Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." 

Charlotte Bronte

Joke

As I suspected, someone has been adding soil to my garden. The plot thickens.

Fun Fact

A tick bite can make you allergic to red meat.

Plenty of people have food allergies, but few are the result of an insect bite. In a strange and growing trend, some people who get bitten by the Lone Star tick can develop a sudden allergy to red meat. Beef, lamb, and pork (which are technically classified as red meat) can make people with this allergy experience headaches, sneezing, a runny nose, and nausea. In severe cases, it can cause the person to be unable to breathe. For some sufferers, the allergy fades over time, but for others, it's permanent.

Reading Fact

Reading historical fiction allows readers to explore different time periods and cultures while gaining insight into the social, political, and economic forces that shape human history.

History Fact

Spot Is Going to Represent Himself

In the Medieval Ages, animals could be put on trial, and were very commonly sentenced to death.

Movie/TV Trivia

The final cut of Terminator 2: Judgement Day ends with a make-your-own-mind-up soliloquy about fate and the future. It could have ended with Sarah Connor as an old lady sitting in a futuristic LA park showing us that everything was hunky dory. Hasta la vista nuance.

Movie/TV Quote

"You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome."

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

George Miller effortlessly created a whole world, complete with its own societal structure and mythology, within the first half hour of his epic Mad Max: Fury Road, adding fierce Imperators and albino "warboys" to his diesel-drenched post-apocalyptic saga. The tyrannical Immortan Joe has developed a religion in order to subjugate his people, convincing them that, when they die, they'll continue to "ride shiny and chrome" in the viking afterlife of Valhalla. That's what he says to young Nux (Nicholas Hoult) before he sends him on a suicide mission. It's the YOLO of the sandy, violent future. It's also the thing your lizard brain says to itself right before you run a red light.

Conversation Starter

What is the funniest gift you have ever given?

Writing Prompt

Would You Consider a Nontraditional Occupation?