The Daily Dose/October 7, 2021
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 has to make a change to his Thanksgiving vacation plans. Today’s Diary.
A lady with an English accent answers, her tone filled with glee at the prospect of helping me, one hell of a customer service technique…She asks for my name and trip number and in short order she has my itinerary in front of her…She’s obviously reviewing it and then notes everything appeared to be in order “this end” and what, pray tell, did I need help with???…With typical English aplomb, she was making everything sound like a Francis Bacon quote.
Well, with typical Sparrow grace I informed her yours truly was in possession of an email from Frontier advising the flight from the big city to Louisville had been canceled and what options did I have???…The lady tapped some keys and then apologized profusely and said that Priceline had yet to be notified of the cancelation…I could cancel the entire trip and rebook, but, oh pish, dreaded fees would be involved and how about I call Frontier directly and see what could be done, perhaps a frightful mess could be avoided.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1959 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 becomes the first spacecraft to return pictures of the far side of the moon, taking 29 pictures in about 40 minutes. The film was developed on board and converted to an electric signal and sent to Earth by a process similar to a fax. The camera was fixed on the spacecraft, meaning Luna 2 had to be maneuvered to get the camera into the desired position. Luna 3 had been launched two days earlier and had a closest point of approach to the moon of 3,900 miles.
In 1904 – Jack Chesbro of the New York Highlanders becomes the first pitcher in modern major league history to finish a season with at least 40 wins in a 3-2 win over the Boston Americans. Chesbro pitched a complete for his 41st victory of the season and had broken Cy Young’s modern major league record of 33 wins in 1901 on Sept 14. The all-time major league record for wins in a season is 60, by Hoss Radburn of the Providence Grays (National League) in 1884.
In 1978 – Boston is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the second and final non-consecutive week with Don’t Look Back. It was the first of two #1 albums for the group and the song yielded three chart singles, including the title track which peaked at #4 on the Hot 100, and Don’t Look Back was Billboard’s second-biggest album of the year. The album marked the beginning of a long legal fight between Boston and Epic Records resulting in an 8-year gap until their next album, a fight ultimately won by the group.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on…the cold mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Hey Jude by the Beatles last appeared on the British singles chart in 2010, peaking at #40. Its last appearance on a Billboard chart was in 2019 when it peaked at #16 on the Hot Rock and Alternative Tracks chart.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who is the only other major league pitcher to win at least 40 games in a season since 1900? – Answer next time!
