The Daily Dose/October 24, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s doing some fine dining later this week. Today’s Diary.
The big news is they have a special six-course tasting menu right now and the even bigger news is they are offering a wine pairing with it!!!…I am not making that up…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1960 – An explosion in a Soviet ICBM that was being readied for a test explodes in what is now Kazakhstan. The explosion killed between an estimated 100 and 300 people, though no one knows for sure. The explosion was caused by a short circuit in the missile which caused the second-stage engine to explode. The first reports of the explosion were by the Italians in December and the Soviet government did not acknowledge the explosion until 1989. History refers to the incident at the Nedelin Catastrophe.
In 1959 – Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors makes his NBA debut and begins an NBA-record streak of consecutive games played without fouling out in a 118-109 win over the New York Knicks. Chamberlain would play his entire career of 1,045 games without disqualification, a record that was later broken by Moses Malone and Mark Jackson and is now held by Jamal Crawford with 1,327
In 1942 –The Billboard soul chart – then known as the Harlem Hit Parade – debuts with Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy at #1 for the only week with Take It and Git. The chart tracked songs that were popular in Harlem jukeboxes and Billboard would debut a best-sellers chart in 1948, an airplay chart in 1955, and its first unified soul chart in 1958. Today the chart is known as the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and the current #1 song is Bad Habit by Steve Lacy, now in its seventh week at #1. It is also in its third week at #1 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Men under the influence of interest or passion often delude themselves thoughtlessly and do not always acknowledge even to themselves the motives upon which they really act.
Roger Taney
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The St Louis Browns (American Association) and the New York Giants (National League) each won two 19th-century World Series.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What NBA player holds the record for most disqualifications in a career? – Answer next time!
