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The Daily Dose/August 29, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes From Around Our Human Experience
HUT, HUT, HIKE: College football begins in earnest today, and this season may be the wackiest one yet as some players who were on NFL rosters this training camp are trying to suit up for college teams this season. We are not making that up.
Dry, Technical Matter: The players are ones who, had they not left for the pros, would have otherwise been eligible to give it the old college try this season. The four major conferences this week passed rules against these kids playing but – hold on to your hats – state judges in Texas and Louisiana have issued restraining orders against the SEC’s rule.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: We say let them back in. College football players are paid a lot of money now, some outright by their schools, some through NIL collectives and some in other ways. True, they’re not paid in an employer/employee context, but they receive money and are professionals in spirit. We don’t see a reason why those who gave the NFL shot and didn’t make it shouldn’t be allowed to come back.
Fly In The Ointment: College sports are in a bind, of course, a bind of their own making. Every element – players, coaches, schools, conferences, networks – are in it for one reason: to strafe everyone for every last possible dollar. There is no longer a common interest and friends, this has never been a blueprint for success in anything whatsoever.
The Bottom Line: It is not practical to keep holding on to a romanticized version of college sports that never existed in the first place. And never means not once, because the very first college sporting event – the 1852 Harvard/Yale regatta – was held to promote both rail travel and a New Hampshire resort and featured ringers on each side. It’s been downhill ever since. Professional athletes will be taking the field this Saturday, and those who gave the NFL a shot and missed should, too.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow talks with an old Navy vet. Today’s Diary.
He had been a hospital corpsman ages ago…and we said we were on an old diesel submarine, and he said he probably could not have handled that duty, and we said we would’ve been useless in a foxhole, and we all had our place in the service…
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On This Date
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In 1756 – The Seven Years’ War begins in Europe, with Prussia’s Frederick the Great invading Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire. The primary warring states would be Prussia and Great Britain against France and, among others, Austria, though the war was also fought in Africa and North America and ended in 1763 with, among other things, France surrendering its American possessions to Britain and Spain.
In 1972 – Jim Barr of the San Francisco Giants establishes a new major league record for most consecutive batters retired in a 3-0 win over the St Louis Cardinals. Barr retired the first 20 batters he faced, giving him 41 total consecutive batters retired after retiring the final 21 consecutive Pittsburgh Pirates he faced on Aug 23. Research into whose record he broke was inconclusive, and Yusmeiro Petit of the Giants now holds the record, with 46 in 2014. Barr’s streak was broken by Bernie Carbo’s seventh-inning double.
In 1960 – Elvis Presley is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third of five consecutive weeks with It’s Now or Never. It was the 14th of 17 #1 songs by Elvis and the song also went to #1 in twelve other countries, including South Africa, Norway, and Great Britain. It peaked at #7 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was their 7th-biggest pop song of the year. The record sold over 20 million copies, and remains Elvis’ biggest-selling single. In 1981, a version by John Schneider went #14 pop and #4 country in the US.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men…Halve your lecture, and put a psalm at the beginning and a prayer at the end of it and read it from a pulpit, and they will pronounce it good without thinking.
Henry David Thoreau
Diary entry, 2/13/1860
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The longest filibuster in US Senate history is 25 hours and 5 minutes by Corey Hart in 2025.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many #1 songs did Elvis have on Billboard’s soul chart? – Answer next time!
The Daily Dose/August 27, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes From Around Our Human Experience
HUT, HUT, HIKE: Recently Jed York, the owner of the San Francisco 49ers football team, got caught up in a sting operation and was arrested for solicitation in a rural Ohio trailer park. He texted someone he thought was a vendor willing and able to provide some Sunday morning nookie, and they agreed on a $160 fee.
Fly In The Ointment: Unfortunately, he was not talking with a professional sex vendor, but with the local constables. Our first thought was “the guy’s rich, and he’s paying $160 for a trailer park hookup”?
Quote That Sucker: Well, as someone smarter than us once said sex, like hunger, is an appetite, and you don’t always eat the finest restaurants. Sometimes you slum, and happily, too.
My Partner’s Bill Gannon…My Name’s Friday: Our second thought was, “why is this still a crime”?…Good gravy, an old fart wants a piece, and he finds someone to sell it to him. So what? Where’s the crime here? A better question is: who’s the victim here? Because you cannot have a crime without a victim. Is the woman receiving money she probably really needs the victim, or is the man paying her the victim?
FunFact: Besides, we all pay for it, don’t we guys? The only question is whether it’s a direct cash grant or whether we buy them dinner first.
The Bottom Line: Morality laws don’t do anyone any good, and it is time to repeal them. If paying for sex or legal weed isn’t to your taste, that’s all right, they’re not to my taste, either, but just because something is legal does not make it mandatory. What consenting adults want to do behind closed doors is their lookout, and nobody else’s. Jed York’s actions this past Sunday should never have made news.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s not sure if he needs to standy with a constable. Today’s Diary.
Security 101 dictates it’s not completely bad to have an officer present in this situation, and it’s one of those deals where we would rather be told we don’t have to do something than be told we should’ve done something…
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On This Date
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In 1957 – South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond begins a speech to the United States Senate at 8:54 pm against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The address turned into a 24 hour, 18 minute filibuster, which Thurmond stopped the following night due to doctors concerns about his kidneys. It was then the longest filibuster in US Senate history, and is now the second. Despite Thurmond’s opposition, the bill later passed the Senate by a 60-15 margin and was signed into law by President Eisenhower on September 9.
In 2004 – Argentina and the United States win basketball gold medals at the Athens Summer Olympics. Argentina defeated Italy 84-69 for the men’s gold medal while the US defeated Australia 74-63 for the women’s gold medal. It remains the only men’s basketball gold medal for Argentina and was the fifth of ten gold medals for the US women’s team.
In 1976 – KC and the Sunshine Band is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Soul Singles chart – for the only week with (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty. It was the third of four #1 soul singles for the group and their third of seven soul Top 10 hits. The song also went #1 pop in Canada and later would spend a week at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100. It was Billboard’s fourth-biggest soul song of the year and its 26th biggest overall.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
But fate, it seems, is unavoidable rather than unexpected.
Plutarch
Roman Lives
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The major league record for most runs in a game by one team is 36, by the Chicago Colts – now the Cubs – who defeated the Louisville Colonels 36-7 on June 29, 1897.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who now has the longest filibuster in US Senate history? – Answer next time!
As noted on Wednesday, The Daily Dose is enjoying a couple of days off.
Click here to read today’s entry in The Diary of a Nobody.
Cheers,
Yo Homie(s),
The Daily Dose will return. We have some projects that need our attention and, of course, it will return.
As always, click here to read today’s entry in The Diary of a Nobody.
It’s Sparrow…An average man passing an average life.
Monday, August 24
Here We Go
What a pleasant nite it was at the hotel…Occupancy was nice and low – about a third – so few bothered me, and we got most everything done that we wanted to…It’s why you keep jobs like this, frankly: easy work and not a whole hell of a lot of it, with lots of time for projects.
The Daily Dose/August 25, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes From Around Our Human Experience
HUT, HUT, HIKE: Longtime readers of this crap know today would’ve been the day the 2026 Bottom Ten made its debut with the reliably funny Preseason Q&A kicking things off.
Fly In The Ointment: But not this year. The inspiration – the bedrock of the creative process – for the feature isn’t there anymore, and with that gone, it’s time to call it a day.
Dry, Technical Matter: To have carried on would have seen every word forced, and that’s not writing, friends; it’s typing. You, me, and the Bottom Ten pollsters – a group of drunks as imaginary as they are real – deserve better than that.
The Bottom Ten Medal Stand: We’re “pretty sure” the blame for this can be laid directly at the feet of The Bottom Ten/NCAA Team of the Quarter Century edition that ran last year. We had been looking forward to that column for many years, and – even though there were subsequent NFL Bottom Tens to write – it proved a satisfying way to go out.
Mitigating Factors: Though the NFL Bottom Ten took a handful of bye weeks over the years, the NCAA Bottom Ten never missed a week. Come hell or high water, good times and bad. Once or twice over the past two-and-a-half decades, when times seemed almost beyond tolerance, it was the only refuge a week offered.
The Dan Henning Trophy: We go way back with The Bottom Ten, first reading it in the Los Angeles Times as a boy. A really funny writer named Steve Harvey wrote it, and we seem to recall it ran on Wednesdays; we usually read it out loud to Dad.
This Is Don Criqui Reporting: Years later, it’s the Double Aughts, and we’re writing and editing for an internet company in Las Vegas, and the combined forces of a desperate need for content and not having a whole hell of a lot to do otherwise found us writing our own Bottom Ten.
B-10 TitleTrak Radar: We’ve long said there were two parts of a year, the part when we were writing The Bottom Ten and the part when we weren’t, and only the first part was worth a damn. True enough. It was also true that if you enjoyed reading it half as much as we enjoyed writing it, you enjoyed it an awful lot.
The Bottom Line: But times change, and it’s time for The Bottom Ten to go. It’s been the best of friends, and we say farewell with the fondest of memories and the broadest of smiles. We hope you do, too.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow haggles with a potential guest. Today’s Diary.
– I can waive the parking fee, but there’s not a whole lot of leeway otherwise.
This was a lie, of course; I could lower the rate to a few bucks and waive whatever the hell I wanted…My authority is that broad…
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On This Date
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In 1814 – The British occupation of Washington, D.C. in the War of 1812 continued, with British troops burning the Library of Congress and the Treasury and War Departments. This came a day after the British burned the White House, Capitol building, and the Washington Navy Yard, and marked the second time – the first was during the American Revolution – that the British had captured America’s capital without winning the war. The War of 1812 ended the following year with inconclusive results.
In 1922 – The Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs establish new major league records for the most runs and the most hits in a game in a 26-23 Cubs victory. The teams combined for 49 runs and 51 hits, and research into whose records they broke was inconclusive. The record for runs still stands, and on July 10, 1932, the Philadelphia A’s and Cleveland Indians combined for 58 hits in an 18-inning game won by the A’s 18-17.
In 1979 – The Charlie Daniels Band is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the only week with The Devil Went Down to Georgia. The song also went #1 country in Canada, went #14 pop in Great Britain, and peaked at #3 on the Hot 100. It was the third of twelve Top 40 country hits for Daniels, his first of three Top 10s, and remains his only #1 country hit and his biggest pop hit. Daniels died in 2020, and his chart career ran from 1973-2003.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…anarchy is not the result of the commitment, all at once, of a serious crime, but people who fail to be strict about minor matters also destroy the guard that protects more serious concerns.
Plutarch
Roman Lives
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Four of Mark David Chapman’s five shots hit John Lennon.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What team holds the record for most runs scored in a major league game? – Answer next time!
