The Daily Dose/February 23, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
The Sunday Bottom 5
The very best of the very worst of the week that was…
1. Houston Astros – Strong favorites to break modern major league team hit by pitch record this season…Also in running for Irony of the Year Award after stealing signs of hecklers at spring training opener.
2. Coronavirus – Exciting new epidemic mainly affecting Asia, and while usual corporate stonewalling announcing upcoming Tokyo Olympics will go on as scheduled was expected, at least one health official brave enough to say if Games began today they would have to be postponed.
3. Coronavirus – Roughly 2,500 worldwide deaths about a tenth of average annual US influenza deaths…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” coronavirus first virus “like, basically, ever” to be ranked twice in same Sunday Bottom 5 survey.
4. Russia – Zany Ruskies back at it for 2020 encore, as attempting meddling in Bernie Sanders campaign announced…Plans to foster division amongst Americans generally regarded as silly as America already divided to an extent that makes 1960s seem like something out of Mother Goose.
5. The Truth – One-time virtue continues to take it in shorts as both President Trump and Democratic presidential contenders continue to issue falsehoods and misinformation…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” we deserve better than this, but Americans continue to tolerate it…Click here for latest fact-checking nonsense.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has the latest on his new phone holster. Today’s Diary.
I am very pleased with my $10 phone holster and offhand I’m calling it $10 Phone Holster Purchase of the Year…
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1945 – One of our species’ most iconic photographs is taken on Mount Suribachi on the south Pacific island of Iwo Jima when a group of United States Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise the United States flag following a US victory on the island. The picture was taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press and despite the limitations of the time, the photograph was able to make it into Sunday newspapers two days later. Rosenthal was named an honorary Marine in 1996.
In 1986 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar establishes a new NBA record for most games played in a career, appearing in his 1,304th game, a 117-111 overtime win against Philadelphia. Abdul-Jabbar broke the record established by Elvin Hayes between 1968 and 1984 and the record is now held by Robert Parrish, who played in 1,611 games from 1976 to 1997. Abdul-Jabbar played his first game in 1969 would retire in 1989 with 1,560 games played.
In 1957 – Blue Monday by Fats Domino is at #1 on Billboards R&B Best Sellers chart – a predecessor of today’s soul chart – for the fifth of eight non-consecutive weeks. It was Domino’s seventh of nine #1 songs on the soul chart and also peaked at #9 on Billboard’s pop Best Sellers in Stores chart, his third of eight Top 10 pop hits and also peaked at #23 in Great Britain. Domino, whose first name was Antoine, died at age 89 in 2017.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The goal of philosophy is to find that secret, and to lose the seeker in the secret found.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol I: Our Oriental Heritage
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Richard Petty is the driver who has won the most Daytona 500s with seven.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Who holds the NBA record for most career games amongst active players? – Answer next time!
