Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 31, 2025

I’m halfway there—I can EXHALE through my butt.

“Youse guys want to go down the shore?” Sounds like South Philly to me!

Since the whole point of the IG Nobel price is to honor useless research, that is not really unbelievable.

An elderly Italian man living alone in New Jersey

wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, since the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:

Dear Vincent,

‘I am feeling pretty sad, because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I’m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my troubles would be over.. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.’

Love, Papa

A few days later he received a letter from his son.

Dear Pop,

‘Don’t dig up that garden. That’s where the bodies are buried.’

Love, Vinnie

At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.

Dear Pop,

‘Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That’s the best I could do under the circumstances.’

Love you,

I see… all those “studies” by “scientists” are from New Jersey then?.. Makes sense! There are too many of them, you have to keep them busy. :D

I doubt that pigs are among the mammals capable of butt breathing. Interesting illustration, nonetheless.

So that’s what they’re calling it now, “going down the shore?” Okay. Let’s have some wine first.

the biggler orange clown(POS)trump always speaks out his arce!!!??

Probably cause New Jersey’s really small.

What’s stranger than an animal breathing through their butt is humans getting hydrated through the anal orifice called proctoclysis. The enema that refreshes!

The whale said, “Got plankton?”

Whale SETI is off to a good start, but SETI at home closed down

The whale wished he were a goldfish

Reminds me of a NJ/lawyer joke: A lawyer in Washington, D.C., bought a fancy new car. He had some business in NYC so he thought he would drive up there in his new car. He got hungry in NJ so he stopped at a truck stop to eat. The only open seat was next to a trucker. He sat down, ordered, and then began bragging about lawyers in D.C. “Washington, D.C., has the most lawyers per capita than anywhere else in the nation!” he proudly exclaimed. The truck driver thought for a moment. “Well, NJ has the most toxic waste dumps per capita than anywhere else in the nation.” “What is that supposed to mean?” asked the lawyer. “NJ got first choice!”

Biden had given them $45,000,000 just to figure this out??

Well, that explains why NJ sees so many drones.

I tried to find out what the conversation was about, but apparently it was just call and response without regard to meaning.

They don’t actually breathe through their butts.

The scientists / researchers gave the mammals in question oxygen rich enemas (both fluid and gaseous), and found that the many tiny blood vessels near the surface of the gut will absorb oxygen.

One possible exploit of this fact is delivering oxygen to patients with respiratory failure…

A web search indicates “The Ig Nobel Prize is a satirical award that recognizes research that makes people laugh and then think.”

New Jersey? Wow, having lived there, I did not know Garbage Recycling, Waste Treatment, and Air Pollution Engineering was in so much demand.

(1.) That’s nothing. My old jersey has more staines than anywhere else in the world!

(2.) l’ve discovered some mammals talk through their butts on social media. (Present company excepted.)

(3.) Nonsense!

I know that whale. His name is Fred!

A web search indicates “The Ig Nobel Prize is a satirical award that recognizes research that makes people laugh and then think.”

New Jersey? Wow, having lived there, I did not know Garbage Recycling, Waste Treatment, and Air Pollution Engineering was in so much demand.