rogercopernicus
rogercopernicus t1_ixz70z6 wrote
Reply to comment by The_Truthkeeper in TIL for the Untouchables Brian De Palma casted Bob Hoskins in case De Niro could not appear. De Palma mailed Hoskins a check for his contracted fee of $200,000 with a "Thank You" note, which prompted Hoskins to call up De Palma and ask him if there were any more films he didn't want him to be in. by KongoOtto
The best part is when it predicted 9/11.
rogercopernicus t1_j939dja wrote
Reply to TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long. by class-in-a-glass
There is book called Ella Minnow Pea, about a island that worships the sentence "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog" and have it hanging in city center, put up by their founder 100 years before. The letters start falling off and they take it as a sign from God to not use the letters and the book uses less and less letters as it goes on.