Daily Dose/June 24, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
The very best of the very worst of the week that was.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
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The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow is peeved when someones summons him by saying “yo”. Today’s Diary.
Dude, don’t “yo” me…I am not your home slice and I wanted to go out and attack him with my pocket knife, but that would be a violation of company policy, I think, so eventually I wandered out and he had some sundry items to buy…His girlfriend’s debit card was trotted out again for payment and I thought he must be a hell of a lay to get a broad to pay his expenses for him.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon is named Employee of the Month. He was surprised, too.
I am not making that up! The lover of 10-10’s and founder of the Foot on the Desk Percentage was named MCSD’s Graveyard Employee of the Month!
Now, that’s a pretty specific group, and if it were any narrower everyone in the department would get a prize every month, but the award is a $40 comp to the coffee shop, so everyone can blow me.
On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1880 – O Canada, now Canada’s national anthem, is performed for the first time at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebration in Quebec City. The tune was composed by Calixa Lavallee and French lyrics were added five years later. The song was used with God Save the King/Queen and The Maple Leaf Forever as unofficial national anthems until 1980 when it became Canada’s official national anthem.
In 2013 – The Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup defeating the Boston Bruins 3-2 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals in Boston. The Blackhawks tied the game with 1:16 left in the third period and scored the game-winner with 59 seconds remaining. It was the fifth Stanley Cup title for Chicago, their first since 2010 and they would win the Cup again in 2015. Chicago right winger Patrick Kane was voted the MVP of the playoffs.
In 1972 – Sammy Davis, Jr is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third and final week with The Candy Man. It was the 18th chart single for Davis since debuting with Hey There in 1954, his eighth Top 40 hit, his second and final Top 10 hit and remains his only #1 song. The song spent 21 weeks on the chart, including 16 weeks in the Top 40 and seven weeks in the Top Ten, was Billboard’s fifth-biggest song of the year. The song earned Davis a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male, in 1973.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Marriage, the last refuge of men unable to fend for themselves. – Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Donna Summer’s only #1 song in Great Britain was I Feel Love which spent four weeks at #1 in 1977.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male, in 1973? – Answer next time!
