The Daily Dose/October 23, 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 comes back strong after a middling workout with a good walk.
The walk, tho, was a triumph…It was freezing when I set out and nice and clear, too, a gorgeous fall morning, the kind that makes you glad you moved here, the kind you think about when you have to plow the driveway three times in order get all the snow cleared…It’s sort of like when cats are kittens and they’re so adorable, which is how they get you to cater to their every whim for the next ten years while they secretly plot your death.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Radtke is starting to follow the stalking, er, dating lessons Gaylon’s given him.
Radtke’s latest woman is Natalie from the front desk. A very young, anorexically thin blonde but Radtke likes them really thin, probably because he himself weighs a buck ten. He reported he talked with her at the front desk while I was on my weekend.
Radtke is learning his stalking lessons well; he said he already knows what her days off are and that he’ll be at the employee entrance during the 0400, which is when she leaves.
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 4004 BC – This is the date of creation according to a chronology published by Irish archbishop James Usher in 1650. Ussher used a variety of sources to come up with this date, including the Bible and other religious and secular histories, plus ancient calendars and other astronomical sources and his chronology is, more or less, in line with dates offered by others who attempted to fix the date of creation, including one by Issac Newton. According to Ussher, time had actually begun at 6 pm the night before with “…the entrance of night”. Influential at the time, Ussher’s chronology began to fall into disrepute in the 19th century.
In 1`910 – Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia Athletics becomes the second pitcher to win three games in a five-game World Series in a 7-2, title-clinching win over the Chicago Cubs in Game 5. Coombs had also pitched complete-game wins in Games 2 and 3 and his 5-0 World Series record is the second most wins without a loss in World Series history. Though eleven other pitchers have won three games in a series of six or more games, Coombs and Christy Mathewson (New York Giants, 1905) remain the only pitchers to do so in a five-game series.
In 1965 – The Toys are at #1 on the Cashbox Top 100 – one of several sources that have chronicled American charted music over the years – for their only week with A Lover’s Concerto. It was the first of two chart singles for the Toys and remains their biggest hit. The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #5 in Great Britain and later peaked at #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and at #4 on their soul chart. The melody was based on the 18th-century keyboard piece Minuet in G major.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
This species could have been so great, and now everybody just wants a new Salad Shooter or sneakers with lights in them. This is what we’ve settled for.
George Carlin
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The two treaties that turned control of the Panama Canal over to Panama was called the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Which player holds the World Series record for most wins without a loss? – Answer next time!
