March 22 I was Charlie 1 again last night, but unlike last week where I could have slept walked the entire night, I was kept more or less busy.
I was supposed to go 482 at 0200, but we’re so shorthanded we went without a Charlie 4, so I picked up the east pit drop with Spike at 0230.
Spike has – and this isn’t even subject for discussion – the foulest mouth I have ever heard. I spent four years on a submarine where I earned a Ph.D. in the F word with an emphasis on the Holy Trinity and even I was appalled.
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Leading Off Notes from around our human experience.
OLD TIMES THERE ARE NOT FORGOTTEN: Today marks the 57th anniversary of James Meredith becoming the first black man to graduate from the University of Mississippi. He graduated with a degree in political science and a year earlier he had become the first black to attend Ole Miss. He had previously attended Jackson State University and, now 87, still lives in Jackson.
Quote That Sucker: In an interview years later, Meredith talked about civil rights:
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
Why this hasn’t become a fundamental part of the equality struggle in this country is beyond us. It’s not going to anytime soon, either. Short of slavery being restored, it’s hard to imagine the races getting along worse than they do now because America is as much a partisan, fractured and bickering a mess as its ever been. Today how one identifies themselves is as important as ever.
USA! USA!: Meredith is right, of course: the concept of civil rights does guarantee second-class citizenship for those obliged to seek them. It also guarantees second-class citizenship to those whose self-importance is such they think they’re in a position to bestow them. A nation conceived in liberty cannot pick and choose who gets which liberty or civil right. Either all of us have them or none of us do. Either all of us are free or none of us are free. We cannot grant all liberties and rights to some citizens while only granting some liberties and rights to others. A country with second-class citizens is a second-rate nation.
The Bottom Line: Making anyone who isn’t a straight, white, male fight for rights straight, white, males take for granted demeans everyone. Mr Meredith is right.
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The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has the latest MPG figures for the new ride. Today’s Diary.
I knew we were close, too…The odometer was at 450 miles since the last fill-up, a bit more than the usual 435-439 figure, and when the tank only took 11.1 gallons instead of the usual 11.5 or so, I knew…In fact, I thought 40.425 was a bit low, but there’s no need to quibble: we are over the magic 40 MPG mark for the second time.
Later I was working a camera and came across a couple going at it in Houdini’s Lounge. After watching them for a while I sent the new ‘girl’ Teri, whom we’ve nicknamed Spike, after her the way she keeps her hair, to tell them to go get a room. I mean, we have over 3000 rooms here at Monte Carlo and all of them are designed to handle two people who want to get busy; you don’t need to do it in the bar.
Ted, who was Mary 1, had a really funny line. After I had sent Spike over Ted gets on channel 2, which is always monitored in dispatch.
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On This Date History’s long march to today.
In 1590 – John White, a member of the Roanoke Colony, returns to Roanoke, only to find the entire colony gone. The expedition had landed in July 1587 and White had returned to England shortly thereafter for supplies and a 1588 attempt to return to Roanoke was abandoned after pirate attacks. After his return, White spent some time looking for the lost colonists but would return to England in October. White’s granddaughter, Virginia Dare, was the first English child born in the colonies.
In 1982 – Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies establishes a new major league record for most career plate appearances in a 5-3 win over the Houston Astros. Rose’s 13,942nd plate appearance broke the record established by Henry Aaron. Rose went 0-for-6 and would retire in 1986 with 15,890 plate appearances, a record that still stands. Rose’s first plate appearance came on April 8, 1963, a walk issued by Earl Francis of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
In 1973 – Diana Ross is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with Touch Me in the Morning. It was the seventh Top 40 hit as a solo act for Ross, her second of six #1 songs and her 14th appearance at #1, counting her twelve #1 songs as a member of the Supremes. The song also peaked at #9 in Great Britain and at #5 on Billboard’s soul chart.
Quotebook The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Real work began with me only in my seventieth year. Now at seventy-five the real appreciation of nature awakens within me. – Hokusai, Japanese painter
Answer To The Last Trivia Question It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The Louisville Colonels were in the National League from 1892-99 and before that were in the American Association from 1882-91. The Louisville Grays had been charter members of the National League, from 1876-77.
Today’s Stumper Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Who holds the American League record for most career plate appearances? – Answer next time!
The Daily Dose/August 17, 2020 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy
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The Diary of a Nobody: A guy doesn’t want his girlfriend to know what room he’s in. Today’s Diary.
…the lady at the desk and the simultaneous phone call are not a coincidence…The woman needs a key to a room rented by her boyfriend, who is on the phone…He has two rooms, 220 and 225, and he is in 225 – that’s where the call came from – and while the girlfriend knows about both rooms, the dude is highly desirous the girlfriend does not know his room number…My instructions from him – while she is standing right in front of me – is to give her a key to 220 and not, under any goddamn circumstances, to let it slip out that he’s in 225.
This time X-Ray, showing the skills that are sending him straight to the top in the hotel racket, takes charge and wakes the guy up and tells him he has to keep his tee vee down. The guy was understandably startled to see two uniformed bald men in his room, but he got the message.
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Bloody hell, that was quite a night. It began with me waking to a prospect few survive and ended with me leaving, alive and kicking, in the hearse that had been sent to take me corpse away.
I’d walked out of the death chamber.
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In 1958 – Pioneer 0 – man’s first attempt to both fly beyond earth orbit and orbit the moon – lists off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The attempt was not successful, as it exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, about 10 miles downrange over the Atlantic Ocean. Though never known for sure, it’s thought the explosion was caused by a loose bearing causing a pump to stop that eventually caused a tank to rupture. Space travel was still in its infancy, and the failure was not a surprise.
In 1894 – John Wadsworth of the Louisville Colonels establishes new major league records for most hits and singles given up in a game in a 29-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. Wadsworth gave up 36 hits and 28 singles, both major league records that still stand. Research into whose records Wadsworth broke was inconclusive, and the Phillies 29 runs scored was the fifth-highest total in major league history.
In 1985 – Tears for Fears is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third and final consecutive week with Shout. The song also went to #1 in seven other countries, including Switzerland, the Netherlands and Australia, peaked at #4 in their native Great Britain and at #56 on Billboard’s soul chart. It was the third chart single and second and final #1 song for the group (Everybody Wants to Rule the World, two weeks, 1985).
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The good is rare, that’s all, and not easy for most of us to live with. – Gore Vidal, Washington, D.C.
Answer To The Last Trivia Question It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Freddie Fender’s original name was Baldemar Garza Huerta.
Today’s Stumper Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How long were the Louisville Colonels in the National League? – Answer next time!
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March 11 Here was your Henry lineup for last night:
Henry 1 – OMP Henry 2 – moi Henry 3 – X-Ray
Considering we were sold out and it’s NASCAR weekend, we were really slow. We did have to go to a room twice for a noise complaint, but even then the guy was asleep both times, which was pretty funny.
The Daily Dose/August 16, 2020 By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy
The Sunday Bottom 5 The very best of the very worst of the week that was.
1. President Donald Trump – Proclaimed this week that 1917-19 Spanish flu pandemic helped end World War II…Hardly surprising, though, as this is same man who believes the moon is part of Mars…79 days until election where American will herald to the world – and themselves – whether they are content with driving their country into the ground or whether they will demand better.
2. President Donald Trump – Still showing no leadership whatsoever, hardly a bulletin because he’s not a leader he’s an ignorant bully, but we knew that when we elected him…79 days until election where American will herald to the world – and themselves – whether they are content with driving their country into the ground or whether they will demand better.
3. Mail-In Voting – Useful tool of democracy taking beating lately, as distrust of post office – either feigned or real – is at all-time high…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters, though, remain “pretty sure” that voters can avoid post office altogether by dropping off ballots at designated county sites.
4. USA! USA! – Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters as thrilled as you are NBA, NHL, MLB will decide champions this year but let’s be honest, there is no point to playing games without fans in attendance…It is merely a TV spectacle, an opportunity to sell us cars and beer.
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In was up about 1230 to use the can and thought, f*ck, here we go again, the same crap as last Saturday, but I heroically crawled back in the sack and, in time, was asleep again and seemingly five minutes later a dream ended and BOOM it was 1800.
The downside was I missed prime rib night at the new restaurant…I rather enjoyed it last week and could have made it tonight, I suppose, but prime rib night is not as important as workout and walk.
Look, I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on tee-vee. I have some first aid training and some common sense, but that’s about it; the sight of me bursting through your hotel room door with your girlfriend rather inert should not set your spirits soaring.
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In 1930 – The first sound, color cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released. It was produced and animated by Ub Iwerks, his first cartoon since leaving Walt Disney Studios. The star was Flip the Frog who might not have had the staying power of Mickey Mouse – who Iwerks created with Walt Disney – but still appeared in over three dozen features.
In 1890 – Bill Phillips of the Pittsburgh Alleghenys – now the Pirates – becomes the first major league pitcher to allow two grand slam home runs in a game and an inning in an 18-5 loss to the Chicago Colts, now the Cubs. Phillips allowed grand slams to Tom Burns and Malachi Kittredge in the fifth inning. The two grand slams in a game mark has been equaled many times, but Chan Ho Park of the Los Angeles Dodgers is the only pitcher in major league history to give up two grand slams in an inning, both to Fernando Tatis of the St Louis Cardinals, in 1999.
In 1975 – Freddie Fender is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the second and final consecutive week with Wasted Days and Wasted Nights. Fender had originally written and recorded the song in 1959, but the song’s release was postponed after Fender was convicted of marijuana possession. The song also peaked at #8 Billboard’s Hot 100 and spent a then-record 12 weeks at #1 on New Zealand’s pop chart. The song was Fender’s second of four #1 country hits, and his second of four Top 40 pop hits.
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Talent is nothing but long patience. – Gustave Flaubert
Answer To The Last Trivia Question It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The first country to defeat the United States in Olympic basketball was the Soviet Union, which defeated the US in the gold medal game 51-50. The US had won its first 63 Olympic basketball games.
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Meet Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, August 15 In one of the ultimate night auditor horrors, Front Desk Manager Brandon actually came by…It was 2315 or so and I was still up front when I heard the doors open…I look up, prepared to tell whatever hapless soul that wandered in that we were sold out when Brandon walks in…Crap…Front desk managers showing up on graveyard generally means the night auditor is fired, but Brandon merely wanted to pick up some plant that had been left in the back…He didn’t dawdle, either, saying howdy, getting the plant the saying goodbye.
