The Daily Dose/February 27, 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 tells a boring story to a photographer. Today’s Diary.
So we told him about the time we plied the newspaper reporter trade and we were given a camera and told to go cover the British Royal Air Force parachute team that was doing their winter training outside of town…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1964 – The Italian government announces it is open to suggestions on stabilizing the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The tower was closed to tourists in 1990, and restorative efforts began in 1993, when 870 tons of lead counterweights were added, which helped slightly. Eventually, soil was removed from beneath the raised end, which reduced the tower’s tilt by 17.5 inches. The tower reopened to the public in 2001 when it was announced the tower would be stable for another 300 years. Construction had begun in 1173 and took 199 years.
In 1960 – The US hockey team clinches the gold medal at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics, defeating the Soviet Union 3-2 in the medal round. The win gave the US a two-point lead over silver medalist Canada, whom they had beaten earlier, heading into the final games of the tournament. It was the first of two Olympic gold medals for the US (1980, Lake Placid) and was their second and most recent world championship (1933). The Soviet Union won the bronze medal.
In 1966 – Buck Owens is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the second of seven consecutive weeks with Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line. It was the tenth of 20 #1 country hits for Owens and his ninth of 14 consecutive #1 songs, a record for a Billboard major singles chart that is now held by Sonny James with 16. The song also peaked at #57 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
More and more this mysterious life comes together/It may take years to reveal the whole/That’s all right/I’m prepared to go the distance.
Deng Ming-Dao
365 Tao
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Napoleon Bonaparte was 51 when he died in 1821.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who holds the record for most consecutive #1 albums on the Billboard 200 album chart? – Answer next time!
