Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 30, 2022

Isn’t Humpty Dumpty originally a riddle?

From which Bakespeare Shilliam play introduced the name Jessica? The name in general sure has been popular for five centuries, hasn’t it?

Orange carrots have existed way before the 1600s, but some stories say that they became the dominant strain starting in the Netherlands in honour of “William the Orange”, the leader of the uprising which led to Dutch independence from Spain.

Check yesterday’s Cul de Sac for on-going argument about Humpty Dumpty…

What made H D so breakable then, if all the King’s men couldn’t put him back together again? Maybe he fell from a great height and broke all his bones on old-fashioned cobblestone pavement.

Did you hear Humpty Dumpty’s egg business posted record profits in Q3?

He had a great fall.

Dad joke to his daughter

Daughter: How do they know Humpty Dumpty was an egg? They never mention that in the story.

Dad: You wouldn’t understand sweety, it’s an inside yolk.

Daughter: You crack me up Dad

That’s enough.

I always thought it to be Henry 8th. Later in life he grew fat and couldnt ride ended up with gout and pressure sores

I’ll bet Humpty was an early pr0n star, going by that name.

Take care, may forgotten entertainer Scott “Well Yes They Were Purple But They Still Made Great Wigs” Thompsord be with you, and gesundheit.

The name Lorna from the book Lorna DooneNovel by R. D. Blackmore was invented by R. D. Blackmore and J.M Barrie invented the name Wendy fro his book Peter Pan.

We added heirloom carrots to our garden and although they are purple, they taste better. Same for the tomatoes, purple is better tasting.

According to sheknows.com,

“Jessica is a traditionally feminine name with Hebrew roots meaning “rich” or “God beholds” — it comes from the Hebrew “yiskah,” and variations include Iska, Jeska, Yessica, Jessika, Jess, Jessie and Jesse. Iscah was a daughter of Haran in the Bible’s Book of Genesis."

However, verywellfamily.com reports more fully:

“The first recorded instance of the name Jessica is in William Shakespeare’s play “The Merchant of Venice,” where Jessica is the daughter of the Jewish moneylender Shylock. It is believed that Shakespeare created this name by anglicizing the spelling of the biblical name Iscah, which means “vision” or “sight” in Hebrew."

I hate to ask this, but….doesn’t the Dumpty remind you of an American gangster?

Does that mean eggplants used to be orange?

The color of carrots was the subject of a clue on Jeopardy! quiz show. According to the clue, plant breeders made carrots orange to match the color of their political party.

The orange watermelons were the sweetest.

Humpty Dumpty did not have doctors who knew how to put him together again.

We have Lewis Carroll for putting the image of Humpty Dumpty as an egg in our heads. Perhaps, until then, everyone just knew it as a metaphor for the English sovereign.

I’m disappointed that the colorist kept these carrots orange.

Of course Humpty is an egg! Don’t you read the other cartoons here?

My wife still grows purple carrots in our garden. They taste like chi, ah, carrots.

He’s never described as an egg, nor does it ever say that he died when he fell.

It was a large cannon which fell from a fortress and was broken