The Daily Dose/September 12, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading off is in time-out for the moment.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – ggggggg
Then she asked if we could deliver [her Advil] or whether she’d have to trudge the five miles to the front desk.
The line from ol’ Sparrow:
“Oh, I’m sorry, I can’t ma’am…State pharmaceutical department regulations won’t allow it.”
Like you, we thought it was a pretty good line, perhaps even a Line of the Year candidate, but Ms 224 thought not, treating it as if it were a decree from Mount Sinai…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 2013 – Voyager I is confirmed by NASA to be the first man-made object to leave the Solar System and enter interstellar space. Voyager I was launched in 1977, visited Jupiter and Saturn, and is thought to have entered interstellar space in August 2012 when charged particles stopped being blocked by winds from the Sun and it remains the farthest spacecraft from Earth. It has since been joined in interstellar space by Voyager II and Pioneer 10, though Pioneer 10 and New Horizons will eventually join them.
In 1962 – Tom Cheney of the Washington Senators establishes a new major league record for most strikeouts in a game in a 2-1, 16-inning victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Cheney struck out 21 batters to break the record of 18, done three times, twice by Sandy Koufax and once by Bob Feller. Cheney pitched a complete game, giving up ten hits and walking four. The 9-inning record is 20, done five times, most recently by Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals in 2016.
In 1998 – Aerosmith is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second of four consecutive weeks with I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing. It was the 19th of 22 Top 40 hits for the group, their seventh of eight Top 10 songs, and remains their only #1. The song went to #1 in eight other countries including Greece, Australia, and Norway, peaked at #4 in Great Britain, and at #14 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart. The song was written by Diane Warren, who thought the song might be recorded by “Celine Dion or somebody like that”.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Who can ask more of a man/Than giving all within his span/Giving all, it seems to me/Is not so far from victory.
George Moriarty
The Road Ahead of the Road Behind
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
King Charles XII of Sweden was shot in the head and killed during battle in Norway on November 30, 1718. He was 36. The exact circumstances aren’t known, and the usual conspiracy theories attend his death.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many #1s has Aerosmith had on the Billboard 200 album chart? – Answer next time!
