The Daily Dose/March 1, 2022
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 deals with an unhappy former guest. Today’s Diary.
We explained several more times his bank will delete the authorization when they got around to it; it was out of our hands…I was talking on loop, repeating the same thing over and over and after the 19th time, he demanded I have a good evening and hung up…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1781 – The Articles of Confederation – the first governing document of the US since declaring independence from Great Britain in 1989 – takes effect. The Second Continental Congress had sent the Articles to the states in 1777, with unanimous approval being required for ratification. The Articles had been drawn up by a committee of 13, one representative from each state, and the Constitution would replace the Articles in 1989.
In 1919 – Newsy Lalonde of the Montreal Canadiens establishes a new NHL playoff record for most goals scored in a game in a 6-3 win over the Ottawa Senators in Game 3 of the NHL Finals. Lalonde broke the record of three that had been done five times previously and the mark has been tied four times since. The Canadiens would defeat the Senators in five games and faced the PCHA champion Seattle Metropolitans for the Stanley Cup, a series that was canceled after five games due to the Spanish flu epidemic.
In 1969 – Sly & the Family Stone is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third of four consecutive weeks with Everyday People. The song also peaked at #36 in Great Britain, was in its second and final week at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s 5th-biggest song of the year. It was the second of ten Top 40 hits for the group, their second of five Top 10 songs, and their first of three pop and soul #1s.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Trust the process and something will happen…if you allow it to happen.
Elton John
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The crew of Gemini 9 was Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many #1s did Sly & the Family Stone have on the Billboard 200 album chart? – Answer next time!
