Today's Dippit!

Quote

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." 

George S. Patton

Joke

The best way to stop a charging bull is to take away his credit card.

Fun Fact

The first footprints on the moon will remain there for a million years.

Reading Fact

Alice in Wonderland is based on a real 10-year-old girl with whom Lewis Carroll was friends. She was called Alice Liddell, and, whilst out on a boating trip, asked Caroll to tell her a story.

History Fact

This sudden lack of cats led to the spread of disease because infected rats ran free. The most devastating of these diseases, the Bubonic Plague, killed 100 million people.

Movie/TV Trivia

Snow White And The Huntsman

The drops of blood at the beginning of the film are drops of real blood from director Rupert Sanders. Sanders felt the fake blood looked too unrealistic, so he pricked his finger to get the shot he wanted.

Movie/TV Quote

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964

When Stanley Kubrick sat down with Peter George to adapt George’s novel Red Alert, the director struggled with treating the material as a straight drama, as he initially intended. "My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay," Kubrick said after the film’s release. "I found that in trying to put meat on the bones and to imagine the scenes fully, one had to keep leaving out of it things which were either absurd or paradoxical, in order to keep it from being funny; and these things seemed to be close to the heart of the scenes in question."

Conversation Starter

Who makes you laugh the most?

Writing Prompt

What Were the Best Movies You Saw in the Past Year?