The Daily Dose/June 3, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return. It’s OK, nothing’s really going on right now, anyway.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow oversleeps. Today’s Diary.
I could have gotten up earlier, I suppose (see Sleep Log below), but I was determined to see how much sleep there was for me today, a quest that was neither arduous nor unrewarded.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: A Vegas Memoir!: There’s lots of casino romance news today.
And recently I told Rhonda, a pit clerk supervisor, that I had the hots for an assistant casino shift manager named Maggie which, Rhonda being Rhonda, was the same as if I had actually gone up to Maggie and told her this myself. Rhonda is the clearinghouse for casino romance information. In fact, last month she had told me a certain woman had the hots for me, though I couldn’t be bothered to act on it.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1965 – Astronaut Ed White becomes the first American to walk in space. Gemini 4, commanded by James McDivitt, had taken off earlier in the day from Cape Kennedy and the spacewalk came on Gemini’s third orbit. White spent 20 minutes outside the spacecraft, a time limited, in part, by the fact Gemini would soon be entering darkness. White enjoyed his spacewalk enormously, took meaningless pictures to prolong it and said his reentry into the spacecraft was “the saddest moment of my life”. The crew returned to earth on June 7th, America’s first manned, multi-day space mission.
In 1995 – Pedro Martinez of the Montreal Expos becomes the second major league pitcher to take a perfect game into extra innings in a 1-0 win over the San Diego Padres. After the Expos had gotten a run in the top of the 10th, Martinez gives up a double to leadoff batter Bip Roberts, and he’s replaced by Mel Rojas, who gets the final three outs. The first pitcher to take a perfect game into extra innings was Harvey Haddix of the Pittsburgh Pirates who pitched twelve perfect innings in a 1-0, 13 inning loss to the Milwaukee Braves in 1959.
In 1989 – Michael Damian is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Rock On. The song spent 13 weeks in the Top 40, five weeks in the Top 10 and also went to #1 in Canada. It was the first of three Top 40 hits for Damian – who was also starring in the soap opera The Young and the Restless at the time – and remains his only #1 song. The song was written by David Essex, whose own version peaked at #5 on the Hot 100 in 1974.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
They buy ‘em and sell ‘em, and make trade of their heart’s blood, and groans and tears – and God let’s them. – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The NBA’s all-time playoff leader in scoring average is Michael Jordan, who averaged 33.4 points per playoff game.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Who was the first human to walk in space? – Answer next time!
