The Daily Dose/January 27, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Editor’s Note: it’s Read Free Fortnight at The Diary of a Nobody. So go, scoot, click on the link and enjoy the Diary with Sparrow’s compliments.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has a decision to make about the coffee packages at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
Well, it turns out the big packages of coffee only hold 8-ozs and not 9-ozs!!!…I am not making that up…There are two options here: you can either modify the amount of coffee put in so each pot gets one-third of a package or you can use the old fill line and open a new package to supplement the final pot of the old package…I decided – and this may well have been a raw display of my authority – to modify the amount put in each pot so we still got three pots out of a package…
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1961 – The Soviet Union submarine S-80 sinks in the Barents Sea, off the northern coasts of Norway and the Soviet Union. S-80 was submerged and snorkeling at periscope depth when it went too far under and began taking in water through its snorkel valve. The valve designed to shut and prevent further water from coming in had frozen, it’s de-icing system not turned on, and the submarine sank in 640 feet of water. All 68 officers and men aboard died. The S-80 had been commissioned in 1952.
In 1973 – The UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team establish a new NCAA record for most consecutive wins, defeating Notre Dame 82-63 for their 61st consecutive win. The Bruins broke the record established by the University of San Francisco between 1954-56 and would eventually win 88 straight games, a record that still stands. The streak had started on Jan. 30, 1971 with a 74-61 win over UC-Santa Barbara. The all-time NCAA record for most consecutive basketball games won is 111, done by the University of Connecticut women’s team from 2014-17
In 1968- Aretha Franklin is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Rhythm and Blues Singles chart – for the second of four consecutive weeks with Chain of Fools. It was the fourth of a record 20 #1 songs on the soul chart for Franklin, a record she shares with Stevie Wonder. The song also peaked at #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and earned Franklin the Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, her second of eight consecutive such awards. The song was originally written for Otis Redding.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
It is almost a law of history that the same wealth that generates a civilization announces its decay. For wealth produces ease as well as art; it softens a people to the ways of luxury and peace, and invites invasion from stronger arms and hungrier mouths. – Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, Vol I: Our Oriental Heritage
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
France did not win a gold medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Which singer broke Aretha Franklin’s string of eight consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance? – Answer next time!
