The Daily Dose/March 6, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off continues to enjoy some PTO.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Christmas at The Shire. Today’s Diary.
I finally got around to giving The Wife her Christmas present and to putting to use the one she gave me…The Wife had just favored the world with her presence and had swung her legs over the end of the bed when she announced she wished she had some slippers.
“You do!!!”
Crap, I’d forgotten all about them…I think I reported their purchase here but, of course, The Wife fled to Kansas to tend to her sister before Christmas so I never gave them to her…
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1665 – The world’s oldest scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, is published. (Philosophical back then meant science.) The Royal Society had been founded in 1660, chartered by King Charles II, and originally the journal was published privately by the organization’s secretary and became an official publication of the Society in 1752. Since 1887 the Society has published two journals, one dedicated to physical sciences and the other to life sciences.
In 1983 – The United States Football League begins its first season, with ten of its twelve teams in action. (The other two played the following day.) The league would last three seasons, folding after only being awarded $1 in damages after winning their antitrust suit against the NFL. The Michigan Panthers won the first USFL championship and the Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars won the last two.
In 1961 – The MIracles are at #1 on the Billboard soul chart – then known as the Hot R&B Sides chart – for the ninth and final consecutive week with Shop Around. It was first of four soul chart #1s for the group and the first of 39 Top 40 soul hits. The song also peaked at #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and was the first Top 40 hit for the group and would remain their biggest hit until The Tears of a Clown went to #1 in 1970 and the song returned to the Hot 100 in 1972 when the Captain and Tennille took it to #4. The song was written by Smokey Robinson and Barry Gordy and was the first million-selling record for Motown Records.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The case against Clevenger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with. – Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
John Adams, a future president of the United States, was the attorney for the eight British soldiers who stood trial for the deaths in the Boston Massacre.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many people who played in or worked for the USFL are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? – Answer next time!
