The Daily Dose/May 31, 2025
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 does something for the first time. Today’s Diary.
…for the first time ever – we let someone into a room to record a cello audition!!!
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 2004 – Vanity Fair magazine reveals the Watergate informant known as Deep Throat was FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt. Felt had passed information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein for stories that eventually led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Felt’s identity had long been suspected by some, including Nixon, and his code name came from the title of a popular pornographic movie of the era.
In 2008 – Usain Bolt of Jamaica establishes a new 100-meter world record at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York City. Bolt finished with a time of 9.72 seconds, breaking the record of 9.74 established by countryman Asafa Powell in 2007. Bolt would break the record twice more, and his mark of 9.58 seconds still stands.
In 1997 – Hanson is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second of three consecutive weeks with MMMBop. The song went to #1 in 14 other countries – including Hungary, Switzerland, and Great Britain – and was Billboard’s 12th-biggest song of the year. It was the first of three Top 40 hits for the group, their first of two Top 10s, and remains their only #1 song. The song spent twelve weeks in the Top 10 and remained on the Hot 100 for 22 weeks.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…vanity is the spur of development, and the secret of authorship.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. X: Rousseau and Revolution
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The song that spent the most weeks at #1 in the 1980s was Physical by Olivia Newton-John, which spent ten weeks at the top in 1981 and 1982.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the last American man to hold the 100-meter world record that did not later have the record rescinded? – Answer next time!
