The Daily Dose/May 31, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the Memorial Day ceremony, Sparrow – for the first time ever – plays a bugle. Today’s Diary.
When you’ve been bugling – or buglerering, or whatever you call it – as long as Loretta and I have you take the time to coordinate everything…We’re professionals, after all…
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On This Date
History’s long march.
In 2005 – The American magazine Vanity Fair reveals the identity of the Watergate informant known as Deep Throat as that of former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt. Deep Throat’s existence was revealed in the 1974 book All The President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate story for The Washington Post and was named after a popular adult film of the era. A historical marker was erected in 2011 at a garage where Felt and Bernstein sometimes met.
In 2008 – Usain Bolt of Jamaica breaks the 100-meter world record for the first time at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York City. Bolt’s time of 9.72 seconds broke the record of 9.74 seconds countryman Asafa Powell had established the year before. Bolt broke the record later in the year at the Beijing Olympics, running 9.69 and he set the current record of 9.58 seconds – about 23.35 miles per hour – in 2009.
In 1014 – John Legend is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and its soul chart for the third and final consecutive week with All of Me. The song went to #1 in eleven other countries including Portugal and Slovakia, peaked at #2 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s third-biggest song of the year, and its 32nd-biggest of the decade. It was the sixth of 21 chart singles for Legend, his first of two Top 10 hits, and remains his only #1 song.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
But for the chosen, there is no choice.
Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest, a Briton who was a surveyor-general of India in the 19th century. He was the first to provide a generally accepted height for Everest, 29,002 feet. Mount Everest is currently reckoned to be 29,031.7 feet high.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who has held the men’s 100-meter world record for the longest uninterrupted period of time? – Answer next time!
