The Daily Dose/November 25, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off remains on hiatus.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – The cat assists in waking Sparrow up today.
The cat was whining left and right when I woke up…I was surprised because she had had her daily canned yummy ration when I’d gotten home in the morning, but it turned out her dry food bowl was only one-eighth full so starvation, of course, was imminent.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 13 – The laughs simply do not stop in the race for The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy. The Bottom Ten is free this year. Enjoy.
7. Atlanta Falcons (3-7; lost to New Orleans 24-9) – Falcons back in survey, losing to Saints after disastrous two (2)-game win streak…Offensive line taking bows, allowing eight (8) quarterback sacks, while permitting only 52-yards rushing…Next Loss: Las Vegas
The Regular Guys/Chapter 3 – Lenny and Larry – loser comics going nowhere on their own – work together for the first time.
There was no backstage for amateur night. Comedians waited on the side of the stage next to the audience. Larry took the stairs leading to the stage and jumped on stage as if he were doing Swan Lake; Lenny followed, taking pictures of the crowd with his phone.
Larry, who turned out to be a ham once you put a spotlight on him, was bowing when Lenny came and nudged him out of the way so he could bow and take more pictures, causing Larry to trip and almost fall off the stage, thereby accounting for The Regular Guys’ first laugh.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1999 – A 5-year-old Cuban boy named Elian Gonzales is picked up by a fishing boat while floating in an innertube of the Florida coast. Gonzales had set sail from Cuba with 17 others, including his mother and her common-law husband, in a 17-foot boat. Gonzales, rather reluctantly, was turned over to the Coast Guard and, after no small amount of wrangling and maneuvering, was returned to his father in Cuba seven months later. Today Gonzales, now 26, lives and works in Cuba.
In 1983 – The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings play in front of the largest crowd in NHL history in a 5-2 Red Wings win at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. A crowd of 21,019 watched the game, about one thousand more than its listed capacity and research into whose record the crowd broke was inconclusive. Since the NHL now plays games in baseball and football stadiums, the record has been broken many times and the NHL attendance record is now 105,491 at Michigan Stadium on Jan 1, 2014, when the Red Wings defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in a shootout.
In 1972 – Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes are at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Bests Selling Soul Singles chart – for the second and final consecutive week with If You Don’t Know Me By Now. It was the first of four #1 soul hits for the group and the song also peaked at #3 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and remains their biggest pop hit. Harold Melvin was the original lead singer of the Blue Notes and the lead singer for the group during this era was Teddy Pendegrass.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…these imitators mock all things, including the true, using the mask of philosophy to disguise license and responsibility.
Gore Vidal
Julian
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The two players not named Wilt Chamberlain or Bill Russell to have at least 40 rebounds in an NBA game are Nate Thurmond (San Francisco Warriors, 42, 11/9/65) and Jerry Lucas (Cincinnati Royals, 40, 2/29/64).
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Another version of If You Don’t Know Me By Now went to #1 on the Hot 100 in 1989. Who was this version by? – Answer next time!
