The Daily Dose/September 18, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has the latest news on his beard.
The beard is now being trimmed every few days…This is down from once a week, itself down from the original every fortnight…It looks better short, and the desired length has been reduced from 9 mm to 6 mm with 3 mm now the approved length…It was trimmed this morning before the post-workout shower.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Radtke gets fed up with Schempp and Gaylon.
“Those look like really great shoes. Rugged, but with sort of that sneaker look to them.”
I tapped my nose with an index finger, indicating Schempp had nailed it right on the nose, and we prattled about the benefits of the Bates Dura Shocks for a good five minutes. Finally, Radtke had had enough.
“Crap, I don’t ever want to be like you guys! You’re old men!”
The Bottom Ten Presented By COVID-10/NFL Week 3: The chronicle of Cleveland’s historic 0-16 season continues.
4. Cleveland Browns (0-1; lost to Pittsburgh 21-18) – Browns open up defense of 2016 B-10 title with 26th loss in last 28 games, dating back to 2015…Cleveland offense sets strong early tone, punting five (5) times in first half…Well, four (4) times, as one (1) attempt was blocked…Next Loss: at Baltimore
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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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1947 – Most of the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 take effect, one day after James Forresstal had been confirmed by the US Senate as the first secretary of defense. The act merged the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment, which became the Department of Defense in 1949, and also created the Air Force. The act also established the National Security Council and the CIA and had been signed into law by President Truman in July.
In 1866 – President of the United States Andrew Johnson becomes the first sitting president to attend a baseball game, in a lot behind the White House. Johnson saw a portion of an amateur contest between the Washington Nationals and the Brooklyn Excelsiors, which ended up a 33-28 Brooklyn win. An account in the New York Clipper said the weather was warm, “…but that is what a ball player likes in September.”
In 1982 – Chicago is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second and final consecutive week with Hard To Say I’m Sorry. It was the 23rd Top 40 hit for the group and their second of three #1 songs (If You Leave Me Now, two weeks, 1976; Look Away, two weeks, 1988). The song also went to #1 in Switzerland, Ireland and Canada, peaked at #4 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s tenth biggest song of the year. The song returned to the Hot 100 when a version by Az Yet peaked at #8 in 1997
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Both Gettysburg and the second inaugural address were forged by advice to himself and his country to study what had happened for helpful lessons rather than retribution. – Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The record for most consecutive weeks spent at #1 on Billboard’s country chart is 55, by Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys from November 15, 1947 until December 4, 1948. They held the top spot with five different songs.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
When was Chicago’s last appearance on the Hot 100? – Answer next time!
