Today's Dippit!

Quote

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?" 

George Eliot

Joke

When a deaf person sees someone yawn do they think it’s a scream?

Fun Fact

Contrary to popular belief, it’s really, really hard to see the Great Wall of China from space, particularly with the naked eye.

Reading Fact

Reading for as little as 30 minutes a week can produce greater life satisfaction.

History Fact

During the Great Depression, people made clothes out of food sacks.

People used flour bags, potato sacks, anything made out of burlap really.

Because of this, food distributors started to make their sacks more colorful to help people remain a little bit fashionable.

Movie/TV Trivia

After 90 minutes of knob jokes, arguments about the untimely demise of construction workers on the Death Star and one act of necrophilia, Kevin Smith’s Clerks ends with Dante simply clocking off his shift. However the original ending saw him meet his maker at the hands of an armed gunman. He wasn’t even supposed to have been there.

Movie/TV Quote

"Go ahead, make my day." 

Sudden Impact, 1983

Conversation Starter

How should success be measured? And by that measurement, who is the most successful person you know?

Writing Prompt

Why do I want to be rich? What are the specific traits or things you will be able to do? Is there a way to have those now?