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

Circumstances forced me to take last night off, but I did read this page. And Steve Silver’s joke reminded me of the following, which I humbly (well, as humble as I can get) offer up:

Several nubile young ladies are skinnydipping in Farmer Brown’s pond when the farmer himself shows up, bucket in hand.

“Go away, you dirty old man!” one of the young ladies screams. “You think you’re going to get an eyeful, but we’re staying right here with the water up to our necks until you go away!”

“Oh, don’t worry, girls,” replies Brown, holding up the bucket. “I’m not here to stare at you. I just came down to feed the alligators.”

I wonder who tested that fingernail piercing claim.

Why does the spider in the picture look like he has 12 legs, including the front set?

Having body piercing fangs is enough of a yuck factor, you don’t need to add the extra limbs.

Am I the only one who read about the spider & wrapped their fingers around their thumbs & felt a shiver? Yosemite Sam hated Rabbits but I HATES Spiders!

Spiders are popular on e again, so I’ll try this one out.

A husband and wife are sitting on the couch watching TV. The wife looks at the husband and finds him staring at the ceiling above her head.

She looks up and asks “What are you staring at?”

“A spider,” he replies.

“I don’t see anything.”

“Oh, it must have fallen on your head,” he says calmly.

The wife jumps up screaming.

The man says, “While you’re up, you mind getting me another beer?"

Until next time.

Two cannibals were dining on a stewed mummy. “I don’t think this is good for us,” said the wife. “Too many preservatives.”

That’s a romantic gift. After all, the original Taj Mahal was made specifically to hold the tomb of a dead wife!

Wait a second here the REPTILE park is the host to the giant fingernail piercing spider?. I would not classify a spider as a reptile, but given how dangerous the fauna is down there I’m assuming the spider decided that it was a reptile and no one was willing to argue with it.

Ain’t the Tajmahal a MAUSOLEUM ? What kind of message was he trying to send to his wife?

That Indian Businessman is quite a guy to have built the Taj scale model instead of hiring people.

Aaand the millennials are now flocking to Australia to get their nails pierced.

Take care, may hospitalized spider whisperer Agnes “We Were Getting Along Fine Until I Went Out With Jiminy” McCreedord be with you, and gesundheit.

80,000 socks may be good publicity, but not much else.

But after they put the socks through the washer and dryer, there was only one left.

so who volunteered to find out if the spider could pierce a fingernail? OR did the ‘researchers’ just “say”

Who’s the poor bastard who figured out the spider could pierce human fingernails?

Also, I wonder how many toes had to be amputated due to frostbite while those folks were patting themselves on the back by building that line of socks.

If the megaspider can do that, then I wonder if it can give me manicures and pedicures whenever I need my fingernails and my toenails to be cut.

That line of socks would have been more impressive if they were tied end to end

Ripley’s should identify the person whose fingernail was pierced, if that person’s surviving family permits it.

Now were the socks hung in pairs or singularly?

So the backstory of the Aussie spider handler who couldn’t move their hands out of the way fast enough must be a hoot!

“…and so that’s why Sheila hea is missing a finga!”

I hope the Chouksey Taj Mahal wasn’t like the one Willy Wonka made, of chocolate…

Most spiders aren’t a threat to humans because they are unable to position their fangs so they can bite us.

The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum. It was built by order of a Mughal Emperor to house the tomb of his wife, and his tomb when his time came.

“Hey honey, I love you so much, I built you a mausoleum to live in!”

Every so often I’ll look for an intelligent comment here. Little hope from the pathetic old men who gather here pretending to be actual friends and actually witty.

Those Fresno mission volunteers must have a lot of free time…

Here’s an article with photos of the mini-taj: https://nypost.com/2021/11/30/devoted-husband-builds-mini-replica-of-taj-mahal-for-wife/

Better than a visit from the Brazilian Wandering Spider, which actually can cause an erection that lasts for hours. You are surely going to make a visit yourself, straight to the hospital, but fortunately there is a treatment. This spider belongs to the genus Phoneutria, which means “murderess” in Greek, how appropriate.