The Daily Dose/December 22, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is enjoying its annual holiday break. It will return after the first of the year.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow sees a dog eat its own puke. Today’s Diary.
Tammy brought her new dog Whiskey into the hotel this morning, an immediate replacement for the one that died last week of old age…Whiskey’s a little scamp, running around and whatnot and I was at the safe dropping some money when the dog starts to puke right at my feet…Tammy’s right there, I point it out to here and she goes to get something to clean it up with…I look down to stuff the baggie with the cash into the safe and I had to look twice, to verify:
“Uh, Tammy, Whiskey appears to be eating her own puke.”
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Final – It’s all over. It’s the final NCAA Bottom Ten rankings for 2020. The Bottom Ten is free this season.
The quest for Bottom Ten glory started in August. Or September. Or October. And it ends here, with a result as unprecedented as the season itself: for the first time ever, there are multiple champions. Yes, with the exception of the Tostitos Plaque, Sgt Bilko Trophy and Conference of the Year laureates the seven remaining teams – all unvictoried, of course – have won the ESPNCup – symbolic of NCAA Bottom Ten supremacy.
Just like the Special Olympics, everyone’s a winner in The Bottom Ten this season.
The Regular Guys/Chapter 23 – Part II – Larry is still kidnapped.
Special Agent Sam Rider and Ron Thomas got busy searching. Since the room was empty except for the furniture the hotel had put in there, it wasn’t the most difficult search in the history of law enforcement. After a few minutes, Sam turned the mattress over and a piece of scrap paper came fluttering out.
“Oh my, what do we have here!” he exclaimed, sounding as if he had just walked in on a lady bathing.
“I’d say it looks like a piece of paper,” Ron Thomas said as Sam bent over to pick it up.
“Probably the address where Larry is being held.”
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On This Date
The long march to today.
În 1989 – Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown after 24 years in power, ending unrest that had begun five days earlier. Ceausescu was making an outdoor speech in Bucharest when the citizens became violent, obliging Ceausescu and his wife to flee in a helicopter and they were captured later that day. On the 25th Ceausescu and his wife were tried, convicted of assorted charges including subversion and genocide and shot to death.
In 1983 – The New York Islanders tie the NHL record for most shorthanded goals scored in a game in a 6-1 win over the Washington Capitals. The Islanders scored three shorthanded goals, to tie a mark that had been done several times previously, including the night before by the Edmonton Oilers, and has since happened often enough that it no longer has any historical significance. The record is now four shorthanded goals in a game, by the Winnipeg Jets, who did it in an April 1995 game.
In 1979 – Rupert Holmes is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of three non-consecutive weeks with Escape (The Pina Colada Song). The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #23 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s eleventh biggest song of 1980. It was the second chart single for Holmes, his first of three Top 40 hits and remains his only #1 song. Escape was the final #1 song of the 1970s and would return to #1 on January 12.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
What we do we are conscious bound to do; we can do no other way.
Simeon
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Harry Chapin’s last appearance on a Billboard singles was in 1980 when Story of a Life peaked at #5 on the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What NHL team has given up at least three shorthanded goals in a game the most times? – Answer next time!
