The Daily Dose/November 9, 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 works it to book a room for a caller. Today’s Diary.
…so ol’ Sparrow started hustling as if his next batch of workout supplements depended on securing this booking, graciously, tho not relentlessly, noting our complimentary transportation to the ski mountain, our easy access to the free city bus, our indoor AND outdoor pools and hot tubs, not to mention the vestal virgins that will be awaiting your commands in our freshly remodeled lobby.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 11 – There’s a new #1 in race for The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy.
Sort of like ancient times when if you killed the monarch in battle you became king, you lose to the #1 team, you become the #1 team as Packers bravely ascend B-10 throne
Military court-martial scheduled for Lions for shooting themselves in foot as B-10 stalwarts again unable to lose big one in tragic home win over Packers…
Rams quest for inaugural first-to-worst run continues with type of morale-depleting, last-second, road loss that tends to set tone for strong B-10 medal stand run…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Due to spending an inordinate amount of time watching the eclipse, all of today’s entries have run within the past two years.
In 1969 – Humans reach the moon for the second time with Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landing on Apollo 12. Apollo 12 was struck by lightning shortly after blastoff and would later spend over 32 hours on the lunar surface with Conrad and Bean spending almost eight hours exploring the moon, including inspecting Surveyor 3, man’s first terrestrial contact with a previously launched spacecraft. Command module pilot Richard Gordon remained in lunar orbit and the crew would return to Earth on Nov 24th.
In 2018 – The Los Angeles Rams defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 54-51 in the only NFL game where both teams scored at least 50 points. The game was tied 23-23 at halftime and the Rams got a touchdown with 1:49 left in the game to take the lead. It remains the third highest-scoring game in NFL history behind the Washington Redskins defeating the New York Giants 72-41 in 1966 and the Cincinnati Bengals defeating the Cleveland Browns 58-48 in 2004.
In 1966 – The Supremes are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of two consecutive weeks with you Keep Me Hangin’ On. The song also peaked at #8 in Great Britain and later spent four weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart and was the eighth of twelve #1 songs for the group on the pop chart and their fifth of eight #1 soul songs. A version by Vanilla Fudge peaked at #6 on the Hot 100 the following year and a version by Kim Wilde went to #1 in 1987, making the song the sixth of nine songs that have gone to #1 by separate artists on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I remember what I was, and what I have yet to do.
Adolf Hitler
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The NBA team record for most three-pointers in a game is 29, by the Milwaukee Bucks on Dec 29, 2020.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Of the twelve men who have walked on the moon, how many are still alive? – Answer next time!
