The Daily Dose/December 21, 2021
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return. Promise.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – The creamer usage test at the hotel continues. Today’s Diary.
Creamer Challenge II Is too close to call right now…Both half & half and French vanilla are about three-quarters gone, so we’re calling it a dead heat…Hopefully, we’ll have a winner before the week is done.
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 1967 – Louis Washkansky of South Africa, the first recipient of a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town. Washkansky survived for 18 days after his transplant and had not only regained consciousness but had been able to speak with his wife and reporters. The surgical team had been led by Dr Christaan Barnard and the donor was a 25-year-old woman who had been struck by a car a few hours earlier. While brain dead, her heart was still beating and Barnard injected her with potassium to paralyze the heart so she could be declared legally dead. Her kidneys were donated as well.
In 1891 – The first basketball game is played in Springfield, Massachusetts by students at the YMCA. The game had been invented by faculty member James Naismith, who nailed peach baskets ten feet off the ground at either end of the gym and posted a list of 13 rules. Basketball came after attempts to modify soccer, football and lacrosse for indoor use proved futile and the first game with a recorded result would be played in March. Basketball became an Olympic sport at the 1936 Berlin games.
In 1959 – Marty Robbins is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot C&W Sides chart – for the first of seven consecutive weeks with El Paso. The song was Robbins’ sixth of 16 #1 country hits and later became his only #1 pop hit, spending two weeks at #1 on the Hot 100. El Paso was the first #1 country and pop song of the 1960s, also went #1 country in Canada and won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I must be a castaway on the desert island of my dreams.
Phillipe Petit
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Kenny Rogers has had 15 #1 songs on Billboard’s country chart.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was the result of the first Olympic basketball game scheduled for the US? – Answer next time!
