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

Hey, I’m back! Did anyone miss me? Uh, did anyone notice I was gone? No matter; here’s what I have for tonight:

A photographer gets a call from his newspaper editor. “There’s a big forest fire just south of town; I want you to get some aerial pictures of it. But hurry! Our deadline is an hour from now.”

So he grabs his camera bag, jumps into his car, and speeds toward the town’s municipal airfield. He sees a smaller Cessna idling at the end of the runway. He rushes to it, throws in his camera bag, and jumps into the right seat. “Go! Go!” he yells, and the young man on his left takes off, albeit a bit shaky. “Head toward that forest fire!” he tells the pilot.

“Um, why?” the young man responds.

“I have to get pictures for tonight’s newspaper,” explains the photographer.

“Oh,” says the pilot. “You mean you’re not my flight instructor?”

As much as I’m ancestrally part German, why did they called it CHINESE checkers? (Hope there also was nothing anti-Semitic about the playing board’s design though.)

All this stuff is weird except for the Chinese checkers. Bodycote? As in, she got her body coated with tattoos of that guy? Hahaha! Bleh, sorry about that.

Imagine that. A Howitzer with a recliner seat.

I don’t know about Jose Mourinho, but the one in the middle with the bad breath is definitely Willie Nelson.

… that’s because China has a checkered past.

Imagine that; a date with Ma Deuce on a LA-Z-Boy love seat.

I find it interesting that her name is “BodyCoat”.

If I were that soccer manager, I believe I’d get a restraining order on Vivien.

The checkers factoid is a good one, if it’s true.

Perhaps Chinese Checkers was a variant based on the ancient game of GO, which is touted as the oldest board game still being played. That game is limited to 2 people. CC allows 4.

Get the first move and you’ve got it made.

Take care, may needle collector Ojo Bleederord be with you, and gesundheit.

There is so much hatred here, you would think everyone was a politician.

Vivian; also known as Psycho Chick.

And there he is, Mr. Lamont. Z. Boyer, hard at work on his US Govt. contract for 5000 leather tuffets! they called them tuffets in the Army Air Corps back then, folks! Believe it or Not!

Yes, but hers were in a shamrock shape. Clever!

How funny it would be if Vivien meet Jose in person and he turned out to be a big ol’ jerk! to her!

Having sat in those seats for many years I can attest to the fact that those were not your father’s La-Z-Boy.

Jose` has no tattoos of Vivien, but does have a restraining order against her.

Newborn not-so giant Giant Pandas do not spread as easily.

German measles were…nah…it’s been done.

re: Tattoos…. 1 is too many.. It’s like putting a bumper sticker on a Ferrari..

Old news to DC: When Tai Shan was a cub, we called him “Butterstick” for a bit too long.

" And it’s not your call or mine to say what’s appropriate for this page OK? "

Some would call it spamming.Others might go even farther and call it attention w——-ing.

Am I the only one that finds Vivien Bodycote’s obsession a little on the creepy side?

….and chili was invented in Texas, chop suey was invented in San Francisco, etc. etc.

Have I reached the sane section yet? New baby giant panda is huge compared to newborn kangaroo but no pouch to retreat into for panda.

Same size as a stick of butter….. and just as slippery.

ka-repeat

so what, big deal, who cares, and wow that’s amazing…..guess which one is amazing

It’s Bodycote’s repentance for having an affair with the rival team’s manager…

China invented a game called German Checkers, but it wasn’t that popular; so you don’t hear much about it. /s

I’m surprised someone hasn’t renamed the game to “Asian Checkers” by now.