The Daily Dose/March 27, 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.
Friends, Read Free Fortnight returns.
For the next couple of weeks, at least, The Diary of a Nobody is free.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow wakes up to a stay at home order. Today’s Diary.
I presume I am going to lose both my jobs but since 0230 is a bit early to go pestering people, I put off the matter until someone chose to contact me…
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1649 – Charles I assumes the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, following the death of his father James I (known as James VI in Scotland). Charles I, then 25, had a tumultuous reign. Following defeat to the armies of the English and Scottish parliaments in the English Civil War in 1645 he was arrested, tried and convicted of treason and his reign ended with his beheading on January 30, 1649.
1917 – The Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) become the first United States team to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey Association (NHA) 9-1 in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals. All games were played in Seattle and after losing the opener the Metropolitans won the last three games. It was the last Stanley Cup final that did not feature at least one National Hockey League (NHL) team, as the NHA became the NHL the following season.
In 1971 – Janis Joplin is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second and final week with Me and Bobby McGee. Joplin had died of a heroin overdose the previous October and this remains her only solo chart single and was the Hot 100’s second posthumous #1 song (Sitting on the Dock of a Bay, Otis Redding, four weeks, 1968). The song also went to #1 in Australia and was Billboard’s eleventh biggest song of the year. A version by Jerry Lee Lewis would later spend one week at #1 on Billboard’s country chart and peak at #40 on the Hot 100.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Amid world beating hearts, the tumult and the shouting starts. – Grantland Rice, The Start
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The longest winning streak for the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1971-72 season as 33 games, still the NBA and American major league record for most consecutive games won.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Who was the last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup? – Answer next time!
