The Daily Dose/Monday, October 10, 2022
The Daily Dose/October 10, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
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Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow checks in a couple from Floriday. Today’s Diary.
It was almost offhandedly how they noted they had done better than most in surviving the hurricane, tho they did have pics of cars almost underwater…Their home and business made it through with moderate tho not extensive damage and they noted they felt guilty going on vacation, but it had been long-planned and felt good when yours truly noted you had to get back to a normal life eventually…(By the by, these weren’t the first hurricane victims I’ve met working hotels…Invariably they were all good-natured about what had happened.)
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On This Date
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In 1846 – English astronomer William Lassell discovers Triton, the first moon of Neptune. Triton is a bit smaller than our moon, is thought to have once been a planet in the Kuiper Belt, and is the only moon in the Solar System that rotates in the opposite direction of its host, known as a retrograde orbit. Neptune itself had been discovered a couple of weeks earlier, though Galileo had observed it in the 17th century and mistook it for a star.
In 1964 – The Summer Olympics open in Tokyo, with 5,151 athletes from 93 nations competing. Judo and volleyball made their Olympic debuts, Joe Frazier won the heavyweight boxing gold medal, and these were the last to use a cinder track for running events. Tokyo was originally awarded the 1940 Summer Games, which were taken away after they invaded China and were later canceled due to World War II. The US won the most gold medals (36) while the Soviet Union won the most overall medals (96).
In 1970 – The Jackson 5 is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Best Selling Soul Singles chart – for the first of six consecutive weeks with I’ll Be There. The song also peaked at #4 in Great Britain, would later spend five consecutive weeks at #1 on the Hot 100, was Billboard’s biggest soul song of the year, and its 7th-biggest pop song of 1970. It was the fourth of six soul #1s for the group and their fourth and final pop #1. A version by Mariah Carey went to #1 on the Hot 100 in 1992.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Change is a constant, but so is identity.
I. F. Stone
The Trial of Socrates
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first person to hit three home runs in a League Championship Series game was Bob Robertson of the Pittsburgh Pirates in game two of the 1971 National League Championship Series vs San Francisco.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many moons is Neptune known to have now? – Answer next time!
The Daily Dose/Sunday, October 9, 2022
The Daily Dose/October 9, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Aaron Judge – The news isn’t that Judge is the new American League single-season HR record holder, but that it took someone in this swing-for-the-fences era so long to break Roger Maris’ record…Those deniers that insist Judge is the all-time single-season champion are high, legally in more and more places…Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa never failed a drug test and played in games featuring baseballs signed by the commissioner…Stop whining.
2. Baseball Playoffs – Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters almost interested to see if teams with almost a week off and first-round bye will be rested or a half-step off…Also, having entire series played at one stadium in first round isn’t entirely fair, though if you want home games, play better in the regular season.
3. USA! USA! – The current 3-hole staple…75 percent of kids are now too fat, stupid, or drug addled to join Army…Citizens still earning marksmanship ribbons at record pace America…Entire country circling wagons, unable to face any viewpoint not in step with their own…America remains far closer to the oblivion that awaits her than the prosperity she once knew, with Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” America has until half-century is out to show it can govern itself before someone comes in and does it for us.
4. Toke Up America – President Biden’s pardonoing of federal prisoners in for merely using or possessing weed fully in step with official Daily Dose policy because it’s not a government’s job to legislate morality because it never works, as Prohibition showed and the current Drug War continues to show.
5. Random Baseball Numbers 2022 – Game times were down by about five (5) minutes…Attendance was down about 2,000 pergame from 2019 and 6,000 from 2007’s all-time high…Teams still used more than four (4) pitchers per game and complete games were the second-fewest ever…Home runs and strikeouts were down…Games are still too long and with starting pitchers no longer a threat to go nine, game is a shell of what made it great.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow, in an upset, decides to take a wait-and-see attitude and not whine. Today’s Diary.
Two of the lessons the years have offered ol’ Sparrow tho, are 1) that initial negative impressions are usually wrong and that, 2) most things work out if you let them and we are going to give this every opportunity to work out.
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On This Date
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In 1701 – Yale University – then known as the Collegiate School – is chartered by the General Court of Connecticut as a school to train clergy and lay church leaders. The first classes were held at the home of the rector in what is now Clinton and the school moved to Saybrook in 1703 and New Haven in 1716. The school was renamed Yale University – after Elihu Yale – in 1714 and is the third-oldest college in the US, after Harvard (1636) and William and Mary (1693).
In 1928 – Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees ties the World Series record for most home runs in a game in a 7-3, series-clinching victory over the St Louis Cardinals in game four. Ruth had three home runs to tie the record he had established in game four in 1926 and the mark has since been tied by Reggie Jackson (1977), Albert Pujols (2011), and Pablo Sandoval (2012). Ruth also holds the record for most innings pitched in a World Series game (14, 1916).
In 1976 – Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with A Fifth of Beethoven. The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #28 in Great Britain, at #10 on Billboard’s soul and disco charts, and was Billboard’s tenth-biggest song of the year. It was the first of three chart singles for Murphy and remains his only Top 40 hit. The song would later be featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, winning Murphy, and others, a Grammy Award when it was named Album of the Year.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Socrates was living on very little, and yet was wholly independent.
I. F. Stone
The Trial of Socrates
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The two positions Che Guevara held in Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba were president of the central bank and minister of industries.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the first person to hit three home runs in a League Championship Series game? – Answer next time!
The Diary of a Nobody/October 8
Read Free Sunday (RFS) is in full effect.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, October 8
The long-awaited remodeling of the lobby and front desk is underway and the big news is ol’ Sparrow picked up on the first subtle hint right off…It came in the back office, where the printer was gone…Immediately we told ourselves the printer was gone – there was no standing with hands on hips staring crossly and wondering what the deal was on this one – and then we asked Amy why the printer was gone.
The Daily Dose/Saturday, October 8, 2022
The Daily Dose/October 8, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for the time being.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow gets his usual Friday soak in. Today’s Diary.
The Friday Biddies and another old guy who’s been there the past few Fridays were in my fave hot spring when we reported for soaking duty…His name is George and he’s getting up there in years, too, and apparently, they’ve all known each other for years and have been going to the same church since the Reformation because they are always chatting about church business…
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On This Date
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In 1967 – Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara is captured by Bolivian troops in south-central Bolivia. Guevara was in Bolivia to support a revoltuion with a guerrilla army and his location had been betrayed by an informant. Guevara was tied up and taken to a local schoolhouse where he was executed the following day, though his executioner had initially shot him in the arms and legs, before finally killing him with shots to the chest and throat. Guevara had arrived in Bolivia the previous November.
In 1983 – The NHL has a regular season game won in overtime for the first time since 1942 when the New York Islanders defeat the Washington Capitals 8-7. Over the summer, the NHL announced there would be a five-minute, sudden-death overtime period for tie games, a change to their previous overtime rule, which called for a ten-minute, non-sudden death overtime period. The NHL adopted the shootout in the 2005-06 season and in the 2015-16 season began playing the overtime period with three skaters on a side.
In 1988 – Guns N’ Roses is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the fourth of five non-consecutive weeks with Appetite for Destruction. It was the first of eight chart albums for the group and their first of two #1s. The album also went to #1 in New Zealand, peaked at #5 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 6th-biggest album of the year, it’s 5th-biggest of 1989, its 166th-biggest of 2020, and the album eventually would sell over 18 million copies – the seventh-biggest selling album in US history. The album produced three Top 40 hits, including the #1 Sweet Child o’ Mine.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Without free speech, oratory became mere wind.
I. F. Stone
The Trial of Socrates
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
There wasn’t a Trivia question last time, silly.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Che Guevara held two posts under Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba. What were they? – Answer next time!
The Diary of a Nobody/October 7, 2022
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Friday, October 7
It was a pretty leisurely morning at The Shire…After project work was done, we baked some more chicken, which is turning out to be very good nutrition. We kicked it up a notch, too, cutting notches in the top of the thighs so the Worcester sauce and Lawry’s season salt could really work their way in there…We also got the laundry folded, with all five shorts and t-shirts accounted for…Even with all this activity, tho, a Level I cleaning was not even considered, much less accomplished.
The Daily Dose/Friday, October 7, 2022
The Daily Dose/October 7, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for the time being.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is having a great week in the sack. Today’s Diary.
7.0 hours for the nite and 34.0 hours for the day, the highest Thursday total (ThT) since July’s PB 58.0-hour sleep week…God bless all of you.
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On This Date
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Due to time constraints, today’s On This Date is from two years ago.
In 1985 – The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt. On Oct 9 the hijackers were allowed to disembark to PLO control and a plane carrying them to Tunis was intercepted by US Air Force jets and forced to land in Italy. The plane was surrounded by Navy SEALS who themselves would later be surrounded by Italian forces. The US would later cede jurisdiction to the Italians and the four were later tried and convicted and sentenced to varying prison terms. All have since been paroled.
In 1956 – Al Carmichael of the Green Bay Packers establishes a new NFL record for the longest kickoff return in a 37-21 loss to the Chicago Bears. Carmichael returned a first-quarter kickoff 106 yards for a touchdown, breaking the record of 104 yards established by Buddy York of the Baltimore Colts in 1953. The record was broken in 2007 by Ellis Hobbs of New England (108 yards) and is now held by Cordarrelle Patterson of the Minnesota Vikings, who had a 109-yard return in 2013.
In 1967 – Jackie Wilson is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart – for the only week with (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. The song also peaked at #6 on the Hot 100 and made the Top 20 of the British pop chart in 1969 and 1987. It was Wilson’s sixth and final #1 song on Billboard’s soul chart and was his sixth Top 10 pop hit. A version by Rita Coolidge peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 in 1977.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…no society is good, whatever its intentions, whatever its utopian and liberationist claims, if the men and women who live in it are not free to speak their minds.
I. F. Stone
The Trial of Socrates
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The NFL record for most field goals missed in a game is six, by Jim Bakken of the St Louis Cardinals on December 11, 1966, a 16-10 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. The following year Bakken established the NFL record for most field goals made in a game with seven, a record that was tied several times and stood for 40 years.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
The Trivia feature will return.