Quote
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Joke
Police were called to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest
Fun Fact
The Japanese have a work philosophy called “kaizen,” where people constantly seek to find ways to improve methods instead of just doing it the same way.
Reading Fact
The word “robot” was invented by Czech painter Josef Čapek and first used in his brother’s sci-fi play R.U.R in 1920.
The frequently used international word “robot” first originated in Karel Čapek’s play Rossum’s Universal Robots. It derives from the Slavic word robota, which means labor (especially forced labor), and was used to denote humanoid, mass-produced, completely emotionless workers incapable of original thinking and indifferent to self-preservation.
Čapek himself did not coin the word – in a letter to the Oxford English Dictionary, he credits his brother, the painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual originator.
History Fact
Shakespeare originated the “yo momma” joke.
Shakespeare gave the English language a plethora of slick new words, some fairly excellent poetry including the perfected form of the sonnet, as well as a load of plays which are mostly the bane of high-school English students.
Something else he also gave us was the “yo momma” joke.
In his play Titus Andronicus, one of the characters, Chiron, exclaims “Thou has undone our mother” to which another character, Aaron, replies “Villain, I have done thy mother.”
Shots fired.
Movie/TV Trivia
C.S. Lewis reviewed The Hobbit in 1937 saying, ” The Hobbit may well prove a classic.”
Movie/TV Quote
“You're gonna need a bigger boat.”
Jaws, 1975
Conversation Starter
How can technology improve education? Can it hurt education?
Writing Prompt
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