The Daily Dose/December 30, 2023
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 is free today.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has the latest concerning his new coffee machine. Today’s Diary.
Even more big news is we found another filter for the water purifier on the kitchen tap, so we installed it (the old one ran out months ago) and used that for coffee this morning and boy or boy, let me tell you, it’s as if we’d been using yak piss…The taste was noticeably better with filtered water, another Coffee Bonus (CB)…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed at a joint Iraq/US base in Baghdad. Hussein had been arrested in Dece,ber 2003 and been convicted by an Iraqi special tribunal for the 1982 massacre of 148 Iraqi Shi’ites. Hussein was led to the gallows by several masked executioners and Hussein was jeered by – and he sparred with – some there to see him die. Three co-defendants would be executed in January.
In 1977 – Evonne Goolagong-Cawley wins the Australian Open defeating Helen Gourlay Cawley (both Australian; no relation) 6-3, 6-0. It was the fourth and final Australian Open title for Goolagong-Cawley and her fifth of six Grand Slam singles title and the second and final Grand Slam runner-up finish for Gourlay-Cawley (no titles). The pair shared the doubles title with Mona Schallau Guerrant and Kerry Melville Reid when the final was rained out.
In 1950 – Patti Page is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – a predecessor to the Hot 100 – for the first of nine consecutive weeks with the Tennessee Waltz. It was the third of 22 Top ten songs for Page and her second of four #1s in a chart career that spanned from 1948 until 1982. The song also went to #2 on Billboard’s country chart and was originally scheduled to be the B side of a Christmas record.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
{This} whole book…has been written under the influence of a kind of religious awe produced in the author’s mind by the view of that irresistible revolution which has advanced for centuries in spite of every obstacle and which is still advancing in the midst of the ruins it has caused.
Alexis De Tocqueville
Democracy In America
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Madonna has had 13 #1 songs in Great Britain.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What woman has won the most Australian Open singles titles? – Answer next time!
