Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Stop whining, start grinding." 

Eric Thomas

Joke

What did the judge say when the skunk walked into the court room? Odor in the court!

Fun Fact

Almost all commercially grown artichokes, 99.9 percent, come from California. One town in particular, Castroville, is nicknamed “the Artichoke Capital of the World.”

Reading Fact

J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter pitch was rejected by 12 different publishers before Bloomsbury accepted it.

But her struggles did not end here – she had to adopt the nom de plume J. K. Rowling, because, as her publisher argued, the title sounded like a boys’ book to him, and he believed boys preferred books by male authors.

“Over a period of nearly a year, the book was turned down by more or less every major publishing house in the UK”, Rowling’s first agent, Christopher Little, revealed.

History Fact

Look, I don’t want to blow your mind or anything (yes I do), but Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian. She was an ancestor of Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s generals.

Movie/TV Trivia

Moulin Rouge!

Filming was halted for two weeks in November 1999 after Nicole Kidman fractured two ribs and injured her knee while rehearsing a dance routine for the film. Many of the scenes where she is seen only from the chest up, including "a real actress," were shot while she was in a wheelchair.

Movie/TV Quote

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

Chinatown, 1974

Even though Nicholson and director Roman Polanski fought endlessly during the making of the movie, when the actor saw the rough cut he told producer Robert Evans, "We got a hot one. Get those checks ready — we’re on our way!"

Conversation Starter

What is the silliest thing you’ve posted online?

Writing Prompt

Do Your Television Viewing Habits Include ‘Binge-Watching’?