Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 17, 2012
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Transcript:
Sold! In 1920, Boston Red Sox baseball team owner Harry Frazee sold George Herman Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $300,000 loan, which he used to help finance theater productions! Cuban artist Yoan Capote creates massive murals with fishhooks! Cheers! During the later years of the Dutch War of Independence (1568-1648) taxes on beer were the Dutch Republic's largest source of income!
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BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
I’ve yet to have a Dutch beer that didn’t taste the way a skunk smells.
ransomdstone over 12 years ago
Hooked on fish capture devices?
alan.gurka over 12 years ago
Something about Yoan Capote’s works that . . . I just can’t let go. I’m stuck on it; maybe even hooked on it. Was he just baiting me?
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
@algurka,You fell for it ‘hook, line, and sinker’!Get ‘reel’! You should get the ‘rod’ (40 lashes with a wet noodle) for those puns!Were you ‘fishing’ for compliments? :o)
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
It’s “Tru” about Capote!
Stephen Gilberg over 12 years ago
I’d sooner believe it for Belgium.
Warren JONES over 12 years ago
Kali39 over 12 years ago
Babe Ruth: Yep, one of the lousiest deals of all time. All of Frazee’s theater productions failed, and it resulted in the Curse of the Bambino for eighty years. Good job, Harry!
Casey Southards over 12 years ago
Selling “The Babe” was not a bright idea. Fish hooks? Beer is a big money maker.
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
I assume he took the fish off them first?