Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 27, 2022

how many calories do we burn spinning the scrolling wheel?

Jewel probably replaces hers more often.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

Similar to the mouse, how many button presses would it take on an NES controller or on a Game Boy to burn one calorie?

Calves (cows) also drop at least 3’, might help them to start breathing

For digital exercise then, go back to the time when your fingers did the walking in the Yellow Pages.

Accordingly, then, I’ve burned way more than 1 calorie … mostly thanks to click-bait! LOL!!

Here’s about one kind of mouse:

“I don’t think it’s a mouse because it doesn’t have a tail. I think it’s a hamster.”

“Sigh… Fine… right-click the hamster.”

A giraffe walks into a bar and orders a beer.The bartender says “you want a longneck?”

The giraffe says “you mean I have a choice?”

Why don’t you ever see elephants hiding in trees?

Because they’re really good at it.

Why do elephants paint their marbles red?

So they can hide in cherry trees.

What is the loudest sound in the jungle?

Giraffes eating cherries.

Until next time.

“But what about these old tattoos?” ~ Phoebe McBrainiac, Don’t Think Things Through Much But Having Great Conversation

Take care, may newborn giraffe Ploppy “Hey Long Necks Aren’t Just For Beer” Missedlegdayord be with you, and gesundheit.

you mean i’ve already burned 2 calories today?

Poor mouse.

Captain Obvious strikes again! Nobody was contending that the way to get good cardio is to use your computer mouse!

Baby G said: “Yay, do it again!”

Does it take longer the more skin you have?

Is there a time of month when you are literally thin skinned?

Clicking that same mouse far fewer times can give carpal tunnel. Or RSI. I’ve got both. I stopped using a mouse four years ago and it’s better.

10 million times for one calorie, I guess I better rethink my exercise program.

The head of the giraffe only drops a few inches and the front legs are just barely touching the ground. Look at minute 1:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ZGDK-uQAs

Believe it or not…today is my birthday. I’m 73. :-)

If my skin continually replaces itself every month… why does it keep using old parts?

There are two uses of the word “calorie”: The one chemists used to use, and the one used in nutrition, diet, athletics, etc. The 2nd one is sometimes called a “kilocalorie” — it’s 1000 of the first one. The 2nd one is sometimes spelled with a capital c, i.e. “Calorie” to distinguish it from the first. The 2nd one is sometimes abbreviated “k-cal”.

How many calories can teenagers burn using thumbs to text.

Ten million clicks for one calorie is misleading even if true. You’re not just a disembodied finger doing all that clicking, you’re a complete person, and the rest of your body is burning all the calories needed to support life. Assuming you could keep up a sustained rate of 5 clicks per second, and I think you’d get cramps in your finger, hand and forearm if you tried, that’s 300 clicks per minute. Times 60 is 18,000 clicks per hour, times 24 is 432,000 clicks per day (assuming you remain at the mouse pad constantly) which translates into a little over 2.3 days at the theoretical minimum. Multiply that by your daily caloric burn rate, say 2,000 calories a day, and you’re looking at 4,600 calories burned doing a million clicks, but factor in your need to sleep and perform the other maintenance requirements of a living being, and you’re looking at perhaps 7,000 or 8,000 calories. Believe It Or Not.

Did anyone else read the giraffe’s bib in Moira’s voice from Schitts Creek? “Bébé’s first fall!”

Boudreaux and Thibodeaux went to Fontenot’s house.

When they pull into his yard they see Fontenot out in the yard looking up at an old oak tree.

Hey Fontenot, Whatch doin’?

I’m tryin’ to see how tall dis tree is, so’s I can figure out how much lumber I can get out of it.

Bourdeaux says, “Well, why don’t you jus cut da tree down and measure it dat way?”

Fontenot says, “Man you jus as dumb as you was yesterday.”

“I want to see how tall it is, not how long it is.”

BION: The baby giraffe uses the placenta as a parachute.

A human adult can have about 8 pounds of skin. It’s our largest organ. Sorry, Ripley’s, but only the top layer of skin is shed and relaced in a month’s time.