Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 12, 2024

Good for you Brad Pitt!

I wish Brad Pitt was my neighbor.

I have known six people in my life that were born in December including myself. Three have already passed. One at the age of 63, one at the age of 73 and the other at the age of 89.

I am less worried about how long I live than being healthy to the end. I don’t want to have a long debilitating illness before I die. After I pass I want to be that person that people say they saw me last week and it looked like I was doing just fine.

We recruited a graduate engineer from UC Berkeley. He lived in China during Moa’s “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” and had to leave his Chinese college and work on a farm. Somehow he got to UCB. At Berkeley he rented a room at a very wealthy lady’s home. She got ill, moved to a rest home and said if he took care of her cat he could live rent free. All during his studying for his master’s degree he lived in a mansion. Needless to say, he had no interest in returning to China.

Something ‘s missing here. If the “neighbor” lives in his 39M mansion, he’s not his neighbor… anymore. Besides, the neighbor of a 39M mansion most likely lives in a multimillion masion too. Not the kind of person in need of free rent. I wonder what’s going on there?

Kudos to Mr. Pitt for that act of generosity

Till Brad caught him topping A.J.!

The neighbor originally lived on the edge of Pitt’s estate property. There was something like 22 houses. Every time one came up for sale, he bought one. One of the properties belonged to an elderly man in his early nineties, so Pitt made a deal that allowed him to stay in their home.

Wowee!!

People born on February 29th don’t age very fast, BION!

… Then Jim Arrington broke his leg.

I suspect Jim Arrington can make an annual thing of this. At least for a while.

I was born in December, so here’s hoping…

Dang – last week of November here. Missed it by that much!

Mom, born December 19th, was close. She died two weeks short of her 97th birthday.

I can’t tell whether those are pecs or manboobs on Mr. Arrington and am afraid to google to find out… Wonder whether he needed steroids to put that kind of muscle on?

Jack La Lanne and Charles Atlas looked terrific in their old age

My ex and my current wife were both born in December.