The Daily Dose/July 1, 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 buys some lottery tickets. Today’s Diary.
Now, regular readers of this crap know we do have our lucky numbers, but they weren’t so lucky last time, and something inside us – call it all the instincts all the great ones have if you must – said roll with the quick pick! and we’ve learned over the years that you ignore your instincts at your peril…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1963 – Zip codes are introduced by the US Postal Service. Zip is short for Zone Improvement Plan and currently, there are over 41,000 zip codes in the US. The highest zip code is 99950 in Ketchikan, Alaska and the lowest is 00501, for the IRS in Holtsville, New York. Seven zip codes cross state lines and the US Postal Service handles 44% of the world’s mail.
In 1980 – Steve Ovett of Great Britain establishes a new world record in the one-mile run at a meet in Oslo, Noway. Ovett ran the mile in 3 minutes, 48.8 seconds, to beat Sebastian Coe’s record of 3 minutes 49 seconds. Later that summer, Ovett would win the gold medal at the Moscow Olympics in the 800 meters and bronze in the 1,500 meters. The mile remains the only non-metric distance recognized for record purposes.
In 1967 – The Association is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of four consecutive weeks with Windy. It was the fourth of seven Top 40 hits for the group, their third of four Top 10 hits, and their second and final #1 song. The song also went to #1 in Canada, was Billboard’s 4th-biggest song of the year, and later in the year, an instrumental version by Wes Montgomery peaked at #44 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
One who takes for granted the basest motives in one’s fellow men and in oneself…has never gone wrong, not in our time – and it is in our time that one must live, must prosper or perish.
Ernst Weiss
Georg Letham Physician and Murderer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
King Henry II and Queen Catherine of France produced five monarchs: kings of France Francis II and Charles IX, King of France and Poland Henry III, Elisabeth, Queen of Spain, and Margaret, Queen of France.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who is the current world record holder for the mile? – Answer next time!
