Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 06, 2023

One time I was 23 miles tall.

And Star Trek took its inspiration from China for the Ferengi.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

Funnily enough, to combine two of these facts, a human being long in the tooth also signifies a long life, so to speak

Arrokoth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth#/media/File:MU69_simulated_3D.gif

What was the Chinese ancients’ secret to getting long earlobes? Heavily weighted earrings?

And the high status Walrus says Goo goo goo joob.

John Lennon heard that students were spending time in class analyzing the meaning of Beatles lyrics. So, with his famous sense of humor, he deliberately wrote nonsense words for I Am the Walrus.

Some astronomers still believe there is a large Planet X lurking out in the Kuiper Belt, because of the way some of the Belt asteroid orbits are tilted.

Although now downgraded to a Dwarf Planet, at least we know Pluto has a “heart”.

So, size does matter.

“I am the long-tusked walrus. Goo goo ga choob.’

Due to the ivory poaching, tuskless elephants are evolving.

so Calvin and Hobbes did make a space trip?

“of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa…”

Where did they get the enormous carrot and top hat?

Info on Arrokoth – fascinating as Spock would say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth

I need a lobe enhancement

“Arrokoth is a contact binary 36 km (22 mi) long, composed of two planetesimals 21 and 15 km (13 and 9 mi) across, that are joined along their major axes. With an orbital period of about 298 years and a low orbital inclination and eccentricity, Arrokoth is classified as a cold classical Kuiper belt object.”

A snowman? Maybe I’ll believe it when I see a Hubble photo of it!

To paraphrase Mark Twain on clothes making the man, I offer:

“Of course tusks make the walrus. Short-tusked walruses get no respect!”

I’ve heard Arrokoth described more as a BB-8 lookalike, but I guess snowman is more universal than a Star Wars referene

What do you get if you have long and thick ear lobes? Elephantitis,

Well, Frosty did say that’s he come back again someday but he never mentioned that he’d be a Comet!

What a load of absolute bull $h1t about the snowman.