The Daily Dose/October 7, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for the time being.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is having a great week in the sack. Today’s Diary.
7.0 hours for the nite and 34.0 hours for the day, the highest Thursday total (ThT) since July’s PB 58.0-hour sleep week…God bless all of you.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Due to time constraints, today’s On This Date is from two years ago.
In 1985 – The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt. On Oct 9 the hijackers were allowed to disembark to PLO control and a plane carrying them to Tunis was intercepted by US Air Force jets and forced to land in Italy. The plane was surrounded by Navy SEALS who themselves would later be surrounded by Italian forces. The US would later cede jurisdiction to the Italians and the four were later tried and convicted and sentenced to varying prison terms. All have since been paroled.
In 1956 – Al Carmichael of the Green Bay Packers establishes a new NFL record for the longest kickoff return in a 37-21 loss to the Chicago Bears. Carmichael returned a first-quarter kickoff 106 yards for a touchdown, breaking the record of 104 yards established by Buddy York of the Baltimore Colts in 1953. The record was broken in 2007 by Ellis Hobbs of New England (108 yards) and is now held by Cordarrelle Patterson of the Minnesota Vikings, who had a 109-yard return in 2013.
In 1967 – Jackie Wilson is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart – for the only week with (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. The song also peaked at #6 on the Hot 100 and made the Top 20 of the British pop chart in 1969 and 1987. It was Wilson’s sixth and final #1 song on Billboard’s soul chart and was his sixth Top 10 pop hit. A version by Rita Coolidge peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 in 1977.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…no society is good, whatever its intentions, whatever its utopian and liberationist claims, if the men and women who live in it are not free to speak their minds.
I. F. Stone
The Trial of Socrates
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The NFL record for most field goals missed in a game is six, by Jim Bakken of the St Louis Cardinals on December 11, 1966, a 16-10 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. The following year Bakken established the NFL record for most field goals made in a game with seven, a record that was tied several times and stood for 40 years.
Today’s Stumper
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The Trivia feature will return.
