Quote
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
Robert Frost
Joke
Being vegetarian was a huge missed-steak
Fun Fact
There's a town in Poland where everything is decorated with paintings of flowers.
History Fact
Thine Mamma
Shakespeare gave us what many see as the perfection of the English sonnet, dozens of new words and phrases that we still use today, and a lasting oeuvre of work that we’re forced to study in high school. He also, in his infinite wisdom, gave us one of the very first ancestors of the “yo mamma” joke:
Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
Burn!
Movie/TV Trivia
I Am Legend
Will Smith grew so enamored of his canine co-star, Abbey, that he tried to adopt her when filming was finished, but the dog's trainer could not be persuaded to give her up.
Movie/TV Quote
"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
To Have and Have Not, 1944
The racy double entendre wasn’t penned by the credited screenwriters — that’d be Jules Furthman and William Faulkner — but by producer Howard Hawks, who came up with the line at Lauren Bacall’s test screening. She was so good at it, Hawks asked Faulkner to pencil it into the shooting script.
Conversation Starter
Have you ever really kept a New Year’s resolution?
Writing Prompt