What a Rip!
In pursuit of weird factoids for his Ripley’s Believe It or Not newspaper feature, cartoonist Robert Ripley traveled to 197 countries…more than any other person! With the wealth from the empire he created, Ripley built a huge mansion, and kept a collection of shrunken heads, backward-swimming fish, and a private harem of women collected from the four corners of the globe! Believe it or not!
— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
One of my favorite old jokes: “My wife is so ugly, I sent her picture to Ripley and he sent it back saying ‘I don’t believe it!’”