The Daily Dose/July 6, 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: Sparrow checks in on the progress of the alleged new restaurant in town. Today’s Diary.
I had a very leisurely morning after leaving the hotel…Recall I had slept a lot Saturday and I wasn’t all that tired so first I drove thru town to see what was shaking at the alleged new restaurant presumably opening across from the post office…Recall the electronic sign – which has been dark for a week or so – said they’d be opening in June and now it’s July and no restaurant.
Well, there was some action visible this morning…None of it involved the serving of food, yet, but there was some action inside, tho the windows are tinted and it was tuff to see exactly what they were doing…And there was someone fussing in the yard, which didn’t seem to be particularly useful unless grass and weeds were going to be on the menu.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Sparrow comes pretty close to a 60% Foot on the Desk Percentage.
I came this close to hotel history last night. This close!
It was very slow; in fact I was only dispatched for only one call, though I did pick up one of Lee’s and I stumbled on one of my own, but that was it.
It was not only slow, it was historically slow. So slow, I came within five minutes having a Foot on the Desk percentage of 60 percent.
I am not making that up: 60 percent; the Holy Grail of Foot on the Desk percentages. Four hours and 48 minutes of an eight-hour shift doing absolutely nothing. And that is still with turning in an appropriate number of scans.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully uses his rabies vaccination on nine-year-old Joseph Meister in Paris. Meister had been bitten by a rabid dog the day before and Pasteur used spinal tissue from rabid rabbits which he had used previously to prevent rabies in dogs. Meiser would later serve as caretaker of the Pasteur Institute and he killed himself in 1940, ten days after the Germans occupied Paris.
In 1986 – Bob Horner of the Atlanta Braves becomes the eleventh major league player to hit four home runs in a game in an 11-8 loss to the Montreal Expos. Horner homered in the second, fourth, fifth and ninth innings and finished the day 4-for-5 with six RBIs. Horner was the second member of the Braves to accomplish the feat (Joe Adcock, Milwaukee Braves, 1954) and the second person to do so in a losing effort (Ed Delahanty, Philadelphia Phillies, 1896).
In 1974 – Rock the Boat by The Hues Corporation is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week. The song was only in its fourth week in the Top 40 and jumped into the #1 spot from #6. It was the second of five chart singles for the group, their first of two Top 40 hits and remains their only #1 song. Rock the Boat also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #6 in Great Britain and at #2 on Billboard’s soul chart. The group was formed in Los Angeles in 1969 and began breaking up shortly after Rock the Boat was recorded.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Nothing will protect us so from external compulsion so much as the control of ourselves. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Bing Crosby had the most #1 songs on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart in the 1940s with nine.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What is the major league record for most home runs in consecutive games by a player? – Answer next time!
