Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 03, 2020

♫ When you like how you feel with a tropical eel, ♫

♫ That’s a moray! ♫

If only Leslie Lynch King, Sr. would’ve be proud of his son to be in the Oval Office (if he didn’t abandon his family for alcoholism and financial problems).

I bet the pontiff Ugolino di Conti spared cats of other colors, but it probably also didn’t help much with keeping the plague pandemics at bay.

Easy to wiggle out of those rental agreements.

Oh That Pope Gregory. Such a comedian.

Poor kitties.

And, of course, if you owned a black cat, it must mean you were a witch, right?

First case of politics causing plague

Best cat we ever had was a black cat. Super smart, played fetch and everything!

Some strange Karma on that cat thing.

Is this a catastrophe (pun intended) brought to people by religion ?

i got to interview Gerald Ford for the Florida Jaycees around 1978, quite intelligent, and i’m a Democrat, and also interviewed then Gov. Bob Graham, who was an honest politician…

Eels were used as currency. I’m sure that really caught on.

I remember reading once that it is because of this extermination, it is now very rare to find a solid black cat. Most black cats have some kind of white fur patch somewhere on their body. To find a cat that is pure black from head to tail is very difficult. I’ve owned a few cats during my lifetime and only a couple were black and only one of those was pure black. He was the most intelligent, cunning and mischievous cat I had ever met, to the level of scary smart. He definitely kept us on our toes.

It is NOT news that killing the cats caused the plague to spread.

Perhaps because he (Ford) wasn’t elected to the office, he just happened to “stumble“ upon the position. (pun intended)

Pope Gregory IX was a sh!thead.

There is great doubt about the pope and cats. See https://museumhack.com/black-cats-black-death/

Ford was also the only President who was never elected to either the Presidency or the Vice Presidency.

Eels? Really? I could understand leeches….maybe. :o)

Learn what REALLY happened.“The purpose of Vox in Rama, rather, was to condemn a cult that had allegedly popped up in the Rhineland—and the bull was specifically sent to the city of Mainz. So, rather than being a document banning cats from Europe, it was a letter sent to a city warning them about a cult’The plague hit Europe 115 years AFTER the Papal Bull was issued. IF this bull was the cause of the plague, why did it take 115 years to occur?https://museumhack.com/black-cats-black-death/

Never use eels as currency. That is a slippery slope…

You would have to use electric eels to have any real currency…

I was raised a Catholic but stopped practicing a long time ago, but most of this cat story ain’t so. See this Link.

https://museumhack.com/black-cats-black-death/

We made a point of adopting older black cats until the last one died about 8 years ago. We adopted a pair of Siamese siblings and the next year we were given a pair of Chartreux kitten siblings. We have a tuxedo foundling who is now 5 years old. Five is about all we can stand.

Between us Gina & I have had 5 black cats, including one now.

I thought popes were supposed to be infallible.

My mom has two black cats. One of them just wandered into her yard from the woods, the other one she got from a shelter, and she loves them both to death.

Oh no. I see on the Internet that crypto-eel mining has already started.

This does not have to do with the strip itself, but I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem with this specific comic. I was following this strip for quite some time, and a few weeks ago, it disappeared from my followed comic list, when I found out what was happening, I followed it again. It stayed on my list since then, but today it disappeared, so I had to follow it again. I do not remember deselecting the following option at all. Could it be a glitch?

The first time someone said “charge it?”

I’ll bet those were a fun-fest to keep in your wallet…