The Daily Dose/July 8, 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: Sparrow continues to keep an eye out for chances to use his new knife. Today’s Diary.
I’m keeping a close eye on the box of coffee in the back coffee room…Recall it was changed out last week on my nights off, depriving me of the opportunity to use my new knife to cut it open and slice off the tops…Occupancy, of course, has been up lately and we’re using more coffee and already the current box is running low…It really would have been poor form to change it tonight but tomorrow will be whole ‘nother ballgame and even if it isn’t in dire need of being switched out I’m probably going to change it anyway because it will definitely be changed on my nights off and I want to get the knife some work.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: A houseman thinks Gaylon is lazy.
He gives me a lot of crap because every time he sees me I am sitting down. When I enter the 27th-floor maid’s room Arthur is there working.
“Good,” I said. “You’re working. I like watching you work.”
“You like watching me work cause you don’t work.”
“Shut up and leave me alone,” I said, getting comfortable and picking the day’s paper, which happened to be sitting on the desk. “I want to read the paper.”
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1709 – Russian forces under Tsar Peter the Great defeat Sweedish troops commanded by King Charles XII in the Battle of Poltava in what is now the Ukraine. The battle marked the start of the rise of Russia and the decline of Sweden as major European powers. Despite this, however, Russia did not defeat Sweden in the Great Northern War until 1721.
In 2005 – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) votes to drop both baseball and softball from the Olympic program. Baseball had been a demonstration sport on occasion since 1904 and became a full medal sport in 1992 while softball debuted in 1996. They were the first Olympic sports to be dropped since polo in the 1930s, though both are scheduled to return for the Tokyo Games.
In 1983 – The Police are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of eight consecutive weeks with Every Breath You Take. The song went to #1 in five other countries, including Israel and Great Britain. It was Billboard’s biggest song of the year, its fifth biggest of the decade and ranked 31st on Billboard’s 60th-Anniversary Hot 100 in 2018. In was their sixth of nine Top 40 hits in the US and remains their only #1 song. The song also won Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing. – Gore Vidal, Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Martina Navratilova won 20 Wimbledon titles in her career: nine singles, seven doubles and four mixed doubles.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many #1 songs have the Police had in their native Great Britain? – Answer next time!
