The Daily Dose/October 29, 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 reports for some pre-physical blood work. Today’s Diary.
We presented ourselves there and ol’ Sparrow announced he was ready to take his urine test right now and the nurse hustled me into the room and we told we weren’t kidding and requested to take it forthwith and she scanned the paperwork Dr D had sent in and she announced – and this is an Upset of the Year candidate – that Dr D had not requested a urine test!!!…I am not making that up…Gee whiz – so to speak – the best-laid plans and all that…We still had to go tho…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1901 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, is executed at Auburn State Prison in central New York. Czolgosz was electrocuted with three jolts of 1,800 volts each a mere 54 days after he’d shot McKinley in Buffalo and 46 days after he’d died. Czolgosz was originally from Detroit and was a steelworker by trade and an avowed anarchist. An autopsy showed Czolgosz had a normal brain, bad teeth and a case of the clap.
In 1950 – Marion Motley of the Cleveland Browns establishes a new NFL record for the highest rushing average in a game in a 45-7 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Motley rushed for 188 yards on 11 carries – including rushing touchdowns of 33 and 69 yards – for an average of 17.09 yards-per-carry (ypc), breaking the record of 16.7 ypc established by Billy Grimes of Green Bay three weeks earlier. The record is now 17.30 ypc done by Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons in 2002. The record is based on a minimum of ten rushing attempts.
In 1983 – Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the first of two consecutive weeks with Islands in the Stream. It was the second and final #1 song on the Hot 100 for both Rogers and Parton and their 12th and 13th #1 country hits respectively. The song also went to #1 in Canada, Austria, and Australia, peaked at #7 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s #1 country hit of the year and due to when it charted was Billboard’s 56th-biggest hit of 1984. The song was written by the Bee Gees.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…that was rather too much money to be lost for a principle; and so, after much considering, and asking advice from those he knew would advise to suit him…
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The head of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis was Nikita Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who holds the NFL record for the highest rushing average in a career? – Answer next time!
