Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 02, 2012
Transcript:
The RMS Titanic sank in 1912 with more than 7 million pieces of mail on board- all of which the US would be required to help deliver if it could be recovered! Ernest Vincent Wright's 1939 novel, Gadsby, was entirely written without the use of the letter E! When villagers near Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, India, thought vampires were killing their cattle in early 2012, officials offered a $2,000 cash reward for all vampires!
Aussie Down Under over 12 years ago
Now that seems totally unfair to vampires, to blame them all when it might have been the work of just one. A good defence lawyer would have had a field day.
Tog over 12 years ago
It does Prof. I noticed that but you beat me to it. You do have to wonder why he wanted to write that particular book.
Stagger Lee over 12 years ago
If you have not heard the quote “There is no I in Team” before, where the hell have you been living? This is one of those lines that every coach of every team sport at every level from t-ball to the major leagues has used over an over again to try and get the players to buy into the vision that the team is more important than the individuals on the team.
—Rudi Shumpert
tahoeh2o over 12 years ago
“RMS”, Royal Mail Ship…
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
Getting a reward for rounding up vampires is “blood money”!
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
“The importance of being rnst.”I’m sure he could have done it ‘Wright’ with ‘ease’.
Sky_Shachaq over 12 years ago
Calling Dr. Van Helsing. Calling Dr. Van Helsing.
strodgers over 12 years ago
@Stagger Lee, Michael Jordan is reportedly have countered, "But there is an ‘i’ in win.
Echo Sam over 12 years ago
I think I saw somewhere that someone made that “There’s no I in TEAM” comment to Michael Jordan, he replied with “But there is an I in WIN”.
Fan o’ Lio. over 12 years ago
All these “Vampire” movies pale in comparison to the original Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, filmed over 80 years ago.
Fan o’ Lio. over 12 years ago
An excerpt from Gadsby:.http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/gadsby.htm
iced tea over 12 years ago
I could never figure out how Ernest V.Wright could write without using the letter E. E is the most common letter in the English language.