The Daily Dose/August 3, 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: Sparrow gets off a funny at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
Here’s another Sparrow Tuff Call: they’re funny sorts and would they – or would they not – find a line about their credit card being declined funny???…Call it the instincts all the great ones have if you must, but yours truly determined that yes, they would find this line funny and they did!!!…I am not making that up…It earned the laff it deserved.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: There’s a noise complaint in the high rent district.
88Dick saw my point, too, and decides to call the front desk and see who we are dealing with, something I should’ve thought of. If it’s a very high roller in the suite, the hotel may well not want him to do anything but enjoy himself, in which case we’d move the guest who complained and as a token of our goodwill his night’s stay would be with the compliments and best wishes of the management and staff of the Monte Carlo.
Turns out it wasn’t anyone too important, although it was a guest paying $1750 (plus tax) for the suite. It was all code four. 88Dick and I made contact and requested they pipe the fuck down and they said sure.
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Criminals, Courtesans and Constables: Chapter 6: The Operation and Another Escape: Our hero barely misses getting nicked.
What I‘ve long suspected, but never known, was the assistant warden got tired of being #2 behind Monica. We had the occasional tea, the occasional go and even the occasional holiday, but that’s all we ever were, the occasional. Perhaps she notified the constables about me and the flat and our contact with the constables got wind of the warrants and notified Mauricio, who called me. Or, maybe the contact who helped with my papers suddenly got tough on crime and snitched on me. But it was unlikely he knew where I lived.
Who the bloody hell knows?
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1958 – The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, becomes the first ship to reach the North Pole. The voyage faced assorted challenges, including a navigational one as both traditional and magnetic compasses were inaccurate above 85 degrees north latitude, a situation that was helped by the development of an inertial navigation system that reckoned the ship’s position based on speed and course inputs into a computer. The voyage had begun on July 23 when they pulled out of Seattle and the ship would later surface off the coast of Greenland.
In 1962 – Frank Thomas of the New York Mets tied the major league record for most home runs in three consecutive games in 8-6 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Thomas hit two runs, giving him six in the past three games tying a record that had been accomplished several times in both leagues. The record is now seven home runs in three consecutive games, done by Shawn Greene of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2002.
In 2019 – Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus establish a new Billboard Hot 100 record for most weeks at #1 with Old Town Road. The song is in its 17th consecutive week at #1, breaking the record of 16 weeks established by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men (One Sweet Day) in 1986 and tied by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber (Despacito) in 2017. The song was also in its 17th of a record 20 consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart. The song was Billboard’s biggest song of the year and ranked 20th on their 60th Anniversary Hot 100 in 2018. With the song, Cyrus joined the Elvis and Everly Brothers as the only acts to have #1 songs on a Billboard country and soul chart and the Hot 100.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Let us laugh at fate. It might please her. – Winston Churchill, letter to mother, 1897
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The events in the heptathlon are the 110-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meters, long jump, javelin and the 800-meters.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Which record for most weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart did Old Town Road break? – Answer next time!
