Briefly.
The bank just called and gave me the biggest compliment. They said my balance was outstanding!
Trivia #1: What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?
Trivia #2: Who is the only MLB player to play for all four original expansion franchises and ONLY those franchises?
Trivia #3: Which country produces more major-leaguers per capita than any other country in the world?
Trivia #4: Who won the 2020 championships in the NHL, NBA, MLB and the NFL (Super Bowl played in 2020)
On this date: July 10, 48 BC, Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey near the city of Dyrrachium (in what is now Albania)
July 10, 1040, Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to persuade her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
July 10, 1796, Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers
July 10, 1890, Wyoming becomes 44th state of US, the first with female suffrage
July 10, 1923, Two-pound hailstones kill 23 people and many cattle in Rostov, Russia
July 10, 1925, Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
July 10, 1936, state record high temperatures were set in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia
July 10, 1943, Singer Judy Garland (21) headlines her first solo concert, with an orchestra led by conductor Andre Kostelanetz at the Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park; sell-out crowd of 15,000 augmented by additional 5,000 outside the open-air venue
July 10, 1975, Gladys Knight & the Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV
July 10, 2018, Drake surpasses The Beatles’ record of most singles in the Billboard Hot 100 with seven from his album “Scorpion” against their five. (Drake? Who knew?)
Her: Why is your password “snowwhiteandthesevenswarfs?”
Me: I was told it had to be at least 8 characters.
Go away: Soccer (I know, not a popular comment but, gone away for a while in my world)
Article I’ll skip: World Cup teams move into the quarterfinals: Here’s how to stream every match without cable – Ya, I might watch the final, maybe. Until then, I’m good.
I’m going to buy a driving range and add a mat on one end that is all caged in and would be used solely for throwing clubs. Hit your bucket, then let it all hang out in the “throwing area.”
I’m still torn whether I like about the Jaylen Brown trade. I can tell you this, Paul George has played in more than 56 games in a season only once in his past 7, ½ the season or less in three of those. He’s 36.
This week’s sign of the apocalypse: The average new car payment rose to an all-time high in the first quarter as American households continued to face affordability challenges in the economy. The average monthly payment for a new vehicle rose 2.9% from a year ago to a record of $770. And you don’t think credit scores matter?? Among borrowers with varying tiers of credit scores, the borrowers making the highest average monthly payments on new vehicles were nonprime borrowers with scores in the 601 to 660 range, who paid $811, followed by subprime borrowers with scores between 501 and 600 who paid $792.
Trivia #2 hint: The teams were the Angels, the Rangers, the Mets, and the Astros.
Contract dispute, you’re doing it wrong: Willard Gary Black, 85, a furniture manufacturer, allegedly shot and killed his business partner after a court ruled against him in a contract dispute. The shooting happened at the Old Hickory Tannery, where Robert Rogers Arguelles and Black were co-owners of the business. Earlier in the day, Black was ordered to pay Arguelles $310,882.74 after a contract dispute between the two men.
While some NFL team rookie camps begin as early as next Friday, most NFL camps start by the 21st. Let’s go!
I have a friend who write songs about sewing machines. She’s a singer-songwriter, or sew it seems. – Wait… what?
Trivia #1 answer: What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common? – They both have the same middle name
Trivia #2 answer: Who is the only MLB player to play for all four original expansion franchises and ONLY those franchises? – Nolan Ryan
Trivia #3 answer: Which country produces more major-leaguers per capita than any other country in the world? – Curacao
Trivia #4 answer: Who won the 2020 championships in the NHL, NBA, MLB and the NFL (Super Bowl played in 2020) – Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL), LA Lakers (NBA), LA Dodgers (MLB), New England Patriots (NFL)
Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.
Be careful out there. (It’s a jungle!)
Happy National French Fry Day!
“He’s leaving
(Leaving)
On that midnight train to Georgia, yeah
(Leaving on the midnight train)
Said he’s going back
(Going back to find)
To a simpler place and time, oh yes he is
(Whenever he takes that ride, guess who’s gonna be right by his side)
I’ll be with him
(I know you will)”
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Ed's Head On Friday 