The Daily Dose/February 22, 2024
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.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow heads home a day early. Today’s Diary.
Still tho, we were undecided on the matter when we headed to breakfast this morning…We had a few things we wanted to accomplish today, but they wouldn’t take too long and then it was Leisure City at the hotel: some reading, maybe some light project work or maybe not, and another leisurely meal, exactly what we came here for…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Editor’s Note: due to time constraints, today’s entries have run before.
In 1945 – One of History’s most iconic photographs is taken on Mount Suribachi on the South Pacific island of Iwo Jima when a group of United States Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise the United States flag following a US victory on the island. The picture was taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press and despite the limitations of the time, the photograph was able to make it into Sunday newspapers two days later. Rosenthal was named an honorary Marine in 1996.
In 1986 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar establishes a new NBA record for most games played in a career, appearing in his 1,304th game, a 117-111 overtime win against Philadelphia. Abdul-Jabbar broke the record established by Elvin Hayes between 1968 and 1984, and the record is now held by Robert Parrish, who played in 1,611 games from 1976 to 1997. Abdul-Jabbar played his first game in 1969 and retired in 1989 with 1,560 games played.
In 1957 – Blue Monday by Fats Domino is at #1 on the Billboard R&B Best Sellers chart – a predecessor of today’s soul chart – for the fifth of eight non-consecutive weeks. It was Domino’s seventh of nine #1 songs on the soul chart and also peaked at #9 on Billboard’s pop Best Sellers in Stores chart – his third of eight Top 10 pop hits – and also peaked at #23 in Great Britain. Domino, whose first name was Antoine, died at age 89 in 2017.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Do not trouble your hearts with thoughts of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Ring
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s #1 song of 1975 was Love Will Keep Us Together by The Captain and Teneille, which spent four weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is also the NBA’s career leader in minutes played. How many regular season minutes did Abdul-Jabbar play? – Answer next time!
