Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 19, 2021

Wouldn’t our world be a wonderful planet if all our misunderstandings were no bigger than this one?

Hospital regulations require patients being discharged to be wheeled out in a wheelchair. A student nurse, fresh out of the Marine Corps, notices a fully-dressed man sitting on a bed with a suitcase at his feet. “I’ll get you a wheelchair, Sir,” says the student.

“No, I’m fine, really,” the man says.

The Marine-turned-nurse will not be deterred, however. “Sir, you will get in the wheelchair – it’s the hospital’s rule!” And without further argument, the man sits in the wheelchair.

The burly nurse-in-training reaches the lobby with his charge. “Now is your wife coming to pick you up?” he asks the man.

“I really doubt it,” the man replies. “She’s still up in the room behind a curtain, changing out of her hospital gown.”

I suffered from ergophobia for almost 50 years. Fortunately retirement cured me.

Researchers in Germany recently discovered the world’s best mineral metaphor.

Ergophobia is sadly a pretty real thing for a lot of people who probably have never even heard of the term. In a lot of jobs, the work can become so traumatizing over time that just the site can cause anxiety.

The squid is like “Do you have to kill me in the middle of my last meal?”

The money bit: what’s the other 30%?

Fish orgy!

Was the other plane in the midair collision as lucky?

A lot of people must have ergophobia now day’s.

Three sea creatures on the attempt of eating each other? And who won, you ask? Time, my friend! Time

The government wants to switch to dollar coins which would save taxpayers millions of dollars a year, not having to replace paper money. But every time they propose it, people get emotional and the government has to back down. Same for getting rid of pennies. People think that their feelings are more important than practicality.

Someone’s going to tell me that this is a stupid question, but if 70% of note production is to replace damaged notes, does that mean that the 30% is accumulating surplus notes, that must eventually surpass the gold reserve ?

Why (and how) would fossils eat each other?

And the result was a non-flapping butterfly.

Take care, may intuitive but uneducated quantum physicist Maomad “I Can See the Ether Molecules Giving Birth to the Universe” Blammord be with you, and gesundheit.

180 million year old pornography.

I have Eggophobia – fear of waffles

I thought ergophobia was the fear of all things ergonomic…

Printed money is no problems, it’s all the IOUs the the government keeps putting out that’s constantly raising national debt.

I guess it’s a “sea-creature eat sea-creature” world out there! No wonder they refer to the inky blackness of the deep.

Uh, what is the other 30% of money printed for? To create inflation?

I thought ergophobia was fear of work itself.

Interesting fact: all ocean creatures thrive on a diet made up entirely of seafood.

Yes probably. But it’s not part of their diet.

I don’t think they are eating each other. They are hugging each other just before the Meteorite hits.

And the old currency is chopped up and put into clear plastic dollar signs, as a trinket.