Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 20, 2024

Poetry can take a lot out of you.

Ballooning at the Olympics? Somebody is full of hot air!

Everything evolves

Trying to justify having break dancing in the olympics?

Did they check to see if the poets were taking steroids?

If nothing more, Break Dancing this year generated a lot of memes…

Nice effort but “There once was a man from Parie” is not going to get you into medal contention.

and now breakdancing is an Olympic sport

And just what was in that drink? Inquiring minds need to know.

The wind shifted and NOBODY crossed the finish line.

I’m sorry , but just how did that " person " pass the physical ? I always thought that a woman’s genitalia and a mans were a little different ?

When poetry was in the Olympics, did Australia submit limericks?

There was a poetry competition final with two contestants, a university student and an old country man.

They each had 20 seconds to come up with a poem about Timbuktu.

The student goes first and says, “Across the desert sands, crossed a lonely caravan, men on camels two by two, destination Timbuktu.”

The crowd goes wild cheering for the poem.

The old country man then goes, “Tim and I off hunting went, found some girls in a pop up tent, they were three and we were two, and I buck one and Tim buck two.”

How about the lyre-playing?

When crochet becomes an “Olympic Sport”…I am done watching sports. At this rate of stupidity, it just might become one.

Curling is a Winter Olympics sport, why isn’t shuffleboard in the Summer Olympics?

So was town planning an Olympic sport.

I would say poetry was more like an Olympic event rather than a sport.

I’m wondering why the Olympics were ever revived in the first place. It hasn’t brought the world closer together or brought peace to the world. Neither has the United Nations, for that matter.

…and I was grumbling about breakdance as an olympic sport! (What’s next, ballroom dancing?)I’m a conservative when it comes to the Olympics. The only activities I would allow are Track and Field.

ha! “Pistol dueling was an Olympic sport. No, they didn’t use real bullets — they were made of wax. Pistol duels debuted in the 1908 London Olympics ..”

In The Quiet Man “Red” Danaher & “Trooper Thorn” Thornton took a break for a stout in the middle of their donnybrook. I don’t believe either Marquess of Queensbury or London Prize Ring rules allow that.

Did the poets have a cornerman to massage their fingers and clean the quills?

Poetry should be a competitive sport…Ever try something to rhyme something to"Orange" ….…

Tug-O-War was also an Olympic event.

And t hen The Girl From Nantucket spoiled everything….