Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom." 

Socrates 

Joke

Why did the student eat his homework?

Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake!

Fun Fact

There's a world record—and a happy ending—for the greatest distance thrown in a car accident.

This is one world record you may not want to try and top. A car traveling 70 miles per hour struck Matthew McKnight, an off-duty paramedic, when he stopped to help out with an accident on the side of an interstate in 2001. He was thrown 118 feet, almost half a football field.

Eric Brader, his emergency room physician, told McKnight he should send it into the Guinness Book of World Records, but McKnight brushed it off as a joke. Brader was so impressed by the feat that he sent in the paperwork anyways, which was approved in 2003, but didn't make the cut until its 2008 edition.

Reading Fact

Reading protects from prison

American sociologists argue that children who’ve learned to read by the age of eight have fewer chances of being imprisoned in the future. Moreover, those kids are less likely to use drugs or to drop out of school. Positive effect in action, what more is there to say.

History Fact

Protector of the Small

Hitler, like many members of the Nazi party, was vehemently against cruelty towards animals, and was a strict vegetarian. If only he’d applied that logic to literally any other part of his life.

Movie/TV Trivia

Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Barbie from Toy Story 3 are both voiced by the same person, Jodi Benson.

Movie/TV Quote

"Honey? Where's my super suit?"

The Incredibles (2004)

It's unlikely that Brad Bird and his cohorts knew that this was the one scene from The Incredibles that would go down in history as one of the best, funniest movie scenes of all time. It's mostly thanks to Samuel L. Jackson, who plays icy superhero Frozone, and Pixar employee Kimberly Adair Clark as his wife, who, in the movies, always appears as a voice. The two bicker about Frozone's missing suit, his wife telling him that, no, he shouldn't go off and save the city from a giant rampaging robot because they have a date planned. The scene has inspired many covers and cursed remixes, but perhaps the best thing it gave us was an instant knee-jerk response any time someone in the room says "HONEYYYYY?" All together now: WHERE. IS. MY. SUPER. SUIT.

Conversation Starter

What is your earliest memory?

Writing Prompt

What Do You Hope to Be Doing the Year After You Graduate From College?