The Daily Dose/July 13, 2023
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 compares the hotel’s month-to-date numbers with figures from last July. Today’s Diary.
…longtime readers of this crap know we are missing the summer baseball tournaments, which fled after getting into a p*ssing match with the town over some minor details like behavior at fields and hotels.
This is a valid concern.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1973 – Alexander Butterfield, a deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon, reveals the existence of the White House taping system while testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee. The question stemmed from where detailed quotations in written notes could’ve come from with Butterfield later saying that he presumed the committee had known about the taping system based on prior testimony from other White House officials.
In 1963 – Bob Charles of New Zealand wins the British Open, defeating Phil Rogers of the US by eight strokes in a 36-hole playoff. It was the first Open title for Charles and remains his best finish in a major. It was also the last 36-hole playoff in British Open history as playoffs became 18-holes through 1988 and have been four-hole aggregate competitions since. Charles remains the only Open champion from New Zealand.
In 1985 – Duran Duran is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of two consecutive weeks with A View to a Kill. The song went to #1 in five other countries, including Denmark, peaked at #1 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 35th-biggest song of the year. It was the ninth Top 40 hit for the group, their seventh of ten Top 10 hits, and was their second and final #1 song. A View to a Kill remains the only song from the soundtrack to a James Bond movie to reach #1 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Then, too, not all of them were equally alert mentally, particularly Megaffin, who had been on such a fourth-dimensional plane of unaccustomedness all evening he couldn’t tell menace from hospitality, even when a gun was mentioned.
William Irish
After-Dinner Story
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Besides France in 1998, the other host countries to win the World Cup were Uraguay (1930), Italy (1934), England (1966), West Germany (1974), and Argentina (1978).
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s #1 song for 1985? – Answer next time!
