Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 01, 2024

I do not believe the Detroit story. Couldn’t they substitute another type of paper for the certificates?

But do you know?

Worse than the Black Death

A doctor says grimly to a patient, “You are a very sick man. You’ve been diagnosed with covid, monkey pox, swine flu, Ebola, and bubonic plague all at the same time.”

“Is there anything that can be done to help me?” asks the patient.

“Amazingly, there is,” says the doctor. “First, we’ll put you in a private room where you’ll have everything you need to be as relaxed and comfortable as possible. Next, we’ll put you on a diet of pancakes and flounder.”

“Okay…” says the patient, “But why pancakes and flounder?”

“Because,” the doctor says, “That’s the only food we can slide under your door!”

Couldn’t they go paperless? Like the utility bills?

If anyone around in the 80’s know Brundlefly

Isn’t that where the word “quarantine” comes from? Funny they didn’t mention that.

Good, doesn’t make me feel bad about killing a fly in the kitchen yesterday.

I learned that fly fact from the remake of The Fly (1980s.)

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

So Believe It!

On this day in history, Nov 1, 1959

Montreal Canadiens’ goal tender Jacques Plante becomes first NHL net-minder to wear a fibreglass protective face mask.

The venom of many poisonous snakes actually breaks down organic material to help digest it’s prey.

Quarante in French = 40, thus “quarantine.”

Those cities made arriving ships anchor in a quarantine area until it was judged that they weren’t bringing in more disease.

I could have done without the housefly information.

Better to be safe than sorry re: refusing entry…remember,these were the “vaccines haven’t been rolled out yet” days…..

From waiting 40 days before entering we got quarantine

In French, forty = ‘quarante’; the suffice ‘aine’ ~ ‘span of’. Do ‘quarantaine’, is forty days. Stir in a little mispronunciation and you have quarantine’. We were lucky to have to quarantine for only two weeks (a ‘quatroze-aine’)!

I vomit up digestive enzymes too

That’s what “quarantine” means: 40 days.

Some restaurants I’ve been to must have flies working in the kitchen

Guessing the duration was biblically inspired.

We saw the way flies eat in the movie, “The Fly”, with Jeff Goldblum. Yuck!

IF I remember correctly, the word “quarantine” came from that 40 day isolation from docking. It originated from the word “quarantino,” the root word of “forty.” The original quarantine was 30 days, but, other European port cities enacted it, but extended it to 40 days.