The Daily Dose/September 25, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Associated Press – Saturday headline reading ”World Opinion Shifts Against Russia As Ukraine Worries Grow” seemed to imply that world opinion actually once favored Russia’s Ukranian invasion which Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” – outside of a few of their allies – really wasn’t the case.
2. Russian/Ukranian War – Plucky Ukrainians making some battlefield gains, as mass grave discovery shows Ruskies stealing page(s) from old Soviet playbook…Russian announcement of call-ups of able males for service in war sends thousands of able Russian males fleeing out of the country.
3. USA! USA! – The current 3-hole staple…75 percent of kids are now too fat, stupid, or drug addled to Army…Citizens still earning marksmanship ribbons at record pace America…Entire country circling wagons, unable to face any viewpoint not in step with their own…America – remains far closer to the oblivion that awaits her than the prosperity she once knew, with Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” America has until half-century is out to show it can govern itself before someone comes in and does it for us.
4. Albert Pujols – St Louis Cardinals slugger becomes fourth player to hit 700 major league home runs, and the second with a paunch to do it.
5. Fake News – Click here for a recap of what some wizards were actually believing this week. Courtesy of the dreaded AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Yay for Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow didn’t have a great month in the sack. Today’s Diary.
The weekly average for the month is 48.12, a fine figure in its own right, but distressingly down from last month’s lusty 52.3 weekly average.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1983 – Thirty-eight prisoners from the IRA break out of Maze Prison, a bit southeast of Belfast. Using guns that had been smuggled in, prisoners took control of H7 Block and in 20 minutes were in control of the block without an alarm being sounded and made their way to the main entrance in a hijacked food truck before escaping. Fifteen of the escapees were arrested that day, while 21 others were arrested later, and two were never found. One prison officer died of a heart attack during the escape and 20 others were injured.
In 1979 – The California Angels earn their first playoff berth, winning the American League Western Division title with a 4-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The win gave the Angels a five-game lead over the Royals with four games to play and they would win the division by three games and the Angels would lose the American League Championship Series to the Baltimore Orioles three games to one. The Angels have won eight other division titles and won their only American League and World Series titles in 2002.
In 1954 – Rosemary Clooney is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart for the first of six consecutive weeks with Hey There. It was the 24th of 35 chart singles for Clooney and her third of four #1s and the song also went to #1 on Billboard’s Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Juke Boxes charts. The song was first performed in the musical The Pajama Game and versions by Sammy Davis, Jr. (#16) and Johnny Ray (#27) also charted in 1954.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
He found he was not all certain he was doing any good, aside from providing the drug of religious hope to timorous folk frightened of hell-fire and afraid to walk alone.
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The current world record holder in the women’s 100 is Florence Griffith-Joyner, who ran 10.49 seconds in 1988.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What two teams have appeared in multiple American League Championship Series without a loss? – Answer next time!
