Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 08, 2022

These people need to get a life /s

The theme of all 4 RBION drawings involves art. Well technically crafts, but let’s say art. So let’s check in with another artist.

An artist asked the gallery owner if there had been any interest in his paintings on display at that time.

“I have good news and bad news,” the owner replied. “The good news is that a gentleman enquired about your work and wondered if it would appreciate in value after your death. When I told him it would, he bought all 15 of your paintings.”

“That’s wonderful,” the artist exclaimed. “What’s the bad news?”

“The guy was your doctor.”

Until next time.

Oh, all right. Here’s one more.

An Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Russian are in an art gallery.

They are looking at a painting of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.

“Look at how reserved and calm they are,” the Englishman says, “they would definitely be English.”

“They are naked and beautiful, they would have to be French”, The Frenchmen counters.

The Russian speaks up, “No clothes, no shelter, no bed, they have only an apple between them, and they’re told this is paradise. They are certainly Russian.”

Until next time.

What happened to the rest of the jokesters? Maybe this oldie will encourage someone to join in.

A woman in her 70s decided it was finally time to get married. She put an add out in the newspaper. “Husband wanted. Must not beat me, must not walk all over me, must still be good in bed”

She got many applicants but after a few weeks she didn’t find anybody suitable. She was about to give up, when she heard her doorbell ring. She opens the door to find a man with no arms or legs sitting in a wheelchair.

“Can I help you?” She asks.

The man smiles and says “Its me, your new husband!”

“You must be joking…” The woman laughs.

“Well think about it,” he says. “I have no arms so i cannot beat you. I have no legs so i cant walk all over you.”

The woman’s eyes narrow and she asks “Are you still good in bed?”

The man leans back in his chair and smiles. “I rang the doorbell didn’t I?”

Until next time.

Robin Hood [hands over stolen fortune]: here you are, my poor friend.Friend: wow thanks. I’m rich!

Robin [narrows eyes]: you’re what???

Do I really need to say it? I’m starting to feel like the San Antonio lawyer who closes out each TV commercial the same way – with his phone number, which is 7 iterations of the same digit. Oh, all right.

Until next time.

Fairbanks, Alaska -72 degrees ! Record, winter of 66-67. That was, COLD ! Eielson AFB.

I think this is a first. None of today’s entries identify the country where they take place. Siberia is not a country, Pennsylvania is not a country, one doesn’t identify where the company is based, and the London entry doesn’t mention the country either, and I know of two that are famous, even if it was only Archie Bunker’s " Who the heck ever heard of London, Ontario, Canada"

I thought Twinning made Tea…lol

Ripley doesn’t know about winter. There is no way you’d live in a wooden house with that many windows to let the cold in.

We should accommodate Oymyakon with some napalm bombs – along with any Russian cities within 100 miles of Ukraine.

Believe it or not, I misread the “Coldest” as “Oldest” and wondered why I never heard of it.

i don’t see much of a market for matching human/lizard outfits

Oymyakonback! There! Finished it for you!

“I lost my lizard, if you see one dressed like me … Never mind.”

Chameleons must love that.

Does Heidi Hooper really have a Salvador Dali moustache?

I’m fairly certain the coldest place on earth is my Friend Mark G’s bedroom. He just found out his wife is 3 months pregnant, and she found out he had a vasectomy 6 months ago!

So, that is not Heidi Hooper, depicted in the lint artwork caricature from Ripley. It may be her rendition of Salvador Dali in lint.

Claudia Desabe’s car art work

https://www.alamy.com/london-uk-19-june-2021celebrating-premium-japanese-artistry-and-craftsmanship-lexus-commissioned-london-based-tattoo-artist-claudia-de-sabe-and-husband-yutaro-of-red-point-studio-to-give-the-ux-suv-some-inkhowever-its-not-as-easy-as-it-sounds-when-you-tattoo-a-person-you-have-to-think-about-the-muscles-and-tissue-beneath-the-skin-said-de-sabe-with-the-car-it-was-about-the-way-the-bodywork-changes-shape-over-the-frameworkpaul-quezada-neimanalamy-live-news-image432858720.html

I make fire starters for camping from dryer lint stuffed into empty toilet paper tubes.

The medium is the message. If you can create art using something nobody else has thought of, Ripley will take notice

Dryer lint often includes fibers of polyester, rayon and nylon. That stuff smokes and stinks when it burns. Pure cotton lint is better.

I wonder if Ms. Hooper has enough lint. I’d be glad to mail her some whenever I clean my dryer’s filter.

I used to go skiing with a -60 wind-chill factor. It’s mostly in how a person dresses.