Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 27, 2024

Paralympic Opening Ceremony is tomorrow.

Apparently Jason got banned. He is still posting but his posts aren’t showing up. He might not know that he has been censored.

The Night the Eiffel Tower’s Lights Went Out

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One fateful night, the lights on the Eiffel Tower went out. It was, of course, a national tragedy for all of France, and quite a problem, not the least of which being the fact that airplanes could very easily fly right into the thing.

The French government called every last engineer or electrician they could think of, and each one tried to fix the lights with no success. It was a baffling, befuddling problem that it seemed nobody could solve.

Then, out of nowhere, a man with the smallest hands anyone had ever seen came to the French officials and said, “I’ll do it. I’ll fix lights.”

The officials asked him what qualifications he had.

“None.” he said

They asked him his plan.

Again, “None.”

The officials laughed, but they were out of options. So they sent the man up to the top of the tower with no hope that he could succeed.

But he DID!

Within minutes, the lights on the Eiffel Tower shined brighter than they ever had. The officials were stunned, but elated. As the small-handed man came back down from the tower, they regaled him and hailed him as a national hero.

One question remained, however.

“How’d you do it? How’d you fix it?” they asked.

The man’s speech was poor, and he said few words, but he was able to say:

“Mini hands make light work.”

RBioN just contradicted itself. Zhang Haohao wasn’t the youngest participant at the Olympics, it was Nada’s child.

“Did you win any medals?” Nada. “None at all?” lol, lmao, har har, etc.. so on, so forth…

They shouldn’t allow someone to participate that pregnant, it could endanger the child!

Where’s @jasonsnakelover been?

And Nada won!

I got some ancient Roman coins but they’re only good when I visit The Forum in Rome. Togas required.

I’m surprised the olympics let a pregnant woman compete, since pregnancy fills the body with so many hormones it would make it difficult to detect steroids in the system

Are they sure Nada was a woman? Medical procedures make anything possible now

I’m surprised at the 11 year old skateboarder, I thought you had to be 18 to compete in the Olympic games. (I didn’t watch the Olympics this time for personal reasons)

Hello. I think it’s time for the Olympic committee to get rid of skateboarding and break dancing, and professional basketball players, and get back to amateur track and field, gymnastics and swimming events.

So if the medals contain “original pieces of the Eiffel Tower” does that mean the current tower is a replica?

Message for Jason:

When you are banned you can still see your own comments when you are logged into gocomics but nobody else can see them.

Sign out of gocomics. Then go look at the comments and you will not be able to see your comments.

Today’s my 75th birthday.