Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 04, 2022

Hey, Ripsters! You may laugh at this one or you may not, but I guarantee you’ve never seen it on the pages of gocomics before. Here it is, presented without shame:

A farmer is sitting in his living room, reading the newspaper after a hard day tending to his crops. He looks up to see one of his chickens coming into the room. Before he could ask himself, as we all have, “What’s a chicken doing in my living room?” The chicken says, not “Bock” but “Book.” The farmer asks, “What did you say?” and the chicken repeats “Book.”

Well, the farmer, who has been reading some strange political fiction lately, as we all have, gives the chicken a book off his shelf. The chicken then exits, book in beak, and the farmer goes back to his own reading.

The next night, the same thing happens. The farmer is sitting and reading, and the chicken (probably the same chicken, but they all look alike) comes in and says, “Book book.” He gives the chicken two books this time, but when it leaves his living room he follows it, curious.

The chicken gets to the edge of the pond and, with a mighty strain on its neck and beak, throws the first book, them the second, into the middle of the pond, where a giant frog sits on a lilly pad. As the books come in, the frog looks at them as says, in turn, “Reddit! …Reddit!”

Nine years later, how’s that man with ninety-two quadrillion doing now? Hope he wasn’t like the prodigal son who spent all of it frivolously.

He could have divided it out to every person in the United States. We would all have over $250 billion. That should certainly solve the poverty problem.

I do hope that’s an English roundabout with everyone driving on the left side.

A lot of interest in roundabouts.

A drunk man driving is stopped by a police officer.

The drunk man says, "officer take this but don’t take my car " and hands the police officer 100 dollars.

After some minutes again the same guy finds another policeman, and same thing again, 100 bucks and he lets him go.

2 minutes driving and again police control, 100 bucks and good to go.

Then again another police control stops him, the drunk man goes “how the heck are there so many police controls today” and the police officer tells him “lets do one thing man. Gimme 1000 bucks and I let you know the way out of the roundabout”.

My wife asked why I was whispering.

I told her that Mark Zuckerberg might be listening.

Then she laughed, and Siri laughed, and Alexa laughed.

It’s a lot more difficult to run one. Unless you’re into flying in your car.

Chris Squire of YES reincarnated as a roundabout traffic sign, forever singing “Future Times / Rejoice” from the 1978 “Tormato” album ? Unbelievable, until I saw it here.

Roundabouts have fewer accidents because everybody does their best to avoid them.

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Take care, may baseball great Dizzy “Contrary To Rumor My Brother Daffy Never Scooted Across A Pond Shouting ‘Woo-Hoo Hoo-Hoo’ That Was A Duck” Deanord be with you, and gesundheit.

More than a little irony in the Zuckerberg item. The man that gleefully (and profitably) sucks your privacy spends $30M made off of your loss of privacy to ensure his own!

I found a great motivational sign and hung it outside my office door. It says " I am the boss and no other shall speak for me"Returning from lunch I found a message slip on my desk. It said," your wife called, and she wants her poster back!"

i always go round a roundabout at least twice

Paypal/eBay – they’re related.

You have got to love Ebay.

I sold my homing pigeons 4 times this month.

A long one in 2 parts

How the Internet started according to the bible.

In ancient Israel it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy. And Dot Com was a comely woman, large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.

And she said unto Abraham, her husband, “Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?”

And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, “How, dear?”

And Dot replied, “I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah’s Pony Stable (UPS).”

Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.

To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures – Hebrew to the People (HTTP).

And the young men did take to Dot Com’s trading as doth the horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS. And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates’ drum heads and drumsticks (Continued)

And Dot did say, “Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others.” And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or eBay as it came to be known. He said, “We need a name that reflects what we are.”

And Dot replied, “Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators.” “YAHOO,” said Abraham. And because it was Dot’s idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.

Abraham’s cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot’s drums to locate things around the countryside.

It soon became known as God’s Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).

That is how it all began. And that’s the truth.

You can’t make this stuff up!

Whew! Until next time.

VERY good. Thanks

Round-abouts – and yet my mother still managed to get hit by someone while circling!

Did any else notice they are driving on the left. The illustrator must ot be from the USA

I HATE roundabouts!! If they’re going to build them, then they need to TEACH about them in driver’s ed. The key operative word for them is “WATCH OUT!”

Who would want him for a neighbor anyway?

Jug Handles – go past your road and make a right to make a left.

That Zuckerberg one is not so unusual. After having a Burglary Ring operating out of the house on one side of us, and a murder in the house on the other side of us, my father bought both houses, as well as two others on one of the sides and became a Landlord…

Roundabouts work great!

I remember driving in New Zealand. 1) “Wrong” side of the road, and 2) roundabouts. I learned some new vocabulary.

Mythbusters once did a setup where they tested which was more efficient at moving traffic: stop signs or roundabouts. Roundabouts won. Slightly.

But, here in the US where people aren’t familiar with roundabouts, they have to put in roundabouts with stop signs to prevent us from killing each other. Sorta puts the buzzkill on that efficiency thing. Roundabouts here might well be safer, because everyone begins totally slow down (as in, almost stop) due to the stress, and pay attention because nobody knows WHAT the other drivers might do.

To me, it’s all the worry and hassle of doing a freeway on-ramp merge, only conveniently transferred to my local everyday surface streets, multiple times on my commute.

Sad the actions some people are willing to perform against other people, but not wanting other people to perform against them. Such people are seriously ill. Otherwise, they are simply malicious.

That wasn’t an accident. It was a joke by MYCROFT.

Zuck’s fortune comes from encouraging users to voluntarily surrender their own privacy, yet he wants total control over his own? Welcome to the Ironic [Hypocritical?] NIMBY Awards! : )

So a European picture, from the way the cars appear to be moving.

The traffic circle near us has to have signs telling the truck drivers not to take the first exit – go all the way around (yes, it has the ruts still showing that necessitated the signs).

Mythbusters did a show on roundabouts, but clearly didn’t test at the one near me. I’ll call the four entrances 1, 2, 3, 4, (going anticlockwise). In morning rush hour, almost all traffic is 1 and 2 (with a few oddballs like me using 3, and almost nobody using 4).

Evening rush hour is mainly 4 and 2 or 3. #1 can be stuck for quite awhile without one car being able to get through for several minutes at a time. #4 has trouble, but not as long a wait.

Depends on the time of day and where you are coming from as to how much time it takes.

They finished the conversion from an all-way stop to a round about just AFTER the lockdown had started. So it’s hard to compare pre-covid and now.

Last item: 2 &3 are about 2 blocks distance from the big street; 1 & 4 are a couple miles to any main streets, with no small streets of any kind allowing you to get around the around about.

roundabout= a playground ride that involves sitting or standing on a circular surface while others push said object on its base pole to spin at ridiculous speed until the riders are a. suffering vertigo and b. tossing up the lunch just eaten in the cafeteria. The nuisance illustrated in today’s Ripley’s Believe It or Not is a traffic circle.

They DO slow people down !!!!!

I amone of many who have lost money through PayPal. Now I know why.