Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 05, 2021

The largest eyes of all are those of the colossal squid, about the size of a medium watermelon

Another true story tonight:

My wife’s company used to send her out of state occasionally. The first time this happened, early on in our relationship, I decided to send flowers to her place of work. So I went to a florist shop. After choosing the display I wanted to send, I went to the cashier to pay and and give the address where they should be sent. “How do you want the card signed?” she asked.

Thinking to keep a bit of spice in the nascent relationship, I said, “Just leave it blank.”

She got angry at that; her jaw tightened. “Sir,” she intoned, “We do NOT send out flowers without some sort of signature; not from THIS shop. I need at least your first name. WHAT IS YOUR NAME?”

Well, I could see I was defeated on that issue, so I said, “OK – my name is Anon.” (I made it rhyme with “cannon.”)

“Anon?” she repeated. “I’ve never heard of that name. How do you spell it?”

“A, N, O, N,” I told her. She gave me a slight nod of superiority – I couldn’t beat HER - and wrote it down.

My wife still has the card.

Technically, so is Antarctica…..

If it weren’t for those studs on top nor those tubes below, LEGO bricks stacked an top of one another would topple over.

Ripley, you fool, I have no problem believing any of this stuff. I want more unbelievable stuff next time…believe it or not.

And there are many people who believe that Africa is a country.

A single 2×2 Lego can (in the dark) make a full grown man scream like a girl when stepped upon.

Has anyone ever stacked 375,000 LEGO 2.17 miles high?

The estimated life span of a $1 bill may be 6.6 years, but have not yet had one die while it was in my possession.

A $100 dollar bill doesn’t last that long for me.

So did someone actually stack that many Legos to find that out?

Bigger than, say, a cow’s eyes?

Strong, sure, but did they have to make them so sharp?

And many who live there are incontinent. G’day, mayt.

Take care, may famed cartographer Marcito Polito Enrico Mapord be with you, and gesundheit.

New Zealand is part of the continent of Australia, but the country of Australia does not include the country of New Zealand, so I think it just so happens that the continent of Austalia is larger than the country of Australia, a case in which the country and the continent are two different things, but they just happen to have the same name. I think if the namers had thought this through hundreds of years ago, they would have given the continent a different name, like the modern name for the region of Australia, NZ, Tazmania, and Papua New Guinea, which is Oceana. It is never too late to fix this mistake. A better BION would be, “The countries that are in the continent of Australia are ….”

…not the way I spend them.

So produce more of the longer lasting $100 bills and take on dollar bills in trade in, one for one. Here’s the two ones I have.

Meanwhile, a dollar COIN will last 30 years (or more).

One more thing The State of Hawaii is not on the American Continent

The life span of a $100 bill was just a matter of hours until my divorce came through.

Believe it or not: I’m finding this hard to believe that somebody had to submit the part about Australia when it was something we were taught in elementary schools. I hope you were taught that when you were in school. Or some part of your education process. I understand why it is in the comics as it is part of the comic.

There is a project “Where’s George? Where does a dollar go?” where people put the URL of the website on paper money, go there, enter the serial number, and then spend the money. People receiving the money notice the mark, go there, enter the serial number to track where the bills were before they received them, and where they went after they spent them.

There is no such thing as a “Lego”, LEGO is the name of the company, not the product. It is a 2×2 LEGO brick.

That probably helps explain why it hurts like the dickens when you step on a lego barefoot.

I think those $100 bill numbers are off. they aren’t replaced as often because so many other countries are pouring counterfeits into the economy.

That’s because my wife only allows me to carry ones; she’s never even shown me what a hundred looks like!

i’d like to see a photograph of the 375,000 single legos stacked one on another to make sure it did reach 2.17 miles…i think those numbers are way off

Try using a $100 bill to buy $12 worth of stuff in a mom-and-pop store (I’m not talking about convince store franchises). Likely they can’t change it.

Speaking of Australia…that drawing looks like an Emu, not an Ostrich…

An ostrich’s eyes are bigger than an elephants?

Octopus. Blue whale. Don’t think Ripley is right on this