Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 23, 2024

I think it’s time to break out the copper underwear.

Copper does not actually kill germs, but like stainless steel, germs cannot survive on a nonporous surface.

“Honorificabilitudinitatibus” is also the longest word in the English language that strictly alternates between consonants and vowels. No consonant has another consonant next to it and no vowel has another vowel next to it. Believe it or not.

So, “A Penny a Day Keeps the Doctor Away”?

Its takes a lot of words for rich Americans to keep their money offshore to avoid taxes.

Not only is the tax code longer, but it’s even harder to understand.

I imagine there were a few that got their pantaloons in a knot because they were sure he misspelled it.

That’s a really long word…

I went to the bookstore and asked the employee, “Do you have any books written by Shakespeare?”

He said, “Of course. Which one?”

I said, “William.”

Four times longer than all Shakespeare’s works?

Proof 1000 monkeys on 1000 typewriters can produce SOMETHING.

I guess you could say, Ripley’s honorificabilitatibusificated Shakespeare today.

At least I can understand Shakespeare.

honorificabilitudinitatibus? I think he just made that up

And the tax code was written not by four, but by only three times the monkeys theoretically required to write Shakespeare’s works.

all the more reason why I hate Shakespeare…indecipherable

Due to the our multiple income sources, after every tax filing I do anually, I have to calculate an estimated tax for the following year and make quarterly payments as a retired married couple. What makes it complicated is that I have to forecast all our pensions that generally increase with respects to COLA increases, and any all interest income that will accrue for the next year, and any “required distributions” for tax deferred savings. . There’s an instructions sheet to follow for calculating taxable social security income based on serveral tax laws that were enacted. So far, I don’t require a distribution from my tax-deferred account until I reach 73, two year from now. It is very, very complicated. We used an accounting firm a few years back to do our taxes when my wife had two 7-Eleven store franchises as a business, but now I’m on my own. If people are in my situation, they’d see how a flat tax would be beneficial but most the economist that I read don’t see where that’s possible based on the tax codes enacted by previous legislation. It’s a Gordian Knot without a simple solution.

US Tax Code should be one sentence “Everyone pays 5%”

I am not at all surprised that the term was used in “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” which focuses heavily on elitist snobs.

In the Day after Tomorrow they were happy for the tax code, it burned well and nobody felt guilty about burning it

I think brass too.