Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." 

Marilyn Vos Savant

Joke

When you look really closely, all mirrors look like eyeballs.

Fun Fact

Among lost works, this story might be even worse: Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, left a suitcase full of the author’s writing on a train. When she went back to get it, it was gone. “I had never seen anyone hurt by a thing other than death or unbearable suffering except Hadley when she told me about the things being gone,” Hemingway wrote in A Moveable Feast.

Reading Fact

Reading can make you more attractive

History Fact

Shrapnel is named after its inventor.

British Army Officer Henry Shrapnel was the first person to invent an anti-personnel shell that could transport a large number of bullets to its target before releasing them.

This was all at a far greater distance than current rifle fire at the time.

Movie/TV Trivia

After his character was shot in the foot by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, Michael Imperioli’s Christopher got fictional retribution by shooting a baker in the foot in The Sopranos. His kiss-off line? “It happens”.

Movie/TV Quote

“Snap out of it!”

Moonstruck, 1987

Conversation Starter

Where is the most beautiful place you have been?

This one will probably lead to a good travel story. And conversations about travel are always fun.

Writing Prompt

What is the least crowded channel into what I want to accomplish?