The Daily Dose/June 6, 2023
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off remains in time-out.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow continues to get his rest. Today’s Diary.
7.0 hours for the day 18.0 hours for the week, the highest Monday total (MT) since Reconstruction…Good gravy, that’s an insanely high figure and already we’re fretting about it will affect the crucial Tuesday Sleep Session (TSS)…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1971 – Soyuz 11, the first mission to send men to a space station, launches from what is now southern Kazakhstan. The crew would arrive at the space station Salyut the following day and, following a three-hour docking procedure, would spend three weeks there. The crew died while returning to Earth on June 29, when their capsule depressurized prior to reentry and Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev remain the only humans to die in space.
In 2017 – Scooter Gennett of the Cincinnati Reds tied the major league record for most home runs in a game in a 13-1 win over the St Louis Cardinals. Gennet hit four home runs, the 17th player to do so and the mark was later equaled by Arizona’s J.D. Marinez. The four home runs represented 15% of the 27 home runs Gennet would hit on the year and it was the second time the Reds and Cardinals had been involved in a four home run game; in 1993 Mark Whitten of the Cardinals hit for home runs in Cincinnati.
In 1992 – Kris Kross is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the seventh of eight consecutive weeks with Jump. It was the first chart single for the duo, their first of four Top 40 hits, and remains their only #1 song. The song went to #1 in six other countries, including Canada, Finland, and Ireland, peaked at #2 in Great Britain, at #2 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Bilboard’s 3rd-biggest song of the year and its 23rd-biggest of the decade. The duo consisted of James Christopher Kelly and Christopher Smith who were both 12 at the time. Kelly died in 2013 of a drug overdose
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
You don’t have much hope of getting the truth if you think you know in advance what the truth ought to be.
Robert B Parker
Pale Kings and Princes
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The song that spent the most weeks at #1 in the 1950s on either the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart or the Hot 100 was Goodnight Irene by Gordon and The Weavers, which spent 13 weeks at #1 in 1950.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many major league teams have given up four home runs in a game by one player and had a perfect game pitched against them? – Answer next time!
