Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 02, 2021

Peric Otts and Pike Motts

May the Lord be with you.

There was one where the mother is knitting a small garment and says “… and if it’s a boy, I’ll give him a biblical name like Cain, or Ananias.”

eleven days after Erin’s birth, was (U.S.) Thanksgiving Day which was also when my nephew was born

It was a magazine cartoon by Charles Addams, for whom the tv people named the family.

They must have run out of good names for the Addams family when they got to the last two characters. So they just decided to call the thing in the box Thing and the hairy creature, Itt.

The father’s name would have been Repelli if Charles Addams had his way, but the producer was able to convince him to choose a more normal name. Addams proposed Gomez, saying “I think he has some Spanish blood.” The producer went with it, and a legend was born.

An owl snatching up an 11 pound puppy? Maybe, just barely maybe a large great gray owl or an exceptionally large great horned owl. Carrying off an 11 pound puppy means they would have to carry almost triple their body weight. Even if an owl did manage to lift off with the puppy the distance he could carry it is measured in yards, and not many of them, so the golf course would have to have been more or less next door. Let alone a large owl’s talons are 4 inches long and grip with the force of a German Shepherd’s bite and would likely have killed the puppy on the spot.

My source of information? My cousin, who works in a raptor rescue and recovery unit of the department of natural resources in our state.

not as impressive as someone born in ’11

Everybody knows they were called, Creepy and Kooky, Mysterious and Spooky, all together Ooky.

the baby born at 11:11 but in 2018 would only have been even more impressive if she was born in the year 1111.

ok, ok, I doubt if they even had the ability to know precisely what time it is in 1111…..so maybe if the kid was born on 2011

oops….ok, what Moshe just said

What’s so impressive about Baby Potts? Someone is born every minute. More impressive will be if she grows up to become a World War I armistice specialist.

The probability of at least one baby being born at 11:11 11/11 is to as near as makes no difference 100%. That goes for any apparently “significant” combination of times and dates one may care to name. What may appear remarkable to the particular family upon whom chance has visited this occurrence is in fact not in the least bit remarkable in fact. Please feel free to inform whoever it is whose baby arrives at 2:22 on the 22nd February next year of this!

One-hundred years to the minute from the signing of the Armistice ending WWI ( not counting the difference in time zones )!

“Well, owl be darned,” the puppy’s owner exclaimed.

Take care, may Houston kennel mopper Fred Phord be with you, and gesundheit.

I’d be more impressed if the kid were born in 2011!

That’s a whole lot of 11’s. Why wasn’t little Panzen Potts born in 2011? It’s like the symphony didn’t get completed!

My friend’s cat was snatched by an owl right out of her fenced backyard.

I was snatched by an 800 lb. gorilla, and raised till I was 14. I still call her ‘mom’.

So, you’re saying that Erin and Mike’s daughter was seven years late?

Too bad the baby was not born in 2011, that would make it remarkable, otherwise it’s lame.

Fester is the greatest name!

They were able to track Latte by following her continual ’owls…

Please tell me that baby’s name is “Eleven”.

Heck, there was probably around 20 babies born at 11:11(am or pm) on Nov 11, 1111.

A baby born every minute is 525,000/year. There was probably about 10 times that many born in any given year back in the middle ages as there was around 275 million people alive at the time and figuring average life expectancy of around 27. So on any given minute, 10 babies were born in 1111. Since we’re counting AM and PM, that’s 20 that were likely born world-wide on that day at those times.) Believe it or not.

I.e. “Yeah? And your point is??????”

I’m sure glad that we were told that November 11 is the 11th day of the 11th month. I would have missed that.

Wouldn’t the 11th day of the 11th month automatically be November 11th?

love John Astin, who turns 91 this March

Ted Cassidy actually dressed better than David Cassidy during his TV series.

The description, “Originally a magazine cartoon,” gives short shrift to the cartoon brilliance of Charles Addams.

She was late by more than 900 years.

On 11 11th Street!

Now if the baby was only born in 2011…

Before “The Addams Family” TV series, Hanna-Barbera cartoonists did their own take on the Charles Addams characters, Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist.