Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 30, 2022

You flatter me, Silver! But yes, the Tacoman story is fun, and it’s bolstered by being True. (Does “True Taco” sound like a John Wayne western?) End of preamble; on to the amble:

Years ago I was a stringer for a local newspaper. I would write my article, mail it in, and about a week later I’d either get a check or a slip. On one occasion, though, I received a phone call in just two days’ time from the paper’s editor. He was rather angry.

“We do NOT print racist slurs in THIS newspaper, Bud!” he snarled at me.

“Um, WHAT racist slur?” I asked, totally confused.

“Don’t play innocent with ME, fellah! You called someone a Tacoman. He could sue us if he read that!”

The light finally came on, and I realized the editor must be a recent transplant to the Northwest. “Sir,” I explained, “The man I was writing about is from Tacoma. I didn’t call him a Taco Man; I called him a ta-COE-man.”

The editor “let me off the hook” (this time) but said he’d keep an eye on me.

The true kicker of this story, however, was that the Tacoman I was writing about…was named Bjork.

Lutefisk taco, anyone?

The statue still is brown, sort of. The green is just a layer of oxidation over the original copper.

The Roaring Twenties were so last century… literally. As for THESE Twenties, what would we call them?

My wife was in the kitchen wearing only the t-shirt she slept in preparing our usual soft-boiled eggs and toast for breakfast.

As I walked in, almost awake, she turned to me and said softly, “You’ve got to make love to me right now! Right here!”

My eyes lit up and I thought, “I am either still dreaming or this is going to be my lucky day!”

Not wanting to lose the moment, I embraced her and then gave it my all; right there on the kitchen table.

Afterwards she said, “Thanks” and returned to the stove, Her T-shirt still around her neck.

Happy, but still a little puzzled, I asked, “What was that all about?”

She explained, “The egg timer’s broken”

Until next time.

Hey, that dog’s wearing glasses. Cute!

FYI – As I quickly scroll through the comments, I fear my scrolling digit has been hitting the delete icon, thus accidentally deleting not only my comment but also responsive posts connected to the original. My apologies if this theory holds true.

I saw a movie set in the 20s and they had the ‘popular’ girl doing that.

I’m pretty sure the statue was copper, not brown. Surface oxidation makes it turn green.

Leave it to the Japanese to figure out how to give the dogs extra satisfaction for work well done.

Anybody else catch the reference with the dog?

Dog urine is the cause of millions of iron poles eaten by corrosion at the base and eventually falling. Everywhere. Go around your neighborhood and check them out.

Hive got the bee’s knees!

And Leroy Smith was arrested and jailed for suggesting the two faces on Mildred Curran’s knees were too close together.

Take care, may eschewed notion orator Franklin “Did I Say That?” Roosevord be with you, and gesundheit.

Yeah, that was the bees knees, for sure haha

Every dog has his day

When I was a lad, I was walking down a gravel road with my grandpa. I accidentally took a misstep and fell to the ground, cutting my knees.

Grandpa gently bent down and began to clean the wound, removing the little pebbles now embedded in my skin as I cried.I’d always heard adults talk about it, but I finally knew what they were talking about.

I’ll never forget the pain of my first kid knee stones.

They should bring back painted knees. It would give us something to look at other than fat butts

It was bound to happen. First blaming the pigeons for falling OLD bridges. Now dogs for rotten OLD posts.

Most people see to see the glasses on the dog as a reference to Urkel. Unfortunately They also look like the type of glasses that were stereotypically used to depict Japanese people during WW2; which is a bad thing to do.

Here is an article about the Statue of Liberty color change over time.

https://jtcroofing.co.uk/news/why-does-copper-turn-green/

The Statue of Liberty is copper clad. Not really brown.

Decades ago, when it was announced the Statue of Liberty would be closed for restoration and refurbishment, a source said there were plans to remove the copper patina to restore the original appearance. A protective layer would be applied over the copper to prevent it from becoming green again.

I don’t know if that was actually ever planned. If it was planned, plans were obviously changed. It may be it was never planned, and the news source made a mistake.

Did that pole fail because of erosion, as stated, or because of corrosion from chemicals in the dogs’ urine?

Joke contribution for today: stevesilver48 / June 16, 2021

gozar out

First, the round glasses on the dog are an offensive Japanese charicature.Secondly, the Statue of Liberty was shiny copper—no brown. Two different colors.

Wasn’t that a phrase from the ’20’s—“the bee’s knees”?

So hard boiled eggs then.

To be more specific, the Statue of Liberty used to be copper (I’m talking about the color since it’s still copper metal)

Fashionable for women in the 1920s to paint flowers, scenes, and faces onto their knees. That’s PAINT, not TATTOO! I can see it happening in the 2020s.