Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Think more highly of what fate has given you than of what it has denied."

Baltasar Gracian

Joke

I saw an ad for burial plots, and I thought: “That’s the last thing I need!”

Fun Fact

Ancient Greeks came up with the idea of cyclops after they found a fossil of a mammoth, and had no idea what it was.

Reading Fact

There are “human libraries” around the world where you can check-out humans as a living book and listen to their unique life stories.

Started in Copenhagen in 2000 and now active in over 80 countries, The Human Library is an international organization focused on addressing people’s prejudices by helping them to talk to those they would not normally meet.

Many of the people you can “lend” are those who the society tends to stigmatize the most – and they often prove that you truly cannot judge a book by its cover.

History Fact

Tea Time

During the Victorian period, many tea cups had special guards on the top to keep mens’ mustaches from becoming dipped in the tea. Fittingly, they were called mustache cups.

Movie/TV Trivia

Real life pornstar Asia Carrera plays the flatmate of Tara Reid in Logjammin‘, the film within the film in The Big Lebowski. We’re still unsure if she gets her cable fixed.

Movie/TV Quote

"Yo, Adrian!" 

Rocky, 1976

Conversation Starter

Did you have an imaginary friend? What was his/her name?

Writing Prompt

Are You Hard or Easy on Yourself?