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The Daily Dose/Thursday, March 26, 2026
The Daily Dose/March 26, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
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Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow tolerates a yapper at tai chi class. Today’s Diary.
Our own theory when receiving any kind of expert instruction is to keep our mouth shut, and this is even more so with tai chi because the focus is on quiet and spirituality…This includes butting in with questions because our experience is our question will, invariably, be answered…
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In 1997 – San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputies find 39 dead bodies, all mass suicide victims, at a home in northern San Diego County. The dead were members of a cult known as Heaven’s Gate and died in three groups between March 22 and 26. The deaths were designed to coincide with the closest point of approach of the Hale-Bopp comet, which was believed to have a spacecraft following it which would transport their souls to heaven. Their website is still active, though it does not appear to have been updated since before the suicides.
In 1979 – The Michigan State Spartans defeat the Indiana State Sycamores 75-64 to win the NCAA Division I basketball title at the Special Events Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. It was the first of two NCAA titles for the Spartans (2000) and remains the only title game appearance for the Sycamores. It was the last Final Four played on an on-campus arena, the only one to feature 40 teams, the first where three officials were used, and with 40 million viewers remains the most-watched college basketball game ever.
In 1977 – Daryl Hall and John Oates area at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of two consecutive weeks with Rich Girl. It was the fourth of 34 Top 40 hits for the group, their third of 16 Top 10 songs, and their first of six #1 songs. The song also peaked at #64 on Billboard’s soul chart and was their 23rd-biggest song of the year. The song was written by Hall, who based it on a man his girlfriend knew. The gender was later changed because “rich girl” sounded better than “rich guy”.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Love is a perpetual act of selfless devotion.
Jim Bishop
The Day Christ Died
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The highest speed a New York City subway achieves is 55 mph.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What conference has won the most NCAA Division I men’s basketball titles? – Answer next time!
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The Daily Dose/Tuesday, March 25, 2026
Valued Reader(s), your Daily Dose is enjoying a day off. It will return.
As penance, today’s Diary of a Nobody entry is on the house.
Cheers,
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The Diary of a Nobody/March 24
Today’s Diary entry is with Sparrow’s compliments. Enjoy.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Tuesday, March 24
The Night At The Hotel
More misfits in the lobby tonite…This time they were members of a band, plus a couple of stragglers, playing cards, and there were about ten people at the back table…We have some zero clue what they were playing, tho…We’re not Mr Vegas – tho, perhaps, one time we were – but offhand we couldn’t think of a card game for ten people that didn’t involve the removal of clothes, but game rules are hardly our lookout here…We’re a nite auditor, not a pit boss…BEsides, they’re musicians who spend a lot of time on the road, and if they have a ten-player card game, more power to them.
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The Daily Dose/Tuesday, March 24, 2026
The Daily Dose/March 24, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
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Notes from around the human experience.
GAYLON FOR CONGRESS: VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN: If it’s an even-numbered year, it must mean yours truly is running for office. And we are, pleased to announce our candidacy for the Colorado Libertarian Party’s nomination from the 2nd Congressional District.
Dry, Technical Matter: We did make some noise about running for the party’s US Senate nomination. It would not be the first time. In 2014, we earned the nomination, but missed out on two other occasions. Once, we dropped out at the convention in order to avoid a primary and accepted the District 3 nomination, and the other time we lost a primary. It’s important to be on the November ballot so, after some discussion with party officials, we decided to run for Congress.
Common Sense In Uncommon Times: We are the only announced candidate for the 2nd District nomination, though that doesn’t really mean anything. Another candidate could show up at the convention, or the convention could get its collective shorts in a knot and reject my candidacy, but neither of those is likely to happen. It is accurate to say we are the presumptive nominee.
Dry, Technical Matter: Longtime supporters no doubt remember we used to be in the 3rd District, but that changed after the 2020 census. The old district ran along the western third of the state, from the Wyoming border to the Four Corners, then out to the Great Plains. It was the largest Congressional District in the country that wasn’t an entire state, and it was actually easier to campaign for the US Senate than for Congress.
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Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow debuts his new sneakers. Today’s Diary.
They’re that fancy European brand, too, a hideous fluorescent lite blue color, but I recall that being the best of the lot in the 17E shoe our feet demand…
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On This Date
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In 1900 – New York City mayor Robert Van Wyck breaks ground on the city’s first subway line. The first line opened in October 1904, from City Hall in lower Manhattan to 145th Street and Broadway in Harlem, with lines going to the Bronx and Brooklyn opening later. Today the system has 36 lines, 423 stations serving four boroughs, and carried 2.6 million riders last year. Elevated lines had been in use since the 1870s.
In 1936 – The Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons play the longest game in NHL history, in a 1-0 Red Wings victory in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup semifinals. The Red Wings won on a goal by Mud Bruneteau 16 minutes and 30 seconds into the sixth overtime, and won the best-of-five series in three games. It was the second six-overtime game in NHL history, the first coming on April 3, 1933 when Toronto defeated Boston 4 minutes and 46 seconds into the sixth extra period.
In 1979 – Anne Murray is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the first of three consecutive weeks with I Just Fall In Love Again. It was the sixth of 24 Top 10 country hits for Murray and her first of ten #1s. The song also went #1 country and pop in her native Canada, peaked at #12 on the Hot 100, and was Billboard’s #1 country song of the year. Her brother Bruce also had several Canadian hits as well
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Men under the influence of interest or passion often delude themselves thoughtlessly, and do not always acknowledge even to themselves the motives upon which they really act.
Roger Taney
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Barbra Streisand has won ten Grammy awards, eight competitive and two honorary.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What is the highest speed a New York City subway car can go? – Answer next time!
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The Diary of a Nobody/March 23
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Friday, March 20
Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness
The big news at the hotel is Robert cleaned the back office…I am not making that up…This was no small task, either, because there had been some food from some gathering – chips, crackers, stuff like that, plus some stuff in the frig – that had been back there, plus two big green bags of presumably shredded paper, plus a lot of boxes, some broken down, some not…They were all gone, and the place was clean and organized and squared away.
– We’ve got some bigwigs coming, I heard.
Bigwigs can be a pain in the arse…To those in management and those on days and swing shifts…For the nite auditor, they are not…Even if they do come by for a chat, odds are this is not their first job in the hotel racket…In fact, there is the highest level of probability they’ve done an audit or two in their time and so they know the drill: unless they’re actually dealing crack from behind the front desk, you do not mess with the nite auditor…Especially one like me, who’s been here for years and shows up on time every nite…For his part, Robert said he’s not looking forward to having any “bigwigs” running around when he’s here because “you never know what they’re going to ask for”.
LOL
We were able to use one of our fave lines tonite at the hotel…A couple of airline pilots (overhearing a later conversation) had brought a pizza from the restaurant into the lobby and sat at the table in front of the front desk.
– Would you like me to taste test that for you, Sir???…For freshness….Obviously…It’s a service I like to provide our guests.
Trying to decide if we were serious, the pilot holding the pizza looked at the other pilot and then back at me…He decided we were kidding and offered me a slice, which we declined with a smile.
– We haven’t tested it for freshness yet, Sir…We couldn’t possibly accept a slice without knowing.
This line, hot off the presses of Sparrow’s mind, got the good laff it deserved from both pilots.
Running The Numbers
In what is hardly being hailed as the Upset of the Year, the March year-over-year numbers are down: room revenue is down 210K on 500 fewer rooms, and while the mountain doesn’t officially close for three weeks, it might as well be closed now, based on room projections for next week…They aren’t Virus Era numbers, but they ain’t that great, either.
Pumped Up Kicks
The big news – and it is huge – is that our new sneakers debuted at the gym tonite…I am not making that up…Actually, they’re new only in the sense they were worn for the first time tonite – we had actually bought them last summer, when we were walking 6-7 miles a day, but soon after we started doing our tai chi forms and never got around to taking them out of the box.
They’re that fancy European brand, too, a hideous fluorescent lite blue color, but I recall that being the best of the lot in the 17E shoe our feet demand…They are very nice, tho, as comfortable as the Fresh Foams we’d had for the three years…They were noticed, too, of all things…Jane, who works there, noticed, and so did Kevin – who wears them, too, and was able to expound their virtues at length – and Pablo noticed them, as well, tho he was on the phone and couldn’t chat about them as much as would’ve liked.
We had time for three sets of our new bo staff forms/deep breathing forms, and we got roughly 2.5 miles in in 43 minutes, not too bad, but too great, either.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log:
1130 Monday until 1630 Monday…5.0 hours for the day – a disastrous total – and 12.5 hours for the week, another depressing figure…We have some zero clue why it’s been taking us so long to fall asleep the past 2-3 weeks.
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The Diary of a Nobody was inspired by the 19th-century British novel of the same name.
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The Daily Dose/Monday, March 23, 2026
The Daily Dose/March 23, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
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Notes from around the human experience.
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Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has the latest news from Maple Street. Today’s Diary.
The big news is we saw Zach’s chickens out on Maple Street this morning…
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On This Date
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In 1775 – Patrick Henry utters his famous “give me liberty or give death” line in a speech given at the Second Virginia Convention at St John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia. Henry’s speech is credited with influencing the convention to approve sending Virginian troops for service in the Revolutionary War, and Henry would later serve as Virginia’s first and sixth governor of. He would later turn down an offer from President John Adams to be ambassador to France and died in 1799.
In 1979 – Larry Holmes retains his WBC heavyweight title, defeating Ossie Ocasio of Puerto Rico with a seventh round TKO at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas. It was the second defense for Holmes, who won the title from Ken Norton in 1978. Holmes vacated his WBC title in 1983, and was later awarded the inaugural IBF title, a title he lost in 1985. Ocasio would later go on to hold the WBA cruiserweight title.
In 1974 – Barbra Streisand is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the second and final week with The Way We Were. It was the eleventh of 32 Top 10 albums for Streisand and her second of eleven #1 albums. The album also peaked at #3 in Canada, at #49 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 50th-biggest album of the year. Earlier in the year, the title track spent three weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 and was Billboard’s #1 song of the year.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?Patrick Henry
3/23/1775
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The NBA record for most rebounds in a game by a team is 109, done twice, by the 1955-56 St Louis Hawks and the 1960-61 Boston Celtics.
Today’s Stumper
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How many Grammy Awards has Barbra Streisand won? – Answer next time!
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The Diary of a Nobody/March 22
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Friday, March 20
The Night At Work
It was busy tonite, but not all at once busy, they came in trickles, bothering ol’ Sparrow every 10-15 minutes or so…Most were sundry stand purchases, but some kid needed a bandage, there were a couple of arrivals, plus a gal, just back from the wedding, required make-up wipes.
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The Daily Dose/Sunday, March 22, 2026
The Daily Dose/March 22, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. War With Iran – War is still illegal and immoral, especially after reports surfaced saying Iran was will to give up all its uranium…Not good enough for President Trump, though…A man of no moral or intellectual substance, he wanted war anyway…We deserve better than this.
2. US Space Program– It took NASA 2,979 days and 17 manned missions to put men on the Moon…In 3,023 days (and counting), NASA’s Artemis program has flown once, an unmanned voyage around the Moon…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” the American Century is long gone now, replaced by citizens no longer willing to dare, but content to be well-entertained and well-fed.
3. USA! USA! – The 3-hole staple…Seven decades into TV and fast food being focal points of American life, we are well-fed and well-entertained and not too much interested in fussin’ over things – like ignorance and war – that do not directly threaten it…Yet…It will soon enough, though, because ignorance is the standard in America now.
4. CBS Radio News – Farewell to the last of the three original radio news networks still doing news – NBC Radio and Mutual were the others – as radio news division shutting down on May 22…Hardly a surprise in the 3rd decade of the 21st century, of course, but still, another piece of Americana down the tubes.
5. Donald Trump Fact Check: – Click here for this week’s lies on the Iranian war…Courtesy of CNN.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Editor’s Note: today’s Diary entry is on the house. Enjoy.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is obliged to listen to people yap in the lobby. Today’s Diary.
All of them were just waiting for the current yapper to catch their breath so they could dive back in, and we wanted to spray insecticide on them, but there wasn’t any at the front desk…
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On This Date
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In 1622 – Powhatan Indians attack the Jamestown, Virginia colony, killing 347 settlers and taking others captive. The deaths represented a quarter of the residents of the Virginia colony and marked the beginning of the 2nd Anglo-Powhatan War. The first war lasted from 1609-14, the second lasted for ten years, while the third was from 1644-46. Jamestown was founded in 1607, the first successful English colony in the New World.
In 1960 – The Philadelphia Warriors and the Boston Celtics establish a new NBA playoff record for most rebounds in a game in 128-107 Philadelphia win in Game 5 of Eastern Conference Finals. The teams combined for 169 rebounds; research into whose record they broke was inconclusive, and the record still stands. The teams combined to shoot 36.5% from the field, and the Celtics won the series in six games.
In 1997 – Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down by Puff Daddy featuring Mase is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of six consecutive weeks. The song also peaked at #1 in Canada, reached #19 in Great Britain, topped Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and was their 5th-biggest song of the year and 27th-biggest of the decade. It was Puff Daddy’s first chart single and his first of five #1s, and the first of two #1 pop songs for Mase.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick anything up.
Alex Haley
Roots
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The NHL record for most saves in a shutout is 59, by Ben Scrivens of the Edmonton Oilers on January 29, 2014 vs San Jose.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What team holds the NBA record for most rebounds in a game? – Answer next time!
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The Diary of a Nobody/March 21
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Friday, March 20
Dull Hotel Shop Talk
Boy, the lobby was loud when we reported for duty at the hotel…There was this group in the back – an eclectivc, tedious mix of the airline crew members and the wedding party – and they get the Group Yap Award for the month…And it wasn’t just the sheer volume, either, although there was enuff of that…Key to this champion yap session was no one was listening to each other, this Asian chick in particular…All of them were just waiting for the current yapper to catch their breath so they could dive back in, and we wanted to spray insecticide on them, but there wasn’t any at the front desk…They were there pretty late, too, the festivities not wrapping up until after midnite.
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