The Daily Dose/January 3, 2024
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.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s (still) stalking a gal at the gym. Today’s Diary.
Not that we keep tabs on her arrival times – we’re not stalkers – tho you didn’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to notice she generally favored the gym with her presence around 1700…Not today…In fact, we had written off seeing her when she showed up at 1733…
Friends, the NFL Bottom Ten will run on Thursday.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1870 – Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge, which would span the East River and connect Brooklyn and Manhattan, then separate cities. The first tasks were constructing two caissons at each end on which the suspension towers would be built. A temporary wire was put up in August 1876 with a worker traveling the span in a chair, marking the first time the bridge was used for a crossing. The bridge opened on May 24, 1883.
In 1931 – Nels Stewart of the Montreal Maroons establishes a new NHL record for the fastest two goals in a 5-3 win over the Boston Bruins. Stewart scored four seconds apart in the third period, breaking the record of eight seconds established by Cy Denneny of the Ottawa Senators in December 1926. The record was tied by Deron Quint of the Winnipeg Jets in December 1995 and still stands.
In 2015 – Taylor Swift is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for sixth of seven consecutive weeks with Blank Space. The song went to #1 in six other countries, including Iceland and South Africa, peaked at #4 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 7th-biggest song of the year. It was the 14th of 49 Top 10 hits for Swift – mark good for second all-time behind Drake (76) – and her second of eleven #1s
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…but I thought of an older, a newer, and purer wine, of a more glorious vintage, which they had not got, and could not buy.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The NCAA all-division record for most points in a basketball game is 346 in a Division III game between Greenville (200) and Fontbonne (146) in February 2019.
Today’s Stumper
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What is the NHL record for the fastest two goals by a team? – Answer next time!
