Sunday, January 6, 2019, 10:15 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Sunday, January 6
Thank You, Doug!
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>From Lee
Recently I've seen strange tabs appear in my Firefox browser
saying my OS needs updating urging me to download something. It
is from some strange site with a cloudfront.net address. I
delete the tab and move on. But I hope others aren't falling for
it.
By the way I use Malwarebytes Premium and do regular checks with
spybot.
Happy New Year,
Lee
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Today's Bonehead Award:
Serious Bimbo Malfunction allegedly sent
159K texts after single date, threatened
to ‘make sushi’ of man’s kidneys
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Today, January 6 in
1945 The Battle of the Bulge ended with 130,000 German and 77,000
Allied casualties.
More of today in history at History
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Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
the morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be
arrested, exiled or hanged.
--- Abraham Lincoln
When men are pure, laws are useless;
when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
--- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Driving home from church one Sunday, the father turned the
radio to a country and western station.
"How can you stand that stuff?" complained his 16-year-old
son. "It's all about lonesome cowboys, gunfights, bar rooms and
broken hearts."
Knowing his son preferred more modern music, the dad asked,
"Well, what's your music about?"
"That's the beauty of it," the son said. "You just don't know!"
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My friend Don, a minor-league umpire, is used to being
heckled by fans.
But imagine his surprise when he was rushing to umpire an
exhibition game at Coors Field in Denver. After a long search for
a place to change clothes, Don finally located a room with a
neatly lettered sign: "Dressing Room, Umpires Only."
As he was about to go in, however, he inspected the sign
more closely. Below the printed legend was the same message...
written in Braille.
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>From GCF
We took the family to one of those restaurants where the walls
are plastered with movie memorabilia. I went to see the hostess
about reserving a table.
When I returned, I found my 11-year-old daughter staring at a
poster of Superman standing in a phone booth. She looked puzzled.
"Doesn't she know who Superman is?" I whispered to my husband.
"Worse," he replied, "she doesn't know what a phone both is."
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Lynx kitten ventured onto Tim's porch in Alaska
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Jaqueline Ades,
33.
Phoenix,
Arizona
Serious Bimbo Malfunction allegedly sent
159K texts after single date, threatened
to ‘make sushi’ of man’s kidneys
A woman accused of bombarding a man with 65,000 text messages
after a single date is now believed to have sent more than twice
that amount.
According to court documents obtained by the Arizona Republic,
then 31-year-old Jaqueline Ades, of Phoenix, sent the victim more
than 159,000 texts – many of them threatening – over a 10-month
period starting in July, 2017.
“I’d wear ur fascia n the top of ur skull n ur hands n feet,” one
of the alleged texts read.
Another read, “I’d make sushi outta ur kidneys n chopsticks outta
ur hand bones,” according to police.
Ades told investigators they met on a site called Luxy, which
advertises that it can connect users with “verified
millionaires.”
In July 2017, Ades was found parked outside of the victim’s
Paradise Valley home, police said. Officers found Ades still
outside the victim’s home when they arrived and told her to
leave, officials said. Shortly after, the man started to receive
threatening text messages from the suspect.
Police received a similar report in December from the same
residence, but officers were unable to locate her.
On April 8, the victim called a detective a third time, saying he
was out of the country, but saw Ades in his home while checking
his home surveillance video.
When officers arrived at the home, the woman was taking a bath,
police said. Body camera video obtained in a public records
request by the Arizona Republic allegedly shows her telling an
officer, “I guess that I made up a whole scenario in my head
where I live here, so I came here and pretended that’s what was
happening.”
A large butcher knife was discovered on the passenger’s seat of
her car, court paperwork said. She was taken into custody and
charged with trespassing. Police noted in her arrest record that
she showed signs of mental illness.
After Ades was released from jail, she allegedly started sending
more threatening text messages to the victim — some of the
messages alluded that “harm may come to him,” according to KNXV.
Less than three weeks later, the victim called authorities to
report receiving multiple threatening text messages from her,
court documents said. The man also explained that they met on a
dating website, and after one date Ades began stalking and
harassing him. The victim said that she sent about 500 text
messages to him a day, court documents said.
In one of Ades’ messages, she allegedly stated, “…Don’t ever try
to leave me…I’ll kill you…I don’t wanna be a murderer.” She also
said that she wanted to wear his body parts and bathe in his
blood, court paperwork said.
Ades is being held without bond at the Maricopa County Jail after
pleading not guilty to charges of stalking and criminal
trespassing. Her trial is due to begin in early February.
From: Michael
e: Reset Toner status
Dear DearWebby,
One more thing you might want to tell your readers about laser
printers: About a year and a half ago, my Brother printer
complained that I needed to replace the black toner. I googled
for how to reset the message without replacing the cartridge, and
found a page that showed exactly how to do it. I have printed
many hundreds of pages since then, without replacing the black
toner. I have no idea how much longer this “empty” toner will
last, but I’m not going to replace it until it is actually out.
The process to reset the “toner empty” indicator varies between
printers, and is not possible with some, but for any that do
allow it, I highly recommend trying it.
Aloha,
-mkr
Dear Michael
Yes, some printers like those from Brother, count the pages and
when you have printed enough to theoretically deplete the toner,
they whine about it,
If you just print orders or receipts, that use very little toner,
the container may still be half full. They don't weigh the toner
container, just use the counter. It is sort of similar to the
orange idiot light in a car telling you to go to service after a
certain number of miles.
With some printers, like the ones from DELL, you have to take the
chip from the toner container and replace it. Companies that sell
toner refills, sell those chips for around $10.
It is definitely worth googling about toner for your particular
printer, before you spend money.
Have FUN!
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A man is waiting in line for a hit movie. Behind him are two
women.
The usher comes along and says that he has two seats
together. Seeing the problem, the usher says to the man. "Let
them go first. You wouldn't want to separate a woman from her
mother, would you?"
The man says, "No, sir. I did that once, and I've been sorry
ever since."
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A bunch of lawyers were sitting around the office playing
poker.
"I win!" said Johnson.
Henderson threw down his cards. "That's it! I've had it!
Johnson is cheating!!!"
"How can you tell?" Phillips asked.
"Those aren't the cards I dealt him!"
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>From Nan
I REALIZED the impact of computers on my young son one
evening when there was a dramatic sunset. Pointing to the western
sky, David said, "I wish we could click and save that!"
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We had just finished eating a beautiful dinner that my mother
had prepared for our 28-member family. As I glanced up at the
chandelier over the table, I was mesmerized by the creative
handiwork a spider had woven around the prisms and light bulbs.
"Don't look up there!" my mother screamed. "It's the one thing I
was too tired to clean!"
"Don't look where?" my brother asked.
"There!" my mother pointed. "It's my own personal web site!"
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>From Chuck
WHILE I WAS SERVING as a chief master sergeant at
Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, La., my son and
namesake was also serving there. His two-month-old son, whose
name was the same as ours, was receiving medical treatments at
the base hospital.
I went on sick call one morning, and as the doctor reviewed my
file, he looked at me in disbelief. "Are you Curtis E. Chaffin?"
he asked. When I answered yes, he told me, "It says here that you
turn blue when you cry."
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Today January 6 in
0871 England's King Alfred defeated the Danes at the Battle of
Ashdown.
1205 Philip of Swabia was crowned as King of the Romans.
1540 King Henry VIII of England was married to Anne of Cleves,
his fourth wife.
1838 Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for the
first time.
1896 The first American women’s six-day bicycle race was held at
Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1900 In India, it was reported that millions of people were dying
from starvation.
1900 Off of South Africa, the British Navy seized the German
steamer Herzog. The boat was released on January 22, 1900.
1930 The first American diesel-engine automobile trip was
completed after a run of 792 miles from Indianapolis, IN, to New
York City, NY.
1942 The first commercial around-the-world airline flight took
place. Pan American Airlines was the company that made history
with the feat.
1945 The Battle of the Bulge ended with 130,000 German and 77,000
Allied casualties.
1950 Britain recognized the Communist government of China.
1952 "Peanuts" debuted in Sunday papers across the United States.
1967 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces launched a major offensive,
known as Operation "Deckhouse V", in the Mekong River delta.
1982 William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles, CA, of being
the "freeway killer" who had murdered 14 young men and boys.
1987 After a 29-year lapse, the Ford Thunderbird was presented
with the Motor Trend Car of the Year Award. It was the first
occurrence of a repeat winner of the award.
1994 Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by
an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI. Four men were later
sentenced to prison for the attack, including Tonya Harding's ex-
husband.
1998 The spacecraft Lunar Prospect was launched into orbit around
the moon. The craft was crashed into the moon, in an effort to
find water under the lunar surface, on July 31, 1999.
1999 The 106th U.S. Congress opened. The first item on the agenda
was the impeachment proceedings of U.S. President Bill Clinton.
The trial was set to begin January 7, 1999.
2004 In the United Arab Emirates, construction began on the Burj
Khalifa skyscraper. Upon completion it was the world's largest
building.
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Why do lasers take so long to start? Saturday, January 5, 2019, 09:12 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, January 5
Thank You, Doug!
Today's Bonehead Award:
Assault on workers at McDonalds
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Today, January 5 in
1914 Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new daily
minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday.
More of today in history at History
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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
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A listener called the disc jockey on the air at our radio
station to ask about the upcoming lunar eclipse.
"The eclipse can be seen at 1:30 in the morning," the DJ
told her.
"That late?" she snapped. "Why can't they schedule these
things earlier so kids can enjoy them too?"
"We don't want everybody in traffic to stare at the moon instead
of watching for you and the kids on the road."
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ONE DAY after a heavy snowfall, this announcement
appeared on the bulletin board in the nurses lounge of my
local hospital: "Student nurses will please refrain from ever
again using this institution's sterile bedpans for makeshift
snow sleds."
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A three-year-old in the congregation regularly watched
football games with his father. So much so, that he knew
some of the signals the referee makes.
On a recent Sunday, as the pastor raised his hands high
to offer a blessing, the child interrupted the service by leaping
to his feet and shouting, "Touchdown!"
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Is he groping her front or her back?
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Daniel Taylor,
40,
St Petersburg,
Floriduh
Assault on workers at McDonalds
Assault at McDonalds
The customer seen in a viral video accosting a female McDonald’s
employee allegedly kicked a second worker in the stomach as he
was being escorted out of the Florida restaurant on New Year’s
Eve, according to police who arrested him on a pair of battery
charges.
Daniel Taylor, 40, was in the St. Petersburg restaurant around 7
PM Monday when he reached across the front counter and grabbed
worker Yasmine James by the collar and “jerked her forward.”
Yasmine is much shorter than Taylor.
A video of the incident, seen above, shows James punching Taylor
in an attempt to loosen his grip. After letting go of James,
Taylor snaps his fingers at a McDonald’s manager and says,
“Excuse me, sir. Gimme a refund.”
When James later reappears at the counter, Taylor says, “And I
want her ass fired right now.”
As alleged in court filings, as Taylor was being escorted out of
the restaurant by McDonald’s management, he kicked worker Tateona
Bell in the stomach as she was standing near the exit door. The
confrontation, cops says, “was captured on video.”
Seen above, Taylor was arrested on two misdemeanor battery counts
and booked into the Pinellas County jail (where he remains locked
up in lieu of $1000 bond). A judge has ordered him to stay away
from McDonald’s and have no contact with James or Bell.
Taylor, listed as a transient in arrest affidavits, may have been
under the influence of alcohol during his McDonald’s meltdown,
cops reported. Taylor’s rap sheet includes convictions for lewd
and lascivious behavior, passing bad checks, driving without a
license, and failure to appear in court.
Chances are good that Taylor will get tuned up in jail by
McDonalds customers, who don't like it when boneheads assault
young McDonalds workers.
From: Teddie
Re: Why is a laser so slow?
Dear Webby,
Why does it take so much time before a Laser printer starts
printing? I need one for the counter, because those ridiculous
ink squirters are too expensive to operate, and they break down
in half a year.
Teddie
Dear Teddie
Lasers use a toner, which is basically a powder made from hard
wax, magnetic powder and color pigment. The built in magic
deposits the dry powder exactly where it needs to be, and then
the hot fuser roller melts the toner so that it flows into the
paper.
What takes time is to heat up that fuser roller.
If you print again in a few minutes, it will still be hot and
won't take long to get to the right operating temperature.
Have FUN!
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After my fifth-graders studied the history of the Alamo,
I gave them a test with this bonus question: "What was the
famous battle cry that later helped spur on independence for
Texans?"
One student's response: "Remember the alimony!"
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When I was a child, I remember my Mom telling me,
"Son, when you grow up, you can marry any girl you please."
When I became a young man, I learned the sad fact was
that I could not please many of them.
Actually, I STILL have that problem!
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key will get hot.
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If it is your car lock, a zip-lock baggie
filled with hot coffee and held against the lock for 60
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SITTING IN HIS CAB waiting for a fare, my friend's husband,
William, watched as a torrential downpour left lake-size puddles
just off the curb of the busy street. Then the back door opened
and a customer got in. As William asked the destination, the
would-be passenger exited through the other door, successfully
avoiding the puddles.
"Thanks," she said. "Chivalry isn't dead after all."
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>From Mary
I HAVE a reputation at work for being a strict boss. One day I
was in the break room with another manager. I reached into the
refrigerator for my lunch, which was packed in an Ace Hardware
paper bag. My co-worker stopped mid-bite and stared at me,
looking a little tense.
When I pulled my sandwich out of the bag, he sighed in relief.
"What's the matter?" I asked him. "Uh, nothing," he replied,
"I was beginning to think you really do eat nails for lunch."
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MY 50-SOMETHING friend Nancy and I decided to introduce
her mother to the magic of the Internet. Our first move was to
access the popular "Ask Jeeves" site, and we told her it could
answer any question she had. Nancy's mother was very skeptical
until Nancy said, "It's true, Mom. Think of something to ask it."
As I sat with fingers poised over the keyboard, Nancy's mother
thought a minute, then responded, "Did Aunt Helen go to Heaven or
to Hell?"
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Today January 5 in
1781 Richmond, VA, was burned by a British naval expedition led
by Benedict Arnold.
1885 The Long Island Railroad Company became the first to offer
piggy-back rail service which was the transportation of farm
wagons on trains.
1896 It was reported by The Austrian newspaper that Wilhelm
Roentgen had discovered the type of radiation that became known
as Roentgen Rays in Europe and as X-rays in America.
1900 In Ireland, Nationalist leader John Edward Redmond called
for a revolt against British rule.
1903 The general public could use the Pacific cable for the very
first time.
1914 Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new daily
minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday.
1925 Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross was sworn in as the governor of
Wyoming She was the first female governor in the U.S.
1933 In California, construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began.
1944 The London "Daily Mail" was the first transoceanic newspaper
to be published.
1948 Warner Brothers-Pathe showed the very first color newsreel.
The footage was of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose
Bowl football classic.
1956 In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy walked on two legs for
the first time.
1972 U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered the development of
the space shuttle.
1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan underwent prostate surgery.
1993 The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd. It was
America's first legal hanging since 1965. Dodd was an admitted
child sex killer.
1996 Yahya Ayyash, a member of the Hamas in Israel, is killed by
a booby-trapped cellular phone.
1998 U.S. Representative Sonny Bono died in skiing accident.
2002 A 15 year-old student pilot, Charles Bishop, crashed a small
plane into a building in Tampa, FL. Bishop was about to begin a
flying lesson when he took off without permission and without an
instructor.
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When shouold you switch to a Laser mprinter? Friday, January 4, 2019, 08:33 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, January 4
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Today's Bonehead Award:
Indiana toddler left in freezing car in
‘soaked’ diaper while mom was inside bar
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Today, January 4 in
1951 During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist
Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
More of today in history at History
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its
opponents do not cease to be insipid.
--- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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>From Elsa
AS A NEW federal employee, I felt a combination of
excitement and anxiety about meeting the strict standards of
discretion and respect that our government imposes on its
workers.
Fearful of making a costly mistake, I decided to read up on
procedures and standards on the federal Office of Personnel
Management web page. I'm not sure if I was relieved or worried
when I clicked on one page and found: "Ethics: Coming Soon!"
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How can a pregnant woman tell that she's carrying a future
politician?
She has an uncontrollable craving for baloney.
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How many politicians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Three. One to climb the ladder. One to shake it. And one to
sue the ladder company.
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Tiffany Hebling,
29,
Starke County,
Indiana
Indiana toddler left in freezing car in
‘soaked’ diaper while mom was inside bar
Officers with the Knox City Police Department responded to O’s
Tap on Main Street around 2 a.m. Sunday after someone spotted the
child in a car that wasn’t running. Police say the temperature
was 25 degrees.
According to a police report obtained by WKVI, the baby’s diaper
was soaked and no baby food, bottle or diapers were found in the
diaper bag or car.
Police say Tiffany Hebling, 29, was inside the bar. She was
arrested and charged with neglect of a dependent and criminal
recklessness.
The baby was checked out by medics and released to her father.
Police are reviewing the bar’s surveillance video to determine
how long the baby was left alone in the car and how hard to throw
the book at her.
From: Elsie
Re: Ink or Laser printer
Dear Webby,
You mentioned a number of pages per month one time,
that would be time to switch from ink to laser printers.
But I forgot what that number was. And it probably has
changed in the meantime. What is that number nowadays?
Elsie
Dear Elsie,
if your old inkjet is still OK for fax and scanning,
then you can buy a cheap single function network laser
printer, and the magical number drops to one tenth of a case
of paper per month. Toner has come down in price, but ink has
gone up. It is so ridiculously expensive that some companies give
you the ink jet printer free or almost free, so that they can
hold you for ransom with the ink.
During the first year you will feel paranoid about when your
toner will run out. Keep in mind, most stores like Staples or
BestBuy will sell Lasers with a cheapscate Mr Grinch type toner
sample, that will run out shortly after you leave the store.
Ignore that and get a proper toner replacement.
THEN you will see how long it will last, and you will be
pleasantly surprised.
Have FUN!
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The woman needed encouragement to keep pedaling the exercise bike
in her gym. So my friend, the gym manager, said, "Close your
eyes
and imagine you're riding along Broadway in New York City. It
will be more interesting."
Inspired, the woman cycled on, but after a minute she stopped.
"What's wrong?" asked my friend."
"The traffic light's red," she replied.
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Being in the bee removal business, I'm used to frantic
phone calls, like the one from the woman whose home was infested
with bees. "You don't understand," she said, explaining why she
was so upset, "I have two small children here."
"I do understand," I reassured her. "I have six children of my
own."
"Oh," she said, now calmer. "I guess you don't have the
'birds' part down yet."
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Above all, save any and all even vaguely
related receipts! Without a receipt, it does not count.
However, with a receipt you can write off an allowance to
junior as "Snow Removal", as long as he shoveled the driveway
to the (home) office, or "Landscaping" if he mowed the lawn.
If you provide coffee to "employees" and visitors, you can
buy it in bulk and also write it off, IF you save the receipts.
You or your accountant can always dump invalid receipts, but you
can't do anything about the ones you forgot to save.
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The day a friend of mine was promoted, he arrived home to
be greeted by his wife saying, "Welcome home, Colonel!
"My dear, you needn't call me Colonel," he teased, "a simple
Sir will do."
For quite some time after, she addressed him as Simple Sir.
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A doctor, received an emergency call from a patient:
She had a fly in her ear. He suggested an old folk remedy. "Pour
warm olive oil in your ear and lie down for a couple of minutes,"
he said. "When you lift your head, the fly should emerge with the
liquid."
The patient thought that sounded like a good idea. But she had
one question: "Which ear should I put the oil in?"
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A class professor was giving a lecture on company slogans and was
asking his students if they were familiar with them.
"Joe," he asked, "which company has the slogan, FLY THE FRIENDLY
SKIES?"
Joe answered the correct airline.
"Brenda, can you tell me which company has the slogan, DON'T
LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT?"
Brenda answered the correct credit card company with no
difficulty.
"Now John, tell me which company bears the slogan, JUST DO IT?"
And John answered, "Mom."
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Today January 4 in
1850 The first American ice-skating club was organized in
Philadelphia, PA.
1884 The socialist Fabian Society was founded in London.
1936 The first pop music chart based on national sales was
published by "Billboard" magazine.
1944 The attack on Monte Cassino was launched by the British
Fifth Army in Italy.
1948 Britain granted independence to Burma.
1951 During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist
Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
1953 Tufted plastic carpeting was introduced by Barwick Mills.
1957 "Collier’s" magazine was published for the last time. The
periodical was published for 69 years.
1958 The Soviet satellite Sputknik I fell to the earth from its
orbit. The craft had been launched on October 4, 1957.
1962 New York City introduced a train that operated without
conductors and motormen.
1965 The Fender Guitar Company was sold to CBS for $13 million.
1974 U.S. President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings
and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1984 Wayne ‘The Great One’ Gretzky scored eight points (four
goals and four assists) for the second time in his National
Hockey League (NHL) career. Edmonton’s Oilers defeated the
Minnesota North Stars, 12-8. The game was the highest-scoring NHL
game to date.
1991 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn
Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied
territories.
1997 The Greek Cypriot government signed an agreement to buy S-
300 surface-to-air missiles from Russia.
1999 A drifting Nicaraguan fishing boat was found by the
Norwegian oil tanker Joelm. The fishermen had been lost at sea
for 35 days after the engine of their vessel quit working.
1999 Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as
Minnesota's 37th governor.
2007 Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.
2010 In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower)
opened as the world's tallest tower at 2,625 feet.
2018 smiled.
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Free Interior Design program Wednesday, January 2, 2019, 10:34 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, January 2
Thank you, Clyde!!!
Today's Bonehead Award:
Cowboy boot-wearing racist kicked black
baby boy onto supermarket floor
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Today, January 2 in
1872 Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon
Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.
More of today in history at History
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
--- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from
time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black
eye.
--- Miss Piggy
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>From Ada
MY 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER asked me, "Mom, do you have a baby
picture of yourself? I need it for a school project." I gave her
one without thinking to ask what the project was. A few days
later I was in her classroom for a parent-teacher meeting when I
noticed my face pinned to a mural the students had created. The
title of their project was "The oldest thing in my house."
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COLLECTED COMMENTS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
He teaches like Speedy Gonzalez on a caffeine high.
Help! I've fallen asleep and I can't wake up!
His blackboard technique puts Rembrandt to shame.
Textbook is confusing ... someone with a knowledge of
English should proofread it.
This class was a religious experience for me ... I had to
take it all on faith.
The recitation instructor would make a good parking lot
attendant. Tries to tell you where to go, but you can never
understand him.
Problem sets are a decoy to lure you away from potential
exam material.
Recitation was great. It was so confusing that I forgot
who I was, where I was, and what I was doing - it's a great
stress reliever.
Information was presented like a ruptured fire hose -
spraying in all directions - no way to stop it.
He knows the facts, but doesn't seem to understand
why or how they occur.
Philosophy might be interesting for a profesor, who
is scared of reality.
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Recently a teacher, a garbage collector, and a lawyer wound up
together at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter informed them that in
order to get into Heaven, they would each have to answer one
question.
St. Peter addressed the teacher and asked, "What was the name of
the ship that crashed into the iceberg? They just made a movie
about it."
The teacher answered quickly, "That would be the Titanic."
St.Peter let him through the gate.
St. Peter turned to the garbage man and, figuring Heaven didn't
REALLY need all the odors that this guy would bring with him,
decided to make the question a little harder: "How many people
died on the ship?"
Fortunately for him, the trash man had just seen the movie, and
answered, "1,228."
"That's right! You may enter."
St. Peter then turned to the lawyer. "Name them."
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Riff Trace,
31,
Wichita,
Kansas
Cowboy boot-wearing racist kicked black
baby boy onto supermarket floor
A cowboy boot-wearing white supremacist kicked a one year-old
black baby in the back and sent him tumbling to a supermarket
floor, police said. Jhavii Whitaker was attacked from behind by
Trace Riff, 31, as Trace screamed the N-word at the baby and his
11 year-old sister.
Recalling the incident at a Dillon's supermarket in Wichita,
Kansas, Sunday, Jhavii's mother Lashantai Whitaker said: 'I heard
a thud like a loud thud, and I'm thinking it's something that
fell off a shelf or something. One year-old Jhavii Whitaker was
kicked in the back by a racist and tumbled to the floor while
shopping with his mother and sister on Sunday
'But my daughter started to scream, so I turned around, and she
was picking my son off the ground. He was screaming to the top of
his lungs.' Lashantai, who is pregnant, was walking just ahead of
her children when she heard the commotion, and turned around to
hear her daughter screaming that Jhavii had been kicked.
The impact had sent the little boy crashing face-down onto the
floor, with Riff then alleged to have tried to run away. He was
apprehended by shocked eyewitnesses who pinned him to the ground,
with Riff reportedly screaming more racist slurs, and claiming to
be a white supremacist. Lashanta told KSN: 'He was just referring
to us as the N-word and just making it known that he was a white
supremacist and repeatedly saying it over and over.
'What person is sitting around at the Dillon's waiting to attack
children?' She added: 'I'm hoping that they give him time, and it
doesn't happen to somebody else's child.' Riff, who has numerous
previous convictions including DUI and domestic violence, was
arrested and charged with ethnic intimidation, battery and
resisting police. He has since been released on $3,500 bond, with
no conditions, to the horror of his alleged victim's family.
From: Kay
Re: Free interior design program
Dear Webby,
I am looking for a safe free download program to design rooms in
my new home. For instance, new flooring, carpet etc.Â
There are several offered on line, but not sure if they are safe.
Thank you for all of your really useful information in you daily
letter.
Hope you have a blessed, happy and healthy New Year.
Kay
I am not familiar with any of those design programs.
Google for Interior Design programs.
You will probably find a few comparative reviews.
By the way, stay away from carpets except at the entrance door,
where you take your muddy shoes off,
and in the bedroom to cut down the noise you make.
For the rest of the house use cushion vinyl. Then you can use
those flying saucer vacuum and mop robots.
And most emphatically INSIST that the vinyl is pulled up 4 inches
at every wall, instead of floor boards or trim, that creates
black lines unless your maid scrubs off the black line on hands
and knees.
Have FUN!
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An Australian entered a bar and stood beside a Scotsman.
"Where are you from, pal?" asked the Scotsman, after they
had chatted for a while.
"I'm from the finest country in the whole wide world,"
said the Australian.
"Are you?" said the other, "you have a funny accent for a
Scotsman."
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Last summer my wife and I met a couple at a restaurant.
After lunch, the women decided to go shopping, and I invited
the man to go sailing.
While we were out on the water, a storm blew up. The tide
had gone out, and we were down wind trying to work our way back
through a narrow channel. At one point the boat grounded and we
had to climb overboard and shove with all our might to get it
back in deeper water.
As my new friend stood there, ankle deep in muck, the wind
blowing his hair wildly, icy rain streaming down his face, he
grinned at me, and with unmistakable sincerity said, "Sure beats
shopping."
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My niece's class assignment was to interview a senior citizen
about his or her life, so she asked me, "What was the biggest
historical event that happened during your childhood?"
"I'd have to say the moon walk," I replied.
She looked disappointed. "That dance was so important to you?"
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A man received a phone call one day, and the caller asked if
he had lost a parrot.
He said that he had indeed lost the bird, but wanted to know
how the caller located him.
The caller said that the bird had landed on his balcony and
kept repeating, "Hi, you have reached 555-1234. I can't come to
the phone right now, please leave a message at the tone.
Screeeech!"
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>From Ella
I used to live in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the home of
Rutgers University.
The new flock of kids attending college always includes those
who need a little help with everyday chores they themselves never
did before, such as laundry or grocery-shopping.
I was in the dairy aisle for some eggs. As usual, I opened the
carton to check them over before putting them in my cart. Beside
me, a young man did the same to his carton ...then leaned toward
me and asked, "What are we looking for?"
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Judge: I thought I told you I didn't want to see you in
this court again.
Defendant: I told the policeman that, but he didn't believe
me.
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Today January 2 in
1492 The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered
to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella
I.
1842 In Fairmount, PA, the first wire suspension bridge was
opened to traffic.
1859 Erastus Beadle published "The Dime Book of Practical
Etiquette."
1872 Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church,
was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.
1879 Thomas Edison began construction on his first generator.
1882 The Standard Oil Trust agreement was completed and dated.
The document transferred the stock and property of more than 40
companies into the control of nine trustees lead by John D.
Rockefeller. This was the first example of what became known as a
holding company.
1890 Alice Sanger became the first female White House staffer.
1892 Ellis Island opened as America's first federal immigration
center. Annie Moore, at age 15, became the first person to pass
through.
1900 U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door
Policy to prompt trade with China.
1900 The Chicago Canal opened.
1917 Royal Bank of Canada took over the Quebec Bank.
1929 The United States and Canada reached an agreement on joint
action to preserve Niagara Falls.
1935 Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for the kidnap-murder
of Charles Lindberghs baby. Hauptmann was found guilty and
executed.
1942 The Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese
forces during World War II.
1953 "The Life of Riley" debuted on NBC-TV.
1955 Panamanian President Jose Antonio Remon was assassinated.
1968 Fidel Castro announced petroleum and sugar rationing in
Cuba.
1971 In the U.S., a federally imposed ban on television cigarette
advertisements went into effect.
1974 U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill requiring all
states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH. The law was
intended to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed
by Arab oil-producing countries. Federal speed limits were
abolished in 1995.
1983 The musical "Annie" closed on Broadway at the Uris Theatre
after 2,377 performances.
1991 Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC.
She was the first black woman to head a city of that size and
prominence.
1996 AT&T announced that it would eliminate 40,000 jobs over
three years.
1998 Russia began circulating new rubles in effort to keep
inflation in check and promote confidence.
2004 NASA's Stardust space probe collected samples from the comet
Wild 2. The samples returned to Earth on January 15, 2006.
2008 The price of oil hit $100 per barrell for the first time.
2018 smiled.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019, 11:11 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, January 1
Happy New Year, !
Today's Bonehead Award:
Maine Homeowner Finds Intruder Watching TV,
Wearing His Clothing
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Today, January 1 in
1987 A pro-democracy rally took place in Beijing's Tiananmen
Square (China). It did not go over well. Some people are still
in jail.
More of today in history at History
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On the global warming hoax:
It's all because of Bush's poor energy policy, that the people
listened to and believed Al Gore!
--- Hillary Clinton
"Love is being stupid together."
--- Paul Valery
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and
the intelligent are full of doubt.
--- Bertrand Russell
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
--- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for
wise.
--- Francis Bacon
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Tombstones:
Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:
Born 1903--Died 1942.
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way
down.
It was.
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up and no place to go.
On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery , Nova
Scotia :
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102.
Only the Good Die Young.
In a London, England cemetery:
Here lies Ann Mann, who lived an old maid but died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767
In a Ribbesford, England , cemetery:
Anna Wallace
The children of Israel wanted bread,
and the Lord sent them manna.
Clark Wallace wanted a wife,
and the Devil sent him Anna.
In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
Here lies Johnny Yeast. Pardon me for not rising.
A lawyer's epitaph in England:
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer,
and that is Strange.
In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
In a Silver City , Nevada , cemetery:
Here lays The Kid.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England cemetery:
Reader, if cash thou art in want of any,
dig six feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny.
In a Hartscombe, England cemetery:
On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle went out of tune.
Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont:
Here lies the body of our Anna,
Done to death by a banana.
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low,
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket, Massachusetts:
Under the sod and under the trees,
lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod.
Pease shelled out and went to God.
In a cemetery in England :
Remember man, as you walk by,
as you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so shall you be.
Remember this and follow me.
To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone:
To follow you, I'll not consent
until I know which way you went.
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A psychologist is someone who watches everyone else when
a beautiful girl enters the room.
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After a day of grueling maneuvers under the blazing Texas sun,
the platoon stood in front of the barracks.
"All right, ladies, think about this," bellowed the drill
instructor.
"You have proven to yourself that you are in truly awesome
shape. If you could have ten minutes alone, right now,
with anyone in the world, who would it be?"
Amid much mumbling, one voice was heard from the back row.
"My recruiter."
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Derek Tarbox,
35,
Standish,
Maine
Maine Homeowner Finds Intruder Watching TV,
Wearing His Clothing
A Maine man is facing a number of charges after authorities say
he broke into a Waterboro home, grabbed a bite to eat, took a
shower, then got a car ride from his victim.
Derek Tarbox, 35, of Standish, was arrested Sunday and is facing
charges of class B burglary, two counts of unauthorized use of
property, leaving the scene of property damage accident, failure
to report an accident and theft by unauthorized taking.
The York County Sheriff's Office said Tarbox was found watching
television when a Bennet Hill Road resident arrived home Sunday.
Authorities said Tarbox told the homeowner he mistakenly thought
the house belonged to a friend and asked for a ride home.
The homeowner told authorities that seemed plausible, so he drove
him to a house in Hollis, which actually belonged to Tarbox's
relatives.
When the victim returned, he realized his home had been ransacked
and that Tarbox had broken in through a back door.
According to WCSH-TV, the homeowner called police and deputies
and troopers were able to quickly apprehend Tarbox without
incident.
Through an investigation with Maine State Police, authorities
also learned that Tarbox had allegedly stolen a vehicle in
Portland prior to the break-in and ran out of gas in Hollis where
he allegedly stole another vehicle and drove it to the Bennet
Hill Road home where he went off the road and crashed.
Authorities said that's when Tarbox walked to the victim's house
where he broke in.
Tarbox was expected to be arraigned Dec. 26. It's unclear if he
has an attorney. He's scheduled to appear in Alfred Superior
Court on Feb. 8, 2019.
From: Jaxs
Re: Computer not shutting down
Dear Webby,
I have with my computer not shutting down.
A times it tells me it is running a long string at that time it
will time out and close the program
and when i shut it down at night it stays in the shutdown screen,
it stayed in that screen for 5 hrs till I turned off manually
with the power switch.
Any ideas?
Jaxs
Dear Jaxs
That sounds like an infection.
There is no mechanical part that can cause that.
Probably some hacker is not quite finished with whatever he is
doing.
I would recommend that you run Malwarebytes.
Try downloading it, then pulling the Internet connection or
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Secretary: "Pastor, we've got a problem in the computer lab
where you met with the confirmation class last week. Some
of the boys in the class started messing with the mice."
Pastor: "What?!?" (thinking: we've got mice in there!?)
Secretary: "Yeah, it seems some of the boys removed their balls."
Pastor (incredulously...): "Th..th...they did what??? How in the
world did they do that???"
Secretary: "They must have used a screwdriver or something."
Pastor: "We've got some pretty sick boys... I... I... didn't even
realize mice had balls...!"
Secretary: "Yeah, they roll around on 'em all the time!"
Pastor: "What???" (still thinking of the little fury real
animals) "Well...what can *we* do?"
Secretary: "I guess we'll have to put 'em back on the mice.
I can probably do it if I can get enough little screws."
Pastor: "WHAT?!?"
Secretary: "Hmmm....Pastor, are we talking about the same thing?"
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Bubba applied for an engineering position at a Lake
Charles refinery.
A Yankee applied for the same job and both applicants
having the same qualifications were asked to take a test
by the manager.
Upon completion of the test, both men only missed one
of the questions.
The manager went to Bubba and said: "Thank you for
your interest but we've decided to give the Yankee the
job."
Bubba asked: "And why are you giving him the job?
We both got nine questions correct. This being Louisiana ,
and me being a Southern boy I should ge t the job!"
The manager said: "We have made our decision not on
the correct answers, but rather on the one question that
you both missed."
Bubba then asked: "And just how would one incorrect
answer be better than the other?"
The manager replied: "Bubba, it's like this... on question #4,
the Yankee put down, 'I don't know'. And you put down,
'Neither do I'."
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An old Texan went to the local church and asked to join. The
preacher said, 'OK, but you have to pass a small Bible test
first.'
The first Question is 'Where was Jesus born?'
The man answered, 'Longview.'
The preacher said. 'Sorry...you can't join our church.'
Soooooo....he went to another church and asked to join. The
preacher said, 'We would love to have you, but you have to pass a
Bible test first.
Where was Jesus born?'
The man said. 'Tyler.'
The preacher said, 'Sorry...you can't join our church.'
Soooo....he goes to another church and asks, to join.
The preacher said, 'That's great; we welcome you with open arms.'
The man said, 'I don't have to pass no Bible test first?' The
preacher said, 'No.'
The man said, 'Can I ask you a question?'
The preacher said, 'Sure.'
The man said, 'Where was Jesus born?'
The preacher said, 'Palestine.'
The man mumbled to himself, 'I knew it was in East Texas
somewhere.'
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Thanks to Gloria for this story:
The best thing about moving back to my hometown was seeing
so many familiar faces. One day, in the grocery store, I
recognized a man who had been a good friend of my parents.
He noticed me staring, so I quickly introduced myself as
John and Helen's daughter. "Helen's daughter!" he exclaimed.
"Oh, such a beautiful lady."
He called to his wife, "Martha, come and see Helen's daughter.
You remember Helen - such a beautiful lady."
"Oh yes," Martha replied. "She was always so pretty."
After raving on about my mother, he turned to me and said,
"You look like your father!"
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A young woman was suffering badly from hay fever. She was going
to a fancy dinner party that night and figured she would need at
least two handkerchiefs to get her through the evening. She
didn't have any pockets, so she stuffed them both in her bra.
Halfway through the night, she had already used up one
handkerchief and was rummaging around in her bra for the other
one. She was having trouble finding it, and soon she noticed
that everyone at the table was looking at her.
"What on earth are you doing?" asked one of her colleagues.
She replied, "I could have sworn I had two when I arrived!"
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Today January 1 in
0404 The last gladiator competition was held in Rome.
1622 The Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning of
the New Year (instead of March 25th).
1772 The first traveler's checks were issued in London.
1797 Albany became the capital of New York state, replacing New
York City.
1801 Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi became the first person
to discover an asteroid. He named it Ceres.
1804 Haiti gained its independence.
1808 The U.S. prohibited import of slaves from Africa.
1840 The first recorded bowling match was recorded in the U.S.
1863 U.S. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation,
which declared that all slaves in the rebel states were free.
1887 Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India in Delhi.
1894 The Manchester Ship Canal was officially opened to traffic.
1895 In Battle Creek, MI, C.W. Post created his first usable
batch of Monks Brew (later called Postum). It was a cereal-based
substitute for caffeinated drinks.
1898 Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island
were consolidated into New York City.
1900 Hawaii asked for a delegate to the Republican national
convention.
1900 Nigeria became a British protectorate with Frederick Lagard
as the high commissioner.
1901 The Commonwealth of Australia was founded. Lord Hopetoun
officially assumed the duties as the first Governor-General.
1902 The first Tournament of Roses (later the Rose Bowl)
collegiate football game was played in Pasadena, CA.
1909 The first payments of old-age pensions were made in Britain.
People over 70 received five shillings a week.
1913 The post office began parcel post deliveries.
1924 Frank B. Cooney received a patent for ink paste. It had been
used for many centuries, but nobody had bothered to patent it.
1926 The Rose Bowl was carried coast to coast on network radio
for the first time.
1934 Alcatraz Island officially became a Federal Prison.
1934 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) began
operation.
1936 The "New York Herald Tribune" began microfilming its current
issues.
1937 The First Cotton Bowl football game was played in Dallas,
TX. Texas Christian University (T.C.U.) beat Marquette, 16-6.
1939 The Hewlett-Packard partnership was formed by Bill Hewlett
and Dave Packard.
1945 France was admitted to the United Nations.
1956 Sudan gained its independence.
1958 The European Economic Community (EEC) started operations.
1959 Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista,
and seized power in Cuba.
1968 Evel Knievel, stunt performing daredevil, lost control of
his motorcycle midway through a jump of 141 feet over the
ornamental fountains in front of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
1971 Tobacco ads representing $20 million dollars in advertising
were banned from TV and radio broadcast.
1973 Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Norway joined the EEC.
1975 The magazine "Popular Electronics" announced the invention
of a personal computer called Altair. MITS, using an Intel
microprocessor, developed the computer.
1979 The United States and China held celebrations in Washington,
DC, and in Beijing to mark the establishment of diplomatic
relations between the two countries.
1981 Greece joined the European Community.
1984 AT&T was broken up into 22 Bell System companies under terms
of an antitrust agreement with the U.S. Federal government.
1986 Spain and Portugal joined the European Community (EC).
1987 A pro-democracy rally took place in Beijing's Tiananmen
Square (China). It did not go over well. Some people are still in
jail.
1990 David Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first black
mayor.
1992 The ESPN Radio Network was officially launched.
1992 In Kuala, Lumpur, the groundbreaking ceremony for the
Petronas Towers took place.
1993 Czechoslovakia split into two separate states, the Czech
Republic and Slovakia. The peaceful division had been engineered
in 1992.
1994 Bill Gates, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft and Melinda
French were married.
1994 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into
effect.
1995 Frederick West, an alleged killer of 12 women and girls, was
found hanged in his jail cell in Winston Green prison, in
Birmingham. West had been under almost continuous watch since his
arrest in 1994, but security had reportedly been relaxed in the
months preceding the apparent suicide.
1995 The World Trade Organization came into existence. The group
of 125 nations monitors global trade.
1998 A new anti-smoking law went into effect in California. The
law prohibits people from lighting up in bars.
1999 The euro became currency for 11 Member States of the
European Union. Coins and notes were not available until January
1, 2002.
1999 In California, a law went into effect that defined "invasion
of privacy as trespassing with the intent to capture audio or
video images of a celebrity or crime victim engaging in a
personal or family activity."
2001 The "Texas 7," rented space in an RV park in Woodland Park,
CO.
2007 Binney & Smith Company became Crayola LLC under its parent
company Hallmark
2018 smiled.
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Which is safer? Wired or wireless Monday, December 31, 2018, 07:57 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, December 31
Today's Bonehead Award:
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Today, December 31 in
1687 The first Huguenots set sail from France for the Cape of
Good Hope, where they would later create the South African wine
industry with the vines they took with them on the voyage.
More of today in history at History
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club.
--- Jack London (1876 - 1916)
On the global warming hoax:
It's all because of Bush's poor energy policy, that the people
listened to and believed Al Gore!
--- Hillary Clinton
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One day a mother was out and the dad was in charge. The
little one was maybe one and a half years old. Someone had
given her a little tea set as a gift and it was one of her
favorite toys.
Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news
when she brought Daddy a little cup of 'tea', which was
just water.
After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy
tea, Mom came home. Dad made her wait in the living room
to watch the toddler bring him a cup of tea, because it was
'just the cutest thing!'
Mom waited, and sure enough, here comes baby down the hall
with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches him drink it
up, then says, 'Did it ever occur to you that the only place
that baby can reach to get water is the toilet?'
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At Saint Mary's Catholic Church they have a weekly husband's
marriage seminar. At a session, last week, the Priest asked
Luigi, who was approaching his 50th wedding anniversary, to take
a few, minutes and share some insight into how he had managed to
stay married to the same woman all these years.
Luigi replied to the assembled husbands, "Well, I've a-tried to
treat-a her nice, spend the money on her, but best is that I
took-a her to Italy for the 20th anniversary!"
The Priest responded, "Luigi, you are an amazing inspiration to
all the husbands here! Please tell us what you are planning for
your wife for your 50th anniversary."
Luigi proudly replied, "I'm a-gonna go to get her and bring her
back."
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Thanks to Dave for this story:
A middle-aged woman was driving through a school zone when a
policeman pulled her over for speeding. As he was giving her the
ticket, she said, "How come I always get a ticket and everyone
else gets a warning? Am I too flat, or is it my face?"
"No, ma'am," explained the officer, "it's your foot."
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Thanks to Jean for this picture!
Mount Ararat, erupting without a permit.
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Charles Albert Garcia,
40,
Big Pine Key,
Floriduh
Florida dope tried to prevent car search
by locking keys into the car.
A Florida Keys man pulled over for speeding Christmas Eve locked
his keys inside his car when Monroe County Sheriff’s Office
deputies told him they were going to search the vehicle,
according to his arrest report.
Charles Albert Garcia, 40, had reason to worry. Deputies found
small amounts of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, amphetamine
pills and marijuana inside the Lexus, according to Deputy Jason
Farr’s affidavit.
Garcia, from Big Pine Key, was arrested on multiple felony drug
possession counts, felony driving with a suspended license and
misdemeanor marijuana possession and misdemeanor obstruction. He
was released Wednesday on a bond of $64,000. He did not return a
phone call seeking comment.
Farr stated that he pulled Garcia over shortly after 11 p.m.
Monday after clocking him on his radar driving his Lexus 70 mph
in a 45 mph zone of U.S. 1 at mile marker 102 heading south. Farr
asked Garcia for his license, but Garcia said it was suspended
but would be reinstated soon, according to the report.
He told Farr the Lexus he was driving was his father’s and he was
returning home to Big Pine with Christmas presents. According to
Farr’s report, Garcia’s license has been suspended since April
2012, and he had been arrested for driving on a suspended license
three previous times. He also had a warrant out for his arrest
for not showing up to court for a traffic violation, Farr wrote
in his report.
After Farr said he was going to search the Lexus, Garcia threw
the keys inside the vehicle and locked the doors. A towing
company unlocked the door, and deputies searched the vehicle,
finding the drugs, according to Farr’s report.
From: Earl
Re: What is safer, wired or wireless
Dear Webby,
Enjoy the humor letter, What is safer from hacking wireless or
wired?
Earl
Dear Earl
Wired is safer, though if you change your password frequently,
wireless CAN be safe enough.
Keep in mind, you are not a political target and no real experts
are trying to hack into your stuff. You just have to close the
door and lock it against casual drive by hackers.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Automatically move ALL your settings and programs.
No need to re-install them.
The only mover recommended by Intel and Microsoft.
It was a cold winter day. An old man walked out onto a frozen
lake, cut a hole in the ice, dropped in his fishing line, and
waited patiently for a bite. He was there for almost an hour,
without even a nibble, when a young boy walked out onto the ice,
cut a hole in he ice next to him. The young boy dropped his
fishing line and minutes later he hooked a Largemouth Bass.
The old man couldn't believe his eyes but chalked it up to plain
luck. But, shortly thereafter, the young boy pulled in another
large catch.
The young boy kept catching fish after fish. Finally, the old man
couldn't take it any longer. "Son, I've been here for over an
hour without even a nibble. You've been here only a few minutes
and have caught a half dozen fish! How do you do it?"
The boy responded, "Roo raf roo reep ra rums rrarm."
"What was that?" the old man asked.
Again the boy responded, "Roo raf roo reep ra rums rarrm."
"Look," said the old man, "I can't understand a word
you're saying."
The boy spit the bait into his hand and said,
"You have to keep the worms warm!"
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It has been determined that having sex before participating in
athletic activity, such as a marathon race, does not impair the
athlete's abilities.
In fact, men have known and displayed this for centuries. After
sex, they glance at their watches and say, "Oops, gotta run!"
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Thriftyfun.com
Storing Potatoes
Store potatoes in a cool (40F), dark place for months. Do not
allow potatoes to freeze. Potatoes should be stored in a bin
that is at least a few inches off the ground but not piled more
than 18 inches deep.
Thriftyfun.com
Where I grew up, most houses had a
potato cellar that had at least a quarter of the floor just
packed dirt. The rest, and walkways were concrete or
boardwalks.
Folk wisdom said that potatoes needed the gases emerging
from the earth, otherwise they would not last until the next
harvest. The potatoes were in wooden bins sitting on 2x4's.
That trick worked fine for us and we always still had some
old potatoes, when we started harvesting the new ones.
Even if you can't grow potatoes, it's still worth storing them
if you have a basement. By spring potatoes in the store
often cost three times as much as at harvest time.
Have FUN!
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>From Mary
My husband, Mike, and I had several stressful months of
financial difficulties. So one evening I was touched to
see him gazing at the diamond wedding ring that symbolized
our marriage. "With this ring..." I began romantically.
"We could pay off your Visa," he responded.
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For our honeymoon my fiancee and I chose a fashionable hotel
known for its luxurious suites. When I called to make reser-
vations, the desk clerk inquired, "Is this for a special
occasion?"
"Yes," I replied." It's our honeymoon."
"And how many adults and how many kids will there be?" she asked.
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>From Sandy
I came across a letter that had been written to me 12 years
earlier while I was in college. I still fondly remembered the
sender -- a Shakespeare-quoting, truth-seeking young man --
and wrote to his parents, asking where I could contact him.
My letter was returned promptly, with this note scrawled
across the bottom: "Our son went on to law school and is a
successful attorney. He is active politically, unmarried and,
believe it or not, lives at home. PLEASE COME GET HIM!"
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Today December 31 in
1687 The first Huguenots set sail from France for the Cape of
Good Hope, where they would later create the South African wine
industry with the vines they took with them on the voyage.
1695 The window tax was imposed in Britain, which resulted in
many windows being bricked up.
1775 The British repulsed an attack by Continental Army generals
Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec. Montgomery was
killed in the battle.
1857 Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital
of Canada.
1879 Thomas Edison gave his first public demonstration of
incandescent lighting to an audience in Menlo Park, NJ.
1891 New York's new Immigration Depot was opened at Ellis Island,
to provide improved facilities for the massive numbers of
arrivals.
1923 In London, the BBC first broadcast the chimes of Big Ben.
1929 Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne"
as a New Year's Eve song for the first time.
1946 U.S. President Truman officially proclaimed the end of
hostilities in World War II.
1955 General Motors became the first U.S. corporation to earn
more than one billion dollars in a single year. The Unions made
sure they never did that again.
1961 In the U.S., the Marshall Plan expired after distributing
more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
1974 Private U.S. citizens were allowed to buy and own gold for
the first time in more than 40 years.
1978 Taiwanese diplomats struck their colors for the final time
from the embassy flagpole in Washington, DC. The event marked the
end of diplomatic relations with the U.S.
1979 At year end oil prices were 88% higher than at the start of
1979.
1986 A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
killed 97 and injured 140 people. Three hotel workers later pled
guilty to charges in connection with the fire.
1997 Michael Kennedy, 39-year-old son of the late U.S. Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy, was killed in a skiing accident on Aspen
Mountain in Colorado.
1999 Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned. Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin was designated acting president.
1999 Five hijackers left the airport where they had been holding
150 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane. They left with two
Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed from an Indian
prison. The plane had been hijacked during a flight from
Katmandu, Nepal to New Dehli on December 24.
1999 Sarah Knauss died at the age of 119 years. She was the
world's oldest person. She was born September 24, 1880.
2004 In Taiwan, the Taipei 101 skyscraper opened to the public.
2018 smiled.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Sunday, December 30
Today's Bonehead Award:
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Today, December 30 in
1922 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.
More of today in history at History
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
--- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- More quotations on: [Children]
If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose
in life.
--- Robert Pante
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
--- Thomas Jones
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.
--- W. H. Thompson
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While on a car trip, an elderly couple stopped at a roadside
restaurant for lunch.
After finishing their meal, the elderly woman left her glasses on
the table, but she didn't miss them until they were back on the
highway.
By then, they had to travel quite a distance before they could
find a place to turn around.
The elderly man fussed and complained all the way back to the
restaurant. He called his wife every bad name he could think of.
When they finally arrived at the restaurant, and the woman got
out of the car to retrieve her glasses, the man yelled to her,
"And while you're in there, you might as well get my hat, too."
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Thanks to jrc for this story:
Subject: How journalists see things
A biker is riding by the zoo, when he sees a little girl
leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs
her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside
to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming
parents. The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage
and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.
Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back, letting go
of the girl. The biker brings her to her terrified parents,
who thank him endlessly.
A reporter has seen the whole scene, and addressing
the biker, says - "Sir, this was the most gallant and brave
thing I saw a man do in my whole life."
"It was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just
saw this little kid in danger, and SOMEBODY had to save her."
"Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a journalist,
you know", the reporter said, "and tomorrow's papers will
have this on the first page. What motorcycle do you drive?"
"A Harley Davidson."
The journalist leaves.
The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it
indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on first page:
BIKER GANG MEMBER ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT
AND STEALS HIS LUNCH.
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Thanks To Sandie For This Story:
Two Buddies Are Fishing, But They Haven't Caught Anything
All Day. Then Another Fisherman Walks By With A Huge Load Of
Fish.
They Ask Him, "Excuse Me, But Where Did You Get All Those Fish?"
The Other Fisherman Replies," If You Just Go Down The Stream
Until The Water Isn't Salty, There Are A Ton Of Hungry Fish."
They Thank Him And Go On Their Way. Fifteen Minutes Later, One
Fisherman Says To The Other, "Fill The Bucket Up With Water And
See If The Water Is Salty."
He Dips The Bucket In The Stream And Drinks Some.
"Nope. Still Salty."
Thirty Minutes Later, He Asks Him To Check Again.
"Nope, Still Salty."
One Hour Later, They Check Again.
"Nope. Still Salty."
"This Isn't Good," The Fisherman Finally Says. "We Have Been
Walking For Almost Two Hours And The Water Is Still Salty!"
"I Know," Says The Other. "And The Bucket Is Almost Empty!"
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Perez Johnson,
29,
Aloha,
Oregon
Amazon delivery driver is caught with GPS
stealing packages from home he delivered to
Amazon delivery driver was arrested after stealing a bait package
from a porch
The bait package was tagged with a GPS device so sheriff's could
track it
Once Amazon delivery driver Perez Johnson, 29, was caught he
admitted to delivering packages to the same home before
The package was also tagged with an alarm that alerted deputies
the package was snatched off the property
Deputies found 18 other Amazon packages inside his personal
vehicle
They confiscated them and personally delivered them to the right
receivers
An Amazon delivery driver has been arrested after he took the
bait and stole packages fitted with GPS devices.
Perez Johnson was taken into custody after he snagged the tagged
boxes from an unattended from a home in Aloha, Oregon - a
property he had already delivered to.
The incident happened in the area of Aloha around 6.40pm Sunday.
The Washington County Sheriff's office also tagged the package
with an alarm that alerted deputies as soon as it was snatched
off the porch.
While some thieves follow behind delivery trucks, the 29-year-old
Amazon delivery driver, Johnson, admitted to taking the bait
package after leaving a legitimate delivery at the same address,
according to Oregon Live.
When deputies tracked the GPS'd bait package they found it in
Johnson's black Nissan Altima.
They also found 18 other Amazon packages that never made it to
their destination.
The sheriff's deputies took the packages and 'personally
delivered the remaining packages that had been found inside the
suspect's vehicle to their addresses to avoid any delay in
receipt.'
Johnson was arrested and booked into the Washington County Jail
on charges of second-degree theft.
This is the fourth year the sheriff's office has implemented the
theft protection program that uses GPS tracking to find packages
stolen from people's porches.
The Washington County Sheriff's office says it has doubled its
bait packages to be left on doorsteps as the program has become
more successful.
From: Frank
Re: IE no longer enforced by Microsoft
Dear Webby,
First, I wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year.
I've checked your toolbox 3 times, my eyesight is not what it was
many years ago. I cannot seem to locate the IE blocking link.
Peace
Frank
Dear Frank
I took it down because it does not work anymore.
Now you simply get Chrome or FireFox or Opera or Bing,
or whatever browser you want to use,
transfer your bookmarks or import them to the new browser,
then UNinstall IE from the Control panel.
It won't try to sneak back in.
Even Microsoft has given up on IE and came out with BING.
Bing works, and according to some people, is not as socialist
tinted as Chrome. For now, anyway, it is not hurting your
machine.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Thanks to Irene for this story:
Soon after our last child left home for college, my husband
was resting next to me on the couch with his head in my lap.
I carefully removed his glasses.
"You know, honey," I said sweetly,
"Without your glasses you look like the same handsome
young man I married."
"Honey," he replied with a grin, "Without my glasses,
you still look pretty good too!"
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A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments
with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment
to "honor thy father and thy mother," she asked "Is there a
commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and
sisters?"
Without missing a beat one little boy answered, "Thou shall not
kill."
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Watch Shipping Charges With Online Auctions
You can find good deals at online auctions but one trick
that some sellers play is they offer a low bid price for the
product, but have a really high shipping price. Never bid
on an item until you have calculated the cost of your bid
and the shipping charge.
Thriftyfun.com
You got a month and a hyalf to plan and practise!
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A bus load of politicians were driving down a country road,
when all of a sudden, the bus ran off the road and crashed
into a tree in an old farmer's field. The old farmer, after
seeing what happened, went over to investigate. He then proceeded
to dig a hole and bury the politicians.
A few days later, the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed
bus, and asked the farmer where all the politicians had gone.
The old farmer said he had buried them.
The sheriff then asked the old farmer, "Were they ALL dead?"
The old farmer replied, "Well, some of them said they weren't,
but you know how them politicians lie."
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After driving all night, a man arrived in a small town where
he decided to stop in the local park and catch some sleep.
Just as he dozed off, there was a knock on the window.
Outside the car, was a jogger.
"Excuse me, can you give me the time?" the jogger inquired.
"Groggily, the man replied, "It's 6:27."
The man closed his eyes and just as he dozed off there was
another knock on the window. There stood another jogger
who said, "I'm sorry to disturb you. Do you have the time?",
Struggling to keep up his spirits he replied, "It's 6:34."
The man rolled up the window but realizing that this could
go on indefinitely, he took paper and pen and created a sign
which read:
"I DO NOT KNOW THE TIME."
He stuck the sign in the window, closed his eyes, and was
barely asleep when there came yet another tap on the
window. The man looked and sure enough, there was another
jogger. He disgustedly rolled down the window and said,
"Yeah, what is it?"
The jogger replied, "It's 6:42."
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>From Marina
I was waiting tables at a country club when an elegantly
dressed woman spilled Manhattan clam chowder all over her
white linen skirt. She began furiously dabbing at it with
a napkin.
Having plenty of experience with getting out feed stains,
I asked, "Can I bring you some club soda?"
"Young lady," she barked, "I'll be the judge of when I've
had enough to drink. Bring me another martini!"
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Today December 30 in
1460 At the Battle of Wakefield, in England's Wars of the Roses,
the Duke of York was defeated and killed by the Lancastrians.
1853 The United States bought about 45,000 square miles of land
from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.
1879 Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" was first
performed, at Paignton, Devon, England.
1880 The Transvaal was declared a republic. Paul Kruger became
its first president.
1887 A petition to Queen Victoria with over one million names of
women appealing for public houses to be closed on Sundays was
handed to the home secretary.
1903 About 600 people died when fire broke out at the Iroquois
Theater in Chicago, IL.
1919 Lincoln's Inn, in London, admitted the first female bar
student.
1922 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.
1924 Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galactic
systems.
1927 The first subway in the Orient was dedicated in Tokyo,
Japan.
1935 Italian bombers destroyed a Sweedish Red Cross unit in
Ethiopia.
1936 The United Auto Workers union staged its first sit-down
strike at the Fisher Body Plant in Flint, MI.
1940 California's first freeway was officially opened. It was the
Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena.
1942 "Mr. and Mrs. North" debuted on NBC radio.
1944 King George II of Greece proclaimed a regency to rule his
country, virtually renouncing the throne.
1947 King Michael of Romania abdicated in favor of a Communist
Republic. He claimed he was forced from his throne.
1948 "Kiss Me Kate" opened at the New Century Theatre in New York
City. Cole Porter composed the music for the classic play that
ran for 1,077 performances.
1953 The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.
1954 James Arness made his dramatic TV debut in "The Chase". The
"Gunsmoke" series didn’t begin for Arness until the fall of 1955.
1961 Jack Nicklaus lost his first attempt at pro golf to Gary
Player in an exhibition match in Miami, FL.
1972 The United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
1976 The Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick, played their last show
at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas and retired as a team from show
business. Both continued as solo artists and they reunited
several years later.
1980 "The Wonderful World of Disney" was cancelled by NBC after
more than 25 years on the TV. It was the longest-running series
in prime-time television history.
1993 Israel and the Vatican established diplomatic relations.
1996 A passenger train was bombed by Bodo separatists in India's
eastern state of Assam. At least 26 people were killed and dozens
were seriously injured.
1996 About 250,000 striking workers shut down vital services
across Israel in protests against budget cuts proposed by Prime
Minister Netanyahu.
1997 More than 400 people were massacred in four villages in the
single worst incident during Algeria's insurgency.
2018 smiled.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, December 29
Today's Bonehead Award:
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Today, December 29 in
1813 The British burned Buffalo, NY, during the War of 1812.
More of today in history at History
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
--- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return.
It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
--- Arthur C. Clarke
"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any
direction, those bastards won't get away this time!"
--- General Lewis "Chesty" Puller, USMC
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It was very crowded at the supermarket, and the customer in
front of me had a large order. As the harried looking clerk
lifted the final bag for her, its bottom gave way, sending the
contents crashing to the floor.
"They just don't make these bags like they used to," the clerk
blurted to the customer. "That was supposed to happen in your
driveway!"
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Some Boy Scouts from the big city were on a camping trip for
the first time. The mosquitoes were so fierce, the boys had to
hide under their blankets to avoid being bitten.
Then one of them saw some lightning bugs and said to his
friend, "We might as well give up. Now they're coming after us
with flashlights!"
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College student: "Hey, Dad! I've got some great news
for you!"
Father: "What, son?"
College student: "Remember that $500 you promised me if I
made the Dean's list?"
Father: "I certainly do."
College student: "Well, you get to keep it!"
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Jess Evans, 26
Oswestry, Shropshire,
Britain
Mum realises far too late that daughter’s
advent calendar is meant for cats
A mum is in the dog house with her daughter after buying her an
advent calendar that was actually meant for cats. The problem is,
it took Jess Evans, 26, 11 whole days to realise that instead of
eating chocolate Alissa, 9, had been chomping down on catnip. The
little girl endured four days of the green-tinged treats before
refusing to eat anymore, but Jess assumed she was just being
picky.
The mum-of-three was horrified when she turned the £1.99 Garfield
calendar over only to discover the ‘apple flavoured chocolates’
were in fact yoghurt and catnip delicacies – for cats. Jess, from
Oswestry, Shropshire, said: ‘I was in shock and felt like the
worst mother ever when I realised I’d bought her a calendar for
cats.
Alissa had said they looked a bit green but I thought they were
probably just apple-flavoured ones and didn’t think anything of
it. ‘She said they tasted a bit strange, but hadn’t said they
were horrible, so I just forgot about it. ‘Alissa hadn’t been
eating them for a few days and when I asked why she brought the
box over to me.
‘I remember thinking they did look a funny shade of green and
didn’t have a chocolatey smell. ‘When I turned the calendar over
and read that it was yoghurt and catnip flavour I couldn’t
believe it – and that it had taken 11 days for us to notice.’
Jess had picked the advent calender up while out shopping with
Alissa and her younger sisters Alexis Davies-Evans, three, and
11-month-old Aurora Davies-Evans in the Oswestry branch of B&M.
Assuming the advent calendars on display were all for children
she quickly scanned the shelves, picked up the Garfield one and
added it to the trolley after getting Alissa’s nod of approval.
Jess said: ‘When I looked at the box I couldn’t believe it. I
have a degree in English literature and creative writing but
still couldn’t read a calendar and it had taken me 11 days to
realise. ‘Once she got over the shock she found the funny side of
it. Thankfully she’s absolutely fine and I’ve checked online that
she will be ok. ‘I’m going to give the calendar to my friend for
her cat.’ Jess has vowed to get another advent calendar for
Alissa and will bring 27-year-old lawn specialist fiancé Sean
Davies along to ensure she snaps up a chocolate one. Jess said:
‘I’ll definitely be getting Sean to come with me to get one, it
definitely has to be a really good one, otherwise knowing my luck
I’ll end up buying one for dogs this time.’
In response to complaints by Rev. Sharpton and Jesse Jackson
that there are not enough illegal immigrants appearing on TV,
the Network has decided that in the future
" America's Most Wanted".... will be shown 'TWICE' weekly.
From: BroJoe
Re: IE enforced my Microsoft
Dear Webby,
Your thoughts on this, please.
BroJoe
(.... a whole bunch of incorrect drivel from
Microsoft sheep Erin at worldstart...)
Dear BroJoe
That is pure BS.
We, amongst many others like the US Department of Defense
banned IE from all of our computers.
The writer of that lame drivel seems to be a particularly dumb
sheep.
To block IE you do NOT disable automatic updates and patches.
You get the IE Blocker from my toolbox at http://webby.com/tools,
or search for it at Microsoft, but you don't turn off automatic
updates to Windows!
You can use about 50 other browsers. There is absolutely no need
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Jones came into the office an hour late for the third time in
one week and found the boss waiting for him. "What's the
story this time, Jones?" he asked sarcastically. "Let's hear a
good excuse for a change."
Jones sighed, "Everything went wrong this morning, Boss.
The wife decided to drive me to the station. She got ready in
ten minutes, but then the drawbridge got stuck. Rather than
let you down, I swam across the river -- look, my suit's still
damp -- ran out to the airport, got a ride on Mr. Thompson's
helicopter, landed on top of Radio City Music Hall, and was
carried here piggyback by one of the Rockettes."
"You'll have to do better than that, Jones," said the boss,
obviously disappointed. "No woman can get ready in ten
minutes."
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>From Hilda
Last October, after much deliberation, I bought a magnolia
tree from our local nursery. After only a few weeks I noticed
that the leaves had started to shrivel and the tree appeared
to be on its last legs in spite of my tender care.
So I took some leaf samples and marched back to the nursery
to demand an explanation or get my money back.
"I know exactly what's wrong with your magnolia," said the
manager.
"Good!" I exclaimed. "What's it suffering from?"
You can imagine how stupid I felt when he said, "Autumn."
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While hiking in the country, my friend Eve and I spotted a
huge bed of mushrooms that we knew to be edible. We gathered
a large basketful and sauteed them that night. My husband
Phil refused to eat them, thinking they might be poisonous.
Two weeks later, Eve and I gathered some more mushrooms.
This time, Phil joined us.
"How is it that you're eating these mushrooms tonight," I
asked, "when you wouldn't touch the ones we brought home two
weeks ago? What changed your mind?"
"I thought about it," Phil explained seriously, "and I
figured it would be better to be found dead with you two
than to try to explain two dead women in my home."
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A traveling salesman stops at a farm house and is talking
with the farmer when he looks over and sees a rooster
wearing pants, a shirt and suspenders.
He says, "What the heck is that all about?"
The farmer says, "We had a fire in the chicken coop and
all his feathers got singed, so my wife made him clothes to
keep him warm. You think he looks funny now, you should
see him try to hold a hen down with one foot and get his
pants off with the other!"
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A burglar needing money to pay his income taxes decided to
burgle the safe in a store. On the safe door he was very
pleased to find a note reading, "Please don't use dynamite.
The safe is not locked. Just turn the knob." He did so.
Instantly a heavy sandbag fell on him, the entire premises
were floodlighted, and alarms started clanging.
As the police carried him out on a stretcher, he was heard
moaning "Can't trust nobody no more!"
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Today December 29 in
1170 St. Thomas à Becket, the 40th archbishop of Canterbury, was
murdered in his own cathedral by four knights acting on Henry
II's orders.
1812 The USS Constitution won a battle with the British ship HMS
Java about 30 miles off the coast of Brazil. Before Commodore
William Bainbridge ordered the sinking of the Java he had her
wheel removed to replace the one the Constitution had lost during
the battle.
1813 The British burned Buffalo, NY, during the War of 1812.
1837 Canadian militiamen destroyed the Caroline, a U.S. steamboat
docked at Buffalo, NY.
1848 U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light at
the White House.
1860 The HMS Warrior, Britain's first seagoing iron-hulled
warship, was launched.
1888 The first performance of Macbeth took place at the Lyceum
Theatre.
1890 The U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred over 400 men, women and
children at Wounded Knee Creek, SD. This was the last major
conflict between Indians and U.S. troops.
1895 The Jameson Raid from Mafikeng into Transvaal, which
attempted to overthrow Kruger's Boer government, started.
1911 Sun Yat-sen became the first president of a republican
China.
1913 "The Unwelcome Throne" was released by Selig’s Polyscope
Company. This was a moving picture and the first serial motion
picture.
1934 The first regular-season, college basketball game was played
at Madison Square Garden in New York City. New York University
defeated Notre Dame 25-18.
1934 Japan renounced the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the
London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1940 During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs
on London.
1945 The mystery voice of Mr. Hush was heard for the first time
on the radio show, "Truth or Consequences", hosted by Ralph
Edwards.
1945 Sheb Wooley recorded the first commercial record made in
Nashville, TN.
1949 KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut became the first ultrahigh
frequency (UHF) television station to begin operating on a
regular daily schedule.
1952 The first transistorized hearing aid was offered for sale by
Sonotone Corporation.
1972 Following 36 years of publication, the last weekly issue of
"LIFE" magazine hit the newsstands. The magazine later became a
monthly publication.
1975 A bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York's LaGuardia
Airport. 11 people were killed.
1985 Phil Donahue and a Soviet radio commentator hosted the
"Citizens’ Summit" via satellite TV.
1986 The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, FL, reopened for
business after eighteen years and $47 million expended on
restoration.
1989 Following Hong Kong's decision to forcibly repatriate some
Vietnamese refugees, thousands of Vietnamese 'boat people'
battled with riot police.
1989 Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia by the
country's Federal Assembly. He was the first non-Communist to
hold the position in more than four decades.
1996 The Guatemalan government and leaders of the leftist
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union signed a peace accord in
Guatemala City, ending a civil war that had lasted 36 years.
1997 Hong Kong began killing 1.25 million chickens, the entire
population, for fear of the spread of 'bird flu.'
1998 Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the 1970s genocide in
Cambodia that claimed 1 million lives.
1999 The Nasdaq composite index closed at 4,041.46. It was the
first close above 4,000.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, December 28
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Today's Bonehead Award:
Suicide by cops in Hawaii
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Today, December 28 in
1836 Mexico's independence was recognized by Spain.
More of today in history at History
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a
philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see
the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
--- Leonard Louis Levinson
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in
session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
--- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
Since I was processing my first accident report at the
transport company where I worked, I was being
particularly attentive.
The driver had hit a deer on the highway and the result
was a severely damaged hood and fender.
My serious mood was broken, however, when I reached
the section of the report that asked, "Speed of other vehicle?"
The driver had put, "Full gallop."
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>From Billie
I was at my local cell phone company to pay my bill
and upgrade my service. The line wasn't clearly formed,
and there was an older gentleman with a cane nearby.
It was unclear which one of us would be called next.
When the representative called for one of us to step
up, the man with the cane motioned politely and said,
"After you."
I smiled at him and replied, "No, please, after you.
I have all day."
The man smiled back and said, "No, you go ahead.
My doctor says I have at least six months."
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A football coach walked into the locker room before a game,
looked over to his star player and said, "I'm not supposed
to let you play since you failed math, but we need you in
there. So, what I have to do is ask you a math question,
and if you get it right, you can play." The player agreed,
so coach looked into his eyes intently and asked, "Okay,
now concentrate hard and tell me the answer to this. What
is two plus two?"
The player thought for a moment and then answered,
"That would be 4, I think."
"Did you say 4?" the coach exclaimed, excited that he had
got it right.
Suddenly all the other players on the team began screaming...,
"Come on coach, give him another chance!"
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Dylan Printz,
18,
Shippensburg,
Pennsylvania
Arson Charge For Man Behind
Burning Dog Poop Prank
A crappy Christmas Eve prank landed a Pennsylvania man in jail on
arson and other criminal charges, according to police.
Firefighters and cops were dispatched Monday at 3 AM following a
report that a “bag of dog poop was lit on fire on a porch” in
Shippensburg, a borough about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg.
A female tenant told police she was awoken when other residents
spotted the fire and began “yelling to call 911 and to get out of
the house.” The fire was quickly extinguished and there was no
damage to the residence.
Asked who might have set the bag of feces on fire, the tenant
fingered Dylan Printz, 18, “due to them having a falling out that
night and she told him he could not stay or be there anymore.”
Police subsequently located Printz, who reportedly copped to
starting the fire. Seen above, Printz said that he “grabbed a
brown paper bag from a Chinese food order” and filled it with dog
poop. He then “put the bag of feces on the porch and lit it on
fire with a Bic lighter.”
Printz, cops reported, said he set the fire to “get back at the
people who lived there due to an earlier fight.”
Shippensburg cops arrested Printz on two felony counts--arson and
risking catastrophe. He was also hit with misdemeanor reckless
endangerment charges.
The teen--whose Facebook page lists his nickname as “Spyder”--is
free on $20,000 bail and is scheduled for a January 7 pretrial
hearing.
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You can't enlarge pictures in email after you have pasted them.
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Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over
the years they had shared all kinds of activities and
adventures. Lately, their activities had been limited to
meeting a few times a week to play cards.
One day they were playing cards when one looked at the other
and said, "Now don't get mad at me..... I know we've been
friends for a long time..... but I just can't think of your
name! I've thought and thought, but I can't remember it.
Please tell me what your name is."
Her friend glared at her. For at least three minutes she just
stared and glared at her. Finally she said, "How soon do you
need to know?"
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A father spoke to his son, "It's time we had a little talk, my
son. Soon, you will have urges and feelings you've never had
before. Your heart will pound & your hands will sweat. You'll be
preoccupied and won't be able to think of anything else."
He added, "But don't worry, it's perfectly normal... it's called
golf."
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AFTER OUR FRIEND TOM had been a temporary bachelor for
several weeks, we stopped by his home to visit him. My wife asked
if he was eating properly.
"Well, I do eat a lot of dog food," Tom told her.
"Dog food!" my wife exclaimed, horrified. "I can't believe you
would be eating anything like that!"
"Come to the kitchen and I'll show you," Tom replied. Opening
the refrigerator door, he waved his hand at a row of doggie bags
from some of the best restaurants in town.
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In the 70's my dad came over from Europe to visit me. I also took
him to the local Chinese restaurant and showed him how everybody
on the table ordered their favorites, but got an empty plate,
with all the ordered foods placed in the center. Then everybody
took some of each plate, sort of a mini buffet.
The food was plentiful with lots left over. Then the waiter
asked: "Yoo wann doggie bags?"
I was familiar with that and of course agreed. Dad had never
experienced that in Europe and he was quite impressed, and when
he returned to Austria, proceded to tell everybody about "doggie
bags".
In the meantine now most other restaurants adopted that custom.
Some, like Boston Pizza, even have very nice, reusable
containers, but still call them "doggie bags".
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President Calvin Coolidge once invited friends from his
hometown to dine at the White House. Worried about their table
manners, the guests decided to do everything that Coolidge did.
This strategy succeeded, until coffee was served. The president
poured his coffee into the saucer. The guests did the same.
Coolidge added sugar and cream. His guests did, too.
Then Coolidge bent over and put his saucer on the floor for the cat.
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During a phone conversation, my nephew mentioned that he
was taking a psychology course at the university.
"Oh, great," I said. "Now you'll be analyzing everyone in the
family."
"No, no," he replied. "I don't take abnormal psychology until
next semester."
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Today December 28 in
1065 Westminster Abbey was consecrated under Edward the
Confessor.
1694 Queen Mary II of England died after five years of joint rule
with her husband, King William III.
1732 "The Pennsylvania Gazette," owned by Benjamin Franklin, ran
an ad for the first issue of "Poor Richard’s Almanack."
1832 John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the
United States to resign, stepping down over differences with
President Jackson.
1836 Mexico's independence was recognized by Spain.
1869 William E. Semple, of Mt. Vernon, OH, patented an acceptable
chewing gum.
1877 John Stevens applied for a patent for his flour-rolling
mill, which boosted production by 70%.
1879 In Dundee, Scotland the central portion of the Tay Bridge
collapsed as a train was passing over it. 75 people were killed.
1895 In Paris, the first commercial public screening of
cinematographic films took place.
1897 "Cyrano de Bergerac," the play by Edmond Rostand, premiered
in Paris, France.
1902 The first professional indoor football game was played at
Madison Square Garden in New York City. Syracuse defeated the
Philadelphia Nationals 6-0.
1908 An earthquake killed over 75,000 at Messina in Sicily.
1912 The first municipally-owned street cars were used on the
streets of San Francisco, CA.
1937 The Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland when a
new constitution established the country as a sovereign state
under the name of Eire.
1942 R.O. Sullivan crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the 100th time.
1945 The U.S. Congress officially recognized the "Pledge of
Allegiance."
1950 The Peak District became Britain's first designated National
Park.
1964 Initial filming of the movie "Dr. Zhivago" began on location
near Madrid, Spain. The movies total running time is 197 minutes.
1973 The Chamber of Commerce of Akron, OH, terminated its
association with the All-American Soap Box Derby. It was stated
that the race had become "a victim of cheating and fraud."
1973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an
expose of the Soviet prison system.
1981 Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby,
was born in Norfolk, VA.
1982 Nevell Johnson Jr. was mortally wounded by a police officer
in a Miami video arcade. The event set off three days of race
related disturbances that left another man dead.
1987 The bodies of 14 relatives of R. Gene Simmons were found at
his home near Dover, AR. Simmons had gone on a shooting spree in
Russellville that claimed two other lives.
1989 Alexander Dubcek, who had been expelled from the Communist
Party in 1970, was elected speaker of the Czech parliament.
1991 Nine people died in a rush to get into a basketball game at
City College in New York.
1995 Pressure from German prosecutors investigating pornography
forced CompuServe to set a precedent by blocking access to sex-
oriented newsgroups on the Internet for its customers.
2000 U.S. District Court Judge Matsch held a hearing to ensure
that confessed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh understood
that he was dropping his appeals. McVeigh said that he wanted an
execution date set but wanted to reserve the right to seek
presidential clemency.
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Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, December 27
Today's Bonehead Award:
Suicide by cops in Hawaii
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Today, December 27 in
1900 Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey
Hotel in Wichita, KS. She broke each and every one of the liquor
bottles that could be seen.
More of today in history at History
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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
--- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting
person there.
--- Mickey Friedman
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Thanks to Roland for this story:
Sitting through fire safety and prevention programs can make
anyone nod off. So the instructor tried to lighten the mood by
going around the room asking where all the guests were from.
"Burnt Mattress, Arkansas," called out the friend sitting next
to me.
"Burnt Mattress!" said the instructor, suppressing a laugh.
"I've heard some unusual town names before, but never that
one. Where's it located?"
My friend shot back, "Right above Hot Springs."
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
My friend, Don, a minor-league umpire, is used to being
heckled by fans. But imagine his surprise when he was rushing
to referee an exhibition game at Coors Field in Denver.
After a long search for a place to change clothes, Don finally
located a room with a neatly lettered sign that read:
"Dressing Room, Umpires Only!"
As he was about to go in, however, he inspected the sign more
closely. Below the printed legend was the same message,
written in Braille.
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Thanks to oredwine for bringing back this classic:
Adam was hanging around the garden of Eden feeling very lonely.
So, God asked him, "What's wrong with you?"
Adam said he didn't have anyone to talk to.
God said that He was going to make Adam a companion
and that it would be a woman.
He said, "This pretty lady will gather food for you, she will
cook for you, and when you discover clothing, she will wash it
for you.
She will always agree with every decision you make
and she will not nag you, and will always be the first to admit
she was wrong when you've had a disagreement.
She will praise you!
She will bear your children.
and never ask you to get up in the middle
of the night to take care of them.
She will NEVER have a headache and will freely
give you love and passion
whenever you need it.
Adam asked God, "What will a woman like this cost?"
God replied, "An arm and a leg."
Then, unfortunately, Adam asked, "What can I get for a rib?"
Of course the rest is history.
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Natalee Kahl, 23,
Coralville,
Iowa
Endangerment Charges For Iowa Mom
An Iowa woman who left her three small children home alone late
Thursday night was arrested on endangerment charges after one of
the children called 911 to report that her mom and dad left and
she needed help watching YouTube, according to court filings.
Investigators charge that Natalee Kahl, 23, left the children--
ages five, three, and one--alone around 10 PM in the family's
apartment in Coralville, an Iowa City suburb.
Police were dispatched to the residence after one of the children
called 911 to report that she needed help watching videos online.
Cops estimated that Kahl left the children by themselves for
about 40 minutes.
Seen above, Kahl returned to the home while officers were inside
the residence with her children. Kahl reportedly admitted to
leaving the house to go get her boyfriend from a neighbor's house
and that her offspring would not be able to take care of
themselves in case of an emergency.
Kahl was arrested on three counts of misdemeanor child
endangerment. She also faces a possession of drug paraphernalia
rap after cops found a glass pipe with marijuana residue in the
home.
Kahl was released this morning from the Johnson County jail after
being booked into custody yesterday evening.
In late-2015, Kahl, then living in Wisconsin, was in the news
when her infant daughter was hospitalized after drinking vodka.
According to press reports, Kahl said that the child's father
had, unbeknownst to her, poured vodka into a plastic water
bottle. Kahl later used the bottle to add two ounces of liquid to
baby formula, which her daughter subsequently consumed.
The child became ill and was rushed to a hospital, where her
blood alcohol content was measured at .284 (nearly four times the
legal limit). After the baby was released from the hospital, Kahl
told a TV reporter of her thoughts upon seeing her daughter
stricken. There's a lot that goes through your mind, like, 'Oh,
my baby is going to get taken away, or she could die,' Kahl
said.
It is unclear whether Kahl's current boyfriend is the same man
involved in the 2015 vodka incident.
Keli and Greg were involved in a petty argument, both
of them unwilling to admit they might be in error.
"I'll admit I'm wrong," said Greg in a conciliatory
attempt, "if you'll admit I'm right."
Keli agreed and, like the dear she is, insisted Greg go
first.
"I'm wrong," Greg said.
With a twinkle in her eye, Keli responded, "You're right!"
From: Mike
Re: Can't delete hotmail mails
Dear Webby,
I have a hotmail account well I have two of them, one is working
fine, but the second one is not. In that I delete messages from
my inbox but then they reappear the next time I open up the
inbox, consequently I have 400 some messages in this particular
hotmail account.
Microsoft has not been much help, to say the least.
Thanks
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Dear Mike
Maybe it's time to leave ho'mail to the kids,
and graduate to Gmail.
You knew that sooner or later you would get fed up
enough to finally graduate,
so you might as well do it now.
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At their 50th anniversary celebration, the husband was asked the
secret of their longevity.
"Well, we agreed in the beginning that if we ever got into a
fight, I would just take my hat and go for a walk. After a while,
I would return and throw my hat through the doorway. If she threw
it back, it was time to take another walk. So I account my
longevity to all the exercise I've gotten over the years!"
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An older man approached an attractive younger woman at a
shopping mall.
'Excuse me; I can't seem to find my wife. Can you talk to me
for a couple of minutes?'
The woman, feeling a bit of compassion for the old fellow,
said, 'Of course, sir. Do you know where your wife might be?'
'I have no idea, but every time I talk to a woman with boobs
like yours, she seems to appear out of nowhere.'
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From the archive:
Someone said this to me today, and I about laffed myself silly.
Maybe you can clean it up a tad and use it.
Jai...>^.^<...
"Opinions are like asses.
Everybody has one,
And nobody thinks their's stinks."
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
Recently, a young woman came into my father's insurance
office with her newborn twins. Dad asked her if she ever
had any trouble telling them apart.
She gave him a funny look before responding,
"No, I haven't had any problem.
This is Benjamin and that one is Elizabeth."
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If you need a last minute Christmas present,
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You can send the download,
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
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It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
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You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
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This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
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Today December 27 in
1703 The Methuen Treaty was signed between Portugal and England,
giving preference to the import of Portuguese wines into England.
1831 Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the
HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him
form the basis of his theories on evolution.
1845 Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for childbirth
for the first time. The event was the delivery of his own child
in Jefferson, GA.
1900 Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey
Hotel in Wichita, KS. She broke each and every one of the liquor
bottles that could be seen.
1904 James Barrie's play "Peter Pan" premiered in London.
1927 Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1938 The first skimobile course in America opened in North
Conway, NH.
1945 The World Bank was created with an agreement signed by 28
nations.
1947 The children's television program "Howdy Doody," hosted by
Bob Smith, made its debut on NBC.
1949 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted sovereignty to
Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule.
1951 In Cincinnati, OH, a Crosley automobile, with a steering
wheel on the right side, became the first vehicle of its kind to
be placed in service for mail delivery.
1965 The BP oil rig Sea Gem capsized in the North Sea, with the
loss of 13 lives.
1978 Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy
after 40 years of dictatorship.
1979 Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. Babrak Karmal
succeeded President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and
executed.
1985 Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome and
Vienna airports. A total of twenty people were killed, including
five of the attackers, who were slain by police and security
personnel.
1992 The U.S. shot down an Iraqi fighter jet during what the
Pentagon described as a confrontation between a pair of Iraqi
warplanes and U.S. F-16 jets in U.N.-restricted airspace over
southern Iraq.
1996 CIA trained and armed Muslim fundamentalist Taliban forces
retook the strategic air base of Bagram, solidifying their buffer
zone around Kabul, the Afghanistan capital.
1997 In Northern Ireland, Billy Wright was assassinated. He was
imprisoned as a Protestant paramilitary leader.
2000 Mario Lemeiux (Pittsburgh Penguins) returned to the National
Hockey League (NHL) as a player after over 3 years of retirement.
He was the first owner-player in the modern era of pro sports.
Lemieux had purchased the Pittsburgh Penguins during his
retirement from playing.
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush granted China permanent normal
trade status with the United States.
2002 North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the
country and said that it would restart a laboratory capable of
producing plutonium for nuclear weapons.
2002 In Chechnya, at least 40 people were killed when suicide
bombers attacked the administartion of Grozny.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, December 26
Merry Christmas!
Have FUN!
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>From Bill
Maybe Helene should get a mouse with two LEFT buttons.
Merry Christmas.
Bill
Today's Bonehead Award:
Suicide by cops in Hawaii
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Today, December 26 in
1865 The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
2002 The first cloned human baby was born. The announcement
was made by Clonaid.
More of today in history at History
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not
preclude using your head.
--- Andy Rooney (1919 - )
"Iran is going to build an island just for women who want to
go on vacation. No men will be allowed on the island. Which
leads to the question, 'If something goes wrong, whose fault
will it be?'"
--- Jay Leno
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Fresh out of business school, a young man answered a want
ad for an accountant. He was being interviewed by a very
nervous man who ran a small business that he had started
himself.
"I need someone with an accounting degree," the man said.
"But mainly, I'm looking for someone to do my worrying for
me."
"Excuse me?" the accountant said.
"I worry about a lot of things," the man said. "But I don't
want to have to worry about money. Your job will be to take
all the money worries off my back."
"I see," the accountant said. "And how much does the job
pay?"
"I'll start you at eighty thousand."
"Eighty thousand dollars!" the accountant exclaimed. "How
can such a small business afford a sum like that?"
"That," the owner said, "is your first worry."
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Laura was attending her High School reunion and was
having a blast. As the evening was drawing to a
close, the master of ceremonies for the night
proceeded to hand out bottles of champagne to the
graduates who had traveled the farthest distance to
attend the reunion, the graduate who had been married
the longest time, the graduate who had become the most
successful, etc. And Laura wondered if she was going
to get a prize too. Sure enough, the master of
ceremonies called out her name. "Laura, you win with
11 kids." and then, trying to be clever, he added in
"And champagne is only half the prize. The other half
is a giant, economy size bottle of aspirin."
"Don't bother with the aspirin," Laura replied. "It's
obvious with these many kids that I've never had a
headache."
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The personnel office received an email requesting a listing
of the department staff broken down by age and sex. The
personnel office sent this reply:
"Attached is a list of our staff. We currently have no one
broken down by age or sex. However, we have a few alcoholics."
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Kaulana “Toji” Reinhardt,
26,
Wailuku,
Hawaii
Suicide by cop in Hawaii
On Sunday, December 23, 2018 at about 10:35 a.m., officers
observed a stolen red Toyota Tacoma being driven by Kaulana
“Toji” Reinhardt. Reinhardt was wanted for numerous outstanding
arrest warrants to include one for Attempted Murder in the First
Degree with a bail set at $1 million.
Officers attempted to initiate a traffic stop on the truck but
Reinhardt refused to stop and a pursuit ensued.
The pursuit continued and ended on Kaohu Street at Market Street
in Wailuku. As two officers attempted to apprehend Reinhardt, he
pulled out a handgun. Shots were exchanged and Reinhardt was hit.
Officers immediately administered CPR and applied an AED until
medical personnel arrived. Reinhardt was then transported to the
Maui Memorial Medical Center where he would succumb to his
injuries.
One officer sustained minor injuries that did not
require medical treatment. No other officers or bystanders were
hurt in this incident.
Police temporarily closed off a portion of South Market Street
and Kaohu Street to conduct the investigation.
The officers involved had three and 15 years of experience,
respectively. Both officers have been placed on Administrative
Leave, which is normal procedure in these types of
investigations.
From: Armond
Re: Occasional priting
Dear Webby,
I only use my printer for one week every quarter year, but
then print quite a lot. After sitting for three months, even
fresh name brand cartridges are dead. Is there a way to keep
them from dying in the meantime? Would it help to take them
out and put them into the freezer?
Armond
Dear Armond
The freezer will destroy them for sure. Wrapping them
tightly with Saran wrap, or similar stretch film wrap, may
help occasionally, with some brands, but is not really a
reliable solution.
Especially if you 'print quite a lot', get a laser printer.
Laser printers are cheaper per page, and since the toner,
that they use instead of ink, is a dry powder, it does not
make any difference how long it sits between print jobs.
A Laser takes 5 - 10 seconds to warm up after cold
hibernation, but it does not care if the hibernation was
during lunch hour or a few years. Once warmed up, it
will print MUCH faster than an inkjet printer. It spits out a
page in the time an inkjet printer prints one line.
The warming up is not for the toner, but for the hot fuser
roller, that melts the dry toner into the paper.
All the photos, that you get at photo finishing places, are
printed with laser printers on photo paper.
Laser printers have come way down in price.
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One of my college friends asked a group of us for advice on
organizing his final report for the year. "Why don't you
use Roman numerals to head the different sections?" another
friend suggested.
"I already thought of that," he replied. "But my keyboard
doesn't have Roman numerals on it."
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>From Karla
While flying from Denver to Kansas City, Kansas, my mother was
sitting across the aisle from a woman and her eight-year-old son.
Karla couldn't help laughing as they neared their destination and
she heard the mother say to the boy, "Now remember -- run to Dad
first,
then the dog."
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>From Joan
My father was completely lost in the kitchen and never
ate unless someone prepared a meal for him.
When Mother was ill, however, he volunteered to go to
the supermarket for her. She sent him off with a carefully
numbered list of seven items.
Dad returned shortly, very proud of himself, and proceeded
to unpack the grocery bags. He had
1 bag of sugar,
2 dozen eggs,
3 hams,
4 boxes of detergent,
5 boxes of crackers,
6 eggplants, and
7 green peppers.
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Thanks to Wendy for sending this story:
A Taxi driver is stuck in a traffic jam going into downtown
Chicago.
Nothing is moving north or south.
Suddenly a man knocks on his window.
The taxi driver rolls down his window and asks,
'What happened, what's the hold up?'
'Terrorists have kidnapped Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama,
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Traitor Flake.
They are asking for a $1 million ransom. Otherwise, they are
going to douse them with gasoline and set them on fire.
We are going from car to car, taking up a collection.'
The cabbie asks, 'On average, how much is everyone giving?'
'Oh, about a gallon.
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas
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You can download it and give the file as a
gift!
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Today December 26 in
1620 The Pilgrim Fathers landed at New Plymouth, MA, to found
Plymouth Colony, with John Carver as Governor.
1776 The British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton
during the American Revolutionary War.
1865 The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.
1908 Texan boxer "Galveston Jack" Johnson knocked out Tommy Burns
in Sydney, Australia, to become the first black boxer to win the
world heavyweight title.
1917 During World War I, the U.S. government took over operation
of the nation's railroads.
1921 The Catholic Irish Free State became a self-governing
dominion of Great Britain.
1927 The East-West Shrine football game featured numbers on both
the front and back of players’ jerseys.
1941 Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to
address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
1941 U.S. President Roosevelt signed a resolution that set the a
fixed-date, the fourth Thursday of November, for the Federal
Thanksgiving Day holiday.
1943 The German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was sunk in the North
Sea, during the Battle of North Cape.
1944 Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" was first
performed publicly, at the Civic Theatre in Chicago, IL.
1947 Heavy snow blanketed the Northeast United States, burying
New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours. The severe
weather was blamed for about 80 deaths.
1953 "Big Sister" was heard for the last time on CBS Radio. The
show ran for 17 years.
1956 Fidel Castro attempted a secret landing in Cuba to overthrow
the Batista regime. All but 11 of his supporters were killed.
1982 The Man of the Year in "TIME" magazine was a computer. It
was the first time a non-human received the honors.
1986 "Search for Tomorrow" was seen for the last time on CBS-TV.
The show had been on the air for 35-years.
1991 The Soviet Union's parliament formally voted the country out
of existence.
1995 Israel turned dozens of West Bank villages over to the
Palestinian Authority.
1996 Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten
and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder,
CO.
1998 Iraq announced that it would fire on U.S. and British
warplanes that patrol the skies over northern and southern Iraq.
1999 Alfonso Portillo, a populist lawyer, won Guatemala's first
peacetime presidential elections in 40 years.
2000 Michael McDermott, age 42, opened fire at his place of
employment killing seven people. McDermott had no criminal
history.
2002 The first cloned human baby was born. The announcement was
made December 27 by Clonaid.
2004 Under the Indian Ocean, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake sent 500-
mph waves across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. The tsunami
killed at least 283,000 people in a dozen countries, including
Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand and India.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, December 25
Merry Christmas!
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Killer finally faces justice
30 years after he murdered girl, 8
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Today, December 25 in
1818 "Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the
Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria.
More of today in history at History
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend
on the support of Paul.
--- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950),
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology
look respectable.
--- John Kenneth Galbraith
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
--- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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A man walks into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting
at the end of it. She is so beautiful he cannot take his mind
off her, so he calls the bartender over and says, "Take that
woman a drink on me."
The bartender says, "It won't work."
"What do you mean, it won't work?"
"That woman," says the barkeep, "is hard-hearted and hostile.
You won't get nowhere with her - nobody does!"
"Okay," says the guy. "How about this: you got any Spanish fly?"
"Spanish fly? No," says the bartender, "I've got Jewish Fly."
"So, what the hell is Jewish fly?"
"I don't know; I've never used it. You want to give it a try?"
"Yes," says the guy, and the next chance he gets, on his way
to the men's room, he reaches behind her back and drops
the stuff in the woman's drink.
Nothing happens for a long time, but then all of a sudden
he feels her body close against his, and her voice is whispering
hotly in his ear, and she's saying "I can't stand it anymore!
.......You excite me so much...take me shopping!"
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There was this man in a mental hospital. All day he would put his
ear to the wall and listen. The doctors would watch this guy do
this day after day. One doctor finally decided to see what the
guy was listening to, so he put his ear up to the wall and
listened. He heard nothing. So he turned to the mental patient
and said, "I don't hear anything."
The mental patient said, "Yeah, I know. It's been like
that for months!"
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>From Dana
My husband was once employed in the printing division of a large
manufacturing firm. One morning, word came from the top that some
visiting VIPs would be touring the plant in just a few minutes.
All production was immediately shut down as employees scrambled
to quickly tidy up the work place.
When the appointed lookout yelled, "Here they come!" fifty
fingers that were poised over fifty machine start-up buttons
pressed down in unison and blew every fuse in the building.
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John Miller,
59,
Grabill
Indiana
Killer finally faces justice
30 years after he murdered girl, 8
John Miller, 59, was sentenced to 80 years jail for the
molestation and murder for the gruesome death of April Tinsley,
who disappeared from her Fort Wayne, Indiana neighborhood on
April 1, 1988. Tinsley’s body was found 20 miles away in a ditch
in a ditch by a jogger and a witness at the time told police a
man in his thirties had pulled the girl into his blue pickup
truck.
One of her shoes was found 1,000 feet from the body. Authorities
determined that Tinsley was sexually assaulted then strangled to
death.
For decades, the little girl’s killer tormented the family by
sending taunting letters and used condoms, according to WPTA. In
1990, Miller left a note on a barn that read: ‘ I kill 8 year old
April M Tinsley, did you find her other shoe haha I will kill
agin (sic),’ NBC reported. Police were eventually able to
determine Miller committed the heinous crime when DNA testing
became and genealogy databases became available.
Authorities narrowed the search down to two brothers and pulled
used condoms containing DNA evidence from Miller’s trailer park
trash in July. He was arrested at his home on Grabill on July 15
and when police knocked on his door, he replied ‘April Tinsley’.
Miller appeared in Allen Superior Court in a wheelchair.
His lawyer read a statement expressing regret, but prosecutors
did not believe the apology was genuine. April’s mother, Janet,
urged prosecutors to seek the death penalty, but Miller avoided
death row by pleaded guilty early. We’re glad the case is solved
and has come to closure a little bit, but in a way … April really
didn’t got the justice that she deserves,’ Janet Tinsley said
according to Wane.com. ‘Right now, it’s a start. But we’re never
going to forget her. Her name’s going to be out there.’
From: Helene
Re: No Right Click
Dear Webby,
Although I disagree with most of your political & social
beliefs, your letter is really addictive and, hate to admit this,
but enjoy -- a lot. So, thanks. Before I go through an
elaborate process, any hints about what causes the right
button of a mouse to suddenly stop functioning? It worked
fine yesterday. Appreciate any advice.
Helene
Dear Helene
It's not political that your RIGHT click does not work.
First go into Settings, Control Panel, Mouse, Buttons
and make sure that right clicking has not been turned off
by some left-wing liberal program.
If that is OK, shake and bash the mouse on the table.
Don't be too gentle, except with the mouse cord. Make sure
that there won't be any strain on the mouse cord during that.
If that does not help either, replace the mouse. They are
not made to last forever.
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We were thoroughly confused. While transcribing medical
audiotapes, my co-worker came upon the following garbled
diagnosis: "This man has pholenfrometrie."
Knowing nothing about that particular condition, she
double-checked with the doctor. After listening to the
tape, he shook his head.
"This man," he said, translating for her, "has fallen from
a tree."
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>From Rob
I knew I had been in the military too long when my five-year-
old daughter sang her version of "Silent Night." It went like
this: "Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright,
Round yon virgin mother and child, Holy infantry, tender and
mild..."
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Late one night I stopped at one of those 24-hour gas station
mini-marts to get myself a fresh-brewed cup of coffee.
When I picked up the pot, I could not help noticing that the
brew was as black as asphalt and just about as thick.
"How old is the coffee you have here?" I asked the woman
who was standing behind the store counter.
She shrugged. "I don't know. I've only been working here
two weeks."
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
As the owner of an old clunker, I was used to dealing with a
variety of car breakdowns. One day at the supermarket, just
after I had filled my trunk with groceries, I noticed a stream
of fluid pouring out of the bottom of the car. I knew I had to
get home before the car was once again out of action.
When I arrived, I asked my husband to take a look at the
problem. Expecting the worst, I braced myself for his
diagnosis.
When he came back in, he was smiling.
"It's apple juice," he said.
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jokes and fun for grownups.
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas
Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a
gift!
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Today December 25 in
800 Charlemagne was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by
Pope Leo III.
1066 William the Conqueror was crowned king of England.
1223 St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first Nativity
scenes, in Greccio, Italy.
1776 Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware
River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton,
NJ.
1818 "Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the
Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria.
1868 U.S. President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional
pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion that
resulted in the Civil War.
1896 John Philip Sousa finally titled the melody "The Stars and
Stripes Forever."
1914 During World War I, British and German troops observed an
unofficial truce, exchanging presents and even playing football
together on the Western Front.
1917 The play "Why Marry?" opened at the Astor Theatre in New
York City. "Why Marry?" was the first dramatic play to win a
Pulitzer Prize.
1926 Hirohito became the emperor of Japan after the death of his
father Emperor Taisho.
1930 The Mt. Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, New York
opened to the public. It was the first bobsled track of
international specifications to open in the U.S.
1931 Lawrence Tibbett was the featured vocalist as radio came to
the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The first opera
was "Hansel und Gretel" and was heard on the NBC network of
stations.
1939 "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, was read on CBS
radio for the first time.
1941 Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese.
1946 W.C. Fields died at the age of 66.
1962 The Department of Commerce Census Clock in Washington, DC,
recorded the U.S. population on this day as 188,000,000.
1972 The Nicaraguan capital Managua was hit by an earthquake.
Over 10,000 people were killed.
1979 The USSR invaded Afghanistan in a bid to halt civil war and
protect USSR interests.
1989 Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife,
Elena, were executed following a popular uprising.
1989 Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was elected president of
Czechoslovakia.
2000 Over 300 people were killed and dozens were injured by fire
at a Christmas party in the Chinese city of Luoyang. The incident
occurred at the Dongdu Disco.
2018 smiled.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, December 24
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
NC Man who loved riding on top of passenger
trains got decapitated by bridge
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Today, December 24 in
1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the
country's Marxist government. The CIA organized, trained and
armed the Taliban to fight the Soviets.
More of today in history at History
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There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about
any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no
matter how virtuous their cause.
--- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you
have to do until you can get silly again.
--- Mike Myers
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A firefighter is at the station house working outside on the fire
truck when he notices a little girl next door. The little girl is
in a little Red wagon with little ladders hung off the side. She
is wearing a Firefighter's hat and has the wagon tied to a dog.
The firefighter says, "Hey, little girl, whatcha doing?"
The little girl says, "I'm pretending to be a firefighter, and
this is my fire truck!"
The firefighter walks over to take a closer look. "Little girl,
that sure is a nice fire truck!" the firefighter says.
"Thanks, mifter," says the little girl.
The firefighter looks a little closer and notices the little
girl has tied the wagon to the dog's testicles.
"Little girl," says the firefighter, "I don't want to tell you
how to run your fire truck, but if you were to tie that rope
around the dog's neck, I think you could go faster."
The little girl says,
"You're probably right, mifter, but then I wouldn't have a
siren!"
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A Conversation with Mom
Mother: 'Hello?'
Daughter: 'Hi Mom. Can I leave the kids with you tonight?'
Mother: 'You're going out?'
Daughter: 'Yes.'
Mother: 'With whom?'
Daughter: 'With a friend.'
Mother: 'I don't know why you left your husband. He is such a
good man.'
Daughter: 'MOM, I didn't leave him. He left me!'
Mother: 'You let him leave you, and now you go out with anybodies
and nobodies.'
Daughter: 'MA, I do not go out with anybody. Can I bring over the
kids?'
Mother: 'I never left you to go out with anybody except your
father.'
Daughter: 'There are lots of things that you did and I don't.'
Mother: 'What are you hinting at?
Daughter: 'Nothing. I just want to know if I can bring the kids
over tonight..'
Mother: 'You're going to stay the night with him? What will your
husband say if he finds out?'
Daughter: 'MA, its My EX husband. I don't think he would be
bothered. From the day he left me, he probably never slept
alone!'
Mother: 'So you're going to sleep over at this loser's place?'
Daughter: 'MOM, He's not a loser.'
Mother: 'A man who goes out with a divorced woman with children
is a loser and a parasite.'
Daughter: 'MA, I don't want to argue; should I bring over the
kids or not?'
Mother: 'Poor children with such a mother.'
Daughter: 'Such a what?'
Mother: 'With no stability. No wonder your husband left you.'
Daughter: 'ENOUGH MA!!!'
Mother: 'Don't scream at me. You probably scream at the loser
too!'
Daughter: 'Great MA, Now you're worried about the loser?'
Mother: 'Ah, so you see he is a loser and I spotted him
immediately.'
Daughter: 'Goodbye, mother.'
Mother: 'Wait! Wait! Don't hang up! When are you bringing them
over? '
Daughter: 'I'm not bringing them over! I'm not going out!'
Mother: 'If you never go out ...how do you expect to meet
anyone?"
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One of the busiest times for a meat-department manager in a
supermarket occurs when there is a sale on particular cuts. When
we put cross-rib roasts on sale one day the result was
predictable. I'd bring out a cart of roasts and before I could
get them on display, women customers were jostling for their
share. Three times I returned with a cart of roasts and three
times they were gone before I got to the counter.
The fourth time out I noticed that a man who had quietly been
watching began to approach my cart. He elbowed his way in,
pushing and shoving, and finally grasped a roast. Before he could
retreat from the crush, an irate woman glared at him and said,
"Sir, how about being a gentleman!"
The fellow turned and said, "Ma'am, for twenty minutes I've been
a gentleman, now I'm going to be a lady!" And with that he
smiled, took his roast and walked away.
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Hussaini-Bridge, Pakistan
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Varcy Locklear,
24,
Lumberton,
North Carolina
NC Man who loved riding on top of passenger
trains got decapitated by bridge
Varcy Locklear’s dangerous hobby is believed to have killed him
as he rode an Amtrak train in Lumberton, North Carolina in late
October. The 24 year-old’s skull was found on December 11 by
train crew, and formally identified as belonging to him Thursday.
Locklear’s headless corpse was discovered shortly after his death
on October 30. Officials believe it lay on top of the train after
Locklear was decapitated, then fell off shortly after the
locomotive passed through a track switching area and swayed from
side to side as a result.
After the train in question was examined, investigators found
blood spatter on its roof consistent with the decapitation
theory. He was known to cops for hopping on trains without a
ticket, and had been charged numerous times with trespassing.
Enfield Police Captain Dreher Bozard told the Fayetteville
Observer: ‘He has been charged in the past with some trespassing
charges dealing with trains.
‘He has been charged, and he’s also been warned several times
about trespassing on train property, so he has a history of this.
‘He also has gone on Facebook before and posted a video on
Facebook live of him standing in front of a train and jumping out
of the way at the last second.’ Murphy added: ‘It’s a bizarre
case. (Investigators) were shocked like anybody else would be to
see anything of that magnitude.? His death saw the train he was
traveling atop forced to stop for 46 minutes. An Amtrak spokesman
said that 99 passengers were on board at the time, and added that
no-one else was injured. Locklear’s death is being treated as
accidental.
Possibly the bonehead sat up to get above the Diesel exhaust, was
riding looking backwards and did not see the bridge.
From: Gale
Re: Back-up storage
Dear Webby,
I want to tell you how much I admire your picture in which
you are wearing the red shirt and hood. You make it look
good! Months ago you were highly recommending a
storage/recovery system for pictures; alas, I did not note
the name of it. My skills are remedial and now I know
enough to wish I had such a good system.
Thank you for your newsletter.
Gale
Dear Gale
Quite a few electronics and camera stores are giving away thumb
drives looking like key fobs, with their company logo printed on
them. Some try to sell them, but fork them over if you ask
nicely.
You can also use camera chips. They are cheap.
The problem with those is that they are small and like getting
lost unless you have a dedicated place to store them and are an
obnoxious nuisance insisting that EVERYBODY stores them there.
A zip-lock or sturdy freezer zip bag attached to a monitor or
shelf with double-sided tape is a good solution. Ideally you have
two or more camera chips, and always have one of them in the bank
safe deposit box, far away from the computer and the house.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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A recent widow was crying to a grief counselor. "We were
married twenty-five years before he died," she said,
dabbing away a tear. "Never had an argument in all those
years."
"Amazing," said the councelor. "How did you do it?"
"I outweighed him by forty pounds and he was a chicken."
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At a high School in Montana a group of high schoolers played a
prank on the school. They let three goats loose in the school.
Before they let them go they painted numbers on the sides of the
goats: 1,2,4.
Local school administrators spent most of the day looking for #3.
We did that with cows. Cows walk up, but do NOT walk down stairs,
and have to be carried down the stairs on stretchers.
Did we ever get yelled at!
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GNo Snow Pants?
If you don't want to buy snow pants, just spray an old pair
of jeans with water repellent. Wear a pair of long johns
underneath to help keep you warm. Plastic bags work
as a substitute to snow boots in a pinch
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Baby Oil works great as an emergency water
repellant, especially in the cold, and washes out clean.
Have FUN!
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Thanks to Marg for this report:
For all of you with teenagers or who had teenagers, you may want
to know why they really have a lot in common with cats:
1. Neither teenagers nor cats turn their heads when you call
them by name.
2. No matter what you do for them, it is not enough. Indeed,
all human efforts are barely adequate to compensate for the
privilege of waiting on them hand and foot.
3. You rarely see a cat walking outside of the house with an
adult human being, and it can be safely said that no teenager
in his or her right mind wants to be seen in public with his or
her parents.
4. Even if you tell jokes as well as Jay Leno, neither your cat
nor you teen will ever crack a smile.
5. No cat or teenager shares you taste in music.
6. Cats and teenagers can lie on the living-room sofa for
hours on end without moving, barely breathing.
7. Cats have nine lives. Teenagers carry on as if they did.
8. Cats and teenagers yawn in exactly the same manner,
communicating that ultimate human ecstasy -- a sense of
complete and utter boredom.
9. Cats and teenagers do not improve anyone's furniture.
10. Cats that are free to roam outside sometimes have
been known to return in the middle of the night to deposit
a dead animal in your bedroom.
Teenagers are not above that sort of behavior.
Thus, if you must raise teenagers, the best sources of
advice are not other parents, but veterinarians. It is also
a good idea to keep a guidebook on cats at hand at all times.
And remember, above all else, put out the food and do not
make any sudden moves in their direction. When they
make up their minds, they will finally come to you for some
affection and comfort, and it will be a triumphant
moment for all concerned.
As for the use of catnip as a reward or an enticement,
that is being hotly debated.
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The student - not necessarily a well-prepared student - sat in
his life science classroom staring at a question on the final
exam paper.
The question directed: "Give four advantages of breast milk ."
What to write? He sighed, and began to scribble whatever came
into his head, hoping for the best:
1. No need to boil.
2. Cats can't steal it.
3. Available whenever necessary.
Um. So far so good - maybe. But the exam demanded a
four-part answer.
Again, what to write? Once more he sighed.
He frowned.
He scowled.
Then sighed again.
But suddenly, he brightened. He grabbed his pen, and
triumphantly he scribbled his definitive answer:
4. Available in attractive containers.
He got an A for it.
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas
Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a
gift!
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Today December 24 in
1814 The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with
the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.
1818 Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for
"Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr.
1828 William Burke who, with his partner William Hare, dug up the
dead and murdered to sell the corpses for dissection, went on
trial in Edinburgh.
1851 A fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, DC,
destroying about 35,000 volumes.
1865 Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private
social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.
1906 Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a
music program over radio, from Brant Rock, MA.
1914 In World War I, the first air raid on Britain was made when
a German airplane dropped a bomb on the grounds of a rectory in
Dover.
1928 The first broadcast of "The Voice of Firestone" was heard.
1943 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of
Operation Overlord.
1944 The Andrews Sisters starred in the debut of "The Andrews
Sisters’ Eight-To-The-Bar-Ranch" on ABC Radio.
1944 A German submarine torpedoed the Belgian transport ship S.S.
Leopoldville with 2,235 soldiers aboard. About 800 American
soldiers died. The soldiers were crossing the English Channel to
be reinforcements at the battle that become known as the Battle
of the Bulge.
1948 For the first time ever, a midnight Mass was broadcast on
television. It was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York
City.
1948 The first completely solar-heated house became occupied in
Dover, MA.
1951 NBC-TV presented, "Amahl and the Night Visitors," the first
opera written for television.
1951 Libya achieved independence as the United Kingdom of Libya,
under King Idris.
1965 A meteorite landed on Leicestershire. It weighed about
100lbs.
1966 Luna 13 landed on the moon.
1968 Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank
Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before
coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the
moon.
1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the
country's Marxist government. The CIA organized, trained and
armed the Taliban to fight the Soviets.
1981 In Eastern Kazakh/Semipalatinsk, the Soviet Union performed
a nuclear test.
1985 Fidel Castro, the Cuban president, announced that he had
stopped smoking.
1989 Ousted Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega took refuge at the
Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City.
1990 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married.
1992 U.S. President George H.W. Bush pardoned former Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra
scandal.
1997 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal," was
sentenced by a French court to life in prison for the 1975
murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national.
1998 At Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, a tourist was hit by a piece
of flying metal while waiting to board a ride. The man's wife and
a Disneyland employee were also injured. Luan Phi Dawson died
December 26th from his injuries.
1999 Ivory Coast President Henri Konan Bédié was overthrown in a
coup.
1999 An Indian Airlines plane was seized during a flight from
Katmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi. In Afghanistan, the 150 hostages
were freed on December 31 after India released three Kashmir
militants from prison.
2000 36 minutes after the end of a game, both the New England
Patriots and the Miami Dolphins were called back to the playing
field. The teams had to play the final 3 seconds of the game
which the Dolphins had won 27-24. The end result did not change.
2000 The "Texas 7," seven convicts that had escaped a Texas
prison, robbed a sports store in Irving, TX.
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Hiding recipient's addresses Sunday, December 23, 2018, 09:42 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Sunday, December 23
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
British dad bit his baby’s nose and
shook him to death
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Today, December 23 in
1947 John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley
invented the transistor.
More of today in history at History
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people
will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
--- Bernard Bailey
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Then there was the hillbilly woman who came to the hospital to
have her first child. A year later she was back for a second
child. The next year, almost like clockwork, she was back for her
third child.
The hospital staff naturally began to expect her, and she was
there, just like clockwork.
In the twelfth year - she didn't show, and the staff wondered
what happened...A couple of years later she shows up, but she's
not pregnant.
The hospital staff wonder what happened - did her husband die, or
what? When asked why she hadn't been there having a baby the past
couple of years, she replied: "No, no more. Found out what was
causin' it."
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>From Vince:
When my wife says, "Do you know what we need to do?"
it's a pretty safe bet, that she doesn't really mean "we."
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Just as she was celebrating her 80th birthday, our friend
received a jury-duty notice. She called to remind the people
at the clerk's office that she was exempt because of her age.
"You need to come in and fill out the exemption forms," they
said.
"I've already done that," she replied. "I did it last year."
"You have to do it every year," she was told.
"Why?" came the response. "Do you think I'm going to get
younger without telling anybody?"
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Doulton Phillips,
17,
Southampton
Great Britain
British dad bit his baby’s nose and
shook him to death
Neighbours recalled hearing ‘blood-curdling screams’ as Doulton
Phillips killed his son Reggie. The teenager, now 17, can be
named for the first time after jurors found him guilty of murder.
Doulton Phillips bit his baby’s nose before violently swinging
him to death
His identity was protected while he stood trial alongside his
girlfriend Alannah Skinner, 19, the baby’s mother. Jurors found
Skinner, who was 18 at the time, guilty of child cruelty for
failing to protect or seek help for her baby. Phillips fractured
the baby’s skull and ribs, leaving him with a broken leg and
bruises, a court heard. The ‘deliberate’ attack happened in the
early hours of February 11 at Skinner’s one-room flat in
Southampton after they spent the night drinking vodka and beer at
a neighbour’s party. Prosecutor Adam Feest QC said the series of
injuries showed how the baby met with a ‘violent end’.
‘Residents across the road recall hearing what they described as
a blood-curdling or painful scream coming from the flat at about
3am,’ he added. One neighbour heard ‘a gut-wrenching cry of pain
coming from a baby’ and the ‘sort of screaming that turned her
stomach’, he said. When the baby was taken to hospital, Phillips
told a neighbour: ‘What have I done?’ But he later claimed to
police that Reggie accidentally fell from the sofa when having
his nappy changed, or fell from his arms while the couple were
arguing. Mr Feest said the explanation could not account for the
‘severity or multiplicity of the injuries sustained’. He added:
‘They are more in keeping with a violent shaking or swinging, or
indeed both.
From: Jeanne
Re: Hiding recipient addresses
Dear Webby,
My question is how do you forward a list of information or
jokes to list of friends without it showing up on the To: or Cc:
I want it to go out without them seeing who I sent it to.
Thanks,
Jeanne, From London
Dear Jeanne
Look for the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy)
The BCC addresses don't show to other recipients.
Make sure you put your own address into the TO,
otherwise your mail will look like spam and be filtered
out by a lot of mail services.
Have FUN!
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Thanks to Ross for sending this story and picture:
Daughter: My friends and I want to go out tonight.
Mother: Where are ya'll going?
Daughter: To the cowboy bar on the edge of town.
Mother: I'm don't think you should. There's been a lot of
trouble at that place. I heard there was a fight there last
weekend, and several people got hurt.
Daughter: But mom!! Please!! It'll be okay.
Mother: No, your life is more important than going out.
Daughter: But Tiny is going with us...
Mother: Well, in that case, it should be okay. Ya'll have
fun!
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Thanks to Dianne for this wise advice:
Why females should avoid a girls night out after they are
married.
The other night I was invited out for a night with the 'girls.' I
told my husband that I would be home by midnight, 'I promise!'
Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too
easily.
Around 3 a.m., a bit loaded, I headed for home. Just as I got in
the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up and
cuckooed three times. Quickly, realizing my husband would
probably wake up, I cuckooed another nine times. I was really
proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution,
in order to escape a possible conflict with him.
(Even when totally smashed... three cuckoos plus nine cuckoos
totals 12 cuckoos— MIDNIGHT!)
The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in, I told
him 'MIDNIGHT.' He didn't seem annoyed in the least. Whew, I
got away with that one!
Then he said 'We need a new cuckoo clock.'
When I asked him why, he said, 'Well, last night our clock
cuckooed three times, then said, 'oh, shit.' Cuckooed four more
times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled,
cuckooed twice more, farted and
tripped over the coffee table.
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Give A Live Plant Instead Of A Bouquet
Instead of a flower bouquet that will be wilted and in the trash
in a week or two, consider buying a plant. It could be a
houseplant or something to plant in the yard in the spring.
You can enclose a card saying, "Watch our love grow!"
Thriftyfun.com
Your plant could even be some herbs in a
window-sill her garden. I have seen windowsill herb gardens that
have half a dozen popular herbs in them.
Have FUN!
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Martin had just received his brand new drivers license. The
family troops out to the driveway, and climbs in the car, where
he is going to take them for a ride for the first time.
Dad immediately heads for the back seat,
directly behind the newly minted driver.
"I'll bet you're back there to get a change of scenery after
all those months of sitting in the front passenger seat
teaching me how to drive," says the beaming boy to his
father.
"Nope," comes dad's reply, "I'm gonna sit here and kick
the back of your seat as you drive, just like you've
been doing to me all these years."
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An out-of-towner in New York at the height of the tourist
season decided to revisit an uptown restaurant he'd enjoyed
on a previous trip to the city.
Finally catching the eye of an overworked waiter, he said,
"You know, it's been over five years since I first came in here."
"You'll have to wait your turn, sir," replied the harried waiter.
"I can only serve one table at a time."
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jokes and fun for grownups.
Read it on-line or subscribe. If you subscribe, look for the
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas
Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a
gift!
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Today December 23 in
1823 The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore ("
'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.
1834 English architect Joseph Hansom patented his 'safety cab',
better known as the Hansom cab.
1856 Ralph Collier was issued a U.S. patent for the first rotary
egg beater with rotating parts.
1880 Thomas Edison incorporated the Edison Electric Light Company
of Europe.
1888 Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent
Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe.
1893 The Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Hansel und Gretel" was
first performed, in Weimar, Germany.
1913 The Federal Reserve Bill was signed into law by U.S.
President Woodrow Wilson. The act established 12 Federal Reserve
Banks.
1919 The first ship designed to be used as an ambulance for the
transport patients was launched. The hospital ship was named USS
Relief and had 515 beds.
1930 Ruth Elizabeth Davis, an unknown actress, arrived in
Hollywood, under contract to Universal Studios. Universal changed
her name to Bette Davis for the movies.
1941 During World War II, American forces on Wake Island
surrendered to the Japanese.
1942 Bob Hope agreed to entertain U.S. airmen in Alaska. It was
the first of the traditional Christmas shows.
1943 "Hansel and Gretel," the opera, was televised on New York's
WRBG. It was the first complete opera to be televised.
1947 John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley
invented the transistor.
1948 Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese
war leaders were executed in Tokyo. They had been found guilty of
crimes against humanity.
1951 A National Football League (NFL) championship game was
televised nationally for the first time. The Los Angeles Rams
beat the Cleveland Browns 24-17. The DuMont Network had paid
$75,000 for the rights to the game.
1953 Soviet secret police chief Lavrenti Beria and six of his
associates were shot for treason following a secret trial.
1954 The Walt Disney movie "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was
released.
1965 A 70-mph speed limit was introduced in Britain.
1968 The crew of the U.S. Navy ship, Pueblo, was released by
North Korea. The Captain of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M.
Bucher, and 82 of his crew were held for 11 months after the ship
was seized by North Korea because of suspected spying by the
Americans.
1970 In New York, the topping out ceremony for original One World
Trade Center (North Tower) took place. The South Tower's ceremony
took place on July 19, 1971.
1981 NASA approved a plan to continue the Voyager II spacecraft
on a trajectory that would take it within 66,000 miles of Uranus
on July 24, 1986.
1986 The experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and
Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world
flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force
Base in California.
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for the
attempted assassination of U.S. President Ford in 1975, escaped
from the Alderson Federal Prison for Women in West Virginia. She
was recaptured two days later.
1989 Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife,
Elena, were captured as they were attempting to flee their
country.
1990 Elections in Yugoslavia ended, leaving four of its six
republics with non-Communist governments.
1995 A fire in Dabwali, India, killed 540 people, including 170
children, during a year-end party being held near the children's
school.
1995 The bodies of 16 members of the Solar Temple religious sect
were found in a clearing near Grenoble, France. 14 were presumed
shot by two people who then committed suicide.
1997 Terry Nichols was convicted by a Denver jury on charges of
conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the 1995 federal
building bombing in Oklahoma City. The bomb killed 168 people.
1998 Guerrillas in south Lebanon fired dozens of rockets at
northern Israel.
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Saturday, December 22, 2018, 10:18 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, December 22
Days are getting longer now! YeeHaw!
This year's Winter Solstice is special, because we got a full
moon!
The solstice this year is special because the much anticipated
"Cold Moon" will be visible during the night along with the Ursid
meteor shower.
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Florida man tried to pay for McDonald's
with bag of weed, police say
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Today, December 22 in
1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray
photograph, of his wife's hand.
More of today in history at History
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as
funny as possible.
--- David M. Ogilvy
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
--- Albert Einstein
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An elderly parish priest was tending his garden near a convent
when a passerby stopped to inquire after the priest's much-loved
roses.
"Not bad," said the priest, "but they suffer from a disease
peculiar to this area known as the black death."
"What on earth is that?" asked the passerby, anxious to increase
his garden knowledge.
"Nuns with scissors."
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Thanks to Roland for this classic:
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and
working in the family business.
When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his
sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with which
to share his fortune.
One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most
beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took
his breath away. 'I may look like just an ordinary man,'
he said to her,
'but in just a few weeks, my father will die,
and I'll inherit 20 BILLION dollars.'
Impressed, the woman obtained his business card.
Three days later, she became his stepmother.
Women are so much better at estate planning than men.
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TRANSLATION OF VACATION TERMS
When choosing a vacation spot, be aware of the following
advertising terminology and their meanings . . .
Tropical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rainy.
Old world charm . . . . . . . . No bath.
Open bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Free ice cubes
Pre registered rooms . . . . .Both already occupied.
Majestic setting . . . . . . . . . A long way from town.
Secluded hideaway . . . . . . Impossible to find except by cab
Options galore . . . . . . . . . . Nothing on the itinerary is
included.
Knowledgeable trip hosts . .They've been on a greyhound once
Gentle breezes . . . . . . . . . OccasionalGale force winds.
Plush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Top and bottom sheets.
Light and airy . . . . . . . . . . No air conditioning.
Picturesque . . . . . . . . . . . Cutie on the billboard across
the street
Nominal fee . . . . . . . . . . . . Outrageous charge.
Explore on your own . . . . . Pay for it yourself.
No extra fees . . . . . . . . . . . No extras.
Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-standard.
Deluxe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Standard.
Superior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . One free shower cap.
All the amenities . . . . . . . . Shower cap and soap.
Internet access . . . . . . . . You need your own dial-up
account
Only 25 cents per call . . . We knock you off-line every
5 minutes
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Bryce Canyon.
In the morning or evening Bryce Canyon is even more spectacular.
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Anthony Andrew Gallagher,
23,
Port St. Lucie,
Floriduh
Florida man tried to pay for McDonald's
with bag of weed, police say
Police were alerted to Anthony Andrew Gallagher's offer early
Sunday morning and got a description of him from the worker.
Police in Florida say a 23-year-old man went through a McDonald's
drive-thru and tried to pay for his order with a bag of
marijuana.
News outlets report Port St. Lucie police say the fast food
worker denied the trade and Anthony Andrew Gallagher drove off,
only to return again a short time later. Police arrested him
Sunday on charges of marijuana possession and driving under the
influence.
Police were alerted to Gallagher's offer early Sunday morning and
got a description of him from the worker. They say a suspect
matching his description went through the drive-thru a little
while later and police approached him.
It's unclear if Gallagher attempted to pay for his order with
drugs the second time.
From: Rosalie
Re: sbcglobal problems
Dear Webby,
I have been signed up to your web site for a long time and yet I
only get your e-mails maybe once a month or every other month. I
also signed up to Webby's site and never get anything, although I
use to receive it everyday. Don't' know what the problem is but
I sure do miss your's and Webby's everyday musings.
Rosalie ******@sbcglobal.net
Dear Rosalie
With Yahoo's sbcglobal you have to expect that.
It is not something you did or didn't do.
Most Yahoos have that problem.
Just get yourself a free gmail address for important stuff.
Gmail is free and quite reliable.
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How the stock market works
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced
to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around,
went out to the forest, and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to
diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He then announced
that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the
villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started
going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each
and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an
effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 !
However, since he had to go to the city on some business,
his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers.
"Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has
collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man
returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."
The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the
monkeys. Some even got loans from a new bank in order to
buy monkeys at $35 !
Then they never saw the man nor his assistant,
only monkeys and bankers everywhere!
Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market
works.
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Thanks to Brigit for this report:
In Marine Corps basic training, I soon learned that everything
we recruits used belonged to our drill instructor. For instance,
she referred to the stuff in our footlockers as "my trash" and
to the racks where we slept as "my racks."
One time when when we were whispering in the head (bathroom)
while making "head calls," our drill instructor must have
overheard us.
To our surprise, she suddenly yelled, "Why do I hear voices in
my head?"
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Thriftyfun.com
Old Mail Box As A Train Tunnel
If you know a toy train enthusiast (or are one yourself) you
can use an old metal mailbox to create a tunnel for your train.
Just remove the door and back of the mailbox and let your
toy train travel through it.
Thriftyfun.com
An old, worn out door mat or throw rug works fine too. Build
the track first. It can be curved and even exit on the same
side higher up, like the spiral tunnel at Kicking Horse Canyon in
BC.
Use a 2" vaccum cleaner hose or similar spacer on the track,
drape the throw rug over it and sprinkle it with cement and
water. You don't need a lot, it just has to be stiff enough,
that it doesn't collapse when you pull the hose out a day
later.
You can, of course also use boxes or pieces of wood as
spacers and create a realistic looking mountain.
A ragged old cocos mat door entrance mat, sprayed with a bit of
green spray paint makes a very realistic looking mountain.
Have FUN!
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A boy was watching his father, a preacher, write a sermon.
He asked, "How do you know what to say, dad?"
His father said, "Why, God tells me, son."
The boy was silent for a moment, then said,
"Then why do you keep crossing things out?"
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The new father ran out of the delivery room and announced to
the rest of his family waiting for the news, "We had twins!"
The family was so excited, they immediately asked,
"Who do they look like?"
The father paused, smiled and said, "Each other."
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas
Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a
gift!
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Today December 22 in
1715 James Stuart, the "Old Pretender", landed at Petershead
after his exile in France.
1775 A Continental naval fleet was organized in the rebellious
American colonies under the command of Ezek Hopkins.
1807 The U.S. Congress passed the Embargo Act, designed to force
peace between Britain and France by cutting off all trade with
Europe.
1864 During the American Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman
sent a message to U.S. President Lincoln from Georgia. The
message read, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city
of Savannah."
1877 The "American Bicycling Journal" went on sale for the first
time.
1894 French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason
in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-
Semitism. Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.
1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of
his wife's hand.
1910 U.S. Postal savings stamps were issued for the first time.
They were discontinued in 1914.
1939 Gloria Jacobs became the first girl to hold a world pistol
record when she shot 299 out of a possible 300 points. She was 17
years old at the time.
1943 Sporting goods manufacturers received permission to use
synthetic rubber for the core of baseballs.
1956 The last British and French forces evacuated Egypt.
1961 James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam,
while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of
military advisers.
1984 New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths
on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.
1989 Romania's hard-line Communist ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, was
overthrown in a popular uprising.
1990 Lech Walesa was sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected
president.
1991 The body of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, an American hostage
murdered by his captors, was found along a highway in Lebanon.
1996 A car bomb exploded in Belfast, injuring a known IRA
supporter. Police suspected that Protestant loyalists were
responsible for the attack.
1998 A unit of RJR Nabsico pled guilty to attempting to smuggle
cigarettes into Canada.
2001 Thirty Afghans, including two women, were sworn in as part
of the new interim government in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai was
the head of the post-Taliban government.
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1945 U.S. Gen. George S. Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany,
of injuries from a car accident.
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Thursday, December 20, 2018, 09:09 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, December 20
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
PA lawyer and girlfriend took sexually
explicit photos of drugged woman
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Today, December 20 in
1879 Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his
incandescent light at Menlo Park, NJ.
1990 The world's first website and server go live at CERN. The
first website was
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
More of today in history at History
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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong
word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
--- Stephen King (1947 - )
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
--- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are
sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
--- Anatole France
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they
are dim, the whole world is clouded.
—-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool
usually has his suspicions.
--- Wilson Mizner
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When a physician remarked on a new patient's extraordinarily
ruddy complexion, he said,
"High blood pressure, Doc. It comes from my family."
"Your mother's side or your father's?" I asked.
"Neither," he replied. "It's from my wife's family."
"Oh, come now," the doctor said.
"How could your wife's family give you high blood pressure?"
He sighed. "You oughta meet 'em sometime, Doc!"
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>From Ed
Can't Win for Losing
I use to go out with a lovely lady who was attending the local
university striving for a PhD in her chosen field of medicine,
Psychiatry.
But I had to throw in the towel, cuz I just couldn't win.
If I was late for a date, I was hostile.
If I was early, I had an anxiety complex.
If I was on time, I was compulsive."
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Charley, a new retiree greeter at Walmart, just couldn't
seem to get to work on time. Every day he was 5, 10,
sometimes 15 minutes late. But he was a good worker,
really tidy, clean shaven, sharp minded and a real credit
to the company and obviously demonstrating their
"Older-Person-Friendly" policies.
One day the boss was in a real quandary about how to deal
with it. Finally, he called him into the office for a talk.
"Charley, I have to tell you, I like your work ethic, you do
a bang on job, but your being late so often is quite
bothersome."
"Yes, I know, boss, and I am working on it."
"Well good, you are a team player. That's what I like to
hear. It's odd though, your coming in late. I know you're
retired from the Armed Forces. What did they say if you came
in late there?"
"They usually said, 'Good morning, General. Tea or coffee
this morning, sir?'"
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Maijishan Caves, Tianshui, China
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Lawrence Weinstein, left, and
Kelly Drucker
Doylestown,
Pennsylvania.
PA lawyer and girlfriend took sexually
explicit photos of drugged woman
Prosecutors say a former Pennsylvania township official and his
girlfriend spiked a woman's drink and used a hidden camera to
take sexually explicit photographs of her while she was
unconscious.
Lawrence Weinstein and Kelly Drucker are charged with false
imprisonment, invasion of privacy, recklessly endangering another
person, criminal conspiracy and violations of the Pennsylvania
Wiretap Act. They surrendered to Bucks County detectives Tuesday.
Weinstein is a lawyer who recently left his job as a Northampton
Township supervisor.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the plot came to light after
Drucker's ex-husband noticed his teenage daughter had been given
her mom's old phone. He discovered the texts detailing the plan.
Investigators say they found photos on Weinstein's iPad showing
him assaulting another unconscious woman in 2012. He's facing
additional charges in that case.
From: Nora
Re: Attach files to email
Dear Webby,
Could you explain how to send and attachment's. I have had
my computer for 7 year's now and no one to show me how
to do it. And sometime's there are thing's I would like to
send on and I can't because I don't know how. If you could
would you print it out so I can follow it in your column .
I catch on really fast but that is one thing I don't even know
how to start doing it.
Nora
Dear Nora
I don't really know what email program you use.
With Eudora, you simply drag a file from an Explorer
or File Save window into the header area of a mail
that you are writing, or onto the Eudora shortcut on
your desktop. Or if you prefer to do it with just the keyboard,
hit CTRL H, and a file browser opens to let you find
and select what to attach.
Eudora is one of the oldest email programs, and most others
copied most or all of Eudora's code, and will therefore work
similarly.
Considering the ad on your mail, you might have Incredimail,
which is sometimes called the funky great-granddaughter of
Eudora and has inherited a lot from it. Chances are very
good that the same procedure still works.
Keep in mind that there are two ways to send pictures or movies:
Embedded and Attached.
Embedded are pictures showing inline like the pictures here.
Attached are items like the Large picture here, that you have to
click on a link to open it up.
Usually, you can open a picture in your paint program, hit CTRL C
to copy it, jump to your mail, and hit CTRL V to paste it.
That trick has worked since about 1993.
Attaching is usually used just for items too large to fit on a
page, or for movies. To Attach, hit CTRL H, or whatever combo
your email program uses, and browse to the item.
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Hillary had been busy campaigning, and her last stop of the
day was at a Senior Citizens Home. After walking in and
looking around for a while she approached an elderly woman
in a wheel chair. Bending over to be on eye level with her,
she asked her "Do you know who I am?"
The elderly lady gave her a good looking over, then told her
"No I don't. You don't look familiar. Just go to the front desk,
they will tell you who you are."
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I was nervous the night my husband and I brought our kids to
an upscale restaurant for the first time. My husband ordered
a bottle of wine with the meal. When the waitress brought it,
our children became quiet as she began the ritual uncorking.
When she poured a small amount for my husband to taste,
our six-year-old piped up,
"Mom can drink a lot more than that!"
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Think Twice About to Rent-To-Own
They offer expensive financing which will cost at least
double for any products you buy. You are much better
served by getting a loan from a credit union, using a
low interest credit card, or better yet, saving money
every month so you can buy the product outright.
Thriftyfun.com
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About a year ago a friend, who lives in Virginia, was talking
with her four year old son, Brent. He was asking her why all
their relatives from Wisconsin talk funny and sound like their
noses are plugged up.
"They think we have an accent," she replied.
"But they have an accent, right?", Brent asked. "They talk
funny?"
"Everybody talks in different ways" she tried to explain.
"To them, we sound like we talk very slow and all our words
are d-r-a-w-n out."
His eyes got big, and he whispered seriously,
"Oh, no. You mean they hear funny too?"
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
Visiting the National Museum of the American Indian in
Washington, D.C., my sister and I were admiring a beautiful
tribal headdress decorated with eagle feathers.
A man came up to us and identified himself as a Native American.
"Do you know how warriors got those?" the man asked,
pointing to the feathers. "They covered a hole with brush,
tied a live rabbit on top of it and hid underneath. When an
eagle swooped down for the kill, they would grab its wing or
tail."
"Fascinating," I said. "You learned that from your tribal
elders?"
"Actually, no," the man confessed.
"I saw it on the Discovery Channel."
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jokes and fun for grownups.
Read it on-line or subscribe. If you subscribe, look for the
double opt-in confirmation request.
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas
Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a
gift!
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Today December 20 in
1606 The "Susan Constant," "Godspeed" and "Discovery" set sail
from London. Their landing at Jamestown, VA, was the start of the
first permanent English settlement in America.
1699 Peter the Great ordered that the Russian New Year be changed
from September 1 to January 1.
1790 The first successful cotton mill in the United States began
operating at Pawtucket, RI.
1803 The United States Senate ratified a treaty that included the
Louisiana Territories from France for $15 million. The transfer
was completed with formal ceremonies in New Orleans.
1820 The state of Missouri enacted legislation to tax bachelors
between the ages of 21-50 for being unmarried. The tax was $1 a
year.
1879 Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent
light at Menlo Park, NJ.
1880 New York's Broadway became known as the "Great White Way"
when it was lighted by electricity.
1892 Alexander T. Brown and George Stillman patented the
pneumatic tire.
1928 Mail delivery by dog sled began in Lewiston, ME.
1933 The film "Flying Down to Rio" was first shown in New York.
1938 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patented the iconoscope television
system.
1946 In Indochina (Vietnam), full-scale guerrilla warfare between
Vietnam partisans and French troops began.
1954 Buick Motor Company signed Jackie Gleason to one of the
largest contracts ever entered into with an entertainer. Gleason
agreed to produce 78 half-hour shows over a two-year period for
$6,142,500.
1963 The Berlin Wall was opened for the first time to West
Berliners. It was only for the holiday season. It closed again on
January 6, 1964.
1973 The Spanish premier Carrero Blanco was assassinated in
Madrid.
1987 More than 3,000 people were killed when the Dona Paz, a
Philippine passenger ship, collided with the tanker Vector off
Mindoro island, setting off a double explosion.
1989 General Noriega, Panama's former dictator, was overthrown by
a United States invasion force invited by the new civilian
government. The project was known as Operation Just Cause.
1990 The world's first website and server go live at CERN. The
first website was
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
1995 An American Airlines Boeing 757 en route to Cali, Colombia,
crashed into a mountain, killing all but four of the 163 people
aboard.
1996 Doctors reported that a Cypriot woman who had taken
fertility drugs was carrying about 11 embryos.
1998 In Houston, TX, a 27-year-old woman gave birth to the only
known living set of octuplets.
1999 The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples were
entitled to the same benefits and protections as wedded couples
of the opposite sex.
1999 Sovereignty over the colony of Macao was transferred from
Portugal to China.
2001 The U.S. Congress passed a $20 billion package to finance
the war against terrorism taking place in Afghanistan.
2001 Argentina's President Fernando De la Rua resigned after two
years in power.
2001 The first British peacekeepers arrived in Afghanistan to
help the nation heal after decades of war.
2018 smiled.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, December 19
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Indiana car jacking victim shot back
Car jacker seriously injured and arrested
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Today, December 19 in
1871 Corrugated paper was patented by Albert L. Jones.
More of today in history at History
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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the
unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
--- Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous,
the sensible man hardly anything.
--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Contemporary Latin Phrases:
"Domino vobiscum."
(The pizza guy is here.)
"Auda similarum ad seattles."
(They all sound just like Pearl Jam.)
"Sharpei diem."
(Seize the wrinkled dog.)
"Nucleo predicus dispella conducticus."
(Remove foil before microwaving.)
"Il guyus nissanem iste ickye."
(That Nissan guy gives me the creeps.)
"Bodicus mutilatimus, unemploymi ad infinitum."
(Better take the nose ring out before the job interview.)
"Motorolus interruptus."
(Hold on, I'm going into a tunnel.)
"Veni, vidi, Pesci."
(I came, I saw, I moidered da bum.)
"Revelare Pecunia!"
(Show Me The Money!)
"Sic semper tyrannus."
(Your dinosaur is ill.)
"No Quid Pro Quo."
(I'm Sorry, We're All Out of Quid.)
"Nunc Tutus Exitus Computarus."
(It's Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer.)
"Veni, Vidi, Velcro"
(I came; I saw; I stuck around.)
"Et tu, pluribus unum?"
(The government just stabbed me in the back!)
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Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome - one
has a cross in front of him; the other one the Star of David.
Many people go by, look at both beggars, but only put money into
the hat of the beggar sitting behind the cross.
A priest comes by, stops and watches throngs of people giving
money to the beggar behind the cross, but none to the beggar
behind the Star of David. Finally, the priest goes over to the
beggar behind the Star of David and says, "My poor fellow, don't
you understand? This is a Catholic country; this city is the seat
of Catholicism. People aren't going to give you money if you sit
there with a Star of David in front of you, especially when
you're sitting beside a beggar who has a cross. I! n fact, they
would probably give to him just out of spite."
The beggar behind the Star of David listened to the priest,
turned to the other beggar with the cross and said: "Moishe, look
who's trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing."
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A good friend of mine warned me that, as my three daughters
became old enough to date, I'd disapprove of every young
man who took them out.
But when the time came, I was pleased that my friend's prediction
was wrong. Each boy was pleasant and well mannered.
Talking to my daughter Joanna one day, I said that I liked all
the young men she and her sisters brought home.
"You know, Dad," she replied, "we don't show you everybody."
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(Mug shot is from a previous arrest)
Derrick Hart
Lawrence,
Indiana
Indiana car jacking victim shot back
Car jacker seriously injured and arrested
Carjackers and other petty criminals often think that being armed
puts them in charge, but an incident in Indiana has once again
shown that the Second Amendment can quickly transform a predator
into prey.
On Thursday, a would-be robber jumped into another person’s car
during broad daylight. The accused criminal, later identified as
Derrick Hart, flashed a gun and demanded money.
Hart had made a grave miscalculation. The “victim” in the car was
also armed, and willing to put up a fight.
According to WXIN News, the driver of the car told Hart that he
didn’t have any cash, and was then ordered at gunpoint to drive
to a nearby Chase Bank ATM. The victim complied, but was hatching
a plan of his own.
“At the time, an armored vehicle was stocking the branch’s ATMs,
so the victim attempted to steer towards it hoping to find help.
When the robber told the victim to avoid the truck, a fight broke
out,” the station reported.
“The robbery victim grabbed his gun and they started fighting in
the vehicle in very close quarters over that gun,” Deputy Chief
Gary Woodruff said.
As the two men were fighting, the car crashed into a fence and
both the robber and the resisting victim jumped out of the
vehicle. That’s when the car’s owner — who has asked to remain
anonymous — drew his own concealed handgun.
“Unbeknownst to the robbery suspect, the victim had his own
firearm and so they engaged in an exchange of gunfire,” Woodruff
said.
Hart was shot two times, while the car owner was also injured.
Luckily, nearby police officers heard the gunfire.
“They hear the gunfire and immediately respond, and they’re able
to stabilize the situation and make an almost immediate
apprehension of the suspect,” the deputy chief explained.
Hart was placed under arrest and taken to a hospital where he was
listed in serious condition. Police said he already had at least
one warrant and would now be facing additional charges of armed
robbery, aggravated battery and criminal confinement.
Although the anonymous armed citizen was hurt, he or she is
expected to be OK.
“We’re just thankful it wasn’t worse, we’re thankful there was no
loss of life, and thankful that there weren’t any other people
directly impacted as a result of this incident for sure,”
Woodruff said.
This is the type of story that is often overlooked by the media
and gun-grabbing politicians on the left.
“States with the largest increases in gun ownership also have the
largest drops in violent crimes,” gun violence expert John R.
Lott Jr. summarized to the University of Chicago Press.
“Concealed handgun laws reduce violent crime for two reasons,”
Lott explained. “First, they reduce the number of attempted
crimes because criminals are uncertain which potential victims
can defend themselves. Second, victims who have guns are in a
much better position to defend themselves.”
While statistically rare tragedies like mass shootings dominate
the headlines, incidents of legally armed citizens defending
themselves are much more common — and thankfully, this latest
incident ended with the good guy winning.
From: Fred
Re: Moving mail to flash drive
Dear Webby,
I may be having a senior moment-
But how do I save my e-mails to a flash drive????
Not new incoming mail, just the years of old mail.
Thanks in advance--
FRED
Dear Fred
That depends on the email program you use.
With Eudora, you simply drag IN.MBX and IN.TOC onto the
flash drive, to get whatever you have in the IN mailbox.
OUT.MBX and OUT.TOC would be your OUT mailbox. And so on.
Different programs use different names, but most have two
files per mailbox.
If you use a 1 or 2 GB key-fob flash drive, you can easily drag
all of your mailboxes to and from it.
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The newly-married husband came home from the office to find his
young wife in floods of tears. "Darling, whatever is the matter?"
he asked.
"Sweetheart," she sobbed, "the most terrible thing has happened!
I cooked my very first Beef Bourguignon for you, and I got it out
of the oven to season it, and the phone rang. When I came back
from answering the phone," she sobbed again. "I found that the
cat had eaten it!"
"Don't worry, darling," said her husband. "Don't cry.
We can get a new cat tomorrow."
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One day three redneck couples in a mini van are
heading to Yellowstone National Park on a vacation.
One couple is from Nebraska, one is from Kansas,
and one is from New Jersey. They
stop at a little cafe on the side of the road for
breakfast.
Their waitress serves them their food, and the
husband from Nebraska says, "Could you pass
the honey, Honey?" to whom his wife, hands
over the honey.
Then, the husband from Kansas says, "Could you
pass the sugar, Sugar?" and she passes him the
sugar.
The third husband sits there for a minute, then
looks at his wife and says, "Wanna pass me the
bacon, porky?"
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A Congressman was once asked about his attitude toward whiskey.
"If you mean the demon drink that poisons the mind, pollutes the
body, desecrates family life, and inflames sinners, then I'm
against it.
But, if you mean the elixir of Christmas cheer, the shield
against winter chill, the taxable potion that puts needed funds
into public coffers to comfort little crippled children, then I'm
for it.
This is my position, and I will not compromise."
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Some helpful rules for better writing:
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)
6. Comparisons are as bad as clichs.
7. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
8. Be more or less specific.
9. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually)
unnecessary.
10. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
11. No sentence fragments.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary;
it's highly superfluous.
14. One should NEVER generalize.
15. Don't use no double negatives.
16. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
17. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
18. The passive voice is to be ignored.
19. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
20. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
21. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said,
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
22. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times:
Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it
correctly.
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas
Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a
gift!
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Today December 19 in
1154 Henry II became King of England.
1562 The Battle of Dreux was fought between the Huguenots and the
Catholics, beginning the French Wars of Religion.
1732 Benjamin Franklin began publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac."
1777 General George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men
to Valley Forge, PA, to camp for the winter.
1842 Hawaii's independence was recognized by the U.S.
1843 Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was first published in
England.
1871 Corrugated paper was patented by Albert L. Jones.
1887 Jake Kilrain and Jim Smith fought in a bare knuckles fight
which lasted 106 rounds and 2 hours and 30 minutes. The fight was
ruled a draw and was halted due to darkness.
1903 The Williamsburg Bridge opened in New York City. It opened
as the largest suspension bridge on Earth and remained the
largest until 1924. It was also the first major suspension bridge
to use steel towers to support the main cable.
1907 A coalmine explosion in Jacobs Creek, PA, killed 239
workers.
1917 The first games of the new National Hockey League (NHL) were
played. Five teams made up the league: Toronto Arenas, Ottawa
Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens and the
Montreal Wanderers.
1918 Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column in "The
New York Globe".
1932 The British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas
with its "Empire Service" to Australia.
1957 Meredith Wilson’s "The Music Man" opened at the Majestic
Theatre in New York City. It ran for 1,375 shows.
1957 Air service between London and Moscow was inaugurated.
1959 Penn State’s Nittany Lions beat Alabama, 7-0, in the first
Liberty Bowl football game.
1959 Walter Williams died in Houston, TX, at the age of 117. He
was said to be the last surviving veteran of the U.S. Civil War.
1961 "Judgment At Nuremberg" opened in New York City.
1972 Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo
program of manned lunar landings.
1973 Johnny Carson started a fake toilet-paper scare on the
"Tonight Show."
1978 Indira Gandhi was expelled from the Lok Sabha for contempt
and imprisoned.
1979 ESPN televised its first NHL game. The teams were the
Washington Capitals and the Hartford Whalers.
1984 Wayne Gretzky, 23, of the Edmonton Oilers, became only the
18th player in the National Hockey League (NHL) to score more
than 1,000 points.
1984 Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to
Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.
1986 The Soviet Union announced it had freed dissident Andrei
Sakharov from internal exile, and pardoned his wife, Yelena
Bonner.
1989 U.S. troops invaded Panama to overthrow the regime of
General Noriega.
1996 The school board of Oakland, CA, voted to recognize Black
English, also known as "ebonics." The board later reversed its
stance.
1997 "Titanic" opened in American movie theaters.
1998 U.S. President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of
perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of
Representatives.
1998 A four-day bombing of Iraq by British and American forces
ended.
2000 The U.N. Security Council voted to impose sanctions on
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers unless they closed all terrorist
training camps and surrender U.S. embassy bombing suspect Osama
bin Laden.
2003 Images for the new design for the Freedom Tower at the World
Trade Center site were released. The building slopes into a
spire
that reaches 1,776 feet.
2008 U.S. President George W. Bush signed a $17.4 billion rescue
package of loans for ailing auto makers General Motors and
Chrysler.
2018 smiled.
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Yet another registry cleaner Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 08:11 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, December 18
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
A grandmother was arrested for dumping
a vulnerable 17 year-old orphan at a
highway rest area.
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Today, December 18 in
1898 A new automobile speed record was set at 39 mph (63 kph).
1979 The sound barrier was broken on land for the first time
by Stanley Barrett when he drove at 739.6 mph.
More of today in history at History
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The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that
all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus,
they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But
they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
--- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Carl Sagan was a mediocre SF author and major proponent of the
"Ice Age Is Coming because of YOUR muscle cars and YOUR CO2"
scare in the late 60's and early 70's. He made big money giving
speeches on that topic.
Now that the Gullible Warming cycle is finished and we are
entering the next "Ice Age is coming" cycle, you can re-use all
of Carl Sagan's drivel.
If you help a relative in need, he/she will remember you the
next time they are in need.
--- Socratex
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
I was taking a ground school class for private pilots.
During the session on weather, the instructor wanted to
discuss the concept of sublimation, which is the act of
going from a gas to a solid, while skipping the intermediate
liquid stage.
As an example, he gave water vapor in the air condensing
on a windshield to form ice. Wanting to see if the class had
understood the concept, the instructor asked if anyone could
provide an example of something that went straight from a
solid to a gas.
He was expecting dry ice as the answer when one of the
students blurted out, "Burritos!"
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
I spent 20 minutes explaining life insurance options to one of
our employees. After reviewing the different plans and monthly
deductions, he decided to max out, choosing $100,000 worth
of life insurance. But he had one last question.
"Now," he said, "what do I have to do to collect the money?"
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The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel
mike, and as he preached, he moved briskly
about the platform, wildy gesturing with one hand
and jerking the mike cord along with the other.
Then he moved to one side, getting wound up
in the cord and nearly tripping before jerking it
again.
After several circles and jerks, a little girl in the
third pew leaned toward her mother and said,
"If he gets loose, we better run!"
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Janie Gill, 69,
Greenwood County,
Kansas
A grandmother was arrested for dumping
a vulnerable 17 year-old orphan at a
highway rest area.
Janie Gill, 69, drove the 'possibly autistic' teenager, who is
also non-verbal, across state lines in late November and left him
off the highway in Greenwood County, Kansas. She left the boy,
named as Guy, with no money, medication, identification, or means
to communicate and says she did so because she could not handle
the teenager, police say.
'It's just really upsetting knowing that he was left,' the
teenager's former teacher, Jessica Burdine told KAKE News. 'He's
non verbal, unable to communicate his feelings and his needs and
it just breaks my heart that he would just be left without
anybody to care for him'
It was unclear how long Guy, whose parents are dead, had been at
the rest stop before Kansas deputies found him, said Rogers
County Sheriff Scott Walton. Authorities believe he was abandoned
for up to 24 hours before he was found by a custodian at the rest
stop. 'It's just sad as all get out,' Walton said.
'On a positive note, I really believe this kid's going to come
out better.' A neighbor told investigators that Gill locked her
grandson in a room overnight and when she went to work.
When authorities searched her home they found a 'deadbolt locking
device' that 'had a key on the outside of the door,' so it could
only be locked, or unlocked, from the outside. Gill told
authorities multiple false stories about why she abandoned her
grandson before she finally confessed that she left the boy at
the rest stop because she knew someone would find him and give
him the care he needs. Investigators say Gill was on her way to
pick up her husband, who was being released from a Kansas prison.
Originally, she told police that she left the boy with a relative
in Ada, Oklahoma, but that was proven to be false. According to
Walton, the incident may have a happy ending. He said the boy is
happy and likes where he is now, in protective custody in Kansas.
Gill was arrested for child neglect and is being held on $500,000
bond until she will be extradited to Greenwood County to be
formally charged.
According to Sheriff Walton, the incident may have a happy
ending. He said the boy is happy and likes where he is now, in
protective custody in Kansas.
From: Lee
Re: Another registry cleaner
Dear Webby,
Enjoy your newsletter.'I have a question. Are you familiar
with a software program called "Advenced Cleaner"?
If so, is it effective, and is there any cost involved with it.
Will it interfere with any other cleaning programs I have
unstalled such as window washer, or Quick clean?
The company website does not have a phone number,
etc. so cannot talk to anyone live.
Thank you,
Lee
Dear Lee
Just use Spybot-Search&Destroy and Crap Cleaner.
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A grandmother overheard her 5-year-old granddaughter playing
"wedding." The wedding vows went like this:
"You have the right to remain silent, anything you say will
be held against you, you don't have the right to have an
attorney present, but you may kiss the bride."
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Customer at a counter of a lawn ornament shop: "Give me four of
those pinwheels, two of those pink flamingos, two of the
sunflowers, and one of those bent-over grandma in bloomers."
Cashier reply's: "That'll be eight dollars for the pinwheels,
ten dollars for the flamingos, six dollars for the sunflowers,
and
an apology to my wife!"
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Steve wasn't feeling well and so he went to the doctor to get
himself checked.
After a thorough examination, the doctor said, "Well, Steve,
based on my examination, the best thing for you is to cut out
all sweets and fatty foods, give up alcohol, and stop smoking."
"To be honest with you, Doc," said Steve, "I don't deserve the
best. What's the SECOND best?"
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A Sunday School teacher asked her class, "Does anyone know
what we mean by sins of omission?"
A small girl replied, "Aren't those the sins we should have
committed, but didn't?"
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jokes and fun for grownups.
Read it on-line or subscribe. If you subscribe, look for the
double opt-in confirmation request.
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas
Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a
gift!
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Today December 18 in
1796 The "Monitor," of Baltimore, MD, was published as the first
Sunday newspaper.
1862 The first orthopedic hospital was organized in New York
City. It was called the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled.
1865 U.S. Secretary of State William Seward issued a statement
verifying the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. The amendment abolished slavery with the
declaration: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except
as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place
subject to their jurisdiction."
1898 A new automobile speed record was set at 39 mph (63 kph).
1903 The Panama Canal Zone was acquired 'in perpetuity' by the
U.S. for an annual rent.
1912 The discovery of the Piltdown Man in East Sussex was
announced. It was proved to be a hoax in 1953.
1915 U.S. President Wilson, widowed the year before, married
Edith Bolling Galt at her Washington home.
1916 During World War I, after 10 months of fighting the Allies
defeated the Germans in the Battle of Verdun.
1935 A $1 silver certificate was issued for the first time in the
U.S.
1936 Su-Lin, the first giant panda to come to the U.S. from
China, arrived in San Francisco, CA. The bear was sold to the
Brookfield Zoo for $8,750.
1940 Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations
for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Operation "Barbarossa"
was launched in June 1941.
1944 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of
Japanese-Americans, but also stated that undeniably loyal
Americans of Japanese ancestry could not be detained.
1950 NATO foreign ministers approved plans to defend Western
Europe, including the use of nuclear weapons, if necessary.
1953 WPTZ, in Philadelphia, PA, presented a Felso commercial, it
was the first color telecast seen on a local station.
1956 "To Tell the Truth" debuted on CBS-TV.
1956 Japan was admitted to the United Nations.
1957 The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania went
online. It was the first nuclear facility to generate electricity
in the United States. It was taken out of service in 1982.
1963 Ron Clarke set a world record when he ran six miles in 28
minutes and 15.6 seconds.
1965 Kenneth LeBel jumped 17 barrels on ice skates.
1969 Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder.
1970 Divorce became legal in Italy.
1972 The United States began the heaviest bombing of North
Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The attack ended 12 days later.
1973 The IRA launched its Christmas bombing campaign in London.
1979 The sound barrier was broken on land for the first time by
Stanley Barrett when he drove at 739.6 mph.
1983 Wayne Gretzky (Edmonton Oilers) scored his 100th point in
the 34th game of the season.
1987 Ivan F. Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison for
plotting Wall Street's biggest insider-trading scandal. He only
served about two years of the sentence.
1996 Despite a U.N. truce, factional fighting in the Somali
capital of Mogadishu, broke out in which at least 300 fighters
and civilians were killed.
1998 The U.S. House of Representatives began the debate on the
four articles of impeachment concerning U.S. President Bill
Clinton. It was only the second time in U.S. history that process
had begun.
1998 Russia recalled its U.S. ambassador in protest of the U.S.
attacks on Iraq.
1998 South Carolina proceeded with the U.S.' 500th execution
since capital punishment was restored.
1999 After living atop an ancient redwood in Humboldt County, CA,
for two years, environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill came
down, ending her anti-logging protest.
2001 Mark Oliver Gebel, a Ringling Bros. Circus star, went on
trial for animal abuse. The charges stemmed from an incident with
an elephant that was marching too slowly into a circus
performance on August 25, 2001. He was acquitted on December 21,
2001.
2001 A fire damaged New York City's St. John Cathedral. The
cathedral is the largest in the United States.
2001 In Seattle, WA, Gary Leon Ridgeway pled innocent to the
charge of murder for four of the Green River serial killings. He
had been arrested on November 30, 2001.
2009 General Motors announced that it would shut down its Saab
brand.
2009 A Paris court ruled that Google was breaking French law with
its policy of digitizing books and fined the company a $14,300-a-
day fine until it rids its search engine of the literary
extracts.
2009 James Cameron's movie "Avatar" was released in the United
States. On January 26, the movie became the highest-grossing film
worldwide.
2010 In Nanjing, China, the Zifeng Tower opened.
2018 smiled.
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Open Office or Google Docs? Friday, December 14, 2018, 07:08 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, December 14
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Did you see the Geminid meteor shower?
It is not always in winter. I remember when I was ten or maybe
twelve, it was in summer. The Alpine club went for a climbing
excursion to the Dolomites in South Tirol, now awarded to Italy
to punish Austria for losing WWI. Well, the folks still talked
German with a heavy Tirolean accent.
We got there just by nightfall and had a four or five hour march
up to the Alpine Club lodge. As soon as it was pitch black dark,
and the trail just lit by star light, I noticed a falling star!
WOW! Naturally I remembered the stories, that if you wished upon
a falling star without breathing, the wish would come true.
Well, I had a crush on a girl named Maria. So I silently said her
name each time I saw a falling star. Around midnight there were
probably ten falling stars per minute, maybe more.
Well, the climb the next day was very exciting. Nothing ever
happened with Maria. The cousin who had promised to give her a
message, forgot. And eventually I forgot about that Maria.
However, for about 25 years, every girl, who tangled with me, had
Maria or Mary in her name.
Even the American, who talked me into coming to this continent
with her in 1970, and who then promptly dumped me after hitch-
hiking from New York to the Yukon, was named Mary.
Around 1990 the Mary's tapered off.
The stars apparently had stopped working.
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
DUI suspect found asleep at wheel,
arrested after high-speed chase
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Today, December 14 in
1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patented the nut and bolt
machine. Machine made consistent and interchangeable nuts and
bolts are often considered the main ingredient of the Industrial
Revolution.
More of today in history at History
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Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
--- Mae West (1892 - 1980)
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
--- Mo Udall
Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those
who do not.
--- Thomas Jefferson
Is that why Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton
want gun control so badly?
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If some hacker using one of your friend's messenger posts this:
"I saw your name on the list and i want to know if you've got
your money from the authority or not before it's closes..."
feel free to use your most insulting cuss words. Get right
carried away!
When your friend sees that, she or he will fall down laughing.
They know you would not talk to THEM that way.
Contact your friends via email and tell them to change their
Facebook and Messenger password, because some no-good Nigerian
crook is abusing it.
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When Trump was visiting Israel he met the Israeli Prime Minister.
In classic Trump style, the U.S. President offers a gift to his
guest.
"Here you go, says Trump. "Try out this shiny new Cadillac.
It's their finest model."
"Thank you, Mr. President, but I can not accept this magnificent
gift." replies the Prime Minister.
"Oh. I understand about gift limits. Ok then ... give me a half
dollar for it. Then it won't be a gift." replies Trump.
The Prime Minister gives Trump a dollar.
"I don't have any change ... too bad" says the President.
"No big deal... you'll just give me two Cadillacs" retorts the
Prime Minister.
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When John died, his wife put the usual death notice in the
paper, but added that he died of gonorrhea.
No sooner were the papers delivered than a good friend of
the family phoned and complained bitterly, "You know very
well that he died of diarrhea, not gonorrhea."
Replied the widow, "I nursed him night and day so of course
I knew he died of diarrhea. But it was his last wish,
for posterity to remember him as a great lover rather
than just full of crap, like he always was."
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Don't worry. If you don't open your parachute, you will
probably land in the same country as your car keys.
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Valdez Carrillo,
Maricopa,
Arizona
DUI suspect found asleep at wheel,
arrested after high-speed chase
It was 6 a.m. on Sunday when Maricopa Police found 20-year-old
Luis Valdez Carrillo asleep behind his steering wheel on State
Route 347.
Earlier that morning, police received a report that a dark-
colored Dodge Charger ran into the center median on Interstate 10
and the vehicle was sitting at a green light for several cycles
at SR 347 and Edison Road in Maricopa.
After being woken up by officers, Valdez Carrillo appeared to
have “bloodshot watery eyes, slow dextral movement and dazed
expression,” according to the report. When police activated their
red and blue lights, Valdez Carrillo acknowledged the officers’
presence and allegedly drove off at a “high rate of speed.”
According to the report, he was weaving through lanes and nearly
struck an officer with his vehicle. Officers eventually lost
visual sight of Valdez Carrillo and set up a perimeter of his
last known location.
The vehicle was spotted later across town on Dutchman Drive in
Maricopa Meadows, and Valdez-Carrillo was located in the back
seat and arrested. At the police station, he blew a 0.150 and
0.147 during an alcohol breath test, according to police records.
Valdez Carrillo was charged with underage driving under the
influence of alcohol and possession of alcohol by an underage
person, unlawful flight from law enforcement vehicle,
endangerment, reckless driving, aggravated DUI with license
revoked and an open container violation.
Valdez Carrillo is held in the Pinal County Jail on $40,000 bond.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 18.
From: Donny
Re: Open Office or Google?
Dear Webby,
Thank you again for your newsletter and for your help in
the past. I am just wondering if you know whether or not
"Google Spreadsheets and Documents" are as good as
"Open Office".
I am now running MS Office 2000 and can no longer get updates so
I'm considering changing.
Also. will these other programs read my previously created
documents (Word, Excel) and allow editing of them ?
Any advice would be helpful and a reply would be appreciated -
I will, however, watch the newsletter; which I am getting with
no problems in Gmail.
Thank you,
Donny
Dear Donny
Google spreadsheets and documents are in Google format,
and stored on Google, so that collaborators can work on them
from various locations.
While that may be handy for some specific tasks, it's not really
what you need. I found them to be awkward and very slow.
Open Office uses OPEN format, totally independent of the type
of machine or operating system. It can read your WORD DOC and
Excel stuff and even save in that format
Converting to Open Office is totally painless and there is no
need to get rid of M$ Office. It is free but a huge program,
though, and will take a while to download. But it is well worth
it!
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A. Newlyweds.
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One day, Johnny Jones was walking down Main Street when
he saw his buddy Bubba driving a brand new pickup.
Bubba pulled up to him with a wide grin.
Bubba, where'd ya git dat truck?!?"
"Tina gived it to me" Bubba replied
"She gived it to ya?
"I know'd she wuz kinda sweet on ya, but a new truck?"
"Well, Johnny, let me tell you what happened. We wuz drivin'
out on County Road 301, in the middle of nowheres.
Tina pulled off the road, put the truck in four-wheel drive,
and headed into the woods. She parked the truck, got out,
threw off all her clothes and said,
'Bubba, take whatever you want.'
So I took the truck! "
"Bubba, yore a smart man! Her clothes woulda never fit ya."
She will shoot him when she gets back to town.
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>From Thorn
During a field exercise at Camp Lejeune, N.C., my squad
was on a night patrol through some thick brush. Halfway
through, we realized we'd lost our map.
The patrol navigator informed us, "Our odds are 1 in 359
that we'll get out of here."
"How did you come up with that?" someone asked.
"Well," he replied, "one of the degrees on the compass
has to be right."
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A man was riding his Harley along a California beach when
suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice,
the Lord said, 'Because you have TRIED to be faithful to me in
all ways, I will grant you one wish.'
The biker pulled over and said, 'Build a bridge to Hawaii so I
can ride over anytime I want.'
The Lord said, 'Your request is materialistic, think of the
enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports
required to reach the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and
steel it would take..!
It will nearly exhaust several natural resources. I can do it,
but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things.
Take a little more time and think of something that could
possibly help mankind.'
The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said,
'Lord, I wish that I and all men could understand our wives I
want to know how she feels inside what she's thinking when she
gives me the silent treatment.., why she cries.., what she means
when she says: 'Nothing's wrong'.., and how I can make a woman
truly happy!'
The Lord replied: 'Do you want two lanes or four on that bridge?'
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas
Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a
gift!
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Today December 14 in
1503 Physician, astrologer and clairvoyant Nostradamus was born
at St. Remy, Provence, France.
1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patented the nut and bolt
machine. Machine made consistent and interchangeable nuts and
bolts are often considered the main ingredient of the Industrial
Revolution.
1900 Professor Max Planck of Berlin University revealed his
revolutionary Quantum Theory.
1903 Orville Wright made the first attempt at powered flight. The
engine stalled during take-off and the plane was damaged in the
attempt. Three days later, after repairs were made, the modern
aviation age was born when the plane stayed aloft for 12 seconds
and flew 102 feet.
1911 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to
reach the South Pole. He reached the destination 35 days ahead of
Captain Robert F. Scott.
1918 For the first time in Britain women (over 30) voted in a
General Election.
1939 The Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations.
1945 Josef Kramer, known as "the beast of Belsen," and 10 others
were executed in Hamelin for the crimes they committed at the
Belsen and Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps.
1946 The U.N. General Assembly voted to establish the United
Nation's headquarters in New York City.
1959 Archbishop Makarios was elected Cyprus' first president.
1962 The U.S. space probe Mariner II approached Venus. It
transmitted information about the planet's atmosphere and surface
temperature.
1975 Six South Moluccan terrorists surrendered to police after
holding 23 people hostage for 12 days on a train near the Dutch
town of Beilen.
1981 Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in war
in 1967.
1983 The U.S. battleship New Jersey fired on Syrian positions in
Lebanon for the first time after American F-14 reconnaissance
flights were fired on.
1985 Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major
American Indian tribe as she formally took office as principal
chief of the Cherokee Nation of OKlahoma.
1986 The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and
Jeana Yeager, took off from California on the first non-stop,
non-refueled flight around the world. The trip took nine days to
complete.
1987 Chrysler pled no contest to federal charges of selling
several thousand vehicles as new when Chrysler employees had
driven the vehicles with the odometer disconnected.
1988 CBS won the exclusive rights to major league baseball's
1990-94 seasons for $1.1 billion.
1988 The first transatlantic underwater fiber-optic cable went
into service.
1990 After 30 years in exile, ANC president Oliver Tambo returned
to South Africa.
1993 A judge in Colorado struck down the state's voter-approved
Amendment Two prohibiting gay rights laws, calling it
unconstitutional.
1993 The United Mine Workers approved a five-year contract that
ended a strike that had reached seven states and involved some of
the nation's biggest coal operators.
1995 The presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia
signed the Dayton Accords to end fighting in Bosnia.
1995 AIDS patient Jeff Getty received the first-ever bone-marrow
transplant from a baboon.
1997 Iran's newest president, Mohammad Khatami, called for a
dialogue with the people of the United States. The preceding
Iranian leaders had reviled the U.S. as "The Great Satan."
1997 Mike Gartner (Phoenix Coyotes) became only the fifth player
in National Hockey League (NHL) history to score 700 career
goals.
1997 Cuban President Fidel Castro declared Christmas 1997 an
official holiday to ensure the success of Pope John Paul II's
upcoming visit to Cuba.
1998 Hundreds of Palestinian leaders renounced a call for the
destruction of Israel.
1999 U.S. and German negotiators agreed to establish a $5.2
billion fund for Nazi-era slave and forced laborers.
1999 Charles M. Schulz announced he was retiring the "Peanuts"
comic strip. The last original "Peanuts" comic strip was
published on February 13, 2000.
2000 It was announced that American businessman Edmond Pope would
be released from a Russian prison for humanitarian reasons. Pope
had been sentenced to 20 years in prison after his conviction on
espionage charges.
2001 European Union leaders agreed to dispatch 3,000-4,000 troops
to join an international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
2001 The first commercial export, since 1963, of U.S. food to
Cuba began. The 24,000 metric tons for corn were being sent to
replenish what was lost when Hurricane Michelle struck on
November 4.
2013 The Chinese spacecraft Chang'e 3 became the first spacecraft
to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976. It was only the third
robotic rover to land on the moon.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, December 13
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Woman pulled over for DUI in St. Augustine claims "it sucks to be pretty,"
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Today, December 13 in
1577 Five ships under the command of Sir Francis Drake left
Plymouth, England, to embark on Drake's circumnavigation of the
globe. The journey took almost three years.
More of today in history at History
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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
--- Fred Thompson
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
--- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
--- Author unknown
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Thanks to Martin for this story:
A 3-year-old tells all
One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge of me and
my brother who is four years older than I am. I was maybe 1 and a
half years old and had just recovered from an accident in
which my arm had been broken among other injuries.
Someone had given me a little 'tea set' as a get-well gift
and it was one of my favourite toys. Daddy was in the living
room engrossed in the evening news and my brother was
playing nearby in the living room when I brought Daddy a
little cup of 'tea', which was just water. After several cups
of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea, my Mom came
home. My Dad made her wait in the living room to watch
me bring him a cup of tea, because it was 'just the cutest
thing!!'
My Mom waited, and sure enough, here I come down the
hall with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches him drink
it up, then says, 'Did it ever occur to you that the only place
that baby can reach to get water is the toilet??'
And sure enough........!!!
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
Mrs. Donovan was walking down O'Connell Street in Dublin
when she met up with Father Flaherty.
The Father said, 'Top o' the mornin' to ye! Aren't ye Mrs.
Donovan and didn't I marry ye and yer hoosband 2 years ago?'
She replied, 'Aye, that ye did, Father.'
The Father asked, 'And be there any wee little ones yet?'
She replied, 'No, not yet, Father.'
The Father said, 'Well now, I'm going to Rome next week and
I'll light a candle for ye and yer hoosband.'
She replied, 'Oh, thank ye, Father.'
They then parted ways.
Some years later they met again.
The Father asked, 'Well now, Mrs. Donovan , how are ye these
days?'
She replied, 'Oh, very well, Father!'
The Father asked, 'And tell me, have ye any wee ones yet?'
She replied, 'Oh yes, Father! Three sets of twins and 4 singles,
10 in all!'
The Father said, 'That's wonderful! How is yer loving hoosband
doing?'
She replied, 'E's gone to Rome
to blow up yer fookin' candle.'
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Thanks to Angela for bringing back this classic:
Yesterday I was in Wal-Mart buying a large bag of Purina dog
chow for my dog and was about to check out.
A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think
I had? PIGEONS since I'm retired, with little to do?
I told her that no I didn't have a dog, and that I was starting the
Purina Diet again. I explained that I probably shouldn't be going
back on this diet because I'd ended up in the hospital last time,
although I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive
care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and
IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that
the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with
Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you
feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so
I was going to try it again.
(I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line
was by now enthralled with my story).
Horrified , she asked if I ended up in intensive care because
the dog food poisoned me.
I told her no; that I had stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish
Setter's butt and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart
attack, he was laughing so hard!
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Woman pulled over for DUI in St. Augustine
claims "it sucks to be pretty"
A woman was arrested in St. Augustine for driving under the
influence, according to St. Augustine Beach Police Department.
St. Augustine police pulled over Kim Tranter for going 45 mph in
a 30 mph, according to the report. The report said Tranter told
police she was trying to get away from someone but could not tell
the officer from whom she was trying to get away from.
While Tranter was looking for her license, registration and proof
of insurance the report said, "The defendant picked up her cell
phone and put in a numerical code to unlock her cell phone, as if
she forgot I requested her driver license, registration, and
proof of insurance."
The report says she claimed she only had two drinks.
The report noted on the way to the jail, the defendant said, "It
sucks to be pretty, but that's life though," and that she "stole
two pieces of pizza and a sh---y box of wine."
Not pretty enough to get away with drunk driving, stealing pizza and wine.
From: many
Re: Free Anti Virus programs
A lot of people wrote in and reported that AVG seems to
be working fine for them, even on old systems.
As long as there are no delicate data involved, it seems to be
good enough.
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Thanks to Jai for this story:
A little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race come
about?"
The mother answered: "God made Adam and Eve and they
had children and so all mankind was made."
Two days later she asks her father the same question.
The father answered: "Many years ago there were monkeys,
and we developed from them."
The confused girl returns to her mother and says: "Mom,
how is it possible that you told me that the human race was
created by God and Papa says we developed from monkeys?"
The mother answers: "Well dear, it is very simple.
I told you about the origin of my side of the family,
and your father told you about his side."
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Moshe Rosenberg is a new recruit in the British Army.
One day an officer asked him "What is your name?"
"Moshe Rosenberg" he replied.
The officer responded "You must say 'Sir' when you answer an
officer of the British Army. What is your name?"
"Sir Moshe Rosenberg."
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Cleaning With Salt
A paste of salt and vinegar help clean tarnished brass or
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absorb much of the stain. Soaking washable fabrics in
salt water will help remove many stubborn stains.
For cleaning purposes use plain salt not iodized salt.
Tip provided by
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Cast iron frying pans and Woks that have
an age old "seasoning" or oil patina, can be safely cleaned with
salt, without endangering the patina or enraging the chef.
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Miss Universe 2018 national costume contest.
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Bill was attending an outdoor music concertwith a young woman
he had recently begun dating. Standing at the back of the crowd,
they wrapped their arms around each other, swaying to the music.
After a particularly romantic song, his date turned to face him.
With a loving smile, she said, "I wish we were closer..."
Totally thrilled, he looked into her eyes and whispered,
"Do you mean our houses or our friendship?"
Puzzled, she replied, "No, you dummy! ...To the stage."
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An elderly woman walked into a liquor store with two guns,
pointed them at the shop-keeper and said "Give me six bottles
of scotch whiskey, all the money in the till, and then I want
you to take me into your storeroom and make love to me."
The shopkeeper got her the six bottles of scotch, emptied the
money from the till into the old woman's handbag, and then
went with her into the storeroom and made love to her.
In the excitement the old lady dropped the guns on the floor.
The shop-keeper paused a moment, then said "Madam, could you
please pick up your guns again, I'm expecting my wife to
arrive any minute."
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Ophelia Dingbatter's
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jokes and fun for grownups.
Read it on-line or subscribe. If you subscribe, look for the
double opt-in confirmation request.
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a gift!
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Today December 13 in
1577 Five ships under the command of Sir Francis Drake left
Plymouth, England, to embark on Drake's circumnavigation of the
globe. The journey took almost three years.
1636 The United States National Guard was created when militia
regiments were organized by the General Court of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1642 New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman.
1809 The first abdominal surgical procedure was performed in
Danville, KY, on Jane Todd Crawford. The operation was performed
without an anesthetic.
1816 John Adamson received a patent for a dry dock.
1862 In America, an estimated 11,000 Northern soldiers were
killed or wounded when Union forces were defeated by Confederates
under General Robert E. Lee, at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1883 The border between Ontario and Manitoba was established.
1884 Percy Everitt received a patent for the first coin-operated
weighing machine.
1913 It was announced by authorities in Florence, Italy, that the
"Mona Lisa" had been recovered. The work was stolen from the
Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911.
1921 Britain, France, Japan and the United States signed the
Pacific Treaty.
1937 Japanese forces took the Chinese city of Nanking (Nanjing).
An estimated 200,000 Chinese were killed over the next six weeks.
The event became known as the "Rape of Nanking."
1944 During World War II, the U.S. cruiser Nashville was badly
damaged in a Japanese kamikaze suicide attack. 138 people were
killed in the attack.
1964 In El Paso, TX, President Johnson and Mexican President
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion that diverted the Rio
Grande River, reshaping the U.S.-Mexican border. This ended a
century-old border dispute.
1980 Three days after a disputed general election, Uganda’s
President Milton Obote was returned to office.
1981 Authorities in Poland imposed martial law in an attempt to
crack down on the Solidarity labor movement. Martial law ended
formally in 1983.
1982 The Sentry Armored Car Company in New York discovered that
$11 million had been stolen from its headquarters overnight. It
was the biggest cash theft in U.S. history.
1987 U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz told reporters in
Copenhagen, Denmark, that the Reagan administration would begin
making funding requests for the proposed Star Wars defense
system.
1988 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the U.N. General
Assembly in Geneva, where it had reconvened after the United
States had refused to grant Arafat a visa to visit New York.
1988 A bankruptcy judge in Columbia, SC, ordered the assets of
the troubled PTL television ministry sold to a Toronto real
estate developer for $65 million.
1989 South African President F.W. de Klerk met for the first time
with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela,
at de Klerk's office in Cape Town.
1991 Five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union agreed to
join the new Commonwealth of Independent States.
1991 North Korea and South Korea signed a historic non-aggression
agreement.
1993 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people must receive a
hearing before property linked to illegal drug sales can be
seized.
1993 The European Community ratified a treaty creating the
European Economic Area (EEA), to go into effect January 1, 1994.
1994 An American Eagle commuter plane carrying 20 people crashed
short of Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina,
killing 15 people.
1995 China's most influential democracy activist, Wei Jingsheng,
who already had spent 16 years in prison, was sentenced to 14
more years.
1998 Puerto Rican voters rejected U.S. statehood in a non-binding
referendum.
1998 Gary Anderson (Minnesota Vikings) kicked six field goals
against Baltimore. In the game Anderson set an National Football
League (NFL) record for 34 straight field goals without a miss.
2000 U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the 2000 Presidential
election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush. The Florida electoral
votes were won by only 537 votes, which decided the election. The
election had been contested up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which
said that the Florida recount (supported by the Florida Supreme
Court) was unconstitutional.
2000 Seven convicts, the "Texas 7," escaped from Connally Unit in
Kenedy, TX, southeast of San Antonio, by overpowering civilian
workers and prison employees. They fled with stolen clothing,
pickup truck and 16 guns and ammunition.
2001 The U.S. government released a video tape that showed Osama
bin Laden and others discussing their knowledge of the terrorist
attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush served formal notice to Russia
that the United States was withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-
Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2001 Israel severed all contact with Yasser Arafat. Israel also
launched air strikes and sent troops into Palestine in response
to a bus ambush that killed 10 Israelis.
2001 Gunmen stormed the Indian Parliament and killed seven people
and injured 18. Security forces killed the attackers during a 90-
minute gunbattle.
2001 NBC-TV announced that it would begin running hard liquor
commercials. NBC issued a 19-point policy that outlined the
conditions for accepting liquor ads.
2001 Michael Frank Goodwin was arrested and booked on two counts
of murder, one count of conspiracy and three special
circumstances (lying in wait, murder for financial gain and
multiple murder) in connection to the death of Mickey Thompson.
Thompson and his wife Trudy were shot to death in their driveway
on March 16, 1988. Thompson, known as the "Speed King," set
nearly 500 auto speed endurance records including being the first
person to travel more than 400 mph on land.
2018 smiled.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 09:25 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, December 12
Tomorrow, Thursday night will be the best night for watching
falling stars.
The Geminid Meteor shower peaks Thursday night around midnight
with about 120 falling stars per hour. Dress warmly and set up a
lawn chair facing South or South-West.
The Geminids come in high up, no obstructions along the horizon
interfering. As long as it does not snow in your area, you should
see lots of them!
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Ohio Tattoo monster facing shoplifting
and drug charges
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Today, December 12 in
1915 The first all-metal aircraft, the German Junkers J1,
made its first flight.
More of today in history at History
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do
with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
--- Susan Ertz,
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A crew of highway maintenance workers was sent to repair some
road signs that vandals had knocked down in a forested area. The
first one they put back up was a symbol warning of a deer
crossing.
As they moved down the road to repair the next sign, one crew
member looked back and spotted a deer running across the highway.
She turned to a co-worker and said, "I wonder how long he's been
waiting to cross?"
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Jones is driving past the state mental hospital
when his left rear tire suffers a flat. While Jones
is changing the tire, another car goes by, running
over the hub cap in which Jones was keeping
the lug nuts. the nuts are all knocked into a
nearby storm drain.
Jones is at a loss for what to do and is about to
go call a cab when he hears a shout from behind
the hospital fence, where one of the inmates has
been watching the whole thing.
"Hey, pal! Why don't you just take one lug nut off
each of the other three wheels? That'll hold your
tires on until you can get to a garage or something."
Jones is startled by the patient's seeming rationality,
but realizes the plan will work, and installs the spare
tire without incident. Before he leaves, he calls
back to the patient. "You know, that was pretty
sharp thinking. Why do they have you in there?"
The patient smiles and says, "I'm in here because
I'm crazy, not because I'm stupid."
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The new patient was sharing his woes with an understanding
doctor: "After the first, I'm usually tired and winded, Doc.
After the second, my chest aches and I start getting pains
in my legs. After the third, I feel like fainting and it
takes half-an-hour for my heart and respiration to return
to normal."
"Why don't you quit after the first?" inquired the doctor.
"How can I do that, Doc?" said the patient. "I live on the
third."
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Alyssa Zebrasky, 27,
Youngstown,
Ohio
Ohio Tattoo monster facing shoplifting
and drug charges
An Ohio woman is facing theft and drug-related charges after a
shoplifting arrest at Walmart.
According to WFMJ-TV, police were called to the store near
Youngstown when an employee saw a woman stealing a bag while
leaving the store. Officers arrested 27-year-old Alyssa Zebrasky
and found a hypodermic needle and baggies containing what
Zabrasky admitted were methamphetamine and a Suboxone pill.
Zebrasky, who has gained fame online after her arrest due to her
unique facial tattoos, was already wanted for failure to appear
on an obstructing justice charge, WFMJ reported.
From: Sharon
Re: Free Anti Virus programs
Dear Webby,
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I love the good clean jokes & some wonderful pictures.
Also your tech dept has been very useful. Thanks, ever so much.
I am curious about what you know about the free" avast"
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Thanks so much for all the help.
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash
his sweatshirt.
Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me,
"What setting do I use on the washing machine?"
"It depends," I replied. "What does it say on your shirt?"
He yelled back, "Just do it!!"
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A church had a man in the choir who could not sing. Several
people hinted to him that he could serve in other places, but he
continued to come to the choir. The choir director became
desperate and went to the pastor.
"You've got to get that man out of the choir," he said. "If you
don't, I am going to resign and the choir members are going to
quit too. Please do something."
So the pastor went to the man and suggested,
"Perhaps you should leave the choir."
"Why should I get out of the choir?" he asked.
"Well, five or six people have told me that you can't sing."
"That's nothing," the man snorted.
"Fifty people have told me that you can't preach!"
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Thanks to Millie for this one:
My husband, sons, and I had stopped to take in a spectacular
sunset and were on our way back to our car when four Buddhist
monks walked by.
When our sons asked about them, I explained, "Their life is
a quest for enlightenment."
"I wonder what kind of car they drive," my husband said and
jokingly suggested, "A Ford Focus?"
"Or a Honda Odyssey," I said.
The monks got into a Pathfinder.
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GROAN ALERT!
(Some of you may have to read this one out loud, to get it.)
Mrs. O'Malley arrived in Boston from Ireland, and in no time at
all her bean soup made her the talk of New England society. At a
party celebrating the sale of her recipe to a fancy Charles
Street restaurant, an old matron approached Mrs. O'Malley and
said, "My dear girl, what is the secret of your soup?"
Mrs. O'Malley said, "The secret o' me soup is that I use but
two-hundred thirty-nine beans to make it."
The woman said, "Why only two-hundred thirty-nine?"
Mrs. O'Malley said, "Because one more would make it too farty."
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What's the Heirloom Christmas
Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that
should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a gift!
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Today December 12 in
1792 In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven received one of
his first lessons in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn.
1800 Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United
States.
1896 Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of
radio at Toynbee Hall, London.
1897 The comic strip"The Katzenjammer Kids" (Hans and Fritz), by
Rudolph Dirks, appeared in the New York Journal for the first
time.
1899 George Grant patented the wooden golf tee.
1900 Charles M. Schwab formed the United States Steel
Corporation.
1901 The first radio signal to cross the Atlantic was picked up
near St. John's Newfoundland, by inventor Guglielmo Marconi.
1915 The first all-metal aircraft, the German Junkers J1, made
its first flight.
1917 Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town in Nebraska. The
farm village was for wayward boys. In 1979 it was opened to
girls.
1925 The "Motel Inn," the first motel in the world, opened in San
Luis Obispo, CA.
1937 Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay" on China's
Yangtze River. Japan apologized for the attack, and paid $2.2
million in reparations.
1947 The United Mine Workers union withdrew from the American
Federation of Labor.
1951 The U.S. Navy Department announced that the world's first
nuclear powered submarine would become the sixth ship to bear the
name Nautilus.
1955 It was announced that the Ford Foundation gave $500,000,000
to private hospitals, colleges and medical schools.
1955 British engineer Christopher Cockerell patented the first
hovercraft.
1963 Kenya gained its independence from Britain.
1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to a charge of trying to kill
U.S. President Ford in San Francisco the previous September.
1982 20,000 women encircled Greenham Common air base in Britain
in protest against proposed cite of U.S. Cruise missiles there.
1983 Car bombs were set off in front of the French and U.S.
embassies in Kuwait City. Shiite extremists were responsible for
the five deaths and 86 wounded. Total of five bombs went off in
different locations.
1984 In a telephone conversation with U.S. President Reagan,
William J. Schroeder complained of a delay in his Social Security
benefits. Schroeder received a check the following day.
1985 248 American soldiers and eight crewmembers were killed when
an Arrow Air charter crashed in Gander, Newfoundland after
takeoff.
1989 Britain forcibly removed 51 Vietnamese from Hong Kong and
returned them to their homeland.
1989 Leona Helmsley was fined $7 million and sentenced to four
years in prison for tax evasion.
1991 At the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in
California, the first web server outside of Europe was installed.
1994 The Brazilian Supreme Court acquitted former President
Fernando Collor de Mello of corruption charges that had forced
him to resign in 1992.
1995 The U.S. Senate stopped a constitutional amendment giving
Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of
desecration against the American flag.
1995 Two French airmen shot down over Bosnia arrived home after
almost four months of being held captive by the Bosnian Serbs.
1997 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as
"Carlos the Jackal," went on trial in Paris on charges of killing
two French investigators and a Lebanese national. He was
convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
1997 The U.S. Justice Department ordered Microsoft to sell its
Internet browser separately from its Windows operating system to
prevent it from building a monopoly of Web access programs.
1998 The House Judiciary Committee rejected censure, and approved
the final article of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton.
The case was submitted to the full House for a verdict.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the
Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was
unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the
election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.
2000 Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers,
abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution
be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995
truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma
City, OK, that killed 168 and injured 500.
2000 The Texas Rangers signed Alex Rodriguez to a record breaking
10-year, $252 million contract. The contract amount broke all
major league baseball records and all professional sports
records.
2001 Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for being
the leader of a Cuban spy ring. His conviction was based on his
role in the infiltration of U.S. military bases and in the deaths
of four Cuban-Americans whose planes were shot down five years
before.
2001 In Beverly Hills, CA, actress Winona Ryder was arrested at
Saks Fifth Avenue for shoplifting and possessing pharmaceutical
drugs without a prescription. The numerous items of clothing and
hair accessories were valued at $4,760.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 10:57 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, December 11
Thursday night will be the best night for watching falling stars.
The Geminid Meteor shower peaks Thursday night around midnight
with about 120 falling stars per hour. Dress warmly and set up a
lawn chair facing South or South-West.
The Geminids come in high up, no obstructions along the horizon
interfering. As long as it does not snow in your area, you should
see lots of them!
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Wyoming man, woman make 900-mile drive with
children in trunk, dogs in back seat
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Today, December 11 in
1894 The world's first motor show opened in Paris
with nine exhibitors.
More of today in history at History
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment
for economists.
--- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original,
you will have to ram it down their throats.
--- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
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What's the Heirloom Christmas Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a gift!
A teacher was taking her first golf lesson. "Is the word spelled
'put' or 'putt'?" she asked the instructor.
"'Putt' is correct," he replied. "'Put' means to place a thing
where you want it. 'Putt' means a vain attempt to do the same thing.
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A guy goes up to this girl in a bar and says, "Would you
like to dance?"
The girl says, "I don't like this song, but even if I did, I
wouldn't dance with you."
The guy says, "I'm sorry, you must have misunderstood me,
I said you look fat in those pants."
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An American tourist was visiting in the Netherlands. During his
stay in Amsterdam his watch stopped running. He asked one of the
locals where he could get his watch fixed. The tourist was guided
to the Jewish section of town. He was then directed toward a shop
that had clocks displayed in the window. The American tourist
entered the shop. Inside, behind a desk, sat an elderly Jewish
man with a full beard.
TOURIST: Hello.
JEWISH MAN: Hello.
TOURIST: I came here to have my watch fixed.
JEWISH MAN: Sorry, I don't fix watches. I am a Mohel.
TOURIST: What's a Mohel?
JEWISH MAN: A Mohel is a Jewish Man who performs ritual
circumcisions.
TOURIST: Ritual circumcisions! But why do you have all
those clocks in the window?!
JEWISH MAN: So what you want me to have in my window?
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Sent by Trish
Storm picture by
Ricky Pool in Bendigo Victoria Australia
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Michael J. Fee, 63,
Amber L. Freudenstein, 31,
Casper,
Wyoming
Wyoming man, woman make 900-mile drive with
children in trunk, dogs in back seat
A man and woman admitted in court they drove from Arizona to
Wyoming with two children in the trunk of their car.
Sixty-three-year-old Michael J. Fee and 31-year-old Amber L.
Freudenstein each pleaded guilty Thursday to two misdemeanor
counts of child endangerment.
The Casper Star-Tribune reports Circuit Judge Steven Brown
sentenced each to 30 days in jail. Fee is from Peoria, Arizona,
and Freudenstein is from Tempe, Arizona.
Sheriff's office officials say a third party told them the
children reported riding in the trunk for much of the 900-mile
drive while two German shepherds sat in the back seat.
Fee said in court there was not enough room for everyone so the
children were relegated to the trunk. Court documents show the
children are about 6 and 10 years old.
“I tried to make things as safe as I could for them,” he said.
“It wasn’t anything malicious.”
From: Jaye
Re: Problem with junkmail
Dear Webby,
Getting flooded with a ton of junk mail and need to
know if there is a good spam catcher.
Thanks for all your hellp....
You advice keeps my Computer running smoothly.
Jaye.
Dear Jaye
Go to http://webby.com/mailwasher
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When you do eventually buy it, it is just under $30, and well
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A bad joke bonehead award goes to a Texas rancher who
depreciated 15 to 20 animals, something only allowed if the
animals are used in breeding who, when asked by the
IRS agent at an audit, "I presume you breed these animals?"
replied that he didn't, giving his accountant a heart attack.
But then, after a pregnant pause, continued,
"I've got a bull for that."
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Everybody's heard of the Air Force's ultra-high-security,
super-secret base in Nevada, known simply as "Area 51?"
Late one afternoon, the Air Force folks out at Area 51 were
very surprised to see a Cessna landing at their "secret" base.
They immediately impounded the aircraft and hauled the pilot
into an interrogation room.
The pilot's story was that he took off from Vegas, got lost,
and spotted the Base just as he was about to run out of fuel.
The Air Force started a full FBI background check on the
pilot and held him overnight during the investigation.
By the next day, they were finally convinced that the pilot
really was lost and wasn't a spy. They fueled up his airplane,
gave him a terrifying "you-did-not-see-a-base" briefing,
complete with threats of spending the rest of his life in
prison, told him Vegas was that-a-way on such-and-such
a heading, and sent him on his way.
The next day, to the total disbelief of the Air Force, the
same Cessna showed up again. Once again, the MP's surrounded
the plane...only this time there were two people inside.
The same pilot jumped out and said, "Do anything you want
to me, but my wife is in the plane and you have to tell her
where I was last night!"
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If you ARE interested in Area 51, head up Interstate 15 from
Las Vegas towards Utah, hang a left at Highway 93, turn left at
Extraterrestrial Highway, yes it's really called that!,
about 40 Miles to 51 Road on the left. If you don't get stopped,
about half an hour down that road is Area 51.
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Thanks to John for this story:
I made the decision to finally do something about the 600
pounds I'm carrying on my 5'4" frame. So, I headed down to
the local sports shoe store and was just amazed at the
tremendous selection of different shoes. Flat arch, high
arch, over-pronator, neutral-pronator, under-pronator . . . my
God!
I finally selected a pair and, as I was trying 'em on, I asked
the saleslady, "What's this little pocket thing on the side for?"
She said, "Oh, that's to carry spare change so you can call
a cab when you've jogged too far."
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Thanks to Marion for this:
Women's Lament:
The nice men are ugly.
The handsome men are not nice.
The handsome and nice men are gay.
The handsome, nice and heterosexual men are married.
The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men, have
no money.
The men who are not so handsome, but are nice men with
money think we are only after their money.
The handsome men without money are after our money.
The handsome men, who are not so nice and somewhat
heterosexual, don't think we are beautiful enough.
The men who think we are beautiful, that are heterosexual,
somewhat nice and have money, are cowards.
The men who are somewhat handsome, somewhat nice and
have some money and thank God are heterosexual, are shy
and NEVER MAKE THE FIRST MOVE!!!!
And yet, WOMEN are the CONFUSED sex???
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What's so confusing with clear guidelines like that?
Make the first move and get on with life!
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Wendy tried to sell her old car. She was having a lot of
problems selling it, because the car had 250,000 miles on it.
One day, she told her problem to Paul her good friend.
Paul told her, "There is a possibility to make the car easier
to sell, but it's not legal."
"That doesn't matter," replied Wendy, "if I only can sell the
car."
"Okay," said Paul. "Here is the address of a friend of mine.
He owns a car repair shop. Tell him I sent you and he will
turn the counter in your car back to 50,000 miles. Then it
should not be a problem to sell your car anymore."
The following weekend, Wendy made the trip to the mechanic.
About one month after that, Paul asked Wendy, "Did you sell
your car?"
"No," replied Wendy, "why should I? It only has 50,000 miles on
it."
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Today December 11 in
1719 The first recorded sighting of the aurora borealis took
place in New England.
1769 Edward Beran of London patented venetian blinds.
1792 France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention, which
had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of treason.
He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the
following January.
1844 Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth
extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure.
Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
1872 Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became America's first
black governor when he took office as acting governor of
Louisiana.
1882 Boston's Bijou Theater had its first performance. It was the
first American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity.
1894 The world's first motor show opened in Paris with nine
exhibitors.
1928 In Buenos Aires, police thwarted an attempt on the life of
President-elect Herbert Hoover.
1930 The Bank of the United States in New York failed.
1936 Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry
American Wallis Warfield Simpson. He became the Duke of Windsor.
1937 The Fascist Council in Rome, withdrew Italy from the League
of Nations.
1941 Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S
in turn declared war on the two countries.
1946 The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
(UNICEF) was established by the U.N. General Assembly. The fund
provides relief to children in countries devastated by war.
1961 The first direct American military support for South Vietnam
occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters
arrived in Saigon.
1967 The prototype of the Concorde was shown for the first time
in Toulouse, France.
1973 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Czech Prime Minister
Lubomir Strougal formally nullified the 1938 Munich pact when
they signed a treaty sanctioning Hitler's seizure of
Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed into law legislation
creating $1.6 billion environmental "superfund" that would be
used to pay for cleaning up chemical spills and toxic waste
dumps.
1981 Muhammad Ali fought his last fight. He lost his 61st fight
to Trevor Berbick.
1985 General Electric Company agreed to buy RCA Corporation for
$6.3 billion. Also included in the deal was NBC Radio and
Television.
1986 The government of South Africa expanded its media
restrictions by imposing prior censorship and banning coverage of
a wide range of peaceful anti-apartheid protests.
1987 Charlie Chaplin's trademark cane and bowler hat were sold at
Christie's for £82,500.
1988 62 people were killed in a Mexico City marketplace when tons
of illegal fireworks exploded.
1990 Ivana Trump was divorced from Donald Trump after 12 years of
marriage.
1991 Salman Rushdie, under an Islamic death sentence for
blasphemy, made his first public appearance since 1989 in New
York, at a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First
Amendment (which guarantees freedom of speech in the U.S.).
1994 Thousands of Russian troops, armored columns and jets
entered Chechnya. The move by Moscow was an effort to restore
control in the breakaway republic.
1994 The world's largest free trade zone was created when leaders
of 34 Western Hemisphere nations signed a free-trade declaration
known as "The Miami Process."
1996 In Crystal City, VA, "The Art of the Toy" opened. The
exhibit was at the Patent and Trademark Office Museum.
1997 Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams became the first political ally
of the IRA to meet a British leader in 76 years. He conferred
with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London.
1997 More than 270 Tutsi refugees from the Democratic Republic of
Congo were killed by Juto guerillas in Mudende, Rwanda.
1997 More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming
conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse
gases."
1998 Scientists announced that they had deciphered the entire
genetic blueprint of a tiny worm.
1998 The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey
to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of
1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to
convert English measures to metric values.
1998 Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed
through three articles of impeachment against U.S. President
Clinton.
2000 Mario Lemeiux, owner of Pittsburgh Penquins, announced that
he would end his three-plus year retirement and become an active
National Hockey League (NHL) player again. When Lemieux returned
officially he became the first owner/player in NHL history.
2001 U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft announced the first federal
indictment directly related to the terrorist attacks on the
United States on September 11, 2001. Zacarias Moussaoui was
charged with six conspiracy charges. Moussaoui was in custody at
the time of the attacks.
2001 Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in Nebraska for Bison
ranches.
2001 It was announced that U.S. President George W. Bush would
withdraw the U.S. from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
with Russia.
2001 Federal agents seized computers in 27 U.S. cities as part of
"Operation Buccaneer." The raids were used to gain evidence
against an international software piracy ring.
2009 The game Angry Birds was released.
2013 Standard & Poors announced that Facebook would join its S&P
500 index "after the close of trading on December 20."
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Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, December 10
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Fla. Man Stole Sneakers After Job
Interview at Kohl's
Blondie jumping onto frozen lake
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Today, December 10 in
1520 Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict. The papacy
demanded that he recant or face excommunication. Luther refused
and was formally expelled from the church in January 1521.
More of today in history at History
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like
and let the food fight it out inside.
--- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress,
no matter how slow.
--- Plato
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What's the Heirloom Christmas Book about?
It is a BIG e-book with all the stories, that your great
grandmother recited or read to your grandmother, when she
was a kid. I want these stories to be preserved.
You may know what it is about, when somebody mentions
"bittersweet love like in 'The Gift Of The Magi',"
but with today's education, your kids or even their teachers,
probably don't know. So I collected these classics and put
them all together into one e-book.
This book of Christmas Stories is a cultural treasure, that should
be passed on to our descendants. Since it is in e-book format,
you can put it onto a CD for each kid, and fill the rest of the
CD with family pictures and other keepsakes,
making it a true heirloom.
I have produced a smaller version last year. This final
edition has more stories and illustrations, but I kept the
price down to the same $10.
The Heirloom Christmas Book also makes a nice
Christmas gift!
Click on the
book cover
to get your copy
or click on Heirloom Christmas Book
http://webby.com/cb
You can download it and give the file as a gift!
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Thanks to Martin for this story:
A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back
and inform the other of the afterlife. Their biggest fear was
that there was no afterlife.
After a long life together, the husband was the first to die.
True to his word, he made contact, "Connie....Connie."
"Is that you, Joe?"
"Yes, I've come back like we agreed."
"That's wonderful! What's it like?"
"Well, I get up in the morning, I have sex. I have breakfast
and then it's off to the golf course. I have sex again, bathe
in the warm sun and then have sex a couple of more times.
Then I have lunch (you'd be proud- lots of greens) another
romp around the golf course, then pretty much have sex
the rest of the afternoon. After supper,
it's back to golf course again.
Then it's more sex until late at night. I catch some much
needed sleep and then the next day it starts all over again."
"Oh, Joe you surely must be in Heaven!"
"Not exactly... I'm a rabbit on a golf course in Arizona ."
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Thanks to Cookie for this story: (As sent by her,
from the hospital)
Cookie, Upset over the recent death of her
husband Bob, So she decided to just kill herself
And join him in death.
Thinking it would be best to get it
Over with quickly, she took out Bob's old
Army pistol and made the decision to
Shoot herself in the heart since it was
So badly broken in the first place.
Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become
a vegetable and a burden to someone, she called
her doctor's office to learn her heart's exact location.
"Since you're a woman ,"
the doctor said, "the easiest way to locate your
heart is, it is just below your left breast.
Why do you ask?"
She hung up without answering
Later that night, Cookie was admitted to the hospital
With a gunshot wound to her left knee.
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Heather Mapes,
43,
Des Moines,
Iowa
Mom drove to school drop-off while drunk,
nearly plowed into elementary students
Police said a Des Moines mother drove to the school drop-off
while drunk and nearly plowed into a group of elementary
students.
Heather Mapes, 43, is in jail Monday after police charged her
with child endangerment.
Police said Mapes was drunk, with slurred speech and watery eyes,
as she swerved into the bus lane at Garton Elementary School and
narrowly missed hitting a group of students.
"(It is) probably one of the worst-case scenarios, when you think
about it," said Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek.
Parizek said Mapes was dropping off her 5-year-old daughter when
she hit the curb, and that the curb prevented her from hitting
students getting off the bus.
"It's really scary, because we've got not just her children
involved, which is bad enough, but now you're putting the
children of a lot of other families at risk when you show up at
the school in that condition," he said.
Jessica Bensley, whose 7-year-old daughter attends the school,
said she is thankful her child is safe.
"That's really scary that my daughter goes here and that could
have been her," Bensley said.
A bus driver, the principal and the dean of students at Garton
Elementary intervened and wouldn't let Mapes leave the scene.
According to a police report, Mapes told officers, "I didn't hit
the kids."
"There was a little bit of a dispute that began between Mapes and
one of the staff members at the school where there might have
been some pushing and shoving," Parizek said. "They called 911
(and) did the absolute right thing to keep the kids safe."
School officials also reported that Mapes had her 5-year-old
daughter in the front seat without a seat belt or a booster seat.
Police reports said Mapes told school officials that she had
taken prescription medications, but the school officials reported
smelling alcohol.
"She might need some help, you know, and I hope that she can be
honest and say that, because there (are) other people's lives
that are at factor and that she needs to be concerned about
that," Bensley said.
A spokesperson for Des Moines Public Schools said the district
commends the principal, dean of students and bus driver for their
quick response in making sure the incident did not turn out
worse.
From: Bill
Re: Internet Shortcuts not linking to browser
Dear Webby,
HI I HAVE PASTED INTERNET SHORT CUTS ONTO MY DESKTOP,
BUT WHEN I CLICK ON THEM THEY GIVE A MESSAGE THAT I WILL
HAVE TO CREATE A ASSOCIATION FOR THEM IN THE FOLDER
OPTIONS. I HAVE TRIED THIS BUT I MUST BE DOING
SOMETHING WRONG, CAN YOU HELP ?
THANKS BILL
Dear Bill
Open a File Explorer, Click on Tools,
Folder Options
File Types
In there scroll down to Internet Shortcut
and make sure your chosen browser is associated with it.
You might also want to try to just drag the little icon on the
left of the browser address bar onto the desktop, instead of
pasting anything. Dragging that icon to the desktop makes an
instant Internet shortcut, that can even be used to open your
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Having been married ten years and still living in an apartment,
Keli would often complain about anything, as she was tired
of saving every penny to buy a "dream home".
Trying to placate her, Greg found a new apartment,
within their budget. However, after the first week, she began
complaining again.
"Greg," she said, "I don't like this place at all. There are no
curtains in the bathroom. The neighbors can see me every
time I take a bath."
"Don't worry." replied Greg. "If the neighbors do see
you, they'll buy curtains."
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Wife: Oh, come on.
Husband: Leave me alone!
Wife: It won't take long.
Husband: I won't be able to sleep afterwards.
Wife: I can't sleep without it.
Husband: Why do you think of things like this in the middle
of the night?
Wife: Because I'm hot.
Husband: You get hot at the darnedest times.
Wife: If you love me I wouldn't have to beg you.
Husband: If you love me you'd be more considerate.
Wife: You don't love me anymore.
Husband: Yes I do, but let's forget it for tonight.
Wife: (Sob-Sob)
Husband: Alright, I'll do it.
Wife: What's the matter? Need a flashlight?
Husband: I can't find it.
Wife: Oh, for heaven's sake, feel for it!
Husband: There! Are you satisfied?
Wife: Oh, yes, honey.
Husband: Is it up far enough?
Wife: Oh, that's fine.
Husband: Now go to sleep and from now on,
when you want the window open, open it before you
go to bed.
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"Hello?" Linda responded, answering the phone.
"I bet you want me to come over to your house, take
you into the bedroom, undress you, lick you from head to
toe, and then make mad passionate love to you all night
long," the male voice whispered sensuously.
"Gee," she replied. "You think you could tell all that just
from me saying 'hello' ? Well, you are wrong. But if you are good
at cleaning toilets, come on down to the High School."
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After meeting with the boss, the head salesperson mustered
the troops.
"People," she said, "I've just been informed that we're
going to be having a fire sale."
"A fire sale?" spoke up one agent. "But we sell insurance."
"I said a fire sale, and I meant it," she replied coldly.
"Anyone who doesn't make a sale gets fired."
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A computer program crashed in the lawyer's office, so he called a
programmer. The programmer arrived, unpacked his case, did
mysterious programmer-type things for a while, and handed the
lawyer a bill for $600.
The lawyer exclaimed, "This is ridiculous! I don't even make that
much as a lawyer!."
The programmer quietly answered, "Neither did I when I was a
lawyer."
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Today December 10 in
1520 Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict. The papacy
demanded that he recant or face excommunication. Luther refused
and was formally expelled from the church in January 1521.
1845 British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first
pneumatic tires.
1851 American librarian Melvil Dewey was born. He created the
"Dewey Decimal Classification" system.
1898 A treaty was signed in Paris that officially ended the
Spanish-American War. Also, Cuba became independent of Spain.
1901 The first Nobel prizes were awarded.
1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American
to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end
to the Russo-Japanese War.
1941 Japan invaded the Philippines.
1941 The Royal Naval battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse were
sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Battle of Malaya.
1950 Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize. He
was the first African-American to receive the award. Bunche was
awarded the prize for his efforts in mediation between Israel and
neighboring Arab states.
1953 Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an
investment of $7,600.
1958 The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the
U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a
National Airlines Boeing 707.
1964 In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the
Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the
award.
1982 The Law of the Sea Convention was signed by 118 countries in
Montego Bay, Jamaica. 23 nations and the U.S. were excluded.
1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace
Prize.
1990 The U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved Norplant, a
long-acting contraceptive implant.
1992 Oregon Senator Bob Packwood apologized for what he called
"unwelcome and offensive" actions toward women. However, he
refused to resign.
1993 The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor deployed the repaired
Hubble Space Telescope into Earth's orbit.
1994 Advertising executive Thomas Mosser of North Caldwell, NJ,
was killed by a mail bomb that was blamed on the Unabomber.
1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the
Nobel Peace Prize. They pledged to pursue their mission of
healing the Middle East.
1995 The first U.S. Marines arrived in the Bosnian capital of
Sarajevo to join NATO soldiers sent to enforce peace in the
former Yugoslavia.
1996 South Africa's President Mandela signed into law a new
democratic constitution, completing the country's transition from
white-minority rule to a non-racial democracy.
1998 Six astronauts opened the doors to the new international
space station 250 miles above the Earth's surface.
1998 The Palestinian leadership scrapped constitutional clauses
that rejected Israel's existence.
1999 After three years under suspicion of being a spy for China,
computer scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested. He was charged with
removing secrets from the Los Alamos weapons lab. Lee later pled
guilty to one count of downloading restricted data to tape and
was freed. The other 58 counts were dropped.
2003 The U.S. barred firms based in certain countries, opponents
of the Iraq war, from bidding on Iraqi reconstruction projects.
The ban did not prevent companies from winning subcontracts.
2007 Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina's first elected
female president.
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Sunday, December 9, 2018, 08:34 AM
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Thank you very much, Frank!!!
Today is Sunday, December 9
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Fla. Man Stole Sneakers After Job
Interview at Kohl's
Blondie jumping onto frozen lake
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Today, December 9 in
1884 Levant M. Richardson received a patent
for the ball-bearing roller skate.
More of today in history at History
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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth,
the egg of the phoenix.
--- Christina Baldwin
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
--- Jimmy Buffett
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
--- Albert Einstein
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Some guy bought a new fridge for his house.
To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his
front yard and hung a sign on it saying:
"Free to good home. You want it, you take it."
For three days the fridge sat there without even
one person looking twice at it.
He eventually decided that people were too untrusting
of this deal. It looked to good to be true, so he
hanged the sign to read: "Fridge for sale $50."
The next day someone stole it.
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
My creative mother enjoys doing crafts, such as making
potpourri boxes decorated with ribbon and lace. Sometimes
she gets so involved that she disappears into her upstairs
workroom for hours, forgetting about more mundane things,
like making dinner.
One evening, I arrived home to find the kitchen empty again.
But this time, I found a note that said,
"Warning! Small craft advisory. Buy yourself a pizza!"
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Thanks to Meredith for this famous classic:
( For English as a second language students: The old word
for donkey, as used in the bible, is ass. When used in that
sense, the word is no more obscene or objectionable than
the word donkey. )
The Pastor's Ass
The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won.
The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered
it in the race again, and it won again.
The local paper read:
PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.
The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that
he ordered the pastor not to enter the donkey in another race.
The next day, the local paper headline read:
BISHOP SCRATCHES
PASTOR'S ASS.
This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered
the pastor to get rid of the donkey.
The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent.
The local paper, hearing of the news, posted
the following headline the next day:
NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.
The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that
she would have to get rid of the donkey,
so she sold it to a farmer for $10. The next day the paper read:
NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.
This was too much for the bishop,
so he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey
and lead it to the plains where it could run wild.
The next day the head lines read:
NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.
The bishop was buried two days after that.
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Dumbass parking
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Dominick Christopher Breedlove,
24,
Spring Hill,
Floriduh
Fla. Man Stole Sneakers After Job
Interview at Kohl's
A Florida man was arrested after he allegedly stole two pairs of
sneakers from a department store – minutes after interviewing for
a job there.
Deputies in Hernando County arrested Dominick Breedlove and
charged him with retail theft after the incident Wednesday
afternoon at a Kohl’s store in Spring Hill, located north of
Tampa.
According to NBC affiliate WFLA-TV, 24-year-old Breedlove went
into the store shortly after the interview and started looking at
a Nike display for women's shoes that did not have security tags.
Breedlove left the store and later returned with a bag from a
previous trip.
A loss prevention officer called the Hernando County Sheriff's
Office after seeing Breedlove put the sneakers, worth a combined
$150, inside the bag and leaving the store. Officers arrested
Breedlove on the way to his car, where he told deputies that he
had planned to gift the shoes to his mother.
Breedlove was booked into jail with a $500 bond. Needless to say,
he did not get the job, the sheriff's office said.
From: Cookie
Re: Open Office and PPS
Dear Webby,
My personal computer Guru,
Do I understand this correctly??? With Open Office you can snag
individual pictures from pps shows?
I sure hope so...there are so many fantastic pictures in pps
files.
Cookie
Dear Cookie
Yes, you can!
It opens the PPS with thumbnails of the individual pictures
down along the left margin, and the highlighted thumbnail as the
big picture in the center. You can edit the pictures, put text
on
them, change the duration of the show time, etc.
And you can of course save the individual pictures that
are "keepers".
Or you can hit F5 for a traditional sit-back show.
I can just hear you now: "Oh WOW! This is the way it should
have been all along!"
All of Open Office is that way. Like Microsoft Office SHOULD
have been all along. Microsoft Office is trying to catch up, but
in the meantime it got priced way too high for you and me.
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
My wife and I were making our own funeral arrangements and
the director showed us into a room in which containers for
ashes were on display.
After we looked at the choices, I asked my wife if she had
decided.
She sighed, "Yes, the wood-finish one, as it will likely go
into the ground."
After a moment's pause, however, she continued,
"But I really prefer the blue one. You know I always look
good in blue!"
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Farmer Jake had a nagging wife who made his life
miserable. The only real peace that he got was when he
was out in the field plowing.
One day when he was out in the field, Jake's wife
brought his lunch to him. Then she stayed while he
quietly ate and berated him with a constant stream of
nagging and complaining. Suddenly, Jake's old mule
kicked up his back legs, striking the wife in the head,
and killing her instantly.
At the wake, Jake's minister noticed that when the
women offered their sympathy to Jake he would nod his
head up and down. But when the men came up and spoke
quietly to him, he would shake his head from side to side.
When the wake was over and all the mourners had left,
the minister approached Jake and asked, "Why was it
that you nodded your head up and down to all the women
and shook your head from side to side to all the men?"
Well, Jake replied, "The women all said how nice she
looked, and her dress was so pretty," so I agreed by
nodding my head up and down. The men all asked, "Is
that mule for sale?"
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Abe came home one day and found his wife Esther in tears.
"Darling, what's the matter?"
"Oh, Abe," cried Esther, "Doctor Cohen says I have tuberculosis."
"What! A big healthy woman like you has tuberculosis?
Ridiculous," said Abe. "I'll call Doctor Cohen and get this
sorted out right now."
So Abe called his doctor. "Doctor, Esther says ! you told her she
has tuberculosis."
The doctor said something to Abe, and with that, Abe began
laughing. "So what's so funny about my having such a dreadful
disease?" asked Esther.
"Esther, Doctor Cohen didn't say you that you have
'tuberculosis,' he said you have 'too big a tuchas'!"
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Upon going away to college, my former brother-in-law
received a hand mixer from his mother because of his
fondness for mashed potatoes.
Later that semester, she asked him how the mixer was
working for him.
"Not very good," Terry said, "the potatoes keep flying
all over the kitchen."
After a perplexed pause, his mother asked, "Terry, did
you cook the potatoes first?"
To which a surprised Terry responded, "You have to
cook the potatoes first?"
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Polands Worst Air Disaster
The worst air disaster occurred early this morning when
a small two-seater Cessna plane crashed into a cemetery.
The search and rescue workers have recovered 1826
bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging
continues into the night. The pilot and passenger are helping
with the digging.
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Today December 9 in
1783 The first executions at Newgate Prison took place.
1793 "The American Minerva" was published for the first time. It
was the first daily newspaper in New York City and was founded by
Noah Webster.
1854 Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light
Brigade," was published in England.
1879 Thomas Edison organized the Edison Ore Milling Company.
1884 Levant M. Richardson received a patent for the ball-bearing
roller skate.
1892 In London, "Widowers' Houses," George Bernard Shaw's first
play, opened at the Royalty Theater.
1907 Christmas Seals went on sale for the first time, in the
Wilmington, DE, post office.
1926 The United States Golf Association legalized the use of
steel-shafted golf clubs.
1917 Turkish troops surrendered Jerusalem to British troops led
by Viscount Allenby.
1940 During World War II, British troops opened their first major
offensive in North Africa.
1940 The Longines Watch Company signed for the first FM radio
advertising contract with experimental station W2XOR in New York
City.
1941 China declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy.
1955 Sugar Ray Robinson knocked out Carl Olson and regained his
world middleweight boxing title.
1958 In Indianapolis, IN, Robert H.W. Welch Jr. and 11 other men
met to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society.
1960 Sperry Rand Corporation unveiled a new computer known as
"Univac 1107."
1962 "Lawrence of Arabia" by David Lean had its world premiere in
London.
1975 U.S. President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal
loan authorization to prevent New York City from having to
default.
1978 The first game of the Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL)
was played between the Chicago Hustle and the Milwaukee Does.
1985 In Argentina, five former military junta members received
sentences in prison for their roles in the "dirty war" in which
nearly 9,000 people had "disappeared."
1987 West Bank Palestinians launched an intifada (uprising)
against Israeli occupation.
1987 In the Gaza Strip, an Israeli patrol attacked the Jabliya
refugee camp.
1990 Lech Walesa won Poland's first direct presidential election
in the country's history.
1990 Slobodan Milosovic was elected president in Serbia's first
free elections in 50 years.
1990 The first American hostages to be released by Iran began
arriving in the U.S.
1991 European Community leaders agreed to begin using a single
currency in 1999.
1992 Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their
separation.
1992 Clair George, former CIA spy chief, was convicted of lying
to the U.S. Congress about the Iran-Contra affair. U.S. President
George H.W. Bush later pardoned George.
1992 U.S. troops arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, to oversee
delivery of international food aid, in operation 'Restore Hope'.
1993 The U.S. Air Force destroyed the first of 500 Minuteman II
missile silos that were marked for elimination under an arms
control treaty.
1993 Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavor completed
repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope.
1993 At Princeton University in New Jersey, scientists produced a
controlled fusion reaction equivalent to 3 million watts.
1994 Representatives of the Irish Republican Army and the British
government opened peace talks in Northern Ireland.
1996 UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali approved a deal allowing
Iraq to resume its exports of oil and easing the UN trade embargo
imposed on Iraq in 1990.
1999 The U.S. announced that it was expelling a Russian diplomat
who had been caught gathering information with an eavesdropping
device at the U.S. State Department.
2002 United Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after losing
$4 billion in the previous two years. It was the sixth largest
bankruptcy filing.
2003 In Australia, thieves broke into a home and stole two 300-
year-old etchings by Rembrandt. The 4-by-4-inch etchings, a self-
portait and a depiction of the artist's mother, were valued
around $518,000.
2013 AMR Corporation and US Airways Group completed a merger and
was listed on the NASDAQ as American Airlines Group, Inc.
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Saturday, December 8, 2018, 08:39 AM
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Good Morning, !
Thank you very much, Frank!!!
Today is Saturday, December 8
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Utah Mom Lured Ex Out of Apartment Before
Murdering his current wife
Blondie jumping onto frozen lake
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Today, December 8 in
1854 Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate
Conception. The theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus,
was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived.
More of today in history at History
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors
instead of establishing the truth.
--- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
It is always a silly thing to give advice,
but to give good advice is fatal.
--- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like
who drinks as much as you do."
--- Dylan Thomas
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A lady is having a bad day at the roulette tables in Vegas.
She's down to her last $50. Exasperated, she exclaims, "What
rotten luck I've had today! What in the world should I do
now?"
A man standing next to her suggests, "I don't know... why
don't you play your age?"
He walks away. Moments later, his attention is grabbed by
a great commotion at the roulette table. Maybe she won! He
rushes back to the table and pushes his way through the
crowd. The lady is lying limp on the floor, with the table
operator kneeling over her. The man is stunned. He asks,
"What happened? Is she all right?"
The operator replies, "I don't know. She put all her money
on 29, and 36 came up. Then she just fainted!"
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In a grocery store a cashier held up a small dairy carton
and yelled to a co-worker, "How much is half-and-half?"
Without a moment's hesitation the other cashier replied,
"One."
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DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for
being successful. Barbara Streisand sings for you.
REPUBLICANISM
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So?
SOCIALIST
You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your
neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his
cow.
COMMUNIST
You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you
with milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive
and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of
cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows. Under the new farm program the government pays
you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down
the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do
an IPO on the 2nd one. You force the two cows to produce the milk
of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin
an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and
are reducing expenses. Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine. Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the
size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. They
learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains. Most are at the
top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You engineer them so they are all blond, drink
lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred
miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of
vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are. While
ambling around, you see a beautiful woman. You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You have some vodka. You count them and learn
you have five cows. You have some more vodka. You count them
again and learn you have 42 cows. The Mafia shows up and takes
over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two. You don't
milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find
alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.
IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows. They go into hiding. They send radio tapes of
their mooing.
POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls. Employees are regularly maimed and killed
attempting to milk them.
BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow. The cow is schizophrenic. Sometimes the cow
thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish. The Flemish cow
won't share with the French cow. The French cow wants control of
the Flemish cow's milk. The cow asks permission to be cut in
half. The cow dies happy.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow. Everyone votes for the best
looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best
accidentally vote for the black one. Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither. Some people can't figure out how to
vote at all. Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you
which one you think is the best-looking cow.
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows. They make real California cheese. Only
five speak English. Many are illegals. Arnold likes the ones with
the big udders.
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Chelsea Watrous Cook,
32,
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Utah Mom Lured Ex Out of Apartment Before
Murdering his current wife
Utah has never executed a woman or had a woman on death row, but
that could change after Sunday night's murder in suburban Salt
Lake City. Chelsea Watrous Cook, 32, has been charged with
aggravated murder in the shooting of Lisa Vilate Williams, 26,
and could face the death penalty, Deseret News reports. Police
say the teacher lured ex-husband Travis Cook out of his apartment
by saying she had cold medicine for one of their 3-year-twins,
reports the AP. Security camera footage captured her hiding in
the hallway as he walked out to the parking lot. Police say she
then sneaked into the apartment, where she ended up shooting
Williams, her ex-husband's new girlfriend, who had been making
Christmas tree ornaments with the twins.
Authorities say Travis Cook managed to get the gun away from his
ex-wife and pin her to a wall until police arrived. Williams'
mother and sister tell the AP that they feared for her safety
after Cook harassed her and bullied her online for months. Public
records state that Cook was charged with misdemeanor domestic
violence last month after arguing with her ex-husband when he
tried to pick up the twins. Court records state that she yelled
"disparaging comments" about Williams, who was not present, and
grabbed her ex-husband by the hair, causing him to tumble down
stairs. Cook, who worked as a health and yoga teacher at a Lehi
high school, is being held without bail.
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Unclick Align to grid.
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The doctor said to a patient's husband, "I'm sorry. We did
all that was humanly possible, but we just can't wake her
from her coma. It doesn't look good, I'm afraid."
"But doctor, she's so young! She's only thirty-nine."
Upon which the comatose wife weakly said, "Thirty-seven!"
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Old buddies Father Mulhaney and Rabbi Silverman were having
their monthly breakfast. Father Mulhaney was enjoying his usual
bacon and eggs, while Rabbi Silverman was savoring his lox
and bagels .
Father Mulhaney asked, "Would you like to try a piece of bacon?
Lots of people eat bacon, and it is very tasty. Why don't
you try a piece?"
Rabbi Silverman replied, "You are quite right, my friend.
I think I will try some bacon."
"When?" asked the priest.
"At your wedding, of course," responded the rabbi.
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Today at work, the boss wanted to know when Father's Day
was. "Easy," I answered. "It's nine months before Mother's
Day."
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While I was preaching in a church in Mississippi, the pastor
announced that their prison quartet would be singing the
following evening.
I wasn't aware there was a prison in the vicinity and I looked
forward to hearing them.
The next evening, I was puzzled when four members of the
church approached the stage. Then the pastor introduced them.
"This is our prison quartet," he said, "behind a few bars and
always looking for the key."
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>From Tom
My mother has a "lead foot," so I was not surprised when a
state trooper pulled us over as we were speeding through
Georgia.
Hoping to get off with a warning, Mom tried to appear
shocked when the trooper walked up to the car.
"I have never been stopped like this before," she said to
the officer.
"What do they usually do, ma'am," he asked, "shoot the tires
out?"
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Today December 8 in
1765 Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, MA. Whitney invented the
cotton gin and developed the concept of mass-production of
interchangeable parts. Before him only plows were mass produced
with interchangeable parts.
1776 George Washington's retreating army in the American
Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to
Pennsylvania.
1854 Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate
Conception. The theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free
of original sin from the moment she was conceived.
1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the
Reconstruction of the South.
1863 Tom King of England defeated American John Heenan and became
the first world heavyweight champion.
1886 At a convention of union leaders in Columbus, OH, the
American Federation of Labor was founded.
1941 The United States entered World War II when it declared war
against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked
Pearl Harbor. Canada declared war on Japan on the day of the
Pearl Harbor attack.
1949 The Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese
mainland to Formosa (Taiwan) due to Communists pressure.
1952 On the show "I Love Lucy," a pregnancy was acknowledged in a
TV show for the first time.
1953 Los Angeles became the third largest city in the United
States.
1962 Workers of the International Typographical Union began
striking and closed nine New York City newspapers. The strike
lasted 114 days and ended April 1, 1963.
1980 Zimbabwe’s manpower minister, Edgar Tekere, was found guilty
in the killing of a white farmer. He was freed under a law that
protected ministers acting to suppress terrorism.
1982 Norman D. Mayer demanding an end to nuclear weapons held the
Washington Monument hostage. He threatened to blow it up with
explosives he claimed were inside a van. 10 hours later he was
shot to death by police.
1984 In Roanoke, Virginia, a jury found Hustler magazine
publisher Larry Flynt innocent of libeling Reverend Jerry Falwell
with a parody advertisement. However Falwell was awarded $200,000
for emotional distress.
1987 U.S. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev
signed a treaty agreeing to destroy their nations' arsenals of
intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
1987 The "intefadeh" (Arabic for uprising) by Palestinians in the
Israeli-occupied territories began.
1989 Communist leaders in Czechoslovakia offered to surrender
their control over the government and accept a minority role in a
coalition Cabinet.
1991 Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine declared the Soviet national
government to be dead. They forged a new alliance to be known as
the Commonwealth of Independent States. The act was denounced by
Russian President Gorbachev as unconstitutional.
1992 Americans got to see live television coverage of U.S. troops
landing on the beaches of Somalia during Operation Restore Hope.
(Due to the time difference, it was December 9 in Somalia.)
1993 U.S. President Clinton signed into law the North American
Free Trade Agreement.
1994 Bosnian Serbs released dozens of hostage peacekeepers, but
continued to detain about 300 others.
1994 In Los Angeles, 12 alternate jurors were chosen for the O.J.
Simpson murder trial.
1997 The second largest bank was created with the announcement
that Union Bank Switzerland and the Swiss Bank Corporation would
merge. The combined assets were more than $590 billion.
1997 Jenny Shipley was sworn in as the first female prime
minister of New Zealand.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police could not search a
person or their cars after ticketing for a routine traffic
violation.
1998 The FBI opened its files on Frank Sinatra to the public. The
file contained over 1,300 pages.
1998 Nkem Chukwu and Iyke Louis Udobi's first of eight babies was
born. The other seven were delivered 12 days later.
1998 AT&T Corp. announced that it was buying IBM's data
networking business for $5 billion cash.
1998 The first female ice hockey game in Olympic history was
played. Finland beat Sweden 6-0.
1999 In Memphis, TN, a jury found that Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr. had been the victim of a vast murder conspiracy, not a lone
assassin.
1999 Russia and Belarus agreed in principle to form an economic
and political confederation.
2000 Mario Lemieux announced to the Pittsburgh Penguins that he
planned to return to the National Hockey League (NHL) as a player
at age 35. He would be the first modern owner-player in U.S. pro
sports.
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Friday, December 7, 2018, 10:01 AM
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Good Morning, !
Thank you very much, Frank!!!
Today is Friday, December 7
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
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Today's Bonehead Award:
Naked N.H. attacked police officer.
He got tased and jailed.
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Today, December 7 in
1941 Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was
attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in
Canada declaring war on Japan, followed a day later by the USA.
That caused the U.S. to enter into World War II.
More of today in history at History
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
--- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children
have teenagers of their own.
--- Doug Larson
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>From Ed
I walked into Dairy Queen the other day and asked
for a hot fudge sundae with extra hot fudge.
The girl replied, "The hot fudge only comes in one
temperature, Sir."
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Mr. Smith was brought to Mercy Hospital
(a Catholic hospital), and taken quickly in for
coronary surgery. The operation went well and, as the
groggy man regained consciousness, he was reassured by
a Sister of Mercy, who was waiting by his bed.
"Mr. Smith, you're going to be just fine," said the nun,
gently patting his hand. "We do need to know, however,
how you intend to pay for your stay here. Are you
covered by insurance?"
"No, I'm not," the man whispered hoarsely.
"Then can you pay in cash?" persisted the nun.
"I'm afraid I cannot, Sister."
"Well, do you have any close relatives?" the nun
questioned sternly.
"Just my sister in New Mexico," he volunteered. "But she's
a humble spinster nun."
"Oh, I must correct you, Mr. Smith. Nuns are not
spinsters - they are married to God."
"Wonderful," said Mr. Smith. "In that case, please send
the bill to my brother-in-law."
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Two voices, male and female, on an overnight
"red eye" plane flight. "I think everyone's
asleep, lets go"
Sound of steps.
"This one's empty. No ones is looking. You
go in first"
"It a bit cramped, let me sit down"
"Have you got the condom? Quick, put it on"
Sniff sniff "Ah perfume you think of everything"
"This is great..." (long sigh)
Static on the loud speaker then a new voice.
"This is the captain speaking, to those two
people in the rear toilet. We know what you're
doing and it is expressly forbidden by airline
regulations. Now put those cigarettes out and
take the condom off the fake smoke detector!"
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Frequent fliers know that airplane toilets have
"fart extractors", the smelly air is suckd down the toilet
and allowed to escape to the thin air outside. By bending
low over the toilet, as if praying to Ralph, the god of
drunks, you can have that smelly cigarette, that is
between going berserk and relaxed calmness.
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So much for Algorian Warming!
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Richard Chase, 52,
Merrimack,
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Naked N.H. attacked police officer.
He got tased and jailed.
A man walking completely naked in the parking lot of a Merrimack
hotel was stunned with a Taser on Friday night after police say
he tried to punch an officer.
Richard Chase, 52, has been charged with indecent exposure,
attempted assault and resisting arrest.
A man walking completely naked in the parking lot of a Merrimack
hotel was stunned with a Taser on Friday night after police say
he tried to punch an officer.
Richard Chase, 52, has been charged with indecent exposure,
attempted assault and resisting arrest.
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A Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a Jewish
rabbi were discussing when life begins.
"Life begins," said the priest, "at the moment of
fertilization. That is when God instills the spark
of life into the fetus."
"We believe," said the minister, "that life begins at
birth, because that is when the baby becomes an
individual and is capable of making its own decisions
and must learn about sin."
"You're both wrong," said the rabbi. "Life begins
when the children have graduated from college
and moved out of the house."
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Christmas Break was over and the teacher was
asking the class about their vacations. She
turned to little Johnny and asked what he did
over the break.
"We visited my grandmother in Punxsutawney,
Pennsylvania," he replied.
"That sounds like an excellent vocabulary word,"
the teacher said. "Can you tell the class how
you spell that?"
Little Johnny thought about it and said, "You know,
come to think of it, we went to Acron, Ohio."
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Little Tommy had been to a birthday party at a friend's house.
Knowing his sweet tooth, Tommy's mother looked straight
into his eyes and said, "I hope you didn't ask for a second
piece of cake."
"No, but I asked Mrs. Smith for the recipe so you could
make some like it, and she gave me two more pieces
without asking."
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A young man volunteered to babysit one night so his mom
could have an evening out. At bedtime he sent the youngsters
upstairs to bed and settled down to watch football. One
child kept creeping down the stairs, but the young man kept
sending him back.
At 9:00 p.m., the doorbell rang. It was the next-door
neighbor, Mrs. Brown, asking whether her son was there. The
young man brusquely replied, "No."
Just then a little head appeared over the banister and a
voice shouted, "I'm here, Mom, but he won't let me go home."
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Father - Daughter Talk
A young woman was about to finish her first year of
college. Like so many others her age, she considered
herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other
liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes
to support more government programs; in other words,
redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather
staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed.
Based on the lectures that she had participated in,
and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt
that her father had for years harbored an evil,
selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day, she was challenging her father on his
opposition to higher taxes on the rich, and the need
for more government programs. The self-professed
objectivity proclaimed by her professor had to be the
truth, and she indicated so to her father.
He responded by asking how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she
had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to
maintain, insisting that she was taking a very
difficult course load and was constantly studying,
which left her no time to go out and party like other
people she knew. She didn't even have time for a
boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends
either because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened, then asked, "How is your friend
Audrey doing?" She replied, "Audrey is barely getting
by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies,
and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on
campus; college for her is a blast. She's always
invited to all the parties, and lots of times she
doesn't even show up for classes because she's too
hung over."
Her father asked her, "Why don't you go to the Dean's
office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and
give it to your friend Audrey, who only has a 2.0?
That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA, and certainly
that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's
suggestion, angrily fired back, "That's a crazy idea!
How would that be fair? I've worked really hard for my
grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard
work. And she's done next to nothing toward her
degree. She played while I worked my tail off!"
The father slowly smiled and said gently, "Welcome to
the Republican Party."
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Today December 7 in
1431 In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France.
1787 Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S.
constitution becoming the first of the United States.
1907 At London's National Sporting Club, Eugene Corri became the
first referee to officiate from inside a boxing ring.
1925 Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-
yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds. He
went on to play "Tarzan" in several movies.
1926 The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux
Servel Corporation.
I had one of those in the Yukon.
1941 Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was
attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in
Canada declaring war on Japan, followed a day later by the USA.
Tht caused the U.S. to enter into World War II.
1946 A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta killed 119 people.
It was America's worst hotel fire disaster. The hotel founder, W.
Frank Winecoff, was also killed in the fire.
1971 Libya announced the nationalization of British Petroleum's
assets.
1972 Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last
U.S. moon mission.
1972 Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand E.
Marcos, was stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant. The
man was then shot and killed by her bodyguards.
1974 President Makarios returned to Cyprus after five months in
exile.
1980 General Antonio Ramlho Eanes was reelected president of
Portugal. His right-wing opposition was thrown into disarray by
the death of Premier Francisco Sa Carneiro in a plane crash.
1982 Charlie Brooks Junior, a convicted murderer, became the
first prisoner in the U.S. to be executed by injection, at a
prison in Huntsville, TX.
1983 Madrid, Spain, an Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with an
Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727 that was accelerating for takeoff.
The collision resulted in the death of all 42 people aboard the
DC-9 and 51 on the Iberia jet.
1987 Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil
for the first time. He had come to the U.S. for a Washington
summit with U.S. President Reagan.
1987 43 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on a fellow
passenger and the two pilots aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines
jetliner.
1988 An estimated 25,000 people were killed when a major
earthquake hit northern Armenia in the Soviet Union. The quake
measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale.
1988 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the
reduction of the number of Soviet military troops by half a
million.
1989 East Germany's Communist Party agreed to cooperate with the
plan for free elections and a revised constitution.
1992 The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Mississippi abortion law
which, required women to get counseling and then wait 24 hours
before terminating their pregnancies.
1993 Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a gunman
opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
1993 Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary revealed that the U.S.
government had conducted more than 200 nuclear weapons tests in
secret at its Nevada test site.
1993 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders suggested that the U.S.
government study the impact of drug legalization.
1995 A probe sent from the Galileo spacecraft entered into
Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe sent back data to the mothership
before it was presumably destroyed.
1996 The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever
shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes.
1998 The U.N. evacuated 14 peacekeepers that were trapped by
fighting between army and rebel forces in central Angola.
1998 U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an
independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996
campaign financing.
1999 A U.S. federal grand jury indicted a former convict in the
1995 disappearance of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
2002 In Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were
stolen from the Van Gogh Museum. The two works were "View of the
Sea st Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed
Church in Nuenen." On July 26, 2004, two men were convicted for
the crime and were sentenced to at least four years in prison
each.
2002 In Mymensingh, Bangladesh, four movies theaters were bombed
within 30 minutes of each other. At least 15 people were killed
and over 200 were injured.
2003 A 12-inch by 26-inch painting of a river landscape and
sailing vessel by Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for $1
million. The painting was found in the attic of a suburban Boston
home where it had been stored for more than 60 years.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, December 6
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
300-pound woman pleads guilty to fatally
attacking, crushing boyfriend
https://youtu.be/hBq_r1-G_4E
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Today, December 6 in
1774 Austria became the first nation to introduce a
state education system.
More of today in history at History
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in overalls and looks like work.
--- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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A six-year-old ran up and down the supermarket aisles
shouting frantically, 'Marian, Marian!'
Finally reunited with his mother, he was chided by her,
'You shouldn't call me 'Marian.' I'm your mother, you know.'
'I know,' said the child, 'but the store is full of mothers.'
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A little boy was taken to the dentist. It was discovered
that he had a cavity that would have to be filled.
"Now, young man," asked the dentist, "what kind of filling
would you like for that tooth?"
"Chocolate, please," replied the youngster.
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A little boy was walking down a dirt road after church one Sunday
afternoon when he came to a crossroads where he met a little girl
coming from the other direction.
"Hello," said the little boy
"Hi," replied the little girl.
"Where are you going?" asked the little boy.
"I've been to church this morning and I'm on my way home,"
answered the little girl.
"I'm also on my way home from church. Which church do you go to?"
asked the little boy.
"I go to the Baptist church back down the road," replied the
little girl. "What about you?"
"I go to the Methodist church back at the top of the hill,"
replied the little boy.
They discover that they are both going the same way so they
decided that they'd walk together.
They came to a low spot in the road where spring rains had
partially flooded the road, so there was no way that they could
get across to the other side without getting wet.
"If I get my new Sunday dress wet, my Mom's going to skin me
alive," said the little girl.
"My Mom'll tan my hide, too, if I get my new Sunday suit wet,"
replied the little boy.
"I tell you what I think I'll do," said the little girl. "I'm
gonna pull off all my clothes and hold them over my head and wade
across."
"That's a good idea,"replied the little boy. "I'm going to do the
same thing with my suit."
So they both undressed and waded across to the other side without
getting their clothes wet. They were standing there in the sun
waiting to drip dry before putting their clothes back on, when
the little boy finally remarked
"You know, I never realized before just how much difference there
really is between a Baptist and a Methodist!
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Windi Thomas,
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Erie
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300-pound woman pleads guilty to fatally
attacking, crushing boyfriend
A woman has pleaded guilty to killing her boyfriend by stabbing
him, hitting him with a table leg and crushing him under the
weight of her roughly 300 pounds.
Windi Thomas, of Erie, faces a sentence of 18 to 36 years after
pleading guilty to third-degree murder. She had been scheduled
for trial next week, but instead will be sentenced on Dec. 21.
The 44-year-old Thomas admitted killing Keeno Butler last March,
partially by lying on top of him. Thomas weighs about 300 pounds,
while the 44-year-old Butler weighed about 120 pounds.
The Erie Times-News reports Thomas told investigators she had
been drinking throughout the day and left the apartment to
purchase crack cocaine. After she returned home, she was sitting
on the couch with a knife and, at one point, cut Butler's hand.
Thomas told police that Butler went to the kitchen and returned
with a table leg, which she took from him and used to hit him on
the head. As the two wrestled on the ground, Thomas said she was
able to pin Butler down. Thomas then called 911 and reported she
had killed someone.
Butler’s death was ruled a homicide “caused by respiratory
insufficiency secondary to blunt force trauma to the neck and
thoracic compression, exacerbated by blunt force trauma to the
head,” according to the affidavit.
Butler's sister said her family is still coping with her
brother's death and had been hoping for a longer prison sentence
for Thomas.
“I feel like she should have 40 or more,” Sandra Butler said.
“She deserved life.”
From: Joan
Re: Touch Pad
Dear Webby,
You told me once in the 90's to put a cardboard into
the touchpad depression. I did. And carefully moved it
to new machines every time a machine had to be replaced.
My cardboard is thin enough so that if I really whack it
with my thumb, it works like the Enter key.
Just light movement of the thumb does not affect it at all.
I am perfectly happy with your solution.
Thanks
Joan
Dear Joan
Thanks for the feedback!
It is rare that people tell me how a solution worked.
I do appreciate it!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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A bishop discovered a tribe of Indians in the
Amazon who had never recorded a baptism, confirm-
ation or marriage. The bishop soon rectified the
situation by baptizing and confirming everyone.
He also married every couple that walked by and
desired such.
Later, the tribal chief told the Bishop the tribe
had never had so much fun. The bishop asked the
chief which part they enjoyed the most.
"The marriage service," the chief said, smiling.
"We all got new wives!"
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While attending a convention, I breakfasted in a cafe,
next to two gray-haired men from the same symposium.
I overheard one remark, "You know, this is the first time in
40 years we've gone to one of these without our wives."
His pal leaned back, contemplating what such freedom
might portend. "I know," he said, laying his menu aside.
"Let's have biscuits and gravy!"
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Denny's Restaurants tend to get carried
away a bit, in some
towns. Here is a picture of my dad when I took him into Dennys
for a well deserved Banana Split in Barstow one year. We had been
driving and running through the desert all day, taking pictures
of cacti, but that was too much.
Dennys also used to get quite carried away with their Chef Salad.
You can eat one normal portion and have enough left over to
take home for side salads for four people the next day.
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Judy, the editor of a trivia publication, was
having trouble with her computer. So she called Prem,
the computer guy, over to her desk.
Prem clicked a couple buttons and solved the problem.
As he was walking away, Judy called after him, "So,
what was wrong?"
And he replied, "It was just an "ID ten T" error."
A puzzled expression ran over Judy's face. "An "ID ten
T" error? What's that?.. in case I need to fix it
again??"
He gave her a grin...
"Haven't you ever heard of an "ID ten T" error before?"
"No," replied Judy.
"Write it down," he said, "and I think you'll figure it
out."
She wrote..... I D 1 0 T
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During our Marine boot-camp class on combat gear, the
drill instructor told us to put on the equipment we had been
issued; then he would inspect us.
Soon after, a frantic recruit, helmet liner in hand, ran up to
the DI. "Sir," he began, "the private's helmet liner does not fit
the private's head, sir."
The DI, obviously perturbed that the recruit hadn't listened to
his instructions on how to adjust the liner, looked into the
Marine's face. "Okay, private," he said. "This is what I want you
to do. Go into the gear locker, find a new head to fit your
helmet liner and use that one!"
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A missionary recruit goes to Venezuela for the first time,
struggling with the language. He visits one of the local churches
and sits in the front row.
So as not to make a fool of himself, he decides to pick someone
out of the crowd to imitate. He decides to follow the man sitting
next to him in the front pew. As they sing, the man claps his
hands, so the missionary recruit claps, too. When the man stands
up to pray, the missionary recruit stands up, too. When the man
sits down, the missionary sits down.
Later in the service, the man next to him stands up again, so the
missionary stands up, too.
Suddenly a hush falls over the entire congregation. A few people
gasp.
The missionary looks around and sees that no one else is
standing. So he sits down.
After the service ends, the missionary recruit greets the
preacher. "I take it you don't speak Spanish," the preacher says.
The missionary replies, "No, I don't. Is it that obvious?"
"Well yes," the preacher says. "I announced that the Acosta
family had a new-born baby boy, and I asked the proud father to
please stand up."
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Today December 6 in
1735 In London, French surgeon Claudius Amyand peformed the first
successful appendectomy at St. George's Hospital. The patient was
an 11-year old boy that had swallowed a pin.
1774 Austria became the first nation to introduce a state
education system.
1865 The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
1876 The city of Anaheim was incorporated for a second time.
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a
recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
1883 "Ladies' Home Journal" was published for the first time.
1884 The construction of the Washington Monument was completed by
Army engineers. The project took 34 years.
1889 Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans. He was the first and
only president of the Confederate States of America.
1907 In Monongah, WV, 361 people were killed in America's worst
mine disaster.
1917 More than 1,600 people died when two munitions ships
collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1917 Finland proclaimed independence from Russia.
1921 The Catholic Irish Free State was created as a self-
governing dominion of Britain when an Anglo-Irish treaty was
signed.
1923 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge became the first president to
give a presidential address that was broadcast on radio.
1926 In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors.
1947 Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by U.S.
President Truman.
1957 AFL-CIO members voted to expel the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters. The Teamsters were readmitted in 1987.
1957 America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit
failed when the satellite blew up on the launch pad at Cape
Canaveral, FL.
1973 Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the
United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned.
1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians were killed when a bomb exploded
in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. The Irish National
Liberation Army was responsible for planting the bomb.
1983 In Jerusalem, a bomb planted on a bus exploded killing six
Israelis and wounding 44.
1985 Congressional negotiators reached an agreement on a deficit-
cutting proposal that later became the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law.
1989 The worst mass shooting in Canadian history occurred when a
man gunned down 14 women at the University of Montreal's school
of engineering. The man then killed himself.
1989 Egon Krenz resigned as leader of East Germany.
1990 Iraq announced that it would release all its 2,000 foreign
hostages.
1992 Germany's primary political parties agreed to tighten
postwar asylum laws.
1992 In India, thousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque.
The following two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting resulted in at
least 2,000 people being killed.
1993 Former priest James R. Porter was sentenced to 18 to 20
years in prison. Porter had admitted molesting 28 children in the
1960s.
1994 Orange County, CA, filed for bankruptcy protection due to
investment losses of about $2 billion. The county is one of the
richest in the U.S. and became the largest municipality to file
for bankruptcy.
1997 A Russian Antonov 124 military transport crashed into a
residential area in Irkutsk, Russia, shortly after takeoff. 70
people were killed.
1998 In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was
elected president. He had staged a bloody coup attempt against
the government six years earlier.
1998 Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour connected the
first two building blocks of the international space station in
the shuttle cargo bay.
2002 Winona Ryder was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 480
hours of community service stemming from her conviction for
shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue. She was also ordered to pay
$10,000 in fines and restitution.
2002 Officials released the detailed plans for a $4.7 million
memorial commemorating Princess Diana. The large oval fountain
was planned to be constructed in London's Hyde Park.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 09:47 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, December 5
Where I grew up in Austria, December 5 was the day Santa
came by, and read the kids the riot act about their behavior
during the year.
Because of my frequently not so exemplary behavior, I was often
threatened with getting sent to Jagdberg, an ancient castle
converted to a juvenile jail and reform school. Well, I never
quite got sent there.
When I was 18 a college professor volunteered me to go play Santa
at Jagdberg. Beside stage fright, there was the fear they would
lock me up there, but I dressed up in the supplied garments,
hopped on my motorcycle and roared up there.
At Jagdberg they gave me a glass of Cherry Water Schnapps to calm
my nerves, and for each classroom a stack of papers. I called the
name on the top sheet, and read that kid's sins, then gave him or
her a paper bag filled with goodies.
Probably thanks to the Schnapps by the time I got to the second
classroom, I got right into my act and really lit into the little
twerps.
I think they had about 16 classrooms, but by the time I was done
with them all, I was sorry it was already finished.
They gave me a couple of very tasty salami sandwiches and a
coffee, and I left.
On the way back I stopped at the place where my gtirlfriend
stayed, a dormitory attached to the hospital nunnery. She tossed
the key down when she heard my bike, and I silently crept up the
stone steps to her floor and her room.
Well some other girl was lurking and so I had to play Santa for
her too. I only had a small bag of goodies for my girlfriend, so
the lurker just got a hug and a kiss and a grope from Santa. She
was happy.
And shortly after that, my girlfriend was made happy by Santa
himself.
The sky was just beginning to lighten in the East when I finally
rode my bike home.
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Mom charged after OWI arrest led to
4-year-old being found alone in tow lot
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Today, December 5 in
1951 The first push button-controlled garage opened in
Washington, DC.
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Mustard's no good without roast beef.
--- Chico Marx (1891 - 1961)
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David was a crotchety old fellow who always took breakfast with
his wife. He would read the morning paper while she fumed at his
neglect, and today of all days because it was their 25th wedding
anniversary.
“David!! David!! Put down that paper and let’s talk about how we
are going to celebrate our wedding anniversary today. What do
you suggest?”
David put his newspaper down, removed and polished his glasses,
stared for a moment into the distance, then said, “How about two
minutes of silence?”
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Thanks to Mary for this:
When you get angry it's because you're ill-tempered...
It just happens that my nerves are bothering me.
When you don't like someone it's because you're prejudiced...
I just happen to be a good judge of human nature.
When you compliment people it's because you use flattery
to get your way... I only encourage people.
When you take a long time to do a job it's because you're
unbearable slow and pokey...
I take a long time because I believe in quality workmanship.
When you spend your paycheck in 24 hours, it's because
you're a spendthrift...
When I do, it's because I'm generous.
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An English professor wrote the words,
"A woman without her man is nothing" on the blackboard and
directed the students to punctuate it correctly.
The men wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
The women wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."
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Blair Springfield,
28,
Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin
Mom charged after OWI arrest led to
4-year-old being found alone in tow lot
pleads not guilty
A 28-year-old Milwaukee mother whose OWI arrest led to her 4-
year-old daughter being found alone in a van in the city tow lot
hours later has been ordered to stand trial. On Tuesday, Nov. 27
Blair Springfield waived her right to a preliminary hearing, and
pleaded not guilty.
Springfield faces 10 charges:
- OWI, first offense, with a passenger under the age of
16
- Neglecting a child (harm did not occur and child under 6
years or disability)
- Neglecting a child (specified harm did not occur)
- Neglecting a child (harm did not occur and child under 6
years or disability)
- Neglecting a child (harm did not occur and child under 6
years or disability)
- Neglecting a child (harm did not occur and child under 6
years or disability)
- OWI, first offense with a passenger under the age of
16
- Neglecting a child (harm did not occur and child under 6
years or disability
- Neglecting a child (harm did not occur and child under 6
years or disability
- Operating with a prohibited alcohol concentration with a
passenger under the age of 16
Springfield pleaded not guilty to three of the charges on
Saturday, Nov. 17, when she appeared in court for the first time
— Count 1, Count 3, Count 7 and Count 10. Cash bond was set at
$1,500.
Springfield was taken into custody near 39th and Forest Home on
Nov. 12, after prosecutors said she passed out behind the wheel
of a minivan.
She was not charged in that case.
Her adult passenger and baby were removed from the vehicle, but
the 4-year-old was left in the back seat. Prosecutors said the
child was not mentioned by her mother and also missed by
officers.
The incident happened just weeks after prosecutors said
Springfield passed out in a McDonald's drive-thru with children
and bottles of vodka in the car.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Davis ordered the
latest case go to trial during Springfield's court hearing on
Tuesday.
If convicted, Springfield could gain more time behind bars. She
could also lose the children.
The Milwaukee Police Department has not yet released squad or
body camera footage from Nov. 12, the night Springfield was
arrested.
Springfield's next court appearance has been scheduled for Dec.
5.
From: Joyce
Re: Wandering Arrow
Dear Webby,
I hope you can help me.I thought i seen it once on here
& forgot to save it. What a ninnie i was there. OK when
I am just reading or browesing pages, the arrow on my laptop
just takes off. How can i stop it from doing that, but i need
step by step instrustion, or i can't do it cause i am a
ninnie & my daughter don't like helping.
Love your letter every morning
Thank You
Joyce
Dear Joyce
The mouse arrow taking off is usually not due to a program
setting, but to your thumb on the silly touch pad on the laptop.
Since you have a mouse anyway, just cut a piece of cardboard to
just fit the touch pad level with the keyboard area. Problem
solved instantly.
Have FUN!
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A college senior took his new girlfriend to a football game.
The young couple found seats in the crowded stadium and
were watching the action.
A substitute was put into the game, and as he was running
onto the field to take his position, the boy said to his
girlfriend,
"Take a good look at that fellow. I expect him to be our best
man next year."
His girlfriend snuggled closer to him and said,
"That's the strangest way I ever heard of for a fellow to propose
to a girl. Regardless of how you said it, I accept!"
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Bernie was so excited about his promotion to Vice President of
the company he worked for and kept bragging about it to his wife
for weeks on end.
Finally she couldn't take it any longer, and told him, "Listen,
it means nothing, they even have a vice president of prunes at
the grocery store!"
"Really?" he said. Not sure if this was true or not, Bernie boy
decided to call the grocery store.
A clerk answered and Bernie said, "May I speak with the Vice
President of prunes, please?"
The clerk replied, "Dried, canned or frozen?"
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of the year I have enough money in the account to pay for
Christmas presents without having to go into debt.
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While driving through Buffalo after a heavy snow storm, a
motorist noted a cop, apparently waist deep in snow, directing
traffic. Feeling sorry for him, the motorist called out "I'm
sorry you have to work half buried in the snow."
The cop called back "Don't feel sorry for me, feel sorry for
my horse!"
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A man had a terrible passion for baked beans, but they
always had a somewhat lively effect on him. After he
met the woman of his dreams, he made the supreme
sacrifice and gave them up; he couldn't imagine
subjecting his new wife to his beastly emissions. On
his birthday, his car broke down, so he called his wife
and told her he'd have to walk home. He walked past a
cafe and the wonderful aroma of baked beans overwhelmed
him. Since he was still a couple of miles from home, he
figured he could indulge, and then walk off any ill
effects. So he had three extra-large helpings of beans,
and he "put-putted" all the way home.
His wife met him at the door and seemed somewhat
excited. She exclaimed, "Darling, I have the most
wonderful surprise for you for dinner tonight!"
She blindfolded him, and led him to his chair at the
head of the table, making him promise not to peek. At
this point, he was beginning to feel another one coming
on. Just as she was about to remove the blindfold, the
telephone rang and she went to answer it.
While she was gone, he seized the opportunity. He
shifted his weight to one leg and let go. It was not
only loud, but ripe as a rotten egg. He gasped and felt
for his napkin and fanned the air about him. He had
just started to feel better, when another urge came on.
This one sounded like a diesel engine revving, and
smelled worse. He tried flapping his arms, to clear the
air. But another one snuck out, and the windows
rattled, the dishes on the table shook, and a minute
later, the flowers on the table were dead.
When he heard his wife ending her conversation, he
neatly laid his napkin on his lap and folded his hands
on top of it. He was the picture of innocence when she
walked in.
Apologizing for taking so long, she asked if he had
peeked at the dinner. He assured her he had not, so she
removed the blindfold and yelled, "Surprise!!!"
To his shock and horror, there were twelve dinner
guests seated around the table for his surprise
birthday party. Two were dead, ten were dyiing.
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A farmer was driving along the road with a load of fertilizer.
A little boy, playing in front of his house, saw him and called,
"What've you got in your truck?"
"Manure," the farmer replied.
"What are you going to do with it?" asked the little boy.
"Put it on strawberries," answered the farmer.
"You ought to live here," the little boy advised him. "We put
sugar and cream on ours."
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Today December 5 in
1560 Charles IX succeeded as King of France on the death of
Francis II.
1766 James Christie, founder of the famous auctioneers, held his
first sale in London.
1797 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Paris to command forces for
the invasion of England.
1812 Napoleon Bonaparte left his army as they were retreating
from Russia.
1848 U.S. President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by
confirming the fact that gold had been discovered in California.
1876 The Stillson wrench was patented by D.C. Stillson. The
device was the first practical pipe wrench.
1904 The Russian fleet was destroyed by the Japanese at Port
Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese War.
1908 At the University of Pittsburgh, numerals were first used on
football uniforms worn by college football players.
1913 Britain outlawed the sending of arms to Ireland.
1932 German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa making
it possible for him to enter the U.S. even though he was a Jew.
1933 Prohibition came to an end when Utah became the 36th state
to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1934 Fighting broke out between Italian and Ethiopian troops on
the Somalian border.
1934 The Soviet Union executed 66 people charged with plotting
against Joseph Stalin's government.
1935 In Montebello, CA, the first commercial hydroponics
operation was established.
1936 The Soviet Union adopted a new Constitution under a Supreme
Council.
1944 During World War II, Allied troops took Ravenna, Italy.
1945 The so-called "Lost Squadron" disappeared. The five U.S.
Navy Avenger bombers carrying 14 Navy flyers began a training
mission at the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station. They were never
heard from again.
1951 The first push button-controlled garage opened in
Washington, DC.
1955 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.
1956 British and French forces began a withdrawal from Egypt
during the Suez War.
1958 Britain's first freeway, the Preston by-pass, was opened by
Prime Minister Macmillan.
1961 United Nations forces launched an attack in Katanga, the
Congo, near Elizabethville.
1962 The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to cooperate in the
peaceful uses of outer space.
1971 The Soviet Union, at United Nations Security Council, vetoed
a resolution calling for a cease-fire in hostilities between
India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
1976 Jacques Chirac re-founded the Gaullist party as the RPR
(Rassemblement pour la République).
1977 Egypt broke diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria,
Iraq and South Yemen due to peaceful relations with Israel.
1978 The American space probe Pioneer Venus I, orbiting Venus,
began beaming back its first information and picture of the
planet.
1979 Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon
Church due to her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights
Amendment to the Constitution.
1983 In west Beirut, Lebanon, more than a dozen people were
killed when a car bomb shattered a nine-story apartment building.
1983 The video arcade game "NFL Football" was unveiled in
Chicago. It was the first video arcade game to be licensed by the
National Football League.
1984 Iran's official news agency quoted the hijackers of a
Kuwaiti jetliner parked at Tehran airport as saying they would
blow up the plane unless Kuwait released 14 imprisoned
extremists.
1985 The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 for the
first time.
1986 The Soviet Union said it would continue to abide by the SALT
II treaty limits on nuclear weapons. This was despite the
decision by the U.S. to exceed them.
1988 Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch were indicted by a
federal grand jury in North Carolina on fraud and conspiracy
charges.
1989 Israeli soldiers killed five heavily armed Arab guerrillas
who crossed the border from Egypt. The guerrillas were allegedly
going to launch a terrorist attack commemorating the anniversary
of the Palestinian uprising.
1989 East Germany's former leaders were placed under house
arrest.
1992 Russian President Boris Yeltsin kept the power to appoint
Cabinet ministers, defeating a constitutional amendment that
would have put his team of reformers under the control of
Russia's Congress.
1998 James P. Hoffa became the head of the Teamsters union, 23
years after his father was the head. His father disappeared and
was presumed dead.
2001 In Germany, Afghan leaders signed a pact to create a
temporary administration for post-Taliban Afghanistan. Two women
were included in the cabinet structure. Hamid Karzai and his
Cabinet were planned to take over power in Afghanistan on
December 22.
2008 The iTunes Music Store reached 300 million applications
downloaded.
2010 NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft became the longest-operating
spacecraft ever sent to Mars. The Odyssey entered orbit around
Mars on October 23, 2001.
2014 NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) debuted when
it was launched for a four hour test flight. It landed on target
in the Pacific Ocean.
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Not receiving newsletters Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 08:53 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, December 4
The Gavle Goat, the huge straw goat in Sweden, is up!
They have a web cam working intermittently at
http://visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken
It is working a bit once in a while, but they
definitely need some help.
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
Man says he's not required to register
vehicle due to personal beliefs. Jailed now
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Today, December 4 in
1993 The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally
adopted terms for a truce. The conflict was killing an estimated
1,000 people per day.
More of today in history at History
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute
powerlessness make you pure?
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>From Lise
My five children and I were playing hide-and-seek
one evening. With the lights turned off in the house,
the kids scattered to hide, and I was "it."
After a few minutes I located all of them. When it was
my turn to hide, they searched high and low but couldn't
find me.
Finally one of my sons got a bright idea. He went to
the phone and dialed; they found me immediately
because my phone started beeping.
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
At the banquet of their 25th wedding anniversary, Tom was
asked to give his friends a brief account of the benefits of
a marriage of such long duration.
"Tell us, Tom, just what is it you have learned from all
those wonderful years with your wife?"
Tom responds, "Well, I've learned that marriage is the best
teacher of all. It teaches you loyalty, forbearance, meekness,
self-restraint, forgiveness and a great many other qualities
you wouldn't have needed if you'd stayed single!"
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On the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary,
Billy-Bob decided to forego a big party and treat Linda-Sue
to a memorable evening at home.
Quietly filling the bathtub with champagne, he called her into
the bathroom and they spent a sensual evening soaking in the
tub by candlelight.
When they were finished, Billy-Bob decided he couldn't let
all that expensive champagne go to waste, so he carefully
poured it back into the empty bottles.
However, when he was finished, he found he had nearly a
half-bottle too much.
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Lake Michigan
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Steven Logan
Lincoln,
Nebraska
Man says he's not required to register
vehicle due to personal beliefs
Lincoln Police arrested a 35-year-old-man for failing to comply
with an officer during a traffic stop when he said he didn't have
to register his vehicle due to personal beliefs.
Officers pulled over Steven Logan near 42nd and Baldwin streets
on Nov. 29th, shortly after 9 p.m.
After parking his car, police say Logan starting walking away
from his vehicle.
The officer told him to stop but he refused and kept walking so
the officer grabbed Logan's arm. The officer then noticed Logan
had a firearm and detained him.
When asked for his identification, he told the officer that due
to his personal beliefs, he's not required to register his
vehicle.
He was arrested for failing to comply, no insurance and no valid
registration.
From: Kathy
Re: Not receiving newsletter
Dear Webby,
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A certain little girl, when asked her name, would reply, "I'm Mr.
Sugarbrown's daughter." Her mother told her this was wrong.
She must say, "I'm Jane Sugarbrown."
The vicar spoke to Jane in Sunday School, and said,
"Aren't you Mr. Sugarbrown's daughter?"
She replied, "I thought I was, but mother says I'm not."
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When you're hospitalized, it pays to be nice to your
nurse, even when you're feeling miserable. A bossy
businessman learned this the hard way after ordering
his nurses around as if they were his employees. But
the head nurse stood up to him. One morning she entered
his room and announced, "I have to take your
temperature."
After complaining for several minutes, he finally
settled down, crossed his arms and opened his mouth.
"No, I'm sorry," the nurse stated," but for this
reading, I can't use an oral thermometer."
This started another round of complaining, but eventually
he rolled over and bared his bottom. After feeling the nurse
insert the thermometer, he heard her announce, "I have
to get something. Now you stay just like that until I
get back!"
She left the door to his room open on her way out, and he
cursed under his breath as he heard people walking past
his door laughing. After almost an hour, the man's
doctor came into the room.
"What's going on here?" asked the doctor. Angrily, the
man answers, "What's the matter, Doc? Haven't you ever
seen someone having their temperature taken?"
"Yes," said the doctor. "But never with a carnation."
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Soon after I retired from the Air Force, I went to work in a
warehouse where several other military retirees were employed.
One day we received a large crate too big to fit in our storage
area. A retired Army sergeant major immediately took charge.
After 45 minutes of rearranging items and using various lifting
devices, he finally got the crate in place. "And that's how the
Army gets things done!" he boasted.
"That's the Army way," said an Air Force retiree. "The Air Force
would have made the delivery person put the crate away and
gone for coffee."
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>From Ann
Today Is Not a Good Day
Today is not a good day.
I woke up sick in bed.
My stomach has a stabbing pain
thats spreading to my head.
My knees are weak and achy.
My eyes are full of flu.
I fear I may contaminate;
I have a fever too.
I cannot see.
I cannot breathe.
I cannot read or write.
My eyes are shut.
My nose is blocked.
Im not a pretty sight.
I cannot lift a finger
or move a tired toe.
My throat is hot and scratchy.
The answers simply NO . . .
I cannot go to school today;
Im awfully sorry too,
this had to happen on the day
my book report was due.
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1812 Peter Gaillard patented the power mower.
1867 The National Grange of Husbandry was founded.
1875 William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany
Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled from the
U.S.
1918 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson set sail for France to attend
the Versailles Peace Conference. Wilson became the first chief
executive to travel to Europe while in office.
1942 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling
of the Works Progress Administration. The program had been
created in order to provide jobs during the Great Depression.
1942 U.S. bombers attacked the Italian mainland for the first
time during World War II.
1943 Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that
any club was free to employ black players.
1945 The U.S. Senate approved American participation in the
United Nations.
1965 The U.S. launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank
Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell on board.
1973 Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter.
1977 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Empire,
crowned himself emperor in a ceremony believed to have cost more
than $100 million. He was deposed 2 years later.
1978 Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first woman mayor
when she was named to replace George Moscone, who had been
murdered.
1979 For the second time, the United Nations Security Council
voted unanimously to urge Iran to free American hostages that had
been taken on November 4.
1980 The bodies of four American nuns slain in El Salvador two
days earlier were unearthed. Five national guardsmen were later
convicted of the murders.
1983 U.S. jet fighters struck Syrian anti-aircraft positions in
Lebanon in retaliation for attacks directed at American
reconnaissance planes. Navy Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr. was shot
down and captured by Syria.
1984 A five-day hijack drama began as four men seized a Kuwaiti
airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran.
Two American passengers were killed by the hijackers.
1986 Both U.S. houses of Congress moved to establish special
committees to conduct their own investigations of the Iran-Contra
affair.
1987 Cuban inmates at a federal prison in Atlanta freed their 89
hostages, peacefully ending an 11-day uprising.
1988 The government of Argentina announced that hundreds of
heavily armed soldiers had ended a four-day military revolt.
1990 Iraq promised to release 3,300 Soviet citizens it was
holding.
1991 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released
after nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon.
1991 Pan American World Airways ceased operations.
1992 U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered American troops to
lead a mercy mission to Somalia.
1993 The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally
adopted terms for a truce. The conflict was killing an estimated
1,000 people per day.
1994 Bosnian Serbs released 53 out of about 400 UN peacekeepers
they were holding as insurance against further NATO airstrikes.
1997 The National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended Latrell
Sprewell of the Golden State Warriors for one year for choking
and threatening to kill his coach, P.J. Carlesimo.
2000 O.J. Simpson was involved in an incident with another
motorist in Miami, FL. Simpson was accused of scratching the
other motorists face while pulling off the man's glasses.
2001 O.J. Simpson's home in Florida was raided by the FBI in an
ongoing two year international investigation into drug
trafficking, satellite service pilfering and money laundering. An
unused satellite TV tuner kit was taken from Simpson's home and
no drugs were found.
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Monday, December 3, 2018, 08:00 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, December 3
The Gavle Goat, the huge straw goat in Sweden, is up!
They are still disorganized with the live web cams, but
hopefully they can get them working soon.
Every year it is a competition to see if the good people can
protect the goat, or whether the punks can set it on fire.
Millions of people all over the world watch the web cams
hoping to see the punks in time to alert the cops and
fire department.
Once I find a working live web cam, I will post it again,
as usual.
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Today's Bonehead Award:
British man who was part of a paedophile ring has been
found guilty of plotting to rape a seven-month-old baby.
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Today, December 3 in
1910 The neon lamp was displayed for the first time at the Paris
Motor Show. The lamp was developed by French physicist Georges
Claude.
More of today in history at History
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for
subtlety.
--- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
The reason why worry kills more people than work
is that more people worry than work.
--- Robert Frost
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
--- Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
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Thanks to Martin for returning this classic:
A Zebra dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates. As he enters,
he asks St. Peter, 'I have a question that's haunted me all
of my days on earth. Am I white with black stripes, or am
I black with white stripes?'
St. Peter said, 'That's a question only God can answer.'
So the zebra went off in search of God.
When he found Him, the zebra asked, 'God, please - I must
know. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with
white stripes?'
God simply replied 'You are what you are.'
The zebra returned to see St. Peter once more, who asked
him, 'Well, did God straighten out your query for you?'
The zebra looked puzzled. 'No sir, God simply said 'You are
what you are.''
St. Peter smiled and said to the zebra, 'Well then, there
you are. You are white with black stripes.'
The zebra asked St. Peter, 'How do you know that for certain?'
'Because,' said St. Peter, 'If you were black with white stripes,
God would have said, 'You is what you is.''
(.. Caution... If you laugh at this, Al Sharpton & Jesse will be
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Thanks to Dolly for this:
My face in the mirror
Isn't wrinkled or drawn.
My house isn't dirty.
The cobwebs are gone.
My garden looks lovely,
And so does my lawn.
I think I might never.....
Put my glasses back on.
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At school Little Johnny was told by a classmate that most
adults are hiding at least one dark secret, and that this
makes it very easy to blackmail them by saying,
"I know the whole truth."
Little Johnny decides to go home and try it out. He goes
home, and as he is greeted by his mother he says,
"I know the whole truth." His mother quickly hands him $20
and says, "Just don't tell your father."
Quite pleased, the boy waits for his father to get home from
work, and greets him with, "I know the whole truth." The
father promptly hands him $40 and says, "Please don't say
a word to your mother."
Very pleased, the boy is on his way to school the next day
when he sees the mailman at his front door. The boy greets
him by saying, "I know the whole truth."
The mailman immediately drops the mail,
opens his arms, and says, "Then come give your father a
big hug."
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Mathew Law, 50
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Bristol,
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British man who was part of a paedophile ring has been found
guilty of plotting to rape a seven-month-old baby.
Mathew Law, 50, is the eighth person to be convicted as part of
an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA), following a
two week trial at Bristol Crown Court. He first came into contact
with the paedophile ring, who communicated using anonymous
software Tor and the dark web, through prominent member
Christopher Knight.
Knight, 38, was jailed for 24 years in 2015 after being convicted
of rape of a child under 13, conspiracy to rape a child under 13,
sexual assault of a child under 13 and possessing indecent images
of children. Law pleaded guilty to conspiring to rape a child
under the age of 13 and has been remanded into custody to be
sentenced at a later date. ‘Mathew Law is the eighth individual
to be jailed since this investigation began in 2014,’ Luke
Phillips from the NCA said.
From: Debbie
Re: Not sent mail returned
Dear Webby,
Here I am again...:o) I just got an email that said
"Your message has encountered delivery problems
to the following recipient(s):
claudio.oliveira@twaron.com.br
Delivery failed
User not known"
I know I can trust you. I don't know who this person is.
I didn't email anyone with that address. Attached are two
files AT00026.dat and AT00029.dat could these be some
kind of a virus or spy ware?
Thank you so much for saving my day so many times!
Debbie
Delete the attached files and then delete that email.
That Brasilian address is just a spoof, to make you curious
enough to click on those attachments.
That email was sent from an infected machine that has your
address in an Outlook Express address book, probably the
machine of a friend or relative of yours.
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Thanks to Cookie for this story:
A Minnesota Department of Highways employee stopped at a
farm and talked with an old farmer.
He told the farmer, "I need to inspect your farm for a possible
new road."
The old farmer said, "OK, but don't go in that field."
The Highways employee said, "Listen mister, I have the authority
of the State of Minnesota to go where I want.
See this card? I am allowed to go wherever I wish on farm
land."
So the old farmer went over, sat down and picked up his
newpaper.
Later, he heard loud screams and saw the Department of
Highways employee running for the fence and close behind
was the farmer's prize bull. The bull was madder than a nest
full of hornets and the bull was gaining on the Highways
employee at every step.
The old farmer called out, "Show him your card, smartass!"
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
Ruth took her car to her mechanic.
She told him 'Every time I
Take any of my friends out in my car,
After a while there is this terrible smell !! .
It never happens when I am driving alone'??
This intrigued the mechanic, so he said,
'OK, lets go for a spin
And see what the problem is.' Off they went.
She drove down a one-way street in the wrong direction
At 70 MPH, swerving,
Hitting the curb on both sides of the street,
Narrowly missed three pedestrians in
Pedestrian crossings,
Ran several red lights,
And just missed a
Policeman on street traffic duty.
Then, they returned to the shop, and she said,
'There it is now...
there's that terrible smell! Can you smell it?'
'Smell it?
Lady, I'm sittin' in it !
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Mother cat with several kittens are walking
in the park when a handsome Tom cat
walks by and says, "Hi, Honey."
Mother cat says, "Don't you 'Honey' me!
You said we were only fighting!"
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Worried that his son was spending too much money on dates,
a father asked the boy how much his last date had cost.
The son calculated a minute then replied, "Oh, about $15
or so I think."
"Well," said the Father, "I'm proud of you for finally coming
up with an inexpensive evening."
"To be honest Dad," the son went on, "we'd have spent more,
but that was all the money she had."
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"Vocabulary Building"
404 - Someone who's clueless. From the
World Wide Web error message "404 Not
Found," meaning that the requested document
could not be located. Used as in: "Don't
bother asking him ... he's 404 man."
ADMINISPHERE - The rarefied organizational
layers beginning just above the rank and file.
Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are
often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to
the problems they were designed to solve.
ALPHA GEEK: The most knowledgeable,
technically proficient person in an office or
work group.
ASSMOSIS - The process by which some
people seem to absorb success and
advancement by kissing up to the boss.
BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group
discussing why a deadline was missed or a
project failed and who was responsible.
DILBERTED - To be exploited and oppressed
by your boss. Derived from the experiences of
Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character.
"I've been dilberted again. The old man
revised the specs for the fourth time this week."
IDEA HAMSTERS: People who always seem
to have their idea generators running in reverse.
Today December 3 in
1792 The trial of France's King Louis XVI began. He was
eventually put to death for the 33 charges.
1833 Oberlin College in Ohio opened as the first truly
coeducational school of higher education in the United States.
1835 In Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance
Company issued the first fire insurance policy.
1910 The neon lamp was displayed for the first time at the Paris
Motor Show. The lamp was developed by French physicist Georges
Claude.
1917 The Quebec Bridge opened for traffic after almost 20 years
of planning and construction. The bridge suffered partial
collapses in 1907 (August 29) and 1916 (September 11).
1931 Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
1947 The Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire"
opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater.
1948 The "Pumpkin Papers" came to public light. The House Un-
American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy
Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents
hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
1967 In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr.
Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on
Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days after that.
1967 The famed luxury train, "20th Century Limited," completed
its final run from New York to Chicago.
1968 The rules committee of Major League Baseball (MLB) announced
that in 1969 the pitcher's mound would be lowered from 15 to 10
inches. This was done in order to "get more batting action."
1973 Pioneer 10 sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
The first outer-planetary probe had been launched from Cape
Canaveral, FL, on March 2, 1972.
1983 3-foot-high concrete barriers were installed at two White
House entrances.
1984 In Bhopal, India, more than 2,000 people were killed after a
cloud of poisonous gas escaped from a pesticide plant. The plant
was operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary.
1992 The UN Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-led
military mission to help starving Somalians.
1992 The Greek tanker "Aegean Sea" ran aground at La Coruna,
Spain and spilled 21.5 million gallons of crude oil.
1993 Britain's Princess Diana announced she would be limiting her
public appearances because she was tired of the media's
intrusions into her life.
1993 Angola's government and its rebel enemies agreed to a cease-
fire in their 18-year war.
1994 Rebel Serbs in Bosnia failed to keep a pledge to release
hundreds of UN peacekeepers.
1995 Former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan was arrested for
his role in a 1979 coup.
1997 In Ottawa, Canada, more than 120 countries were represented
to sign a treaty prohibiting the use and production of anti-
personnel land mines. The United States, China and Russia did not
sign the treaty.
1997 South Korea received $55 billion from the International
Monetary Fund to bailout its economy.
1999 Tori Murden became the first woman to row across the
Atlantic Ocean alone. It took her 81 days to reach the French
Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
1999 The World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded a four-day
meeting in Seattle, WA, without setting an agenda for a new round
of trade talks. The meeting was met with fierce protests by
various groups who had no clue what the meeting was aboout, but
they caused $2 Billion in damages.
1999 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander as it entered Mars'
atmosphere. The spacecraft was unmanned.
2010 The Boeing X-37 returned to Earth on successfully after its
first orbital mission. It launched on April 22, 2010.
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