The Daily Dose/August 4, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience…
It’s still pretty slow around the world, so Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow and his treasured sleep sessions. Today’s Diary.
Regular readers of this crap know that we generally only get a few hours on Monday and that’s OK because Tuesday is all-you-can-get sleep, necessary because once we get up Tuesday night we don’t get back to bed until Wednesday nite.
So Monday’s key…Too much sleep and you’re not getting to bed until late Tuesday, which isn’t too bad from a number of hours of sleep standpoint, but you’re getting up late Tuesday and treasured morning routine is shot straight to hell, to include Tuesday night lifting and walk.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Jose and Gaylon throw out a 6-foot, 2-inch hooker.
I was in the CSO wrapping up a report on a woman in the hotel bitten by a spider when Jose shows up with her. Since he was doing a formal 86, he had to take her picture and fill out a form or two and read her the trespass warning.
Her name was Danielle and she carried her six feet, two inches very, very well. Actually, she was wearing heels and appeared ready to work the low post for UNLV. She was built like a brick shithouse though, utterly drop-dead gorgeous, and it was sad to know she was working.
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Criminals, Courtesans and Constables: Chapter 7 – The Constable: Our hero goes tactical.
I put on me sunglasses and went for a walk. It was a gorgeous, sunny day, the kind that stays in your memory and gets you through winter and the type where me sunglasses drew no more notice than me trousers. Me goal was to field test me sunglasses camera, specifically lighting and distance. There is a big park right in the middle of the big borough that was splendidly suited for this purpose. I took pictures of people standing, sitting, walking and playing, both at close range at distance. Back at me flat, I download the whole lot. Pics up to about 75 feet come out well. Longer than that were less good. Me printer worked splendidly.
Now all I had to do was get within 75 feet of the constable.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today.
In 1977 – President Jimmy Carter signs a bring creating the Department of Energy. The act consolidated the Federal Energy Administration, the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Federal Power Commission and began operation on Oct 1. Before the creation of the Energy Department, the last cabinet agency created was the Department of Transportation in 1967. The current secretary of energy is Dan Brouillette.
In 1984 – Carl Lewis of the United States wins the gold medal in the 100-meters at the Los Angeles Olympics. Lewis ran the race in 9.9 seconds to defeat Sam Graddy of the US and Ben Johnson of Canada. It was the first of four gold medals Lewis would win at the Los Angeles Games (long jump, 200-meters, 4×100-meter relay), matching the feat first accomplished by Jesse Owns at the 1936 Berlin Games. It was also the first of his nine Olympic gold medals.
In 2018 – Meant to Be by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then as now known as the Hot Country Songs chart – for a record-breaking 35th consecutive week. The song broke the country chart record of 34 weeks at #1 established in 2017 by Sam Brown with Body Like a Back Road. Meant to Be had first hit #1 the previous December 16 and would eventually spend a total of 50 consecutive weeks at #1, a record for a major Billboard singles chart that still stands. The song also peaked at #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…he understood what people would do long before they themselves knew…he could predict the future because he entirely understood the present. – Gore Vidal, Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The record of 20 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart by Old Town Road by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus broke the record of 18 weeks set by three songs: The Honeydripper (Parts 1 & 2) (1945) by Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers, Choo Choo Ch’Boogie (1946) by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five and One Dance (2016) by Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What song holds the record for most weeks at #1 on any Billboard singles chart? – Answer next time!
