Quote
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
Deborah Norville
Joke
I should have been sad when my flash light batteries died, but I was delighted.
Fun Fact
Birds don’t urinate.
Contrary to what most mammals do, birds convert nitrogen to uric acid.
They get rid of this uric acid through the same place as they get rid all their other waste – their anus.
History Fact
The Puritans Didn't Come to the New World for 'Religious Freedom'
The Protestant "Separatists" left Holland because of too much religious freedom, since the country allowed Judaism and Catholicism and even atheism. Because of this, the Puritans dipped and went to the Mayflower where they embarked across the pond for the new world.
Movie/TV Trivia
Melancholia
During the Cannes Film Festival press conference for the film, Lars von Trier responded to a question about the use of Wagner's music, by calling himself a Nazi, and saying that he sympathized with Hitler. Despite apologizing for his remarks, he was banned from the remainder of the festival, and declared a persona non grata by festival organizers, a first in the history of the festival.
Movie/TV Quote
"You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome."
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
George Miller effortlessly created a whole world, complete with its own societal structure and mythology, within the first half hour of his epic Mad Max: Fury Road, adding fierce Imperators and albino "warboys" to his diesel-drenched post-apocalyptic saga. The tyrannical Immortan Joe has developed a religion in order to subjugate his people, convincing them that, when they die, they'll continue to "ride shiny and chrome" in the viking afterlife of Valhalla. That's what he says to young Nux (Nicholas Hoult) before he sends him on a suicide mission. It's the YOLO of the sandy, violent future. It's also the thing your lizard brain says to itself right before you run a red light.
Conversation Starter
What trends did you follow when you were younger?
Writing Prompt