The Daily Dose/December 15, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is on hiatus.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow decides to have Christmas dinner shipped in.
But I got to thinking some more and I thought wow, some beef Wellington sounds good…Of course, I’m not going to make that myself…I’ll screw it up, but some research online showed there are companies that will make it for you, freeze it and then ship it to you and I found one that cost an arm and a leg, got rave reviews and their pics looked pretty good…One order consists of four beef Wellingtons of the size a growing boy like me would appreciate.
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 16 – With the final NCAA Bottom Ten running next week. your Bottom Ten pollsters are pleased to present the key games being played this week that will affect the final rankings. The Bottom Ten is free this season.
Lousy Rivalry Game of the Week: Purdue at Indiana, for the Old Oaken Bucket – Cancelled last week because nobody wanted to see it, B-10 pollsters phoned Big Ten (10) office to demand it be played because of its potential implications for Big Ten in B-10 Conference of the Year race.
The Regular Guys/Chapter 17 – Lenny and Larry fill in for a couple of weeks at Caesars Palace.
Caesars Palace was in a box. Several years earlier they had signed Celine Dion to an insanely large contract to headline The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, which they built expressly for her. To fill some of the dates she wasn’t performing, they had hired Elton John to a similarly insane contract.
Sir Elton, however, had torn his vocal cords recording his first rap album and could no longer fulfill his contract, leaving several vacant dates the rest of the year, including a two-week stretch starting next week.
The first nine chapters of The Regular Guys are on the house. Click here to dive in.
Columns, books, shopping lists, click here to get in on the laughs.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1961 – Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi instrumental in organizing and carrying out the Holocaust – is sentenced to death by an Israeli court. Eichmann had been found guilty of 15 assorted counts two days earlier, which followed a trial that had begun in April. Eichmann had been kidnapped by Israeli agents in Buenos Aires in May 1960 and would be executed the following June.
In 1995 – Deron Quint of the Winnipeg Jets ties the NHL for the fastest two goals in a game in a 9-4 win over the Edmonton Oilers. Quint scored two goals four seconds apart, at the 7:51 and 7:55 marks of the second period, tying the mark established by Nels Stewart of the Montreal Maroons on January 3, 1931. Quint’s goals account for 40 percent of his goal total in 51 games that season and the records still stand.
In 1951 – Eddy Howard and his Orchestra is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – a predecessor to the Hot 100 – for the first of two consecutive weeks with (It’s No) Sin. It was the first of two #1 songs for Howard on the chart, and the song spent 23 weeks on the 30-position survey, 18 of them in the Top 10. Howard had originally studied medicine at Stanford before starting his entertainment career and the song also went to #1 on Billboard’s Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Either the people would overthrow the government or, more likely, the government would overthrow the people.
Gore Vidal
Empire
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Charley Pride’s biggest hit on the Hot 100 was Kiss An Angel Good Morning, which peaked at #21 in 1972.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was the final disposition of Adolf Eichmann’s body? – Answer next time!
