Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 31, 2022

I’m not out of personal anecdotes, but I’ll intersperse them with other source material. And it so happens I have a dear friend who is also a retired ophthalmologist. The following is one of his all-time favorite jokes:

A professor is addressing his biology class one afternoon, and asks a question: “Which human organ, when appropriately stimulated, grow to ten times its original size?”

A young lady in the front row is shocked. “Sir, you have no right to ask us a filthy question like that!” she fumes.

“Young lady,” the professor begins, “The correct answer is ‘the iris.’ And your response tells me three things about you: One, you didn’t read the assignment. Two, you have a dirty mind. And three, you’re going to be VERY disappointed someday.”

Sorry, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show. My go-to Halloween movie would either be Ernest Scare Stupid, Hocus Pocus or The Nightmare Before Christmas as those are family-friendly.

Movie themed facts, today. Interesting choice from De Niro, since I would argue that some of the most intense scenes of the film are events which do not actually represent the typical life of a taxi driver.

There was a cry room at my local church, too.

I remember ‘Crying Rooms’. Last time I saw one, though, was probably right around 1959 or 1960.

Come to think of it I guess we are overdue for another Time Warp. jump to the left, step to the right.

Take care, may deceased Crying Orchestra Conductor Arthur “It’s All In There Whether You Admit It Or Not” Janovord be with you, and gesundheit.

Many churches also have "cry rooms " of the same description for the same purpose.

I remember my old home town theater in Cincinnati that had that “quiet” room in the back. It was a good idea then, and it’s a good idea now. They should have them in churches.

My brother and I had to leave the Meadows Theater in Queens during the Wizard of Oz because our little sister started crying when the witch came on screen.

It was the late 90’s, for $5 I got a bag with a water pistol, some cards, a lighter and a piece of toasted bread. Below the screen two young female college coeds in their underwear acted out scenes as Brad and Janet with props. It was WAY better than Oliver Twist…

Too bad they didn’t still have the crying rooms back in the ‘80s when Beaches and Terms of Endearment Came out.

And in the back seat of De Niro’s taxi was a man with a garrote……

Has JohnShirley1 seen the image that RBION inserted for the Rocky Horror paragraph? It kinda puts a kink in his argument, Don’t you think? Some might even say it blows it out of the water.

I didn’t see Rocky Horror at a theater, but I did hear about something similar happening when “Woodstock” was playing at a local theater. I wasn’t there, but a group of friends went to it, high on LSD. They, along with others, thought they were actually there, and acted as such. Must have been pretty wild… ☺

The church I went to growing up had a speaker in the nursery to hear the service.

Was De Niro any famous by then? If he was, I guess he couldn’t perform as an average cab driver, with patrons asking him for autographs and asking him about his career.

Airplanes need a cry room.

I remember the cry rooms.

A church we used to attend had cry-rooms in the back of the sanctuary.

They were helpful but if the tantrum was loud enough the sounds could carry.

I hope the cry room still had audio pumped in.

I remember the Cry Rooms—that’s how old I am. (I was never in one, however.)

Continuous screenings where?

they should still have those room in theaters

Mrs. Fogwhistle and I successfully made our trip to Houston today, so this joke is a little late.

A woman and her 13 year old son were inside a Taxi. It was raining and all the twilight girls (Prostitutes) were standing by the roadside.

The Boy asked; “Mummy, what are all those women doing?

His Mother replied; “They are waiting for their husbands to come back from work.”

The Taxi driver turned around and said; “Why don’t you tell him the truth?. Little boy, they are prostitutes, they sleep with men for money" said the Driver.

The Boy’s eyes got wide and asked; “Mummy is that true?”

His mother, glaring hard at the driver replied; “Yes!!”

After a few minutes, the boy asked; “Mummy, what happens to the babies those women have?”

She replied; “Most of them become Taxi drivers.

Moral of the Story -

Silence is Golden

Another taxi joke.

An old lady gets into a Mercedes-Benz taxi cab as she’s just arrived to town to visit family. As she hops in, the driver asks her where she’s going, and she gives him an address.

They keep going for a bit, when the old lady notices the very characteristic Mercedes-Benz ornament emblem mounted on the hood.

“So what is that thing for?” she asks the driver.

The driver sees this as a chance to prank the old woman for some laughs.

“That’s a sight that I had installed so I can take better aim at my targets” he answers.

“What do you mean by targets?” she asks.

“Well, you see that cyclist over there cycling along the road? Well I hate those cyclists so I’m going to run over him!”

As the woman gasps, he proceeds to accelerate and drive directly towards the unaware cyclist, but in the last moment he turns the wheel to dodge the cyclist. However, there’s a loud sound that surprises the driver.

“What was that sound??” he asks.

“Well, you can say whatever you want about that fancy sight of yours” says the old woman, but if I hadn’t opened the car door, we wouldn’t have hit that freakin’ cyclist!"

A man returning home a day early from a business trip got into a taxi at the airport. It was after midnight.

While en route to his home, he asked the cabby if he would be a witness. The man suspected his wife was having an affair and he intended to catch her in the act. For 100 dollars, the cabby agreed.

Quietly arriving at the house, the husband and cabby tiptoed into the bedroom. The husband switched on the lights, yanked the blanket back and there was his wife in bed with another man. The husband put a gun to the naked man’s head.

The wife shouted, “Don’t do it! This man has been very generous! I lied when I told you I inherited money. He paid for the Corvette I bought for you. He paid for our new cabin cruiser. He paid for our house at the lake. He paid for our country club membership, and he even pays the monthly dues!”

Shaking his head from side-to-side the husband slowly lowered the gun. He looked over at the cab driver and said, “What would you do?”

The cabby said, “I’d cover his heiny up with that blanket before he catches a cold.”

Until next time.

I can remember going to see RHPS in the theater when it first came out at my sister’s college.