Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 30, 2020

So what does it mean to floccinaucinihilipilfy?

What we have here is hyperpolysyllabisesquipedalianism.

Hopefully no one here suffers from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Prototaxites walks into a bar, orders a beer.

Bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve mysterious Silurian/Devonian organisms here.”

Prototaxites says, “Why not? I’m a fungi!”

Bartender says, “Maybe, maybe not. Recent research suggests algal components in your structure which would make you a symbiont, possibly a lichen.”

Termite says, “Hey! Is the bar tender?”

Bud was a wonder Pit Bull a great Dog watched over his human riders

That word gives me Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

I know where there are more letters than that. It’s called a post office.

Quick, Google the Goggle dog.

Smiles is the longest word in the dictionary. There’s a mile between the esses.

I thought for sure “antidisestablishmentarianism” was longer. But that word has it beat by one letter! And when you’re saying something happened between X and Y number of years ago, aren’t you supposed to say the lesser number first? I don’t know if that’s a rule, but it doesn’t sound right the other way.

What if prototaxites as fungi were not really tall, but were visually hallucinogenic to fool predators.

-weiser

Ism floccinaucinihilipilificationing you.What do you know? That word actually comes up in auto correct so you don’t have to spell the whole thing.

Plenty of fungi now days, too. Pick a political party. There’s your fungi.

Take care and gesundheit.

And 350 to 420 million years later, Antitaxites began dominating American politics…

Procrastination is the thief of time… and so are most other big words.

I didn’t know that trees have periods.

I haven’t seen that word since the last time I read Robert Heinlein’s “The Puppet Masters”!

I wonder if the doggie followed Route 66? Or maybe the Oregon Trail?

REAL trees didn’t exist then.

Ergo, Bud set the first world record for hanging out the side of a car. Does he still hold it?

Was that cross country drive so the guy driving could watch the Wright Brothers plane? I remember reading a biography about them and it mentioned someone drove across several states to witness their flying machine, which in itself was an accomplishment at the time since cars were still considered horseless carriages.

Big deal, Thousands of people go cross country with a Bud in their hands…

The road trip story as explained in this article is really quite entertaining (and proof of some people’s determination!) https://www.history.com/news/the-first-great-american-road-trip