Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 17, 2014

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 10 years ago

    O.K., what does a pregnant polar bear smell like anyway? And I thought only snakes, not polar bears, weren’t present in Ireland due to Saint Patricius.

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    Sidhekin  over 10 years ago

    That looks inkorrect.

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    juicebruce  over 10 years ago

    SOoooo that is why dogs like to smell butts !

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    Fred Kuechenmeister  over 10 years ago

    Believe the “correct” miss-spelling is “OLL KORRECT” a fad that swept the country for a few years… also think there are a number of other sources for “OK”, including a rail yard worker who checked boxcar bearings and chalked his initials over each wheel “OK”

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    Simon_Jester  over 10 years ago

    Another one of Snoopy’s fantasies?

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    dr_dolittle_rwc  over 10 years ago

    OK dehn, dat sowng karek!

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    Guilty Bystander  over 10 years ago

    I guess it’s safer for zookeepers to send the beagle in than administering the EPT test themselves.

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    louieglutz  over 10 years ago

    you can tell they’re irish, they turn green in zoos.

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member over 10 years ago

    “Oll Korrect” was one of a whole collection of silly misspellings that were popular for a while, just like “I can haz cheezburger” or “ketteh” or “teh”, today. Martin van Buren, known as “Old Kinderhook” is the reason “OK” is remembered while the rest are forgotten.

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    tuslog64  over 10 years ago

    And the bear ate the dog?

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    Eric Provencher  over 10 years ago

    Ripley’s once mentionned that “OK” came from the “0 Killed” mentions on battle reports during the civil war.

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    GeorgeJohnson  over 10 years ago

    Why not just call it “AC”? Or “acee”?Seems kinda silly to do that.

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  over 10 years ago

    The polar bear fossil found at Kew Bridge in London (the Irish bear) is only 70,000 years old, while a 100,000 year old polar bear fossil was found in the Arctic north of Norway. In any case, polar bears descended from the brown bear, which seems to have come from Eurasia.

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    Kali39  over 10 years ago

    I read somewhere that “OK” started with Andrew Jackson, then they jokingly added a footnote to the effect that Jackson may not have been able to spell worth a darn, but even he knew not to spell “All Correct” as “Oll Korrect”! :-)

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   over 10 years ago

    O.K. is a pair of initials with a multitude of uses — not to mention a number of different explanations of how it came to be. An upcoming anniversary is the occasion for Mo Rocca to investigate:Time for a little word history, OK? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/time-for-a-little-word-history-ok/

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    rqs1123  over 10 years ago

    CBS did a thing on this expression and say that it is Martin Van Buren who coined the phrase. Find it hard to believe that both of you are correct.

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