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

If there is any Scotsman/Scotswoman here, can you give at least a few examples of your word for “snow” and/or a phrase related thereto?

Q: Why did they bury the Scottish man on the West side of the hill?

A: Because he was dead

There must be some different words for snow in my mothertongue – but I mainly use “@#$&€%!!!”

Saber-toothed oats? Amazing. (jk, I know it’s cats.)

Does one of the words happen to be McSnow by any chance?

5k lady bugs? Keeping track of the color scheme must be confusing even for them.

The La Brea Tar Pits seem to be the most prolific fossil deposits. Wonder if they have found species that have never been represented elsewhere? Also wonder how they get the stuff off their boots?

According to comic lore, average Scots are extremely parsimonious with most things, especially money. Maybe because they spent so much of their national language on snow? Do Eskimo languages come anywhere near that number?

The La Brea tar pits used to be on my bucket list… a couple of the coolest things that I remember from my visit: There is still tar coming up through the asphalt in the parking lot in places. There is a display of a 1 yard or 1 meter cube (I don’t remember exactly) of clear acrylic with all of the fossils that were recovered in that cubic yard displayed in place; and it appeared as if there were more bones than space between the bones.

And they are still actively excavating and studying…

I wonder what the Inuit and Scottish people talk about when they sit around and have coffee.

There is a pothole in the street by our house that could use the tar from the tar pits.

A designer could take the color patterns and make a complete line of summer dress/shirt colors

3 believes to start the day

Aye, and fer sure! The Devil’s Dandruff, it is!

Scots and Eskimos (Inuit?) should compare their varieties of snow to provide a definitive list of types.

I guess just using SNOW wasn’t good enough.

Ladybug larvae look like adult insects of an unrelated species. When humans see an enlarged picture of one, they typically don’t like it. It looks ugly; an insect they should be afraid of.

i’m Irish and feel the need to joke about Scotland — i’m surprised they have 421 words in total

And a corresponding number of gentlemen bugs.

Take care, may deposed Scottish tar sculptor Angus “Sticky Fingers” McGeeord be with you, and gesundheit.

And 400 of those Scottish words can’t be printed in a family column.

Given how far north Scotland is, you’d think they’d never wear kilts without underwear.

O would have suggested, There are more species of ladybugs than there are species of mammals.

I only see two types of ladybugs: with or without dots.

To use bad English is regrettable.

To use bad Scotch is unforgivable.

I believe that it would be more accurate to say that Scots Gaelic has 421 words for snow, unless we’re talking about words for snow in all the languages spoken in Scotland: Gaelic, English, etc. I wonder how many words there are for snow in all the languages spoken in the U.S. of A.

You can have a quasi-infinite number of “phrases for” something if you’re creative. This one I choose to NOT believe.

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