The Daily Dose/July 13, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Note from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has an ID problem while checking in a guest. Today’s Diary.
But I book him for tonight – a room I technically didn’t have – and when he gives me a credit card and ID the ID isn’t for him…The ID is of an older black gentleman and this kid is white.
“Uh, do you have an ID that is actually of you, sir?”
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: D-Dawg’s poignant final night.
We both really wanted to have one last chance to use our Procedures, where we would be forced to make entry into a room, flashlights drawn and fan out and scope the room out to make sure al-Qaeda wasn’t in there or anything.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1973 – Alexander Butterfield, a former assistant to H.R. Haldeman, discloses the existence of a taping system at the White House in private testimony before Senate Watergate Committee staff members. Previously the existence of a taping system had been strongly suspected but not known for sure. Butterfield had no role in Watergate and had left the White House in March to serve as head of the Federal Aviation Administration.
In 1973 – David Bedford of Great Britain establishes a new world record in the 10,000-meters at a meet in London. Bedford’s time of 27 minutes, 30.8 seconds, broke the record of 27:38.4 established by Lasse Viren at the 1972 Munich Olympics, a race Bedford had finished sixth in. Bedford would own the record until 1977 and the mark is currently held by Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia, whose mark of 26 minutes, 17.53 seconds has stood since 2005.
In 1963 – The Essex are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second and final week with Easier Said Than Done. It was first of two Top 40 hits for the group and remains their only #1 song. The song also went to #1 in New Zealand, peaked at #41 in Great Britain and also peaked at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart. All four members of the group were in the United States Marine Corps at the time and The Essex remain the only group to hit #1 whose members were actively serving in the US armed forces. As sometimes happens with #1 songs, the song was recorded at the tail end of a session, the group did not particularly like the song and it had originally been released as the B side of a single.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
You can deal with your problems by the time-tried method of shutting up and letting them pass. – Garrison Keillor, Love Me
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Two pitchers have thrown extra-inning complete games in their only major league appearance: Monty Swartz, Cincinnati Reds, 10/3/1920, 12 innings, a 6-3 loss to St Louis, and Hal Schwenk, St Louis Browns, 9/4/1913, 11 innings, a 5-4 win over the Chicago White Sox.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many American men have held the 10,000-meter world record? – Answer next time!
