The Daily Dose/November 7, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

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Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a long drive home. Today’s Diary. 

We pulled out of Waffle Hut around 0730 and didn’t arrive at The Shire until almost 1400, about two hours longer than had there been good weather and good roads…

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On This Date
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In 1916 – A street car smashes through an open drawbridge’s warning gate in Boston, plunging into Fort Point Channel and killing 46 people. Neither the motorman nor the conductor had worked the route before and the motorman, Charles Walsh, was later acquitted of manslaughter charges and the conductor, George McKeon never worked a street car again and was later killed in France in World War I. The car was later returned to service, though many operators refused to work it.

In 2016 – Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors establishes a new NBA record for most 3-pointers in a game in a 116-106 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. Curry had 13 3-pointers, breaking the record of twelve done three times previously, including once by Curry, and is now held by Klay Thompson, who had 14 on October 29, 2018.

In 1960 – Bob Newhart is at #1 on Billboard’s Mono Action Albums chart – a predecessor to the Billboard 200 – for the tenth of 14 consecutive weeks with The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. It was the first of two #1 albums for Newhart, and the album also went to #1 in Canada. The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and Newhart remains the only non-musical artist to win the Best New Artist Grammy. Newhart is one of 21 acts who have topped a Billboard album chart who never hit the Hot 100, and one of four to do it multiple times.

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. III: Caesar to Christ

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

The Michigan Wolverines have won the most college football games with 1,009 through last weekend.  

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Who holds the NCAA record for most 3-pointers made in a game? – Answer next time!

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The Daily Dose/November 5, 2024
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 hits the road for a night. Today’s Diary. 

The fly in the ointment was we forgot our goddamned swimming trunks…We had thought about packing them before leaving for the hotel Monday nite but – as is now customary at our age – we didn’t act on it right then, so we forgot them….

The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 11 – It’s the race for the most coveted trophy in sports, The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy.

Raiders prep for Miami showdown this week by destroying whatever remained of Bengals B-10 chances, ensuring they remain Worst Team Never To Win B-10 title…

Though Jacksonville well within striking distance of even more B-10 glory, owner Genghis Khan still holding coaching staff families hostage until Jaguars have lost at least four (4) straight…

Dolphins earn coveted George Halas Shot Glass as highest-ranked playoff team from previous season in survey…

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On This Date
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In 1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States, defeating John C Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas, earning 180 electoral votes and 40% of the popular vote. Between then and his inauguration on March 4, seven southern states seceded, with the Confederate States of America being formed in February. Lincoln would be reelected in 1864 and assassinated in April 1865, a few days after the end of the Civil War. 

In 1869 – The first college football game is played when Rutgers defeats Princeton 6-4. The game more resembled soccer and rugby, as each team had 25 players and the goal was to kick the ball into the other team’s goal. Princeton won the rematch a week later, with a third game not played due to concerns the students cared more about the game than attending to their studies. The first college game played with 11-man teams and rules resembling today’s game was in 1875 when Tufts beat Harvard 1-0, and Princeton and Rutgers last met in 1980. 

In 1993 – Meat Loaf is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of five consecutive weeks with I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That). The song went to #1 in 15 other countries, including Iceland, Norway, and Great Britain, was Billboard’s 36th-biggest song of 1993, its 38th-biggest of 1994, and their 40th-biggest of the decade. The female vocals were performed by Lorraine Crosby, credited on the record as Mrs Loud, and the song was written and produced by Jim Steinman. The song remains Meat Loaf’s only Top 10 hit. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

They would triumph, or die, as one.
Stephen E Ambrose
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West 

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

Billboard’s #1 country song of 1967 was All the Time by Jack Green, which spent five weeks at #1. 

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Which college football team has won the most games? – Answer next time!

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The Diary of a Nobody/November 4
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 11

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The Daily Dose/November 4, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

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Notes from around the human experience.

USA! USA! Tuesday’s election is not so much a referendum on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, or the Democrats or the Republicans. 

Dry, Technical Matter: No, America is having a referendum on herself. The referendum is will America embrace ignorance, lies, and hatred or are we not going to not  embrace ignorance lies, and hatred. Because that is all that Donald Trump has to offer. It is all he ever had to offer and he should’ve been dismissed from the 2016 race five minutes after he announced his candidacy. 

Fly In The Ointment: Instead, Trump was embraced. First, by a media that long ago stopped reporting and started entertaining, then by an American electorate that is as ignorant as Trump is and long ago began preferring appeasement to accomplishment. 

Now Hear This: This is not an endorsement of Ms Harris because her only quality is that she is not Donald Trump. Given the choice between her and rag mop, we’d find ourselves scratching our chin and wondering what their tax policy might be. 

Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: Donald Trump is a man of no moral or intellectual substance. America has embraced him, which means America is no longer a nation of any moral or intellectual substance. We are embracing mediocrity because we are mediocre ourselves now. 

The Bottom Line: A democracy is only as good as its last election. We should care that Donald Trump lies and admits to grabbing women by the pussy and believes the moon is part of Mars, but we don’t. We’ve already lowered ourselves to Trump’s level once. Tuesday will show if we’re willing to do it again or if we are better  than that. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow goes to the gym. Today’s Diary. 

Workout was strong, tho abbreviated tonite…Officially, we had time for a full workout, but we were in the mood to think we didn’t because we wanted to start packing for our trip…

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On This Date
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In 1847 – Sir James Young Simpson discovers the anesthetic properties of chloroform. Simpson tried it on himself and some friends, with everyone falling asleep and waking the next morning. It’s effectiveness on animals had been demonstrated in 1942, though testing on humans was thought to be risky. Simpson got lucky on the dosage he gave himself – a bit more and he would’ve died, while a bit less would’ve been ineffective. Earlier anesthetics included nitrous oxide and ether. 

In 1998 – The San Jose Sharks establish a new NHL record for fewest shots on goal by a winning team in a 4-0 win over the Dallas Stars. The Sharks had nine shots on goal, research into whose record they broke was inconclusive, the record was tied by the Toronto Maple Leafs in March, and it still stands. 

In 1967 – David Houston is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the first of two consecutive weeks with You Mean the World to Me. It was the eleventh of 36 Top 40 country hits for Houston, his sixth of 21 Top 10s, and his third of six #1s in a chart career that lasted from 1963-89. The song also peaked at #75 on the Hot 100. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

They rode forth to battle without a flag except that flown by their own courage.
Louis L’Amour
The Lonesome Gods

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

Franklin Roosevelt had three vice presidents: John Nance Garner, Henry A Wallace, and Harry S Truman. 

Today’s Stumper
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What was Billboard’s #1 country song of 1967? – Answer next time!

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