The Daily Dose/July 14, 2023
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 – Sparrow buys individual cans of cat food, instead of the economy-sized box. Today’s Diary.
The two boxes each have three flavors in them, but that is a mere trifling of the Canned Yummy Cornucopia (CYC) available at the retailer, so we took the opportunity to get individual cans of things the cat wouldn’t normally get…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1789 – The Bastille – a fortress and prison in Paris – is stormed and taken control of by revolutionaries. The prison only had seven prisoners, four of them forgers, but the fortress was seen as a symbol of government tyranny. The takeover spreads the widespread discontent that had attended the French Revolution since its beginnings in May and King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were executed in 1793. The area occupied by the Bastille is now a plaza, though some fragments do remain.
In 1968 – Don Wilson of the Houston Astros ties the modern major league record for most strikeouts in a game in a 6-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Wilson struck out 18 batters to tie the mark established by Bob Feller in 1938 and tied by Sandy Koufax in 1959 and 1962. The record would be broken by Steve Carlton (19) and later tied by Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan, and is now 20, done several times, including twice by Roger Clemens. Wilson died in 1975 of asphyxiation, which was ruled accidental by a coroner.
In 1984 – Bruce Springsteen is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the second of seven non-consecutive weeks with Born in the USA. The album went to #1 in nine other countries including Norway and Great Britain, was Billboard’s 28th-biggest album of the year, its #1 album of 1985, its 16th-biggest of 1986, and was Springsteen’s second of ten #1 albums. The record generated seven Top 10 singles, a mark once tied with Michael Jackson’s Thriller and now held by Taylor Swift, whose Midnights album had ten Top 10 hits.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Where was all this infinitesimal matter before it was set in motion by mind?/Everywhere./No real answer./Perhaps no real question.
Gore Vidal
Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s #1 song for 1985 was Careless Whisper by George Michael, which spent three weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When was the Bastille built? – Answer next time!
