Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 21, 2023

Alfred Yankovic sued Colorado because, you know, he thinks it looks a bit too much like Wyoming. (Now that I think about it, how many sides does Wyoming actually have?)

It climates the cubs to the birds eating from their kill.

Ravens and other corvids are known to be extremely smart and socially complex, and even when not in captivity they’ve been known to recognize and form bonds with specific humans. Apparently, this might apply to wolves too.

Here you go: Colorado is a 697-sider. In total, Colorado’s borders have hundreds twists and turns. The state has not just four sides, but a total of 697 sides.

Who the heck went to all the trouble of counting how many sides Colorado has?

I’ll blindly believe that claim, simply because it’s not worth the effort.

I once went without shaving for two years, my beard stop growing at 8 inches and I shed like a laborador.

Unless Hans Langseth was about 12 feet tall, that picture isn’t accurate.

But when the wolf cubs grow up and are too big to play with, quoth the ravens: Nevermore!

If rhe ravens and little wolves fought each other instead, it would be like Edgar Allan Poe meets Lon Chaney, Jr.

I still remember one big word from my childhood, from Mary Poppins: Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious, if I spelled it right! It’s longer than the big word at the top.

I’d love to see a video of the tug of war.

I once read something about a swami whose hair was as long or longer than that guy’s beard.

Let’s don’t over-complicate things.

Ummmm….where are they getting that for Colorado? I see only four sides. Eight if you want to count the corners as sides.

Hans had some entertaining dance moves.

not sure i buy into the Colorado thing

one time i had 698 sides

Too bad humans no longer form long term bonds.

I bet that farmer didn’t work around mechanized farm equipment — or he took great precautions to keep his beard away from moving parts.

Quoth the raven, nevermore. Quoth the cub, but mom said we could play ’til 6:30.

Take care, may relentless Colorado surveyor and teacher of ballet Kate Walsh “Few Of Them Know Of My Wanderings Around The State Perimeter But It Pays Well And I Don’t Have To Stand On My Toes” Honeaord be with you, and gesundheit.

That’s a cool fact about wolf cubs and ravens. Also, that’s a neat fact about Colorado.

Looks like the pup is in training to become a branch manager.

Interesting story about Mr. Langseth.

If that’s Colorado, what shape is Wyoming?

Does the description of Colorado’s shape take into account the curvature of the Earth, or are you treating it as being flat?

Answer I heard on Jeopardy long ago, ‘these two adjoining states both mean “red color”’. Question: What is Colorado and Oklahoma?

The tug of war games went on peacefully until one fateful day…

How many million dollars did they pay some guy to count Colorado’s sides???

Quoth the raven, “Tug of war!”

Never mind the political views in Colorado, what shape is the state.

The longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with 45 letters which is “a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust.”

Hans was the prototype Norwegian Batchlor Farmer of Praire Home Comapanion Fame.

The number of sides Colorado has depends upon the scale you measure it with. It’s fractal.

Having had a beard for over 40 years, I’d venture to say that mine could’ve grown that long (no, I’m not stopping to calculate that, using hair growth rates and the time period involved). But since I trim it periodically (currently once a week), all that growth has gone down the drain.

Info on the Colorado thing; I haven’t checked out googlemaps yet to see whether this is readily visible…

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/16/colorado-state-line-rectangle-how-many-sides/

Human surveyors in the 19th century were given the mountainous task of establishing the borders by hand. A party embarked from the Four Corners and placed markers at every mile on the Colorado border with Utah before reaching Wyoming, the bigthink.com article said. Those results became official, much to the chagrin of later parties that discovered errors in the original. Fixing those issues would have required too much effort — an agreement between Colorado and Utah and congressional approval.

By the way, Colorado’s northern neighbor, Wyoming, isn’t perfect, either. The bigthink.com article says those 19th Century land surveyors messed up there, too.

That may explain how in Nordic myth the god Odin had two ravens as informers and advisers.