The Daily Dose/August 17, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
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Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: A guy doesn’t want his girlfriend to know what room he’s in. Today’s Diary.
…the lady at the desk and the simultaneous phone call are not a coincidence…The woman needs a key to a room rented by her boyfriend, who is on the phone…He has two rooms, 220 and 225, and he is in 225 – that’s where the call came from – and while the girlfriend knows about both rooms, the dude is highly desirous the girlfriend does not know his room number…My instructions from him – while she is standing right in front of me – is to give her a key to 220 and not, under any goddamn circumstances, to let it slip out that he’s in 225.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: X-Ray takes command in the hotel.
This time X-Ray, showing the skills that are sending him straight to the top in the hotel racket, takes charge and wakes the guy up and tells him he has to keep his tee vee down. The guy was understandably startled to see two uniformed bald men in his room, but he got the message.
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Criminals, Courtesans and Constables/Chapter 19 – A Wondrous Imbroglio: The final chapter begins with our hero strapped to a gurney.
Bloody hell, that was quite a night. It began with me waking to a prospect few survive and ended with me leaving, alive and kicking, in the hearse that had been sent to take me corpse away.
I’d walked out of the death chamber.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1958 – Pioneer 0 – man’s first attempt to both fly beyond earth orbit and orbit the moon – lists off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The attempt was not successful, as it exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, about 10 miles downrange over the Atlantic Ocean. Though never known for sure, it’s thought the explosion was caused by a loose bearing causing a pump to stop that eventually caused a tank to rupture. Space travel was still in its infancy, and the failure was not a surprise.
In 1894 – John Wadsworth of the Louisville Colonels establishes new major league records for most hits and singles given up in a game in a 29-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. Wadsworth gave up 36 hits and 28 singles, both major league records that still stand. Research into whose records Wadsworth broke was inconclusive, and the Phillies 29 runs scored was the fifth-highest total in major league history.
In 1985 – Tears for Fears is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third and final consecutive week with Shout. The song also went to #1 in seven other countries, including Switzerland, the Netherlands and Australia, peaked at #4 in their native Great Britain and at #56 on Billboard’s soul chart. It was the third chart single and second and final #1 song for the group (Everybody Wants to Rule the World, two weeks, 1985).
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The good is rare, that’s all, and not easy for most of us to live with. – Gore Vidal, Washington, D.C.
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Freddie Fender’s original name was Baldemar Garza Huerta.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How long were the Louisville Colonels in the National League? – Answer next time!
