The Daily Dose/November 3, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is in time out while we work on (another) project.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – The new keying process at the hotel has been integrated with The System. Today’s Diary.
After you check someone in there a new box that pops up and you didn’t have to be Conrad Hilton to know it was to make keys because the room number and dates of stay were already populated, all you had to do was type in how many keys you need and that was easy, too, because the box was already highlighted; all you had to do was type in the number, a wonderfully efficient way to make room keys.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 10 – The will surprise Bottom Ten fan(s) everywhere: Detroit leads the race for the most coveted trophy in sports, The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten ineptitude.
Lions 48th team in NFL history to start season 0-8…
With rare Jets win, Giants now in driver’s seat for Ed Koch Cup – symbolic of Big Apple football ineptitude…
Five (5)-win teams rare in B-10, but longtime B-10 stalwarts again prove old NFL adage that on any given Sunday Cincinnati is capable of heralding to world they are back in B-10 hunt…
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1534 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy, which makes the monarch – then King Henry VIII – the ruler of the Church of England, displacing the pope and the Roman Catholic church. The Act would be repealed later in the century when Roman Catholic Queen Mary I reigned and would be renewed in 1558. The senior cleric of the Church of England is the archbishop of Canterbury.
In 1935 – The Philadelphia Eagles and the Boston Redskins establish a new NFL record for most interceptions in a game in a 7-6 Eagles victory at Fenway Park. The teams combined for eleven interceptions – seven by the Eagles – and research into whose record was broken was inconclusive. The record was tied several times before being broken by the Denver Broncos and the Houston Oilers, who combined for 13 on December 2, 1962.
In 1951 – Tony Bennett is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – one of several predecessors to the Hot 100 – for the first of six consecutive weeks with Cold, Cold Heart. It was the second of three #1 songs on a Billboard pop chart for Bennett and his second of seven Top 10 hits. The song was written by Hank Williams and earlier in the year his version spent a week at #1 on Billboard’s Most Played by Jockeys country chart and in 1961 a version by Jerry Lee Lewis went to #22 on the country chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Seek not the things which happen to you should happen as you wish, but wish the things that happen to be as they are, and you will find tranquility.
Epictetus
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Stevie Wonder has had two #1 songs in Great Britain: Ebony and Ivory, with Paul McCartney in 1982, and I Just Called to Say I Love You in 1984.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Part of the impetus – though not all of the impetus – for the Acts of Supremacy was the refusal of the Catholic Church to sanction the annulment of a marriage of Henry VIII. Which wife did he want his marriage to annulled? – Answer next time!
