The Daily Dose/September 18, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. NCAA Sports – A bored US senator wants to introduce legislation regulating NIL payments to athletes…Fabulous, just what any situation needs, government involvement …Butt out, people…The NCAA created this mess, let then deal with it.
2. King Charles III – His 10-day reign already a complete failure, as Britain as chaotic as she’s ever been…Alleged love child with queen consort who lives in Australia starting to make a bit of a fuss about being Prince of Wales, but History shows bastard children of monarchs have been shipped overseas and ignored for centuries.
Editor’s Note: the usual 3-hole staple – USA! USA! – has the week off. We’re still going to hell in a handbasket, though. Don’t doubt that.
3. War In Ukraine – Things starting to sour for evil Ruskies, as pesky Ukrainians force a retreat, while support amongst fellow Satan-worshippers starting to wane as even freedom hating Chinese are starting to wonder what the deal is.
4. NFL – Billions of dollars are wagered on your games and you still insist on annoying bettors and bookmakers by allowing tie games…Here’s a suggestion, since plainly you don’t want to play real football: give one team the ball at midfield and see how far they can get in four (4) plays, then have the other team take over and see if they can get across midfield…If they can, they win; if they can’t they lose. If both teams score, do it again until there’s, you know, what’s known as a winner.
5. Major League Baseball – This morning are four (4) teams under .500 are still mathematically, in the playoff hunt, which is not what your think of when you hear the phrase “pennant race”…There would’ve been five (5) teams except the Cubs were, rather mercifully, eliminated Saturday.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Three cheers for Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary!
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has the latest MPG figure for the new ride. Today’s Diary.
And the figure, while disappointing, is hardly a bulletin because there are a lot of elevation changes and cruise control usage is curtailed, too…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1837 – Tiffany & Co. – then known as Tiffany & Young – opens in Brroklyn, Connecticut, billing itself as a ”stationery and fine goods emporium”. The store moved to Manhattan in 1838 and provided swords for the Union Army in the Civil War and bucked the trends of the era by marking prices clearly to avoid haggling and only accepting cash. Tiffany’s was sold to a French conglomerate that owns, among other things, Hennessy, last year for $15.8 billion.
In 1920 – The NFL – then known as the American Professional Football Association – is formed in Canton, Ohio. 14 teams played at least one game that season and the first game was played on Sept 26 when the Rock Island (Ill.) Independents defeated the St Paul Ideals 48-0 and the first league title was awarded to the Akron Pros with an 8-0-3 record. The association became the National Football League in 1922 and the only two original teams remaining are now the Chicago Bears and the Arizona Cardinals.
In 1962 – Judy Garland is at #1 on Billboard’s Top LPs chart – a predecessor to today’s Billboard 200 – for the second of 13 consecutive weeks with Judy at Carnegie Hall. It was the fifth chart album for Garland, her third Top 10 album, and remains her only #1 and the album won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Engineered Album. The album did not produce a chart single and Garland remains one of 17 acts to have a #1 album without hitting the Hot 100, though she did have several hits on Billboard pop charts in the 1940s.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
It speaks volumes about Michelangelo’s self-confidence that he dared to tackle the most difficult , most unpaintable subject in all of art…For an artist of Michelangelo’s ambition, however, the subject was compelling, perhaps even inevitable.
Miles Unger
Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Surveyor 1 was the first American spacecraft to land on the moon, doing so on May 30, 1966. Previous US missions had crashed into the moon.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the last now-defunct NFL team to win the NFL title? – Answer next time!
