The Daily Dose/Tuesday, December 6, 2022
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Bowl Game Edition
The Diary of a Nobody/December 5, 2022
The Daily Dose/Monday, December 5, 2022
The Daily Dose/Sunday, December 4, 2022
The Daily Dose/December 4, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
Editor’s Note: The usual #3 entry – USA! USA! – has the week off.
1. College Football Playoff – Ha! The biggest fiasco yet!!!…With USC and TCU losing their conference title games, the final two spots are wide open…With TCU still likely to make it, and with Ohio State – another loser of their final game – likely to make it, too, 2022 makes the best possible argument for an NCAA Division I football playoff.
2. Utah, Kansas State – Sorry guys, winning the Pac-12 and Big 12 titles only get you mere Rose, Sugar bowl berths because despite beating teams that would’ve qualified for CFP had they beaten you, you guys weren’t even considered for playoff.
3. NCAA Division I Football Playoff – You know, why we tolerate this four (4)-team CFP crap is beyond us because a 32-team NCAA Division I football playoff would 1) have finished the second round this weekend, carrying a head of steam of into the national quarterfinals, and 2) become an American classic quicker than you can say “strength of schedule”.
4. 2022 World Cup – Dear Soccer: your game is still boring…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” it could be livened up by throwing another ball out there every time there’s ten (10) consecutive minutes without a goal, which in some games could result in as many as nine (9) balls being in play at one.
5. War in Ukraine, COVID, Mass Shootings, et. al. – World still a smorgasbord of misery and suffering, of course, but with sports being a nice little microcosm of our human experience, collegiate and professional diversions occupy top four (4) spots this week.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Yay for the return of Read Free Sunday (RFS).
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow serves a guest. Today’s Diary.
I go and open [the door] and it’s this rather masculine woman and my first thought is it would not be the Upset of the Year to find out she and the woman in the lobby are a couple: she was dressed in slacks and a sports shirt and looked like she had just come from a photo shoot for Aqua Velva.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1872 – The American merchant ship Mary Celeste is found adrift off the Azore Islands by a Canadian ship. The ship was disheveled but seaworthy and while the lifeboat was missing, the ship was otherwise provisioned with personal effects still in place. The Mary Celeste had sailed from New York on Nov. 7 bound for Italy and the ship’s last deck log entry was ten days earlier, noting its position, about 400 miles southwest from where she was actually found. No substantive theories exist as to why the ship was abandoned and no one from the crew was ever heard from again.
In 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens – the oldest professional ice hockey team in the world and then known as Les Canadiens – is formed by J. Ambrose O’Brien. The Canadiens would play their first game the following January, in the National Hockey Association (NHA), they joined the NHL in 1917, and have won a record 24 Stanley Cup championships. To date, the Canadiens have won 3,507 games and have scored 22,082 goals, both NHL records.
In 1965 – The Byrds are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks with Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season), the second and final #1 song for the group. The song also went to #1 in New Zealand and Canada and peaked at #1 26 in Great Britain. The song was written by Pete Seeger, with most of the lyrics based on text from the Bible’s Book of Ecclesiastes (circa 480-150 BC) and they remain the oldest lyrics of a #1 song on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Except for the innate and universal flaws of her sex, there may be nothing wrong with her.
Nero Wolfe
A Right To Die
By Rex Stout
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The US Senate has decided one vice-presidential race, in the election of 1836, which saw Marin Van Buren elected president by the Electoral College. Ricard M Johnson did not receive a majority of electoral votes, and the Senate elected him over Francis Granger.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What NHL team has won the second most Stanley Cup championships? – Answer next time!
The Diary of a Nobody/December 3
Of course it’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, December 3
It was pretty busy at the hotel when we reported for duty…Amy was dealing with a rather short, stout woman who couldn’t make up her mind what kind of room she wanted for the upgrade Amy was trying to give her…Courtyard view or mountain view???…Suite or deluxe room???…First floor or second floor???…The guest gave the impression the weight of the world was on her shoulders, tho in her defense it was not an easy decision because not every room is on every floor.
The Daily Dose/Saturday, December 3, 2022
The Daily Dose/December 3, 2022
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 – Though there is still one more sleep session remaining in the week, Sparrow is already at the magical 50 hour mark. Today’s Diry.
10.5 hours for the day and 50.0 hours for the week, a Friday record with the week’s finale – the Saturday Sleep Session – still to come.
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On This Date
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In 1800 – The Electoral College gives 73 electoral votes to both Vice President Thomas Jefferson and former US Senator Aaron Burr, who were actually the Democratic-Republican Party’s presidential and vice-presidential nominees. Under laws of the time, electors cast two ballots with the office not specified, with one elector usually abstaining or voting for someone else to no two candidates received an equal number of electoral votes. Both candidates received more electoral votes than President John Adams and Jefferson won the contingent election in the House of Representatives the following February.
In 1995 – The US wins the Davis Cup when Pete Sampras defeats Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 at Olympic Stadium in Moscow. The win gave the US team an insurmountable 3-1 lead, with the Russians winning the final singles match. It was the 31st of 32 Davis Cup titles for the US and was the third and most recent runner-up finish for the Russians, who have also won three titles. The other members of the US team were Jim Courier and Todd Martin.
In 1977 – Linda Ronstadt is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the first of five consecutive weeks with Simple Dreams. It was the seventh of 37 chart albums for Ronstadt, her fourth of ten Top 10 albums and her second of three #1s. The album also went to #1 in Australia and Canada, peaked at #15 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 8th-biggest album of 1978. The album produced four Top 40 hits, including the Top 10s Blue Bayou and It’s So Easy.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The president pointed out his oath of office required him to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. This duty overrode any specific constitutional constraints on executive action.
James McPherson
Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The song that has spent the most weeks on the Hot 100 is Heat Waves by Glass Animals, which spent 91 non-consecutive weeks in the Hot 100 from January 16, 2021, to this past October 22. It spent five weeks at #1 and 37 weeks in the Top 10.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many times has the US Senate elected the vice president? – Answer next time!