Today's Dippit!

Quote

"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible." 

Arthur C. Clarke

Joke

What do you call two birds in love?

Tweethearts!

Fun Fact

To leave a party without telling anyone is called in English, a “French Exit”. In French, it’s called a “partir à l’anglaise”, to leave like the English.

Reading Fact

Truman Capote considered himself a “completely horizontal author” because he couldn’t think and write unless he was lying down.

Some writers find lying down in bed the best way to get their creativity going. Successful authors who are known to have practiced this technique are Mark Twain, George Orwell, and Woody Allen.

In contrast, writers like Hemingway, Dickens and Woolf wrote their works at standing desks. 

History Fact

Adolf Hitler helped design the Volkswagen Beetle.

That’s right, the fella who gave a big thumbs up to the Holocaust also invented Herbie.

Nothing from your childhood is safe from Nazis.

Between Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche, the iconic and globally-loved Beetle was designed as part of a Hitler-revived German initiative to create “the people’s car” – an affordable and practical car that everyone could own.

In fact, the car manufacturer’s name “Volkswagen” translates to English as “People’s car”.

Movie/TV Trivia

Pierce Brosnan was contractually forbidden from wearing a full tuxedo in any non-James Bond movie from 1995-2002.

Movie/TV Quote

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." 

Wall Street, 1987

Conversation Starter

When was the last time you went to a movie theater?

Writing Prompt

Your character is a writer. But his new neighbors are so noisy that he can neither work nor sleep. He decides to take action....