The Daily Dose/November 6, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return. Promise.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow reports the house three houses down from The Shire has finally sold.
The big news is the rathole three houses down Main Street from The Shire has finally been sold…I am not making that up…Recall we’ve been following this place for perhaps a year and it, too, has been on and off the market and was even for rent once and some research shows it sold for 210, less than the 230 or so they were originally asking, but a still a pretty good price…For the record, the website estimates the value of The Shire to be 195…I live here and don’t want to move and am not looking to sell The Shire, unless the guy who’s building the weed store next door wants to offer a million dollars for it…Then I’ll sell it.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1971 – The United States conducts its largest underground nuclear test in the far west of the Aleutian Island chain in Alaska. The test was of a warhead that had a force 400 times greater than the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima and was detonated 6,150 feet down and triggered an earthquake that registered 6.8 on the Richter scale. The ground above the explosion was raised 25 feet and while a feared tsunami didn’t materialize, a crater one mile wide and 40 feet deep formed two days later.
In 1966 – Tim Brown of the Philadelphia Eagles establishes a new NFL record for most kickoffs returned for a touchdown in a game in a 24-23 win over the Dallas Cowboys. Brown had a 93-yard return in the first quarter and a 90-yard return in the second quarter to break the record of one that had been done many times in the past. The record has been tied nine times over the years, most recently in 2010 by Leon Washington of the Seattle Seahawks,
In 1971 – Sonny James is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the only week with Here Comes Honey Again. It was the 20th of 23 #1 country songs for James and his 16th and final consecutive #1 country song – a record for any Billboard chart that still stands. The streak began in 1967 with Need You and ended when Only Love Can Break a Heart peaked at #2. A consecutive #1 song streak does not include holiday songs nor duets.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…very often it is not possible to see what is right in front of you because you happen to be looking in the wrong direction.
Gore Vidal
Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
George Foreman first won the world’s heavyweight title in 1973, defeating Joe Frazier in a second-round TKO in Kingston, Jamaica.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What was Sonny James’ biggest hit on a Billboard pop chart? – Answer next time!
