The Daily Dose/October 19, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off remains in time out while we work on a project.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow (again) laments the situation at the sundry stand. Today’s Diary.
Of course it was Sunday, so no deliveries were made, meaning we still need coffee and every frozen sundry stand item…The freezer is not completely bare, but it plainly needs to be stocked and again I made a covert run to the restaurant to steal more of their coffee.
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 8 – It ain’t over yet, but veteran Bottom Ten fan(s) know teams that can run the table – Arizona and UNLV – when they see them, as the race for the ESPNCup rolls on.
Hoping to avoid future near-misses, Rebels cut rebellious running back who had nerve to score three (3) touchdowns, with boosters agreeing to pick up tab for him to attend crap dealers school.
Game bores even staid New Englanders with 21 punts, 16 penalties.
Jayhawks looking to pad B-10 Team of Quarter Century Award resume, as losing out would produce another Tostitos Plaque – issued to team with longest losing streak in season that actually includes a win.
Midshipmen hampered by pregame Navy Secretary ruling – to better prepare for manning battle stations at sea – to go without sleep the night before game, with pregame meal consisting only of Nairobi trail markers, bug juice…
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1812 – The French invasion of Russia fails as Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. Napoleon had invaded in June and had occupied an abandoned Moscow in September, where he stayed expecting a peace overture from Russia. Russian Emperor Alexander I, however, elected to wait for winter to set in, which forced Napoleon to retreat due to cold, a lack of food for men and horses and guerilla warfare staged by Russian peasants and Cossacks. By the end, Napoleon had lost over 80 percent of his army due to death, desertion or capture.
In 1961 – Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors begins an NBA-record streak of 126 consecutive games with at least 20 points in a 118-113 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the season opener for both teams. Chamberlain had 48 points and the streak would not end until a six-point game on January 20, 1963. The streak includes an NBA record of seven consecutive games with 50 or more points in December. Chamberlain had scored 17 points in the final game of the 1960-61 season.
In 1963 – Buck Owens is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the first of 16 consecutive weeks with Love’s Gonna Live Here. It was the second of 21 #1 country hits for Owens and his 20th of 90 country chart singles in a career that ran from 1959-75 and Owens’ 82 combined weeks at #1 is still good for third on the Billboard country chart. It was the last song to spend 16 weeks at #1 on the country chart until 2012-13 when Florida Georgia Line spent 24 weeks at #1 with Cruise.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The case against Clevenger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
There has not been an NCAA Division I quadruple-double recorded against NCAA men’s competition. On November 13, 2007, Lester Martin of Tennessee-Martin had 25 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals against Central Baptist, an NAIA school in Conway, Arkansas. The feat has been accomplished several times at all levels of NCAA women’s competition.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Where were the two places Napoleon was exiled to during his life? – Answer next time!
