Today's Dippit!

Quote

"It’s time to say goodbye to the person we’ve become, who we’ve worked so hard to perfect, and to make some crucial decisions in becoming who we’re going to be." 

Stephen Colbert

Joke

What is a tornado’s favourite game to play?

Twister!

Fun Fact

A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”.

Reading Fact The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter.

This book was written in 1876 and was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter. Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer is about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story of this book is probably one of the best adventure stories for kids and teens up to this day.

History Fact

The first known artworks date back to roughly 100,000 years ago.

It is believed to have begun with the Homo Sapiens during the Upper Paleolithic era.

The oldest known artworks were found in what is now France.

Movie/TV Trivia

Sam Raimi has a lucky car that is in all of his films, including his pre-automobile western, The Quick and the Dead.

Movie/TV Quote

"There's no crying in baseball!"

A League of Their Own, 1992

Conversation Starter

What’s the worst movie you have seen recently?

Writing Prompt

A child moves into a new house and finds out that the other kids in town think it's haunted. She begins to invent ghost stories to tell at school in order to get attention. But the more stories she tells, the more frightened she becomes of the house...