Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 20, 2021

Cats got more then nine lives!

Hernest Emingway One time I was 9 feet tall. One time I was 31 feet tall.

One time I was four months old. One time I was 201 miles tall.

Dolan Ne Leon One time I weighed 71 pounds. One time I did 185 Turkish get ups. One time I was two hours old.

May the Lord be with you.

Isn’t it obvious Dex took an Uber to visit friends?

Two cannibals were eating a stewed actor together. “It’s delicious,” said the wife. The husband replied “I know you hate my cooking, so stop pretending.”

Where is the Hemingway brother’s raft/nation now after 57 years?

I’ll take the cat topic today, but I’ll warn you in advance, it’s a groaner.

A man went to the doctor and told him:.

“Hey doc, every night I see this dream where a bunch of cats are playing football”.

The doctor replied, “hmm, this is weird”.

The man said: “Yeah, what should I do?”.

The doctor answered: “OK, you should skip sleeping tomorrow, and then come back to me”.

The man said: “Oh! tomorrow? I can’t, tomorrow is the final”.

I warned you. Until next time.

Leicester’s all, How can I seem crazier than my departed brother?

Ah, but did he catch a marlin on that raft?

Interesting. Yet again the Canadian entry lists the province and country, but not the town or city, and the American entry lists the town/city and state but ignores the country. There must be a conspiracy against Canadian town Names… Believe it or Not.

Nothing quite like forming your own island nation, even if it’s only 240 square feet.

It appears that Ernest missed out on the interesting name.

Take care, may bodybuilder turkey Gobble “I Do Long Distance Running On Thanksgiving” Gobblord be with you, and gesundheit.

I wonder how many of us Googled Turkish get-up to find out what it is.

Is it “Lester” or “Lie Chester”….?

For those not familiar (like me), this is a Turkish Get Up…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgd8n917Zv0

Ernest Hemingway’s brother, Leicester had notorious poor eyesight. He got F. Scott Fitzgerald drunk in Paris and boinked Zelda Gilroy (from “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”) rather than F. Scott’s wife. Actually, Leicester was one of the few people in Paris at the time who didn’t including Gertrude Stein. When Leicester tried to top himself with a shotgun, he missed. Twice. Believe It or Not!

The owners of Dex, a cat from Willamsport, Pennsylvania, who disappeared for three months and resurfaced 200 miles away in Fort Plain, New York, were quite surprised when they got a four figure Uber bill. Believe It of Not!

The question is not so much how many times Nolan De Leon of Manitoba, Canada, did Turkish Get-Ups with a 70-Pound Kettlebell in an hour but what in the Hell is a Turkish Get-Up much less a 70-Pound Kettlebell? Or why, for that matter, did he do it? Slow day at the office? Nothing good on TV? Dex the cat was a lot cooler, bro.

What kind of a name is Leicester?

Dex probably took a long nap in the back of a truck…

JUST SHUT UP!

There’s a “Homeward Bound” style movie behind whatever the hell happened to Dex

I often not sure about these lost pets. Notably cats. So many look a like, many identical to the eye. I once was out looking for a lost cat. Two subs over I thought i found him, when after I picked up the cat, some girl and her mother were after me to put their cat down. It did help looked like Morris, but that’s the point. Unless tagged or collared, I that these with grain of salt.

The original draft of the book was The Younger Brother and The Sea. It required a lot of rewriting.

Distant branch of the family were from outside of Williamsport PA. Mountain folk — the game warden allowed them to harvest venison all year around regardless of the season to feed their large family.

Rural roads there are twisty with sudden drops onto cliff edges with the only protection being a large billboard proclaiming: “Prepare to meet your maker!”.