The Daily Dose/September 8, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is appearing intermittently while we work on another reader-depleting project.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow makes one of his famous tough calls. Today’s Dairy.
Regular readers of this crap are aware of my raw powers as nite auditor: I am empowered, even expected, to make this decision; no member of management is expecting a call from me on this one so, after staring at morning coffee service in my usual fashion – crossly with my hands on my hips – yours truly decides to toss the old stirrers and start fresh with the new, larger ones.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 2 – The Interregnum Poll – It’s the American classic, necessitated by the pros starting a week later than the colleges, as always featuring The Jim Hanifan Memorial Medallion – symbolic of NFL preseason ineptitude – plus the usual witless social commentary the country has come to know and tolerate. – The Bottom Ten is free through the Week 3 surveys.
8. Interregnum – Archaic word that usually describes a gap in something, makes only US appearance outside of time between presidential election, inauguration…From Latin ‘inter” (among, between) and ‘regnum’ (reign)…B-10 pollsters “pretty sure” knowledge of this sort is why they don’t get too many dates.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1923 – Nine US Navy destroyers run aground on the California coast north of Santa Barbara, with seven of the ships sinking and 23 sailors dying. The ships were part of a 14-ship flotilla going from San Francisco to San Diego and were traveling in foggy conditions and had not had a fixed position for over ten hours. History refers to the incident as the Honda Point Disaster and it remains the largest peacetime loss of US Navy ships.
In 1973 – Margaret Court of Australia wins the US Open tennis tournament, defeating Evonne Goolagong 7-6, 5-7, 6-2. For Court, it was her fifth US Open title and her 24th Grand Slam singles title – a total that includes both Open era and pre-Open era wins – a total that remains a record for both genders. Court also won 19 Grand Slam doubles titles and 21 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and her 64 combined Grand Slam titles are also a record for both genders.
In 1979 – The Knack is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the third of six consecutive weeks with My Sharona. It was the first chart single for the group, their first of three Top 40 hits and remains their only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in Australia and Canada and peaked at #6 in Great Britain. It was Billboard’s biggest song of the year, its 15th biggest of the decade and ranked 95th on their 60th Anniversary Hot 100 in 2018. The song re-entered the Hot 100 in 1994, peaking at #91.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
No one who has not experienced it could imagine the boundless exhaustion and enervation produced by being constantly face to face with oneself.
Ernst Weiss
Georg Letham, Physician and Murderer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Vincent Matthews of the US won two Olympic gold medals: 4×400-meter relay at Mexico City in 1968 and the 400-meters at Munich in 1972.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many times did Margaret Court finish second in the US Open? – Answer next time!
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