Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 25, 2022

Here’s a Hawaiian language fact: Even though the language doesn’t have a ‘T", it does have a few words with a ’T’ in them – like Tutu (Grandmother).

I doubt Santa’s beard would ever get to be 100 foot long, as we lose hair every day of our lives. Before any hairs reached that length, they would have fallen out. Plus Santa would have died and his hair would have quit growing. So, I vote “Not”.

Merry Christmas to ALL and good wishes for a better year in 2023. Several of you who post here, I feel like we’ve became Friends in the sense of sharing a laugh and caring about what’s going on in each other’s lives as friends do. Steve and Chihal, I know you don’t celebrate Christmas but I send goodwill to you too. I hope Chihal returns soon and tones it down just a bit. I apologize to any I’ve offended this year and wish the best for you also. Duke, I wish the best for you too and I hope we can be civil with each other from now on. To ALL, let’s try to cut each other some slack even if we don’t care for what they have to say. After all we ARE allegedly adults. Just because you CAN insult someone doesn’t mean you SHOULD be a hateful Shrew. It endears you to no one, in fact it has quite the opposite effect! Peace to all who wish to be peaceful.

So all Santa has to do to bring presents is drop his long beard down the chimney, no fires please, and then elves slide down the beard and deliver the presents! If an elf gets caught, then he hides motionless in plain sight—- the Elf on the Shelf! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

My understanding used to be that the Santa Claus as we know him today first made a widespread appearance in Clement Clarke Moore’s poem, “A Visit from Saint Nicholas”, published in 1823, now known as “Twas the Night Before Christmas”.

In 1903, who had electricity plumbed to their home? And those millions that did surly had $2000 to light a tree

Spent years on Hawaiian soil long ago. Hickam AFB…. “Mele Kalikimaka”

All I want for Xmas

Me: I want to be a billionaire, just like my dad…

Girlfriend: oh so your dad is a billionaire?

Me: No, he wanted to be a billionaire too

Meri Kirihimete

And they pronounce my name (falsetto) SCHMOCK! SCHMOCK! ~ Steve Allen

Take care, may very short and unknown but eager Hawaiian surfer Muhlucka “Ice Cream Stick” Halp!ord be with you, and gesundheit.

Fröhliche Weihnachten.

Does hair keep growing indefinitely?

As an agnostic, I really don’t celebrate Christmas! However I do wish all my friends here on RBION a heartfelt Happy Holidays and good wishes to all for 2023!

my beard is 101 feet long

Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year to you all!

Rudolph was also created by Montgomery Ward…

After Rudolph, is the second longest Christmas special It’s a Wonderful Life?

didn’t “A Charlie Brown Christmas” come b4 1964?

Mrs Claus was invented as early as the 1870s. So Santa was a bachelor for 50 years or more before settling down

I will sure be glad when we are done with this weeks Global Warming!!!

Even with those letter substitutions, how do you go from the two-syllable “Christmas” to the five-syllable “kalikimaka”??

The “Christmas TV specials” are a thing of the past, unless you get them PPV. It’s really sad that the big wigs of TV, have gotten that money hungry.