Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 29, 2021

The following is dedicated to my fellow O.F.W.T.J. Society member, Steve Silver. (Aside to himself: sorry, Steverino – I could only clobber your Jewish side this time. Your Italian heritage will have to wait…)

The first men land on Mars and get out of their space capsule. Then from around a big rock comes a ten foot tall green-skinned woman wearing a huge amount of gold jewelry. “Welcome to Mars, gentlemen,” she says.Taken aback, the astronaut’s leader says, “Wow — are all Martian women ten feet tall?”

“Well…some are a bit taller, some are a bit shorter. But I’m about average.”

“And your skin color,” the astronaut persists. “Are all Martian women green-skinned?”

“Well…some are lighter green, some are darker. Again, I’m about average.”

“And do they all wear so much gold jewelry?”

“Well…not the shiksas.”

The formatting is very readable today!

How many of those 2.16 billion cups of tea is that done in the good ol’ U.S. of A.?

Kami Rita laughs at those among us who are too busy drinking tea and throwing away textiles to get our butts up Everest!

Years before, Ripley’s published the story of two brothers who received most unusual prison sentences. One was sentenced to drink coffee each morning, and the other was sentenced to drink tea each morning. The coffee drinker died at age 83, the tea drinker at 86.

82 pounds of textiles? I get rid of maybe 5 pounds a year. I’m not responsible for anything I didn’t buy. The average American doesn’t own 82 pounds of textiles much less replace it all every year.

Textiles and a lot of other waste. Tons of it.

Take care, may renowned seer Elmer Fuddord be with you, and gesundheit.

Thanks for bringing back the readable font.

Average of Americans, not average American. What’s the mean? Another poorly worded statement.

How many cups are in a glass of tea? Here in Texas we drink iced tea…

Hooray! Believe it or not, they listened and made the text readable! Kudos!

Is Mount Everest really covered with p….?

Imagine waking up one peaceful and calm Sunday morning, and reading through your favorite comics, and finding out the hard way that you are below average. brb, gotta start chucking clothes in the garbage to catch up……

10 year apprenticeship!? That’s quite the commitment. Does it pay well? Oh yeah, you literally print your own money.

All those cups of tea are consumed by the ghost of Salvador Dali.

I hope this is the font and format RBION will be using in their daily posts also. I can actually read this without having to put on my cheaters!

Sadly, the 10-years are usually done at San Quentin…

That probably doesn’t include iced tea, which I drink daily.

10 years and you MIGHT NOT get the job?