The Daily Dose/June 5, 2023
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow discusses recent changes in the amount of sleep he gets on Sunday. Today’s Diary.
Those keeping score at home have, no doubt, noticed the seismic shift in the Sunday Sleep Session (SSS)…It used to be only a few hours, usually beginning in mid-afternoon, to be expected after ten or so hours of sleep the day before…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1893 – The trial of Lizzie Borden, 33 and accused of killing her father and stepmother with a hatchet begins in Fall River, Massachusetts. The killing had occurred the previous August, with Borden a suspect from the start. Though calm and poised during questioning, Borden’s answers contained inconsistencies and she was later arrested. Borden would be acquitted and remained in Fall River, slightly ostracized, until her death in 1927.
In 1925 – Willie McFarlane of Scotland and Bobby Jones of the US establish a new US Open record for the longest playoff in a tournament won by McFarland. The two played 36 playoff holes – a playoff is a complete round in the US Open – before McFarland defeated Jones by a stroke. Jones would’ve won in regulation, however, in the opening round he penalized himself a stroke for an infraction no one else seemed to see. It was the longest US Open until 1931 when four playoff rounds were required for Billy Burke to beat George von Elm, a record that still stands.
In 1954 – Kitty Kallen is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – one of several predecessors to today’s Hot 100 – for the first nine consecutive weeks with Little Things Mean a Lot. It was the fourth and final #1 song for Kallen on a Billboard pop chart, the song also went to #1 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s #1 song of the year, the final time a female solo act would have a year’s #1 song until Lulu’s To Sir, With Love in 1967. Kallen would later lose and then recover her voice and died at 97 in 2016.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The chaplain had sinned and it was good…The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery…It was almost no trick at all, he saw…Anybody could do it; it required no brains…it merely required no character.
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The following states rejected, at least initially, the 19th Amendment, which gave women the franchise: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. All would later ratify it.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What song spent the most weeks at #1 on the Best Sellers in Stores chart or the Hot 100 in the 1950s? – Answer next time!
