The Daily Dose/February 28, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

Leading Off will return. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow gets props for his usage of the phonetic alphabet. Today’s Diary. 

– Oooh, that’s good…We’re you in the Army???
I chuckled…Some inter-service humor would probably go over well here.
– Of course not…I was in the Navy…
A modest line – far from a Line of the Year candidate – but a solid subtle jab (SSJ).
– Well, you managed to learn well, anyway…

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In 202 BC/BCE – The Han Dynasty in China begins with the enthronement of Liu Bang as emperor. The dynasty ruled – except for a period at the beginning of the Common Era – until 220 AD/CE and ushered in significant economic gains, including coinage that remained the standard in China until (618-907 BC/CE) and scientific and social advances including the invention of paper in 105 AD/CE. It was replaced by what History refers to as the Three Kingdoms period. 

In 1929 – The Chicago Black Hawks extend their NHL-record streak for being shut out in a 0-0 tie with the New York Rangers. It was the eighth consecutive shutout for the Black Hawks, extending the record they had set with their fifth consecutive shutout on Feb 21, and the record still stands. The Black Hawks went 0-6-2 during the streak and the streak ended with a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Maroons on Mar 2. Their total of 33 goals for the season remains an NHL record. 

In 1970 – Simon and Garfunkel are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of six consecutive weeks with Bridge Over Troubled Water. The song went to #1 in five other countries, including Indonesia and Great Britain, was Billboard’s #1 song of the year, and won five Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Contemporary Song, and Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals. It was the third and final #1 song for the duo. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

But Tim had done his best to dramatize an election in which neither candidate dared to say what he meant to an uneasy people who realized something was seriously wrong with their political system.
Gore Vidal
The Golden Age

Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.

The record for the most consecutive #1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart is 13, by Taylor Swift. 

Today’s Stumper
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Which team holds the NHL record for most goals in a season? – Answer next time!

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The Daily Dose/February 27, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

Leading Off will return. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow tells a boring story to a photographer. Today’s Diary. 

So we told him about the time we plied the newspaper reporter trade and we were given a camera and told to go cover the British Royal Air Force parachute team that was doing their winter training outside of town…

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In 1964 – The Italian government announces it is open to suggestions on stabilizing the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The tower was closed to tourists in 1990, and restorative efforts began in 1993, when 870 tons of lead counterweights were added, which helped slightly. Eventually, soil was removed from beneath the raised end, which reduced the tower’s tilt by 17.5 inches. The tower reopened to the public in 2001 when it was announced the tower would be stable for another 300 years. Construction had begun in 1173 and took 199 years. 

In 1960 – The US hockey team clinches the gold medal at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics, defeating the Soviet Union 3-2 in the medal round. The win gave the US a two-point lead over silver medalist Canada, whom they had beaten earlier, heading into the final games of the tournament. It was the first of two Olympic gold medals for the US (1980, Lake Placid) and was their second and most recent world championship (1933). The Soviet Union won the bronze medal. 

In 1966 – Buck Owens is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the second of seven consecutive weeks with Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line. It was the tenth of 20 #1 country hits for Owens and his ninth of 14 consecutive #1 songs, a record for a Billboard major singles chart that is now held by Sonny James with 16. The song also peaked at #57 on the Hot 100. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

More and more this mysterious life comes together/It may take years to reveal the whole/That’s all right/I’m prepared to go the distance.
Deng Ming-Dao
365 Tao

Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.

Napoleon Bonaparte was 51 when he died in 1821.

Today’s Stumper
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Who holds the record for most consecutive #1 albums on the Billboard 200 album chart? – Answer next time!

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The Daily Dose/February 26, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

Leading Off will return. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has another lousy rest. Today’s Diary. 

6.0 hours for the day, a start to the sleep week that is probably being surpassed in gulags…God bless all of you…

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In 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of France, escapes from the island of Elba where he had been exiled to the previous May. Napoleon escaped on a French ship and landed on the southern coast of France two days later. He met French troops, who supported him, which caused Louis XVIII to flee to Belgium. Napoleon would reign again as emperor from March 20 until his abdication on June 22. He ended up in British custody and was exiled to Saint Helena Island in the South Atlantic, where he died in 1821. 

In 1995 – Dana Barros of the Philadelphia 76ers establishes a new NBA record for most consecutive games making a 3-point basket in an 84-75 loss to the Indian Pacers. It was Barros’ 44th consecutive game with a 3-pointer, breaking the record of 43 established by Micahel Adams. Barros would extend the streak to 89 games the following season and the mark is now held by Stephen Curry, with 268. 

In 2000 – Savage Garden is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the fourth and final non-consecutive week with I Knew I Loved You. It was the fifth of six Top 40 hits for the group, their third and final Top 10 and #1 song. The song also went to #1 in Romania and Canada, peaked at #10 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 7th-biggest song of the year. The song also spent 17 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart and was that chart’s #1 song of the decade. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is Power

Van Halen has had five #1s on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Today’s Stumper
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How old was Napoleon when he died? – Answer next time!

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The Daily Dose/February 25, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.

1. College Sports – SB 5 pollsters found themselves in front of a TV and noticed BYU/Baylor and Creighton/UConn now conference games…This is whack, of course, but not as whack as UCLA/Rutgers and Cal/Duke becoming conference games next season. 

2. Gaylon For Congress – Candidate for Congress from Colorado’s 2nd District attends first protest of season, in support of Julian Assange…Assange, imprisoned in Britian, is still awaiting ruling from British court about extradition to US for brutally informing public about assorted government’s human and civil rights abuses. 

3. Mass Shootings – The 3-hole staple…A rather light week, with only five (5) mass shootings (shootings with at least four (4) wounded), though five (5) dead, 17 injured certainly good enough to pad per-shooting stats…2024 average of 1.018 mass shootings per day almost a whole shooting off 2023’s pace of 1.8. 

4. NBA All-Star Game – Almost as hard to watch as the NFL’s Pro Bowl used to be, this year’s fiasco saw the first NBA game where a team scored 200 points…How about this: make it watchable again by giving out cash awards for actually playing defense…SB pollsters “pretty sure” incentives for holding opponents under 150 points would make All-Star Game the ultimate pick-up basketball game it used to be.  

5. Fake News– Click here for crap some of the wizards around us were actually believing this week…Courtesy of the AP. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a mediocre rest. Today’s Diary.

…but then we remembered dreaming so that means we slept and while we got back to sleep, sleep was sporadic the rest of the way.

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In 1986 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the country after 20 years in power, an uprising History refers to as the People Power Revolution. He was succeeded by Corazon Aquino. Marcos, his family, and entourage – about 90 strong – were helicoptered to a US air base north of Manila on their way to exile in Hawaii. Among the items brought with them were crates containing over $700 million in cash, jewels, and $200,000 in gold bullion. Marcos died in Honolulu in September 1989. 

In 1904 – The Ottawa Silver Sevens (Canadian Amateur Hockey League) retain the Stanley Cup, defeating the Toronto Marlboros (Ottawa Hockey Association) 2-0 to win the best-of-three series in two games. It was the team’s fourth Stanley Cup win, and the Silver Sevens would retain the Cup seven more times before losing it to the Montreal Wanderers in March 1906. 

In 1984 – Van Halen is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of five consecutive weeks with Jump. The song also went to #1 in Canada and Italy and peaked at #7 in Great Britain, was Billboard’s sixth-biggest song of the year and ranked 227th on their 60th-anniversary chart in 2018. It was the group’s fourth of 13 Top 40 hits and remains their only #1 song. The synthesizer line had been recorded by Eddie Van Halen in 1981, but the group declined to expand on it then. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings

Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.

The NBA record for most assists in a playoff game is 24, done twice, by Magic Johnson in 1984 and John Stockton in 1988. 

Today’s Stumper
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How many #1 albums has Van Halen had on the Billboard 200? – Answer next time!

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The Daily Dose/February 24, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

Leading Off will return. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow gets some quality time with the cat. Today’s Diary. 

Boy, the cat would not leave my side today…Plainly she missed me while I was gone…She was on my back when we woke up, was at the desk supervising morning project work, and was on my chest while lying in bed reading…

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In 1868 – The US House of Representatives impeaches a president of the United States for the first time, approving eleven articles against President Andrew Johnson. The articles all stemmed from Johnson’s violating an act that prohibited a president from dismissing a cabinet member without the approval of the US Senate. Johnson was acquitted by the Senate by one vote, and since then, presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump have been impeached, Trump twice. 

In 1978 – Kevin Porter of the New Jersey Nets establishes a new NBA record for most assists in a game in a 126-112 win over the Houston Rockets. Porter had 29 assists to break the record of 28 established by Bob Cousy in 1959 and tied by Guy Rogers in 1963, and the record is now 30, by Scott Skiles in 1990. 

In 1973 – War is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the second and final consecutive week with The World is a Ghetto. The album remains the only #1 pop album for the group, was their first of four #1s on Billboard’s soul album chart, and was Billboard’s #1 album for 1972. The album produced two Top 10 hits on the Hot 100: the title track, which peaked at #7, and The Cisco Kid, which peaked at #2. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

Everyman achieved his own greatness by reaching out beyond himself, and so it is with nations…Only when a nation means something to itself can it mean something to others.
Werner Von Braun

Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played 57,446 regular season minutes in the NBA, an all-time record. 

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Who holds the NBA record for most assists in an NBA playoff game? – Answer next time!

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