Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it." 

Naval Ravikant

Joke

My wife told me I had to stop acting like a flamingo. So I had to put my foot down.

Fun Fact

Rolls-Royce makes the most expensive car in the world.

Currently, the most expensive car in the world is a Rolls-Royce Sweptail that sold for $13 million. However, even if you have that kind of dough lying around, you won't be able to buy it—only one was made, and it was custom-built from the ground up according to the buyer's specifications. But brand-new custom cars have nothing on used classics; the recent sale of a 1963 Ferrari GTO for $70 million is supposedly the highest price ever paid for a car.

Reading Fact

Reading can promote cultural awareness and sensitivity by exposing readers to stories and perspectives from diverse backgrounds and experiences.

History Fact

The Iron Maiden Wasn't a Thing

No, this supposed torture device never actually existed. The widespread medieval use is a classic 18th-century myth, supported because of the perceptions that the Middle Ages were a widely uncivilized era of violence and mayhem. (They were bad, but not that bad.)

Movie/TV Trivia

And the voice of Zuul is director Ivan Reitman.

Movie/TV Quote

"I have to return some videotapes."

American Psycho (2000)

Mary Harron's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' savage satire of Reagan-era American capitalism does so much more than capture the brutality and humor of the book. With Christian Bale as the psycho, Patrick Bateman, his extreme aversion to human social interaction takes on a deathly serious tenor as embodied by the line Bateman uses to get out of any situation fast. It's a wholly unbelievable excuse that reveals how little empathy and social awareness Bateman possesses, especially when he uses it as an alibi and immediately following a claim that he's "in touch with humanity." Nearly 20 years after the movie came out and ages since videotapes were supplanted by other media, "I have to return some videotapes" still reigns as the absurd rejoinder that shows just how little regard you have for the person you're talking to. Try it out the next time you're breaking up with someone, or are being questioned regarding a coworker's suspicious disappearance.

Conversation Starter

What makes you most uncomfortable about dating?

Writing Prompt

Do We Need a Better Way to Teach Math?