The Daily Dose/April 12, 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 has the latest creamer news from the hotel. Today’s Diary.
The knife got some good use tonite, opening not one, but two boxes of creamer…Both were the new CoffeeMate brands we’re rolling with for hazelnut and French vanilla but the big news is the boxes are different sizes!!!…I am not making that up…
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 1204 – The city of Constantinople, then part of the Byzantine empire and controlled by Orthodox Christians, is sacked by Catholics in the Fourth Crusade. The city was founded in 330 AD and named for Emperor Constantine the Great and was renamed Istanbul – now the capital of Turkey – in 1930. The Crusades lasted from 1095 to 1291 and the Fourth Crusade had been called by Pope Innocent III two years earlier and was originally an attempt to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims. After the sack, Byzantines dispersed and regained the city in 1261.
In 1965 – The Houston Astrodome – originally known as the Harris County Domed Stadium and the world’s first domed, multi-purpose stadium – hosts its first regular-season game, a 2-0 win by the Philadelphia Phillies over the Houston Astros. Over the years the Astrodome would host 2,782 Astros games as well as 223 Houston Oilers games as well as, among other things, the Bluebonnet Bowl. The Oilers became the Tennessee Titans in 1997 and the Astros moved to Minute Maid Park in 2000.
In 1958 – The Champs are at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – one of several predecessors to the Hot 100 – for the fourth of five consecutive weeks with Tequila. It was the first of eight chart singles for the group, their first of four Top 40 hits and remains their only #1 song. The song was also in its third of four consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart and was originally the B side of a single of a song that never charted.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
On the one hand, he did not care much what others thought of him. On the other, reading the lives of famous men, he decided he wanted to make his mark.
Fred Kaplan
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Tom Weiskopf, with four second-place finishes, is the golfer who has finished second at the Masters the most times without winning. His only win in a major was the 1973 British Open.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many NCAA Final Fours did the Astrodome host? – Answer next time!
