Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 27, 2022

One time I was 1,401%. So if you’re wishing for bacteria on your birthday, you can count on your wish being granted.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

Athazagoraphobics’ theme song must be “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds.

How many people got sick or died after eating cake blown on by birthday celebrant? In the millions? I doubt it, unless the person is hacking and barfing. I doubt few

Believe it or not!

Umm, I was gonna write a comment but…but…Oh Forget it!!

The day after this comic came out, over 77,000 men who were 99 years old signed up for a sex change operation…

I never took ill after blowing out the candles on my birthday cakes.

Then stop celebrating birthdays when you get to a certain age and your immune system is kaput, or let the rest of the birthday attendants get sick.

The Japanese version of Willard Scott [R.I.P.] must give away a lot of jelly.

Could the Japanese longevity thing be due to WWll where so many of their men died?

So I guess my ex could’ve used that phobia excuse, but instead opted to just do her nails, chew gum, and watch General Hospital.

Take care, may revered centenarian Yamichi “They Say I’m A Hundred Years Old I Lost Count At Around Seventy Or Seventy-Five Or Whenever It Was My Slippers Kept Walking To The Other Side Of The Room” Watanabord be with you, and gesundheit.

Now, I’m waiting for sweeps week where they put the blacklight on birthday cakes to show the glop on them.

I wanted some context on how significant the over 100 age is as a demographic so I looked up the current population of Japan, and was surprised to find out it’s 126 million, that’s over a third of the population of the United States. That’s pretty interesting considering Japan is only about the size of California, pretty high population density…

OK, next year I’ll use bellows.

Hey! All three topic are intertwined with each other! Usually it’s just two!

a few years ago there was a huge scandal when the Japanese government admitted the lost a few 100 of their citizens over 100

Cleave: to stick together.Cleave: to separate.

I think that all of you commenters have missed the meaning of the word. All of your examples are of a word with more than one meaning. The example I gave above (cleave) shows that the meanings of the word are opposite of each other. There are other examples, but it’s late and I’m too tired to think of them right now.

The idea of blowing on a cake, and how it still an accepted practice, confounds me! I took a page from my grandfather — he always clapped his hands together forcefully to put them out. The germaphobe in me like this much better.