The Daily Dose/March 31, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience….
Friends, Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Read Free Fortnight rolls on!
The Diary of a Nobody: At the VSO, Sparrow replies to an email. Today’s Diary.
At the Veterans Service Office (VSO) there was an email from County Commissioner Beth to all department heads advising that the county will be putting out a five-minute video every day updating residents on the virus…I get department head emails even tho I’m not really a department head, altho I am because I head the VSO altho I am the only VSO employee…Still tho, I am attached to the Human Services Department and I’ll be honest, I generally ignore department head emails.
Anyway, I wrote Commissioner Beth back, asking if she could put a plug for the VSO, that we are still open and ready and willing to be of service, even tho everything has to be handled by phone and email for the foreseeable future.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1992 – The battleship era in the United States Navy comes to an end with the USS Missouri is decommissioned. Missiouri had two periods of commissioned service (1944-55 and 1986-92) and saw action in World War II and the Korean and Persian Gulf wars, and was the site of the Japanese surrender to Allied forces in 1945. The first US battleship, the USS Texas, had been commissioned in 1895.
In 1984 – Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders establishes a new NHL record, becoming the first player to score 50 or more goals in seven consecutive seasons in a 3-1 win over the Washington Capitals. Bossy had two goals and broke the record of six he had shared with Guy Lafleur of the Montreal Canadiens. Bossy would finish with nine consecutive seasons with 50 or more goals, a record that still stands.
In 1974 – John Denver is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Sunshine on My Shoulders. It was Denver’s third of seven Top 10 hits and his second of four #1 songs. The song also went to #1 in Canada and peaked at #42 on Billboard’s country chart. The song also spent 13 weeks in the Top 40, including seven weeks in the Top 10.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…and Stephen Douglas would still be alive. It was Chase’s view that men who get what they want in the world seldom die, prematurely, of pneumonia in Chicago. – Gore Vidal, Lincoln
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The Fleetwoods were the other act besides Frankie Avalon to have two #1 hits in 1959 on the Hot 100. They hit #1 with Come Softly To Me and Mr. Blue.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many NHL players have scored 50 or more goals in at least five consecutive seasons? – Answer next time!
