The Daily Dose/May 19, 2019
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
The Sunday Bottom V:
Celebrating the very worst of the week that was.
- Ohio State Sex Abuse Scandal – Long-dead doctor now accused of molesting 177 athletes, including hunky football players…Between Big Ten schools, Catholic Church, Sunday B-V pollsters starting to wonder if they were the only ones not molested while growing up…Sex Abuse due to become sanctioned Big Ten sport, with squads scheduled to compete for Jerry Sandusky Vibrator as early as 2021.
- Preakness Stakes – With no horse that finished in the top four of the Kentucky Derby bothering to show up, day’s highlights are clogged shitters, horse that bucks off jockey, runs race without rider…Sunday Bottom V pollsters “pretty sure” Preakness will move to nearby Laurel Park in next few years.
- Indian Electrical Service – Some residents of Navajo Nation in Arizona starting to get electrical service just as second decade of 21st century comes to an end…Program to hook up 300 or so homes this year, which means entire Navajo Nation should have power in 35 years.
- President Trump Fact Checking – Fact checking Trump now US’s biggest growth industry, as Trump continues to blab nonsense…Click here for AP article on most recent misinformation.
- US Drone Strikes – Finding accurate numbers getting harder and harder, as some sources say Trump Administration conducting more drone strikes than predecessor while some sources say less…Either way, Special Olympics board members have branch office in Pentagon now, as civilian, child deaths continue despite fact US has not declared war on anyone since 1942.
Today At The Site
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow buys some suspenders. Today’s Diary.
Two ladies were there to provide complete instruction, and when I got home I hooked them up and tried them on and whoa Nelly, the difference is noticeable: the difference between a ho-hum look and the type of look you expect a sailor in his dress blues to present…
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life.
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On This Date
In 2016 – EgyptAir Flight 804, flying from Paris to Cairo, crashes in the Mediterranean Sea three hours into the flight, about 170 miles north of the Egyptian coast. All 56 passengers and ten crew members were killed. The cause is still under investigation, though it is suspected fire in the cockpit caused the crash. A claim by the Egyptians that traces of explosives were found on some of the passengers was denied by the French.
In 1974 – The Philadelphia Flyers become the first of the six 1967 NHL expansion teams to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Boston Bruins 1-0 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Goalie Bernie Parent was named MVP of the playoffs with 12-5 record and 2.02 goals-against average in the playoffs. The Flyers would win the Stanley Cup the following year, too, which remains their last NHL title.
In 1962 – Dee Dee Sharp is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot R&B chart – for the fourth and final week with Mashed Potato Time for the fourth and final week. The song also peaked at #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and despite recording with such acts as Chubby Checker and Ben E King, Mashed Potato Time would remain Sharp’s only appearance at #1 on a Billboard chart.
Quotebook
Tom looked in vain among the gang, as they poured along, for companionable faces. He saw only sullen, scowling, imbruted men…the strong pushing away the weak,—the gross, unrestricted animal selfishness of human beings, of whom nothing good was expected and desired; and who, treated in every way like brutes, had sunk as nearly to their level as it was possible for human beings to do.
Harriet Beecher Stow
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Owen Wilson of the Pittsburgh Pirates holds the record for triples in a season with 36 in 1912. Sam Crawford of both the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers holds the career record with 312.
Today’s Stumper
Which were the other five teams that joined the NHL in 1967? – Answer next time!
