The Daily Dose/November 6, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. NHL – Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters aren’t paying any more attention to the NHL than you are, but were dismayed to note that divisional rivals are only playing three (3) or four (4) games against each other, a great way to lessen rivalries…As an example, Calgary has already made their only trip to Edmonton for the season and they play their last game against each other on December 27.
2. World Series TV Ratings– Still in the tank, as 2022 World Series average of 11.6 million viewers the third-lowest ever, behind 2021 and 2021…This is only 45 million or so less than tuned into Game 7 of the 1986 World Series…Your game is still dying.
3. USA! USA! – The 3-hole staple…The midterms are Tuesday, with Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” this will merely be another nail in America’s coffin…Despite the fact there will be no evidence of tampering, GOP will dismiss all results they disagree with…America circling the drain now, perhaps making it until this half-century is out or perhaps not…When we are no longer able to govern ourselves, someone will come in and do it for us.
4. Kyrie Irving – Good gravy, Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “strongly suspect” he might be the biggest hot mess in an era filled with them…He is so talented though that even if the Nets give up on him, some other desperate team will give him a chance.
5. Fake News – Click here for a recap of nonsense of the wizards around us were believing this week…Courtesy of the AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow has to rustle up a heater. Today’s Diary.
It didn’t look good at first…First, we checked the housekeeping room behind guest laundry with no luck, and then the housekeeping office and laundry room didn’t produce one, either, and neither did the storeroom next to 102…Triple crap because now we’re running out of options, but we managed to find one upstairs, in the storeroom next to 201…Whew, because there is no way you can song and dance your way out of this puppy…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1947 – Meet the Press debuts on NBC television. The first host was creator Martha Rountree and the first guest was former Postmaster General James Farley. The show originated two years earlier as American Mercury Presents Meet the Press on the Mutual Radio Network and in 1975 became the first network news show to host the president of the United States when Gerald Ford was a gust. Outside of annual live coverage of Wimbledon and the Lord Mayor’s Show in Great Britain, it is the longest-running show in television history.
In 1869 – Rutgers College defeats the College of New Jersey – now Princeton University – 6-4 in what is regarded as the first college football game ever played. The game more resembled soccer than the game we know today, as teams tried to kick the ball into the other team’s goal. Each side had 25 players, the ball was round and running the ball was illegal. Princeton won the rematch a week later 8-0, though an anticipated third game was never played due to concerns the students cared more about the game than studying. The site of the game is now a Rutgers gymnasium and the last surviving member of the game, George Large of Rutgers, died in 1935.
In 1982 – Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks with Up Where We Belong. The song was the first of two #1s for Warnes in the US, while it remains Cocker’s only #1 song in America. The song was from the soundtrack to the movie An Officer and a Gentleman and also went to #1 in South Africa, Canada, and Australia, and peaked at #7 in Cocker’s native Great Britain. It won both singers the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group,
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
If you insist on governing the people with rules, regulations, decrees and punishments, they will simply evade you and go about their business….If you were to govern by moral force and personal example, they will come to you of their own accord.
Gore Vidal
Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The record for the most songs simultaneously in the Hot 100 by one act is 25, by Drake on July 14, 2018.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When did Princeton and Rutgers last meet in football? – Answer next time!
