The Daily Dose/December 16, 2019
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
The Diary of a Nobody: A guest has transportation problems. Today’s Diary.
The girl had actually called me from her room about 0100 to announce she had a 0830 flight at the local airport (near The Shire, actually) in a tone that implied it was my job to get her there…You run into this from time to time, people who do not have the good sense to arrange for ground transportation in advance…Dude, it’s a small town with a rinky-dink county airport, there aren’t fleets of busses standing by…There are options, but nothing reliable on this short of notice…I gave her both shuttle service numbers and suggested an Uber/Lyft and told her the hotel does not offer transportation to the airport and that I do not otherwise arrange it for her.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life.
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On This Date
In 1773 – Members of a group known as the Sons of Liberty, a secret group formed in the American colonies to fight British taxation, disguise themselves as Indians, board various ships in Boston Harbor and throw chests of tea into the water. The action was in protest of Britain’s Tea Act of 1773, which was designed to cut the use of tea smuggled into the colonies and get colonists to pay taxes on it. The British did not take the protest well and the Boston Tea Party was a major instigator of the American Revolution.
In 1972 – The Miami Dolphins establish a new NFL record, becoming the first team to go 14-0 in a regular season, defeating the Baltimore Colts 16-0. The Dolphins would go on to defeat Cleveland and Pittsburgh in the AFC playoffs and defeated Washington in the Super Bowl. Though not the only undefeated team in NFL history, the 1972 Dolphins remain the only NFL team to finish a season undefeated and untied.
In 1989 – Billy Joel is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second and final consecutive week with We Didn’t Start the Fire. The song contains a variety of historical references that occurred between 1949, the year Joel was born, until 1989. The song made the Top 10 in eight other countries, including Great Britain where it peaked at #7 and ranked 354th on Billboard’s 2018 60th anniversary Hot 100. It was Joel’s 29th Top 40 hit, his 11th Top 10 hit and his third and last #1 song.
Quotebook
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Chris Paul of the Houston Rockets is NBA’s leader in steals among active players with 2,164.
Today’s Stumper
What other NFL teams finished an entire season undefeated? – Answer next time!
