Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 15, 2021

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    pearlsbs  over 3 years ago

    Probably tomorrow’s RBION comic.

    https://www.gocomics.com/ripleysbelieveitornot/2018/04/13?ct=v&cti=1964646

    Probably Friday’s RBION comic.

    https://www.gocomics.com/ripleysbelieveitornot/2018/04/14?ct=v&cti=1964646

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    monkeysky  over 3 years ago

    I think it’s been said that every full-time warrior, whether they were a knight, samurai or viking raider, requires the behind-the-scenes support of at least 100 full-time civillians.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    As someone with partial Scandinavian heritage (Danish), my Viking forefathers also never had horns on their helmets.

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    Bilan  over 3 years ago

    Did the Viking farmers at least have horns on their tractors?

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    sandpiper  over 3 years ago

    Since I added BION a week or so ago, I have enjoyed tracking some of its examples. Takes me out of the normal pattern for comic reading and into looking online for more info about them. Much more interesting read.

    But it also seems to have become a billboard for jokes that don’t fit on other comic sites. I guess it’s a kind of forum and folks enjoy it. Nothing wrong with jokes. Just a curious separation between original purpose and use.

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    Gent  over 3 years ago

    See, folks? It’s all stereotyping them poor Vikings.

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    James Wolfenstein  over 3 years ago

    Bloodthirsty farmers? :D

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    gopher gofer  over 3 years ago

    my mind is no longer sharp due to gradual erosion…

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    ERBEN2  over 3 years ago

    That is BS , about ELI .

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    joefearsnothing  over 3 years ago

    Eromlig: Not the town council but, basically, the same thing! This is a true story as told by my father. The same old gentlemen in the small town of New Castle in KY gathered in front of the courthouse every Saturday, chewed tobacco, spit in, or near, the one spittoon and tried to solve the world’s problems! One of the gentlemen rarely, if ever, joined in the conversation! After one of the regulars spits and says “I hear they gonna build a new highway through here!” The normally silent fellow spits and says “I’m agin it!” The rest all chime in, surprised to hear from him all say, in unison “What did you say Clyde?” “I said I’m agin it!” Still in unison they asked “Why are ya agin it?” “Cuz all them furiners from Indiana and Ohio’ll be comin through here stealin everything!” Spitooey

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    J Short  over 3 years ago

    Imagine a crowd of people applauding at 20 times a second; it would sound like the Gatling guns on an A-10 Warthog.

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    R.R.Bedford  over 3 years ago

    “Tis it a scandal to call a Viking a Vandal?” " ’Twould be you see if they roved not on land but on sea!!"

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    Craig Westlake  over 3 years ago

    To this very day when people think of the clap, they think of Eli…

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    Craig Westlake  over 3 years ago

    I don’t know about that, I imagine there were a lot of vegetables with a different opinion…

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    ncorgbl  over 3 years ago

    I don’t believe it.

    So says Putin.

    Most ancient warriors were farmers. Historians wanted something more exciting to write about.

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    Oxnate  over 3 years ago

    The Vikings were the ones who went out raiding. There were a lot more people who stayed behind and farmed—those weren’t called Vikings. Vikings were also usually farmers when not out raiding.

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    Jogger2  over 3 years ago

    Years ago, I saw an online chat about the Vikings. Someone said the word “viking” was a job, not a culture or a ethnicity. That would compare with the word “pirate” or “raider”.

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    paulscon  over 3 years ago

    You don’t have to go to Russia to find a glass beach. We have our own in Mendocino CA

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    tremaine53  over 3 years ago

    Goody for Eli. I am not amazed.

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    Nick Danger  over 3 years ago

    “Viking” is a Norse word that means “raiding”, not a national or tribal name. If you went out to rob and pillage from others, you were “going viking”.

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    spaced man spliff  over 3 years ago

    Once upon a time Bolsa Chica Beach (between Huntington Beach and Long Beach) belonged to the railroad. Campers there would leave their tin cans on the beach.

    Over the years, you couldn’t see the sand for the cans, and it got the moniker “Tin Can Beach”. A local attraction. In 1954 the railroad either gave or sold the property to the state. By 1958 the cans were all gone. I still believe the state should have kept the old name Tin Can Beach; it has so much more personality and historical mojo than the current beach name.

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    Petemejia77  over 3 years ago

    Most Vikings were The Dude.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 3 years ago

    Well that’s nice.

    Take care, may famed hotdog farmer Oscar Burpord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    Eugeno  over 3 years ago

    Some of those farmers were my relatives, as they had land in south central Norway, near the town of Gol – grew grain crops, and herded dairy cows, so far back in history no one I met when I visited in ’75 knew when it started. The family Bible only went back to 1837.

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    jmcenanly  over 3 years ago

    Norse Farmers owned as much land as they could throw an ax. It must have been a good way to discourage interlopers.

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