The Daily Dose/September 26, 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 gets the first walk in with his new reflector vest.
Got the first walk with my new reflector vest in this morning…I field-tested it in the cabin before heading out, turning off all the lights, draping it over a chair and shining the flashlight on it and while it wasn’t the greatest reflection in the history of safety, it will do.
The rule, for now, is going to be anytime the vest is worn the Post Office Route will be used because, except for the first few blocks heading out and heading in, it is mostly sidewalk…What we don’t need is to be taking the Fairgrounds or River route and come across a driver who either is not paying enuff attention to see me or is so startled he loses control and plows right into me.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: In the Upset of the Year, Gaylon makes a pest of himself in briefing.
88TonyB, in a moment of heightened sensitivity, said he had no fucking idea how many shuttles there would be and suggested we refer goddamn employees to their fucking supervisors because we weren’t going spend all our time answering their lame-ass questions.
That’s when I swung into action.
“Tony,” I said, raising my hand. “Any word on how many shuttles they’re going to be running from MGM to Monte Carlo?”
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1777 – The British Army occupies Philadelphia in the American Revolution, a maneuver that followed victory over the Americans at the Battle of Brandywine a couple of weeks earlier. It was the custom of the time that capturing the enemy’s capital meant victory, however American victories in New York brought the French into the war and the British evacuated their troops and sent them to New York the following year.
In 1926 – The New York Yankees and the St Louis Browns establish a new major league record for the shortest doubleheader and an American League record for the shortest game in 6-1 and 6-2 wins by the Browns. The first game took 1 hour and 12 minutes and the second game 55 minutes for a combined 2 hours and 7 minutes. Browns’ player-manager George Sisler, normally a first baseman and an outfielder, got his third and final career save in the second game in his last game as manager. The games had little meaning, as the Yankees had already clinched the American League pennant.
In 1987 – Whitney Houston is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of two consecutive weeks with Didn’t We Almost Have It All. The song also went to #1 in Canada and peaked at #14 in Great Britain and at #2 on Billboard’s soul chart. It was the seventh chart single for Houston and her fifth consecutive #1 song, a streak that would later be increased to seven, an all-time Hot 100 record that still stands.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I grant you there are gods, but they don’t care what men do, else it would go well with the good and ill with the bad – which rarely happens. – Ennius (239 BC – 169 BC), Roman writer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Roy Orbison had three #1 songs in Great Britain: Only the Lonely, two weeks, 1960, It’s Over, two weeks, 1964 and Oh, Pretty Woman, two weeks, 1964.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
When was the other time the British occupied the capital of the United States? – Answer next time!
