The Daily Dose/July 18, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Note from around the human experience.
Leading Off is enjoying some time off.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow is no longer bright enough to notice when some tree-trimming he’d arranged for is completed.
…this meant I didn’t notice it Wednesday when I drove home, all day Thursday when I came and went from The Shire several times and this morning when I left for the VSO.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon works a double and discovers swing shift has a new break policy.
Also, you no longer get two 10-10’s on swing shift, they are now giving everyone one 20 minute break, called 483. Some were whining about it, simply because we’ll whine about anything, but I kinda liked it. I had 482 at 1700 and 483 came at 2145 and I was able to sit in the EDR and enjoy a cup of coffee at leisure.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1290 – Jews, numbering several thousand, are thrown out of England when King Edward I issues the Edict of Expulsion, culminating two centuries of Jewish persecution in England. The edict remained in force through the middle of the 17th century, when Oliver Cromwell allowed them to return. Jews had first come to England in 1066 with William the Conqueror.
In 1891 – The Fargo Red Stockings and Grand Forks Black Stockings of the Red River Valley League play to a 25-inning, 0-0 tie in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota. Pitchers William Gibbs of Grand Forks and George Raymer of Fargo both pitched complete games, though neither got credit for a shutout because neither team won. The game took 4 hours and 10 minutes, was the second game of a doubleheader and was only called because both teams needed to catch a train. The game remains the longest scoreless tie in the history of professional baseball.
In 1970 – Tammy Wynette is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the third and final week with He Loves Me All the Way. It was the eighth of 20 #1 songs for Wynette and the song also peaked at #2 on Canada’s country chart and at #97 on Billboard’s Hot 100. Before earning her living as a singer, Wynette had been, among other things, a cosmetologist and continued to renew her license annually in case she ever needed a day job again.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The Rolling Stones’ last Top 40 hit in American was Rock and a Hard Place, which peaked at 23 in 1989.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What was Tammy Wynette’s biggest hit on the Hot 100? – Answer next time!
