The Daily Dose/August 9, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for the time being.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, the new shredder bags are in. Today’s Diary.
The big news is the new shredder bags are in but – hilariously – they’re the wrong size…I am not making that up…Instead of big, useful bags that fit in the bottom container of our shredder we have bags that are useful only if you’re shredding postage stamps into a coffee cup…The workaround – emptying the container into one of those green 33-gallon trash bags – actually is better from the working nite auditor’s perspective because the bag only needs to be changed every two or three days, so – in the Upset of the Year – ol’ Sparrow’s not complaining.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1974 – Gerald R Ford is inaugurated president of the United States after the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Nixon, elected in 1968 and reelected in 1972, had announced his resignation the previous evening. Ford, formerly a congressman from Michigan, had been appointed vice president by Nixon and remains the only person to become president without being elected. He would be defeated for election in 1980 by Jimmy Carter.
In 1936 – Jesse Owens of the United States becomes the seventh athlete to win four gold medals at one Olympics as part of the 4×100-meters relay team. The team of Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper and Frank Wykoff established a new world record of 39.8 seconds, breaking the record of 40.0 seconds they had established earlier in the day in the first heat. It was fifth of eight consecutive gold medals in the event for the Americans.
In 1986 – Rockin’ With the Rhythm of the Rain by The Judds is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the only week. It was the eighth country hit for the duo and their seventh of eight consecutive and 14 overall #1 songs. It was the 58th of 87 consecutive songs that would spend a single week at #1 on the country chart – still a record for a Billboard pop, soul or country chart – and 1986 remains the only year where every #1 song spent one week at the top of a major Billboard singles chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…the family is the lasting unit, surviving perhaps for centuries, and forging in the turbulent crucible of the home the order and character without which all government is in vain.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol II: The Life of Greece.
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The 1937 Hindenburg disaster claimed 36 lives.
Today’s Stumper
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