The Daily Dose/September 10, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is in time-out. It will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow reviews the first rule of night auditing.
…and it is a reasonable night audit function to stick a wifi code label in them…Reasonable, but not fun but you must remember the First Rule of Night Auditing: do not give day shifters/management a reason to wonder what the hell you are doing all night…People ply the night audit trade for a variety of reasons, but the one constant for everyone is you are not asked to work too hard…Show up on time, every night, and you have a generally leisurely way to earn your living…
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon is not a stalker. He swears it.
I completely abused my position in dispatch last night to work the cameras and connive to be in the EDR at the same time two women I have the hots for would be there.
It was a great plan, brilliantly executed. I shared a very nice break with Lisa, a drop-dead gorgeous dealer, about 35 or so. We’ve actually agreed to go out in the past, but for reasons I’m not entirely sure of never actually did go out. It’s all very hazy right now.
The Bottom Ten Presented By COVID-19/NFL Week 2: After much consideration and bar tab usage, your Bottom Ten pollsters have decided to spend 2020 chronicling the Cleveland Browns historic 0-16 season of 2017. The entire season is offered with our compliments.
Los Angeles (0-for-2) – LA pro football fan(s) wandering around scratching heads wondering “we waited two (2) decades for this?”…For the first time since Kennedy Administration LA stuck with both Rams and Chargers playing in town, with both harboring 2017 B-10 medal stand dreams…Next Loss: With Dodgers preparing to blow NL West title and Lakers in doldrums, entire city ready to embrace World Team Tennis again.
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Clock in with the graveyard crew of the Monte Carlo Security Department on the glamorous Las Vegas Strip. Click here for the first two months of the funniest Vegas memoir ever.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1967 – Residents of Gibraltar overwhelmingly reject a referendum that would have transferred sovereignty of the territory from Great Britain to Spain. The vote was almost unanimous, with those wishing to remain British subjects winning with 12,138 votes to 44 votes for changing to Spanish sovereignty. A 2002 referendum on joint British/Spanish sovereignty was similarly rejected by Gibraltar residents. Spain lost sovereignty over Gibraltar in 1713 following the War of Spanish Succession.
In 1881 – Roger Connor of the Troy Trojans (National League) hits the first grand slam home run in major league history in a 7-4 win over the Worcester Ruby Legs. Connor’s grand slam came with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, ending the game. Connor’s feat of ending a game on a grand slam would not be duplicated until Sept 24, 1925, when Babe Ruth did it for the New York Yankees in a 6-5, 10-inning win over the Chicago White Sox and has been done 27 times since. Connor retired after the 1897 season as the major league career leader in home runs (138) and triples (238).
In 1966 – You Can’t Hurry Love by the Supremes is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of two consecutive weeks. The song also peaked at #3 in Great Britain, was in its second and final consecutive week at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart and was Billboard’s eighth biggest song of the year. It was the seventh of twelve pop #1s for the Supremes and their fifth of ten soul chart #1s and the song returned to the Hot 100 in 1983 when a version by Phil Collins peaked at #10.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I must stop this brooding or I shall become as mad as those emperors who feared the long night of death more than they loved the brief living day. – Gore Vidal, Julian
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The NFL record for most all-purpose yards in a season is held by Darren Sproles, who had 2,696 such yards for the New Orleans Saints in 2011.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How long were the Troy Trojans and the Worcester Ruby Legs in the National League? – Answer next time!
