Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 22, 2020

Mildly emusing.

Any deep inhalation will probably do the same.

Where did the emu come from? Australia. Duh.

They came over on Emu-nited Airlines.

I know. The emu left Doug, cuz it was fed up with all those Liberty Mutual ads.

Years ago I had a St Bernard and saved his undercoat one year for a friend to spin into yarn. I made a macrame wall hanging from it. Still have it.

The nine-banded armadillo mother (and several other species as well) always gives birth to genetically identical litter mates, and usually four at a time.

Identical quads, almost every time. This makes them perfect subject animals for studies on nature/nurture questions and studies of experimental medications versus placebos.

They are also the only animals besides humans known to carry the bacteria that cause Hansen’s disease, aka leprosy. Studies indicate that a human can become infected through contact with infected armadillos.

So, word to the wise and all that.

Could that woman’s name be anymore appropriate?

I see emus on farms here in Virginia, they also have them at places like Safari Park. https://www.virginiasafaripark.com/

If you go to Safari park, take their shuttle through the park, or your oldest car; the animals can be mighty rough on the paint and rear view mirrors.

Emu food costs money.

About twenty five or thirty years ago emus were being raised in America by individuals with the prospect of them becoming a commodity in demand. Did not work out and many people couldn’t give them away and just turned them loose.

“Dogs all look alike to me.” ~ Most Cats

Take care, may the jorde be with you, and gesundheit.

On a wild guess, I’d say it came from Australia, then. Probably by Qantas.

Theresa is not alone. I know of others that spin pet hair (fur) into yarn.

It’s the Liberty Mutual emu. Call Doug to come and get him.

This strip is getting less “Believe it or Not” and more “Animal Planet”.

There are emu breeders in New Jersey…try searching it!

They used to raise Ostriches and Emus in Gilbert, Arizona (a city outside of Phoenix).

Liberty Mutual apologized for the inconvenience.

That explains brain freeze after reading Ripley’s Believe It of Not.

They could then make movies like ‘Fido the Gay Blade’

May I have Ms. Ferrer’s address? I’d like to sent her some cat fur on a weekly basis.

That emu could have been an exotic pet, or escaped from one of those emu farms (there was a thing where people started raising emus on farms expecting to make tons of money on their meat, but the demand never emerged and there were farmers stuck with hundreds of emus all over the place)

The emu isn’t lost. He works for Liberty Mutual.

The Emu was carried here by two African swallows…

That emu should be a welcome sight in Paterson, NJ in light of all the rampant crime and OD’ers.

I’ve heard the jibe sometimes leveled at the ancient Greeks who thought the brain was nothing more than a cooling tower for the blood. But . . . yawning cools the brain. And what are we told in winter, but to wear a hat, because something like 3/4 of body heat loss is through the head.

So maybe they were brighter than we admit — they had that part mostly right.

Here’s another thought to toss out to the evolutionary scientists. What if they were even righter than this? What if the original function of the brain WAS to aid in cooling blood and body, and thought, mental function, and all is nothing but a secondary function?

Emus are raised on several farms across America for their meat. It is similar tasting to beef.

Maybe the emu was selling insurance.