Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 21, 2021

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    ramonmister28  almost 3 years ago

    “Nearly Ten Bull Snakes”??? What? Were they chopped into pieces and there were ALMOST Ten Snakes or did these guys not know how to count up to ten? And We’re NOT talking 100 or more. It’s “NEARLY” Ten. Ripley’s bar for these items is pretty low.

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 3 years ago

    Was the US submarine totaled?

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    SWCarter  almost 3 years ago

    US submarine captain: “That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.”

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    Copy-&-Paste  almost 3 years ago

    Timmy in the well: “Lassie, that’s a bunch of BULL!”

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    therese_callahan2002  almost 3 years ago

    “I’m tired of all these snakes in a pipe.”

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    stealth694  almost 3 years ago

    That sub was probably in the Dragon’s Triangle,

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  almost 3 years ago

    My topic choice tonight? In Matthew McConaughey’s own words: Whale, Whale, Whale let’s take a look.

    A teacher was teaching her class about whales. She said that it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human being as even though it was a gigantic animal, its stomach was very small.

    A little girl put up her hand and said that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.Irritated, the teacher insisted that a whale couldn’t possibly swallow a human. The little girl said, “When I get to Heaven, I’ll ask Jonah.”.

    The teacher replied, “What if Jonah went to Hell?”.

    The girl said: “Then you ask him.”

    Until next time.

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    Caldonia  almost 3 years ago

    A cannibal came home from work, where her husband was in the process of stewing an enormous wrestler. She wrinkled her nose. “What’s cooking, good looking? Because that meat has an incredibly strong aroma.”

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    Count Olaf Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Believe It or Not! for the Mort’s Water Company of Latimer, Iowa, raising a pipe from a faulty water well story? Not! It was actually covered by 10 bulls**t snakes. Mort made the whole thing up. Believe It or Not!

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    Count Olaf Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Yes, but did Matt Capron of San Diego also save the lobsters in the trap? Well, did he? Enquiring minds want to know.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Yeah, but I bet that undersea mountain on the South China sea floor is not uncharted any more.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    After hitting an uncharted mountain on the South China sea floor, the captain of the submarine immediately blamed it on Trump and global warming and the Chinese Commie navy built a base on it.

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    markhughw  almost 3 years ago

    and the captain was relieved of command

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 3 years ago

    And that’s not bull about those snakes.

    Take care, may famed lobster Fred “I’ve Got A Whale Of A Story For You” Pinchord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    artmer  almost 3 years ago

    “Nearly”? Where’s the rest of it?

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    sheilag  almost 3 years ago

    That smashed up U.S. sub – they had an episode of the once-forgotten “Sealab 2020” about a submarine that crashed into an undersea mountain…

    They remade it straight on the parody version, “Sealab 2021”, probably to show how boring the original show was… (and it was; the things we kids would watch on Saturday mornings back in the 1970s…). :-P

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    Wirepuncher   almost 3 years ago

    The sub hitting a mountain under water in 2021 wasn’t the first time.

    https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/what-happens-when-us-navy-submarine-hits-underwater-mountain-166703

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    oakie817  almost 3 years ago

    these are getting kind of very believable lately

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    tremaine53  almost 3 years ago

    Saved the whale? Or the lobster trap? Jebus, I wish Ripley would be more specific!

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    moondog42 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    This suggests China have discovered stealth mountain technology, and we in the US need to develop our own stealth mountains. Otherwise we’ll have a mountain gap

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    paranormal  almost 3 years ago

    China purposefully left some underwater mountains uncharted…

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    Jogger2  almost 3 years ago

    The Chinese government tried to raise a stink about that submarine incident. They accused the U.S. government and navy about lying about the cause of the damage to the sub, and also claimed Chinese territorial waters were violated. They often make claims about their territorial waters or airspace being violated. They claim their airspace & water space extends farther out than other countries recognize.

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    Jogger2  almost 3 years ago

    Whales and other sea animals becoming entangled is too common now. Finding one and cutting the net, rope, or whatever to free the animal is not an unusual story now.

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    mindjob  almost 3 years ago

    I hope our underwater mountains are bigger than China’s

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    ekke  almost 3 years ago

    Is “nearly ten” something akin to “about 9”? Weird wording, wasn’t it?

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    ekke  almost 3 years ago

    That was the second US submarine to hit an uncharted undersea mountain.* Sadly, the first one had fatalities. The “uncharted” mountain was in fact known but wasn’t on the charts they were using to navigate. Oopsie.

    *Makes you wonder if they were driving with the headlights off! ;-}

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Dang those wily Chinese! Now they’re planting uncharted mountains under water!

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    Caeruleancentaur  almost 3 years ago

    Wiktionary says that “bit” is also correct, but that it’s rare.

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    pbr50138  almost 3 years ago

    I guess the sonar on the sub wasn’t working.

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