The Daily Dose/October 30, 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 moves the microwave from the top of the dryer to the a counter.  

During the Bachelor Days, clean clothes were always placed on top of the dryer and I’ve missed that the past few months…Sometimes, rarely, I’d put them away, but usually, they’d end up on the kitchen table – annoying the cat – on the floor in front of the dryer or – incredibly but not surprisingly – on top of the dresser but not actually in a drawer. 

That nightmare is over…I cleared out the end of the counter and moved the microwave back to its original position…It’s pretty big and takes up a lot of room, but yours truly doesn’t keep ingredients in bowls so it’s no big deal and later that day the first clean clothes were put on top of the dryer…It was a good feeling. 

On This Date
The long march to today.

In 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates what History refers to as the Tsar Bomba on an island in the Barents Sea, above the Arctic Circle. The hydrogen bomb yielded an explosion measuring 50 megatons, about 50 times more than the 0.15 megatons yielded by the Hiroshima atomic blast and remains the most powerful explosive device ever deployed on Earth. The crew of the plane that delivered the bomb survived, but the bomb was so powerful they were only given a 50/50 chance of returning safely. 

In 2015 – Adalberto Mondesi of the Kansas City Royals becomes the first player to make his major league debut in the World Series in a 9-3 loss to the New York Mets in Game 3. Mondesi pinch-hit in the fifth inning and struck out and had spent the 2015 season in the Texas League (AA). In 1885 Bug Holiday of the Chicago White Stockings – now the Cubs – made his big league debut in a postseason series against the American Association champion St Louis Browns, though these series are not considered part of the modern World Series. 

In 1961 – Dion is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second and final week with Runaround Sue. It was the second of 14 Top 40 hits for Dion as a solo act, after seven hits with the Belmonts and remains his only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in Canada and New Zealand and peaked at #11 in Great Britain and at #4 on Billboard’s soul chart, his biggest hit of six soul chart appearances. A version by Leif Garrett peaked at #13 in 1978.  

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever. 

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the sidelines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for an eternity.
Gabriel Heatter

Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know. 

The NFL record for most receiving yards in a season is held by Calvin Johnson of the Detroit Lions who had 1,964 yards in 2012. 

Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar. 

What was Dion’s real name? – Answer next time!

There are two ways for you to get in on the laughs. 

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