Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 18, 2021

Time to pay tribute once again to gocomics’ best buddy, Old Thomas Bowdler…

A member of your least-favorite political party walks into a bar. There, sitting on a barstool, he sees a redneck drinking a beer, holding onto the lash of a huge, mean-looking alligator. “What are you doing with that alligator in here?” he demands to know.

“This-here is a specially trained ’gator. Watch this!” whereupon the redneck takes a blackjack out of his pocket and whacks the alligator hard right on its skull. The reptile immediately begins giving the redneck a backrub*. “Hey, do you want to try it?” he asks the party member.

“I don’t know – maybe,” is the response. “But do you have to hit me that hard?”

*of COURSE a backrub. What else?

I know of a community college that was built inside of a former mall with escalators; this ain’t that unbelievable. Also, if that’s Hades, the devil really ought to cover that up. It’s embarrassing.

Burlington High must have some pretty big, well-attended classrooms.

Hey, they got 50mpg on that hog. And only had to trade the van for it, strait up.

I saw a mall that was converted to apartments. The bottom floor still has restaurants, I believe.

Well, well, what’d ya knows.

… and dumbest

Genius idea for reuse in VT

Yes, many wells emit a smell.

Take care, may ignored hubcap collector Gene “Only Three Match But They Shine Up Real Good” McCoyord be with you, and gesundheit.

I’m not saying aliens dug the well, but…. lol

If they are insisting on using this new expanded unattractive font, could they at least make it a little bolder so it can be read?

Why are most of the Ripley’s BION’s so wordy with tiny words? I don’t like wordy toons; that’s why I stopped reading Sally.

I know right where that Macy’s/ high school is. My nephew once worked for that Macy’s.

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And the Robert F Kennedy community schools in Los Angeles are located in what was the Ambassador Hotel.

The same building where Robert Kennedy was assassinated during his presidential campaign in 1968

The Well of Hell: https://gulfnews.com/photos/news/danger-and-demons-yemens-mysterious-well-of-hell-1.1624362827042

Coventry High School, located in Akron, Ohio was previously a shopping/entertainment complex. When the high school purchased it, it came complete with a 40 lane bowling alley, outdoor swimming pool, restaurant, fitness center, disco and gaming arcade.

Why are they showing a trash can on the escalator? I looked at photos of actual and they look fine.

Go up the down staircase at Burlington High, and you’ll be late for class.

It’s Earth’s a** hol, hence the foul smell.

Does that text for the mini-bike say “35 mph”or “85?” If it is 85, then I don’t see a problem except it wouldn’t be allowed on a free way.

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not has been recently became harder for me to read. My bifocal close ℞ is out of date, but I also think something about the comic changed.

This new format, art and graphics, is reminiscent of the book versions I bought at the school book fairs in the 60’s. I it’s think better. The juries still out on the content though.

I’m disappointed at how little information there is on the well. Nobody describes the stench as anything more specific than “foul.”

Please restore the previous font, or do something to darken the lettering on the present one. It looks like ink on paper which got wet & diluted, then was dried in the sun.

With all of the high tech equipment available today, I find it hard to believe that the well bottom is yet to be found.

When I was little sounds sometimes seemed distorted. Example: I thought a first year student was a “Frenchman” . In kindergarten I thought this girl’s name was "Kaffy (Kathy).

i started high school in Providence RI (Classical) and the desks had graffiti from the Civil War carved into them just sayin’

The Earth is alive, I tell you! They’ve disovered the Earth’s butthole!