The Daily Dose/November 21, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is back in time-out.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has the latest MPG figure for the new ride.
Regular readers of this crap know this is almost identical to last week’s figure, but there’s an asterisk next to this one because I didn’t reset the odometer, so the mileage entered figure, while in the ballpark, is not exact, to the MPG is not exact, either…I reset the odometer at the pump, so we will have an accurate figure next time.
I filled up at the convenience store in our small town and the big news, tho, is I used the store’s app to pay for the fillup…I downloaded it last week after deciding I spend enuff money there to warrant some freebies…It’s not much, but a free breakfast sandwich or a 10-cent gas discount is better than a kick in the face, as Pa Sparrow used to say…I got to the pump, opened the app and it recognized I was at a store and asked what pump I was at and I entered Pump 8, my home pump, and after a couple of seconds the pump beeped and BOOM, I was set because my credit card number had been already been entered in the app.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1783 – Man flies freely for the first time, when two Frenchmen, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes fly a balloon above Paris. The pair flew for 25 minutes, attaining a height History generally recognizes as 3,3000 feet and flying about five miles to the southwest, then the outskirts of Paris. Earlier, French King Louis XVI had decided the first untethered flight would carry condemned criminals but was later talked out of it.
In 1942 – The NHL announces it will eliminate overtime from regular-season games because of restrictions due to World War II and conflicts with train schedules. Despite the war ending in 1945, the NHL would not reinstate overtime until the 1983-84 season, when a five-minute sudden-death period was introduced. Before the 1942 stoppage, NHL overtime consisted of one full 10-minute period.
In 1992 – How Do You Talk to an Angel by the Heights is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second and final consecutive week. It was the theme song from the TV show The Heights, which would be canceled the following week. It was the only chart single for the group – mainly studio musicians – making the Heights one of 14 ultimate one-hit wonders, an act whose only Hot 100 appearance went to #1.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I must stop this brooding or I shall become as mad as those emperors who feared the long night of death more than they loved the brief living day.
Gore Vidal
Julian
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The 5th Dimension had two #1 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100, both in 1969: Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In and Wedding Bell Blues.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What is the current hot air balloon altitude record? – Answer next time!
