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Quote

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.


J.R.R. Tolkien


Joke

Knowing how to pick locks has really opened a lot of doors for me.


Fun Fact

ABBA turned down 1 billion dollars to do a reunion tour.

In 2000, ABBA was offered $1 billion dollars to reunite for 100 shows – which would have been $250 million per member.


They turned it down because it wasn’t for them.


History Fact

A Lot of History's Disasters Were Caused By Lack Of Sleep


Start counting those sheep, because sleep is so, so important. So many of history's greatest disasters were the result of a lack of shut-eye, including: Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, the Challenger explosion, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to name a few.


Movie/TV Trivia

The Cabin In The Woods

When Jules kisses the wolf head on the wall, the wolf's tongue is covered in powdered sugar to give it a dusty look and to make the scene tolerable for Anna Hutchison.


Movie/TV Quote

"Would that it were so simple."


Hail, Caesar! (2016)


You truly do not have to have seen the Coen brothers' satire of Blacklist-era Hollywood to appreciate the scene in which "would that it were so simple" appears. A pompous director (Ralph Fiennes) attempts to get a cowboy actor (Alden Ehrenreich) to say an overwrought line of old-timey dialogue correctly. Their back and forth is like an amped up Marx brothers routine and the actual phrase is so surprisingly convoluted that it's all fantastic comedy.


Conversation Starter

Has anyone ever saved your life?


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