The Daily Dose/October 10, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off continues to enjoy some PTO. It will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has the latest MPG figure for the new ride.
All right, it’s moving back up a bit after last week’s anemic 37-something and while you do get spoiled after a couple of 40-something MPG figures, 38 MPG is fine gas mileage and there is no use whining about it…There’s been a lot of stop-and-go traffic the past couple of weeks due to repaving and restriping the highway heading back into town, so maybe that’s had something to do with the lower figures the past couple of weeks.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: The employee dining room has the first prime rib for the first time in a while.
The big news is I had prime rib on my final 10-10, my first prime rib in a while. I waltzed into the EDR and out of habit noticed a large hunk on Daryl’s cutting board. He cut me a really nice piece and since it had been sitting for a while he put it on the grill and he even fried up two sunny side up as well.
It wasn’t the best I’d had in the EDR. If a waiter had presented a bill for $30 for this one you would’ve protested. But if he gave you a bill for, say, a $7.99 breakfast special you would have thrown up your hands and yelped “Vegas, bay-bee! That’s what I’m talking about!” and thrown your arms up triumphantly.
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1845 – What would become the United States Naval Academy, then known as the Naval School, holds its first classes on what used to be Fort Severn in Annapolis, Maryland. The school was founded by Navy Secretary George Bancroft and opened with 50 midshipmen and seen professors. Originally, graduates were considered passed midshipmen, eligible for a naval officer’s commission when there was a vacancy. Graduates were first sworn in as officers in 1912.
In 1982 – The Milwaukee Brewers become the first team to win a league championship series after losing the first two games, defeating the California Angels 4-3 in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. The feat would be repeated by the San Diego Padres in the 1984 National League Championship Series and the LCS’ went to a best-of-seven format in 1985.
In 1987 – Whitesnake is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Here I Go Again. It was the first of four Top 40 hits for the group and remains their only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in Canada and peaked at #9 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s seventh biggest song of the year. The song, in a slightly different version, had originally charted in 1982 in Great Britain, Australia and West Germany and also charted in Norway in 2007.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Lost in the cacophony of Oprah and O.J. are those classical values that once made a Saturday afternoon track meet so appealing. Of running for the love of competition, of throwing a javelin for applause and an olive wreath. Of sweating for hours on a lonesome track at dusk for the chance of maybe one day hearing the anthem. Of honor and glory and the spirit of victory, not the spoils.
Mark Zeigler
The San Diego Union-Tribune
June 20, 1995
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Besides Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants in 1905, four other pitchers have thrown multiple shutouts in the same World Series: Bill Dineen (Boston Americans, 1903), Lew Burdette (Milwaukee Braves, 1957), Whitey Ford (New York Yankees, 1960) and Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles Dodgers, 1965). All four had two shutouts.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many years was the course of instruction at the Naval School its first few years? – Answer next time!
