The Daily Dose/February 26, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off continues to run intermittently while we work on a couple of projects. Thank you for understanding.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s back in the gym. Today’s Diary.
…and tho the Smith machine was available, yours truly didn’t bench, preferring to use the cable chest machine because boy, there was an awful lot of testosterone working in that area and even tho I can move some decent weight, I thought it best to avoid utter humiliation and avoided the area.
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 1909 – The first successful color motion picture process, known as Kinemacolor, makes its public debut at the Palace Theater in London. The film was an eight-minute short called A Visit to the Seaside, which had debuted at a trade show the year before. The process involved projecting a black-and-white film behind alternating red and green filters and Kinemacolor would be replaced by Technicolor in 1916.
In 1981 – The Minnesota North Stars and Boston Bruins establish new NHL records for most penalties in a game by both one team and both teams in a 5-1 Bruins victory. Each team had a record 42 penalties to break the single team mark of 38 established by the Philadelphia Flyers in February 1980 and the 84 total penalties broke the record of 64 established by the Bruins and Colorado Rockies in January. The 406 penalty minutes were an NHL record, too, and all three marks have since been broken.
In 1983 – Patti Austin and James Ingram are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second and final consecutive week with Baby, Come to Me. The song also peaked at #11 in Great Britain, at #9 on Billboard’s soul chart, was their 8th-biggest song of the year and their 11th-biggest soul song of 1983. It remains the only Top 40 hit for Austin and was the first of two #1 songs for Ingram. The year before the song had spent four weeks on the Hot 100, peaking at #73, making it one of the few songs to go to #1 in its second chart run.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Philosophy directs us first to seek the goods of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied, or not much wanted.
Francis Bacon
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Ten acts, including the Bee Gees, had at least one song on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Which player holds the record for most penalties in an NHL game? – Answer next time!
