The Daily Dose/September 16, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: The latest Morning Coffee Service (MCS) news.
The big news – and it’s pretty big – is people who requested early coffee actually showed up for early coffee!!!…I am not making that up…The request was for 0400 and that is when the first men started filing in.
The first was a friendly sort who worked for the railroad…He said he was always up at 0300 for 0400 work and he added one cup of joe got him thru the whole day…This was funny because he almost guzzled the entire cup in one swig and I told him he could refill and, because the cup wasn’t empty, still be within his one cup mandate…He laffed and took me up on it…Then I noted his creamer usage: for both cups, he used almost the entire top rows of French vanilla:
– That’s an impressive amount, sir.
– I do like a little coffee with my creamer.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: Gaylon elects not to pack heat while guarding the employee parking lot.
The real reason is wearing a gun makes sitting at Eddie – 1 difficult because the way the chair is constructed – combined with my favored sitting position with my feet up – could result in the armrest pushing a button on the gun and release the magazine and then you have to go pick it up and check to make sure no bullets fell out…I know this from experience and, fortunately, all bullets were accounted for…Also key is it is considered bad form to take your gun out and set it on the desk.
Free Stuff
The same trick the drug dealers use.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1400 – Owain Glyndwr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers after starting the Welsh Revolt, a rebellion against King Henry IV of England. The revolt was unsuccessful, though Glyndwr avoided capture and was last seen in 1412 and he remains the last Welshman to hold the title. The title has been reserved to the heir to the British throne since the 14th century and the current Prince of Wales, Charles, has held the title since 1958.
In 1903 – The Boston Americans establish American League records for most consecutive innings scored in a game and a season in a 14-7 win over the Cleveland Naps. The Americans, now the Red Sox, became the first American League team to score in every inning – they did not bat in the ninth – and end the game having scored in eleven consecutive innings. The following day they would score in the first six innings of their game against the Naps, now the Indians, to establish the major league record of 17 consecutive innings with a run scored, breaking the record of 14 done by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1894, a record that still stands.
In 1972 – Three Dog Night is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with Black and White. It was the third and final #1 song for the group and their 14th of 21 Top 40 hits. The song also went to #1 in Canada and New Zealand. The song was written in the 1950s by David Arkin and Earl Robinson after the US Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling, though the verse that referenced that was left out of the Three Dog Night version.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The deists rationalized religion, eliminated mystery: there is a creator, a God; otherwise human beings are on their own, dependent on reason and action. – Fred Kaplan. Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The largest gate in professional boxing history was $72.19 million on May 2, 2015. The paid attendance was 16,219, an average ticket price of $4,451.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many American League teams have scored in every inning while batting nine times? – Answer next time!
