Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners." 

Eric Thomas

Joke

An old grandma brings a bus driver a bag of peanuts every day. 

First the bus driver enjoyed the peanuts but after a week of eating them he asked: "Please granny, don't bring me peanuts anymore. Have them yourself.". 

The granny answers: "You know, I don't have teeth anymore. I just prefer to suck the chocolate around them."

Fun Fact

This is one animal myth that’s true: Eating parts of a pufferfish can kill you because, in a defense mechanism to ward off predators, it contains a deadly chemical called tetrodotoxin. There’s enough in one pufferfish to kill 30 people—and there’s no antidote. Still, pufferfish, called fugu, is a highly-prized delicacy in Japan, but can only be prepared by well-trained chefs.

Reading Fact

When we read, we come across different characters, whose life experiences differ from our own. Reading helps to develop a child's ideas and personalities, as kids will compare their beliefs and thought processes to those of the characters they read.

History Fact

Thine Mamma

Shakespeare gave us what many see as the perfection of the English sonnet, dozens of new words and phrases that we still use today, and a lasting oeuvre of work that we’re forced to study in high school. He also, in his infinite wisdom, gave us one of the very first ancestors of the “yo mamma” joke:

Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?

Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.

Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.

Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

Burn!

Movie/TV Trivia

Pulp members Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway were four of The Weird Sisters in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Jason Buckle (All Seeing I) and Steven Claydon (Add n to (x)) completed the line up.

Movie/TV Quote

 “Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937

Conversation Starter

What’s the most useful thing you own?

Sure, this one is good for a general conversation starter, but what is really nice is being able to get some ideas on what works well and is generally awesome to have.

Writing Prompt

Would You Want to Grow Up in the Public Eye?