Today's Dippit!
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Quote
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it."
Andy Rooney
Joke
What washes up on tiny beaches? Microwaves
Fun Fact
Movies have to clarify that they're fiction because of a 1930s lawsuit that traces back to none other than Rasputin.
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
I Knew Giants Were Real
Giants were a big part of Ancient Greek Mythology, and their existence was “proved” to the Greeks by enormous bones that could be found buried throughout the mountainous landscape. These “giant bones” were probably very convincing, although today we know that they were likely the bones of wooly mammoths and mastodons that can still be found all over the country.
Movie/TV Trivia
Before Stanley Kubrick came on-board for A Clockwork Orange writer Anthony Burgess considered selling the movie rights to Mick Jagger with the intention of Jagger playing Alex and the rest of the Stones playing the other Droogs. Keef with eyeliner? Don’t be silly.
Movie/TV Quote
"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
Chinatown, 1974
Conversation Starter
What is the worst first date you have ever been on?
Writing Prompt
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