Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 07, 2021

My Dad was wrong—Money DOES grow on trees!

A lot of lepidopterans will go for tears, blood and some grosser materials from immobile, sleeping or dead animals in order to get salt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud-puddling

Then they cry about that? Very clever!

Does the Gorgone Macarea at least leave some Visine as compensation?

Toris Boledo doesn’t let his art gallery be eaten by dipped tortilla chips, does he?

Well, I’m a little late to the party, but tonight’s offering is especially for Steve Silver. Enjoy all!

The first men land on Mars and get out of their space capsule. Then from around a big rock comes a ten foot tall green-skinned woman wearing a huge amount of gold jewelry. “Welcome to Mars, gentlemen,” she says. Taken aback, the astronaut’s leader says, “Wow — are all Martian women ten feet tall?”

“Well…some are a bit taller, some are a bit shorter. But I’m about average.”

“And your skin color,” the astronaut persists. “Are all Martian women green-skinned?”

“Well…some are lighter, some are darker. Again, I’m about average.”

“And do they all wear so much gold jewelry?”

“Well…not the shiksas.”

I was always told you should never take any wooden nickel.

Playing with food is not an art…

And thus, my grandad said, “don’t take any wooden nickels.”

Take care, may Uruguyan salt miner Umberto Francisco Orozco Lupejord be with you, and gesundheit.

An all Catholic girls high school was on a field trip when their bus stalled out on some train tracks. The train struck the bus and all perished. They found themselves in a single file line before the pearly gates with St. Peter standing behind a podium with a large book on it. He looked at the first girl and said Mary I must ask you one question before you can enter into heaven. Have you ever had any contact with a boys penis? Mary admitted that she had touched one with her finger. Very well he said dip your finger in this bowl of holy water and enter into heaven. Ann I must ask you the same question. Blushingly Ann said she once fondled one with her right hand. Dip your hand in the holy water and enter. About this time there was a large commotion coming from the middle of the line as a girl was pushing her way to the front. Here now St. Peter said what’s this all about Betty. She said well St. Peter I figure if I’m going to have to gargle with that holy water I want to do it before Sally washes her dirty backside in it.

I hate waking up with dry eyes! (It’s tough on my contacts)

Boris Toledo is the guy they named the city of Boris, Ohio after.

Some plants such as the pycandra acumunata can be used in cleaning hazardous waste sites. See “bioremediation.”

Former president tRump’s cousin and has a gold toilet to go along with his doorstop.

Lucy van Pelt has tried in vain to acquire a Pycnandra Acuminata for years.

Boris hates what Super Bowl Sunday does to his guacamole.

Birds in Brazil must have terrible nightmares.

Gives new meaning to the term “wooden nickel”.

$100,000 for WHAT?

Get back to me when you find the tree that secrets gold.

A friend"s father had me check out a “funny rock” that his cousin had…It weight almost 19 lbs…Acid tests and magnetic tests showed it to probably be a meteorite (Nickel Iron), as did the scouring holes and indentations on its surface …I gave it back…Don’t know what ever happened to that specimen…They lived somewhere in the Central Valley, near Fresno ..Another Doorstop?…

A lady I used to know collected nickels for years and she never turned blue-green…

And the dear moth tucks them in at night also…

’Shorty’s BBQ’ has now made Toledo unusual, not famous.

A meteorite? That is great! This goes in my saved comic strips.