The Daily Dose/October 8, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for the time being.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow gets his usual Friday soak in. Today’s Diary.
The Friday Biddies and another old guy who’s been there the past few Fridays were in my fave hot spring when we reported for soaking duty…His name is George and he’s getting up there in years, too, and apparently, they’ve all known each other for years and have been going to the same church since the Reformation because they are always chatting about church business…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1967 – Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara is captured by Bolivian troops in south-central Bolivia. Guevara was in Bolivia to support a revoltuion with a guerrilla army and his location had been betrayed by an informant. Guevara was tied up and taken to a local schoolhouse where he was executed the following day, though his executioner had initially shot him in the arms and legs, before finally killing him with shots to the chest and throat. Guevara had arrived in Bolivia the previous November.
In 1983 – The NHL has a regular season game won in overtime for the first time since 1942 when the New York Islanders defeat the Washington Capitals 8-7. Over the summer, the NHL announced there would be a five-minute, sudden-death overtime period for tie games, a change to their previous overtime rule, which called for a ten-minute, non-sudden death overtime period. The NHL adopted the shootout in the 2005-06 season and in the 2015-16 season began playing the overtime period with three skaters on a side.
In 1988 – Guns N’ Roses is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the fourth of five non-consecutive weeks with Appetite for Destruction. It was the first of eight chart albums for the group and their first of two #1s. The album also went to #1 in New Zealand, peaked at #5 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 6th-biggest album of the year, it’s 5th-biggest of 1989, its 166th-biggest of 2020, and the album eventually would sell over 18 million copies – the seventh-biggest selling album in US history. The album produced three Top 40 hits, including the #1 Sweet Child o’ Mine.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Without free speech, oratory became mere wind.
I. F. Stone
The Trial of Socrates
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
There wasn’t a Trivia question last time, silly.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Che Guevara held two posts under Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba. What were they? – Answer next time!
