The Daily Dose/September 14, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading off remains in time-out.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At state VSO training, they talk about asbestos exposure. Today’ Dairy.
Anyway, asbestos was commonly used in all branches of the services for ages and the Navy did not stop putting it in new ships until 1977 and crap, ol’ Sparrow was on a diesel submarine that was built in the 1950s that was probably Asbestos City and, of course, it got us thinking…
This is the final complimentary Bottom Ten of the year.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 3 – It’s Jacksonville, Detroit, and Carolina on the first Bottom Ten medal stand of the season.
Jaguar fan(s) sitting around doing nails as “generational” QB taking leisurely route to Hall of Fame, playoffs…
Defense getting kudos for building deficit not even 17 fourth-quarter points by offense could overcome…
With solid opening week thumping, Cardinals early candidate for B-10’s new Otis Elevator Award, to be issued to team that goes from playoffs to B-10 medal stand in 2022…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Due to time constraints, all three of today’s entries have appeared previously. The third one appeared in a different week and was rewritten.
In 1959 – Man reaches the surface of another celestial body for the first time when the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 crashes into the moon. The mission had lifted off on September 12 and impacted the moon at a speed of 7,400 mph, landing about 94 miles northwest of where Apollo 15 eventually landed. A January attempt by the Soviets missed the moon by 3,700 miles, an attempt that itself followed three unnamed, unsuccessful missions.
1913 – The New York Giants establish a new major league record for most hits in a shutout loss in a 9-inning game in a 7-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs. The Giants had 14 hits – 13 singles and a double – and left eleven men on base. Larry Chaney was the Cubs pitcher and he is listed in the record book for most hits allowed in a shutout win by a pitcher. Both records were tied in 1928 when Milt Gaston of the Washington Senators allowed 14 hits in a 9-0 win over the Cleveland Indians in the second game of a doubleheader.
1996 – Los Del Rios is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the seventh of 14 consecutive weeks with Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix). The song also went to #1 in ten other countries including Switzerland, Holland, and Israel, and peaked at #2 in Great Britain. The song remains the only chart entry for the group, and the only thing preventing them from being an ultimate one-hot wonder – a group whose only chart single goes to #1 – is another version of the song was concurrently in the Hot 100. The song was Billboard’s biggest song of 1996, their 82nd-biggest of 1997, their second biggest of the decade, and ranked 8th on Billboard’s 60th Anniversary Hot 100 in 2018.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
To accept with tranquility whatever happens is to put oneself beyond sorrow or joy.
Chinese maxim
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Rafael Nadal has won two Olympic tennis gold medals: singles at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games and doubles with Marc Lopez, at Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was the first US spacecraft to land on the moon? – Answer next time!
