Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 31, 2020

I’m making a Raspberri Pi case out of an old fruitcake… All I have to do is add a second coat of lacquer to it and pray the cutting tools work on the holes without breaking…

the Fords’ fruitcake tasted by Lay Jeno must be fossilized by now!

Naaah, it’s now just beginning its freshness phase.

That fruit cake must have been the inspiration behind the engineered longevity of Twinkies…..

Aha. I always knew Google always is tracking the phones!

But if you’re putting “little tongues” in your mouth, wouldn’t that be a French dish?

Not really unbelievable about linguine..

A lot of pasta… maybe most… is named after something its shape is thought to resemble.

A lot of them have suffixes like “ini” “elli” or “ette” cos they mean something like little, or dear, or cute…

 

If you don’t like the idea of tongues…. vermicelli is little worms.

Orecchiette means “little ears”.

Campanelle is little bells… and a really pretty pasta, BTW.

Ruffled, more like like bell shaped-flowers.

 

I don’t speak Italian, but I love pasta.

Those are just some I know… and there are charts on the web.

I like radiatore, cos it has a lot of body… I’m not an angel hair fan… its name means “radiators.”

I think conchiglie are conch shells…

oh… and farfalle … which we sometimes call “bowties” in English… is Italian for “butterflies”.

They look like both, I suppose.

Simon should have been given to the local commuters. That’s not art!

Simon knows the art of getting attention.

I understand that language evolves by itself. However, why are we saying “artist” when we mean “a**hole”?

So, does that make Jay Leno a cannibal? ☺

(Waits patiently for joke to sink in)

It’s possible that the fruitcake has been around to every family in America at some point.

Take care and gesundheit.

“THE” Ford family?

These “Believe It Or Not” entries are becoming REAL lame.

Traditions can be so weird. Who, in their right mind, would say lets bake a cake and not eat it, and declare it a family heirloom to be passed down to the next generation? One thing is for sure, no poor or middle class family would come up with something so wasteful or ridiculous.

Shoot. For a fruitcake 142 years isn’t even approaching puberty…