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

Many of the people that haven’t left the state in which they were born are probably children.

I’m of the other 89% of Americans who has left the state of their birth; I was born and still am raised in Washington. No, that doesn’t just include only my missionary service of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to New Mexico; my father, mother, older brother, and I have been on a road trip to some of the other states in the summer of 1998 and we’ve been to Hawaii in 2001 and we have extended family in Utah, Iowa, and (mostly) Arizona. So I reckon I’ve been to 75% of the country.

Wasn’t basketball invented in Canada?

That’s be what you’d call a crisp Washington

I am guessing that most of those eleven percent American homebodies probably reside, ironically, in what we politically call “swing states”.

That’s exactly why they had Wake’s back in the day. Don’t rush it.

There are lot’s of people who have never left a one mile radius where they live, particularly in large cities.

Here’s one for the road.

TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father’s cherry tree, but he also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why he his father didn’t punish him?

LOUIE: Because George still had the axe in his hand.

For now.

Here you go Steve. If you can’t beat them , join them in a timely tale!

A couple was invited to a swanky costume party. The Mrs. got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone.He being a devoted husband protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need for his good time being spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went.The wife, after sleeping soundly for about an hour, awakened without pain and, as it was still early, decided to go the party.Since her husband did not know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him. She joined the party and soon spotted her husband cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice-looking woman he could, and copping a little kiss here and there. His wife sidled up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself, he left his current partner high and dry and devoted his time to the new babe that had just arrived. She let him go as far as he wished, naturally, since he was her husband. Finally, he whispered a little proposition in her ear, and she agreed. So off they went to one of the cars and had a really great time. Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away, went home, put the costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make for his behavior. She was sitting up reading when he came in, and she asked what kind of a time he had. He said: ‘Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you’re not there.’ ‘Did you dance much?’’I’ll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and some other guys and we went into the den and played poker all evening. … … But you’re not going to believe what happened to the guy I loaned my costume to…."

I lived in a western province where some neighbours never left their neighbourhood!

At what age did they poll those Americans? The younger the more likely they have yet to leave the state where they were born.

Take care, may giddy crypt kicker Boris “It Was A Graveyard Smash” Pickord be with you, and gesundheit.

I’ve never left the state of confusion.

I really thought that “%” sign was actually 1196.

Fogwhistle’s Believe It or Not.

A work of art entitled “New York City I” by Piet Mondrian has hung upside down for 75 years. After recently discovering the error, the museum that owns it decided to leave it displayed that way for fear it might disintegrate if it was turned and displayed correctly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63423811

And Massachusetts’s politicians invented “Dropped the Ball” …

I haven’t left the house I was born in!

George Washington might have lived longer if they wouldn’t have kept bleeding him. They might have removed as much as five pints of blood. The bleeding was apparently done with Washington’s approval.

Guessing that the percentage for Rhode Island is considerably smaller than 11%. Visited once using a map where the scale said one inch WAS one inch!

catalepsy. Premature burial. Scared the crap out of me as a child.

The very reason for the Three Day Waiting Period tradition. Partly the reason for another tradition; sitting up with the dead until burial.

I left the state I was born in Ohio, left when I was 6 months old (Army Brat) and never visited it until I was 36 years old (to visit Aunt & Uncle who moved there from Florida??? Who does that?). I’ve lived in 4 States and have been to 5 countries, courtesy of the USAF. So, where does that put me in the percentile?