The Daily Dose/November 10, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
The Sunday Bottom 5 will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow makes a personal care purchase. Today’s Diary.
Anyway, we got lucky…The retailer had a three-pack of a really good leading national brand [chapstick] for only three bucks or so…Flavored, too, which we don’t go ga-ga over but which we don’t dismiss out of hand, either…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1865 – Captain Henry Wirtz of the Confederate Army and commandant of the Andersonville Prison camp is executed in Washington, D.C. for war crimes associated with his treatment of Union POWs. During the camp’s 14-month existence, Wirtz presided over the incarceration of 48,000 prisoners, almost 13,000 of whom died, mostly due to unsanitary conditions. Wirtz was one of three Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes, the other two being Confederate guerrillas.
In 1983 – Marivn Hagler retains his undisputed world middleweight title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Roberto Duran in Las Vegas. It was the eighth of twelve defenses of the title for Hagler, who had won the title 1980 and would lose it to Sugar Ray Leonard in 1987. Duran retained his WBA world light middleweight title, the third of four weight classes he would hold world titles in.
In 2001 – Mary J. Blige is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second of six consecutive weeks with Family Affair. It was the twelfth of 21 Top 40 hits for Blige, her third of six Top 10s, and remains her only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in France, peaked at #8 in Great Britain, and was in its second and final week at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart. The song was Billboard’s 31st-biggest of 2001, its 17th-biggest of 2002, and their 12th-biggest of the decade.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The wise man has no ambitions. Therefore, he has no failures. He who never fails always succeeds. And he who always succeeds is all-powerful.
Gore Vidal
Creation
Master Li
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The longest NBA game was six overtimes when the Indianapolis Indians defeated the Rochester Royals 75-73 in January 1951.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What other act had a #1 song titled Family Affair? – Answer next time!
