Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 29, 2011
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Transcript:
Hello, Cockie! Some wild cockatoos and Australia use spoken word phrases that they learn from escaped pets that have joined their flocks. The elk did it! In 2009, Ingemar Westlund of Loftahammer, Sweden, was arrested as a murder suspect in the death of his wife- but police released him when it was discovered that she had been killed by a drunken elk! Carl Mize, a University of Oklahoma utility employee, has survived 6 different lightning strikes!
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@ Dberrymanal1 — (re: yesterday’s comments)
D’ja read my second comment yesterday? In my attempt to clarify, did I make it more confusing?
1. I’ve been reading Ripley’s BION since I was a kid. Although there might be the occasional chuckle, I certainly do not expect it to be consistently or even frequently funny. My mistake was to refer to the comics page as the “funnies”. Sorry.
2. Yesterday’s dog story was particularly disturbing to me, and I reacted by posting that comment, never dreaming that you and others would apparently take offense and become so condescending toward me. I understand that BION sometimes includes details that are sometimes gruesome, grotesque and/or gory, yet when it comes to man’s cruelty to other living creatures, it upsets me more than a story about, say, parasites boring into flesh or something along that vein that produces an “UGH”…then, “HUH!”…then one moves on. I am a life-long dog lover who really found that story upsetting. Take it or leave it. Believe it or not…………………