Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 07, 2019

sounds like a cold-blooded, amphibious Benjamin Button

I want to see the vending machines on the Cook Islands.

Do doctors have gossypiboma insurance?

I thought the doctor’s called it “Oh sh!#%” insurance.

sad that it happens so much they have a term for it.

Run a metal detector over them after an operation to at least catch the metal stuff left. Sponges are too hard to detect and cause a lot of pain which the doctors pooh pooh as imaginary.

So, they get gossiping and the next thing you know, boma happens.

And yet they found my wallet.

What’s the term for objects left inside a patient on purpose? Or for that matter, during some other activity?

Remember hearing that the US Navy would occasionally pay all sailors in San Diego in $2 bills. The point was to demonstrate to San Diego that despite the problems that the sailors could cause they had a very large positive impact on the city too.

Canada got rid of the one and two dollar paper bills years ago. The lifespan of the paper bill was too short. They were replaced by the “loonie” (a pic of a loon on it) and a “toonie” ( don’t ask) coins. They last almost forever. Now since our “paper” bills have been replaced by fabric and plastic bills, the reason for replacing paper for coins is redundant. In fact the coins are much heavier, wear holes in pockets and are a total pain in the patooie. When the paper bills were phased out I purchased several uncut sheets of the $1.00 and $2.00 paper bills ( 32 bills per sheet). Still have them. Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949 ( Newfies claim the reverse) they had a $3.00 bill. I have those as well. Nowadays “Phony as a $3.00 bill” indicatesd a fake because they do not exist anymore.

In Ohio we call that condition a malpractice suit.

Tadpoles from the planet Ork

I have a better name for Gossypiboma-Malpractice suit waiting to happen!

The paradox fish also shrinks.

That’s Latin for “Tell the patient he needs another operation so we can avoid a suit”…

I went to school with Gossy Piboma