Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 16, 2020

Who so wants to not get bitten by a boomslang? {raises hand} Not me!

1835 / 2020 no change in the ability to fool some of the people all of the time.

James probably asked Dolley not to wear high heels when they went out in public. Just like Tom Cruise and Nichol Kidman.

Don’t tell me that hoax later inspired Bob Kane.

I woke one Thanksgiving morning morning with with my left leg about twice its normal size. Blood clot in a vein. Several days in hospital on blood thinner. About a week at home acting like I had been bitten by one of those snakes. Thank the Lord, everything healed and I recovered completely.

Evidently media has had a habit with these hoaxes, other words, glorified lies, like the one in 1938 with Orson Welles and his broadcast about Martians invading New Jersey, when so many people bought it And actually started evacuating.

Looks like Ripley hired Hieronymus Bosch to do the Moon Hoax panel.

In 1938, Orson Welles terrorized the nation with a radio broadcast aired as a news story about a Martian invasion based on a H. G. Welles sci fi story. Lots of legal action over thqt.

Snake venom is usually hemolytic (Pit vipers like rattlesnakes and copperheads) or neurotoxic (Coral snakes and cobras,etc.). Any of the hemolytic venoms can cause you to “bleed out of every orifice.” Hemolytic venom causes tissue break down; and some experts believe it’s main function is to predigest the animal.

In some countries in Africa boomslang means yeh-hoo-woeetsluum-balla-hammer-fleep.

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

EVERY orifice?

You mean the press in 1835 couldn’t be trusted? Who woulda thunk it?!

My mom was 6’, dad 5’9": they were getting ready to go dancing, and mom had her 4" heals on; so I asked dad, “does it bother you that mom is taller?” He turned, looked at my mother, turned to me, and said, “I’m loving it!”

Edger Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) wrote about life and civilizations on the moon, Mars, Venus, the African jungle and the center of the Earth.

I have a cousin who is 6’9". His wife is 6’5" She looks up to him…and no one else.

In 1835 ‘fake news’ was already as old as the Nation itself.

James, one of our happier presidents, called her ‘Long, tall Dolley’.

It is suggested to make the boomslang snake bleed from one big newly made orifice.

James Madison was the only presidential candidate to beat a taller opponent.

The great moon hoax fooled some. The war of the worlds fooled all.

The New York Times has optimized Fake News.

Bleeding from every orifice. Other nickname for boomslang snake is the Taco Bell snake.

That telescope must have been on some drugs.