Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 07, 2022

Tonight’s story is about a clever underclassman at a prestigious University:

The young man approached the Professor’s desk as said educator was starting to read and grade the immense stack of term papers on his desk.“Here’s my paper, Sir,” said the student. “I’m sorry, young man. That paper was due yesterday, and I do NOT accept late submissions.”“Well, excuse ME, Sir,” the student said, haughtily. “Do you know who I am?”“No, I do not,” replied the prof.

“Good!” the student answered gleefully, as he stuck his paper into the middle of the stack and beat a hasty retreat.

Why would it be hard to believe that the Wright brothers flipped a coin?

How do you know that the pig sniffed a truffle & not something else? Do they point at it like a birddog pointer?

How can the pigs sniff truffles three feet underground when they can’t even breath down there?

How many procrastinators does it take to change a lightbulb?

I’ll tell you later.

So male trilobite beetles are all pedophiles?

I try to be topical and fortunately there are a lot of funny pig jokes to choose from.

A city gentleman is going for a drive in the country. He passes a farm field, where he sees a lone pig rooting around, and upon second glance, this pig has a wooden leg. He drives up the driveway and finds the farmer repairing his tractor in front of the barn. He asks the farmer about the pig.

“That’s a very good pig, that”, says the farmer. “He saved my son from a pack of wolves. He saved my wife from drowning in the river. He chased off thieves that were trying to steal my cows. Great pig.”

“Right”, said the gentleman, “but why does it have a wooden leg?”

The farmer replies “Oh the wooden leg. Well, a pig that good – you don’t eat it all at once.”

Until next time.

Let’s toss a coin to see who Wilbur the first airborne? Oh, I rville, (w)right?

As usual, an incomplete factoid missing the most important part. Who was first? The winner or the loser? :D

Big deal, I can sniff truffles from clear across town. Dark chocolate truffles, of course.

Take care, may staid bowler hat salesman Lliam “Stunning, I Dare Say Gorgeous On You And It Fully Completes Your Ensemble Well” Bullshord be with you, and gesundheit.

“Heads! I win! You fly the damned thing, Orville.”

Dec 17, 1903 Wilbur was the first to attempt flight off the coin toss. His attempt failed, so Orville adjusted the plane and became the first man to sustain flight – for 12 seconds and 120 feet. Four flights were done on the first day, with both brothers flying the craft.

That first flight from takeoff to landing could fit inside the cabin of a 747

And the winner of the coin toss got to watch as the loser potentially plummeted to his death.

Best 2 out of 3 and loser tries the plane first.

I honestly thought trilobites were long extinct.

A squirrel can smell a walnut under snow and frozen ground. How do I know? One fall I buried some walnuts hoping to get a crop of trees in the Spring. None of them came up, and when I went to check them, there was only a Very small and neatly dug hole. Believe It or Not.

I have never seen one of these beetles, and I hope I never do!

Female Trilobite Beetle – Article with video and images: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/rare-weird-insect-trilobite-beetle