Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 14, 2019

Maybe you could enjoy the wine, but I’m sure that I wouldn’t.

Snake village?? Is the chief of police a copperhead? Is the nightclub the Cobra Cabana? Is the burger place Coral’s Junior? Do the cars have Vindshield Vipers?

In other words with that kind of spider bite, you’re dead?

You can INGEST cobra blood wine. Enjoyment is a whole nuther story…

I thought they spelled antivenom wrong, but antivenin is correct. I learned a new word.

This is written to sound like we are all required/expected to get tatooed.

In some snake bars, the patron chooses their own snake from live specimens on display. It is killed and suspended from an overhead line so that when slitted it will drip blood into the drinking glass placed below. Proof of freshness, maybe? Then sake or other alcohol consumables are added.

Not restricted to Vietnam by any means. You can find it in Japan too, other Asian countries as well.

When I taught ninth graders, I let slip that I was driving 50 miles to see an Alice Cooper concert in a few weeks.

Take us!

Only if you bring a permission note from parents. I have room for four passengers.

I was certain they’d never get the permission notes.

Next day, four showed up with the notes!

On the way to the show, I ask…. Uh, Kenny, how on earth did you persuade your mother to give you this note?

I told her Alice Cooper was an opera singer.

Given the venue, I was pretty shocked to see marijuana sales going on in the aisles all around the auditorium. Keeping an eye out so that none of my four could make a purchase was distracting.

So many ways disaster could have followed, not to mention the end of my teaching career. But, luck gods were with us. No negative repercussions at all.

So was Eddie Haskell. But that has nothing to do with Mr. Furnier.

Just watched a recent South Park where Cartman was being Cartman about immunizations.

A Vietnamese “Let’s see what you’re made of” test was (or maybe still is) to swallow a cobra’s venom sac (full, of course) in a shot of whiskey.

I was in Hanoi for a few days but never saw that offer. The only alcohol I got was a beer that cost less than a nickel.

It takes 4 1/2 hours to infuse a tiny chemo bag into me.

And Alice Cooper is a born-again Christian as well!

Alice Cooper is so cool that he doesn’t need any tats…And he plays golf, too.

I get injections for allergy to Vespid stings (Wasps, Hornets, Yellow Jackets) every 4 to 6 weeks, probably for the rest of my life. It is the actual venom, diluted.