes much more sense than testicles but the etymology of the word makes things clearer. Testis actually derives from the Indo-European word for ‘three’. This is because Romans considered witnesses only third parties – people who didn’t have a side on a specific dispute and could therefore, tell the story as it really was. Supporters of the myth seem to forget this etymology and choose the “testicles oath”. But there’s a huge problem with that part of the story as well.

There is no written confirmation suggesting that Romans were swearing while grabbing their testicles. There are numerous passages that describe Roman oaths and customs in the Latin corpus, but there is no reference to this particular oath whatsoever. That being said, swearing on the testicles is indeed mentioned in the Old Testament as “grasping the thigh” but even that was on the testicles of the king, not on their own. There is no evidence that this was also used in ancient Rome, especially when we are talking about an entirely different era.

Hope O’Smarty is laced with kevlar for Bob’s sake. And his arm!

Genesis 24:2,“Put your hand under my thigh,….” (New American Bible translation) – a euphemism for the genitals.

It’s interesting how the Bible was cleaned up, e.g., “He put his hand under his leg and swore an oath…” meaning he put his hand on his penis. The Blood of the Covenant is drawn from a male’s most precious organ, his penis. It’s like saying “Cross my penis and hope to die.”BTW, it’s “testes,” not “testicles.” “Testicle” means “little testis,” and no knowing man will describe his family jewels as “little.”(Then again, wasn’t Testicles a famous Athenian statesman, known for his great fortitude? Or was that Pericles?)