Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 02, 2022

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  about 2 years ago

    So, a 4,000-year-old teenage skeleton was unearthed near Stonehenge.

    Scientists are still open for the possibility that this is a more modern skeleton of someone who died of boredom, possibly from listening to some hippy chick explaining her celtic past lives.

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    monkeysky  about 2 years ago

    Wait, what do they mean by “a character such as Batman”? I want to know the full range of options

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I’m feeling MOO dy today.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 2 years ago

    Drat, I was 35 years late when I (emphasis on “I”) went to Stonehenge! (Not that I wanted to climb it then anyway.)

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    Bilan  about 2 years ago

    Doesn’t that cow mean that it’s a bit moooooo-dy?

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    Ray Helvy Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Before “orange” became the name of a color, that color was called yellow-red or red-yellow, depending on the hue. The fruit’s name, naranj, was modified a bit and became the English “orange”.

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    jmolay161  about 2 years ago

    And I don’t think there was much celebration of Halloween until the 16th century. In Protestant dominated England, Halloween was superseded by Guy Fawkes Day after 1605.

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    jmolay161  about 2 years ago

    Where’s Long John Silver? Did the hurricane get him? Best wishes for a speedy return!

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    therese_callahan2002  about 2 years ago

    I observed cows on a farm once, and never thought about their interactions.

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    Lotus  about 2 years ago

    The first time I visited Stonehenge, people could walk through the site and touch, but not climb, the stones. For my second visit 25 years later, we were all behind the rope, which serves to protect the stones from vandalism and erosion. It was awesome to touch the stones and imagine them intact while visualizing the rituals and “science” that happened there centuries ago. It was harder to do that 100 feet away, so I feel fortunate in that way.

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    goboboyd  about 2 years ago

    But-will those same kids in costume eat their two veg? Or, might they be more willing to be social if they dress like Bruce Wayne? “Alfred, please bring me a whole milk Strawberry Quick, in a frosty glass.”

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 2 years ago

    “You’re feeling moooody, you say? Well what about that udder lady you’ve been seeing? How about her? Huh?!” ~ Bessie

    Take care, may prolific Halloween pumpkin carver Bobby “Oh Yeah!” Darinord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    Gameguy49 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    This could explain why Ripley recently said that in Europe carrots were all purple before the 16th century.

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    Dean Nelson Premium Member about 2 years ago

    And that’s why hair that is orange, is called red.

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    magicfever495  about 2 years ago

    How to tell when you are in the presence of a true Cajun.

    When y’all are looking across Hundreds of acres of rice,and he can tell you how many gallons of gravy it will take to cover it.

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    ChessPirate  about 2 years ago

    Just in time, too, or that poor fellow would be “William of… you know, the color of those tasty things on those trees in that orchard…” ☺

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    paranormal  about 2 years ago

    I thought she was a bit mooooo-dy…

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    Crandlemire  about 2 years ago

    So one cow said the the other, “Don’t you feel silly?”The other cow said, “I feel udderly ridiculous.”And then the sheep said to the horse, “Don’t you think that was a BAAAD joke?”To which the horse replied, “Neigh”.

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    PouluCBagumba  about 2 years ago

    What udder nonsense.

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    J. R. M.   about 2 years ago

    Thankfully the Stonehenge ban was put in place before the age of Instagram and Tik Tok.

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    kendavis09  about 2 years ago

    We eat them, we drink their milk. There are so many mad cows, we call it a disease. And I hear them talking about it. I speak moo.

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    JanBic Premium Member about 2 years ago

    This will be a much less interesting site without @stevesilver48. He is one of the posters which brought many of us here each day. It certainly was not the comic!

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    6turtle9  about 2 years ago

    The history of the color blue is pretty interesting. There was no word for it until modern times, with the exception of the Egyptians.

    https://medium.com/predict/blue-is-not-a-color-its-a-mystery-part-1-69de4a6bb139

    This is also an interesting story about color by one of my favorite podcasts:

    https://www.radiolab.org/episodes/211119-colors

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    ekke  about 2 years ago

    And the color pink had no name until it was given the name by reference to the flower, “pinks.”

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