The Daily Dose/April 3, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience….
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Read Free Fortnight continues!
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow completes the census. Today’s Diary.
So I filled it out online…I didn’t, of course, have the 12-digit number because I didn’t get a packet, but that was of zero consequence and in a matter of minutes I had done my civic duty…I dearly enjoy doing my civic duty – be it the census or jury duty – and afterward I sat at my desk, contentedly and with coffee, for a few minutes…Idly, I wondered where I would be filling out the next census tho let’s not kid ourselves, there is a high level of probability it will be here at The Shire.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, infamously known as the Unabomber, is arrested at his cabin near Lincoln, Montana on charges stemming from a bombing campaign between 1978 and 1995 that killed three and injured 23 others. In April Kaczynski would be indicted on a variety of charges, including three counts of murder and the following January pled guilty to all charges and was sentenced to eight life sentences without the possibility of parole. Kaczynski later tried to withdraw his plea but was turned down. Kascinzki, now 77, is serving his sentences at the federal supermax prison in Colorado.
In 1977 – The Montreal Canadiens establish a new NHL record for most wins a season in a 2-1 win over the Washington Capitals. It was the 60th win of the season for the team, breaking the record of 59 wins they had established the night before in an 11-0 win over the Capitals. The previous record had been 58 wins, which the Canadiens had established the year before. The record is now 62 wins in a season, done twice, by the Detroit Red Wings in 1995-96 and by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2018-19.
In 1976 – Johnny Taylor is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of four consecutive weeks with Disco Lady. Taylor had been knocking around the charts since 1963 and Disco Lady remains his only #1 song out of 20 chart singles and eleven Top 40 hits. The song was also in its fourth of six weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart and was Billboard’s third-biggest song of the year. History remembers Disco Lady as the first #1 song on the Hot 100 to feature ‘disco’ in the title and was also the first single to earn the platinum designation for selling one million copies, though other singles had sold one million copies before the platinum designation.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I saw nothing at all. I understood nothing at all. That is why I think it is better to study real things in a real world. – Gore Vidal, Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Currently, there are four mints in the US that produce coins: Philadelphia, West Point, NY, San Francisco and Denver.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What was the first #1 song on a Billboard pop chart to feature the phrase ‘rock and roll’ in the title? – Answer next time!
