The Daily Dose/October 7, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is taking some PTO today.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow whines about his trash not getting picked up.
The trash hasn’t been picked up for two weeks…Last week I’m prepared to cut them some slack on because I didn’t put it out until I got back from the hotel and they’ve been known to come to get it really early…My bad for not having it out the night before.
This happened today, too, but I was up most of the day (see Sleep Log below) and the bastards passed by it twice!!!…I am not making that up…Both times were during the 1400 hour, once going each way on Maple Street…I don’t understand this at all and I am going to call the town hall tomorrow and whine about this…I’m going to leave the trash can out on the street, too.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Sparrow takes command in the hotel.
You’ll forgive me for beaming, but the ascension of X-Ray is now complete. In a little over a year he has gone from a wide-eyed trainee dealing with a naked girl in a stairwell to the go-to guy in the hotel. There is simply no one working the hotel racket in Vegas right now turning in better work night in and night out.
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 6: Four (4) 0-4 teams, one (1) Dan Henning Trophy, symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten supremacy. The wonders of The Bottom Ten are on the house this year.
8. Detroit Lions (1-3; lost to New Orleans 35-29) – Defense takes center stage in this one, overcoming early 14-0 lead by giving up 35 unanswered points…Bye week coming at right time for Lions so they can rest up for brutal two week stretch against Jaguars, Falcons…Next Loss: at Jacksonville (10/18)
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo
Clock in with the graveyard crew of the Monte Carlo Security Department on the glamorous Las Vegas Strip.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1985 – The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt. On Oct 9 the hijackers were allowed to disembark to PLO control and a plane carrying them to Tunis was intercepted by US Air Force jets and forced to land in Italy. The plane was surrounded by Navy SEALS who themselves would later be surrounded by Italian forces. The US would later cede jurisdiction to the Italians and the four were later tried and convicted and sentenced to varying prison terms. All have since been paroled.
In 1956 – Al Carmichael of the Green Bay Packers establishes a new NFL record for the longest kickoff return in a 37-21 loss to the Chicago Bears. Carmichael returned a first-quarter kickoff 106 yards for a touchdown, breaking the record of 104 yards established by Buddy York of the Baltimore Colts in 1953. The record was broken in 2007 by Eillis Hobbs of New England (108 yards) and is now held by Cordarrelle Patterson of the Minnesota Vikings, who had a 109-yard return in 2013.
In 1967 – Jackie Wilson is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart – for the only week with (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. The song also peaked at #6 on the Hot 100 and made the Top 20 of the British pop chart in 1969 and 1987. It was Wilson’s sixth and final #1 song on Billboard’s soul chart and was his sixth Top 10 pop hit. A version by Rita Coolidge peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 in 1977.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
You don’t run from your weaknesses, you attack them. – Keith Burkepile, Major, United States Marine Corps
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Cher’s Billboard Hot 100 record for the longest stretch between #1 songs is 24 years, 355 days, between Dark Lady in 1974 and Believe in 1999.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What was Jackie Wilson’s biggest hit on the Hot 100? – Answer next time!
