The Daily Dose/January 10, 2020
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: Meet Sparrow, an average man passing an average life.
Today’s Diary: Sparrow gives the cat some 5-star service.
I’m committed to taking good care of the cat while The Wife is in Kansas tending to her sister…Usually, she fusses with her water dish and cat box, while I am in charge of the canned yummy ration and her dry food…I took care of everything this morning…She got her usual morning canned yummy ration, of course, and her dry food was running low so I tossed what was left and refilled that and got her some freshwater, too…I cleaned her cat box, too…It didn’t really need it, but I was doing everything anyway and my own experience is clean crapper is good for morale.
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On This Date
49 BC – Julius Caesar, commanding the 13th Legion and fresh of several military victories, crossed the Rubicon River in northeastern Italy under arms, considered an act of war by Rome. Caesar’s Civil War would last four years resulting in his victory and eventually lead to the formation of the Roman Empire. Caesar may or may not have said the famous line attributed to him, “the die is cast”. History is unclear on the matter. The term ‘crossing the Rubicon’ remains in our vernacular, describing the crossing of a line of demarcation from which there is no going back.
In 1931 – The Philadelphia Quakers defeat the Montreal Maroons 4-3 in overtime to end their NHL-record losing streak at 15 games. The Quakers had broken the record of elevn consecutive losses by the 1929-30 Pittsburgh Pirates and the record is now 17 consecutive losses, done twice, by the 1974-75 Washington Capitals and the 1992-93 San Jose Sharks. Overtimes in those days were ten minutes long.
In 1953 – Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes is at #1 on two Billboard charts. A version by Perry Como is at #1 on the pop Best Seller in Stores chart for the first of five consecutive weeks and a version by Skeets McDonald is at #1 on the country Most Played in Juke Boxes chart for the third and final week. The song was written by Slim Willet, whose own version had topped Billboard’s country Most Played by Jockeys chart in December. This remains the only time in Billboard chart history when the same song by different artists simultaneously topped separate Billboard singles charts.
Quotebook
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, if he first forms a good plan, and makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. – Benjamin Franklin
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
The Montreal Canadiens won the 1930 Stanley Cup, defeating the Boston Bruins in the final two games to zero. It was the last best-of-three Stanley Cup Finals round.
Today’s Stumper
How many #1 songs did Perry Como have on a Billboard pop chart? – Answer next time!
