Today's Dippit!
Quote
"If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Joke
My uncle named his dogs Rolex and Timex. They're his watch dogs!
Fun Fact
The collars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.
Reading Fact
The novelist John Green is actually a YouTuber.
John Green is a YouTube content creator and an author who won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, “Looking for Alaska”. John Green is working with his brother Hank Green and launched the Vlog Brothers channel on YouTube. He’s net worth estimate is $17 million dollars.
History Fact
In the 19th century a popular medicine for kids, "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," included morphine.
Movie/TV Trivia
Blues Brothers had a specific budget set aside for cocaine
Everyone knows that John Belushi was a troubled man.Belushi’s crippling drug addiction severely harmed his comedy career and the performer was booted off the set of Saturday Night Live more than a few times for his behaviour.
But it turns out that his chronic addiction to cocaine probably wasn’t helped by the fact that the Blues Brothers production crew actually set aside a specific amount of money to pay for the white stuff.
Dan Aykroyd was a close friend of Belushi’s and co-starred with him in the hit film. He once explained in an interview: “We had a budget in the movie for cocaine for night shoots. Everyone did it, including me. Never to excess, and not ever to where I wanted to buy it or have it. [But]John, he just loved what it did. It sort of brought him alive at night—that superpower feeling where you start to talk and converse and figure you can solve all the world’s problems.”
Whilst director John Land is tried to keep his star comedian away from drugs, there were plenty of enablers on set who were more than happy to keep dishing out the white lines.
Movie/TV Quote
"In one of our designs even these mosquito bites will look like juicy, juicy mangoes!"
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Conversation Starter
If you could describe yourself in three words, what would they be?
Writing Prompt
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