Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 23, 2021

Judging from today’s pictures, Alfred E Neuman suffers from tsundoku.

One question regarding tsundoku: なぜ?

Why is Alfred E Neuman the illustration for Tsundoku?

Dang. Do I have tsundoku too if I read em a little but never read em again for a long long time?

Can’t read those books if your glasses fall off and break into pieces. and you’re the last human on Earth.

The kid looks like Alfred E Newman.

If that kid’s Japanese I’m Poloponese.

Take care, may Niigata rodeo champion Hirohito Nagayamord be with you, and gesundheit.

Tsundoku is pretty popular here in the USA too!

With my luck, that would be the day my heater would go out!

Tsundoku? How about collector? LOL

Coffee sales were especially brisk that day in Alaska.

I now buy books that sit unread in my Kindle. A modern, more space efficient tsundoku. ;)

Why is Alfred E. Neuman in this? Does Ripley’s have the rights to use him? And why?

I believe they have those cardboard boat races all over the US.

If your excess collection of mathgrid problems collapses, is it a Tsundoku sudoku tsunami?

Since I got my Kindle, I’ve got unread books piled up in my house also. How do you get rid of something no one wants?

Norman Mingo might take exception to that book obsession.

Prospect Creek’s brass monkey population never recovered.

I’d call my boat Torridge’s Porridge because I bet that’s never been done.

Take care and get dressed.

As Alfred P. Neuman would say: “What?..me read?”

Tsundoku sounds like hoarding…

Actually the inspiration for the Tsundoku illustration was an old 1966 Aurora model kit series called “Whoozis” and Alfalfa Whoozi did indeed resemble Alfred E. Newman! Believe it!

I asked my wife…who’s from Japan…about that word and she said she’s never heard of it.

And “Dumbdoku” covers the not reading part…

Is the new geezer thread going to be crude jokes?

Spectator: “Hey Kids! Stop smoking in that boat, and NO freebasing with that ether!”

So it was -80º Fahrenheit (-62º Celsius) on January 23, 1971. Huh!

so Alfred E. Neuman practices tsundoku? are you mad?

Does this mean that Sudoku is filling in numbers and letting them pile up?

Are you allowed to coat your cardboard boat with Flex Seal?

The college I graduated from had a cardboard boat regatta—each team (I think it was by dorm hall) made a cardboard & duct tape “vessel” and elected lightweight paddlers who could swim to attempt a loop in the little campus pond. The winning team got a pizza party.

I seem to suffer from “Cloud Tsundoku”. I have more books in my Kindle than I can read in my lifetime.

The guy sitting at the table looks like Alfred from the Mad Magazine. CREEPY