Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 21, 2021

A man goes to visit an old friend who has retired onto a farm. As he walks around with his farmer friend, he sees a pig in the barnyard with a wooden leg. “What’s the story on that pig?” he asks his friend.

“That’s no mere ‘pig,’” the farmer begins. “Two months ago, I fell off my tractor, which somehow kicked into reverse. My ankle was twisted; I couldn’t get away. I was about to be run over when that pig came charging in out of nowhere and dragged me to safety.”

“OK,” the man says. “But what about -”

“Last month, my youngest son fell into the well, and that pig came running to me and grunted and oinked for me to follow him. I did, just in time to save the child.”

“But -”

“And just last week our house caught on fire. That pig squealed loud enough to wake us all up, and we managed to escape. That, my friend, is a great pig.”

“But what’s with the wooden leg?”

“Hey, a great pig like that, you just don’t eat all at once.”

If Mama Platypus doesn’t possess nipples, must she rent them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactation#Evolution

Like that’s the only weird thing about a platypus…….

Platypus mum secrets milk from glands, then the young suck the milk out of her tummy fur. As a side note the milk is very antibiotic and there are current medical studies underway to see if new antibiotics can be developed from it.

If there were modern-day pretenders to the pharaoh’s throne, I’m sure they’d tell us those “yo-yos” aren’t really yo-yos but rather something else (whatever the “something else” is).

Stephen Stills wrote “4 and 20” for the first CSN album. I don’t know if that will set a record, but I may be off track.

I didn’t know a POW could receive packages.. Huh. And I bet those yoyos were just a fashion accessory, like a lovely rock on a string, and all the cool people carried them.

Are there good lookin’ platypuses (platypusi?), plain, homely??

There were also no images of smart phones in the temples.

So, them ancient aliens didn’t give em yo yo’s, eh.

And so the milk is excreted by the platypus… how? Ripley’s observations often raise more questions than they answer.

s-o-o-o how do they know the ball/string thing isn’t something for the cat to play with?

“Go to gefangnis. Go directly to gefangnis. Do not pass Berlin, do not collect 200 Reichmarks”

As to the monopoly escape set, wouldn’t the German wardens, who often were pretty sharp, get a little idea about it when they opened the boxes and saw the tunnel plans and the compass, which would have to be the real thing if it was going to work? And how would the makers know to match the safe house list would to the area where the prison was located? Like having a map for Cleveland in your New York based wheels.

Not knocking the very honorable and desperate effort, but wouldn’t someone have asked these questions?

OK, so how DOES the baby platypus get the milk?

Okay, how do they get monopoly to the POWs? Do the camp wardens have game nights? And I don’t even wanna know about how a platypus nurses. I’m already mentally scarred from finding out about cloacas last month.

ESPN Ocho sometimes shows yo-yo championships on tv

The Egyptians were great builders. The object on a string is a plumb bob, to indicate verticals; this would have been invaluable when working inside a pyramid, with no external references. Water in a ditch surrounding the pyramids made sure the foundation was level. The object is an indication and badge of his profession.

That’s a rotten thing to call the Pharaohs…

Oy oy, yo-yos.

Take care, may El Hombre de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Porciúncula be with you, and gesundheit.

Ive always heard that the Philippine’s invented the yo-yo

If someone contacts you and asks you to invest in platypus bras, HANG UP IT’S A SCAM.

Like all mammals, monotreme mothers produce milk for their young. But unlike all other mammals, monotremes like the platypus have no nipples. Their milk oozes out of mammary gland ducts and collects in grooves on their skin—where the nursing babies lap it up or suck it from tufts of fur.

The mother platypus “sweats” milk through her skin to nurse…

Proof that the ancient Egyptians practiced hypnotism; those are actually pocket watches. The practice was discontinued when they realized they had no pockets…

That could be a ball on a string and not a yo-yo.