The Daily Dose/March 10, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off is taking some PTO. It will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow’s US Senate campaign cards arrive. Today’s Diary.
My Sparrow for US Senate cards came on Saturday, too…I only bought 500 tho, instead of my usual thousand, but there was a coupon in there for 25% off my next order…Inspired by this, I bought a neat-o card wallet, tonight…I used to have a really sweet one but I left it in a hotel room somewhere in a past campaign and never bothered to replace it…I bought one almost exactly like the old one, but it was $30 cheaper and darn near identical…It was from the same company, so it’s the quality gear I demand, but the leather is a bit different and there’s a snap, so I think it might be designed for a chick, but I didn’t buy the matching clutch so I don’t think anyone will notice and even if they do I’ll note the savings, thereby establishing key fiscal sanity credentials.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1876 – The telephone is used for the first time when Alexander Graham Bell calls his assistant Thomas Watson, summoning him from an adjoining room at Bell’s Boston laboratory. The second phone conversation occurred minutes later when Bell and Watson swapped places, with Watson reading some passages from a book. The phone utilized a liquid transmitter that had been invented by Elisha Gray, who had filed competing telephone patents with Bell, though it was Bell’s who were ultimately upheld by the courts. Bell had received his telephone patent three days earlier.
In 1987 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers establishes a new NBA record for most personal fouls in a career in a 143-107 win over the Denver Nuggets. Abdul-Jabbar’s charge in the first quarter was the 4,194th foul of his career, breaking the record established by Elvin Hayes between 1968-84. Abdul-Jabbar would retire in 1989 with 4,657 fouls, a record that still stands. For his career, Abdul-Jabbar fouled out of 48 games.
In 1962 – Hey Baby by Bruce Channel (pronounced Shu-nell) is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks. The song was Channel’s first chart single and while he had four other Hot 100 entries, Hey Baby remains his only Top 40 hit. The song also peaked at #2 on Billboard’s soul chart and at #2 in Great Britain and in 1982 Anne Murray took it to #7 on Billboard’s country chart, making it one of the few songs to hit on all three major Billboard singles charts. Channel disliked touring and later had a successful career as a songwriter.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love. – Buddha
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Coward of the County by Kenny Rogers was the #1 song in Great Britain when The Whispers were at #2 with And The Beat Goes On
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Who holds the NBA career record for fouling out of the most games? – Answer next time!
