The Daily Dose/November 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 isn’t elected to Congress. Today’s Diary.
We did come in third in the six-person race, which means we got the most votes of all the other third-party whackjobs on the ballot, but we usually do and it didn’t cause us to achieve and maintain a high level of excitement…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Editor’s Note: these entries are from 2020.
In 1923 – Adolf Hitler, and others, try and fail to overthrow the German government in Munich, an attempt History refers to as the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler would later serve eight months of a 5-year sentence for his efforts, before being released and resuming his efforts at taking control of the German government. Sixteen years to the day later, Hitler, now German dictator, would survive an assassination attempt, a bombing at the same place.
In 1942 – Parker Hall of the Cleveland Rams establishes a new NFL record for most interceptions in a game in a 30-12 loss to the Green Bay Packers. Hall had seven interceptions and while research into whose record he broke was inconclusive, History does show Hall was also the first player to throw six interceptions in an NFL game. The record would be tied twice before being broken by Jim Hardy of the Chicago Cardinals, who had eight interceptions on Sept 24, 1950.
In 1952 – Patti Page is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – a forerunner of the Hot 100 – for the fourth of five consecutive weeks with I Went To Your Wedding. Before hitting #1, the song had spent four weeks at #2 and was the 5th-biggest song on the Best Sellers in Stores chart for the year. I Went To Your Wedding also went to #1 on Billboard’s Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts and was the third of four #1 songs for Page on a Billboard pop chart
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
“The money is important,” he says. “But you don’t do it for the money.”
“What do you do it for?” I say.
“The beauty,” he says softly. “The beauty.”
Pete Hamill
Gus Caputo and Bobby Fallon
Flesh and Blood
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The NCAA record for most 3-point field goals made in a game is 27 by Jack Taylor of Division III Grinnell College in November 2012. The major division record is 15, done three times, and the women’s all-division record is 15.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s #1 song of 1952? – Answer next time!
