Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 13, 2021

I don’t want Steve Silver to think I pick on him just because he’s part Jewish, part Italian. So no Jewish or Italian jokes tonight:

Two old Swedes, Abie and Guido, are lounging on the beach sipping piña coladas, when one asks the other, “Tell me, Abie – how did you come to be here on this beach?”

“Well, Guido,” Abie begins, “I had a business, and we were struggling to make ends meet. And then one night a fire burned it all down, and with the insurance settlement, I came here. What about you?”

“Well, Abie,” Guido, the old Swede, says. “I, too, had a struggling business. But one night a flood came and destroyed everything. The insurance company paid off, and here I am!”

Abie thinks about this for a minute, and then leans over and asks, sotto voce, “So tell me, Guido – how do you set a flood?”

“And when Lindbergh got into a fix, Felix reached into his bag of tricks.”

Hog hunt time.

I always wondered why Lindbergh didn’t have a front window in his plane?

I always wondered why Lindbergh’s plane didn’t have a front window?

How many cars would it take to match the emissions of one day ’s eruption of a volcano?

I wonder about Lindbergh. This is a guy who was a Nazi sympathizer, and met with high ranking Nazis. He promoted Nazi ideology. Is it possible HE arranged for his son to be kidnapped? Maybe not, but it IS a possibility.

And the invasive pigs run for office.

Take care, may successful lobbyist Phil Bullshord be with you, and gesundheit.

I’ve heard that we should stop raising cattle as their flatulence emits methane into the atmosphere. Now, we need to kill off wild pigs to keep them from disturbing the carbon stored in the ground. I suppose the same effect would occur with tilling the soil, too. So much for row crops in my garden.

Is that what French are calling it now, eh, thermal expansion? I call it vacation at the beach.

I have that same problem with my thermal underwear.

Mr. Lindbergh was mocking superstitious people.

Don’t tell that to ole Joe, after all he’s on a crusade to make us energy dependent and he and his conniving family rich!

I vote we set the peta people against the climate change people and see who wins – we could sell tickets to the researchers and other interested people and become billionaires and control the world!!!!!!! cue crazy histerical laughter

So, I guess, invasive wild dinosaurs caused the ice age! ;o}

Has anyone ever checked the political affiliations of Felix? I mean, if he’s palling around with Lindbergh, are we sure he’s not also a nazi sympathizer?

BTW My new avatar is my painting of a Blue Marlin being reeled in by a sport fisherman!

It would be interesting to compare the thermal expansion / contraction data of the world’s tallest man made structures.

Is that comparison about wild pigs and cars over the same amount of time for each?

Because Mickey Mouse’s “Plane Crazy” didn’t come out until the next year.

I’d sure like to know what “lucky” mascot Amelia Earhart took with her!

In the movie, Spirit of St. Louis, Jimmy Stewart never showed he had a Felix the Cat mascot.