The Daily Dose/November 15, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is at the veterans service office. Today’s Diary.
…[he] is demonstrably longwinded and we were only scheduled for a half-day today, so we called him back right off, rather than listen to his messages because weren’t in the mood to have a stroke.
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 12 – It’s Akron, Northwestern, and UMess on the Bottom Ten medal stand this week, as the catfight known as the race for the ESPNCup rolls on.
UMess, as usual, clutch at the end, as only missed two (2)-point conversion, blown onsides kick, prevented overtime, or worse, a win…
Combined three (3) wins all came in losable games, as remaining college football fan(s) in [Colorado] left to wonder what might have been.
Coaching staff, knowing how crucial a complete lack of offense will be in B-10 stretch run, takes offense out behind pineapple grove for beatings after putting up highest point total of 2022…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1988 – The Soviet Union space program makes its only space shuttle flight when the Buran makes an unmanned flight. The spacecraft flew for 3 hours and 25 minutes and made two orbits before landing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is now southern Kazakhstan. The Buran made its first sub-orbital flight in 1985, ten other missions ended up being canceled, and the program was scrapped shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union.
In 1973 – Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins establishes a new NHL record for most points in a game by a defenseman in a 10-2 win over the New York Rangers. Orr had seven points on three goals and four assists to break the record of six that had been done several times previously, including twice by Orr. The record is now eight, done twice, by Tom Bladon of the Philadelphia Flyers in December 1977 and by Paul Coffey of the Edmonton Oilers in March 1986.
In 1975 – Elton John is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the third and final consecutive week with Island Girl. It was the fifth of nine #1 songs for John, his eighth consecutive Top 10 hit, and 13th of 28 overall. The song also peaked at #14 in Great Britain and due to charting in both the 1975 and 1976 survey periods, was Billboard’s 64th-biggest hit of 1976. The song is about a Jamaican prostitute in New York City and John hasn’t performed the song live in many years.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Morals, which had been loosened by riches and luxury, had not been improved by destitution and chaos, for few conditions are more demoralizing than poverty that comes after wealth.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. III: Caesar to Christ
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The NFL head coach in the Top 10 in career wins who has the most losses is Dan Reeves, who went 190-165-2 in his career.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many #1 songs has Elton John had in Great Britain? – Answer next time!
