The Daily Dose/March 23, 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 introduces a new customer service technique at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
…we got to call a guest a “dumbass” tonite.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 2021 – The Taiwanese container ship Ever Given runs aground in the Suez Canal. The grounding halted transit in the canal for six days and freeing the ship required 14 tugs working at high tide. Egypt, the shipping line and its insurers then bickered over paying for damages to the canal and Ever Given would not reach its scheduled destination in Rotterdam until summer.
In 1994 – Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings establishes a new NHL record for most career goals in a 6-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks. Gretzky’s second-period goal was the 802 of his career, breaking the record of 801 established by Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings between 1946-80. Gretzky would retire in 1999 with 894 goals, a record that still stands. Gretzky’s first goal had come on April 4, 1980, against the Colorado Rockies.
In 1974 – Barbra Streisand is at #1 on the Billboard album chart – then known as the Top LPs and Tapes chart – for the second and final consecutive week with The Way We Were. The album also went Top 10 in Australia and Canada and was Billboard’s 50th-biggest album of the year. It was the second of eleven #1 albums for Streisand and produced two chart singles, including the title track, which went to #1 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The spirit cannot mature into unity unless it has checked its curiosity and its wanderings.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. III: Caesar to Christ
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine of Canterbury in 597.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
In what city did the NHL’s Colorado Rockies start and where do they play now? – Answer next time!
