The Daily Dose/December 5, 2019
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has a couple of days off coming up. Today’s Diary.
Today’s VSO shift is my last shift until Saturday night at the hotel…I’m taking Friday off from both the VSO and the hotel, giving me consecutive calendar days off for the first time in a couple of years…The Wife and I are making tentative plans for a road trip on Saturday.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 15: The Bengals win and the race for The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy – is thrown into even more chaos than usual.
Here are some funny lines from this week’s NFL Bottom Ten:
NFL looking into ways to have Lions play all 16 games on consecutive days at start of season so they don’t have to televise their games after Veterans Day…
Though entire league at respectable .500 for season, eleven (11) teams have four (4) or fewer victories, three teams have lost at least five (5) straight and 16 teams have lost at least one (1) straight.
Recent capacity crowds at small soccer stadium attributed to fans who took advantage 2-for-1 ticket offer, receiving Charger ticket after buying seat to recent high school football playoff game there…
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On This Date
In 1955 – The Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the seminal events of the Civil Rights Movement, begins in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott had actually started informally a couple of days earlier, and came four days after Rosa Parks had been arrested for declining to relinquish her seat on a city bus to a white man. The boycott lasted for over a year, until Dec. 20, 1956, until Browder v. Gale, a federal circuit court ruling bus segregation was unconstitutional, a ruling that was later upheld by the US Supreme Court.
In 1996 – Jermaine O’Neal of the Portland Trail Blazers, at 18 years, 53 days, becomes the youngest player in NBA history, scoring two points in three minutes of action in a 115-104 win over the Denver Nuggets. O’Neal broke the record of 18 years, 72 days Kobe Bryant had established two months earlier and the record is now held by Andrew Bynum, who was 18 years, 6 days old when he made his NBA debut in 2005.
In 1964 – Lorne Greene is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for his only week with Ringo, a song featuring a spoken-word part by Greene with a chorus singing “Ringo” in the background. The song also went to #1 in Canada and peaked at #24 on Billboard’s country chart. Greene followed Ringo up with two other chart singles, but Ringo remains his only Top 40 hit. The song is one of 40 #1 songs played on by drummer Hal Blaine.
Quotebook
Michelangelo insisted the purpose of art, at least when practiced at the highest levels, was to channel the most profound aspirations of the human spirit. – Miles Unger, Michelangelo: A Life In Six Masterpieces
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
The two songs besides Please Mr Postman by the Marvelettes to spend at least seven weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart in 1961 were Shop Around by the Miracles (eight weeks) and Tossin’ and Turnin’ Bobby Lewis (ten weeks).
Today’s Stumper
What TV show was Lorne Greene starring in at the time Ringo was at #1? – Answer next time!
