The Daily Dose/May 11, 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: The latest from the hotel. Today’s Diary.
Deb was hanging out both when I arrived and when I left…She had the dog, Zeus, with her this morning and it was about 0430 or so, so she hadn’t had much sleep, and Luke the Maintenance Guy’s there and he starts blabbing about a bear he saw in the parking lot…Well, this put no small amount of fear into Deb even tho bears generally flee when they hear us humans and it’s even rarer when they attack hotel guests…As it was, she only took Zeus out to crap and then immediately retired to the safety of their room, tho she did come back out to mess around on her tablet.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 868 – A copy of the book Diamond Sutra is printed in China, the oldest printed book in existence whose date can be accurately determined. The book was printed using woodblock printing, a technique discovered in China before 220 AD and a method still widely used in Asia today. The book was found in 1900 in a collection known to History as the Dunhuang Manuscripts and the book now resides in the British Library. The dates of the original manuscript date are unknown and estimates range from the 2nd to the 5th centuries AD. The book is a collection of Buddhist aphorisms.
In 1992 – The Portland Trailblazers and the Phoenix Suns establish a new NBA playoff record for most points in a game with 304 in a 153-151 Portland double-overtime victory in Game 4 of their Western Conference semifinal series. The teams broke the professional basketball record of 285 points in a playoff game, done three times, once in the NBA and twice in the ABA. The game was tied 127-127 at the end of regulation and this was the last NBA game played at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Portland won the series in five games.
In 1985 – Madonna is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with Crazy For You. The song also went to #1 in Canada and Australia, peaked at #2 in Great Britain, at #80 on Billboard’s soul chart and was Billboard’s ninth biggest song of the year. It was the second of twelve #1 songs for Madonna, her fifth of 38 Top 10 hits, her sixth of 57 chart singles. The song was from the movie Vision Quest and as sometimes happens with #1 songs, the record company, Warner Brothers, initially fought its release as a single.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
For still there are so many things/that I have never seen/in every wood in every spring/there is a different green – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Eight songs spent more than one week at #1 on Billboard’s country chart in 1975, none longer than two weeks. This total is about average for the era in country music.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What teams hold the NBA playoff record for fewest points in a game? – Answer next time!
