The Daily Dose/November 12, 2021
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for now.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the county building, the Building Department is both shorthanded and busy. Today’s Diary.
Mike: Sparrow, you wanna return some calls???
Sparrow: Me???…I know nothing about building or buildings.
Malia, shaking her head dismissively: We can work with that…Just tell everybody no.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1927 – The Holland Tunnel, running under the Hudson River and connecting New York City with New Jersey, opens. Construction had begun in October 1920 and the two sides of the tunnels connected in October 1924 and the tunnel is ventilated by four towers and 84 fans – 42 intake, 42 exhaust – which can replace air within the tunnel in 90 seconds. The toll was 25 cents, charged both ways, until 1970 and today is $16, charged heading into New York City.
In 1875 – Harvard and Yale meet in football – a rivalry simply known as The Game – for the first time, with Harvard winning 4-0 in a game played at Hamilton Park, a bit north of where the Yale Bowl now stands. Like most games of the era, it was a combination of soccer and rugby and featured 15 players to a side and remains the first game where both teams wore coordinated uniforms. Yale leads the series 68-60-8 and the 2021 game will be played at Yale on Nov 20.
In 1982 – Marvin Gaye is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Black Singles chart – for the second of ten consecutive weeks with Sexual Healing, the 14th and final #1 soul song for Gaye. The song also peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 and at #4 in Great Britain and due to when it charted was Billboard’s biggest soul song of 1983. Gaye was shot to death by his father in the family’s Los Angeles home in 1984, a crime his father served a 6-year suspended sentence and probation for.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I balanced sometimes between principle and inclination…So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s #1 song of 1955 was Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White by Perez Prado, which spent ten weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What is the longest winning streak in the Harvard/Yale football series? – Answer next time!
