Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 19, 2020

I guess Mitch was getting tired of taste tester until the company got someone else?

If all they make is pet food, why are they called Muenster Milling? That doesn’t fit any definition of the word “milling” and they don’t put cheese in it.

Mitch actually died. He was chasing cars and got run over.

No wonder my wine tastes like bird poop!

Just because that dog food is ok for humans to consume does not mean that it’s healthy for a dog.

Years before this, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not had a similar story about a wealthy philanthropist who ate only dog food so that he could provide for the poor.

I’m still amazed at how long trees can live when left undisturbed. I wonder if the songbirds help keep that tree productive?

I have a hammer factory. I use my own hammers as paperweights, everyone in my family has been doing that since the company started 300 years ago. Just to prove the high quality of our product. Never a problem, not one tiny piece of paper has ever been displaced by a breeze. Does it make any sense?

i think his wife must have prepared it for him……

Can they harvest the cork without killing the tree?

I have an olive tree in my garden that’s more than 1000 years old.

So… yeah, hi George Washington.

Then Mitch got fired when he started chasing cars and marking his territory.

In Mitch’s own words…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE-YDcHa1qY

There is a tree in a parking lot of the local supermarket that has a ton of birds in it constantly chirping away. It is like a singing tree. Not very old though.

This tree is just a young upstart. The oldest LIVING tree is called “Methuselah” and is 4,765 years old. This tree is nearly 1,000 years older than any other bristlecone alive today. It lives in a secret location in the White Mountain range of eastern California. The oldest known tree named “Prometheus” was cut down in 1964 by a doctoral student. He was studying climate change as expressed in receding glaciers whose historic size could be measured by influence on the growth rings of nearby ancient bristlecones. This happened in what is now known as Great Basin National Park. The tree was later confirmed to be almost 4,900 years old.

They ended the experiment when he lifted his leg and peed on the office furniture.

Well, that’s what he TOLD people what he was eating.

And where is this Whistling tree located?

That picture of Mitch looks like the least amount of effort made by Ripley’s to make it look like a drawing I’ve seen yet! :p

When I was a boy & my sister was a toddler she ate a couple Milk Bones. Mum flipped out, insisting she needed to go to the ER & get her stomach pumped. Dad replied that they don’t kill the dog, they won’t hurt her.

huh, hmm, huh

Now that is a ‘fossil’ cloning project I could support

ARF !!!!

Many, many years ago there was a canned dog food brand called Lassie’s Recipe. As an April Fools Day joke my mother and I served it to the family claiming it was a new recipe. It looked like real human stew. Seriously. It really did! Nothing like the “stew” brands sold these days.

Gross!

The puppy is proof of the power of good vodka…