The Daily Dose/August 25, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is taking some PTO. It will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow shows zero common sense.
I almost flooded the entire back office this morning…Amy had put some cleaner in the coffee pots, so those needed to be rinsed out and I rinsed the first one out three times, but that didn’t hold my interest so for the second one I put the pot under the faucet and turned it on, the (bad) idea being by letting it run for a few minutes it would rinse it out and I could go and dive in on the late morning work while this miracle was taking place.
Not too bad a plan, actually, save for the fact that the coffee pot was so placed in the sink it blocked the drain, thereby filling the sink up and running water everywhere…Ol’ Sparrow had some luck tho, and got off easy…There were some towels in the back office and there were enuff to sop everything up and no damage was done, except maybe to the towels.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: X-Ray, Lee and Gaylon respond to a loud TV in a room as if they were Delta Force.
The TV is going pretty loud. No one answers X-Ray’s knock, so, as if my knocks have more authority, I try and also get no response. We look to Lee for guidance: he’s texting his girlfriend. Lee considers the matter for a few heart-stopping seconds.
“We’re going in,” he says.
Lee’s the type of leader who takes the point in these situations. He inserts his master key, opens the door, and makes entry. X-Ray follows and I got everyone’s back by making sure the can is code four.
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo
Clock in with the graveyard crew of the Monte Carlo Security Department on the glamorous Las Vegas Strip.
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Criminals, Courtesans and Constables
Gaylon’s latest novel takes place everywhere from throne rooms to death row.
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The Regular Guys
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1944 – Paris is liberated from the control of Nazi Germany, as Allied forces enter Paris and the German Army is surrendered by their commander, General Dietrick von Choltitz. von Choltitz acted contrary to orders issued by Adolf Hitler, who had ordered Paris was to be destroyed before being given to the enemy. Paris had been under Nazi rule since 1940.
In 2011- The New York Yankees establish a major league record for most grand slam home runs in a game in a 22-9 win over the Oakland A’s. The Yankees got three grand slams, by Robinson Cano, Russell Martin, and Curtis Granderson, to break the record of two that had been done many times. The record still stands.
In 1984 – Ray Parker, Jr is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third and final consecutive week with Ghostbusters. It was his fifth of eight Top 40 hits as a solo act and remains his only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in five other countries, including Spain and Canada and peaked at #2 in Great Britain. Ghostbusters was also in its first of two consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart and was Billboard’s ninth biggest song of the year.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
He who says, “I know nothing” is the shrewdest of all. – Vemana (1652-1730), Indian poet
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Three songs have had versions by different artists follow each at #1 on a Billboard pop chart: It’s Been a Long, Long Time by Harry James and then Bing Crosby and the Les Paul Trio (1945), To Each His Own by Eddy Howard and then Freddy Martin (1946) and Cruising Down the River by Blue Barron and then Russ Morgan (1949). It has not happened on the Hot 100.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Ray Parker, Jr’s first appearances on Billboard’s Hot 100 were with what group? – Answer next time!
