Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it."

Epictetus

Joke

I ate a clock yesterday, it was very time consuming.

Fun Fact

Nutmeg can be fatally poisonous.

A little dash of nutmeg in a pumpkin pie or on your egg nog can give it some extra flavor and a lovely, spicy scent. Too much nutmeg, however, can be toxic. Two to three teaspoons of raw nutmeg can induce hallucinations, convulsions, pain, nausea, and paranoia that can last for several days. Actual fatalities are rare, but they have happened.

Reading Fact

Reading informational texts, such as newspapers, articles, and research papers, can improve critical thinking skills and knowledge about current events and issues.

History Fact

A Woman Was Elected to Congress Before Women Could Vote

A woman was elected to the U.S. Congress before women could even vote. Jeanette Rankin joined Congress in 1916, which was four years before women could actually vote. The 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote wasn't passed until August 18th, 1920.

Movie/TV Trivia

If you’re ever looking to authentically recreate the ‘assassin in love with a 12 year old’ look, the correct type of plant featured in Luc Besson’s gloriously wonderful Leon is an aglaonema.

Movie/TV Quote

"These are not spirit fingers. These are spirit fingers. And these are gold."

Bring It On (2000)

It's quite honestly insane that UCB staple Ian Roberts was Sparky, the pill-popping choreographer putting high school cheerleaders through boot camp to "transform [their] robotic routines into poetry written with the human body." The horrible goatee, the shirt with one too many buttons open, his scathing burns of everyone's physical flaws, and his crucial defining trait: spirit fingers, the "bad" ones practically indistinguishable from the "good" ones. Clearly just a derivation of jazz hands, "spirit fingers" was one of the defining schticks of Bring It On, directed by Peyton Reed (his first film -- he would later go on to make Ant-Man), and a damn good one at that.

Conversation Starter

Are you a cat person or a dog person?

Writing Prompt

Does Your School Offer Enough Opportunities to Learn Computer Programming?