The Daily Dose/January 30, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return. It’s OK, nothing is going on, anyway.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is a maniac in the gym. Today’s Diary.
We’d start with our usual medicine ball twists then 30 reps with the battle ropes and then we’d run (jog) around the basketball court before doing 60 seconds on the spin bike at 60-65 RPMs…Even with the final weight sets being 15-rep failure instead of ten, it was still a hell of a workout…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1968 – In the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launch the Tet Offensive against South Vietnamese and US/allied troops in South Vietnam. The offensive was conducted in three phases through September and resulted in a US/South Vietnamese tactical victory, though the North claimed a strategic and political victory. Death totals on both sides are disputed.
In 1982 – Wilfredo Benitez of Puerto Rico defends his WBC superwelterweight title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Roberto Duran of Panama in Las Vegas. It was the second and final defense of the title for Benitez, who would lose the title to Thomas Hearns in December. Duran would later win the super welterweight and middleweight titles, which followed world welterweight and lightweight titles.
In 1982 – Daryl Hall and John Oates are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and soul chart – then known as the Hot Soul singles chart – for the only week with I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do). The song also went #8 pop in Great Britain and was Billboard’s 15th-biggest song of the year. It was the eleventh of 27 Top 40 hits for the duo, their seventh of 16 Top 10 hits and their fourth of six #1 pop hits and remains their only #1 soul hit.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
She’d often observed that people generally lived up to whatever expectations they had of themselves.
Emily Brightwell
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Three teams have lost the only Super Bowl they ever played in: the San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers, the Tennessee Titans, and the Arizona Cardinals.
Today’s Stumper
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What was the first #1 song on the Hot 100 for Hall and Oates? – Answer next time!
