The Daily Dose/Thursday, November 7, 2024

The Daily Dose/November 7, 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 has a long drive home. Today’s Diary. 

We pulled out of Waffle Hut around 0730 and didn’t arrive at The Shire until almost 1400, about two hours longer than had there been good weather and good roads…

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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it. 

In 1916 – A street car smashes through an open drawbridge’s warning gate in Boston, plunging into Fort Point Channel and killing 46 people. Neither the motorman nor the conductor had worked the route before and the motorman, Charles Walsh, was later acquitted of manslaughter charges and the conductor, George McKeon never worked a street car again and was later killed in France in World War I. The car was later returned to service, though many operators refused to work it.

In 2016 – Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors establishes a new NBA record for most 3-pointers in a game in a 116-106 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. Curry had 13 3-pointers, breaking the record of twelve done three times previously, including once by Curry, and is now held by Klay Thompson, who had 14 on October 29, 2018.

In 1960 – Bob Newhart is at #1 on Billboard’s Mono Action Albums chart – a predecessor to the Billboard 200 – for the tenth of 14 consecutive weeks with The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. It was the first of two #1 albums for Newhart, and the album also went to #1 in Canada. The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and Newhart remains the only non-musical artist to win the Best New Artist Grammy. Newhart is one of 21 acts who have topped a Billboard album chart who never hit the Hot 100, and one of four to do it multiple times.

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. III: Caesar to Christ

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

The Michigan Wolverines have won the most college football games with 1,009 through last weekend.  

Today’s Stumper
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Who holds the NCAA record for most 3-pointers made in a game? – Answer next time!

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