The Daily Dose/November 8, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow does not have a magic wand. Today’s Diary.
People, you gotta give your VSO more than ten minutes notice of impending homelessness…I’m sorry, but I can’t shit places to sleep…We’re not taking you in because we don’t know you that well and once you’re in it might be tuff to get you out…Plus, I don’t want to see the cat served for dinner…
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 11 – The race for the 2022 ESPNCup – symbolic of collegiate Bottom Ten supremacy – may well be the tightest ever.
Minutemen claim John Adams Spitoon – symbolic of Yankee football nonsense – with loss to Huskies…
Hoosiers continue to give clinic in How To Recover From 3-0 Start following sixth straight loss…
Army secretary’s pregame orders to “don’t score until you see the whites of their eyes” proved to be less inspirational than hoped.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1957 – Pan Am Flight 7 – service from San Francisco to Honolulu – disappears over the Pacific Ocean, killing all 44 people on board. The flight took off at 11:30 am and the last communication had come at 5:04 pm and investigation into the cause was inconclusive. The first passengers and debris were found a week later by the Coast Guard about 900 miles northeast of Honolulu. The flight was the first leg of an around-the-world trip that was to eventually end in Philadelphia.
In 1994 – Joe Dumars of the Detroit Pistons ties the NBA record for most three-point field goals in a game in a 126-112 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Dumars had ten three-pointers to tie the record established by Brian Shaw of the Miami Heat in 1993. The record was broken by Dennis Scott of the Orlando Magic who had eleven in an April 1996 game and the record is now 14, by Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors, who had 14 on October 29, 2018.
In 1975 – War is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Soul Singles chart – for the only week with Lowrider. It was the fifth of eight top 10 soul hits for the group and remains their only #1. The song also went #12 pop in Great Britain and peaked at #7 on the Hot 100, their sixth of seven Top 10 pop hits. The song was from the album Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Science is composed of errors, but errors it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Buck Owens had twelve #1s on Billboard’s country album chart.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What team holds the record for most three-pointers in an NBA game? – Answer next time!
