The Daily Dose/August 30, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for the time being while we work on a project.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow fields several phone calls from folks looking to get a room. Today’s Diary.
Boy, the whole town was in heat tonight, as ol’ Sparrow fielded numerous calls from people plainly looking for a place to score…They were all told the same thing: $150, plus tax.
It was funny because after you advised them of the expense involved in getting some invariably there’s silence as an immediate cost/benefit study is conducted and you could almost see them looking their potential mate up and down, determining if the dividend would merit the investment and two of them decided yes indeedy, the expense was justified.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1963 – The hotline between Washington and Moscow goes into operation. Although sometimes thought to be a telephone, it initially was a Teletype machine, then later became fax machines and is now a secure email setup that primarily utilizes satellite technology with a fiber optic cable as a backup. A similar hotline between Washington and Beijing was established in 2007.
In 1987 – Gino Petralli of the Texas Rangers sets the American League record and ties the modern major league record for most passed balls in a game in a 7-0 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Catching knuckleball pitcher Charlie Hough, Petralli had six passed balls to tie the mark established by Rube Vickers of the Cincinnati Reds in 1902, a mark equaled in 1996 by Jerry Goff of the Houston Astros. The all-time major league record is 12, done in 1887 by Alex Gardner of the Washington Statesmen (American Association) in his only major league game.
In 1975 – The Rolling Stones are at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the sixth of seven consecutive weeks with Emotional Rescue. It was the eighth of nine – and seventh consecutive – #1 albums for the group and was their 16th of 37 Top 10 albums, a figure that includes compilation and live albums and which is an all-time Billboard 200 record. The album produced two Top 40 hits, including the title track which peaked at #3 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens (1882-1950)
Irish poet
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The calendar year with the fewest #1 songs on a Billboard pop, country or soul chart is 1954, when the Best Sellers country chart had four #1 songs.
Today’s Stumper
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