Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 16, 2023

Fingers crossed the smallpox virus found in Maryland doesn’t cause another American endemic if said vials thereof don’t break.

I was born and raised in Louisiana. I remember in high school in the 1960s we had an actual human skeleton in a glass cage in our biology class.

Dem bones!

You can see some vanity plate applications, and their review comments, online. Sometimes, it’s impressive that the DMV employees are able to catch innuendos or gang signals, but other times they’re just impressively paranoid.

My oldest son had a great big 1961 Pontiac convertible with a California license plate “SNAPPER”. And yes, the car was red.

He also had a Florida plate that read “OJ DIDIT” because he really liked

Orange juice…….

He gave me the plates and they hang in my garage.

Soon there will be only one pilot on aircraft.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/single-pilot-planes/index.html

Then none as AI will replace all pilots. Computers never sleep so you can rely on Microsoft……unless there’s an update…..in midair….bluesky eh, screen, of death….

And just what would anyone want with human bones? Personally, I only like fake skeletons for Halloween decorations.

You can really throw those DMV officials off by spelling naughty words in a mix of Esperanto and Valley Girl. An example would be: “Mi iras nuda ĉe la strando totally.” You’ll need about five cars for that, but still.

Take care, may Louisiana black market skull dealer Abby “I Don’t Ask Questions About What You’re Gonna Do With Them I Just Get ’Em To Ya Nice And Fresh” Normalord be with you, and gesundheit.

Hopefully Auto Pilot was on while they slept. lol

That flying statistic rather scares me.

I once saw a Camaro in St. Louis with this license plate which obviously made it past the censors: AZKIKR

If a person in Louisiana doesn’t own their own bones in their own bodies, then to whom do they belong?

A blind pilot walks into a plane waving his walking stick.

The passengers all look at each other in disbelief. The flight attendant gets on the PA and says,

“Ladies and gentlemen, as you can see, the captain is legally blind, but rest assured, he is one of the best pilots in the world with over six thousand successful flights.”

Next the co-pilot makes his way to the plane and he is also blind and uses his walking stick to make it to the cabin.The flight attendant gets on the PA and says,

“Ladies and gentlemen, as you can see, the co-pilot is also blind, but rest assured, he is the second best pilotin the world with over five thousand successful flights.”

At this point the plane begins to take off from the runway. As it gains speed, the passengers grow tenser. The plane keeps accelerating more and more and as it approaches the end of the runway, it still hasn’t left the ground. The plane is approaching the end of the runway at high speed and the passengers scream, “Oh my God, we’re all going to die!!”

Suddenly, the plane takes off and begins its ascent.

The pilot turns to the co-pilot and says, “The day they stop screaming, we’re screwed.”

My wife Marcia liked to go by the name Marci and we had 4 kids. So, for her birthday, one year, I got her a vanity plate that read ‘MARCI4’ because Simply Marci nor Marcia was available. She loved that plate for about 3 years, but soon I let it go as the price of twice what regular plates cost soon got the best of me. You’d think that you’d only have to pay the extra price to manufacture vanity plates one time, and all years following the price would drop to regular price. But noooo..!

I used to be a moderator for an online community. At first, I and the other moderators used Urban Dictionary to judge acceptability of words or phrases with which we were unfamiliar. But, Urban Dictionary became unreliable. Too many “editors” were trying to insert offensive meanings, which weren’t justified.

I saw a plate on we that read, 4U2 PN2! If you don’t see it, say it out loud.

No doubt that pilot survey assured them anonymity!

Louisiana’s legal system was originally based on French (Napoleonic) jurisprudence, unlike the rest of the USA. This explains a lot of their differences.

Makes you think twice about wanting to fly on British airlines

Pilots have fallen asleep while flying a plane? Yipes! Another reason to drive instead

Supposedly the Lousiana law was because of Voodoo and Santeria practices