Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 09, 2019

Did Jim Davis and Paws Incorporated try to win rights to use “Gmail” and Google won?

WATSON [excitedly] Holmes! There are two little bird footprints on the dead woman’s nose! And what is this tiny glistening droplet on the very end iof her beard?

HOLMES [sniffs the droplet] As I thought, Watson, avian saliva. She was visited by a European Green Woodpecker, genus Picus. That tells us two things… first, there were ants in her beard. And second, the murderer is….

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Woody Woodpecker’s tongue was wrapped too tight around his brain.

I wonder if the tongue keeps the brain from getting a concussion when the bird is pecking.

Would love to see the evolution trail on the wood pecker to get a tongue like that ;-o

Well, the tongue has to be reeled in somewhere…

That bearded lady looks a lot like Denver Pyle.

YAY! The color is back!

Hormones! Gotta love ‘em!

The Garfield strip writers were using material from the content of emails for their strip. So I canceled my g-mail account. ~ Heathcliff

That would depend on the woodpecker wouldn’t it. How much wood could a woodchuck…

Vivian, formerly known as Victor.

I remember our health teacher in high school, an old former coach collecting days for retirement. He tried to keep us interested, and his jokes were really bad. But one I remember was:

Boy #1 – “What does your dad do for a living?”Boy #2 – “He works as a bearded lady in the circus.”

At least we groaned at that one.

I notice the bearded lady parts her hair like a man.

Did Viv still shave her legs? How about her back?

How often does a woodpecker with a foot long tongue get tongue tied?

I hate to say it but…that’s a woman? It looks like my Dad!

That’s a man, baby!

Maybe in some parts of the world Vivian can be a man’s name

What might not be well-known is the fact that roughly 0,1% of all humans (some claim even higher numbers) have no clear sex, at least not at birth. This was (and is) a taboo in almost all cultures. Down to the present day, parents normally hide this fact and arbitrarily decide for a sex. In most countries, you have to tick one of two boxes, named “male” and “female”. Only few countries give a third option (and only recently), and this is often cause for some mockery played by stupid and self-righteous people (and most people are stupid and/or self.righteous). So there are hundreds of thousands of people around us having either an XY set and being officially women or having an XX set and being treated as men, and there are people having even other chromosome sets (another topic are transsexuals etc.) For a start see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex.

So, should Garfield’s creator sue Google over the infringement? I mean, I’d rather see him get lots of money rather than Google have all our data.

I refuse to get involved in a theological discussion!….

Which end of Vivian did they measure from?…

garfields website has joined nickelodeon and when I search up Garfield on Nickelodeon I can’t find him :(