The Daily Dose/December 16, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is enjoying its annual winter break. It will return after the first of the year.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a lot of news in one of the longest Diary entries ever.
The gym is closed!!!
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 16 – It’s the toughest trophy to win in sports: The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy. The Jets, though, continue to make it look easy. The Bottom Ten is with our compliments this season.
1. New York Jets (0-13; lost to Seattle 40-3) – It’s not easy to travel cross-country and win in the NFL, but it usually isn’t this tough as Jets now squarely staring B-10 immortality in the face…Jets eighth NFL team to start season 0-13…Next Loss: at Los Angeles Rams
The Regular Guys/Chapter 18 – Lenny and Larry become the headliners at Caesars Palace.
Then one day the world woke up to the tragic news that Caesars Palace headliner Celine Dion had died. She had been at a birthday party at a Vegas restaurant for a tiger that headlined a local magic show and walked into a large freezer, inadvertently stumbled, and hit her head on a side of brisket, and froze to death. Her body wasn’t found until after midnight when some cooks were taking stuff out of the freezer that needed to thaw before being used that night.
It was not immediately clear why she had seen fit to walk in the freezer in the first place, but it didn’t seem to matter.
Caesars Palace needed a new headliner.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1777 – Virginia becomes the first of the United States to ratify the Articles of Confederation. The Articles weren’t ratified until Maryland accepted them in 1781, though the United States was governed by their terms in the interim. The Second Continental Congress had sent the Articles to the several states in November and the Articles would govern the United States until the Constitution took effect in 1789.
In 1961 – Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors begins his second NBA-record streak of seven consecutive games scoring 50 or more points in a 112-110 win over the Chicago Packers. Chamberlain’s first such streak had ended three days earlier and the only game during this period when he didn’t score 50 points came on Dec 12 when he only scored 43 points in a game vs. Syracuse. Chamberlain would finish the season with a scoring average of 50.4 ppg, an NBA record that still stands.
In 1967 – The Monkees are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third of four consecutive weeks with Daydream Believer. The song went to #1 in four other countries, including South Africa and Ireland, peaked at #5 in Great Britain and was the third and final #1 song for the group. Like several other #1 songs, Daydream Believer was originally intended to be the B side of a single and lead singer Davy Jones recalled being annoyed at having to record it and writer John Stewart never regarded it as one of his best songs. In 1979-80 version by Anne Murray peaked at #3 on the country chart and at #12 on the Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
They couldn’t understand it and they could…They had their food and water right there, but what was that open space?
Charles Bukowski
Post Office
Regards birds in their cage facing an open door.
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Adolf Eichmann’s body was cremated, with the ashes scattered in the Mediterranean Sea.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
In how many games did Wilt Chamberlain score 50 or more points in the 1961-61 season? – Answer next time!
