Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 13, 2024

Topic ~ Eggplant

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ENGLISH IS A FUNNY LANGUAGE

Let’s face it — English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, not ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

You don’t have to be crazy to use the English language, but it sure as heck helps!

The only question I have for Andrew Stanton is, Why?

But did Dave grow it?

Didn’t know mice needed conserving. Oversized vegetables are easy to grow. Just leave them on the plant. They aren’t fit to eat.

You could make a lot of eggplant parmesan with that!

Here we don’t build houses for mice, we buy electronic zappers for them! Crazy!

I like the Wimbledon item. :-)

So we have too few mice?

Wimbledon promoting pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Eye sockets? That’s got to hurt!

The dolphin info is good but the rest is as dumb as a 8.33 pound eggplant.

As a senior who had to use a walker for the last three months, those tennis balls would be far more useful donated to charities to be used as “feet” on walkers. I can’t speak for other people, but I was wearing out a set a week, at $12 a pair just walking the 200 yards to get the mail daily. (cement walkways are worse than sandpaper)

The mouse thing is probably sponsored by pest exterminators.

Tennis Balls? Gives new meaning to the term “Room Service”

Why, Dave, why? The world won’t eat eight pounds of eggplant before it goes bad.

i have a picture of me taken when i was 3 hours old – i was born with sideburns – they fell out but i grew them back when i was a teenager

I have whiskers and if the air is charged with enough static electricity, they’ll stand on end, BION.

tennis balls: coffins for “rain frogs”?

Not the same Andrew Stanton as at Pixar, I trust.

Ought to donate to people that have to use walkers. They make great pads.. stops scratching the floors.

FGS, somebody, give that poor fool something safer and saner to do with his free time!! It’s a boredom emergency!

It only takes the smell of the skin of one eggplant to make me PUKE…..Hated being a Mess cook in the Navy for two months…They are banned from my house….

Barf……

That’s one heavy driver!

Mr. Stanton needs a mental health check.