The Daily Dose/December 15, 2021
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow signs some Christmas cards. They’re not his, of course. Today’s Diary.
The hotel sends out no small number of them and the stack was well over a hundred…I got a new fountain pen recently so ol’ Sparrow was able to sign his distinctive, illegible hand in his treasured green ink…That’s a lot of Sparrows to sign, but care was taken to make sure the last signatures were as unreadable as the first ones.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 16 – The race for The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy – rolls on.
It’s now or never for Texans, as team faces must lose game this week, desperately needing to avenge Week 1 win over Jaguars to have any hope of earning B-10 title…
…game not only has two (2) teams not going to playoffs, but game officials, TV announcers assigned to this one probably not on fast track to postseason assignments, either
…never say die Bengals have lost two (2) straight and four (4) out of six (6), so B-10 pollsters keeping tabs on them out of habit…
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 1836 – A fire at the temporary headquarters of the US Patent Office and Postal Service in Washington, D.C. causes almost 10,000 patents issued to date to be destroyed. Though intrigue within the neighboring Postal Service caused arson to be suspected for a while, the cause was later determined to be accidental, with patents issued prior to the fire are referred to as X-Patents. An attempt to restore the original patents, mostly from retrieving duplicates from inventors, resulted in only 2,845 patents being restored.
In 1973 – The Temple Owls and the Tennessee Volunteers establish a new NCAA record for the fewest points in a game since the abolition of the center jump after every basket in 1938 in an 11-6 Tennessee win. Temple’s six points tied the NCAA major division post-1938 record for the fewest points in a game established by Arkansas State in January 1945 and research into the pre-1938 record was inconclusive. The game was delayed several times after disgruntled fans threw things onto the court.
In 1958 – The Teddy Bears are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third and final consecutive week with To Know Him Is To Love Him. It was the first chart single for the group that was led by Phil Spector and remains their only Top 10 hit. The song also peaked at #2 in Great Britain, at #10 on Billboard’s soul chart and was written by Spector, who was inspired by the words on his father’s tombstone.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
1/27/1838
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first assist in NHL history was by Ken Randall of the Toronto Arenas, who assisted on the first goal in NHL history by Harry Meeking on March 11, 1918, in a 7-3 over the Montreal Canadiens.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When and to whom was the first US patent issued? – Answer next time!
