The Daily Dose/July 23, 2023
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Hollywood Actor and Writer Strikes – Labor and management issuing usual blather, but current times hardly usual, with streaming much like another generation when VCRs changed things…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters remain “pretty sure” ground-breaking times will call for a ground-breaking contract, but nobody appears to be seeing that right now.
2. Apollo 11 – Man’s greatest adventure heading home from first moon landing 54 years ago today, with Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters continuing to “strongly suspect” it remains our finest hour…America could have had humans on Mars in the 1980s had she wanted to, but she didn’t and we remain the worse for it.
3. Mass Shootings – The 3-hole staple…Rather slow week in Shooting Gallery USA, with only 16 mass shootings – defined as four or more killed/injured – with only eleven (11) deaths, though gun nuts still able to hold heads high, as there were 45 injuries…100 years from now all new people will marvel not only at our firepower, but how we stood by and did nothing.
4. The Bottom Ten – The American classic returns in exactly – well, more or less – one month with The Preseason Q&A moving on Tuesday, July 22…Sunday B-10 pollsters “pretty sure” chase for ESPN Cup and Dan Henning Memorial Trophy – symbolic of collegiate and professional Bottom Ten excellence – will once again captivate country.
5. Fake News – Click here for a list of falsehoods some wizards amongst us were both reporting and believing last week…Provided by the AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Si, senor, it’s Read-o Gratis Sunday (RGS) at El Diario.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow makes a shocking admission. Today’s Diary.
While setting up morning coffee service (MCS), we admitted farting to a guest…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Due to time constraints, these items have run in the past.
In 1829 – A patent for a typographer, a precursor to the typewriter, is issued to American William Burt. Burt came up with the idea to help ease the burden of office workers, but the typographer was a bit before its time and a functional typewriter wasn’t produced until 1874, some time after Burt’s death in 1858. Burt also invented a solar compass and an equatorial sextant and was an accomplished surveyor. Largely self-educated, Burt only had six weeks of formal classroom instruction and his original typographer was destroyed in an 1836 fire at the US Patent Office.
In 2000 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win all four major golf titles, winning the British Open at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. Woods led from the second round on and defeated Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) and Ernie Els (South Africa) by eight strokes. Woods, 24, bested Jack Nicklaus’ mark for winning the career Grand Slam by two years and since then has won two more British Opens (2005, 2006) and a total of 15 career major tournaments.
In 1977 – Barry Manilow is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with Looks Like We Made It. It was the third and final #1 song for Manilow. his sixth of eleven Top 10 hits and his eighth of 18 consecutive Top 40 hits. The song also peaked at #8 in Canada, did not chart in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 37th biggest song of the year. The song had a relatively quick chart run, spending 15 weeks in the Top 40 and five weeks in the Top 10.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
But above all to be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune’s laws, and these laws I have tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
Joshua Slocum
Sailing Alone Around the World
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Taylor Swift’s biggest hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 was Anti-Hero, which spent eight non-consecutive weeks at #1 late last year and early this year.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Tiger Woods is tied for the PGA record with 82 wins. Who is he tied with? – Answer next time!
