Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 24, 2021

I don’t want Steve Silver to think I pick on him just because he’s Jewish, so no Jewish joke tonight:

Two old Swedes, Abie and Ikie, are lounging on the beach sipping piña coladas, when one asks the other, “Tell me, Abie – how did you come to be here on this beach?”

“Well, Ikie,” Abie began, “I had a business, and we were struggling to make ends meet. And then one night a fire burned it all down, and with the insurance settlement, I came here. What about you?”

“Well, Abie,” the old Swede said, “I, too, had a struggling business. But one night a flood came and destroyed everything. The insurance company paid off, and here I am!”

Abie thinks about this for a minute, and then leans over and asks, sotto voce, “So tell me, Ikie – how do you set a flood?”

James Vernor looks a lot like a garden gnome

Also, has anyone else seen the Cookie Monster geode?

It wasn’t a heart until it was broken.

I’ll stick with Canada Dry ginger ale (established 1904); I just don’t know if my employed grocery store carries Vernors.

Love me some frozen Vernors feels great on a sore throat.

So isn’t anyone gonna take a swipe at Tiger Woods tonight? He’s out practicing his putting, ’cause his driving sucks!

Aha. So, Amazon the giant e-retailer uses electric eels to hunt and finish their competition, eh.

That’ not a heart. Where is the superior vena cava, the aorta, the pericardium, pulmonary artery, pulmonary valve, inferior vena cava, the chambers?

That just looks like the sillouette of a mashed butterfly or moth.

Miners also unearthed amethyst geodes in the shape of a pile of dog barf, but for some reason, those drew less attention despite their remarkable resemblance.

Wow, Vernor’s is the oldest? And that’s the brand of ginger ale I can’t stand.

Electric underwater snakes. Now that’s an imaginative Creator. And there’s much more.

Take care, may Biblical scholar Beelzebub Wooflaughtinord be with you, and gesundheit.

A pack of eels is called a battery.

While Vernor’s is good, there is a small town in PA that makes Big Ben’s Ginger Beer that completely blows it away.

Not much interesting in the offering today.

That amethyst geode miners just broke my heart.

Not a fan of Vernon’s. It contains HFCS. I’m sure it didn’t start out like that.

http://www.geologyin.com/2021/01/stunning-heart-shaped-amethyst-geode.html#:~:text=Workers%20discovered%20the%20amazing%20quartz,of%20value%20would%20be%20uncovered.

electric eels hunt in packs? when they attack, is it called a charge?

The AC eels only travel with the DC eels to prevent shocking problems…

Proof that even volcanoes celebrate Valentine’s day…

Why isn’t it a “school” of Eels?

Battery packs.

That is not the shape of a heart, it is the shape we use to represent Love which is a stylized representation of a heart.

I’d like to try Vernor’s, just to see how good it is…if it is.