The Daily Dose/August 15, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return. Promise.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Hardly for the first time, Sparrow declines to get involved with a bear. Today’s Diary.
The lesson here – outside of nite auditors being ‘fraidy cats – is not to keep food in your vehicle because bears aren’t looking for CDs or cosmetics; they’re looking for food…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1096 – The first of what History refers to as the Crusades begins when crusaders from Europe leave to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule. The crusade had been inspired by a November 1095 speech by Pope Urban II and the crusaders reached and retook Jerusalem in 1099, though Urban died before word could reach him. In addition to Jerusalem, the First Crusade yielded three other states in the Holy Land and the Crusades would continue until 1291.
In 1948 – Babe Zaharias wins the US Women’s Open golf tournament, shooting a final round 78 to beat Betty Hicks by eight strokes at the Atlantic City Country Club in New Jersey. It was the first of three US Open titles for Zaharis and her fifth of ten major titles in an era when the Western Open and Titleholders Championship were also majors. At the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, as Babe Didrikson, she won gold medals in the 80-meter hurdles and the javelin, and a silver medal in the high jump and remains the only Olympian to win running, throwing, and jumping medals.
In 1960 – Hank Locklin is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Sides chart – for the 14th and final consecutive week with Please Help Me, I’m Falling. It was the seventh of 28 country hits for Locklin and his second and final #1. The song also peaked at #8 on the Hot 100 and at #9 in Great Britain. It was the third of five #1 songs on the country chart that year, the smallest number of #1s until 2018, when there were three.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Where was all this infinitesimal matter before it was set in motion by mind?/Everywhere./No real answer./Perhaps no real question.
Gore Vidal
Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
There were roughly 69.8 million Social Security recipients in 2020.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When was the last time the 80-meter hurdles were run at the Olympics? – Answer next time!
