The Daily Dose/August 10, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
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Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow hasn’t slept particularly well the past couple of days. Today’s Diary.
I’m grateful I got the afternoon nap in., tho why sleep the past couple of days has blown is not clear, tho yours truly suspects it’s because I haven’t been taking my grape seed extract supplement for a while…I ran out last week and haven’t replenished it yet…In fact, I’m fairly certain that’s the cause because I’m getting up to use the can more than once again.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon deals with a guest who is completely crackers.
So I’m going thru the purse looking for some ID when the cell phone in the purse rings. The first time I didn’t bother answering it. The second time I did. I identify myself as a Monte Carlo security officer. Judging by her response, I might as well have said ‘serial rapist’. The girl demanded, several times, that I tell her where her friend is and I tell her, several times, that I don’t know and she also demands to know how in the fuck I got the purse. I hem and haw a little bit because I don’t really know who I am speaking with and I end up telling the girl the owner of the purse can pick it up at the Monte Carlo security podium, conveniently located near the cage.
This causes more trouble because she thinks the cage is the name of a club at MGM, not a place in a casino where you conduct financial transactions, which obliged yours truly to spend a couple of minutes clearing that up. The girl is immature and demanding and eventually I hang up.
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Criminals, Courtesans and Constables: Chapter 13 – A Visitor From The Past: Beth comes and visits our hero.
I had a visitor one day. I hardly recognized the elderly woman as the screw escorted her out of the office towards the barred barrier to the dayroom. It couldn’t have been me mother. I like to think I would have recognized her and besides, I’d heard she was long dead but I could never be bothered to know for sure. I was getting ready to issue the cordial greeting instinctive to me people when our eyes met.
Beth.
Beth!
The women responsible for my wealth and for Monica and, probably in some big picture context, for me confinement. Had it not been for the education she had provided in five-star, luxury living who the hell knows how me life would have ended up?
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 2003 – The highest temperature ever in Great Britain is recorded, when a temperature of 101.3° Fahrenheit is taken at Kent, England. It was the first temperature over 100° F ever recorded in Britain and broke the record of 98.8° recorded at Cheltenham, England in August 1990. The record is now 101.7° F, recorded last year at Cambridge, England and these remain the only temperatures over 100° F ever recorded in Britain, which also includes Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In 1901 – Frank Isbell of the Chicago White Sox establishes a new major league record for most runners stranded on base in a game in an 11-7 loss to the Cleveland Blues, now the Indians. Isbell was 1-for-6 in the game and his record stood until 1972 when it was broken by Glenn Beckert of the Chicago Cubs, who left twelve runners in base on Sept 16. That mark was later tied in 1998 by Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies and Isbell’s mark remains the American League record for a 9-inning game. The overall record is 14, by Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals, who stranded 14 runners in a 13-inning game in 2016.
In 1959 – Elvis Presley is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of two consecutive weeks with Big Hunk o’ Love. It was twelfth of 18 #1 songs for Elvis and his 15th of 37 Top 10 hits on Billboard’s pop charts. The also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #4 in Great Britain and at #10 on Billboard’s soul chart. The B-side of the record, My Wish Came True, peaked at #12 on the Hot 100 and both songs were recorded at Elvis’ only recording session while he was in the Army.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I could excuse a man who was afraid of an uplifted fist, but if one habitually manifests fear at the utterance of a sincere thought, I must think that his life is a kind of nightmare continued into broad daylight. – Henry David Thoreau
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The Bee Gees have had two #1 singles in their native Australia, I Started a Joke (two weeks, 1969) and Stayin’ Alive (seven weeks, 1978)
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What’s the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe? – Answer next time!
