The Daily Dose/April 21, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience
Leading Off is still in time out.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow laments the lack of competent secretarial services at the county. Today’s Diary.
The big news at the Veterans Service Office is nobody posted the notes from the morning Emergency Ops meeting over the weekend!!!…I am not making that up…The meeting is held seven days a week at 0830 but either notes were not taken or they were and haven’t been posted yet…The last notes uploaded were mine from the Friday morning meeting.
I have some zero clue what the problem is…This is not like an assembly line…The note taker is responsible for everything…It’s not as if you take the notes then ship it off to Proofreading for final editing and processing….No…You take the notes and then you post the notes and, as blabbed here from time to time, ol’ Sparrow has his notes posted within 45 seconds of meeting adjournment…It’s not that hard…But there were no meeting notes from the weekend’s meetings.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1934 – A photograph referred to by History as the Surgeon’s Photograph because it was taken by a surgeon, and depicting the Loch Ness monster is published in the London newspaper The Daily Mail. The Loch Ness monster would spend the next few decades stirring no small amount of interest, at least until 1994 when a gentleman admitted to building the monster from a toy submarine and a sculpted head and neck, an account generally accepted to be true. Reports of monsters in the loch do date back to 565 AD.
In 2012 – Phillip Humber of the Chicago White Sox pitches the 21st perfect game in major league history in a 4-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners. Humber, in his seventh major league season, was making his fourth career start and finished his major league career the following season with a 16-23 career record, the fewest wins of any pitcher who has thrown a perfect game. It was the third perfect game by a White Sox pitcher (Charlie Robertson, 1932; Mark Buehrle, 2009) and remains the only perfect game that ended on a passed ball on a check-swing third strike, with the runner retired at first base.
In 1945 – The Les Brown Orchestra and Doris Day are at #1 on Billboard’s Best Selling Singles chart – one of several predecessors to the Hot 100 – for the third of seven consecutive weeks with My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time. It was the second of three #1 songs for Brown and the first of six #1s for Day and on May 26 the pair replaced themselves at #1 with Sentimental Journey, which spent nine weeks at the top. Though several acts have replaced themselves at #1 over the years, Les Brown and Doris Day remain the only duet to accomplish the feat.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
His mind was made up once and for all upon hundreds of subjects and maybe this was the sign that he had completed his course. – Saul Bellow, Ravelstein
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The first TV theme song to reach #1 on a Billboard pop chart was The Ballad of Davy Crocket, which went to #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played in Juke Boxes and Most Played by Jockeys charts in 1955.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Which major league pitcher to throw a perfect game has the most career wins? – Answer next time!
