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

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    wooleys2001  22 days ago

    Paralympic Opening Ceremony is tomorrow.

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    pearlsbs  22 days ago

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

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    Pickled Pete  22 days ago

    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.”

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    Bilan  22 days ago

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

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  22 days ago

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

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    kaycstamper  22 days ago

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

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    kucpa Premium Member 22 days ago

    Where’s @jasonsnakelover been?

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    frogman0628  22 days ago

    And Nada won!

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 22 days ago

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

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    yangeldf  22 days ago

    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

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    mindjob  22 days ago

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

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    h.v.greenman  22 days ago

    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)

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    GojusJoe  22 days ago

    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.

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    oish  22 days ago

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

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    pearlsbs  22 days ago

    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.

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    pbr50138  18 days ago

    Today’s my 75th birthday.

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