The Daily Dose/December 17, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy

Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience. 

Leading Off is enjoying its customary winter break and will return after the first of the year. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody –  Sparrow has exciting news about the cash sheet for the safe at the hotel. Today’s Diary. 

For the first time all week, I had to make a new cash sheet for the safe…Well, I always make a new one my first night in for the week, just for funsies, but other than that the cash sheet for the safe remained unchanged for the first four nites, a PB I think, tho specific records haven’t been kept…We’re not sure why – you’d think it’s something we’d be all over here – but there is literally no record of how many consecutive nights the cash sheet for the safe remained unchanged. 

The Regular Guys/Chapter 19  – Lenny and Larry open as resident headliners at Caesars Palace. 

The Regular Guys’ first show as resident headliners at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace had been a complete success, as had the opening night party Lenny and Larry had hosted afterward in their suite. Early the next afternoon Larry exited his bedroom on the second floor of The Regular Guys suite, walked down the stairs and into the suite’s living room. 

He found Lenny standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, staring down at The Strip. He was wearing a smoking jacket, had a drink in one hand, a cigar in the other, and he was wearing sunglasses.   

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On This Date
The long march to today.

In 1969 – Project Blue Book, the US Air Force’s program that studied UFO reports, has its last official day, though some sources say it carried on its work into January. Formed in 1952, the project handled over 12,000 UFO reports and of the 701 cases that remained unidentified, the Air Force said none were extra-terrestrial or ever posed a threat to humans. Among the reasons cited for UFO calls were certain people who called were crackers and the misidentification of conventional objects. 

In 1933 – The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 23-21 in the first regularly scheduled NFL championship game. The Bears had won the first-ever Western Division title while the Giants had won the Eastern Division title and the game was played at Wrigley Field because the Bears had the best regular-season record. The previous year the Bears had defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in a championship game played to break a first-place tie. 

In 1988 – Chicago is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second and final consecutive week with Look Away. It was the 32nd of 35 Top 40 hits for the group, their  18th of 20 Top 10 hits and their third and final #1 song. Look Away also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #77 in Great Britain and due to when it charted, was Billboard’s #1 song of 1989, despite having never hit #1 in that year. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever. 

Marriage, the last refuge of men unable to fend for themselves.
Garrison Keillor
Leaving Home

Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.

Wilt Chamberlain had 45 50-point games for the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1961-62 season, an NBA record. 

Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard. 

What song spent the most weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 in the calendar year 1989? – Answer next time!

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The Daily Dose/December 16, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy

Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience. 

Leading Off is enjoying its annual winter break. It will return after the first of the year. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody –  Sparrow has a lot of news in one of the longest Diary entries ever. 

The gym is closed!!!

The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 16 – It’s the toughest trophy to win in sports: The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy. The Jets, though, continue to make it look easy. The Bottom Ten is with our compliments this season. 

1. New York Jets (0-13; lost to Seattle 40-3) – It’s not easy to travel cross-country and win in the NFL, but it usually isn’t this tough as Jets now squarely staring B-10 immortality in the face…Jets eighth NFL team to start season 0-13…Next Loss: at Los Angeles Rams

The Regular Guys/Chapter 18  – Lenny and Larry become the headliners at Caesars Palace. 

Then one day the world woke up to the tragic news that Caesars Palace headliner Celine Dion had died. She had been at a birthday party at a Vegas restaurant for a tiger that headlined a local magic show and walked into a large freezer, inadvertently stumbled, and hit her head on a side of brisket, and froze to death. Her body wasn’t found until after midnight when some cooks were taking stuff out of the freezer that needed to thaw before being used that night.

It was not immediately clear why she had seen fit to walk in the freezer in the first place, but it didn’t seem to matter.

Caesars Palace needed a new headliner. 

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On This Date
The long march to today.

In 1777 – Virginia becomes the first of the United States to ratify the Articles of Confederation. The Articles weren’t ratified until Maryland accepted them in 1781, though the United States was governed by their terms in the interim. The Second Continental Congress had sent the Articles to the several states in November and the Articles would govern the United States until the Constitution took effect in 1789. 

In 1961 – Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors begins his second NBA-record streak of seven consecutive games scoring 50 or more points in a 112-110 win over the Chicago Packers. Chamberlain’s first such streak had ended three days earlier and the only game during this period when he didn’t score 50 points came on Dec 12 when he only scored 43 points in a game vs. Syracuse. Chamberlain would finish the season with a scoring average of 50.4 ppg, an NBA record that still stands. 

In 1967 – The Monkees are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third of four consecutive weeks with Daydream Believer. The song went to #1 in four other countries, including South Africa and Ireland, peaked at #5 in Great Britain and was the third and final #1 song for the group. Like several other #1 songs, Daydream Believer was originally intended to be the B side of a single and lead singer Davy Jones recalled being annoyed at having to record it and writer John Stewart never regarded it as one of his best songs. In 1979-80 version by Anne Murray peaked at #3 on the country chart and at #12 on the Hot 100. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever. 

They couldn’t understand it and they could…They had their food and water right there, but what was that open space?
Charles Bukowski
Post Office
Regards birds in their cage facing an open door. 

Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.

Adolf Eichmann’s body was cremated, with the ashes scattered in the Mediterranean Sea. 

Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard. 

In how many games did Wilt Chamberlain score 50 or more points in the 1961-61 season? – Answer next time!

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The Daily Dose/December 15, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy

Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience. 

Leading Off is on hiatus.

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody –  Sparrow decides to have Christmas dinner shipped in. 

But I got to thinking some more and I thought wow, some beef Wellington sounds good…Of course, I’m not going to make that myself…I’ll screw it up, but some research online showed there are companies that will make it for you, freeze it and then ship it to you and I found one that cost an arm and a leg, got rave reviews and their pics looked pretty good…One order consists of four beef Wellingtons of the size a growing boy like me would appreciate. 

The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 16 – With the final NCAA Bottom Ten running next week. your Bottom Ten pollsters are pleased to present the key games being played this week that will affect the final rankings. The Bottom Ten is free this season. 

Lousy Rivalry Game of the Week: Purdue at Indiana, for the Old Oaken Bucket – Cancelled last week because nobody wanted to see it, B-10 pollsters phoned Big Ten (10) office to demand it be played because of its potential implications for Big Ten in B-10 Conference of the Year race. 

The Regular Guys/Chapter 17 – Lenny and Larry fill in for a couple of weeks at Caesars Palace. 

Caesars Palace was in a box. Several years earlier they had signed Celine Dion to an insanely large contract to headline The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, which they built expressly for her. To fill some of the dates she wasn’t performing, they had hired Elton John to a similarly insane contract.

Sir Elton, however, had torn his vocal cords recording his first rap album and could no longer fulfill his contract, leaving several vacant dates the rest of the year, including a two-week stretch starting next week.

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On This Date
The long march to today.

In 1961 – Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi instrumental in organizing and carrying out the Holocaust – is sentenced to death by an Israeli court. Eichmann had been found guilty of 15 assorted counts two days earlier, which followed a trial that had begun in April. Eichmann had been kidnapped by Israeli agents in Buenos Aires in May 1960 and would be executed the following June. 

In 1995 – Deron Quint of the Winnipeg Jets ties the NHL for the fastest two goals in a game in a 9-4 win over the Edmonton Oilers. Quint scored two goals four seconds apart, at the 7:51 and 7:55 marks of the second period, tying the mark established by Nels Stewart of the Montreal Maroons on January 3, 1931. Quint’s goals account for 40 percent of his goal total in 51 games that season and the records still stand. 

In 1951 – Eddy Howard and his Orchestra is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – a predecessor to the Hot 100 – for the first of two consecutive weeks with (It’s No) Sin. It was the first of two #1 songs for Howard on the chart, and the song spent 23 weeks on the 30-position survey, 18 of them in the Top 10. Howard had originally studied medicine at Stanford before starting his entertainment career and the song also went to #1 on Billboard’s Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever. 

Either the people would overthrow the government or, more likely, the government would overthrow the people.
Gore Vidal
Empire

Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.

Charley Pride’s biggest hit on the Hot 100 was Kiss An Angel Good Morning, which peaked at #21 in 1972.

Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard. 

What was the final disposition of Adolf Eichmann’s body? – Answer next time!

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