Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 16, 2021

How horrific for Welshmen to lose their wives over a little halitosis. (Sad there were no Altoids, Tic Tacs, Mentos, or Certs then.)

The word soccer, as I understand from official sources, was a contraction for “AsSOCiation Football”. No idea where The idea that soccer predated football came from and in The U.K. and Europe the game is refered to as football.

I’ll stick to my inanimate food thank you, it is too much work trying to catch an animated dish!

Oh yeah? Well I don’t cares about what the British upper class wants. It’s called football and that’s the bottom line.

That must have been some really, Really, REALLY bad breath in Wales!

I can’t remember the documentary, but a sound effects person said they used a roast beef for punches to the face. After the filming the roast was eaten by the family for supper.

Now that is hilarious!

Seems there are a variety of reasons given to get a divorce that are not much more serious, so it might not be as farfetched as it sounds.

To hell with “the British upper class.” Seriously.

Take care, may Jeremy Corbynord be with you, and gesundheit.

I guess everyone got divorced in Wales back then

Ratatouille is the only recipe I’ve ever heard of that uses zucchini.

I don’t know if “soccer” predates " football" but it does predate the US version of football. Soccer is derived from Association Rules Football. The English public schools, read that schools for the elite, not grammar schools for the lower classes, would play football against each other’s schools and each use a different set of rules. So, each game would begin with the ref, a professor or don, explaining that pitch’s rules before each match. When some of the public school guys graduated, they wanted to continue their sport but wanted a standard set of rules. So, they asked Prof.Rugby to devise a common set of rules they could all play by. An association was formed to organize the matches and those that played in it. For a time, those that played in this association were called Assocers and in time the “A” and “S” were dropped and we were left with the name of the sport called Soccer. The rules of the game still preserves much of the more gentlemanly aspects of the sport like being sent off for showing unsportsmanlike conduct or repeated infractions of the rules.

What did medieval people use for mouthwash?

“If music be the food of love, play me a bologna sandwich.” Goucho Marx.

I LOVE the movie Ratatouille!! And the dish as well. I make it often. How fun to have eaten all the food from the movie. I would have liked to have been in that meeting! Taste test! :D

Also, a good distractive game, like Pokemon Go or handheld Pokemon RPG/virtual pet could substitute for sex.

HA! I knew it! I’m guessing the word “soccer” went the way of “ain’t,” where it was a word the nobility used but when the common folk started using it the hoity-toity upper classes declared it gutter speak and stopped using it.

I made a dish for my feline pet: Catatouille

Yeah but I doubt the production crew of Ratatouille would’ve eaten it the food if it had a rat crawling all over it!

i’ve always head that the Welsh divorce rate was breathtaking

I wonder where they got 270 trained rats?…