The Daily Dose/February 20, 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 gets off easy. Today’s Diary.
The West African women we’ve known don’t blab a fraction as much as Mexican women do (no one does, really), but she brilliantly deferred all of G’s talking points…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1792 – President George Washington signs a bill establishing the US Post Office Department. There were several central postal departments in America before this, the first in 1691, authorized by English sovereigns William III and Mary II, and one created by the Continental Congress in 1775. The postmaster general was a member of the president’s cabinet from 1829 until 1971, when the department was replaced by the current US Postal Service.
In 1944 – The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Chicago Blackhawks play the only NHL game without goals or penalties in a 0-0 tie at Chicago Stadium. The goalies were Mike Karakas of Chicago and Paul Bibeault for Toronto, and the referee was Bill Chadwick and the game took 1 hour and 55 minutes to play.
In 1954 – Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra & Chorus is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Store Chart – a predecessor to the Hot 100 – for the eighth and final consecutive week with Oh! My Pa-pa. The song also went Top 10 in Great Britain and was the fourth and final #1 song for Fisher and was the only #1 for Winterhalter. Earlier, a version by Ray Anthony & His Orchestra peaked at #15. The song was written in German by Swiss composer Paul Burkhard in 1939.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
We must be prepared to follow a road which twists and turns.
Mao Zedong
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Manfred Mann was part of the #1 song Do Wah Diddy Diddy, by his own group, Manfred Mann. It went to #1 in 1964.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
In the earliest day of US postal service, postage was paid by the recipient. In what year was prepayment of postage made mandatory? – Answer next time!
