The Daily Dose/February 13, 2020
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 has a busy day att he VSO. Today’s Diary.
Friends, here’s a ProTip from me to you, useful if you ever need to visit a VSO…One, be prepared…Have your paperwork sorted out, not randomly tossed in some folder…Have them sorted and paperclipped, too…This will save all of us time.
Two, and I can’t stress enuff this ProTips usefulness in virtually every other human situation: please be recently bathed…While I had forgotten Mr H and what I was doing for him over the past couple of months, I instantly remembered his BO….The office still wasn’t completely aired out when I left.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1960 – What History refers to as the Nashville Sit-Ins begin as 124 college students, mostly black, conduct sit-ins at three Nashville lunch counters. The students had been denied service and remained in the diners for a couple of hours before leaving without confrontation. Three other peaceful sit-ins followed before the first violence occurred on Feb 24. More violence followed and after negotiations between store owners and the protesters, lunch counters began serving blacks on May 10.
In 1954 – Frank Selvy of Furman establishes a new NCAA major division record for most points in a game, scoring 100 points in a 149-95 victory over Newberry College. Selvey made 42 field goals and 18 free throws and his last basket was a half-court shot at the final buzzer. Selvey’s record still stands, though Clarence ‘Bevo’ Francis of Rio Grande College had twice previously topped 100 points in lower level NCAA games.
In 1954 – Guitar Slim is at #1 on Billboard’s R&B Juke Box chart – a predecessor of today’s soul chart – for the third of 14 consecutive weeks with The Things That I Used To Do. The song was written by Guitar Slim, was arranged and produced by Ray Charles and was Billboard’s biggest soul song of the year and third biggest of the decade. Guitar Slim’s real name was Eddie Jones and Jones was 32 when he died of pneumonia in 1959 and The Things That I Used To Do remains his only appearance on any Billboard chart. The song also spent six weeks at #1 on Billboard’s R&B Best Sellers chart.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
In times like these, it helps to remember there have always been times like these. – Paul Harvey, American radio announcer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Al Green has had six #1 songs on Billboard’s soul chart over the years.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many people have scored 100 or more points in a college basketball more than once? – Answer next time!
