Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 27, 2023

St Elmo’s fire also occurs when the sun sets on a cloudless day, especially on an island.

St. Elmo’s fire—also called Witchfire or Witch’s Fire—is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn in an atmospheric electric field. It has also been observed on the leading edges of airplanes, as in the case of British Airways Flight 009. The intensity of the effect, a blue or violet glow around the object, often accompanied by a hissing or buzzing sound, is proportional to the strength of the electric field and therefore noticeable primarily during thunderstorms or volcanic eruptions. St. Elmo’s fire is named after St. Erasmus of Formia, the patron saint of sailors. The phenomenon, which can warn of an imminent lightning strike, was regarded by sailors with awe and sometimes considered to be a good omen.Wikipedia

They made it sound like the North Carolina farmer did all the work.

What, nobody’s gonna touch a 100 pound radish!

One in 500 isn’t that rare, considering the millions (billions?) of sheep giving birth worldwide.

Compare that with winning any type of lottery worldwide, and you’ll see how common that might be.

Babies having babies? Isn’t a lamb a juvenile sheep? A mature female sheep is an ewe.

They’ve made me a saint?! ~ Elmo

Gesundheit.

It makes sense to have made the Tin Man’s tears out of chocolate syrup rather than oil. After what happened to Buddy Ebsen, who was supposed to be the original Tin Man, I guess the producers decided to be a little more careful.

lambs don’t have lambs, ewes have lambs.

Chocolate syrup was also used for blood in black & white movies.

That radish would be the stuff of campfire monster stories in Wallace the Brave!

He’s got Hershey Squirts coming out his eyes!

Of all the vegetable I like, they would have to grow giant radishes which I hate.

So how does it take me where my future’s lying?

Ewes give birth to lambs, lambs don’t give birth

Hum. Nothing in this strip about my birthday.