Daily Dose/June 25, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is on vacation and will return. Promise. There’s really nothing going on right now anyway.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
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The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow has the latest gas mileage figures for the new ride. Today’s Diary.
Yeah, bay-bee, hat’s what ol’ Sparrow is talking about…Now, this is not pushing 40 mpg like we were for the three weeks prior to my mpg-killing trip to the big city earlier this month, but it is still a whole lot better than the pukey 35.003 we got at our last fill-up.
I knew we’d do better, too…There was no doubt…The Average MPG on the new ride’s information display was safely above 40 mpg the whole way and the odometer was at 439 miles since the last fill-up…And there is still hope for, one day, reaching the 40 mpg mark.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon works outside for the first time.
Early on Guy and I rolled on a call. Dispatch yelped for an outside unit to roll to valet pick up where a drunk was picking up his car. We got there after he had pulled out but we ID the car as it is heading out and Guy pulls in behind it. I’m behind Guy and we’re both flashing our yellow lights, the Adam-12 factor is on High, and – in a move that would’ve had Reid and Malloy sporting wood from here to Reno – I pull up alongside the suspect, while he’s moving, and told him to pull over and when he complied I expertly pulled in ahead of him.
On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1960 – William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, both cryptographers with the National Security Agency, leave on vacation for Mexico en route to defecting to the Soviet Union. After arrival in Mexico, the two traveled to Cuba before sailing for the Soviet Union on a Soviet freighter. Reportedly both ended up regretting their decision and Martin died in Tijuana in 1987, Mitchell in the Soviet Union in 2001. The two had known each other in the Navy and had joined the NSA together in 1957.
In 1999 – The San Antonio Spurs win the NBA title defeating the New York Knicks 78-77 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. It was the first NBA title for the Spurs and the first NBA title by a former member of the ABA. The Spurs have since won NBA titles in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014 and this remains the latest date an NBA game has ever been played. Tim Duncan of the Spurs averaged 27.4 points per game and was named the MVP of the series.
In 1969 – Henry Mancini is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of two consecutive weeks with The Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet. The song spent 14 weeks on the chart, eight weeks in the Top 10, moved into the #1 position after two weeks in the runner-up spot and was Billboard’s 15th biggest song of the year. It was Mancini’s eleventh of 15 chart singles and remains his only Top 10 and #1 hit.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Science is composed of errors, but errors it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth. – Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Without You by Harry Nilsson won the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many teams have won the NBA title this century? – Answer next time!
