Daily Dose/June 19, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: The gym’s open again, and the scale reports Sparrow actually lost a few pounds. Today’s Diary.
The first thing I did was weigh myself, to see how much I’ve gained…I presumed a couple of pounds at least but the scale actually reported I’d I lost six pounds…I didn’t necessarily believe that…I’ve been eating like an oink-oink since The Ex left and while the walks helped mitigate the damage I haven’t walked in over a week…So, skeptical, I took two 10-lb weights and put them on the scale and they weighed in at 21 pounds, so it looks like I really did drop a few pounds…Go figure.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: The hotel crew responds to a call of a woman having a heart attack. Actually, she’s only taking a crap.
By chance, we all get there at the same time. I knock and while I can hear some sort of response from the room, I can’t quite make out what it is and our report is that someone is having a heart attack and what if they can’t respond?
So we make entry. Bathrooms are either to the immediate left or right of the door at Monte Carlo and the bathroom door is open and I can see an elderly lady getting up off the can, pulling her pants up; on one of the beds another elderly woman is standing up and pulling up her pants.
Neither was having a heart attack.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1953 – Husband and wife Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing prison in New York, Julius condemned for spying for the Soviet Union in the 1940s and his wife for being an accessory. The couple had been indicted in August 1950 and tried and convicted in March 1951. Julius was executed first and died quickly, but Ethel required two extra shocks to be killed and witnesses reported smoke drifted from her head. Their two children, Michael, 10, and Robert 6, are still alive.
In 1867 – Ruthless, ridden by Gilbert Patrick, wins the inaugural Belmont Stakes at Jerome Park Racetrack in what is now The Bronx, New York City. Ruthless, a filly, won the 1 mile, 5-furlong race (about 1.6 miles) in 3 minutes and 5 seconds by a neck over De Courcey and Rivoli finished third. The Belmont Stakes is the oldest race in the American Triple Crown series and is named after its founder, New York horse breeder August Belmont, Sr.
In 1961 – Stand by Me by Ben E King is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot R&B Sides chart – for the fourth and final consecutive week. It was the second Top 40 solo soul hit for King who earlier had hit #1 twice on the soul chart with The Drifters (There Goes My Baby, `one week, 1959; Save the Last Dance For Me, one week, 1960. The song also peaked at #4 on BIllboard’s Hot 100 and at #27 in Great Britain. The song has charted several times since by various artists, and King’s version returned to the Hot 100 in 1986, peaking at #9.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The spirit cannot mature into unity unless it has checked its curiosity and its wanderings. – Seneca, Roman philosopher, (c. 4 BC – 65 AD)
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The Soviet Union has won two men’s basketball Olympic gold medals (1988, 1972), the second-most behind the United States.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Besides Ruthless, how many other fillies have won the Belmont Stakes? – Answer next time!
