Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 30, 2021

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  about 3 years ago

    It’s World Series time, so jokes involving baseballs are timely.

    A housewife takes a lover during the day, while her husband is at work. Not aware that 9 year old son was hiding in the closet. Her husband came home unexpectedly, so she hid her lover in the closet. The boy now has company.

    Boy: ‟Dark in here.”.

    Man: ‟Yes it is.”.

    Boy: ‟I have a baseball.”.

    Man: ‟That’s nice.”.

    Boy: ‟Want to buy it?”.

    Man: ‟No, thanks.”.

    Boy: ‟That’s my dad outside.”.

    Man: ‟How much did you say the baseball was again?”.

    Boy: ‟$250.”

    In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the mom’s lover are in the closet together.

    Boy: ‟Dark in here.”.

    Man: ‟Yes, it is..”.

    Boy: ‟I have a baseball glove.”.

    Man: ‟That’s nice.”.

    Boy: ‟Want to buy it?”.

    Man: ‟No, thanks.”.

    Boy: ‟I think I just remembered something I needed to tell my dad.”.

    Man: ‟How much did you say the glove was again?”Boy: ‟$750.”.

    Man: ‟Fine.”.

    A few days later, the father says to the boy, ‟Grab your glove. Let’s go outside and toss the baseball!”.

    The boy says, ‟I can’t. I sold them.”.

    The father asks, ‟How much did you sell them for?”.

    The son says, ‟$1,000.”.

    The father says, ‟It’s terrible to overcharge your friends like that. That is way more than those two things cost. I’m going to take you to church and make you confess.”.

    They go to church and the father alerts the priest and makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and closes the door.

    The boy says, ‟Dark in here.”.

    The priest says, ‟Do not start that again!

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    monkeysky  about 3 years ago

    For more info on the Lombrives Cave experiment:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56875801

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    Caldonia  about 3 years ago

    The forecast calls for the biggest collars the world has seen in 40 or 50 years.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 3 years ago

    I saw horseshoe crab husks at the beach/shore near my older brother’s family’s New Jersey home when Dad and I visited them (brother’s family, not the crabs) last year.

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    PaulAbbott2  about 3 years ago

    Hopefully, the 15 volunteers didn’t bring baked beans for food

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    catmom1360  about 3 years ago

    Horseshoe crabs are vile looking creatures.

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    Bilan  about 3 years ago

    The crab fossil is 310 millions years old, but they think the only change occurred in the first 10 million years?

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 3 years ago

    And one of the dopier of the group of 40 sneaked in his gramma’s sundial.

    Take care, may famed shadow puppet performer Mortimer “Hands Are The Artisans of The Gods” Flipoffemallord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    artegal  about 3 years ago

    And when researchers went back to the volunteers, they discovered they had all killed and eaten each other.

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    tee929  about 3 years ago

    It would be interesting to hear how the group turned out after the 40 days and forty nights (hmmm….was this perverted version of Moses wandering the desert for 40 days and 40 nights?).

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    J. R. M.   about 3 years ago

    40 days seems such a symbolic number.

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    tremaine53  about 3 years ago

    The horseshoe crab’s brain is fine just the way it is. Why would it change?

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    viperfuel60  about 3 years ago

    So I guess the horseshoe crab’s brain proves that the theory of evolution is wrong.

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    Buckeye67  about 3 years ago

    The horseshoe crab brain is no big thing, I can think of a lot of people whose brains are in a similar state of development.

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    moondog42 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Are they sure they were in there for 40 days?

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    ekke  about 3 years ago

    In fact, that discovery proved that the very thought that horseshoe crabs are thinking has remained unchanged for more than 300 million years.

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