The Daily Dose/September 23, 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 – Sparrow, in a mild upset, doesn’t whine about getting rained on. Today’s Diary.
The big news is it was raining pretty good during the soak, especially toward the end…This was a lot of fun because it’s rare when ol’ Sparrow is out in the rain without whining like a four-year-old but there was no whining today because, you know, we were soaking and already wet.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1642 – Harvard College conducts its first commencement ceremony. Nine men were graduated in a ceremony that consisted of speeches, eating and drinking, and debates on topics of the day. Diplomas weren’t issued until 1813 and class rank was based on the social standing of your parents. Harvard had been founded in 1636 as the College at Newtowne and was renamed in 1639 after Rev. John Harvard willed the college half his estate and his entire library.
In 1868 – Tom Morris, Jr of Scotland become the youngest British Open champion ever, shooting a final round 49 to beat his father, Tom Morris, Sr, by three strokes at the Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. (The tournament was played in one day, with three 12-hole rounds.) It was the first of four Open titles for Morris, Jr, all consecutive, and Morris, Jr died in 1875 of natural causes. He remains the youngest winner of a major in golf history.
In 1967 – The Beatles are at #1 on Billboard’s Top LPs Chart – a predecessor to the Billboard 200 album chart – for the 13th of 15 consecutive weeks with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was the tenth of 19 #1 albums for the group, a Billboard album chart record that still stands. The album also went to #1 in seven other countries including Norway, West Germany, and Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 10th-biggest album of 1967 and its 6th-biggest of 1968. It remains the group’s biggest US album in terms of weeks spent at #1.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
She’d often observed that people generally lived up to whatever expectations they had of themselves.
Emily Brightwell
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
John Waite also hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 as a member of the group Bad English, whose song When I See You Smile, spent two weeks at #1 in 1989.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s biggest album of 1967? – Answer next time!
