Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 12, 2025

Nobody asked T.S. Eliot why he wore the green makeup?

I’ve searched and searched but nowhere could I find what the ‘T’ and ‘S’ stood for.

After several hours, my wife could see my utter frustration.

She muttered, “It’s probably Top Secret.”

Many people don’t know this but T.S. Eliot was the inspiration for the Grinch.

four is 4 letters long

The green makeup was to give an appearance of having a nice tan before the advent of color TV.

I thought Elaine ate that.

He was a Vulcan?

It’s a little bit like metamerism with the hummingbird.

Changing color depending on angle is called “iridescence”.

Did Elaine eat that piece of cake, too?

Green makeup and Green stage lights make you look dead.

I bet anybody would choke on a slice of that cake. Water, water!

Maybe he wore green makeup to help hide his blushes. Makeup artists use green powder to cover up pimples and rosacea. We all know how concerned he was with how people saw him. It would make sense.

Hummingbirds feathers act as diffraction gratings, reflecting different colors of light at different angles.

Perhaps the green makeup was due to some color blindness.

Let them eat cake, but not before they go bankrupt.

how did the cake taste?

Yet “Fourteen letters long” isn’t fourteen letters long….it’s nineteen….

Just found out this afternoon that J. J. Watts ’ first name is Justin.

He probably died and no one noticed.

Thomas Stearns Elliot might have had a reddish complexion and used too much green concealer. (red and green cancel each other out.)

Not a centenarian, but getting old!

I went to my nearby Pharmacy, straight to the back, where the Pharmacists’ high counter is located.

I took out my little brown bottle, along with a teaspoon, and set them up on the counter.

The Pharmacist came over, smiled, and asked if he could help me.

I said, “Yes! Could you please taste this for me?

Seeing a senior citizen, the Pharmacist went along with my request.

He took the spoon, put a tiny bit of the liquid on it, put it on his tongue and swilled it around.

Then, with a stomach-churning look on his face, he spat it out on the floor and began coughing.

When he was finally finished, I looked him right in the eye and asked: “Now, does that taste sweet to you?"

The Pharmacist, shaking his head back and forth with a venomous look in his eyes yelled: “HELL NO!!!”

I said, _"Oh, thank God! That’s a real relief! My doctor told me to have a Pharmacist test my urine for sugar!"

I’m not allowed to go back to that Pharmacy, but I really don’t care, because they aren’t very friendly there anymore!

Was t he cake still good?