The Daily Dose/February 25, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. College Sports – SB 5 pollsters found themselves in front of a TV and noticed BYU/Baylor and Creighton/UConn now conference games…This is whack, of course, but not as whack as UCLA/Rutgers and Cal/Duke becoming conference games next season.
2. Gaylon For Congress – Candidate for Congress from Colorado’s 2nd District attends first protest of season, in support of Julian Assange…Assange, imprisoned in Britian, is still awaiting ruling from British court about extradition to US for brutally informing public about assorted government’s human and civil rights abuses.
3. Mass Shootings – The 3-hole staple…A rather light week, with only five (5) mass shootings (shootings with at least four (4) wounded), though five (5) dead, 17 injured certainly good enough to pad per-shooting stats…2024 average of 1.018 mass shootings per day almost a whole shooting off 2023’s pace of 1.8.
4. NBA All-Star Game – Almost as hard to watch as the NFL’s Pro Bowl used to be, this year’s fiasco saw the first NBA game where a team scored 200 points…How about this: make it watchable again by giving out cash awards for actually playing defense…SB pollsters “pretty sure” incentives for holding opponents under 150 points would make All-Star Game the ultimate pick-up basketball game it used to be.
5. Fake News– Click here for crap some of the wizards around us were actually believing this week…Courtesy of the AP.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a mediocre rest. Today’s Diary.
…but then we remembered dreaming so that means we slept and while we got back to sleep, sleep was sporadic the rest of the way.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1986 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the country after 20 years in power, an uprising History refers to as the People Power Revolution. He was succeeded by Corazon Aquino. Marcos, his family, and entourage – about 90 strong – were helicoptered to a US air base north of Manila on their way to exile in Hawaii. Among the items brought with them were crates containing over $700 million in cash, jewels, and $200,000 in gold bullion. Marcos died in Honolulu in September 1989.
In 1904 – The Ottawa Silver Sevens (Canadian Amateur Hockey League) retain the Stanley Cup, defeating the Toronto Marlboros (Ottawa Hockey Association) 2-0 to win the best-of-three series in two games. It was the team’s fourth Stanley Cup win, and the Silver Sevens would retain the Cup seven more times before losing it to the Montreal Wanderers in March 1906.
In 1984 – Van Halen is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of five consecutive weeks with Jump. The song also went to #1 in Canada and Italy and peaked at #7 in Great Britain, was Billboard’s sixth-biggest song of the year and ranked 227th on their 60th-anniversary chart in 2018. It was the group’s fourth of 13 Top 40 hits and remains their only #1 song. The synthesizer line had been recorded by Eddie Van Halen in 1981, but the group declined to expand on it then.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The NBA record for most assists in a playoff game is 24, done twice, by Magic Johnson in 1984 and John Stockton in 1988.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many #1 albums has Van Halen had on the Billboard 200? – Answer next time!
