The Daily Dose/October 30, 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 does not have coffee ready when Dr Dre shows up. Today’s Diary.
The big news was on the coffee front: we had not yet started preparing for Morning Coffee Service (MCS) specifically because Dr Dre lately has been in the habit of showing up after 0500…
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 10 – The race for The Dan Henning trophy is the tightest in ages.
Loss to Saints this week would give Panthers season sweep and crucial B-10 tiebreaker…
With bye week already in books, Titans sure to be exhausted for B-10 stretch run…
Amazon looking to flex Thursday game to Home Shopping Network…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Editor’s Note: today’s entries previously ran in 2020.
In 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates what History refers to as the Tsar Bomba on an island in the Barents Sea, above the Arctic Circle. The hydrogen bomb yielded an explosion measuring 50 megatons, about 50 times more than the 0.15 megatons yielded by the Hiroshima atomic blast and remains the most powerful explosive device ever deployed on Earth. The crew of the plane that delivered the bomb survived, but the bomb was so powerful they were only given a 50/50 chance of returning safely.
In 2015 – Adalberto Mondesi of the Kansas City Royals becomes the first player to make his major league debut in the World Series in a 9-3 loss to the New York Mets in Game 3. Mondesi pinch-hit in the fifth inning and struck out, and had spent the 2015 season in the Texas League (AA). In 1885 Bug Holiday of the Chicago White Stockings – now the Cubs – made his big league debut in a postseason series against the American Association champion St Louis Browns, though these series are not considered part of the modern World Series.
In 1961 – Dion is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second and final week with Runaround Sue. It was the second of 14 Top 40 hits for Dion as a solo act, after seven hits with the Belmonts and remains his only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in Canada and New Zealand and peaked at #11 in Great Britain and at #4 on Billboard’s soul chart, his biggest hit of six soul chart appearances. A version by Leif Garrett peaked at #13 in 1978.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Talent must not be wasted. Those who have it…must share it.
Frank Sinatra
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Chuck Berry’s only #1 song on the Hot 100 was My Ding-a-Ling, which spent two weeks at #1 in October 1972.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Dion’s real name? – Answer next time!
