The Daily Dose/December 26, 2023
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Read Free Week continues at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s Christmas prime rib ends up OK after a rough start. Today’s Diary.
Following specific, supposedly expert directions, we put it in the oven for 42 minutes at 500° and then shut the oven off and left it in for two hours…This produced a prime rib that was so rare it all but mooed when we stuck a knife in it…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1991 – The Soviet Union formally ceases to exist, when its highest body – the Supreme Soviet – votes itself and the country out of existence. The day before Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned and ceded authority to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, with the Russian flag replacing the Soviet flag over the Kremlin. The result gave independence to the 15 constituent republics of the former USSR, though some had already declared and assumed independence.
In 1943 – The Chicago Bears win the NFL title with a 41-21 victory over the Washington Redskins at Wrigley Field. It was the sixth of nine NFL championships/Super Bowl titles for the Bears and the second of five runner-up finishes for the Redskins. The Bears had made the championship game by winning the Western Division, while the week before the Redskins had defeated the New York Giants in a tie-breaker for the Eastern Division title.
In 2021 – Mariah Carey becomes the second act to hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 with the same song in different chart runs when All I Want For Christmas Is You is at #1 for the first of three consecutive weeks. The song had first gone to #1 in 2020 and would return to #1 in 2022 and this past Saturday and to date has spent nine weeks at #1. Carey and Walter Afanasieff wrote it and remains the only song to hit #1 more than twice. The first song to go to #1 in separate chart runs was The Twist by Chubby Checker (1960, 1962).
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…all natural inclinations are either without God or against Him.
Martin Luther
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first #1 song on a Billboard country singles – the Most Played Juke Box Folk Records Chart on January 8 – was Pistol Packin’ Mama. There were five versions of the song – all involving Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, and Al Dexter – that were combined into one entry and spent seven weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When was the Soviet Union founded? – Answer next time!
