Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 14, 2023

Good for the students!

There was a story that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest, he lost.

Charlie Chaplin looked similar to Adolf Hitler, who was just 4 days younger than Chaplin. Chaplin brilliantly sent up Schicklgruber in his masterpiece, “The Great Dictator” (1940).

Through the fly to the fly.

But they went too far when they put out flypaper next to each toilet…

The fly-in-toilet-thing didn’t work: I heard about that and used a permanent marker to put a little dot in the staff toilets I had to clean in a nursery home. Nope- didn’t work at all. Still messy these toilets. Much worse than the ones from the highly brain damaged residents.

Yes, we absconded from the abbey fully able and in full possession of the ancient artifact, proudly I may say. ~ Alan Stuart, Leader of The Pack (Look out! Look out! Look out! Look out!)

May the bored be with you as they are with me, and gesundheit.

I think that guy’s whistling “Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead”

I’ve seen the fly in the urinal thing. I thought it was easier, cheeper and faster than writing “Stand closer, it’s not as long as you think it is.” in fourteen languages. The Dutch tend to be clever, frugal and practical.

Good for the Scottish students. I vaguely remember reading about this in Readers Digest.

Didn’t Charles use the stone in his coronation?

The urinal target idea is over a century old. But, Robert Krulwich reported on them 14 years ago.

When I fly to the Amsterdam airport, I always look at the clock for an extended period

Maybe they could put Putin’s face in the urinals for even more participation.

Come fly with me, come fly away…

Did you know that Her late Majesty is regarded by Scottish nationalists as Elizabeth the First? Scotland was still independent at the time of the other Elizabeth’s reign.

Your lord is not my lord. Keep it to yourself.