The Daily Dose/July 15, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Note from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: There is something going on at the abandoned diner. Today’s Diary.
The big news is something is actually happening at the abandoned diner…Recall, we reported here there was a sign saying a skate park and “hangout place” was going in…Exactly how in the hell you get a skate park inside an old, not-particularly-large diner has never been clear and they seemed to be having some logistical problems trying to get a ramp in one of the doors…It was kind of funny, actually…There were several youngsters milling about on the sidewalk, more than one with arms crossed in front their chests indicating annoyance, one guy was on the phone pacing back and forth and another was working a tape measure on the ramp.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon accepts a matching bra as an acceptable form of ID.
Her drivers’ license is with some friends at Bellagio, she reports. She pulls a t-shirt out of her suitcase, which is on the bed, and when she tells me what is on the t-shirt I am ready to declare this whole episode code four when she throws the t-shirt aside and pulls up the front of her dress.
The front of her thong is brown with white polka dots. Then, in a move so brilliant it would’ve had Reid and Malloy literally and figuratively sporting wood from here to Reno, she pulls the matching bra out of the suitcase!
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1815 – Deposed French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to British Royal Navy Captain Frederick Maitland on board HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort, France. The British transported Napoleon to Saint Helena Island in the south Atlantic, where he remained in exile for the rest of his life, dying in May 1821. The cause of Napoleon’s death has been subject to some debate. The official autopsy stated stomach cancer, however the presiding physician declined to sign the official report and other causes, including the effects of his damp living conditions and arsenic poisoning, have been advanced over the centuries.
In 2007 – The Philadelphia Phillies become the first major league team to lose 10,000 games in a 10-2 loss to the St Louis Cardinals. Since then the Phillies have lost 1,000 more games, their 11,000 losses still the most in the major leagues and their .472 win percentage (9,825-11,000-115) is the lowest of any non-expansion team. Since then the Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and St Louis Cardinals have also lost their 10,000th game. The Phillies’ first loss came on May 1, 1883, 4-3 to the Providence Grays.
In 1967 – Jack Greene is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the fifth and final week with All The Time. It was the second of five #1 country songs for Greene and his second of nine consecutive Top 10 hits. Like no small number of singers of the era, Green got his start in radio, at WGAP in Maryville, Tennessee, his hometown. The song had originally appeared on Billboard’s country chart in 1959 when Kitty Wells took it to #18.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Oh, what low joke was Fortuna playing on him now? Arrest, accident, job! Where would this dreadful cycle ever end? – John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Garth Brooks’ biggest hits on Billboard’s country chart are What’s She Doing Now and Friends In Low Places, both of which spent four weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many National League pennants did the Providence Grays win? – Answer next time!
