The Daily Dose/March 30, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience….
Leading Off is in time-out. It will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Read Free Fortnight continues at The Diary of a Nobody.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow makes a sandwich with a 50 cent can of potted meat. Today’s Diary.
It wasn’t too bad…It wasn’t as good as the Satan spreads, but enuff mayo can make postage stamps relatively tasty and one can was perfect for one sandwich, so all in all I give it – if not high marks – at least OK marks.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1981 – John Hinckley shoots President of the United States Ronald Reagan as he is leaving a Washington, D.C. hotel following a speech. Three others are injured and Reagan suffered a broken rib, a punctured lung and some internal bleeding and Press Secretary James Brady was permanently disabled. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity, was released from federal psychiatric custody in 2016 and now lives, with significant restrictions, in Virginia.
In 1925 – The Victoria Cougars, champions of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) win the Stanley Cup, winning Game 4 of the Finals 6-1 over the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL. The Canadiens had won their semifinal series over Toronto, but the NHL championship series was not played after regular-season champion Hamilton was suspended from the league. The Cougars are the last non-NHL Stanley Cup champions and would remain the last Stanley Cup champion from west of Chicago until the Edmonton Oilers in 1984.
In 1959 – Frankie Avalon is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the fourth of five consecutive weeks with Venus. The song also went to #1 in Belgium, peaked at #16 in Great Britain and at #10 on Billboard’s soul chart and was Billboard’s fourth biggest song of the year. It was the fourth of 13 Top 40 hits for Avalon and his first of two #1s (Why, one week, 1959). Different versions of a separate song titled Venus would later hit #1, by Shocking Blue (1970) and Bananarama (1986) and further research into the number of times different songs with the same title have hit #1 on a Billboard pop chart was inconclusive. Avalon had begun his career as a trumpet player and initially resisted becoming a singer.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
No man ever knows when he is happy. He can only know when he was happy. – Gore Vidal, Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Tennessee has won eight NCAA women’s basketball championships, the last in 2008.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Frankie Avalon was one of two acts to have two #1 songs in 1959. Who was the other act? – Answer next time!
