Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 18, 2022

I had absolutely no idea that was true about meerkats. I don’t think I ever would have even guessed them if I tried to think of the most internally hostile mammal

Can one really envision a Japanese car called as a Koromo?

Toyota was named after the founder Kiichiro Toyoda, but renamed either because it’s improper in Japan to name a company after a person or because the word ‘Toyota’ was easier to write (it depends who you believe).

Which has more kills of their own species, Humans or Meerkats?

My niece married a Scottish guy 6 years ago—a classic Scotsman, like Graham McTavish, with a big beard, and his male wedding guests wore all kilts. Now they are divorced.

At least Timon never did that, at least not on screen.

Two guys meet at the store.

Two guys, one old, one young, are pushing their carts around the grocery store when they collide. The old guy says to the young guy,“Sorry about that. I’m looking for my wife,and I guess I wasn’t paying attention to where I was going.”

The young guy says, “That’s OK, it’s a coincidence. I’m looking for my wife, too…I can’t find her and I’m getting a little desperate.”

The old guy says, “Well,maybe I can help you find her…what does she look like?”

The young guy says,“Well, she is 27 yrs. old, tall, with red hair, blue eyes, is buxom wearing no bra, long legs, and is wearing short shorts. What does your wife look like?’’

To which the old guy says, “Doesn’t matter,- let’s look for yours.”

Meerkats are a lot like people.

Their tomb was found and then left to the tulips. ~ Tiny Tim, still tip-toeing

Take care, may eschewed pacifist meerkat Pleep “I Have My Principles And My Food Stash And My Mother Jones Subscription So I’m A Happy Camper” Floopord be with you, and gesundheit.

It’s not surprising to rename a place after the biggest employers. Johnson City, NY used to be called Lestershire, but was renamed in honor of the George F. Johnson, head of the Endicott Johnson shoe company. And nearby Endwell, NY was named after a line of shoes made by the company called the “Endwell.”

How many places are named after a shoe, and why has Ripley’s never done that?

Vague statement about meerkats. Are they more likely to kill their own than to kill other kinds of animals or to be killed by their own kind than to be killed by other animals.

Does that make my 5-year-old nephew “one of the 2%”?

Humans are, by far, the mammal most likely to kill their own kind.

I hate to tell you but Meerkats have nothing on humans when it comes to killing their own…

I thought that green was the rarest hair color.

Meerkats are almost human.

Around 2% of the world’s population has no soul.

How do they know Mark Anthony and Cleopatra were buried in the same tomb?

There are about three times that percentage of redheads in north and northwest Europe.

So, that’s another thing meercats have in common with human beings.

For all we know, Marc Antony and Cleopatra are STILL alive somewhere, plotting their revenge against Augustus Caesar

The Meerkat factoid is wrong. Humans are, by far, the animal kingdom’s champions at killing their own kind.

After climate change, the current apex animal species may be gone also.

Toyota wasn’t the first town to change it’s name for commercial reasons.

On March 31, 1950 the town of Hot Springs, New Mexico, Changed it’s name to “Truth or Consequences” because radio emcee Ralph Edwards offered to broadcast his game show’s 10th anniversary show from the first town that changed their name to the name of his show

Too many sad tales in burn units. Let’s try a tall tale:

A big city New York lawyer went duck hunting in rural Texas. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s field on the other side of a fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing.The litigator responded, “I shot a duck and it fell in this field, and now I’m going into retrieve it.”The old farmer replied. “This is my property, and you are not coming over here.”The indignant lawyer said, “I am one of the best trial attorneys in the U.S. and, if you don’t let me get that duck, I’ll sue you and take everything you own.”The old farmer smiled and said, “Apparently, you don’t know how we do things in Texas. We settle small disagreements like this with the Texas Three Kick Rule.”The lawyer asked, “What is the Texas Three Kick Rule?”The farmer replied, “Well, first I kick you three times and then you kick me three times, and so on, back and forth, until someone gives up.”The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom.The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the city feller. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy work boot into the lawyer’s shin and dropped him to his knees. His second kick landed square on the man’s nose. The barrister was flat on his belly when the farmer’s third kick to a kidney nearly caused him to give up.The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet and said, “Okay, you old coot, now it’s my turn!”The old farmer smiled and said, “Naw, I give up. You can have the duck.”

I don’t think that they will ever find Cleopatra’s or Mark Antony’s tombs because of their popularity with the Egyptians. Rome was good at squashing any uprising in their conquered domains and would see to it that there was no shrine to an idolized rebel.

Today is the 60th anniversary of Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol—my favorite version of all the Christmas Carols. Kind of dumb wraparound backstage scenes with Magoo, but when they get into the play itself, it’s wonderful! Music by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, the creators of Funny Girl. I’m celebrating right now watching it on my old VHS copy.

Gaston and Patrice Boudreaux we’re driving down a country road when they spotted an old tree on the side of the road.

Patrice ask Gaston, “You remember dat tree”

Gaston replied that he sure did “Dat’s where we Made Love da first time.”

Patrice ask if he wanted to relive the moment?

Why sure, come on!

They went at it like they were teenagers.

When they were finished Gaston looked at Patrice and said,

“WHOOO WEEE BEBE, for trudy years we been married and you never had no moves like dat.

Tell me cher, where you learned dem moves."

Patrice said, “Will you see, da last time we were here, dar weren’t no electric fence.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/28/495798448/what-meerkat-murder-tells-us-about-human-violence#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20finds%20meerkats%20are%20the%20most%20murderous%20mammals.,-Frank%20Bienewald%2FLightRocket&text=A%20new%20study%20of%20violent,one%20of%20its%20own%20kind

So humans are violent compared to most mammals, peaceful compared to most primates, but that has varied over time.

Of course, considering what the bulk of meerkat murder is – then to be fair they’d need to include abortion in humans – similar purpose.

I have two naturally red-headed ex-sisters-in-law. (Still friends with both). They were both from the southern U.S., so I wonder if there were a lot of Irish, English and Scottish immigrants who settled there.

This is because very few meerkats manage to kill rhinos!

My mom had red hair but it wasn’t passed to me or my sister.