The Daily Dose/July 17, 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’s an idiot. Today’s Diary.
What’s funny is that ol’ Sparrow had some zero clue how to change rooms from OOO to ready to rent…You’d think we could – it’s routine front desk function, after all – but we’ve never had to do it before, I am not making that up…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Due to time constraints, these items have run before.
In – In 1996 – TWA Flight 800 – service from New York City to Rome via Paris – explodes 12 minutes after takeoff from John F Kennedy International Airport. After the usual suspicions about it being a terrorist attack subsided, a federal investigation determined the explosion was likely caused by a fuel tank explosion caused by a short circuit. All 230 people on board died and this remains the third-deadliest aviation accident in US history.
In 1976 – The Montreal Summer Olympics begin. The Games featured 92 countries and 6,084 athletes and the Games were opened by Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of Canada. Among the competitors were Princess Anne of Great Britain, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, and Taro Aso, a future prime minister of Japan. Women competed in basketball, team handball, and rowing for the first time and Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, the Cayman Islands, and Papua New Guinea all participated in their first Summer Games.
In 1971 – Jerry Reed is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the fifth and final consecutive week with When You’re Hot, You’re Hot. It was the first of three #1 country songs for Reed and his first of six Top 10s. The song also went #1 country in Canada, peaked at #9 on the Hot 100, and was Billboard’s fifth-biggest country song of the year. The song was written by Reed and refers to a back-alley craps game.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I felt that there could be no turning back and that I was engaging in an adventure the meaning of which I thoroughly understood.
Joshua Slocum
Sailing Alone Around the World
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Father Junipero Serra was born in Petra, Crown of Aragon, which is now part of Spain.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
For how long was Billboard’s country chart known as the Hot Country Singles chart? – Answer next time!
