The Daily Dose/February 27, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is in time-out. It will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow encounters the two older ladies who have the hots for him. Today’s Diary.
The big news is the two old(er) ladies that continually scope me out didn’t join me, but they were in the big pool when I was in there for a few minutes before I left and ol’ Stud Sparrow got a pretty good scoping out as he walked from the hot spring to the big pool…They managed to keep their hands off me and we’ll see if they start talking me up before spring…I don’t particularly want that – I don’t even want to be talked up by babes right now – but the throes of passion may well overcome them one day.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1860 – Abraham Lincoln’s march to the presidency begins with a speech at Cooper Union, a private college in New York City. At the time, Lincoln was two years removed from the Illinois US Senate election and was not an announced candidate for the White House. Lincoln spoke about slavery and though far from his most quoted speech, Lincoln’s address was very well received and it is generally thought he would not have earned the Republican presidential nomination without it.
In 1987 – The NCAA announces that is canceling the entire upcoming football season of Southern Methodist University, known to History as the death penalty. The NCAA had found SMU guilty of, among other things, paying players and their families to attend SMU, a practice that had started earlier in the decade. SMU declined to play in 1988 and would only have one winning season in the next 20 years and would not play in a bowl game until 2019.
In 1961 – Chubby Checker is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks with Pony Time. It was the sixth of 22 Top 40 hits for Checker, his third of seven Top 10 hits and was the second and final #1 song for Checker, though The Twist – which first went to #1 in 1960 – would return to #1 the following year. Pony Time would later spend two weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart and was Billboard’s seventh biggest song of the year.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances…such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man
Abraham Lincoln
Cooper Union Address
2/27/1860
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Sweden has won two men’s Olympic ice hockey gold medals, in 2006 and 1994.
Today’s Stumper
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Who defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois US Senate election? – Answer next time!
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