The Daily Dose/October 5, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for the time being.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow, not for the first time, whines about the location of the 3-hole punch. Today’s Diary.
Recall it’s location has been a point of contention for a couple of years, with someone – there are no suspects – sooner or later moving it from a favored Sparrow position (we use the 3-hole punch once a nite now, and we prefer and appreciate not having to get out of the chair to access it) and regular readers of this crap know it’s been resting off to the left as you sit at the back desk, up against the printer…
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 6 – The race for the most coveted trophy in sports – The Dan Henning Trophy, symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy – stumbles on.
The mystery shaping up in nation’s capital is not so much how Commanders have lost three (3) straight, but how they managed to beat an average Jacksonville team in their opener…
Another team reviewing B-10 onboarding materials, Patriots show mettle that tends to lead straight to B-10 medal stand, blowing two (2) leads in morale-depleting road loss…
Schedule favoring Panthers, as they do not play team ranked in Week 6 survey until Christmas Eve showdown with Lions…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1970 – The Liberation Front of Quebec, a Marxist/Leninist group, kidnaps British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence, setting off events History refers to as the October Crisis. The kidnappers posed as delivery men to gain entrance to the house and on Oct 10 members of the group kidnapped Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte. Cross would be released two months later while Laporte was killed, with his body found on Oct 17. All kidnappers were tried and convicted and served varying sentences.
In 1975 – Niki Lauda of Austria wins the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship, winning the United States Gran Prix at Watkins Glen, New York. Lauda, driving a Ferrari 312T, defeated Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil in the 200-mile race by 5 seconds and defeated Fittipaldi for the world title by 19.5 points. It was the first of three world driver championships for Lauda, who had 25 wins in a racing career that lasted from 1971-1985. Lauda died in 2019 at age 70.
In 1985 – Ronnie Milsap is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the second and final consecutive week with Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night). It was the 27th of 35 #1 country hits for Milsap and the song also went #1 country in Canada, was Billboard’s #1 country song of the year, and won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. Milsap’s first appearance on a Billboard chart came in 1965 when Never Had It So Good peaked at #19 on Billboard’s soul chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I learned that the destination is only as worthwhile as the trip you are willing to take. And that the trip is always a toss-up.
Steve Walsh
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
I’m Sorry by John Denver broke up David Bowie’s two-week run at #1 on the Hot 100 in 1975.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Which driver has won the most Formula One driving titles? – Answer next time!
