The Daily Dose/February 21, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. College Football – Sure, NCAA, let’s have smaller schools play a spring season, pump iron for two months and then start in on the 2021 fall season…They’re fit college kids, they can handle 20 or more football games in a calendar year.
2. Ted Cruz – Shows strong parenting skills by failing to show value of sacrifice in tough times to daughters who insist on dragging him off to Mexico during recent cold spell/power outages.
3. Lauren Daigle – Hit single You Say slides back into top spot on Billboard’s Hot Christian Singles chart for sixth time and for 117th non-consecutive week, extending all-chart Billboard record for most weeks at #1…Morman Tabernacle Choir reboot of Te Deum Laudamus hits snag after deacons can’t agree on backbeat rhythm.
4. COVID Vaccine – Vaccine distribution hitting snags you would expect with project of this magnitude, with Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters compelled to re-issue probably funny line about COVID vaccine being developed in a year while they’re still bald.
5. President Biden Fact Check – Click here for the latest from the AP…Fact-checkers still on duty – though hardly dealing with the sheer volume of the Trump Administration – with Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” there is a difference between fact-checking and nitpicking.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow runs into a former co-worker. Today’s Diary.
We used to work at the retailer together and she always been crazy about me for some reason, as usual greeting me with a hug I would have left a Visa number for…
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1885 – The tallest building in the world, the Washington Monument, is dedicated by President Chester A Arthur in Washington, DC. The Washington Monument would remain the tallest building in the world until replaced by the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1889 and for the first six months, visitors were obliged to climb 900 stairs to the top, until a construction elevator was converted to tourist use.
In 1973 – The Chicago Blackhawks earn the last of their NHL-record 228 consecutive games without being shut out in a 4-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens. The streak would end three nights later in a 2-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins and their mark stood until broken by the Quebec Nordiques (230 consecutive games, 1980-83) and the record is now held by the Calgary Flames (264 consecutive games, 1981-1985).
In 1981 – Dolly Parton is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of two non-consecutive weeks with 9 to 5. The song also went to #1 in Canada, spent one week at #1 on Billboard’s country chart and was Billboard’s 9th-biggest song of the year. It was her first of two #1 pop hits and her 13th of 24 #1 country hits. The song would drop to #2 for two weeks and return to the top on March 14.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government nor of dungeons to ourselves. let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
Cooper Union address
2/27/1860
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The voyager who spent the most time on the Mir space station was Soviet cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent 437 days and 18 hours on board.
Today’s Stumper
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Which building did the Washington Monument replace as the world’s tallest? – Answer next time!
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