Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 30, 2020

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 4 years ago

    So what does it mean to floccinaucinihilipilfy?

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 4 years ago

    What we have here is hyperpolysyllabisesquipedalianism.

    Hopefully no one here suffers from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Prototaxites walks into a bar, orders a beer.

    Bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve mysterious Silurian/Devonian organisms here.”

    Prototaxites says, “Why not? I’m a fungi!”

    Bartender says, “Maybe, maybe not. Recent research suggests algal components in your structure which would make you a symbiont, possibly a lichen.”

    Termite says, “Hey! Is the bar tender?”

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    Ammo hates the comment policy  Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Bud was a wonder Pit Bull a great Dog watched over his human riders

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    boniface22  over 4 years ago

    That word gives me Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

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    whahoppened  over 4 years ago

    I know where there are more letters than that. It’s called a post office.

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    J Short  over 4 years ago

    Quick, Google the Goggle dog.

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    e.groves  over 4 years ago

    Smiles is the longest word in the dictionary. There’s a mile between the esses.

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    bookworm0812  over 4 years ago

    I thought for sure “antidisestablishmentarianism” was longer. But that word has it beat by one letter! And when you’re saying something happened between X and Y number of years ago, aren’t you supposed to say the lesser number first? I don’t know if that’s a rule, but it doesn’t sound right the other way.

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    poppacapsmokeblower  over 4 years ago

    What if prototaxites as fungi were not really tall, but were visually hallucinogenic to fool predators.

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    The Pro from Dover  over 4 years ago

    -weiser

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    UmmeMoosa  over 4 years ago

    Ism floccinaucinihilipilificationing you.What do you know? That word actually comes up in auto correct so you don’t have to spell the whole thing.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 4 years ago

    Plenty of fungi now days, too. Pick a political party. There’s your fungi.

    Take care and gesundheit.

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    comixbomix  over 4 years ago

    And 350 to 420 million years later, Antitaxites began dominating American politics…

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    J. R. M.   over 4 years ago

    Procrastination is the thief of time… and so are most other big words.

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    hsawlrae  over 4 years ago

    I didn’t know that trees have periods.

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    Thorby  over 4 years ago

    I haven’t seen that word since the last time I read Robert Heinlein’s “The Puppet Masters”!

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    dv1093  over 4 years ago

    I wonder if the doggie followed Route 66? Or maybe the Oregon Trail?

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    dmagoon202ii  over 4 years ago

    REAL trees didn’t exist then.

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    Bilan  over 4 years ago

    Ergo, Bud set the first world record for hanging out the side of a car. Does he still hold it?

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    yangeldf  over 4 years ago

    Was that cross country drive so the guy driving could watch the Wright Brothers plane? I remember reading a biography about them and it mentioned someone drove across several states to witness their flying machine, which in itself was an accomplishment at the time since cars were still considered horseless carriages.

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    craigwestlake  over 4 years ago

    Big deal, Thousands of people go cross country with a Bud in their hands…

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    finnygirl Premium Member over 4 years ago

    The road trip story as explained in this article is really quite entertaining (and proof of some people’s determination!) https://www.history.com/news/the-first-great-american-road-trip

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