The Daily Dose/May 18, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading off is self-isolating today. It will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has the latest gas mileage figures. Today’s Diary.
I suppose it was inevitable the MPG figures for the new ride would eventually drop…I mean, you can’t keep getting increased gas mileage forever and ever because in time you’d be getting 100 MPG and that’s just plain whack…Still tho, circumstantially, a drop of over .5 MPG is bad for morale tho intrinsically 36.590 is still exemplary gas mileage.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1969 – Apollo 10 lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission did everything but land on the moon, with Gene Cernan and Thomas Stafford flying the lunar module to within 8.4 miles of the lunar surface. A complete success, Apollo 10 set the stage for the first lunar landing by Apollo 11 two months later. On the way home, Apollo 10 set a record for the fastest speed achieved by humans, reaching 24,791 mph, a record that still stands. Also, due to variations in the distance between the earth and the moon, the mission remains the farthest humans have flown from the earth at 220,820 miles.
In 1897 -Bill Joyce of the New York Giants becomes the only National League player to hit four triples in a game in an 11-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Joyce tied the major league record that had been established on June 25, 1885 by Geroge Strief of the Philadelphia Athletics of the then-major American Association and both records still stand. Joyce played eight years in the big leagues and his career on-base percentage of .435 remains the seventh highest in major league history.
In 1974 – Cal Smith is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the only week with Country Bumpkin. The song spent 15 weeks on the country chart, including ten weeks in the Top 40 and five weeks in the Top 10. It was the second of three #1 country songs for Smith (The Lord Knows I’m Drinking, one week, 1973; It’s Time to Pay the Fiddler, one week, 1975) in a chart career that spanned from 1966-87.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
His assets reliably compounding, his philosophy rendering him deaf to the appeals of humanity, he plowed through any contradiction. – Henry Wieneck, Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Love Will Save The Day was the song that broke Whitney Houston’s Hot 100-record of seven consecutive #1 songs. It peaked at #9 in 1988.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many #1 songs on Billboard’s country chart have had the word country in the title? – Answer next time!
