Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 20, 2023

Elris Chliott

One time I was named after the Cyrillic alphabet.

Reckon “Sue” was taken.

I feel sorry for the child. Such a ridiculous dad.

I’ve known about Tokyo and Kyoto being anagrams ever since fourth grade.

I’d like to go to Japan someday.

Thanks for NOTHING Dad! 724 words is not a book it’s a pamphlet and that is one pamphlet I won’t open.

Wyrd oft nereð unfægne eorl, þonne his ellen deah.

I wish I was back in Kyoto. Xmas Eve with a bucket of KFC. The quintessential Japanese Xmas.

Except one means East Capitol and one means Capitol City.

The Tokyo bit is kinda silly.

I sense a patricide in the Force.

“340 unrepeated words starting with ‘M’ and separated by no more than three syllables” sounds like the kind of baseball stat that gets thrown out once in awhile that you have to wonder how much time the person coming up with those numbers has on their hands

On related news, an anagram for Donald John Trump is “Hand Pound Mr Jolt”

Actually, were Master Zuzu really named after the English alphabet, his name would be “Alphabet Zuzu.”

But this does have the advantage of being impossible to pronounce. Good job, Dad!

And let’s not even get started on Oto, Kentucky!

I wonder if there is someone named Alpha Omega somewhere

I’ve heard of some hipsters naming their kids “Abcde” (pronounced Ab-sid-ee) just so they can say there’s another name in the alphabet besides “Stu,” but this guy took it to the next level.

and in japanese 東京 and 京都 are only partially similar… ☺

kyoto means “capital city” and tokyo “eastern capital”…

In crossword puzzles, the former capital of Japan was Edo.