Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 25, 2021

Formerly he was known as “Smokey THE BEAR!

Dr. Doctor, give me the news, I’ve got a bad case of…shooting President Garfield?

I think he was named Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss before James Garfield was shot.

Religion and golf, Steve Silver? Digest this:

A Pastor decides to call in sick one Sunday morning and shows up at the links. On his first tee shot, the ball sails true to the green, rolls up an embankment, and ends up in the hole for an ace.

God and Saint Peter are watching. “Come ON, God!” Saint Peter says. “How can you let him have such a great shot when he should be in church preaching?”

“Think about it, Peter,” God answers. “Who can he tell?”

Forest fires prevent bears.

Unfortunately, Dr. Bliss’s patient didn’t survive very long; Pres. Garfield only served a few more months after being sworn in in 1881.

The President was treated after the doctor was shot?

This Smokey the Bear looks like he’ll break your back if you start a forest fire.

Only you can solve world hunger. Gimme all your food and picanic baskets now!

My dentist is Dr. Ravi Doctor.

Today’s installment should be labeled: “Believe It, or So What?!?”

When threatened I, too, release a noxious spray but it is stopped by my jeans and runs down my leg.

That could be me after a nice big bowl of Channa Sagg.

Nobody would believe how traumatized I am every time I see a news story about a wildfire in some state I’ve never been to. I mean, come on! I can’t be everywhere at once!

OK, now I understand the lyrics, “Doctor Doctor, gimme the news, I got a bad case of lovin’ you..”

The banal facts presented today forces me to point out that my doctor’s name is Dr. William Parr. So ’friggin what?

Those “Smokey The Bear” in the New York City subways were very effective. There has NEVER been a forest fire on the 14th Street-Canarsie line! Believe This, or Don’t!

It may clarify for those still on their first cup of coffee that “Doctor” was Bliss’ given name at birth. Names do indeed influence career choices.

The Smokey slogan could be changed and used against crime, “Only You Can Prevent Crime!”

The broken leg that John Wilks Booth got by jumping on the stage after shooting Abraham Lincoln was set by Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. That’s probably where the expression, “your is Mudd” came from.

Dr. Bliss is almost as bad as the dentist that took my wisdom teeth out, Dr. Payne.

Bliss went on to establish ‘Little Caesars Pizza’.

Smokey was the industrious cub of the famous litter that produced his brother Yogi ‘smarter than the average bear’ who poached “pic-a-nic baskets”, and ‘Papa’ Bear who tried to eat Goldilocks.

In 1945 the Japanese Imperial Navy sent the beetles in balloons to attack the U.S. West coast.

You can call me Dr. or you can call me Doctor or you can call me Dr. Doctor, but ya doesn’t hasta to call me Willard!

My brother-in-Law can do that with just two beers and some pizza…

In California it seems the slogan is “Only forest fires can prevent bears”…

Smokey the Bear was based on a live bear cub found after a wild fire in New Mexico clinging to a burned tree. Smokey live his life at the National Zoo until November 9, 1976 and was buried in New Mexico at the Smokey Bear Historical Park. (wikipedia)

I know some people who have the same ability as the bombardier beetle, but their noxious emissions are dispensed from a different location.

They could sure use more of those beetles in Portland!

Why is Dr. Willard Bliss a “Believe It Or Not” item?

I thought I heard Smokey the bears catch phrase, was changed just a little and not like it was originally.