The Daily Dose/March 22, 2022
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 farts around with the creamer layout for Morning Coffee Service. Today’s Diary.
One of the advantages of growing older is you can’t remember squat anymore, and when MCS was being set up a few hours later, it occurred to ol’ Sparrow that, perhaps, he’d gotten the results backward and that French vanilla actually won the Creamer Challenge…It was tuff to remember and it’s hardly as if there’s a plaque on the wall commemorating the event…So yours truly reset it so there were four French vanilla rows and three half & half rows.
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 1978 – Karl Wallenda – patriarch of the Flying Wallendas high wire act – is killed when he falls attempting to walk between the two towers of a hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The fall came about halfway through the walk when high winds caused Wallenda to attempt to lower himself and hold on to the wire. Wallenda’s fall was broken somewhat by a taxi, but he was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital. Wallenda was 73.
In 1979 – The NHL announces it has agreed to accept four teams from the defunct World Hockey Association (WHA) into the league. The Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Hartford Whalers, and Quebec Nordiques begin play later in the year and the only Oilers remain in their original city. The final WHA game was played on May 20, when the Jets defeated the Oilers 7-3 to win the Avco Cup.
In 1975 – Freddie Fender is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the second and final consecutive week with Before the Next Teardrop Falls. The song also went #1 country in Canada, #1 pop in Australia, and in May the song would spend a week at #1 on the Hot 100. Earlier, versions by Linda Martell (#33, 1970) and Duane Lee (#44, 1968) had also hit Billboard’s country chart and it was the first of four #1 country songs for Fender and remains his only #1 pop hit.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Life is being on the wire. Everything else is just waiting.
Nik Wallenda
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Texas Western – now UTEP – in 1966 and North Carolina State in 1974 were the only teams besides UCLA to win NCAA basketball titles between 1964 and 1975.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Freddy Fender’s real name? – Answer next time!
