The Daily Dose/October 6, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return. Promise.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow pretends to offer guidance to the new guy, Chris. Today’s Diary.
Chris also needed some help in how to handle a payout from one of the drawers…It seems a guest lost $1.50 in a vending machine, so Chris refunded the money…I asked if he’d filled out a petty cash slip and he said yeah and noted the Post-It Note he’d put in the logbook…I asked to see the petty cash slip itself and he retrieved it from the drawer and it said “vending ate $” which seemed to summarize the matter nicely and I made the sign of the cross and said he did well.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 6 – It’s the Jaguars, Lions and everyone else in the NFL Bottom Ten this week, as the race for The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy – rolls on.
Lions announce they are all in for yet another B-10 title run, breaking out to 21-0 deficit before coasting rest of the way in impressive loss to almost as lousy Bears…
Texans prove old NFL adage that on any given Sunday any AFC South team can get blown out on the road, earning Close But No Cigar Award as NFL’s worst victoried team…
Bengals unlikely to shed worst-team-never-to-win-B-10-title label this year, but overload of strength of schedule points for last-second win over lousy Jaguars enough to propel Bengals into survey…
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated at a military parade by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. The killing occurred when members of the assassination team exited a tank that was in front of a reviewing stand, which Sadat thought was part of the program, though the ensuing hand grenade tossing and gunfire were not. Ten others were killed and 28 were wounded, with the assassins later arrested, tried and convicted. They were executed in April of the following year.
In 1882 – The Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association defeat the Chicago White Stockings – now the Cubs – of the National League 4-0 at the Bank Street Grounds in Cincinnati, the first postseason game played by major league pennant winners. The second and final game of the exhibition series was played the following day, a 2-0 Chicago win. The Red Stockings became the Reds in 1884 and joined the National League in 1890.
In 1968 – The Beatles are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second of nine consecutive weeks with Hey Jude. The song went to #1 in 14 other countries including Norway and Great Britain, was Billboard’s #1 song of the year, second-biggest of the decade and ranked twelfth on their 60th Anniversary Hot 100 in 2018. It was the 20th and final #1 song for the group, a Hot 100 record that still stands.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
Napoleon
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The World Series was scheduled for the best-of-nine games in 1903 and 1919-21.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When was the last time Hey Jude appeared on the British charts and on a Billboard chart? – Answer next time!
