The Daily Dose/January 17, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Friends, Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Editor’s Note: it’s Read Free Fortnight at The Diary of a Nobody. So go, scoot, click on the link and enjoy the Diary with Sparrow’s compliments.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow gets a new phone. Today’s Diary.
Tragically, the suh-weet $1 iPhone upgrade I got when I last got a phone a few years ago is no longer available…Verizoid wanted me to pay full price for a new iPhone…Eff that noise, as we used to say in the Navy, so she showed me some other phone brands that seemed OK but didn’t really cause me to achieve and maintain a state of arousal and she sensed this and said you know, Mr Sparrow, ATOT has some iPhone deals…The plan is a little more than you’re paying now, but the phone is only $1 a month…Hell, even a working stiff like me can afford $1 a month…
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1911 – Rober Falcon Scott, leading a team of four men History refers to as the British Antarctic Expedition, become the second expedition to reach the South Pole. They found the tent and supplies of Roald Amundsen and his party – who had reached the Pole a month earlier – the following day, supplies which included a letter Amundsen asked Scott to take back with him, in case Amundsen didn’t make it. Scott and his men died on the return trip, with Scott’s final diary entry dated March 29, 1912.
In 1981 – Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders establishes a new NHL record with his eighth hat trick of the season in a 6-4 win over the Washington Capitals. Bossy had three goals and an assist in the game and broke the record of seven that had been done on four other occasions, most recently by Richard Martin of Buffalo in 1975-76. Bossy would finish the season with nine hat tricks and the record is now ten hat tricks in a season done twice, both by Wayne Gretzky (1981-82, 1983-84).
In 1976 – Barry Manilow is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with I Write the Songs. It was the fourth Top 40 hit for Manilow, his third to make the Top 10 and his second of three #1 songs. The song was Billboard’s 13th biggest song of the year, ranked at #185 on Billboard’s 60th anniversary Hot 100 in 2018 and won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year for writer Bruce Johnston.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
What lots and lots I could tell you of this journey….but oh what a price to pay – to forfeit the sight of your dear face. – Robert Falcon Scott, final letter to wife, 1912
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
George Harrison had one #1 song in his native Great Britain, My Sweet Lord, which went to #1 twice, in 1970 and again 2002.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Who holds the NHL record for most hat tricks in a career? – Answer next time!
