Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 17, 2020

Apparently “eating utensils” got a little lost in translation.

As much as I live near Oregon, Id like to know who was it that came up with that river’s name and why so.

If that short, doesn’t that mean it then doesn’t go anywhere, so should be called a pond or small lake?

Spring break at Mumbai Institute of Technology is very, very wild.

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RIDDLE

How is an actor who accidentally leaves both his hairpieces in the make-up trailer different from someone who thinks exemt and unkemt disprove the above statement about dreamt ?

ANSWER

The first forgot toupees and the second forgot two p’s.

CODA

There’s another obvious pun here, but don’t expect me to spell it out.

Watch out, Pastis.

With a river that small, you would think someone could come up with a more clever name for it than “D River”.

There are a lot of “D” rivers Italy but they are all long.

It has been claimt that that is not correct about dreamt.

Hey we need a spoon over here.

Dude from India: I’ll see if I can cough it up.

What? No socks?

Take care and gesundheit.

Gee. I never would have dreamt that dreamt was the only word to end “mt”. That’s something that I’ve always left undreamt …. oh!

How about promt?

On this day in history on August 17th 1999 A 7.4-magnitude earthquake near Izmit, Turkey kills over 17,000 and injures nearly 45,000.

Gotta remember that mt for scrabble.

In regards to the man from India: HOW???!!! Not even why, just how?

That’s the worst case of Pica I’ve ever seen!

Mini D River, not to be confused with Minnie Driver.

Dreamt is a spelling I never use. Isn’t is more British?

At least he got his moneys worth out of surgery.

And he was still chewing on the kitchen sink.

I can understand the screwdrivers, toothbrushes and spoons, but a kitchen knife?

As river go, I’ve heard of D Nile.

Like the ‘p’ in swimming, silent, but also invisible.

Dummy could’ve just swallowed a Swiss army knife and had room for dessert…

is it a coincidence that after the 13th item he was taken in?

Hide the silver and tools! Harry’s coming for tea.

What about “emt” as in contains nothing?