Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 12, 2020

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    SunRise2  almost 4 years ago

    … and, for President Woodrow Wilson, cartoonist Walter Lantz developed Woody Woodpecker?

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    Caldonia  almost 4 years ago

    The nudist had to have the laptop back. There were many great nude pictures in its files.

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    Bilan  almost 4 years ago

    That boar must have been very close to taking something much more valuable than the laptop.

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    LeftCoastKen Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    At the time, was there some sort of popular association between Taft and possums? If there was, I never heard of one.

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    Gent  almost 4 years ago

    And thus, the poor wild boar’s dreams of one day becoming a software professional were crushed forever.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I know Taft tried to popularise eating possums… or at least, he had possum served in the White House.

    But even though I’ve sold collectible bears, I’ve never heard of Billy Possum.

     

    Funny thing, though….

    Theodore Roosevelt inspired a toymaker to name a stuffed bear the “Teddy Bear” because he refused to shoot a tied up bear.

    Stories vary as to whether it was a grown bear… some pictures show a cub, but that’s probably embellishment.

     

    There’s also argument as to whether the stuffed bear was created then, or, as I believe, already in existence, but given an enduring name.

    In any case the great hunter spared the life of the bear, which was immortalised in a toy.

     

    Having a toy named after you because you EAT them doesn’t inspire quite the same warm fuzzies…

    especially as a bedtime story for children.

    “Good night, little Bobby… I hope you dream of possum stew.”

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    UmmeMoosa  almost 4 years ago

    Billy possum didn’t catch on?,,,,,,, small wonder.

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    FassEddie  almost 4 years ago

    Any park with wild boars and nudists is ready for a purge.

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    PaulAbbott2  almost 4 years ago

    I googled a Billy Possum from back in the day. Small wonder they didn’t catch on. 99% of stuffed animals are cute. Billy is one of the 1%

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    J Short  almost 4 years ago

    Marketing made a grave mistake when they made Billy’s torso flat, with a tire tread mark across his back.

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    cdnalor  almost 4 years ago

    Billy possum may not have caught on, but I believe Billy Beer had some success during Carter’s term.

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    J Short  almost 4 years ago

    No black tape across the boar’s butt.?

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    ERBEN2  almost 4 years ago

    A live worm ? That’s a mess , And if they would cook every thing that they eat over there it probely wouldn’t have happen . No wonder there is so many bugs coming from there . And I wonder if anyone ever French kissed her ? YUK ! I’m sorry for that .

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    artmer  almost 4 years ago

    Wait! What the f#@k is a wild boar doing in a city park?!?

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    ncorgbl  almost 4 years ago

    The woman was advised by doctors not to snack while pearl diving.

    Neither did the ‘tRumpy Bear’. (They are made in China.)

    Due to events in the 1930s and 1940s, a naked man chasing a wild boar with a notebook computer turned no heads in Berlin.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 4 years ago

    So they have hill billies in Germany. I’ll bet they call them mound villhelmies.

    Take care, may the Ohre be with you, and gesundheit.

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    comixbomix  almost 4 years ago

    I think, in this case, we may need a better definition of “laptop”…

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    Buckeye67  almost 4 years ago

    That nudist was lucky. A passing cop could have easily got the wrong idea.

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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 4 years ago

    If it were an Australian possum, it’d stand a chance.

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    stamps  almost 4 years ago

    I would hire that boar for my IT department.

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    Craig Westlake  almost 4 years ago

    Ah, another plus in the score for sushi…

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    An occasional visitor to Thornton W Burgess’ world of slightly anthropomorphized wild animals (Reddy Fox, Grandfather Frog, [the other] Peter Rabbit, etc.) is Unc’ Billy Possum.

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    Thehag  almost 4 years ago

    Why does is matter that the guy was a nudist? Naked or clothed it’s quite the achievement to chase down a wild boar let alone get something back from it.

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