Quote
"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."
Lee Iacocca
Joke
The raisin wined about how he couldn't achieve grapeness.
Fun Fact
According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
Depending on your beliefs, these Genesis verses state that God created birds – not eggs that would hatch into birds. This includes chickens!
Reading Fact
John Steinbeck worked as a caretaker in Lake Tahoe and used his spare time to write his first novel.
History Fact
Burned at the Stake
One expert suggests that as many as 600,000 people who were designated “witches” perished during the medieval period.
Movie/TV Trivia
In the Stephen King novella for The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman’s Red is described as a white Irishman. The script sees Red sarcastically quip, “Maybe it’s cause I’m Irish” as a nod to the change.
Movie/TV Quote
"I know that babies taste the best."
Snowpiercer (2013)
This one requires a spoiler alert. When Chris Evans, face dirtied, utters this line in Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer, a thriller about a class uprising on a train containing the last of civilization circling the globe, it's a total shock. Evans' hero, Curtis, has fought his way through most of the train before he makes the confession that, in the early days of this apocalypse, the poorest citizens were deprived of food and resorted to eating one another. Curtis is a tortured soul because he knows what people taste like, and, by extension, he knows that "babies taste best." The admission is dramatic and absurdist all at once, perfectly capturing the bizarre tone of Bong's film, which is both gritty and features Tilda Swinton in fake teeth.
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