The Daily Dose/October 16, 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 a couple of vaccines at work. Today’s Diary.
Today’s two shots were a hepatitis B vaccine and a flu shot, the first time we can remember getting two shots at work since boot camp, where they line you up and you walk the gauntlet of vaccine guns…
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 8 – It’s the tightest race for The Dan Henning trophy ever.
It’s tough to go winless in today’s NFL, but Patriots making losing out after Week 1 win look easy following third loss of 2024 by at least 17 points…
Saints fan(s) giddy over current four (4)-game skid, as Saints look to recover from disastrous 2-0 start…
…with Jets, Giants not meeting in 2024, every loss key in race for coveted Ed Koch Cup – symbolic of Gotham professional football mediocrity.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when President John F Kennedy is shown pictures taken by US surveillance planes of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, which is 90 miles from Florida. The US would later respond with a blockade of Cuba, and negotiations led to the Soivets to agree to remove the missiles. The Soviet deployment was in response to US deployment of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey the year before.
In 1964 – Wyomia Tyus of the US wins the 100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics with a time of 11.4 seconds, defeating Edith McGuire (US) and Ewa Klobukowska (Poland) by .2 seconds, with McGuire being awarded the silver medal. In the quarterfinal the day before, Tyus had tied the Olympic and world record with a time of 11.2 seconds and, in 1968, became the first to win the 100 meters at consecutive Olympics.
In 1982 – Evelyn “Champagne” King is at #1 in Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Black Singles chart – for the third of five consecutive weeks with Love Come Down. It was the eighth of 18 Top 40 soul hits for King, Her fourth of eight Top 10s, and her second and final #1. The song also went to #1 on Billboard’s dance chart, went #7 pop in Great Britain, and peaked at #17 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Writers don’t make good husbands. They reserve their Eros for their art.
Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The Four Tops had one #1 song in Great Britain, Reach Out I’ll Be There, which spent three weeks at the top in 1966.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the last US woman to win the Olympic 100 meters? – Answer next time!
