The Daily Dose/November 19, 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 and precedent part ways. Today’s Diary.
…in fact, there was even some bonus cleaning (BC) which longtime readers of this crap know is something on par with planetary alignment…To wit: after the dishes were washed and dried they were all put away!!!…Usually, they’re left in the rack in the sink because they’re merely going to be used again…
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1969 – Humans reach the moon for the second time with Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landing on Apollo 12. Apollo 12 was struck by lightning shortly after blastoff and would later spend over 32 hours on the lunar surface with Conrad and Bean spending almost eight hours exploring the moon, including inspecting Surveyor 3, man’s first terrestrial contact with a previously launched spacecraft. Command module pilot Richard Gordon` remained in lunar orbit and the crew would return to Earth on Nov 24th.
In 2018 – The Los Angeles Rams defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 54-51 in the only NFL game where both teams scored at least 50 points. The game was tied 23-23 at halftime and the Rams got a touchdown with 1:49 left in the game to take the lead. It remains the third highest-scoring game in NFL history behind the Washington Redskins defeating the New York Giants 72-41 in 1966 and the Cincinnati Bengals defeating the Cleveland Browns 58-48 in 2004.
In 1988 – Anita Baker is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Black Singles chart – for the second and final consecutive week with Giving You the Best That I Got. The song also peaked at #3 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and at #55 in Great Britain and won Grammy Awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song. It was the first of two #1 soul hits for Baker and remains her biggest pop hit.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
A proverb is no proverb to you until your life has illustrated it.
John Keats
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Jimmie Johnson holds the NASCAR record for most consecutive Cup Series titles won by a driver, with five from 2006-2010.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many Top 40 hits on the Hot 100 did Anita Baker have? – Answer next time!
