The Daily Dose/October 8, 2024
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 of a Nobody – Sparrow almost hits a dear. Today’s Dairy.
We had just turned onto Main Street and BOOM, there it was…It was lying in the road and whomever had hit had not seen fit to move it to the side, an egregious violation of state law…
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 7 – The race for the ESPNCup rolls on.
Team recently announced move to Mountain West Conference in a couple of years, which will not only enhance conference’s B-10 standing, but also add .0003¢ to MWCs overall media value.
B-10 pollsters still heroically refusing to steal B-10 creator Steve Harvey’s line referring to Air Force as Error Force.
Bruins doing Big Ten civic duty in 2024, giving Indiana and Minnesota fans reason to actually go to Rose Bowl for first time since Johnson, Kennedy administrations.
———
Would you like 4Ever & Ever access to Gaylon’s crap?
Of course you would.
Click here. It’s only $24.99.
Click here for complimentary chapters of all of Gaylon’s books.
It’s easy reading on any device.
———
On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1918 – US Army Corporal Alvin C York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 more in an attack on a machine gun nest in the World War I Meuse-Argonne offensive in northern France. York was initially awarded the Distinguished Service Cross – the nation’s second-highest award – though it was later upgraded to the Medal of Honor. York served the Army as a major in World War II, visting training centers and participating in bond drives.
In 1995 – Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins establishes a new NFL record for most career completions in a 27-24 overtime loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Miami. Marino’s first-quarter completion to Keith Byers was the 3,687th of his career, breaking the record established by Fran Tarkenton from 1961-78. Marino would retire in 1998 with 4,967 completions – a mark now good for ninth on the all-time list – and the record is now held by Tom Brady with 7,753.
In 1983 – The Police are at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the eleventh of 17 consecutive weeks with Synchronicity. It was the fourth of five Top 10 albums for the group, remains their only #1, and produced four chart singles, including the #1 Every Breath You Take. The album also went to #1 in Great Britain, was Billboard’s 3rd-biggest album of 1983 and its 8th-biggest of 1984, and won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s #1 song for 1978 was Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb, which spent seven weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What active NFL player holds the record for career completions? – Answer next time!
