The Daily Dose/December 4, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
Editor’s Note: The usual #3 entry – USA! USA! – has the week off.
1. College Football Playoff – Ha! The biggest fiasco yet!!!…With USC and TCU losing their conference title games, the final two spots are wide open…With TCU still likely to make it, and with Ohio State – another loser of their final game – likely to make it, too, 2022 makes the best possible argument for an NCAA Division I football playoff.
2. Utah, Kansas State – Sorry guys, winning the Pac-12 and Big 12 titles only get you mere Rose, Sugar bowl berths because despite beating teams that would’ve qualified for CFP had they beaten you, you guys weren’t even considered for playoff.
3. NCAA Division I Football Playoff – You know, why we tolerate this four (4)-team CFP crap is beyond us because a 32-team NCAA Division I football playoff would 1) have finished the second round this weekend, carrying a head of steam of into the national quarterfinals, and 2) become an American classic quicker than you can say “strength of schedule”.
4. 2022 World Cup – Dear Soccer: your game is still boring…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” it could be livened up by throwing another ball out there every time there’s ten (10) consecutive minutes without a goal, which in some games could result in as many as nine (9) balls being in play at one.
5. War in Ukraine, COVID, Mass Shootings, et. al. – World still a smorgasbord of misery and suffering, of course, but with sports being a nice little microcosm of our human experience, collegiate and professional diversions occupy top four (4) spots this week.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Yay for the return of Read Free Sunday (RFS).
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow serves a guest. Today’s Diary.
I go and open [the door] and it’s this rather masculine woman and my first thought is it would not be the Upset of the Year to find out she and the woman in the lobby are a couple: she was dressed in slacks and a sports shirt and looked like she had just come from a photo shoot for Aqua Velva.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1872 – The American merchant ship Mary Celeste is found adrift off the Azore Islands by a Canadian ship. The ship was disheveled but seaworthy and while the lifeboat was missing, the ship was otherwise provisioned with personal effects still in place. The Mary Celeste had sailed from New York on Nov. 7 bound for Italy and the ship’s last deck log entry was ten days earlier, noting its position, about 400 miles southwest from where she was actually found. No substantive theories exist as to why the ship was abandoned and no one from the crew was ever heard from again.
In 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens – the oldest professional ice hockey team in the world and then known as Les Canadiens – is formed by J. Ambrose O’Brien. The Canadiens would play their first game the following January, in the National Hockey Association (NHA), they joined the NHL in 1917, and have won a record 24 Stanley Cup championships. To date, the Canadiens have won 3,507 games and have scored 22,082 goals, both NHL records.
In 1965 – The Byrds are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks with Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season), the second and final #1 song for the group. The song also went to #1 in New Zealand and Canada and peaked at #1 26 in Great Britain. The song was written by Pete Seeger, with most of the lyrics based on text from the Bible’s Book of Ecclesiastes (circa 480-150 BC) and they remain the oldest lyrics of a #1 song on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Except for the innate and universal flaws of her sex, there may be nothing wrong with her.
Nero Wolfe
A Right To Die
By Rex Stout
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The US Senate has decided one vice-presidential race, in the election of 1836, which saw Marin Van Buren elected president by the Electoral College. Ricard M Johnson did not receive a majority of electoral votes, and the Senate elected him over Francis Granger.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What NHL team has won the second most Stanley Cup championships? – Answer next time!
