The Daily Dose/June 16, 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.
Friends, what has turned into Read Free Trimester continues, but it will end soon. Stand by for a special on 4Ever & Ever to these two (2) American institutions.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow goes everyday carry with his new pocket knife. Today’s Diary.
We talked yesterday about yours truly bring his hot, new, high-quality pocket knife to work because I was obliged to use a conveniently located cutter to open a box of coffee packets last night…Well, just for funsies, I brought it tonight and it was useful not once, but twice!!!…I am not making that up.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon gets big laughs in briefing for a line he didn’t think was all that funny.
Sure, it was a good line, the kind of smart-ass comment that has made me such a valued member of the MCSD graveyard crew. But the funniest briefing line ever? A line that had the whole room cracking up? That was straight out of left field. In fact, I thought my line about how Responsible Gaming Week ended on a Friday – just in time for the weekend! – was ten times funnier.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1944 – South Carolina executes George Stinney, 14, who was condemned for murdering two white girls three months earlier. Stinney had been condemned following a two-hour trial before an all-white jury and was still so short a Bible was used as a booster seat in the electric chair. Stinney remains the youngest person executed in the 20th-century and his conviction was vacated in 2014, a circuit court judge ruling Stinney had not been given a fair trial, lacked adequate counsel and that his 6th Amendment rights to an impartial jury – his trial was certainly speedy enough – had been violated.
In 1985 – Willie Banks of the United States establishes a new world record in the triple jump, jumping 58 feet, 11.25 inches at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis. Banks broke the record of 58 feet 8.25 inches established in 1975 by Joao Carlos de Oliveria of Brazil and Banks himself would hold the record for ten years, until it was broken, and later extended twice, by Jonathon Edwards of Great Britain, who still holds the mark at 60 feet, 0 inches. Banks’ best Olympic finish was fourth at the 1988 Games in Seoul.
In 1951 – Les Paul and his wife Mary Ford are at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – a predecessor to today’s Hot 100 – for the ninth and final consecutive week with How High the Moon? It was the first of two #1 songs for the duo (Vaya Con Dios, eleven weeks, non-consecutive, 1953) and was Paul’s second #1 song (It’s Been a Long Long Time, Bing Crosby and the Les Paul Trio, one week, 1945). Paul was also instrumental in the development of both the electric guitar and, with Ford, multi-track recording, and is the only person inducted into both the Rock and Roll and National Inventors halls of fame.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Victory awaits him who has everything in order – luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck. – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
King John reigned over England from 1199-1216.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
In what country has the world triple jump record been set the most times? – Answer next time!
