The Daily Dose/November 4, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return. There’s nothing going on right now anyway.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow fields a complaint from a guest who can’t tell the difference between an idling truck and his room’s heater.
Experience has taught that it can be useful to close your eyes here and let your ears take charge and zero in on the noise, so I did that and BOOM it turns out the noise is coming from off to my right, in the area where the heat until is kept…Or where I think the heating unit is kept…I’m not entirely certain what’s in there…Another lesson the years have taught is don’t go knocking on the guest’s door here, but you do want them to know you looked into their problem and it’s appropriate to call them and the guy said thank you, don’t bother him further on the matter, he’ll come to the front desk and take care of later in the day.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 10: It’s the usual hilarity in the race for the most coveted trophy in sports, The Dan Henning Trophy – symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy.
7. Cincinnati Bengals (2-5-1; defeated Tennessee 31-20) – Bengals quest to shed worst team never to win B-10 title mantle takes big hit with upset win…Bengals offense morale at rock bottom after producing leads not even their defense could blow…Next Loss: Pittsburgh (11/15)
On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1890 – The world’s first underground railway – the City and South London Railway – opens in London with six stations and 3.2 miles of track. The line opened with electric locomotives – a method still in its infancy – because the company contracted to provide the originally-planned cable-hauled trains had gone bankrupt. The railway operated until 1933 and the unused tunnels served as a bomb shelter in World War II.
In 1973 – Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors begins an NBA-record streak of 65 consecutive games scoring at least 30 points in a 135-132 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Chamberlain had 58 points in the game and would not score fewer than 30 points in a contest until February 24 when the Boston Celtics held him to 26 points. Research into whose record Chamberlain broke was inconclusive and the record still stands. Chamberlain finished the 1961-62 season averaging 50.4 points per game, another NBA record that still stands.
In 1957 – Elvis is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – a predecessor to the Hot 100 – for the third of seven non-consecutive weeks with Jailhouse Rock. It was the ninth of 18 #1 songs for Elvis and his 19th of 107 Top 40 hits. The song also went to #1 on Billboard’s country and soul charts making Elvis one of three acts – the Everly Brothers and Billy Ray Cyrus are the others – to have #1 songs on all three charts. The song also went to #1 in South Africa and Great Britain.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Oh, what low joke was Fortuna playing on him now? Arrest, accident, job! Where would this dreadful cycle ever end?
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
A.C. Green played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat during his NBA career.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many #1 songs did Elvis have in Great Britain? – Answer next time!
