The Daily Dose/March 13, 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 brings his own coffee to the hotel. Today’s Diary.
The big news is that D4 was so early we didn’t have a pot of regular coffee ready for him, so he was obliged to drink our donut shop knockoff…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1781 – German-British astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus. Herschel first thought he had discovered a comet, though soon enough it was known to be a planet. Originally known as the Georgian star after King George III, Uranus was the first new planetary discovery since Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in the centuries before Christ.
In 1960 – The Chicago Cardinals of the NFL announce they are moving to St Louis for the coming season. The Cardinals had had only one winning season in the 1950s and were losing fans to the Chicago Bears. The Cardinals were founded in 1898 on Chicago’s South Side, became charter members of the NFL in 1920, and moved to Phoenix in 1988.
In 1976 – Johnny Taylor is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Soul Singles chart – for the first of six consecutive weeks with Disco Lady. The song later spent four weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 – the first Hot 100 #1 to have the word “disco” in the title. It was the fourth and final #1 soul song for Taylor, remains his only #1 pop hit, and was Billboard’s 3rd-biggest pop song of the year.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
It would be a dull world of nothing needed mending and nobody needed saving!
Morris West
The Clowns of God
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 was Poor Little Fool by Rick Nelson, on August 4, 1958. It spent two weeks at the top.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many NFL titles/Super Bowls have the Cardinals won? – Answer next time!
