The Daily Dose/July 17, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Note from around the human experience.
Leading Off is enjoying some PTO.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has found a tasty, new chicken salad. Today’s Diary.
The retailer has a really good new chicken salad…I saw it at the one in town last week and there are actually two types: rotisserie flavored and my favorite, the one with cranberries and pecans and whatnot in it…It makes a great sandwich and I’m even keeping some at the Veterans Service Office (VSO)…It costs about $4 and I got three sandwiches out of the small tub so it’s a pretty good value…They’re in the deli at the retailer in the next county and I actually had to ask some hapless employee where they were and he took me right to them.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon will soon be packing heat.
The big news is I am finally going to get armed. MCSD is getting new guns. The old ones, which are still used by outside units, are some sort of revolver and the new ones are semi-autos or Uzis or something like that. I don’t really know that much about guns, but I’m going to be packing one anyway.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1996 – TWA Flight 800 – service from New York City to Rome via Paris – explodes 12 minutes after takeoff from John F Kennedy International Airport. After the usual suspicions about it being a terrorist attack subsided, a federal investigation determined the explosion was likely caused by a fuel tank explosion caused by a short circuit. All 230 people on board died and this remains the third-deadliest aviation accident in US history.
In 1976 – The Montreal Summer Olympics begin. The Games featured 92 countries and 6,084 athletes and the Games were opened by Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of Canada. Among the competitors were Princess Anne of Great Britain, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Taro Aso, a future prime minister of Japan. Women competed in basketball, team handball and rowing for the first time and Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, the Cayman Islands and Papua New Guinea all participated in their Summer Games.
In 1965 – The Rolling Stones are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second of four consecutive weeks with (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. The song went to #1 in seven other countries, including Norway, Austria and Great Britain and was Billboard’s third-biggest song of the year. It was the sixth Top 40 hit for the group, their third of 23 Top 10 hits and their first of eight #1 songs. It ranked 346th on Billboard’s 60th Anniversary Hot 100 in 2018.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
If you were born in an orange box, would that make you an orange? – Len Deighton, Spy Hook
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Shaun Cassidy’s mother is Shirley Jones who, as part of the Partridge Family, spent three weeks at #1 in 1970 with I Think I Love You.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What was the Rolling Stones’ last Top 40 hit in America? – Answer next time!
