The Daily Dose/May 18, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. War! War! War! – Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues, with further attacks on refugee camps and private residences, all while starving the area…Russian/Ukraine War rolls on, too, with hot new Russian offensive planned, though Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” this remains a war that nobody needed and only Vladimir Putin wanted.
2. Donald Trump and the Mantle of Idiocy – From free Air Force One – a gift from Qatar – that will need billions of dollars to rebuild from the ground up to bickering with Bruce Springsteen and Walmart, America continues to be witlessly led off the top of Trump’s head….Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” we’ll survive Trump Era, but boy, complete lack of leadership will take years to recover from.
3. Pope Shoeless Joe I – The new, interim 3-hole staple…Pope’s beloved Chicago White Sox a lusty 4-5 following his election, as Roman curia works on special encyclical designed to get team berth in 2025 baseball playoffs…White Sox send special delegation from equipment staff to Rome to get blessings on latest shipments of bats, baseball, and jock straps.
4. Mexican Navy – Aichiwawa!!!…Tall ship on international goodwill tour crashes into Brooklyn Bridge, killing at least two people and snapping ship’s masts…Investigation ongoing, but early signs point to a special Shots y Pinata party on ship’s bridge that failed to notice ship drifting to the right a little.
Donald Trump Fact Check: – Click here for a check on claims made by President Trump on prescription drug prices…Courtesy of the AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow deals with adults hell-bent on enjoying themselves. Today’s Diary.
…regular readers of this crap know that “no fun allowed after hours” is my motto, and we came very close to waddling over there and looking at them crossly with our hands on our hips.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1969 – Apollo 10, – commanded by Thomas Stafford, with John Young and Gene Cernan – launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission was a test run prior to Apollo 11’s lunar landing and exploration in July, and the mission went off without major glitches and on the way home, the command module flew at 24,791 mph, the fastest speed ever traveled by humans. To prevent the astronauts from attempting a lunar landing, the LM had only carried half the fuel required for landing and ascent.
In 1929 – The Brooklyn Robins and the Philadelphia Phillies establish a new major league record for most runs in a doubleheader in a 20-16 Brooklyn win and an 8-6 Philadelphia win. Research into whose record the 50 combined runs broke was inconclusive, and the record is now 54 by the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Athletics in 1939. Both games were played in less than five hours and used a combined eleven pitchers.
In 1985 – Kool & the Gang is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Black Singles chart – for the only week with Fresh. The song also went #11 pop in Great Britain, went to #1 on Billboard’s dance chart, peaked at #9 on the Hot 100, was Billboard’s 15th-biggest soul song of the year, and its 89th-biggest pop song. It was the eighth of nine #1 soul songs for the group.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
It would be four more years before I could even begin to understand that the known landscape must be abandoned again and again and again.
James Chace
What We Had
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The first #1 on the first Billboard album chart was The King Cole Trio by the King Cole Trio on March 24, 1945. It spent three consecutive weeks at the top.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What is the major league record for fewest runs in a doubleheader? – Answer next time!
