Daily Dose/June 27, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off remains in time-out.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow gets the news he goes back to five nights a week at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
Yours truly got off easy…Some I know had significant, perhaps even severe, financial problems and other disruptions but ol’ Sparrow merely lost his Friday shift at the hotel and ended up with what he passed off as a three-day-weekend, despite putting in eight hours at the Veterans Service Office on Fridays.
I’m going to keep my beard too…Recall I started it in late March, the day the original lockdown started up here and it’s turned into a trusted friend and there is no reason to shave it off.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: A guest brings a hooker back to his room. His wife is not amused.
A man brought a hooker back to his room. This isn’t all that noteworthy, of course, however it is rare when the wife is in the room at the time.
I was manning Eddie – 2 when this went down. For some reason, the wife and hooker started fighting with the hooker winning in a TKO and the wife, disgraced by her loss, decided to press charges so the hooker was hooked up.
For his part, the husband, who was stoned, claimed the hooker followed him to his room.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1976 – Air France Flight 139, service from Tel Aviv to Paris via Athens, is hijacked by two Palestinians and two Germans and re-routed to Entebbe, Uganda. Their goal was to have assorted Palestinian prisoners in Israel and elsewhere released in exchange for their hostages. 148 non-Israeli hostages were released and the remaining hostages, including the airplane’s crew, were freed on July 4 in an operation carried out by Israeli commandos. Four hostages, one Israeli commando, all four hijackers and 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed.
In 1986 – Robby Thompson of the San Francisco Giants establishes a new major league record for most times caught stealing in a game in a 7-6, 12-inning win over the Cincinnati Reds. Thompson was caught stealing four times, three times by Reds catcher Bo Diaz (4th, 6th and 9th innings) and once in the 11th inning, a put out at second on a play started by pitcher Julio Franco. The nine-inning record is three, done several times in both leagues.
In 1960 – Connie Francis is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first two consecutive weeks with Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool. It was the first of three #1 songs for Francis (My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own, two weeks, 1960; Don’t Break the Heart That Loves You, one week, 1962) and her 14th of 35 Top 40 hits. The song also went to #1 in Norway, Canada and New Zealand, peaked at #5 in Great Britain and was Billboard’s eleventh biggest song of the year. Francis also recorded a German version of the song that spent two weeks at #1 in West Germany.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
People are more disposed to suffer than right themselves by resistance. – John Locke
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Jerry Reed’s biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 was Amos Moses, which peaked at #8 in 1971.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What team holds the major league record for most times caught stealing in a game? – Answer next time!
