The Daily Dose/February 19, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
Notes from around the human experience.
The Sunday Bottom 5 will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow gets into the gym, but he has to share it. Today’s Diary.
You would think this loser would have something better to do than work out on Saturday nite, but we didn’t get in each other’s way, so what the hell.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1674 – The Dutch and the English sign the Treaty of Westminster, which ends the third Anglo-Dutch War, which had begun in 1672, Though the war ended in a Dutch victory, they did hand over New Amsterdam to the English, who renamed it New York, after the Duke of York, later King James II & VII. The Dutch also paid an indemnity of two million guilders to the English, though King Charles II was obliged to use most of it to pay his debts.
In 1984 – Cale Yarborough wins the Daytona 500 passing Darrell Waltrip on the final lap. It was the second consecutive and fourth and final Daytona 500 win for Yarborough, who retired in 1988 with 83 NASCAR wins. In qualifying, Yarborough had become the first driver to win the pole with a speed over 200 mph (201.848). Waltrip ended up finishing third behind Dale Earnhart, Sr.
In 1972 – Al Green is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Best Selling Soul Singles chart – for the seventh of nine consecutive weeks with Let’s Stay Together. It was his third of 17 soul Top 10s for Green and his first of six #1s. The song also went #7 pop in Great Britain, previously had spent one week at #1 on the Hot 100, and was Billboard’s biggest soul song of the year and its 5th-biggest pop song.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I have said to myself a thousand times that I should be happy if I were but as ignorant as my old neighbor; and yet it is a happiness which I do not desire.
Voltaire
The Good Brahmin
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Leon Spinks won his boxing gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics in the light heavyweight category.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many other versions of Let’s Stay Together have hit the Hot 100? – Answer next time!
