The Daily Dose/October 31, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a good day in the sack. Today’s Diary.
We were as surprised as you might be…Regular readers of this crap know we’re usually up until early afternoon or so on Sunday, but not today…We were yawning shortly after retiring to the chair for reading and we appeared to fall asleep quickly.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1941 – Mount Rushmore – a national monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota – is completed after 14 years of construction. The monument consists of 60-foot-high sculptures of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, selected by the project’s leader, American sculptor Gutzon Borglum. A lack of funding prevented the original plan, the presidents depicted from the waist up, from being completed and the last carver from the project died in 2019.
In 1943 – Sammy Baugh of the Washington Redskins establish a new NFL record for most touchdown passes in a game in a 48-10 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Baugh threw for six touchdowns to break the record of five that had been done twice previously and the record was broken two weeks later by Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears who had seven and the mark has been tied several times since. The Dodgers left the NFL after the 1944 season.
1960 – The Drifters are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second of three non-consecutive weeks with Save the Last Dance For Me. The song was also in its only week at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart and also went to #1 in New Zealand and South Africa, peaked at #2 in Great Britain and remains their only #1 song. In 1984 a version of the song by Dolly Parton peaked at #4 on Billboard’s country chart, making Save the Last Dance For Me one of the few songs to chart on all three of Billboard’s major singles charts.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The hasty stroke goes oft astray.
J.R.R Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Al Spalding – later founder of the sporting goods company that still bears his name – led the National Association in wins in 1871 with 19. He later pitched two seasons with the Chicago White Stockings – now the Cubs – in the National League and had a 47-12 record.
Today’s Stumper
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How did Mount Rushmore get its name? – Answer next time!
