The Daily Dose/February 25, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off continues to run intermittently while we work on a couple of projects. Thank you for understanding.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the gym, Sparrow gets to bench press. Today’s Diary.
This is rare for Thursday because the gym is very busy from the get-go and usually some broad has the Smith machine occupied but she was off doing other things today and the Smith machine was wide open.
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 1933 – The USS Ranger (CV-4), the US Navy’s first ship built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier, is launched at Newport News, Virginia, the eighth of nine US Navy ships to bear the name. Ranger would be commissioned in June 1934, served until 1946 when she was sold for scrap. America’s first aircraft carrier, the USS Langley, had originally been a collier, a ship used to transport coal.
In 1978 – The Montreal Canadiens NHL record 28-game unbeaten streak comes to an end in a 6-3 loss to the New York Rangers. The Canadiens had gone 23-0-5 during the streak, had broken the mark of 23 established by the 1940-41 Boston Bruins, and the record is now 35, done by the 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers. Rangers goalie Hardy Ashtrom, just called up from the minors, made 29 saves in his NHL debut.
In 1978 – The Bee Gees and other artists are at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the sixth of 24 consecutive weeks with the soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night Fever. The album went to #1 in numerous countries including Japan, Norway, and Great Britain, was Billboard’s biggest album of the year, its 27th-biggest of 1979, and was in its second of five consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul album chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Pope Gregory XII had one child, a son named Giacomo Boncompagni (1548-1612).
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many acts contributed songs to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack? – Answer next time!
