The Daily Dose/October 5, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Q reports the hotel’s complimentary breakfast will end Friday.
Q also said this was the lowest-rated aspect of stays here on online reviews…Q knows this because one of his sweeping new powers is to respond to anonymous, whining guests online…He noted our average breakfast score is 65 (out of 100) a figure so low it would probably be exceeded by daily beatings if we offered them…
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon – get this – puts in to be a supervisor.
You might recall that last fall 88TonyB sat me down and asked what my plans at Monte Carlo were and if I had considered being a supervisor. I said I had thought about it and he said good because if a slot ever came open he wanted me to put in for it and he’d back me the whole way.
Tonight in the briefing room there were signup sheets for two (2) supervisor positions and an investigator spot. While he was issuing me my gun, he asked if I had signed up; I said I had and he said good cause if I hadn’t we were going to have problems. He also advised me to sign up for the investigators spot. I told him I didn’t particularly want to be an investigator and he said so what? Do it anyway, it’ll look good.
We’ll see. Some people have signed up who have a lot more experience than I do but White Sox Metzger also signed up and he wears white socks, so at least I’m one up on someone.
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo
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Criminals, Courtesans and Constables
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1869 – A tunnel being built under the Mississippi River in what is now Minneapolis is breached by the river, causing earth supporting nearby Hennepin Island and St Anthony Falls to collapse. The tunnel had started at an island a bit upstream and was going to be a spillway for plants and other businesses. Local repairs held until the spring floods and ultimately repairs were made by the Army Corps of Engineers on the pretext that the repairs were necessary for safe navigation of the river.
In 1932 – The Detroit Red Wings come into existence, with the introduction of the name and new uniforms. Previously, the team had been known as the Detroit Falcons for a couple of years and had debuted as the Detroit Cougars in 1926. The winged wheel, one of the more enduring logos in American sports, would debut on uniforms on Nov 10 and remains to this day.
In 1959 – Mack the Knife by Bobby Darin is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of nine non-consecutive weeks. The song was written in 1928 for the musical drama The Threepenny Opera and Mack is based on a character from an 18th-century opera who was based on real-life English thief Jack Sheppard. The song also went to #1 in Great Britain, peaked at #6 on Billboard’s soul chart and ranked third on Billboard’s 2018 60th-anniversary chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust/So near is God to man/When duty whispers low, Thou must/The youth replies, I can. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Voluntaries
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Kublai Khan was the Mongol who founded China’s Yuan dynasty.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What two other songs spend nine weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 before Debby Boone spent ten weeks at the top in 1977 with You Light Up My Life? – Answer next time!
