The Daily Dose/August 7, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience…
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Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow does laundry, reverts to old bachelor ways. Today’s Diary.
Yours truly came this close to successfully leaving the clean clothes in the dryer…It was stuff for the week, underwear, shirts, socks, pants and the like and it was all dry when I got home and even though it was only 1330 or so yours truly was beat and ready to retire to the chair for some reading…The clothes could be left in the dryer, hardly unprecedented over the years…The fly in the ointment, tho, was the workout clothes and some towels were in the washer and needed to be dried …In a show of solidarity with the bachelor past, however, yours truly did leave the folded clothes on the kitchen table.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: From dispatch, Ted and Gaylon watch a guy consider utilizing the services of a sex professional.
By now Ted is following along on his monitor. The guy takes a couple of more steps before stopping and taking out his phone again to see if there had been any calls for him in the past five seconds.
“He’s looking back, again, Gaylon.”
“He could be looking for that quick hummer before breakfast!”
“Aren’t we all?” Ted said.
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Criminals, Courtesans and Constables/Chapter 10 – The Constable II: The constable talks about his adversary.
We literally did not have a clue where he was except it was presumed he was in the city. There were the usual halfwit sightings overseas, everywhere from Paris to Finland to Senegal, as well as sightings here in the States and in town. There were a lot initially, but they petered out over time. Plainly he had prepared for this. He had ID, he had money and he had a place to live and you don’t gather that stuff after you’ve gone on the run. You plan for those things in advance and you do it on your own and it would not have surprised me if the Firm knew nothing about these plans.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1782 – General George Washington establishes the first three military awards in the United States, in orders published at Continental Army headquarters in Newburgh, New York. Two were Badges of Distinction for honorable service of greater than three and six years and are long discontinued. The third, the Badge of Military Merit, is now the Purple Heart and issued to warriors wounded in battle and remains the second-oldest military award in the world behind the Order of St George, issued by Russia.
In 1988 – The Seattle Mariners establish a new major league record for most sacrifice flies in a game in a 12-7 victory over the Oakland A’s. The Mariners hit five sacrifice flies, one each from Alvin Davis, Rey Quinones, Jay Buhner, Darnell Coles, and Jim Presley. The record was tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and the Mariners in 2008 and the marks still stand. Research into whose record the Mariners broke was inconclusive.
In 1965 – In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart – for the only week. It was Pickett’s fourth Top 40 hit on the soul chart and his first of five #1 songs. The song spent 23 weeks on the soul chart, including three stints in the Top 10 totaling ten weeks. The song also peaked at #21 on the Hot 100 and at #12 in Great Britain. Pickett co-wrote the song with Steve Cropper at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
{The Roman Senate} now loved security too much to be capable of freedom. – Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, Vol. III: Caesar to Christ
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Steve Winwood first hit the Billboard Hot 100 as a member of the Spencer Davis Group, which had two Top 40 hits in 1967.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What was Wilson Pickett’s biggest hit on Billboard’s Hot 100? – Answer next time!
