Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 21, 2024

What is Democracy? A boy is asked at school as homework.

So the little boy goes to his dad and asks, “What is democracy?”

Dad says, “Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I’m the breadwinner of the family, so let’s call me capitalist. Your Mom spends the money, so we’ll call her the Government. Nanny is working at home for money, she’s the worker class. We’re here to spend that money to take care of you, the people. And your baby brother in bed, the future.”

So the little boy goes off to bed and later hears his baby brother crying, he gets up to check on him and finds that he severely soiled his diaper. So the boy goes to his parents’ room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door locked, he peeps in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy goes to school. When teacher askes if anyone got the answer to the homework he raises hand, “Democracy is, while Capitalists are screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep sh!t.”

That’s a nice picture of the monkey…Except, of course, for it’s most distinctive feature: The RED LEGS!!

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www reddit, then the above

Red-shanked Douc Langur

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I have info on that langur. neprimateconservancy. Org/red-shanked-douc-langur/

Wife wakes up and catches her husband trying to sneak in at 4:30 AM.“Where have you been?” She asks.“Well, I hope you can forgive me, Dear. I stopped off after work to have a drink. I started talking to this pretty young Lady, one thing led to another, and I went to her house and spent the night. I am SO sorry”She whopped him in the head and said, “You no good, rotten so-and-so you’ve been to Midnight Bowling again!”

For the English (and other nationals) among us, could anybody explain what the heck “Peeps” are and how they are related to that weird yellow blob that seems to have melted on to the strip!

That Mole thing is a little creepy…

So if you find a peep with wings you get to try the original recipe.

I heard several years ago that the word f**k was the most understood word in the world. Even indigenous peoples in secluded areas of the world understood the word, its meaning, and they generally had a word that meant the same thing that also sounded similar. Today, that word has a meaning more like heck, darn.

I wonder if maybe those Peeps got their wings clipped for flying away before Easter.

I didn’t know that about mole rats. Now I have great respect for them

I wonder if you’ll discuss the most distinct feature of male vervet monkeys.

What are peeps?

I’ll bet there are some 4-letter words that are better known.

There are two colonies of mole rats at the Dallas zoo, and in 7 years of feeding them I have never seen even one rat use its incisors like chopsticks

“Coca-Cola” is the second most widely understood term in the world after “OK”.

Really? An experience of mine says otherwise. Back in 1992 in Klagenfurt Austria, I tried ordering a Coca-Cola from a woman operating a snack bar in the train station. I tried everything to make her understand. Repeating the name and pointing to a can didn’t help. Just my luck to find the only person in Austria who didn’t understand “Coca-Cola”. I ended up not buying anything.

Later on during the same trip, I asked a young guy selling tour books if he spoke English. He answered in perfect English, as if insulted, “Well. of course I do!”

I couldn’t win on that trip.