The Daily Dose/January 3, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow considers going on the wagon. Today’s Diary.
I think I need to stop drinking…I had a couple of Scotches with dinner and I could not get to sleep…This is the third time in the last couple of weeks this has happened and even a blockhead like yours truly can spot that trend…Recall I had a few at the hotel Christmas party and couldn’t sleep…Then this past Tuesday morning I had a shifter – the fabulous, complimentary well drink we get at the hotel bar after a shift – and couldn’t sleep.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Final: The Detroit Lions, hardly for the first time, earn The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy.
Thank you for reading this year. Here are some funny lines from this week’s NFL Bottom Ten:
Sometimes though, slow and steady – not to mention lousy – wins the Bottom Ten race.
Laughter, B-10 title hopes, die in (rare) victory, as Bengals blow B-10 title, scoring 20 unanswered points in single game for first time since Reconstruction…
Chargers looking forward to changing stadiums in 2020, going from small soccer stadium filled with opponent’s fans to large stadium filled with empty seats…
B-10 pollsters thought about trotting out classic college B-10 line about division leveling up for strong .500 divisional play mark, but decided not to.
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On This Date
In 1938 – President Franklin D Roosevelt announces the creation of what is now known as the March of Dimes, to combat childhood paralysis. Before the end of the month, the White House received over 30,000 letters containing dimes, a dime then worth about $1.80 in today’s money. The dime was redesigned in 1946 to include Roosevelt’s image on the obverse side.
In 2010 – Chris Johnson of the Tennessee Titans establishes a new NFL record for most yards from scrimmage in a season in a 17-13 victory over the Seattle Seahawks. Johnson had 136 yards rushing and 20 yards receiving to finish the season with 2,509 combined yards, breaking the record of 2,429 yards established by Marshall Faulk of Indianapolis in 1999. The record still stands and Johnson’s total of 2,006 rushing yards is the sixth-highest total in NFL history.
In 1970 – B.J. Thomas is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of four consecutive weeks with Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, the first #1 song of the 1970s. The song also went to #1 in Norway, Canada and South Africa, peaked at #38 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s fourth biggest song of the year. The song was from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and won the Oscar for Best Original Song for writers Hal David and Burt Bacharach. It was the sixth Top 40 hit for Thomas and his first of two #1 songs.
Quotebook
All I’m saying, I suppose, is that if the temptation to humanity does assail you now and then, I hope you won’t take it as a weakness in yourself, but give it a fair hearing. – John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
The Willis Tower, still commonly known as the Sears Tower, in Chicago was the last building in the United States to hold the title of world’s tallest building. It held the title from 1974 until 1998.
Today’s Stumper
Whose image was on the obverse side of the dime before FDR’s? – Answer next time!
