Today's Dippit!

Quote

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

George S. Patton

Joke

Today at the bank, an old lady asked me to help check her balance. So I pushed her over.

Fun Fact

Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.

If you listen very closely, hot water and cold water sound slightly different when being poured. The heat changes the thickness, or viscosity, of the water, which changes the pitch of the sound it makes when it's poured. What we feel as heat comes from the molecules of the water moving faster. Cold water is thicker and therefore makes a slightly higher-pitched sound.

Reading Fact

Reading aloud can help children develop phonemic awareness, fluency, and comprehension skills.

History Fact

Benjamin Franklin Never Thought Turkeys Should Be the National Bird

While writing to his daughter in 1784, Benjamin Franklin was complaining about the bald eagle being chosen as the United States' national symbol. He said that the bald eagle had "bad moral character." He said the turkey would be a better idea. He was joking. He didn't actually think the national bird should be a turkey.

Movie/TV Trivia

The Dark Knight made more money in its first six days in the US than Batman Begins made in its entire domestic run.

Movie/TV Quote

"This is Sparta!"

300 (2006)

Like almost every detail of Zack Snyder's hyper-stylized, pro wrestling vision of ancient history, the line "This is Sparta!," bellowed by Gerard Butler before kicking a Persian messenger into a bottomless pit, was ripped directly from a panel of Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name. Still, it's tough to totally blame Miller, Butler, or even Snyder for the quote's ubiquity amongst a certain strand of beer-slamming, weight-lifting brutes in the mid-to-late '00s. The quote was featured heavily in the marketing materials, almost instantaneously generating memes, parodies, and remixes on sites like YTMND (RIP). "This is Sparta!" was "a thing" before the movie even came out, celebrated and mocked for its macho gravitas. By the time the line became a punchline in the odious 2008 spoof Meet the Spartans, delivered with a big wad of spit and a giant smirk, the joke was already dead.

Conversation Starter

Who is most influential in your life?

Writing Prompt

Would You Rather Attend a Public or a Private High School?