The Diary of a Nobody/September 27
The Daily Dose/Tuesday, September 27, 2022
The Daily Dose/September 27, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for a while.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is back at the veterans service office (VSO). Today’s Diary.
He advised he’d call me when I was back, but then he started rambling, noting how he hoped I had fun while I was away (while brilliantly, perhaps passive-aggresively, implying we weren’t there to serve him) and then he started rambling about the weather “some clouds, and there have been some sprinkles…Blue skies now tho…Still cool mornings…”…It was over a minute of blather.
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 5 – The race for the ESPNCup rolls on, with Colorado State, Colorado, and Georgia State on the Bottom Ten medal stand this week.
Forget wins, Rams still looking for first lead of the season.
Legal weed must be training table staple in Colorado, as Division II teams lousy, too, combining for B-10esque 9-17 mark in 2022.
While non-conference mark not what they were expecting, conference insiders quietly confident teams can rebound for strong .500 mark in conference play.
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On This Date
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In 1590 – Pope Urban VII dies of malaria in Rome, ending the shortest reign in papal history at 13 days. Urban had been elected on the 15th following the death of Sixtus V, who had served since 1572. Despite serving less than a fortnight, Urban had an eventful reign, enacting the first public smoking ban and subsidizing Roman bakers so they could sell bread at a lower cost. He was succeeded by Gregory XIV, who was elected after a two-month stalemate and who didn’t really want the job.
In 1942 – The New York Giants tie the NFL record for fewest first downs in a game in a 14-7 win over the Washington Redskins. The Giants had zero first downs to tie the mark they had established in 1933 and that had been tied by Pittsburgh Pirates later in 1933 and by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1935 and was tied by the Denver Broncos of the AFL in 1966. The Giants remain the only NFL team to win games twice when they got zero first downs and the 1933 Pirates also won their game with zero first downs.
In 1997 – Usher is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot R&B Singles chart – for the fourth of eleven consecutive weeks with You Make Me Wanna….The song also went to #1 in Great Britain and peaked at #2 on the Hot 100, where it spent seven consecutive weeks at #2 and 21 non-consecutive weeks in the Top 10, and the song was Billboard’s 5th-biggest soul song of the year, their 15th-biggest pop hit of 1997 and the 14-biggest of 1998. It was the first of 13 soul #1s for Usher and his first of 18 Top 10 pop hits.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
What has gone wrong with the people that they can’t see what’s happening to them?Gore Vidal
The Golden Age
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Ed Reulbach, who pitched two shutouts on Sept 26, 1908, had seven shutouts with Chicago Cubs for the entire 1908 season.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What team holds the NFL record for most first downs in a game? – Answer next time!
The Diary of a Nobody/September 26
The Daily Dose/Monday, September 26, 2022
The Daily Dose/September 26, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for a while.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a great day in the sack. Today’s Diary.
12.0 hours for the day, a splendid start to the sleep week, the 12-hour equalizer that regular readers of this crap know we’ve been looking for for the past couple of weeks.
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On This Date
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In 1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first US secretary of state by President George Washington. Jefferson had just returned from a tour as minister to France and, as usual whined incessantly about the time his new job would take him away from his cherished slave plantation Monticello and didn’t take office until the following March, during which time the office was administered by Acting Secretary John Jay, who was also serving as Chief Justice of the United States.
In 1908 – Ed Reulbach of the Chicago Cubs establishes a new major league record for most shutouts in one day in 5-0 and 3-0 wins over the Brooklyn Superbas. Ruelbach gave up nine hits, struck out eleven, and walked two in getting his 21st and 22nd wins of the season. The previous record for fewest runs given up in a doubleheader was two, done four times, and Reulbach’s feat remains unmatched. In an almost interesting statistical anomaly, the wins kept the Cubs in second place in the National League, a half-game ahead of the New York Giants, who had played six fewer games and had a better winning percentage.
In 1964 – Joe Hinton is at #1 on the Cashbox R&B chart – one of several chroniclers of American charted music over the years – for the third of four consecutive weeks with Funny How Time Slips Away. It was the third of four hits for Hinton on an American soul chart and remains his only #1 and the song also peaked at #13 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The Billboard soul chart was not published between November 1963 and January 1965 for reasons the magazine never explained and the song was written by Willie Nelson.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Who knows the limits of your capabilities?/These limits being unfathomable/You can possess the country.
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The Tampa Bay Rays and the Texas Rangers each appeared two American League Championship Series without losing.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many shutouts did Ed Reulbach have in 1908? – Answer next time!
The Diary of a Nobody/September 25
The Daily Dose/Sunday, September 25, 2022
The Daily Dose/September 25, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Associated Press – Saturday headline reading ”World Opinion Shifts Against Russia As Ukraine Worries Grow” seemed to imply that world opinion actually once favored Russia’s Ukranian invasion which Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” – outside of a few of their allies – really wasn’t the case.
2. Russian/Ukranian War – Plucky Ukrainians making some battlefield gains, as mass grave discovery shows Ruskies stealing page(s) from old Soviet playbook…Russian announcement of call-ups of able males for service in war sends thousands of able Russian males fleeing out of the country.
3. USA! USA! – The current 3-hole staple…75 percent of kids are now too fat, stupid, or drug addled to 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. Albert Pujols – St Louis Cardinals slugger becomes fourth player to hit 700 major league home runs, and the second with a paunch to do it.
5. Fake News – Click here for a recap of what some wizards were actually believing this week. Courtesy of the dreaded AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Yay for Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow didn’t have a great month in the sack. Today’s Diary.
The weekly average for the month is 48.12, a fine figure in its own right, but distressingly down from last month’s lusty 52.3 weekly average.
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On This Date
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In 1983 – Thirty-eight prisoners from the IRA break out of Maze Prison, a bit southeast of Belfast. Using guns that had been smuggled in, prisoners took control of H7 Block and in 20 minutes were in control of the block without an alarm being sounded and made their way to the main entrance in a hijacked food truck before escaping. Fifteen of the escapees were arrested that day, while 21 others were arrested later, and two were never found. One prison officer died of a heart attack during the escape and 20 others were injured.
In 1979 – The California Angels earn their first playoff berth, winning the American League Western Division title with a 4-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The win gave the Angels a five-game lead over the Royals with four games to play and they would win the division by three games and the Angels would lose the American League Championship Series to the Baltimore Orioles three games to one. The Angels have won eight other division titles and won their only American League and World Series titles in 2002.
In 1954 – Rosemary Clooney is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart for the first of six consecutive weeks with Hey There. It was the 24th of 35 chart singles for Clooney and her third of four #1s and the song also went to #1 on Billboard’s Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Juke Boxes charts. The song was first performed in the musical The Pajama Game and versions by Sammy Davis, Jr. (#16) and Johnny Ray (#27) also charted in 1954.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
He found he was not all certain he was doing any good, aside from providing the drug of religious hope to timorous folk frightened of hell-fire and afraid to walk alone.
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The current world record holder in the women’s 100 is Florence Griffith-Joyner, who ran 10.49 seconds in 1988.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What two teams have appeared in multiple American League Championship Series without a loss? – Answer next time!
The Diary of a Nobody/September 24
It is Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary. Enjoy.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, September 24
Assistant Front Desk Manager Q was at the hotel when we reported for duty and he is still living at the hotel for what has to be going on two months now…If it’s bothering him he’s doing a pretty good job of keeping it to himself, but he’s starting to despair about ever finding a place for him, his dad and dad’s cat…We’ve wanted to ask what ol’ pops was doing right now because Q is in a room with one king bed, but we don’t want to seem too nosy.
The Daily Dose/Saturday, September 24, 2022
The Daily Dose/September 24, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading off is in time-out for the moment.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s back in the gym. Today’s Diary.
The big news is my new workout gloves made their debut today…
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On This Date
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In 1957 – President Dwight Eisenhower mobilizes the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, to enforce integration at Central High School. The day before Eisenhower had federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard to protect who History refers to as the Little Rock Nine. In 1954 the Supreme Court issued the opinion Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed segregated schools. Governor Orval Faubus opposed integration and actually succeeded in getting Little Rock’s public schools closed for the 1958-59 school year,
In 1988 – Carl Lewis of the US establishes a new world record in the 100 meters at the Summer Olympics in Seoul. Lewis won in a time of 9.92 seconds to break the record of 9.93 seconds he had established the year before. Lewis came in second in the race behind Canada’s Ben Johnson, who was stripped of his gold medal and world record two days later for steroid use. It was the second of three times Lewis would break the world record, and the mark is now held by Usain Bolt of Jamaica, who ran 9.58 seconds in 2009.
In 1984 – Rick James is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Black Singles chart – for the fourth of six consecutive weeks with Cold Blooded. It was the third of four #1 soul songs for James and his ninth of 14 Top 10 soul hits. The song also peaked at #93 in Great Britain and at #40 on the Hot 100. James wrote the song and is about his relationship with actress Linda Blair.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
More likely he had died as he had lived – without ever learning who he really was.
Alex Haley
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s #1 album of 1967 was More of the Monkees by the Monkees, which spent 18 consecutive weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who is the current women’s 100-meter world record holder? – Answer next time!