Daily Quote
"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
George Eliot
Writing Prompt
What Are Your Experiences With Severe Weather?
Conversation Starter
If you had to get rid of a holiday, which would you get rid of? Why?
Joke of the Day
Last night I had a dream that I weighed less than a thousandth of a gram.
I was like, 0mg.
Fun Fact
4% of the sand on Normandy beach is made up of shrapnel from D-Day that has broken down.
History Fact
Senator Horseman
Conquerors really love their horses, and Roman Emperor Gaius—you might know him as Caligula—even went so far as to make his horse a senator, and wanted to eventually make it a consul.
Weird Laws
Texas: Keep litter on aircrafts
It is illegal in Galveston, Texas to throw litter out of an aircraft. Besides, using the blue bins is so much easier.
Food Thing
Mozzarella Sticks at Cosa Buona in Los Angeles
Good mozzarella sticks have a cheese pull no other dish can rival, and Cosa Buona boasts the best pull of all. The sticks were in fact specifically designed to stretch: The chef experimented with several different cheeses before settling on a low-moisture smoked mozz that he claims can extend up to 15 feet.
Movie/TV Trivia
Maleficent
Angelina Jolie admitted that she scared little kids while in costume on the set of Maleficent, with one kid actually saying, "Mommy, please get the mean witch to stop talking to me." She adds that her daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, who played young Aurora, was the only child who was not scared of her.
Movie/TV Quote
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
Gone With the Wind, 1939