Ridiculous and Awesome 'Believe it or Nots!'
published October 1, 2009
Everyone remembers the "Ripley's Believe it or Nots!" I'm not sure what they do these days, but I recently dug up a book about 20 years old. They had these fantastically drawn cartoons and Comic Sans-like font, and had the key words in bold. Well, I will share about 12 of the most ridiculous of them. So I challenge you to believe it (or not).
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I learned a few things from this one as a kid. 1) Don't be bald, and 2) I really really want to be a tragedian too! Though it's impossible to prove this actually happened, it's ridiculous enough that it has to be true.
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I just have to call horseshit on this one. Any horse typing on a typewriter would look like this. "trmnnxtprsdnt n weguto wa r n ww2 " Wait what? |
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Holy hell. He better have gone to invent penicillin or discovered Neptune or something.
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This sounds like a story anyone can make up and all they need is a bullet. Tough to say, but this one could easily be bullshit.
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Creditors: 4,255,806,221. Everyone Else: 1 |
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Unbelievable. There's NO way that a bird was flying above those shots and had the intelligence to understand golf and to audibly say "Wow." File me under "Or Not" for this one.
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And you all thought WW1 was caused by... something like Archduke Ferdinand assassinating Kaiser WIlhelm or some shit.
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I can imagine how this one came to be. He probably said something to offend a Voodoo lady and she placed the strangest hex on him. "You like to put your foot in your mouth, well we shall see how you like your mouth in your foot."
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Wow, did people actually get executed this way? If so, why did they stop!? This sounds like it would be an awesome beginning to an awesome movie. Get on it, Hollywood!
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This is probably the most memorable Believe it or Not. Something is awesome about a storm that rips a town to shreds and kills hundreds, yet will place a baby gently into the branches of a tree.
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Call me old fashioned, but if you're in such bad shape as to be be pronounced dead twice in a bicycle race, perhaps you should not be bicycle racing?
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Note to self: Carry golf ball in ass pocket at all times, and while you're at it, wear pants with zippers.
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