The Daily Dose/December 27, 2023
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.
Everything is on the house today. Enjoy.
The Diary of a Nobody -Dr Sparrow is in the house. Today’s Diary.
Consider taping an ankle…Sure, your ankle is going to be sturdier, but the force it would normally absorb is distributed to the knee, which isn’t designed to take it…We could feel this using the sleeve, too…When we did hammer curls we could feel it in the shoulder, and the shoulders felt it, too, when we didn’t cable pulldowns…
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 17 – The race for the most coveted trophy in sports – The Dan Henning Trophy, symbolic of NFL ineptitude – is winding down.
Presuming Cardinals don’t lose next two (2) games by combined 17,000-2 score, Panthers first B-10 title there for the losing…
Titans proof that you count out team that once won consecutive B-10 titles at your peril, as Titans back in familiar haunts: a late-season B-10 survey…
Coach that can’t lose the big one stigma sure to follow Bill Belichick forever as Patriots win ends dream of Belichick becoming first coach to win Super Bowl(s), B-10 title…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1831 – English biologist Charles Darwin begins a voyage on HMS Beagle, that would result in the promulgation of his theory of evolution. The voyage, mainly a survey expedition to update nautical charts, sailed around South America to Australia, around Africa, and back to Brazil before returning to England in October 1836. Darwin’s diary would result in the 1859 book On the Origin of Species, which introduced the theory of natural selection, where species evolve throughout generations, which remains a landmark work in human letters.
In 1987 – Steve Largent of the Seattle Seahawks establishes a new NFL record for most career receptions in a 41-20 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Largent’s fifth reception of the game gave him 751, breaking the mark of 750 established by Charlie Joiner from 1969-86. Largent would retire in 1989 with 819 receptions, a mark that has been surpassed many times and is now held by Jerry Rice with 1,549.
In 1980 – John Lennon is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of five consecutive weeks with (Just Like) Starting Over. Lennon had been shot death on December 8 and the song was from the album Double Fantasy which was in its first of eight consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The song went to #1 in five other countries, including Austria and Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 4th-biggest song of 1981. It was the second and final #1 song for Lennon as a solo act and was the fourth of eight posthumous #1s on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
At last I had the authority to give direction over the whole scene. I felt as if I were walking with Destiny, and that all my past life had been but preparation for this hour and this trial.
Winston Churchill
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The Soviet Union was established in 1922.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was the most recent posthumous #1 song on the Hot 100? – Answer next time!
