The Daily Dose/November 10, 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 investigates a loud ice machine at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
Ol’ Sparrow goes up to investigate and…look[s] at it in his usual fashion: crossly with his hands on his hips…In the Upset of the Year, this appears to be working because after a few minutes there hasn’t been any noise except for some running water, so we head down the wing to get our hotel walk in and we were all the way down the hall and had even turned right and were in front of 243 when BOOM the ice machine drops a load and we’re surprised it didn’t register on the Richter scale because it was pretty loud…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1951 – Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States, with the implementation of the North American Numbering Plan. The plan divides member territories into areas identified by an area code (which had first appeared in 1947), then a telephone’s location is further specified bu a three-digit central office code and a four-digit station number. The system originally had 86 geographic area codes and today the number is 357.
In 1983 – Marvin Hagler retains his undisputed middleweight boxing title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Roberto Duran at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Hagler would later lose his WBC title to Ray Leonard but would retire as the WBA and IBF champion. Duran was the WBA junior middleweight champion at the time, a title he would be stripped of the following year. It was the eighth title defense for Hagler since winning it from Alan Minter in 1980.
In 1979 – The Eagles are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Heartache Tonight. It was the ninth of eleven Top 10 hits for the group and their fifth and final #1 song. In 1983 a version by Conway Twitty peaked at #6 on Billboard’s country chart and the song was written by Don Henley, Glen Frey, Bob Seger, and J.D. Souther. The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #40 in Great Britain, and due to charting in both the 1979 and 1980 chart years was Billboard’s 47th-biggest song of 1980.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…the division was bound to widen between the many who felt and the few who thought.
Gore Vidal
Washington, D.C.
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Of the twelve men who walked on the moon, four are still alive: Buzz Aldrin, 92, David Scott, 90, and Charles Duke and Harrison Schmidt, both 87.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Besides Ray Leonard, who were the other two fighters to defeat Marvin Hagler? – Answer next time!
