Today's Dippit!

Quote

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." 

Eleanor Roosevelt

Joke

Why did the kid cross the playground?

To get to the other slide.

Fun Fact

The cast of Friends still earns around $20 million each year.

When the show came to an end, the cast of the popular TV show Friends negotiated syndication rights for themselves. That means they receive a percentage of the revenue (two percent) from reruns airing across all broadcasting companies. Since the much-loved TV show still pulls in around $1 billion of revenue, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and Matthew Perry all make major dough each year for doing, well, nothing—$20 million is the estimate.

Reading Fact

Habitual reading makes you kinder

The studies have shown that adults who regularly read fiction are more likely to engage in charity and volunteer work. Perhaps it’s time to replace the slogan “Make love, not war” with “Read fiction, not media”. Although media is often fiction, so it could get a little confusing.

History Fact

If I Only Had a Clue

The ancient Egyptians have given us a plethora of cultural behemoths, from the Great Pyramids to the Sphinx to the Rosetta Stone. Still, you can’t get everything right, and these same peoples also thought that the brain’s primary function was the production of mucus.

Movie/TV Trivia

The face mask in Halloween that Michael Myers wears is actually a Captain Kirk face mask spray-painted.

Movie/TV Quote

"Wilsoooooooon!"

Cast Away (2000)

For a long time, any beach-, summer-, or water-related activity was likely punctuated with your loudest friend shouting, "Wilson!" The still-recognizable bit from Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away is the survival epic's most unforgettable scene: the slow disappearance of Chuck Noland's (Tom Hanks) sole friend, a volleyball named Wilson. Largely because he is a volleyball with a bloody handprint for a face, the scene and Hanks' dramatic pleas became instantly memorable… and, for better or worse, the subject of many spoofs, despite the film's critical acclaim. In context, though, it gets at the raw emotion of the human need for companionship, one of the essential drives that makes us human. Hanks moves from desperation and sorrow to sheer guilt ("I'm sorry, Wilson!") and grief, which is part of what helped garner Hanks a Best Actor nomination at the 2001 Academy Awards. It may be just a funny line in retrospect, but nobody else can emote over a volleyball like Hanks. Wilson's death goes down in one of cinema's most tragic, and we mourn him just the same.

Conversation Starter

If you could describe yourself in three words, what would they be?

Writing Prompt

Do You Find It Easier to Make New Friends Online or In Person?