The Daily Dose/November 12, 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: At the hotel, Sparrow frets over whether or not to open a new box of coffee.
…change it and have more coffee than you need in the limited space offered in the back coffee room (BCR) or leave it and risk having someone else change it and not getting the new knife some work…As it was, I ended up forgetting about it, but we’re pretty slow right now and the old box still has a good amount of coffee packets in it and may well still be there two days from now.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1980 – The American spacecraft Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to Saturn, flying within 77,000 miles of the top of Saturn’s clouds. It measured Saturn’s atmosphere at 93% hydrogen and 11% helium and wind speed at its equator at about 1,100 mph from the east. Voyager 1 had been launched in September 1977 and had flown by Jupiter the previous March and reached interstellar space in 2012. Voyager 2 has traveled over 14 billion miles and is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth.
1931 – Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto hosts its first NHL game, the Chicago Blackhawks defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1. The arena was built in only five months, no small feat in the middle of the Great Depression, and ticket prices ranged from 95 cents to $2.75 CAD, about $12.52-$36.25 in current United States dollars. Maple Leaf Gardens closed after the 1999 season after hosting 2,541 NHL games. Before, home games had been played at the Mutual Street Arena.
In 1966 – Johnny Rivers is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with Poor Side of Town. The song spent 15 weeks on the chart, twelve of them in the Top 40, seven of them in the Top 10. It was the tenth of 17 Top 40 hits for Rivers, his fifth of nine Top 10 hits and remains his only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in Canada and was Billboard’s 18th biggest hit of 1966. In 1969 a version by Al Wilson peaked at #75 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion…the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder.
Theodore Roosevelt
The Man in the Arena Speech
4/23/1910
The Sorbonne, Paris
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The record for the largest crowd at a football game is 156,990 at Bristol (TN) Motor Speedway on Sept 10, 2016. Tennessee defeated Virginia Tech 45-24.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many Stanley Cup titles were won at Maple Leaf Gardens? – Answer next time!
