The Daily Dose/July 27, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Friends, Leading Off will be running intermittently for a while.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Someone is farting around with how Sparrow stocks Push-Ups at the hotel’s sundry stand. Today’s Diary.
Now, someone is changing the way yours truly stocks Push-Ups in the sundry stand freezer.
I am not making that up…Lately, they’ve been sharing space on the bottom shelf, in the middle of the original Klondike bars and those frozen Reese’s ice cream sandwiches and they’ve been laid out so the ice cream (or whatever the heck a Push-Up is, I’ve long forgotten) is facing the front on the fairly logical assumption someone might actually want to see what is for sale.
Someone – typically, there are no suspects – turned them around, so the stick is at the front…This makes some zero sense…Your goal in displaying items you have for sale is to make them appealing to the eye at first glance, and what can possibly be appealing about a stick???…I don’t understand this at all and, of course, I switched them back this morning.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1996 – A pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park at the Atlanta Summer Games, killing two and injuring 111 others. There had been a 911 call 18 minutes before and the bomb was discovered by a security officer beneath a bench and the bomb exploded during the evacuation. Eric Rudolph would not be arrested until five years later after being linked to other bombings. Rudolph pleaded guilty, received consecutive life terms and today is housed at the federal Supermax prison in Colorado.
In 1937 – The United States defeats Great Britain in the Davis Cup final 4 matches to 1 at Centre Court at the All England Club at Wimbledon. The US team consisted of Don Budge, Bryan Grant, and Gene Mako, and it was eleventh of 32 Davis Cup titles for the Americans. Earlier, the US had defeated Nazi Germany in the Inter-Zonal Final, while Britain, as defending champion, was automatically entered in the final round. This would be Great Britain’s last appearance in a Davis Cup final until 1978.
In 1940 – Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers are at #1 on the Billboard’s National Best Selling Retail Records chart with I’ll Never Smile Again, the first #1 song on the first Billboard chart. The song spent twelve weeks at the top, a record that would be tied twice and not broken until 1950. Billboard introduced its soul chart in 1942, the country chart in 1944 and the Hot 100 in 1958. Billboard magazine was first published in Cincinnati in 1894, dedicated to billboard advertising.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
To defeat them, almost anything was fair game. To lull your opponents into underestimating you was the art of a winning gamble.
Evan Thomas
Ike’s Bluff
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first postage stamps in the US were issued in 1847, five and ten cent stamps featuring Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.
Today’s Stumper
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How many countries that no longer exist have won the Davis Cup? – Answer next time!
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