The Daily Dose/October 12, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for a while.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has the latest from the hotel. Today’s Diary.
With the lobby getting redone, the furniture is available to be claimed…Luke the Maintenance Guy has put dibs in on one of the couches and we’d take the other one if we weren’t too lazy to get rid of the old one and transport the new one…The Morning Coffee Service (MCS) table wouldn’t look too bad at The Shire but, again, motivation issues present themselves, plus we’d probably have to get rid of some stuff anyway because our cabin is rather small.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 7 – The race for the most coveted trophy in sports – The Dan Henning trophy, symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy – continues.
With new nickname a dud, team to petition Joint Chiefs of Staff to change nickname from Commanders to KP Helpers…
Steelers fan(s) – still getting accustomed to rarefied of air of B-10 – now have first-ever, coveted B-10 medal stand berth to celebrate…
Owner Genghis Khan so pleased tragic two (2)-game win skid over, he released coaching staff’s children he was holding hostage…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 539 BC – The second Babylonian Empire comes to an end when the Persian Army led by Cyrus the Great of Persia defeats an army led by Nabonidus. History is unclear whether Cyrus entered Babylon as a liberator or conqueror, though writings suggest that Cyrus treated Nabonidus graciously and allowed him to retire. Babylon’s ruins, now a UN World Heritage Site, lay in central Iraq, a bit south of Baghdad and a previous Babylonian empire had flourished in the 19th or 18th century BC.
In 1853 – John Morrisey wins the American heavyweight boxing title, defeating Yankee Sullivan in a 37-round decision in Boston Corner, then in Massachusetts, now in eastern New York. Accounts generally agree that Sullivan was winning when a riot ensued and the referee awarded the win to Morrisey and under rules of the era, a round ended when a fighter fell down and the fight lasted around 55 minutes. Morrisey would later have murder charges dropped after three trials resulted in hung juries and he later served in the US House and New York state senate.
In 1985 – Ready For the World is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with Oh Sheila. The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #50 in Great Britain, and earlier had spent two consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart. It was the first of three Top 40 hits for the group, remains their only #1 song, and spent 21 weeks on the chart, including 13 weeks in the Top 40 and six weeks in the Top 10. Due to a variety of similarities, the song is sometimes attributed to Prince
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The name of freeman is the most precious of all titles; to possess it is to have much, even when one has little.
I. F. Stone
The Trial of Socrates
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first spacecraft to orbit the moon was the Soviet Union’s Luna 10 in 1966.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s #1 song of 1985? – Answer next time!
