The Daily Dose/November 4, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow runs some errands. Today’s Diary.
As long as we were out, we also checked the mail and stopped by the town hall to pay the utility bill, nicely over $200 because apparently, we forgot to pay it last month…The big news is my new Legion cap was in the mail…It was a gratuitous purchase because we didn’t really need a new one, but we wanted one that had “Past Commander” stitched on one side as if everyone in the goddamned post doesn’t already know ol’ Sparrow served six terms as commander.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1979 – The United States embassy in Tehran is overrun by Iranian college students. The students took 52 diplomats and citizens hostage while six diplomats who evaded capture were rescued in January and in April an attempt by US forces to rescue the hostages failed. Previous attempts to take the embassy had occurred in January and September and the hostages spent 444 days in captivity and were released shortly after President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration on January 20.
In 1934 – The Detroit Lions and the Pittsburgh Pirates establish a new NFL record for most rushing yards in a game in a 40-7 Lions victory at University of Detroit Stadium. The teams combined for 426 rushing yards and broke the record of 420 yards established by the Boston Redskins and the New York Giants in 1933 and the record still stands. The Pirates would become the Steelers in 1940 and the University of Detroit – now Detroit Mercy – stopped playing football in 1964.
In 1972 – Johnny Nash is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of four consecutive weeks with I Can See Clearly Now. I was the sixth of eleven chart singles for Nash, his fourth of five top 40 hits, and remains his only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in South Africa and Canada, peaked at 35 in Great Britain, and at #38 on Billboard’s soul chart. The song has been covered many times, last hit the Hot 100 in 1994 when a version by Jimmy Cliff peaked at #18, and is one of the few songs that has appeared on Billboard’s pop, soul, and country charts.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The sportsman trains himself and primes for his particular game. He prays for it, and so he gets it. After due…and long preparation…he goes out…{to a place where} most of his townsmen never saw nor dreamed of…He had them halfway in his bag when he started, he has only to shove them down.
Henry David Thoreau
Diary entry, 11/4/1858
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Vanilla Ice’s real name is Robert Matthew Van Winkle. He was born in Dallas in 1967.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s biggest song of 1972? – Answer next time!
