Quote
"I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
Abraham Lincoln
Joke
I don't really call for funerals that start before noon. I guess I'm just not a mourning person!
Fun Fact
The Twitter bird's official name Is Larry.
If you truly want to be among the savviest social media users out there, you should know that the Twitter bird has an official name: Larry the Bird (yes, like Larry Bird, the former pro basketball player who played for Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's home team, the Boston Celtics).
History Fact
Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit.
Movie/TV Trivia
Ripley (or at least her clone) finally makes it back to Earth in a deleted scene for Alien: Resurrection.
Movie/TV Quote
"Just keep swimming."
Finding Nemo (2003)
Before Ellen Degeneres was Ellen, the mononym, she was an out-of-work actress who had been sidelined in Hollywood after coming out as a lesbian in 1997. Then Finding Nemo happened. Not four months after the Pixar movie about Marlin, a father clownfish, in search of his son was released, Ellen premiered Ellen, the same daytime talk show that's still running today. Her stunning comeback can certainly be chalked up to her sweet, legitimately funny performance as the voice of Dory, the jovially undeterred regal blue tang who suffers from short-term memory loss. In a particular moment of helplessness, their previous leads to Nemo having dried up, Dory sneaks into the frame and shares with Marlin her sing-songy wisdom for when times get tough: "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do, we swim, swim…" The simple aphorism exploded into a positivity movement all its own, finding its way onto the senior quotes of high school students, tattoos, T-shirts, blog posts, GIFs… you name it.
Conversation Starter
What makes you very sentimental?
Writing Prompt