Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 19, 2022

This one may offend not one but two religions…however, in my defense, I heard it while attending parochial school:

A car full of nuns was driving out on a country road one day when they ran out of gas. Chagrined, one of the nuns went to a nearby farmhouse and asked for gasoline. “I actually do have some gas,” the farmer said. “But I don’t have anything for you to carry it in.”

The nuns looked around in their car, but all they could come up with was a chamberpot. “This will have to do,” said the Mother Superior. So they filled the portable commode and went back to their stalled vehicle.

As they filled the tank, a couple of Baptist ministers drove by. As they watched the nuns filling their gas tank from the chamberpot, one remarked to the other, “Whatever you might say about Catholics, you’ve got to admit they have faith!”

Magicians! I am about to make a joke appear!

A magician was working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The audience would be different each week, so the magician allowed himself to do the same tricks over and over again. There was only one problem: The captain’s parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the magician did every trick. Once he understood he started shouting in the middle of the show: “Look, it’s not the same hat” “Look, he is hiding the flowers under the table” “Hey, why are all the cards the Ace of Spades ?” The magician was furious but couldn’t do anything; it was, after all, the captain’s parrot.

One day the ship had an accident and sank. The magician found himself on a piece of wood in the middle of the ocean with the parrot, of course. They stared at each other with hate, but did not utter a word. This went on for a day and another and another. After a week the parrot said: “OK, I give up. Where’s the boat?”.

Until next time.

Can you take a 2nd one?

A magician stops a woman on a street….“Pick a card, any card” he says. She grabs one at random.

“Now, look away and memorize that card. Don’t show me.”

She turns away, memorizes it, and turns back to see that the man was gone.

She lived her life as any other. She got a job, fell in love, got married, and got pregnant with her first child.

Fast forward 9 months.

“Push, PUSH” the midwife and doctors urged. “You’re almost there!”

“The baby! She’s crowning!”

“But… what’s that in her HAND???”

“It… it looks like…”

“Is THIS your card?” a familiar voice said.

Okay. I’m done for now. Until next time.

I’d like to see Chin accomplish that kind of feat.

“Hey, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.” “But Avery, that trick never works.”

Something must have happened to the mother of those cubs, or Kiran Giri might not have lived to tell the tail.

All of those paper snowflakes! What a waste of resources! And this was an “Earth Rangers” group?!? Oh, the irony!

Let it snow, flakes.

Take care, may ignored meteorologist Dean “Play What I Say Backwards And You’ll Have A Nice Bouillabaisse Recipe” Kilford be with you, and gesundheit.

Wow…slow day at Ripley’s.

heh, because of the way it was written I thought the magician was called “a very chin” for a moment. That would be a confusing stage name Avery

So -where was Avery Chin when Shin Lin was winning AGT?

A conservation group using paper on a display that does the opposite of conservation. Am I the only one who sees the irony?

Were any 2 of those snowflakes the same?

Feed them, Kiran, and they will stop growling.

Cheetah cubs wouldn’t have growled because they are in a different family than Leopards

If you attend an Avery Chin magic show does it last more than a minute?

Just think about how many trees were killed to make all those paper snowflakes.