Today's Dippit!

Quote

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." 

Lao Tzu

Joke

What did the left eye say to the right eye?

Between us, something smells!

Fun Fact There's an entire town under a rock.

If you've ever been accused of "living under a rock," you'll feel right at home in Setenil de Las Bodegas in Spain. Many of this tiny town's 3,000 residents live and work and play in a gorge beneath a huge rocky outcropping, where homes are built right into the rock. It provides so much shelter that historians think this area has been occupied by human settlements since the Stone Age.

Reading Fact

Reading can foster a sense of community and connection among readers, particularly when they share their thoughts, reactions, and recommendations with others.

History Fact

Chuman

In the 1920s, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov unsuccessfully attempted to create a human/chimpanzee hybrid by using artificial insemination. The various names for this hybrid? A Humanzee, a Chuman, and a Manpanzee. Pick your favorite! 

Movie/TV Trivia

While we're on the subject of Titanic, the drawing that Jack creates of Rose was actually done by the movie's director, James Cameron.

Movie/TV Quote

"That's a bingo."

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Christoph Waltz's international starmaking turn as Colonel Hans Landa, an SS officer working in Nazi-occupied France, allows him to lay on his weasely, morally bankrupt charm throughout Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, but he lands on this gem right at the moment World War II can be won by the Allies. While almost all of Waltz's screen time features zingers delivered in three languages, this is the line that reveals how truly empty his soul is: He's smart, and has no conscience. As he presents his offer to Brad Pitt's Aldo Raine and B.J. Novak's Smithson Utivich, the perpetually cheery colonel tries his hand at an American expression. The result is a malapropism that belies the utter seriousness of the moment, and is instantly memorable; the war will be over that night, but Landa happily practices his American English as he preps a clean exit for himself. Even though Aldo corrects him, Landa's version is what lives on from Inglourious Basterds.

Conversation Starter

What time period would you travel to?

Writing Prompt

What Have You Done to Earn Money?