The Daily Dose/February 4, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Editor’s Note: it’s Read Free Fortnight at The Diary of a Nobody. So go, scoot, click on the link and enjoy the Diary with Sparrow’s compliments.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow finds out there is going to be a planned power outage in his small town on Tuesday. Today’s Diary.
I messaged the power company to ask WTF but they’re a small-town utility so their help desk is only open for five minutes every other Wednesday so I haven’t heard back yet.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1789 – George Washington is elected president of the United States in voting conducted by the Electoral College in ten of the eleven states that had ratified the US Constitution. (New York had also ratified the Constitution, but internal squabbling prevented their electoral votes from being cast. North Carolina and Rhode Island had yet to ratify it.) Washington was named on all 69 ballots, the only president unanimously elected. The votes would be certified by the new Congress in April, with John Adams being elected vice president. Washington would be inaugurated on April 30 and served two terms, replaced by Adams in 1797.
In 1987 – The Sacramento Kings establish a new NBA record for fewest points in the first quarter, scoring four points in a 128-92 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. The Kings broke the record of five points that had been done on four previous occasions and the total also tied the NBA record for fewest points in any quarter (Buffalo, Oct 1972). The record for fewest first-quarter points is now three (Denver, Nov 2002) and the overall record for fewest points in a quarter is now 2 (Golden State, Feb 2004, Dallas, Apr 1997).
In 1989 – Sheriff is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for their only week with When I’m With You. The song had previously reached #61 on the Hot 100 in 1983 and while research into the matter was inconclusive, When I’m With You is one of the few songs to hit #1 in its second chart run. Sheriff, disappointed at their lack of commercial success, had actually broken up a few years earlier. The band declined to reunite – two members eventually formed the group Alias – and When I’m With You remains their only Top 40 hit.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
And yet I knew that what I saw wasn’t as simple and good as it appeared. There was a price to be paid for it all, a general falsity, that could easily be believed, and could be the first step down a dead-end street. – Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Besides English, Neil Sedaka also recorded singles in Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Hebrew and French.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What is the only song in Hot 100 history that went to #1 in its second chart run to also go to #1 in its first chart run? – Answer next time!
