The Daily Dose/October 12, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow includes a pic of navigation dividers. Today’s Diary.
The dividers we used to navigate submarines with would’ve been useful here, but we don’t customarily carry dividers with us, so we got a page from our notebook and made two marks on them…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 2000 – The destroyer USS Cole is attacked by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers during a refueling stop in Yemen. 17 sailors were killed 37 were injured, the deadliest attack on a US Navy ship since an attack on the USS Stark killed 37 in 1987. The US did not retaliate and the Cole was transported by barge to the US, where it was repaired and it remains in commissioned naval service today.
In 1986 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the California Angels 7-6 in eleven innings in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. The Red Sox had trailed 6-2 in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Angels were a strike away from winning the pennant when Dave Henderson’s two-run home run gave the Red Sox a 6-5 lead and the Angels tied the game in the bottom of the ninth. The Angeles still led the series 3 games to 2, though the Red Sox would win the American League pennant in seven games. They lost the World Series in seven games to the New York Mets.
In 2013 – Lorde is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of nine consecutive weeks with Royals. It was the first of four Top 40 and Top 10 hits for Lorde and remains her only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in four other countries, including Great Britain and her native New Zealand, and was Billboard’s 15th-biggest song of the year. The song also won 2014 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Confucius listened to each speaker as if he expected to hear words of shattering wisdom. That he was plainly not shattered by what he heard seemed in no way to surprise him.
Gore Vidal
Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first sitting US president to fly in an airplane was Franklin Roosevelt, in 1943 from Miami to Morocco for the Casablanca Conference.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who were the winning and losing pitchers in Game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series? – Answer next time!
