The Daily Dose/February 28, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return. We are working on a couple of projects right now.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has the latest on the growing out of his hair. Today’s Diary.
The big news is, and I am not making this up, the flowing locks are no longer standing straight up on the top of my head; they are – finally – responding to the forces of both gravity and Brylcreem and are combing strait back…Yours truly should probably go to a barber and get the back trimmed, but I can’t see the back, so what the hell.
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 1993 – The 51- day standoff between Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) agents and members of the Branch Davidians begins near Waco, Texas after ATF agents attempted to execute a search warrant stemming from suspected sexual abuse and the storing of illegal weapons at their compound. The initial raid resulted in the death of four agents and five sect members and ended on April 19, with the death of 76 more Davidians. The Branch Davidians still exist, in two sects.
In 1981 – Calvin Murphy of the Houston Rockets makes the final free throw in his NBA record streak of 78 consecutive in a 104-103 loss to the San Diego Clippers. Murphy had broken the record of 60 straight established by Rick Barry of the Golden State Warriors in 1976-77 on February 19. The record was broken by Michael Williams of the Minnesota Timberwolves, who made 97 straight free throws over the course of the 1991-92 and 1992-93 seasons, a record which still stands.
In 1953 – Teresa Brewer is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Seller in Stores chart – a predecessor to the Hot 100 – for the third of four consecutive weeks with I’ll Waltz Again With You. It was the second and final #1 pop song for Brewer, one of 44 hits she had on various pop charts of the era and over her 50-year career, Brewer recorded almost 600 songs in a variety of genres. The song also went to #1 on Billboard’s Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes pop charts.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
You must live your life for something more important than your life alone. One who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life’s mountaintop experiences.
Richard Nixon
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The all-time NBA record for the lowest-scoring game is 27, when the Fort Wayne Pistons defeated the Minneapolis Lakers 19-18 on November 22, 1950.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Whose record for most consecutive free throws made did Rick Barry break? – Answer next time!
