Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 07, 2020

“Robot”, the word of choice J. Bezos uses when discussing Amazon employees.

For those who are curious, the czech word for servitude is robota.

Of course that goes without saying, with all the flying crocodiles flying around in Florida,,,it is obvious.

I’d take that money, but my book wouldn’t be any good, so they probably wouldn’t want to friends with me anymore.

Just remember, Rosie was the Jetsons’ housekeeper.

AND ROBOT SPELLED BACKWARD IS TOBOR!! GASP!! .. or don’t gasp.

Take care, may Llord be with you, and gesundheit.

I know that Google Translate isn’t necessarily the most trustworthy, but it is usually fairly close. I checked what servitude was in Czech and the word didn’t even come close to anything that the word robot could be derived from. I also tried the word robot from Czech to English and the translation was…robot! The same for the other way around as well (English → Czech). So in my opinion, this “fact” is a “not”.

Wow – Harper Lee must have had some pretty rich friends.

I’m surprised that I’m the first to mention the Mexican version of the book…TEQUILA Mockingbird!

For those of you who loved ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ (novel and/or movie) : I strongly, strongly STRONGLY recommend that you pick up the New York Times bestseller called, ‘Mockingbird – A Portrait Of Harper Lee’ by Charles Shields published in 2006. It is an astonishingly in-depth biography of Nell Harper Lee which includes an enormous amount of detailed stories like the one featured above. I absolutely promise that you will not be disappointed. After you read this book you will understand why Harper Lee never wrote again, why she became so secretive in her personal life and why ‘Go Set A Watchman’ was such a bad sequel to the book which made her famous. The latter is an utterly fascinating though somewhat bitter-sweet story. TEASER: She originally did not want Gregory Peck to play the part of Atticus (who was based upon her lawyer father) but after the movie was done she presented Peck with her father’s pocket watch as a tribute and thanks for his performance.

TOBOR, star of the classic 1950s movie ‘Tobor the Great’, took his name from the Slavic term and reversed it.

It would be another two years before ramen noodles would be invented, so Nelle would need to be cautious with the $2,657.

Crocodiles just say that to get the birds to come closer.

Is the mockingbird, in “To Kill A Mockingbird”, related to the crocodile?

And yet “alligator” comes from a word for “lizard.”

Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!

The bottom panel makes sense to me. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen an alligator and thought to myself, “Wait – is that a gator or a bird?”

If you listen to old radio shows you’ll hear some people pronounce robot “robutt”.

‘gifted’ – the adjective the illiterate turn into a verb…

The full word was ‘robotnik’ from which descended the term ‘beatnik’ which means “beat the hell out of a hippie”…

I’ve never seen a croc with feathers.

The word “robot” first appeared in the Czech play “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” a play in which (spoiler alert for a play that debuted in January of 1921) the robots eventually take over and wipe out humanity.

Given that the very first time anyone heard the term “robot” was in a play about robots wiping out the human race, if the robot apocalypse ever does come about no one could say we didn’t see it coming.

That’s through the dinosaur branch of the family..

Does that mean alligators are related to birds too?