The Daily Dose/October 5, 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 is a slave to fashion. Today’s Diary.
And, get this, I bought yet another one of those suh-weet quarter-zip pullovers…I am not making that up, this time rolling the green one, to complement the brick red and the blue one purchased recently…These are the perfect additions to the Sparrow Winter Collection (SWC), warm enuff to be a useful layer, but light enuff to be worn on their own when it’s only cool and these puppies will be in heavy rotation until Memorial Day.
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 6 – The race for the ESPNCup continues.
Minutemen shut out until 4th-quarter TD against interns from Akron’s Rubber Studies Institute filling in on final few drives…
A Lutheran school, coaching staff thinking of replacing stern verbal warnings with old Catholic trick of selling indulgences to overlook turnovers, missed blocks.
This Week’s Clash of the Titans:UConn at UMess
Eastern Seaboard Thriller of the Week: UConn at UMess
Up Next On ESPN273,984: UConn at UMess
StubHub Game of the Week:UConn at UMess
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 2011 – Two Chinese ships carrying large amounts of amphetamines are hijacked on the Mekong River on the Laos/Thailand border. The hijackers killed all 13 crew members, dumping the bodies in the river. 15 arrests were made by Thai and Chinese authorities. Eight suspects simply disappeared while four others were convicted and executed on March 1, 2013, and two others were convicted and reprieved from their death sentences. History refers to the incident at the Mekong River Massacre.
In 1921 – The World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time, as the New York Yankees defeated the New York Giants 3-0 in Game 1 at the Polo Grounds. Grantland Rice, then the sports editor at the New York Tribune was the announcer for live coverage on KDKA, Pittsburgh, while WBZ in Springfield, Massachusetts and WJZ, Newark provided a recreation announced by Thomas Cowan. The entire series was played at the Polo Grounds and the Giants won the series 5 games to 3.
In 1959 – The Coasters are at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot R&B Sides chart – for the first of four non-consecutive weeks with Poison Ivy. It was the fourth and final #1 soul song for the group and their sixth and final Top 10 soul hit. The song also peaked at #15 in Great Britain and at #7 on Billboard’s Hot 100. It was the sixth soul #1 song written by the duo of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who also wrote, among other songs, Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock and Stand by Me.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Nature is indifferent to good and bad, virtue and vice, and lets the sun shine indiscriminately upon knaves and saints…there is no need to control instinct and passion, for these are the instructions of nature to men.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol I: Our Oriental Heritage
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
David Bowie’s biggest hit in Great Britain was Ashes to Ashes, which spent two weeks at #1 in 1980. The song peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart and at #21 on their disco chart.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
In what years was the World Series scheduled for the best-of-nine games? – Answer next time!
