The Daily Dose/May 10, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is taking a break while we work on a project.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – The alarm went off at the hotel, though it shouldn’t be a problem for Sparrow’s shift. Today’s Diary.
It seems Darin from Maintenance was in a room working on some grouting and some steam being generated from one of his tools/implements set off the alarm (or some such nonsense as that) and not just the alarm in the room, the whole shebang, The Big Alarm, the general alarm that wakes everybody and their mother up in the tri-state area…Q said the alarm shouldn’t be a factor tonite but did note that if the company doesn’t reset the alarm it is likely to go off again Monday nite at 1900…
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 1775 – A militia force led by Ethan Allen and Col Benedict Arnold take Fort Ticonderoga from the British near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York. The action was later followed by the taking of Fort Crown Point and Fort Saint-Jean, with the cannons and armaments from the forts later transported to Boston in an expedition led by Col Henry Knox, which led to the British evacuating the city. The fort had been built by the French and captured by the British in 1759.
In 1974 – The New York Nets win the ABA title, defeating the Utah Stars 111-100 in game five of the ABA Finals at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. It was the first only ABA title for the Nets in two trips to the finals while the Stars had won the ABA title in 1971. The Nets later became the New Jersey Nets and are now the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA, while the Utah Stars folded after the 1975 season, and the ABA merged with the NBA after the 1976 season.
In 1986 – The Pet Shop Boys are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with West End Girls. It was the first chart single for the group, their first of five Top 10 hits, and remains their only #1 song. The song went to #1 in five other countries including Finland, Norway, and Great Britain, peaked at #36 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s 15th-biggest song of the year. West End Girls last appearance on a Billboard came last year when it peaked at #6 on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Song Sales chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
You yourselves have made these men great by giving them your support and that is why you have fallen into evil slavery. For you look to the tongue and the words of a crafty man, and you do not see the deed which is being done.
Gore Vidal
Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The act that had the most #1 songs on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart in the 1940s was Bing Crosby, with nine.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What player(s) led the ABA in scoring and rebounding the most times? – Answer next time!
