Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 11, 2021

I recently posted a true story about my dealing with the phone company. This is also true:

My wife and I bought a condominium a few years ago, and we decided to get cable TV. So I called the office, and I was connected to a very polite young man – no accent; he was undoubtedly in the downtown office and not overseas in some call center. I told him I wanted to start getting cable television, and I gave him my name, the condo address, the unit number, and all the other information he needed. He thanked me, and asked if he could put me on hold. I agreed.

It seemed like I had been on hold a long time when he came back on the line. “I have some good news, Mister Huong,” he began. “Your bill is current; you won’t owe us anything until the end of this billing cycle.”

Well, as I started to explain to him that my name wasn’t Huong, and I wasn’t calling about my bill, he interrupted. “Oh, I’m sorry, Mister Huong,” he said. “It says here in the records that you need an interpreter. Please hold.”

Bless his heart…

It’s kind of hard for the fish to punch back.

know of any cases where the fish had defeated the octopus in a pummel for prey?

Creepy Crawlies – I WAS going to look for a late night snack … thanks for saving me from myself!

So, it’s the octopuses that act a bit fishy.

So the beatles bury the carcass first? That’s more impressive than the anal disinfectant.

And I thought it was a 354 foot tall toilet paper before I read the whole text.

Octopus: Instead of Whack-A-Mole, I play Whack-A-Fish.

Believe it or not, at the beginning of this century, the Japan International Cooperation Agency gave a loan to Guiyang to build new water treatment plants and improve the existing infrastructure. The project alleviates the situation but the government kept calling for people to preserve water. Then, a building with a waterfall was built… that’s government logic, bless their hearts…

That is utter injustice, considering octopus has eight fists and fish has, uh,,,none

The waterfall keeps the windows clean.

As I was reading this I was enjoying a nice breakfast, that is until I read the part about the ‘Crawlies’

In this months issue of Good Housekeeping: Gotta Dead Rat Behind The Wall? How to put Nicrophorus orbicollis to work for you.

Four lefts and four rights? Something’s fishy about this.

Take care, may shrimp boat photographer Todd Yang O’Garcia be with you, and gesundheit.

Maybe it was something he eight.

The beetles are commonly called the Embalmer Bug.

The Home Depot toilet repair kit was made in China.

Ummm, it is obvious, the statement says the Octopus will punch to get a chance at the food first, then says for no obvious reason….that’s stupid.

The fish gets a standing 8 count.

That’s a “Sexton Beetle”!

Waterfall Building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzDs462Gtz0

I’d love to be

Under the Sea

In an Octopus’s Garden

With YOU.

You would think that in all China they could find a plumber to fix the leak…

It’s hard to imagine the need for anger-management classes for fish-slapping octopi…

Roughly two-thirds of octopus neurons reside in the arms, not the head. I suspect that an octopus arm occasionally rejects a fish without first checking with brain central to see if they are hunting together…

Video of octopus punching fish: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/24/950143025/watch-octopuses-punch-fish-sometimes-for-no-apparent-reason