Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 20, 2018

… or you can do it the other way around.

So how is a jailbird even going to do his presidential duties while behind bars?

Wouldn’t it be more correct to say “Bananas are berries”? Just sayin’.

We need Hillary to lose again from Leavenworth, in 2020.

A banana is a berry? Mind. Blown.

Yeah, yeah…. botanically speaking, bananas are berries …. (yawn) … and so are grapes, tomatoes, bell peppers, and zucchini… green beans, and eggplants.

So are walnuts.

It’s because they all develop from a certain layer surrounding the seeds, when plants are “fruiting.”

Strawberries, blackberries and raspberries have seeds outside or in separate pods so are not botanically berries…. but are fruit.

 

Actual botanical “vegetables” are “vegetating” parts of the plant, not developed from the seed pod…

things like celery, broccoli, lettuce and yes, rhubarb.

 

But we eat and name them according to their reasonable culinary classification, according to how they taste…

not by whether and where the flesh develops around the seed…. so all the ones we use in savory dishes, including tomatoes…. are legally vegetables.

 

Way back in the 1800’s, there was an argument over the taxation of a shipment of tomatoes as vegetables or fruit, which turned into a lawsuit, and went all the way to the Supreme Court.

Newspaper stories at the time reported the controversy….

With no Kardashians or Instagram or sitcoms, it was the talk of the nation….

but not many people heard… to this day!… that the Supreme Court decided that tomatoes are vegetables.

 

So will everybody please stop getting all excited over finding out that tomatoes are botanical “fruit,” just like yellow squash and peas…

cos legally they’re vegetables!

And we can call strawberries “berries”, and forget the botanical classification of bananas and walnuts, unless we’re botanists. OK?

 

and right, WMWIII…. I agree about the grammar.

You can go to prison for a misdemeanor. So I’m guessing that’s what is meant. I guess.

That explains a lot of US Presidents (=P).

You can run for it, but you can’t vote for it.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Leavenworth White House, tours run daily at 11, 2 and 4.

We don’t yet know which prison Trump will be running his 2020 reelection campaign from.

It is true that on average the plates move that slow. But during an earthquake huge pieces that have been stationary for hundreds or thousands of years can shift several feet in a few seconds.

Well, if a Kyle Burris ever runs for president, do NOT vote for him! He’s a pedophile and that’s what he’s in prison for!

Isn’t it strange that convicted felons can’t vote but yet they can run for office?

And in this country, he might win…

You can run for Pres.; just don’t get your hopes too high.

The United States Constitution only has three requirements to serve as president. Be at least 35 years of age, a resident within the United States for at least 14 years, and a natural born Citizen. The last requirement was exempted for those that were alive at the time the Constitution was ratified.

Bananas are a berry? Never knew that one.

Bananas are not true berries. Follow the link below. Third paragraph in the article.

https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=63171

What happened to ‘bananas are an herb’?

Hillary, will the stripes make you look thinner?

I have heard that the plates on a Corvette move faster than the plates on a Continental.