Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 02, 2025

Wait – recycled diapers? At some point the baby poo would have to be cleaned off of said diapers. So isn’t this just a reusable poop rag with extra steps?

I would be more concerned about hot drinks when somebody honks a horn.

I had a hula hoop in 1958.

Is it me, or does that Hula Hoop kid look like Chuckie Finster from Rugrats?

Many years ago my then 10 year old daughter read the outside of a pack of toilet rolls where it stated that they were made from re-cycled paper. “Ugh” she said, “I’m not using this, it’s been used before”.

Hula Hoops were made by a company called Wham-O, who also manufactured the Frisbee in 1957.

No wonder Alvin wanted a hula hoop for Christmas.

Don’t get me started on car horns. One of my biggest pet hates. They’re no longer used for their original intention. It’s become a swearing device towards other road users and pedestrians and it seems most motorists would rather use it rather than hit the brake. If anything, when motorists see someone crossing the road, they increase their speed and still relish the horn.

It’s also used as a greeting device but more annoyingly as a remote controlled doorbell. Rather than get off their a$$, motorists prefer to stay in their cars and inform the whole street they’ve arrived and also announce they’re leaving.

…so don’t get me started on car horns…

(Medication time!)

Little Rock does seem like an appropriate and likely location wherein honkies would ruin good food.

Of course, Japan is also the country where each and every cracker is wrapped into five layers of plastic plus an extra silica gel pouch oO they NEED to recycle to handle the tons of trash they produce every day…

Our neighborhood gas station gave away a hulla-hoop with a fill up in 1958.

For kids!

Or is it instead illegal to honk a car horn after 9PM where cold drinks or sandwiches are served?

The Hula-hoop popularity fore told the addictive nature of personal phones.

Honk away to boiling hot drinks

I learned that our city had had a hula-hoop contest that I’d missed. The winner kept it going for just over 6 hours so just to see how I would have done I hulahooped for 8 hours. No prize for me.

I worked in a Korean Defense building in Seoul when I was stationed in Korea. They used toilet paper that resembled crepe paper. When that ran out, they used newspapers. We carried our own U.S.-made TP when getting the job done.

I was 7 years old! Wow how many can say that? Other feats also? Pres Kennedy? The Beetles on Ed Sullivan? Woodstock? Man on the moon? Challenger which I saw blow up in the sky? 9-11?

I hope they cleaned the diapers first.

I was pregnant so didn’t get one. My kids later had a few.

Marisa Tomei uses a hula hoop as part of her fitness routine. Pass on the diaper TP, a bidet works best imo.

how would you know, in Little Rock? do they have signs posted? “cold drinks and sandwiches served here after 9pm…no honking!!”

I think the horn honking law is more for the benefit of people living nearby.

There was a small factory in our neighborhood that manufactured plastic tubing like that used for Hoola-Hoops in many colors. They decided to give lengths of the tubing away to anyone that showed up. Everyone in the neighborhood had free knock-off Hoola-Hoops.

As I recall I wouldn’t get a hula hoop until the price went down.

SORRY!

kinda busy today and didn’t catch when those people with all that great power decided my post did not merit space here!

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I misread the first panel as “hork” and was expecting a vomit fact…

A little bacteria was celebrating his birthday…

and all of his microbial friends got together to bake him a cake.

He was so excited upon seeing the cake that he underwent mitosis and split in two.

His microbial friends all worried that now there wasn’t enough cake, and that perhaps they should have planned better…

But actually the bacterial birthday boys, it turned out, were very happy ~ ~ ~

this was the first time they got to halve their cake, and eat in two.