The Daily Dose/June 1, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
VIVA LAS VEGAS: Starting today we are making our hilarious memoir Backstairs at the Monte Carlo available in daily post format, just like The Diary of a Nobody. Some of you have already enjoyed the ebook here at the site and it is almost interesting to note your ebook purchase will entitle you to read the daily entries. Those who have Forever & Ever Access will, too.
Dry, Technical Matter: Backstairs at the Monte Carlo is a diary/memoir of my time working security at what was then the Monte Carlo on the Las Vegas Strip and covers about 15 months, starting in July 2004 and continuing up until I was promoted to supervisor. Everyone is identified by either their first or last name or a nickname and everything happened. There are no composite characters or made-up elements and while there have been some minor formatting changes, everything runs as it appears in the ebook. It was the first job I’d had in several years, having spent the previous time sports officiating. It was a lot of fun and I know you will enjoy reading about it.
Dry, Technical Matter: Stealing a trick from the drug dealers, the first week of entries are on the house. After this gets you addicted, $5.99 will get you access to both Backstairs at the Monte Carlo AND The Diary of a Nobody, an incredible offer, don’t bother to deny it.
The Bottom Line: So go, scoot and clock-in with the misfits on the graveyard crew of the Monte Carlo Security Department. You’ll enjoy it as much as we did.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Editor’s Note: Read Free Week begins, with both The Diary of a Nobody and Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: A Vegas Memoir on the house this week. Enjoy.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow takes his temperature at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
I looked at it for a second, turned it over and then came up with the bright idea of putting it to my cheek and pressing the button where a trigger would normally be and a couple of seconds later there was another beep and the display in the read 97.2 and I gathered that was my temperature and duly logged it in the appropriate place.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon and his trainee X-Ray break up a bachelorette hot tub party.
The pretty brunette asks if they were making too much noise and I purse my lips and nod solemnly to signify the heinous nature of their crime; X-Ray stands by pretending to look stern, which he’s pretty good at.
“Are these the strippers?!” a girl in the hot tub asks.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1962 – Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi mainly responsible for organizing German concentration camps during World War II, is executed by hanging in Israel. Eichmann had been convicted in Israeli court the previous December on 15 counts of war crimes and his appeal – which focused mainly on Israeli jurisdiction and the laws he was charged under – was denied, as was clemency. Eichmann had been captured in Argentina by Israeli agents in May 1960, after his son began bragging about his dad’s Nazi exploits to a girl he was dating. Eichmann was cremated, his ashes scattered in international waters in the Mediterranian Sea.
In 2009 – The New York Yankees establish a new major record for most consecutive errorless games in a season in a 5-2 win over the Cleveland Indians. It was the 18th consecutive errorless game for New York, breaking the record of 17 established by the 2006 Boston Red Sox and the streak ended the following night on a throwing error by catcher Jorge Posada. The Yankees went `14-4 during the streak and the record still stands.
In 1959 – Johnny Horton is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of six consecutive weeks with The Battle of New Orleans. It was Horton’s first of three Top 40 hits and remains his only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in Canada and Australia and was also in its third of ten consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s country chart. The Battle of New Orleans was Billboard’s biggest song of the year, it’s second biggest of the decade (the Hot 100 first appeared in 1958) and ranked 37th on Billboard’s 60th Anniversary Hot 100 in 2018, the second-biggest country song in the survey.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…the cards don’t play themselves. – Deng Ming-Dao
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The first act with two forms of punctuation in their name to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 was ? & the Mysterians, who hit the top with 96 Tears in 1968.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What was the highest-ranking country song on Billboard’s 60th Anniversary Hot 100? – Answer next time!
