The Daily Dose/March 14, 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 buys some things at the retailer. Today’s Diary.
I also completely lost my mind and bought, for the first time ever, some of that flavored water powder…I still have some zero clue why…I do drink an awful lot of water and perhaps I wanted to break up the water monotony…I don’t know…As noted, I may well have lost my mind for a few seconds, tho I did spend a minute or so considering flavors, ultimately rolling with orange…I mixed it in with some water at the VSO and it tasted pretty good, but I only used it once and now I have a 30-day load out of the stuff sitting in a drawer that I will probably forget about.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1964 – Jack Ruby is found guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald while Oswald was in custody following his arrest for assassinating President John F Kennedy. Ruby had pleaded insanity and would later be sentenced to death. The conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal for, among other things, an oral confession that should not have been admitted despite the fact there were photographs and video coverage of Ruby shooting Oswald. Ruby died in custody before his second trial could begin and legally died unconvicted. His real name was Jacob Rubenstein.
In 1954 – The Baltimore Bullets establish a new NBA record for fewest road wins in a season in a 91-86 loss to the Ft Wayne Pistons. With the loss, the Bullets finished either 0-20 or 0-21 on the road for the year, depending on what source you believe. The NBA record book says the Bullets were 0-20, but an audit of their season at various sources shows 21 road games lost confusion that may well stem from the fact that on March 8 the Bullets lost two games in Milwaukee to the Hawks, the only doubleheader by the same teams in NBA history. The Bullets finished the season at 15-56 and did go 4-17 in neutral site games and they remain the only team to finish an NBA season with zero road wins.
In 1981 – Dolly Parton is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second and final non-consecutive week with 9 to 5. Earlier, the song had spent one week at #1 on Billboard’s country chart and also went to #1 in Canada and was Billboard’s ninth biggest song of the year. It remains Parton’s only #1 song on the Hot 100 was her 13th of 23 #1 country songs. The song earned Parton Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Vocal Performance by a Female.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…a thousand taboos restrict his action, a thousand terrors limit his will. – 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.
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) was the Four Seasons only #1 song in Great Britain.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Dolly Parton had the first song in chart history to appear on Billboard’s pop, country and dance charts. What was it? – Answer next time!
