Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 12, 2020

“I cannot tell a lie. I chopped up that snake.” – Ben Franklin -— “Is that the best you got Ben? Watch this ….” – George Washington

Ben forgot Georgia.

Would a 1950s “Zorro” fan that was employed as a meteorologist still can’t say “tornado” as that was the name of the horse of Diego de la Vega?

And in today’s weather, a big cloud that looks like an ice cream cone, took out another mobile home park.

So instead, they said, “It’s a twister!”

Perhaps because tornado sounds like torpedo And may sound intimidating to some but I do like the sound of tornado better though in fact twister is descriptive an accurate

So tornado is the first recorded “trigger” word?

Now in some states “Global Warming” is banned. If you don’t say it, it will not happen I guess!

OK..L. A. Young…..why? :o|

It cleans like a white tornado!

Wait until you see the golf ball from the Peter Pan company!

Wait, so why no “tornado”?

Ben must have drawn that cartoon at midnight January 1, 1754. I wonder who drew the last cartoon that year? /s

Never seen such a mean looking Ben Franklin before!

The balls with a mercury center are even more fun…

is it a bird? no! is it a plane? no! is it the twister? yeah!

Also, the expression “tongue-twister,” sounds better than “tongue-tornado.”