The Daily Dose/September 28, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is enjoying some time off while we work on a project.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow replaces a wiper blade on the new ride. Today’s Diary.
Actually, I figured out old blade removal (OBR) soon enuff, but getting the replacement bugger installed was – and this is not the Upset of the Year – confusing and I was half-hoping some middle-aged housewife would come by and offer assistance, but none did and eventually yours truly figured it out.
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 5 – It’s Arizona, UNLV and UMess forming one of the strongest Bottom Ten medal stands since the halcyon days of the Sun Belt Conference. Or the MAC.
With big game against Vanderbilt this week, UConn cannot be caught looking ahead to 10/9 showdown with UMess for John Adams Spittoon – symbolic of Yankee football ineptitude.
Relative strength of MAC in 2021 shown in that Ohio’s future MAC opponents have an unusually lusty winning percentage of .438
A Lutheran school, coaching staff starting to “strongly suspect” player pregame access to communion wine will not be a key to victory in 2021.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1889 – The meter is defined for the first time, at the 1st General Conference on Weights and Measures in Paris. The conference defined the meter as the length of an internationally recognized platinum-iridium bar and today is defined as the length light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. In other excitement at that first conference, the kilogram – roughly 2.2 lbs – was also defined for the first time.
In 1969 – Joe Kapp of the Minnesota Vikings ties the NFL record for most touchdown passes in a game in a 52-14 win over the Baltimore Colts. Kapp threw seven touchdown passes to tie the mark established by Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears in 1943 and done three other times previously. The record still stands and has been accomplished three times since, most recently by Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints in 2015.
In 1974 – Andy Kim is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Rock Me Gently. It was the sixth of seven Top 40 hits for Kim, and was his second and final appearance at #1: in 1969 he had co-written and provided backing vocals for the #1 song Sugar, Sugar by the Archies. The song also went to #1 in Canada and peaked at #2 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s 29th biggest song of the year. In 1989, a version of the song by Michelle Wright peaked at #7 on Canada’s country chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
What has gone wrong with the people that they can’t see what’s happening to them?
Gore Vidal
The Golden Age
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Lionel Ritchie’s biggest hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 was Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross that spent nine consecutive weeks at #1 in 1981.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Of the eight players who have thrown for seven touchdown passes in an NFL game, how many completed that game with a perfect passer rating of 158.3? – Answer next time!
