Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 29, 2022

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    eromlig  over 2 years ago

    I personally belong to the Waffoes, as in “waffoe you wanna jump out of a perfectly good airplane?” However, many of you probably have different philosophies. To you, I dedicate the following:

    A man decides he wants to go skydiving, so he finds an instructor, gets a parachute, and goes up in the airplane. At the appointed time, he jumps, counts to ten as instructed, and pulls the ripcord…and nothing happens. He then pulls the cord for the drogue chute with the same result. He’s in full-blown panic as he rapidly descends.

    However, as he looks down, he sees a man rapidly coming UP. As they pass each other, the would-be parachutist calls out, “Do you know anything about skydiving?”

    “No,” the other man answers. “Do you know anything about Coleman stoves?”

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    David_the_CAD  over 2 years ago

    Snake – No I am not giving them a ride, they are my dinner.

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    therese_callahan2002  over 2 years ago

    What about the little white duck?

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    A Common 'tator  over 2 years ago

    Hee hee… I DO know which country Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris is in… Lol…

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    theincrediblebulk  over 2 years ago

    Ok so the snake made sure he had a ready food supply until the water recedes. What’s so unbelievable about an animal planning ahead? just because most humans can’t do it, doesn’t make it unusual.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 2 years ago

    Riders on the snake.. riders on the snake.. into this house we bake.. and then we’ve got to rake.. riders on the snake.. ~ Jim Morrison, Australian Tour

    Take care, may hard working screeching grave digger Todd “They’d Better Not Dig This Up In The Name Of Archeology Or Whatever” Dirtord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    yangeldf  over 2 years ago

    ha, take THAT fable of the frog and the scorpion! Or is it in the Snakes nature to act as a life raft for its own prey?

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    mindjob  over 2 years ago

    Did only 6 pole bearers lift that lead sarcophagus, and was that guy radioactive?

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    198.23.5.11  over 2 years ago

    Joke I heard Eddie Murphy tell in standup,before he went “All Hollywood” on us.

    He was driving a car,and Stevie Wonder was a passenger in the back seat.

    Wonder was bragging on and on about what a great “Ladies’ Man” he was,and how he could have any girl he wanted.

    After a while,Murphy turns around and says—“You REALLY want to impress me,Stevie?”—-Take The Wheel!"

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    FassEddie  over 2 years ago

    I wrote a Silver-eske preamble but threw it out in order to those in this, my take on the trials people from South America face to get here and assimilate. The Dodgers play on land that was taken from Hispanic American land owners in a perfect (and typical) setup.

    A young Mexican man named Jose was curious about America, so he snuck across the border. He wanted to go see a baseball game, so when he went home, he could tell his family all about it. When he got there, the game was sold out, so he decided to climb to the top of a flag pole to get a better look. When he returned home, his family was anxious to hear about his experience:

    “What happened?” asked his family.

    “Well, America is the nicest place in the world!! Before the game started, all the people in the stands and all the players stood up, looked at me and said, “Jose, can you see?”

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    WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Caption about snake mentions A beetle. I’m seeing two. (Don’t you love pedantic posts?)

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    moondog42 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Who knew that keys in the 14th century had their own religious order such that they buried a key in a lead sarcophagus in Paris?

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    John Premium Member over 2 years ago

    The eastern Brown snake in the strip is --Green???

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    1967Falcon  over 2 years ago

    $1.75 would be about $22.56 in 2022 dollars – I think MLB tickets are way higher than that, sadly.

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 2 years ago

    I didn’t know Australia ever got floods.

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    Phil721  over 2 years ago

    world’s 2nd most venomous land snake. main diet ; mice. responsible for 60% of Australian human snake bite deaths

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    chain gang charlie  over 2 years ago

    All those vermin on the snakes back are just like the scumbag politicians riding on Trump"s butt hoping to get re-elected, and keep their free medical and retirement benefits for life…..

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    donut reply  over 2 years ago

    Due to come on Believe it or Not, who’s inside the sarcophagus.

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