The Daily Dose/October 11, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently while we work on a project.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow gets off a moderately funny line. Today’s Diary.
Right after that a guy my age comes up and starts prattling about what a wonderful dinner he had at one of the 500 breweries downtown…Despite his rave reviews – and still plainly a growing boy – he was scanning the sundry stand and ends up bringing pizza and Tums up to the counter.
“Sir, aren’t you sending mixed signals, here???…Pizza and a heartburn remedy???”
He laffed and said no, the pizza was for him and the Tums for his son.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1987 – The AIDS quilt is first displayed, at a Washington, D.C. march for gay and lesbian rights. The quilt had its origins in 1985, when an activist at an AIDS march asked marchers to write the name of someone who had died of AIDS on a placard, which were later taped to the San Francisco federal building. Today the quilt, with nearly 50,000 panels and weighing 54 tons, is too big for one display, though portions are on display in San Francisco while some tour the country.
In 2020 – The Los Angeles Lakers tie the NBA record for most titles won, winning the NBA Finals with a 106-93 win over the Miami Heat in Game 6, played in Orlando. It was the 17th NBA title for the Lakers, equaling the mark established by the Boston Celtics, who had won their 17th NBA title in 2008. The Lakers, then in Minneapolis, won their first NBA title in 1949 and are 17-15 in the Finals, their 32 appearances also an NBA record.
In 1952 – Jo Stafford is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – a predecessor to the Hot 100 – for the fifth and final consecutive week with You Belong to Me. It was the fourth of five #1 songs on a Billboard pop chart for Stafford and her 26th of 41 Top 10 hits. The song also went to #1 in Great Britain, where it was the second #1 hit on the British chart and the first by a woman. Her 102nd and final appearance on a Billboard chart came in 1957, when Wind in the Willow peaked at #53 on the Top 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…by taking so much for the state, you reduce everyone’s ability to create more wealth. Even the bandit in the forest never takes more than two-thirds of the merchant’s caravan…so that there will always be something for him to steal.
Gore Vidal
Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The lowest toll charged to transit the Panama Canal came in in 1928 when 36 cents (a bit less than $6 in today’s money) was charged to Richard Halliburton to swim the canal.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was the first #1 song on the British charts? – Answer next time!
