Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it." 

Meister Eckhart

Joke

How do you stop an astronaut’s baby from crying?

You rocket!

Fun Fact

Newborns don't have kneecaps.

This belief is only a half truth, as babies actually technically do have kneecaps when they are born. Those knees just aren't hardened yet, and remain soft cartilage throughout their childhood until they eventually turn into bone.

Reading Fact

Three best-selling books in the world

The books are the Holy Bible (6 billion copies), Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (900 million), and the Harry Potter series (500 million copies sold). We bet you didn’t expect Mao Tse-Tung to make the list. We certainly didn’t. Gotta wonder what’s the story there.

History Fact

A Clash of Kings

The four suited kings in a traditional deck of cards actually represent historical kings. Some of the assignations are in dispute, but largely the kings are thought to be: King David of Israel as the King of Spades, Alexander the Great as the King of Clubs, Charlemagne as the King of Hearts, and either Augustus or Julius Caesar as the King of Diamonds.

Movie/TV Trivia

Buzz Lightyear's original name was Lunar Larry.

Movie/TV Quote

"Difficult difficult lemon difficult."

In the Loop (2009)

Before Armando Iannucci was scripting some of the most wonderfully cruel dialogue on television for his Veep, he made In the Loop, a film spinoff of his British series The Thick of It, starring Peter Capaldi as the gloriously profane director of communications Malcolm Tucker. Like Veep, In the Loop is concerned with cogs in the political wheels of both Britain and America. At one point, the hapless Secretary of State for International Development Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) gets himself an invite to the Future Planning committee in Washington and encourages his underling Toby Wright (Chris Addison) to leave the room and gather information. "It'll be easy peasy lemon squeezy," Simon says. To which Toby responds: "No, it won't, it will be 'difficult difficult lemon difficult.'" The nonsensical phrase "difficult difficult lemon difficult" took off online (where people have a love for nonsensical phrases), continuing on its second life as an ideal expression of exasperation independent of the movie.

Conversation Starter

If you could get all your family members to donate to a charity, what would it be and why?

Writing Prompt

Do You Like Your Friends?