The Daily Dose/August 12, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off has the day off.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Economist Sparrow has some thoughts on supply and demand. Today’s Diary.
Heck, I can recall adjusting rates every few minutes over the years…You walk in at 3pm and the morning person says you’re asking $79 and you’re moving rooms like hotcakes at $79 so you bump it up to $99 and they’re still snapping them up and so you up the rate to $109 but folks aren’t liking that as much so you reel it in to a rate that will move some rooms.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon is afraid of bats.
I didn’t like this goddamned call from the start. I had just wrapped up a noise complaint and had gone to another room where X-Ray, Bi-Bob and Wally were helping evict a guy who had smacked down his girlfriend. When I got there Wally asked if I would go get the med bag and I said sure. I am heading down the 100 wing towards the bell elevators when Junior gets on the horn.
– Control, Henry 2.
– Henry 2, sir.
– Henry 2, head to 28-222. A report of bats in the room.
– 10-4.When I get to the bellman’s elevators I go to channel 2.
– Junior, what the hell am I supposed to do up there?
– I don’t know. Don’t eat them, though.
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Criminals, Courtesans and Constables/Chapter 15 – The Trial: Our hero goes on trial for his life.
There was credible evidence that somebody shot and killed the ambassador, of course – like his head wound, for instance – but there was some zero evidence tying me to it. Exasperating, too, because I was the only one there who knew I hadn’t shot the ambassador. There were others who knew I didn’t do it, of course. The actual shooter knew, and his handlers and assigners, if any, which was actually likely because events like this are difficult to pull off by oneself. But they weren’t here to help in me defense because had they been Abigail would have put them to good use.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1865 – British surgeon Joseph Lister performs History’s first antiseptic surgery in Glasgow, Scotland. Lister used a 5% solution of carbolic acid (also known as phenol) on both the instruments and the wound of a boy who had a broken leg and a few days later the boy did not suffer from infection. Lister had first considered carbolic acid for sterilization purposes after reading it was used to ease the stench from fields irrigated with sewage waste. Before Lister, surgeons of the era bragged about the stains on their unwashed surgical gowns.
In 1948 – The Cleveland Indians establish a new major league record for the most players recording hits in a game in a 26-3 win over the St Louis Browns in the second game of a doubleheader. The Indians had 14 batters get 29 hits, including four each by pitcher Gene Bearden and right/left fielder Hal Peck. The mark is still the American League record for a 9-inning game and the major league record is 15, done twice, by the Atlanta Braves in 1999 and by the St Louis Cardinals in an 11-inning game in 1979.
In 1989 – Richard Marx is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks with Right Here Waiting. It was the third consecutive #1 song for Marx (Satisfied, one week, 1989; Hold On to the Nights, one week, 1988) and his sixth of seven consecutive top 10 hits. The song went to #1 in four other countries including Ireland and New Zealand, peaked at #2 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s 11th biggest song of the year.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The inner warmth of a pleasure can’t be externally damaged. – Dick Francis, In The Frame
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Rick Nelson’s last Top 10 hit was Garden Party, which peaked at #6 in 1972.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What teams hold the major league record for most hits in a game by both clubs? – Answer next time!
