The Daily Dose/November 27, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. NCAA Division I Football Playoff – You know, folks, a 32-team NCAA Division I football playoff could’ve begun this weekend and have had the national championship game played on New Year’s Day, the last date anyone really cares about college football….In fact, you could’ve had the conference championship games this weekend – probably a better idea – begun the tournament next weekend and still had it done on New Year’s day.
2. Tony Romo – He gets a million dollars a game for sounding like my plumber…He is so bad he is making the very good Jim Nance sound boring.
3. USA! USA! – The 3-hole staple returns…Despite conducting proper mid-term elections, country still circling the drain, far closer to the oblivion that awaits it than the prosperity, and influence it once had as Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” no nation can sustain mass shootings, crippling debt, deep social divides, and perpetual war forever.
4. Bang! Bang! Bang! – Virginia twice and another mass killing in Colorado…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters remain “pretty sure” Founding Fathers would be appalled at how we’ve allowed the 2nd Amendment to become license for Americans to possess every weapon we can produce.
5. Fake News: Election Fraud Division – Two weeks in and GOP-backed voter-fraud units in Virginia, Florida, and Georgia have acted on some scattered complaints, but wide-spread, systemic fraud non-existent, just like it was in 2020.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Read Free Sunday (RFS) will return.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow enjoys (another) leisurely day on vacation. Today’s Diary.
After an hour we were beat again and starting to yawn and we were back up in our quarters at 0733, ostensibly to do some reading but we knew: it was time for a nap…This would be the only time we took the robe off all day.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1971 – Man reaches the surface of Mars for the first time when a lander launched by the Soviet Union designed to land on Mars malfunctions and crashes on the Martian surface. The descent module had been launched by the Mars 2 orbiter and crashed due to entering the Martian atmosphere at a steeper angle than planned. Mars 2 sent data back through the following March and remains in Martian orbit. Man would first land on Mars in 1976 with America’s Viking 1.
In 1956 – Al Oerter of the US wins his first of four consecutive Olympic discus gold medals at the Melbourne Summer Games. Oerter’s first throw of the final round, 184 feet, 10.9 inches established a new Olympic record and defeated Fortune Gordien, also of the US, by five feet. At the 1960 Rome Summer Games, Oerter would become the second person to win the discus twice (Martin Sheridan, US, 1904, 1908) and he remains the only person to win it more than twice.
2010 – Like a G6 by Far East Movement featuring The Cataracs and Dev is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third and final non-consecutive week. The song also went to #1 in New Zealand, peaked at #5 in Great Britain, at #83 on Billboard’s soul chart, and remains the only #1 song for all three acts. The song made Far East Movement the first Asian-American act to hit #1 on the Hot 100 and the first act of East Asian origin to hit #1 since Kyu Sakamoto with Sukiyaki in 1963.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary, degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
Henry David Thoreau
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Eddy Arnold’s biggest hit on the Hot 100 was Make the World Go Away, which peaked at #6 in 1965. The song later spent three weeks at #1 on the country chart.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the last American to win an Olympic discus medal? – Answer next time!
