The Daily Dose/March 1, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return. Promise.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a busy day off. Today’s Diary.
In fact, it was a day off only in the sense we didn’t clock in anywhere….We were busy the whole way and weren’t able to call it a day until – horror of horrors – mid-afternoon…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Editor’s Note: due to time constraints, today’s items are from last year.
In 1781 – The Articles of Confederation – the first governing document of the US since declaring independence from Great Britain in 1989 – takes effect. The Second Continental Congress had sent the Articles to the states in 1777, with unanimous approval being required for ratification. The Articles had been drawn up by a committee of 13, one representative from each state, and the Constitution would replace the Articles in 1989.
In 1919 – Newsy Lalonde of the Montreal Canadiens establishes a new NHL playoff record for most goals scored in a game in a 6-3 win over the Ottawa Senators in Game 3 of the NHL Finals. Lalonde broke the record of three that had been done five times previously and the mark has been tied four times since. The Canadiens would defeat the Senators in five games and faced the PCHA champion Seattle Metropolitans for the Stanley Cup, a series that was canceled after five games due to the Spanish flu epidemic.
In 1969 – Sly & the Family Stone is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third of four consecutive weeks with Everyday People. The song also peaked at #36 in Great Britain, was in its second and final week at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s 5th-biggest song of the year. It was the second of ten Top 40 hits for the group, their second of five Top 10 songs, and their first of three pop and soul #1s.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Is it so difficult to look existence in the eye, to see its true face?
Ernst Weiss
Georg Letham Physician and Murderer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first song to move into the #1 spot on a Billboard pop chart on Feb 29, was To Be With You by Mr. Big, which went to #1 on the Hot 100 on Saturday, February 29, 1992.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many Pacific Coast Hockey Association teams won the Stanley Cup? – Answer next time!
