Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 25, 2021

Fifty years later, how is the good doctor?

Big deal, I can take a picture that doesn’t have me in the frame, too.

Actually, half the people on Earth were not in that picture.

After the San Francisco hippies retired to Marin County and elsewhere, they started their families. The schools noticed that children starting to attend often had names such as “Beautiful Child,” “Moon Love,” “Morningsong,” and so on. So when a young boy showed up one morning with “Fruit Stand” pinned on his shirt, the teacher wasn’t surprised. Instead, she made an effort to make the young man feel welcome. “Would you like to draw with crayons, Fruit Stand?” he was asked. “How about a Graham cracker and milk, Fruit Stand?” and even, “It’s recess now, Fruit Stand. Wouldn’t you like to play with the other children?”

The little boy didn’t talk much, though. He got through his first day of school without any conversation or interaction with either student or teacher. At the close of the day, the teacher and her assistant shrugged inwardly, realizing that it sometimes takes awhile to reach a difficult student; they resolved to try harder the next day.

So they prepared to put Fruit Stand on the bus home, and looked on the back of his name tag to see where he was to get off the bus. When they turned the tag over, they saw just one word: Matthew.

Things have changed since 1961. These days you can’t even be assigned to The Antarctic unless you have your appendix removed.

Man. That doctor really had the guts to surgically operate on himself!

How is that possible when the folks on the other side of earth wouldn’t be visible in that frame?

To bee or not to bee in a colony. That is the question, eh.

I’m glad Ripley doesn’t do photography. People on the other side of the Earth were not in the frame. “I’m taking the picture now” “Wait!! I’m still in the other room” “It’s OK. The camera is pointing that way, you’re in the frame…”

90% of bees are free!!!! And we still have monarchies… go figure.

And very sadly it’s not honey bees but the rest of the bee species, like “bumble” bees that are in serious trouble. Honey bees are alien to North America.

Wait a minute… ALL photos do not include the photographer except selfies

I’m glad Ripley quantified “human”…

Now it would have been funny if an alien photobombed him….

So let’s drop our pants and fire off rockets!” ~ Don Rickles

Take care, may renowned space saver Shirley “Sox Drawer” Mord be with you, and gesundheit.

I’m pretty sure I saw that Apollo trivia in another recent RBION, didn’t I?

Slacker bees!

Where do the 90% live? A little hard to believe.

I heard Dr. Rogozov sued himself for malpractice.

Mainly when they walk on hot sidewalks…

There was the one doctor that was at the South Pole research station that got breast cancer and she did the biopsy on herself and administered her chemo treatments. She did have to get airlifted out eventually, though.

The Astronaut pic just might Not be true. We almost lost three men in space * if the Russians did, they would Not be bragging about it. Plus we have No idea of Everything that has transpired in the past.

But do the 90% of bees still sting? Let’s find out…

The last episode of the Cineamax series ‘’The Knick’’ ended with a doctor performing surgery on himself.

If dogs sweat through their feet, wouldn’t they leave wet paw prints?