Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 12, 2023

In Spanish sometimes it’s “peanut cream”.

As much as I work in a store, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed the blast of air upon entering.

Dutch: pindakaas.

It would be nice if Mr. J Shrilly felt a blast of cold air every time he tried to land here on his six feet.

So the Scorpion King was really the Snickers King.

For NoName..

Firefox Win 10 here.

To carry over, as I am doing with dawn this week… (For right handers) Hold the left button down while tracing out the content you want to copy. Once it is all blue, right click and then left click on “Copy”. To plant the copied material on the same page or another page, like when comics turn, right click and then left click “Paste” and your copied material will thus be planted. Make sure the cursor is blinking where you wish to drop content to.

This feature is useful when Replying to a Comment that has a long run of Comments below it. After such a long run it helps to copy the original post you are responding to, in whole or in part, so that people get what you are referencing to.

An air curtain does keep some flying bugs out, but that is not its real purpose. “An air curtain, also known as an air door, is a machine that blows a controlled stream of air across an opening to the other side to create an air seal. This seal separates different environments while allowing a smooth, uninterrupted flow of traffic and unobstructed vision through the opening.”

Anybody out there in gocomicland seeing me?

Dwayne must not be very good at math. He still hasn’t paid for the stolen candy bars.

So… he stole a number of bars years ago, leaving a negative balance, and “compensated” it by doing a zero balance transaction. Nice!

Well it messes up my hair! ~ Gladys Finklestein, now you listen to me! I know my rights and I’ve been shopping here for 40 years! Turn that thing off now!

Take care, may Gus “The Other Rock The One In The Yard When You Mow Just Big Enough To Shoot Out And Break The Side Window On Your Neighbor’s Car Which Should NOT Be Parked Their Anyway But He’s An Entitled Jerk” Beerswillord be with you, and gesundheit.

Rock took something without paying for it when he was 14.

Now he paid for something without taking it.

Store owner is not obligated to ‘give’ his stock away, so he can sell it if he wants to.

Rock’s debt is paid.

I am going to date myself here. Who else remembers open front 7-Eleven stores. At least in Florida they had them. I am not sure about the North.

That blast of air is called an Air Curtain.

Dwayne Johnson “makes up” for his theft by buying? The correct way to have made up for what he did was to pay for what he stole.

Buying the candy bars in the store still didn’t compensate the owners for the ones he stole.

Telephone equipment offices also have “Positive Pressure” in order to keep dust out.

For you folks ragging on The Rock, for not actually compensating the store owner for the candy he stole many years before:

The current owner is probably not the same owner from Dwayne’s past, so he wouldn’t be compensating the right person, so his “gesture” is a good one, I think. (Although he gets lots of good press for it… ☺)

BELIEVE IT OR NOT—-Nobody has yet figured out what the lyrics to “Louie,Louie” mean

Mr. Johnson is to be commended. However, it would’ve been more accurate to write them a check. The profits from buying additional candy bars doesn’t make up for the cost of those which were stolen.

Decades ago, I was at a baseball game in a stadium with a fabric dome. Fans had to blow air into the stadium, to increase the interior pressure enough to support the dome. When the game was over, people exiting caused air to rush out of the stadium through the doors. The fans were designed to be able to blow enough air to keep the pressure high enough when all the doors were open.

So, unlike Jimmy Buffett, The Rock really DID pay the mini mart back… :)

The air blast is also, or more so, to disrupt incoming air pressure that can blow windows out of the building due to the inside/outside pressure differential.

Snickers not only satisfies, but also leaves you laughing.

Whose the imposter? The Rock has a shaved head…

One for today :-…. At a London university, students in the psychology program were attending their first lecture on emotional extremes.

“Just to establish some parameters,” said the professor to a student from Glasgow, “what is the opposite of joy?” “Sadness,” said the student. “And the opposite of depression?” he asked of a young lady from Liverpool. “Elation,” she said. “And you sir,” he said to a young man from Dublin, “what about the opposite of woe?”

Paddy thought for a while then replied, “Sir, I believe that would be ‘giddy up’ .”

Birdman out.

If you like the peanut butter/peanut cheese (pindakaas) bit, you might enjoy knowing that Dutch word “eekhorn” (pronounced acorn) actually refers to the squirrel, and the word for a vacuum (stofzuiger) literally means “dirt sucker”. My favorite is the word “stinkdier”(pronounced stink deer) and means skunk.

Those fans are actually called, “Fly-Fans”.

Cheesy nuts?

Okay rippers…here are my musings of the day.. Just a couple since it late and they’re likely repeats from someone from days gone by…1. If you’re too open minded, your brains will fall out.2. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.3. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.I should quit while I’m ahead… More tomorrow… Maybe… C’ya

Does the air-rug match the air-curtain?