The Daily Dose/September 21, 2020
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 a woman keeping tabs on her man.
The big thing, tho, was not hearing from your boyfriend for twelve hours is hardly reason to upgrade matters to DefCon 1…Or Defcon V, whichever is highest, I’ve long forgotten…While that be keeping admirable tabs on your man, it might also be the reason he’s not answering his phone: he would like some peace, a hardly unprecedented feeling amongst us men.
Sometimes you have to say no and I did here…I told her he’s probably just sleeping it off and that I wasn’t going to bother anyone right now.
There were a couple of other reasons, tho, too: one, what if there are other workers from the company here and the names on the rooms aren’t accurate???…Two, I don’t know who this woman is…She could be a girlfriend or she could be a psycho ex-wife making up the working story.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Rich and Gaylon deal with someone who is crackers.
The guy is dirty and his clothes were new years ago and Rich joins me and it takes a few minutes but we get him down the stairs and then we are treated to a story about how his mommy is sending him a credit card which he is waiting to pick up at a bank and how he wants to play in the NFL this fall.
“Really?” I say. I learned very early on in this job that sometimes if you join these idiots in their little cracker barrel they are easier to deal with. “I am too. Which team you going for?”
“Bellagio.”
Rich laughs.
“Bellagio?” I ask.
“Yeah, I’m staying at Bellagio.“Well Bellagio is that way,” I say, pointing south, away from Bellagio, because south was the quickest way to get him off property and he no more knows where Bellagio is than where Jupiter is and eventually he leaves.
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1953 – Korean People’s Army Senior Lieutenant No Kum-sok defects to South Korea, when he flies his North Korean MiG fighter jet from Sunan to the Kimpo Air Base, a bit west of Seoul. Fortuitous circumstances at the time ensured No was neither chased by the North Koreans nor shot down by the South Koreans or Americans and later reports indicated that No’s mistake of landing the wrong way actually prevented him from being shot down. No later emigrated to the US and assumed the name Kenneth H Rowe.
In 1964 – The collapse of the Philadelphia Phillies begins in a 1-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds, the first of a ten-game losing streak that remains one of the great collapses in American professional sports. The Phillies had begun the day 6.5 games in front of both the Reds and the St Louis Cardinals with twelve games to play and this was the first of ten consecutive losses for the Phillies.
In 1963 – Martha and the Vandellas are at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot R&B Singles chart – for the second of four consecutive weeks with Heatwave. It was their second soul chart single, their second of ten soul Top 10 songs and their first of two soul #1s (Jimmy Mack, one week, 1967). The song also peaked at #4 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and returned to the Hot 100 in 1985 when a version by Linda Ronstadt peaked at #5.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws. – John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Steve Garvey of the San Diego Padres was the MVP of the 1984 National League Championship Series. He had also won the award in 1978 when he was with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the only National League player to win the award twice. Dave Stewart has done it twice in the American League and Orel Hershiser has done it once in each league.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What was Martha and the Vandellas’ biggest hit on the Hot 100? – Answer next time!
