Talk:Robert Ripley

message: In the top it says he completed thirteen episodes while in the time line it says he died after the first one. Which is correct?
1890 Born in Santa Rosa, California on Christmas Day 
1901 Receives his formal education 
...eleven years old?
88.90.207.232 15:18, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episodes of the Original Show 

message: The leading photo doesn't exist... it needs one. - - Danreilly123 08:40, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: It appears there may be a Hollywood movie coming out "Ripley's Believe it or Not" and the man who will play Mr Ripley?.......JIM CAREY!
Carey's Wiki article list this as an upcoming movie. It is listed on IMBD as having a 2011 release date. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492445/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.242.174 (talk) 02:11, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movie? 

message: It says that Ripley married Beatrice Roberts in 1919. That would mean that she (Beatrice Roberts) was only 14 when they married!!! 
Not to mention that he was also 12 years older than her when they married(assuming he was born in 1893, but if he was born in 1890, he would be 15 years older than her) Another article says that Mr. Ripley never talked about the marriage. Most likely because even then it was considered innapproprate and he didn't want to spoil his image. I used to think he was a good person until I found out about that. I also found out from another site that before and after his 3 month marriage to Beatrice Roberts that he had as many as 5 live in girlfriends (one wonders if he was cheating on his wife). Believe it or Not! SuzieSingB (talk) 22:09, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriage to Beatrice Roberts 

message: The biography site called NNDB also has Mr. Ripley's biography. If you look at the bibliography of that page it says that the original research came from Wikipedia. In his biography on Wikipedia, it says that some research came from NNDB. What is going on here? SuzieSingB (talk) 13:26, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Research Concerns 

message: There are 5 necessary citations for that page!!!! Can you believe it (or not:-)) !!! Someone really needs to clean that page up!!!! Concerning that trivia section, who on earth came up with that !?! That page is  a mess!!!! SuzieSingB (talk) 14:05, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Look at all of those necessary citations! 

message: I think it should be noted that Robert Ripley was born LeRoy Ripley, but changed his name to Robert. Just a suggestion SuzieSingB (talk) 16:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a reliable a source for this? -- œ™ 09:59, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There is now. 98.248.92.220 (talk) 05:51, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Name 

message: In this entry, it says that Ripley died of cancer (side box) and of a heart attack (in the chronology). I couldn't be both.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.173.164.178 (talk) 18:39, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death? 

message: In the article, it says he purchased a third home in High Mount, Florida in 1947.  There is no such place as High Mount.   Might be Mount Dora, that's the closest thing I've ever heard of.  I'm 99.9% sure that High Mount doesn't exist.  No citation on where that name came from, does anyone know?
Jimindc (talk) 06:50, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  High Mount 

message: I placed this header because originally under "Death" there was a subhead called "Mysteries" but the content makes no reference to any mystery surrounding Ripley's death or any other mysteries and instead simply talks about how the comic was put together. If anyone has a better header, or feels the material is better suited in another part of the article (or merged with the Ripley's Believe it or Not article), feel free. I just felt the original "mysteries" header made no sense. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 17:24, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "The Comic Strip" header

message: As the article is currently written, it would seem that Ripley popped up out of nowhere in 1919 for his wedding.  Shouldn't there be some mention of what happened in the first three decades of his life?
Ripley was an established newspaper cartoonist and writer by 1919.  Searching Chronicling America for "by Robert L. Ripley" reveals his illustrated column (drawings AND text) as early as 1914.  It reveals that he was published in the Washington Evening Star, the GrandForks Daily Herald, the Washington Times, the Albuquerque Evening Herald, all prior to 1919.  In 1919 his work also appeared in the Seattle Star and the Chattanooga News.  So it is very likely that his column was syndicated, well before he was hired by the New York papers.
Here's the search URL.  Check out his earlier work.  Much of it is very similar in style to the BION feature.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1836&sort=date&date2=1922&searchType=advanced&language=&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=by+robert+L.+ripley&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2
DiffuseGoose (talk) 00:55, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Before "Believe It Or Not"