The Daily Dose/February 23, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow helps an ex-SEAL at the VSO. Today’s Diary.
SEALs are psycho…Their training is so hard and they are so focused they all have this stare while they are in service and jumping out of airplanes and diving the Challenger Deep holding their breath…Nate has lost this stare, but he still looks like he’d prefer to slit my throat…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1455 – The first Gutenberg Bible – a landmark event in Western civilization – is printed in Mainz, Germany by Johannes Gutenberg. Gutenberg also developed an oil-based ink that adhered better to his metal type and 49 copies of his Bible are known to exist today. Movable type first appeared in China in the 11th century AD and the oldest extant moveable type book dates from 1377 in Korea.
In 1980 – Eric Heiden of the US establishes a new world record in the 10,000-meters speed skating event at the Lake Placid Winter Games. Heiden won in 14 minutes, 28.13 seconds, to break the record of 14:34.33, established by Viktor Lyoskin of the Soviet Union in 1977. It was the fifth and final gold medal of the Lake Placid Games for Heiden, and he remains the only athlete to win five gold medals at a single Winter Games. The current world record is 12:30.74 done at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by Nils van der Poel of Sweeden.
In 1985 – Mel McDaniel is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the only week with Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On. It was the 26th country hit for McDaniel and remains his only #1. The song also went #1 country in Canada and was Billboard’s 12th-biggest country song of the year. The song was originally given to Conway Twitty, who thought John Anderson would be better suited for it, but Anderson had no idea who sent it to him and turned it down.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The first Federal Military Commissioner of Florida was Andrew Jackson.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who is the only other American man to win the Olympic gold medal in 10,000-meter speed skating? – Answer next time!
