Quote
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
Sholom Aleichem
Joke
All chemists know that alcohol is always a solution
Fun Fact
In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.
Reading Fact
Students who do not read by 3rd grade are four times more likely not to graduate from high school. And if you do not graduate from high school, what are your chances to get employed and build sustainable career?
History Fact
An ancient text called the Voynich Manuscript still baffles scientists.
Hand-written in an unknown language, the Voynich Manuscript has been carbon-dated to roughly 1404 – 1438.
Some of the pages are missing, and some of them are foldable pull-out pages, while most pages have illustrations.
Hundreds of cryptographers and master codebreakers have tried to decipher it over the years with none succeeding to grasp its meaning or origin.
Movie/TV Trivia
Courtney Love insists that the role of the drug dealer, Lance, in Pulp Fiction was offered to Kurt Cobain.
Movie/TV Quote
"You sit on a throne of lies."
Elf (2003)
Buddy the Elf is a righteous man-child. During his travels to New York over the course of Elf, the Christmas comedy that turned Will Ferrell into a family-friendly movie star, he reserves his scorn, his judgment, and his condemnation for those who lack the proper reverence for holiday cheer. When he sees a "fake" Santa at the mall, played with the right degree of roughness by comedian Artie Lange, Buddy can't help but call out the counterfeit Kris Kringle with lines like "you disgust me," "you stink," and "how can you live with yourself?" But "you sit on a throne of lies" is the one that's lingered in the public consciousness, becoming a popular audio clip on the site YTMND (see #57) and turning into a meme you can use to accuse any wrongdoer of playing fast and loose with the truth. When the phrase is invoked, you're not just calling someone a liar; you're saying they've constructed a self-serving power structure based around total deception. In his role as Yuletide ombudsman, Buddy spoke truth to power.
Conversation Starter
Can you think of any technology that has only made the world worse? How about a piece of technology that has only made the world better?
Writing Prompt
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