The Daily Dose/May 15, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is taking some PTO.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow installs a water purifier on the kitchen faucet. It takes longer than it should. Today’s Diary.
That’s OK because the instructions also advised that it is entirely possible you might not need an adapter, so I started screwing it on directly and while it appeared to fit, I couldn’t get the threads to connect…I was screwing the right way, too: righty tighty, lefty loosey and for those that weren’t familiar with this concept, there were arrows on the cap showing the proper direction…Nothing…I kept on trying and more nothing, obliging yours truly to go tactical and resort to the tried and true Sparrow habit of stepping back and staring at it crossly with my hands on my hips…This worked…I didn’t even have to swear, it complied and soon enuff it was attached and, after letting it run for five minutes producing purified water.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1963 – Mercury-Atlas 9, piloted by Gordon Cooper, lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. During the 34-hour mission, Cooper conducted assorted experiments during his 22 orbits and towards the end of the mission sent back the first TV pictures from space. Cooper, then a US Air Force colonel, had first joined the service in 1945, enlisting in the Marine Corps and had initially been commissioned into the Army. He was the first American to spend more than one day in space and remains the last American to go into space alone.
In 1919 – The Cincinnati Reds establish a new major league record for most runs scored in the 13th inning in a 10-0 victory over the Brooklyn Robins, now, the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Reds got ten runs and eight hits in the inning and were helped by two walks by pitcher Al Mamaux, who also committed one of the Robins’ three errors, resulting in only one earned run. The record still stands and remains tied for the National League mark for most runs in any extra inning. Research into whose record the Reds broke was inconclusive.
In 1961 – Faron Young is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot C&W Sides chart – for the second of nine consecutive weeks with Hello Walls. It was the fourth of five #1 country songs for Young and the 16th of 35 Top 10 hits in a chart career that spanned from 1952 through 1988. The song spent 23 weeks on the country chart, including 18 weeks in the Top 10 and also peaked at #12 on the Hot 100 and remains Young’s only Top 40 pop hit. The song was written by Willie Nelson.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. – John F Kennedy, 9/12/62
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Chicago was originally awarded the 1904 Olympics.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Where was President Kennedy’s “We choose to go to the moon” speech of September 9, 1962 delivered? – Answer next time!
