Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 22, 2022

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    monkeysky  over 2 years ago

    I can’t say I’m impressed by ShlOms’s work, considering they themselves make and sell NFTs. I’m fully capable of calling out the faults of crypto-culture through the comparatively low-impact medium of GoComics comments, and without compromising my own artistic integrity by asking anyone to pay for or “own” them.

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    eromlig  over 2 years ago

    My wife calls me a “weird magnet” because weird things keep happening to me, and, while perhaps not all that weird, I hereby relate another True Story:

    Like everyone, I get my share of spam. And now I get much MORE than my share, because when I recently received an email with the subject “Throbbing coOk” (does it really fool the algorithms to use a capital letter in the middle of a word – or use incorrect spellings?) I knew what they were driving at. But with that line – Throbbing coOk – I couldn’t resist; I just had to respond. So I wrote “My chauffeur has palsy. Does that count?”

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    monkeysky  over 2 years ago

    As impressive as that galaxy is, does anyone else think 160x seems like a sort of small difference on a cosmic scale? I feel like it’s like comparing a walnut and a grain of sand in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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    Bilan  over 2 years ago

    Obviously the Pikachu collector thought he gotta catch ’em all.

    That artist has a problem with greed himself if he thinks he needs to waste $300,000 just to make a silly statement.

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    A Common 'tator  over 2 years ago

    Does anyone know the name of the monument depicted in the English storms factoid ?

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    therese_callahan2002  over 2 years ago

    Another thing that’s wider than the Milky Way is a 3 Musketeers.

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    Flynn White Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Son: “… how do you get to that galaxy, Dad?”

    Dad: “Son, you planet.”

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 2 years ago

    Yes but is it wider than an Almond Joy.

    Take care, may giggling storm tracker Geoffrey “I Live A Life Of Danger So I’m Special And Wonderful And Stuff Just Ask Me I’ll Tell You” O’Lookyord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    James Wolfenstein  over 2 years ago

    Why are we calling them “artists?”

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    markhughw  over 2 years ago

    Oms probably took out and sold the engine, transmission and replaced tires before blowing up the Lamborghini.

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    PaulAbbott2  over 2 years ago

    And a Honus Wagner baseball card that was torn in two sold for over $457,000.

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    FassEddie  over 2 years ago

    A pal in the Netherlands lost 25% of his roof during Eunice.

    oof.

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    joefearsnothing  over 2 years ago

    Steve’s funeral story reminds me of this one! A Jewish Lady has just had her husband cremated and as she leaves the memorial with the canister containing his remains, her lady friends say “Miriam would you like for us to come be with you in your time of grief?” Miriam says “Thank you all but, I really just want to be alone with Isadore!” So the friends give her a hug and depart! Miriam takes off her fur coat, picks up his ashes, pours a little in her hand and says “Izzy you cheap bastard you know that fur coat you were too cheap to buy me?” " Well I bought the most expensive one I could find, and the trip to Europe that you wouldn’t spring for? well I sail tomorrow morning for London then on to Paris and finally finish up for a glorious week in Rome!" “And oh yeah you know that (back rub) you always wanted me to give you?” “Well here it is…..poof!”I got nothing to say after that!

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    sgilliam  over 2 years ago

    “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams

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    paranormal  over 2 years ago

    That Eunice is a real Witch!!!

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    petermerck  over 2 years ago

    I’d just drive around in the lambo with a contemptuous look on my face.

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    dv1093  over 2 years ago

    So, I get it. The “theme” today is February, 2022.

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  over 2 years ago

    Tokens, fungible and otherwise.

    In the 1960s, it had become pretty hip to include one or two (but only one or two) minorities in a Hollywood movie.

    One studio always put just one male minority in each of their movies as a diversity hire. You know, the clerk at a convenience store, some guy in the background, one of the protagonist’s lesser of many friends. Someone who wouldn’t get a lot of screen time, and would probably die first.

    During a 1969 production, one of the non-minority actors got a bad case of athlete’s foot near the start of filming. By the next week, three more had it. At the end of the month the number had grown to also include the male lead and half the camera crew. They had to shut down production for a brief period because almost everyone had this danged athlete’s foot.

    Almost everyone.

    “What’s the deal with him?” asked the director, gesturing towards the one minority actor. “What is he, immune or something? Why didn’t he get athlete’s foot?”

    The casting director shrugged. “I guess he’s a non-fungible token.”

    Until next time.

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 2 years ago

    So you could trade a trading card for three Lamborghinis?

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    moondog42 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    In today’s cryptocurrency market, that car is worth $5

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    RalphKramden77  over 2 years ago

    Some people have more dollars than sense.

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    WestofthePecan Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Storm Eunice? That’s history, not something to believe or not.

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    Jason Scarborough  over 2 years ago

    Maybe I’m just not “Artistic” enough to get it, but, blowing up a Lambo doesn’t sound like it connects to greed in Crypto culture. An expensive car is an expensive car no matter how you got the money for it.

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