Today's Dippit!
Quote
"Sorry for being late. I got caught up enjoying my last few minutes of not being here."
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Joke
How do you make a Kleenex dance? Put some boogie in it!
Fun Fact
“lbs” comes form the Latin word “libra” which means “pound”.
Reading Fact
James Joyce wrote with large blue pencils and crayons, laying on his stomach in bed, wearing a big white coat. This is likely attributable to his notoriously poor eyesight, for which he had twenty-five surgeries over the course of his life.
History Fact
Child killer and rapist Pedro Lopez, known as "The Monster of the Andes," was convicted in 1983 of killing 110 young girls (though he confessed to killing 300).
Movie/TV Trivia
Toy Story 2 Was Almost Deleted
Oops! We bet whoever did this was sweating after they made that particular error…
Apparently somebody entered a rogue command in the animation “master machine” used to create Toy Story 2, and it ended up deleting 90% of the film.
Whoops! That’s a bad day at work for one Pixar employee. Mental Floss described the situation: “A plan was quickly hatched to restore the data from a regular backup, which meant that only half a day of work would have been lost.But the backup system had failed.
Pixar, incredibly, did not have a copy of the Toy Story 2 files on its servers.” Yikes!So what happened next?
Thankfully all was not lost for the animated movie and in the end the production company managed to locate a spare copy of the film footage thanks to one organized staff member. Luckily for everyone involved in the film, one of the technical director’s had a spare copy that she had been working on from home and nearly all of the lost data was restored.
It just goes to show guys – always keep a back up file in reserve!
Movie/TV Quote
"In moonlight, black boys look blue."
Moonlight (2016)
Conversation Starter
What did you think was the most challenging part of being a kid?
Writing Prompt
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