Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 17, 2021

Whoever pulled Oscar out of the washing machine is still putting band-aids on.

So how many of those air sacs will have only one square foot when spread out flat? (What’s so scary about an egg? Afraid it might hatch a vicious velociraptor or something?)

Here is how you are supposed to wash a cat.

1. Thoroughly clean the toilet.

2. Add the required amount of shampoo to the toilet water, and have both lids lifted.

3. Obtain the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.

4. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids (you may need to stand on the lid so that he cannot escape). CAUTION: Do not get any part of your body too close to the edge, as his paws will be reaching out for any purchase they can find.

5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a “power wash and rinse” which I have found to be quite effective.

6. Have someone open the door to the outside and ensure that there are no people between the toilet and the outside door.

7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids.

8. The now-clean cat will rocket out of the toilet, and run outside where he will dry himself.

Cat in the washing machine? Little Johny thin up to no good again, eh.

Did all the king’s horses and all the king’s men have ovophobia?

Easter must be terrifying!

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.Though it might make a great password.

what’s a rational fear of eggs?

AARRGGH!ophobia is the fear of having a hard boiled one thrown at you.

Take care, may Cy Young Award winner Tom Seavord be with you, and gesundheit.

“Irrational”? Tell that to the Gnome King.

My wife put the blanket from our cat’s bed into the washing machine, went to get something else to add to the load and came back to find our cat in the drum sitting on her blanket (“Is this my new bed??”) I’ve got a photo of that on our computer room wall.

As opposed to the rational fear of eggs.

40 minutes in the drier killed him.

If your lungs were spread out flat you wouldn’t care how many square feet they are. Take a breath.

There is nothing irrational about it.

Can a woman have ovophobia and be afraid of her own eggs?

And just what is “Irrational” about my fear of eggs?

Isn’t that item about the lungs something we learn in elementary school?

Channel surfing, I came across a scene in a sequel to The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy was holding a chicken, who released an egg. The egg accidentally rolled into the mouth of a gnome. It turned out eating an egg was fatal to the gnomes of oz.

I bet Oscar will never get near a washing machine or anything resembling one.

Well, Mr. Gent, your new assignment, should you decide to’accept it….

Ovophobia is actually the fear that your girlfriend is pregnant…

But his fur was fluffy and static free…

Did Oscar also survive a cycle in the dryer or did the washer spin dry him.

I always thought that the fear of eggs was: augophobia as “phobias” are almost always Greek words as the word “phobia” itself.

Now I have one for all of you. I had a cat that like water and she would let you give her a bath without any fuss.