The Daily Dose/November 12, 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 – Sparrow has the latest kitchen news. Today’s Diary.
The big news is yours truly changed up Spinach a la Sparrow a bit tonite…Previously, of course, I brought some bleu cheese and pre-cooked bacon, put in the bowl, and then added the freshly microwaved spinach on top and then stirred it all together.
Not tonite…In the hopes of getting to most of the bleu cheese before it got all melted and gooey, I put the spinach in the bowl let it cool down for a bit, and then added the bleu cheese and pre-cooked bacon…This was a nice change, resulting in even more bleu cheese flavor for ol’ Sparrow.
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 12 – The race for the ESPNCup rolls on.
Green Wave showing mettle that leads straight to B-10 medal stand, seamlessly overcoming 4th-quarter touchdown, onside kick recovery, game-tying field goal to blow game in overtime…
Commodores still reeling from turn-of-century decision to merge Athletic, Student Affairs departments as ROTC members taking over kicking duties replace footballs with mortars, resulting in NCAA-record 13 illegal use of explosives penalties.
B-10 staffers not only sending Longhorn coaching staff B-10 Welcome Aboard packet but also United Van Lines, Bekins, U-Haul brochures.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1776 – British and Hessian forces defeat the Americans in the American Revolution’s Battle of Fort Washington in northwest Manhattan. Maj. Gen. George Washington had ordered the fort to be abandoned, instructions that were disregarded. The victory consolidated British control of New York City, while Washington and the Continental Army retreated through New Jersey to Pennsylvania. The site is now Bennett Park, just north of the George Washington Bridge.
In 1957 – Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics establishes a new NBA record for most rebounds in a game in a 111-89 win over the Philadelphia Warriors. Russell had 49 rebounds to break the record of 38 Maurice Stokes of the Rochester Royals – now the Sacramento Kings – established on Jan 14, 1956, and his 32 first-half rebounds remains the NBA single-half record. Russell would break this mark with 51 rebounds on Feb 5, 1960, and the record is now 55, done by Wilt Chamberlain of the Warriors on Nov 24, 1960.
In 1963 – Buck Owens is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the fifth of 16 consecutive weeks with Love’s Gonna Live Here. It was the tenth Top 40 country hit for Owens, his second #1 song – and the second of a then-record 14 consecutive #1 songs – and remains his biggest hit. The song spent 24 weeks in the Top 10 – from late September until early March – and spent 30 weeks on the chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The only NBA players to score at least 64 points in a game more than once are Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor and Kobe Bryant.
Today’s Stumper
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Who was the British commander in the Battle of Fort Washington? – Answer next time!
