Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." 

Richard Branson

Joke

How does a vampire start a letter?

Tomb it may concern...

Fun Fact

Pluto technically isn't even a year old.

Pluto was discovered on February 18th, 1930. It is the farthest (dwarf) planet from the Sun, requiring it to go a much farther distance than we are used to on Earth. It takes 248 Earth-years for Pluto to complete one rotation of its own around the sun. This places Pluto's first birthday since its discovery on Monday, March 23, 2178.

Reading Fact

The most famous book thief

In his entire criminal career, Steven Bloomberg stole 23,000 rare books from 268 libraries. The total value of the stolen is estimated to be over $20 million! By the by, people who steal books are called bibliocleptomanes.

History Fact

Citrus Craze

Although they didn’t make it over to England until the 1600s, pineapples became a massive fad in the UK in the 1700s. People would carry them around as symbols of their wealth and status, and everything from clothing to kitchenware was decorated with the exotic fruit. You could even rent a pineapple for an evening and take it out for a spin to impress all your friends.

Movie/TV Trivia

In The Notebook, Ryan Gosling hated Rachel McAdams so much at first that he tried to get her replaced.

Movie/TV Quote

"Now you're in the sunken place."

Get Out (2017)

"Yo, this is iconic," director and Oscar-winning screenwriter Jordan Peele told Daniel Kaluuya before shooting the scene in Get Out where Catherine Keener's eerie hypnotist Missy sends Kaluuya's Chris to the sunken place. Peele was absolutely right: It's more than the line Missy says to Chris as his consciousness sinks further away from his paralyzed body. Much like the movie itself, it's a metaphor about race dynamics in America and representation in horror films that's been picked apart (and memed) many times over. Chris's total loss of agency at the hands of a malicious white woman is a clear analog to the systems of oppression that have existed in this country since forever. It's far from the first dissection of this insidious societal mechanism on film -- but it's definitely the scariest, most jarring depiction we can think of.

Conversation Starter

What would be the first thing you would do if you traded places with your family member?

Writing Prompt

How Good a Friend Are You?