The Daily Dose/March 10, 2025
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 screws up the time change. Today’s Diary.
Then we remembered the time change and 1810 become 1910 which meant we wouldn’t have time to take a crap, much less get a workout in, so we wasted whatever a dose of our pre-workout supplement cost, probably a couple of bucks…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Editor’s Note: due to time constraints, these entries first appeared last year.
In 1876 – The telephone is used for the first time, when Alexander Graham Bell calls his assistant Thomas Watson who was in another room at Bell’s Boston laboratory. Bell had received his patent for the telephone three days earlier, an application that had been filed in February, the same day, though a bit later, than Elisha Gray had filed an intent to file a patent. The two completed History’s first trans-continental call in 1915, with Bell in New York and Watson in San Francisco.
In 1987 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers becomes the NBA’s all-time leader in personal fouls in a 143-107 win over the Denver Nuggets. Abdul-Jabbar’s first quarter charging foul was the 4,194th of his career, breaking the record established by Elvin Hayes from 1968-84. Abdul-Jabbar would retire in with 4,657, a mark that still stands, and Hayes’ total is now good for ninth on the all-time list.
1962 – Hey Baby by Bruce Channel (pronounced Shu-nell) is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks. The song was Channel’s first chart single, and while he had four other Hot 100 entries, Hey Baby remains his only Top 40 hit. The song also peaked at #2 on Billboard’s soul chart, at #2 in Great Britain, and in 1982, Anne Murray took it to #7 on Billboard’s country chart, making it one of the few songs to hit on all three major Billboard singles charts. Channel disliked touring and later had a successful career as a songwriter.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I made practice runs to skid row to get ready for my future.
Charles Bukowski
Ham On Rye
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The NHL career record for most shorthanded goals is by Wayne Gretzky with 73 from 1979-99.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s #1 song of 1962? – Answer next time!
