Saturday, July 7, 2018, 09:19 AM
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Today is Saturday, July 7
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Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Fashist climbs to foot of Statue of Liberty
Bonehead
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Today, July 7 in
1930 Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam,
on the Colorado River.
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Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
--- Socratex
Nothing is really work
unless you would rather be doing something else.
--- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937
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A mother-in-law arrives home from the shops to find her son-in-law
Pete in a steaming rage and hurriedly packing his suitcase.
"What happened Paddy ?" she asks anxiously.
"What happened!! I'll tell you what happened. I sent an email to my
wife telling her I was coming home today from my fishing trip. I
get home... and guess what I found??
"Yes, your daughter, my wife Jean, naked with Tim McDurmt in our
marital bed! This is unforgivable, the end of our marriage. I'm
done. I'm leaving forever!"
"Come now, calm down, calm down Paddy!" says his mother-in-law.
"There is something very odd going on here. Jean would never do
such a thing! There must be a simple explanation. 'll go speak to
her immediately and find out what happened."
Moments later, the mother-in-law comes back with a big smile.
"There now Pete, you see? I told you there must be a simple
explanation!
"Well, WHAT is it?" Fumed Pete.
"She never got your E-mail!"
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Knowing that the minister was very fond of cherry brandy,
one of the church elders offered to present him with a bottle
on one consideration - that the pastor acknowledge receipt
of the gift in the church paper.
"Gladly," responded the good man.
When the church magazine came out a few days later, the elder
turned at once to the "appreciation" column. There he read:
"The minister extends his thanks to Elder Brown for his gift
of fruit and for the spirit in which it was given."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Therese Patricia Okoumou, 44,
Staten Island,
New York
Fashist climbs to foot of Statue of Liberty
Okoumou, a fanatic Fashist, climbed to the base of the
Statue of Liberty to protest the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency, which enforces decades-long federal immigration
law that predates President Trump's tenure.
She is a member of Rise and Resist, an anti-Trump group that claims
because they are kinda stupid but noisy, they overrule the elected
government, which held an Abolish ICE banner at the foot of the
Statue of Liberty before her climb.
The Hilarites demand open borders and to allow free and unchecked
access for MS13 and other welfare recipients. And as Fashists, they
claim they are right and the elected government is wrong.
Okoumou vowed to stay atop the Statue of Liberty until all the
illegal-alien children are released. In reality, Okoumou came down
two hours into her failed publicity stunt after being taken into
custody and jailed by the cops.
The morons don't realize that the kids of arrested criminals, no
matter whether the criminals had burglared into a bank or a
country, can not be released onto the street, but have to remain
with Child Services.
Unlike the Obama era cages, nowadays Child services places the kids
with foster homes or juvenile detention schools.
Liberty Island had to evacuate 4,500 tourists on Independence Day
thanks to Okoumou and her motley crew of fashist protesters.
Okoumou is now sitting in jail along with six of her "Rise and
Resist" crew, who ruined a holiday for innocent bystanders and
police alike.
Okoumou is facing charges of trespassing, disorderly conduct, and
interfering with government functions.
In August 2017, Okoumou was arrested and charged with misdemeanor
assault for injuring a cop while resisting arrest during a protest.
She has a history of filing unsuccessful race-discrimination
lawsuits.
In 2003, she filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit claiming racial
discrimination after being fired from a battered-women's shelter
called Safe Horizons. According to court records, Okoumou's boss
said she was fired because she was rude and unprofessional to
clients and colleagues. She lost the lawsuit.
In 2007, Okoumou unsuccessfully filed another race discrimination
complaint against a group home in Staten Island.
It's unclear who's paying Okoumou's bills while she participates
in weekly anti-Trump protests, or why she didn't launch similar
protests when Barack Obama jailed and mass-deported illegal aliens
during his eight years as president.
The only change is that under Trump the detention facilities and
procedures were drastically improved.
Tech Support Pits
From: CJW
Re: Temp File
dear webby.
question is there anyway to block this folder %temp%. type it run.
see the email below about the question posed to me.
thanks helmut!
cjw
MICROSOFT HAS A SECRET TEMP FOLDER THAT TAKES QUITE A
BIT OF SPACE. TO DELETE THIS FOLDER GO TO START, RUN, AND
TYPE IN %TEMP%. THEN OPEN, SELECT ALL AND DELETE. YOU
'LL GET A MESSAGE CANT THIS FILE, CLICK OK AND MOVE TO THE
NEXT ONES. MAKE SURE ALL OPEN WINDOWS ARE CLOSED.
WHEN I STARTED HAD 1700 ITEMS, FINISHED WITH THREE. DO THIS
EVERY SO OFTEN. MARY REAL SIMPLE!! LOL
CJW
Dear Chuck
What kind of Caps-Locker BS is that?
The temp folder is not secret, never has been secret,
and never will be secret.
It is at C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\Local Settings\Temp
There are more temp files in the same area.
So what?
You can use CrapCleaner to weed them out,
but your browser will be slower, when it has to download
stuff instead of re-using it.
Honestly, it's not a sinister conspiracy to catch "Agent CapsLock".
However, just because you are paranoid,
that does not mean they are not out to get you!
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My Parents had not been out together in quite some time.
One Saturday, as Mom was finishing the dinner dishes,
my father stepped up behind her.
"Would you like to go out, girl?" he asked.
Not even turning around, my mother quickly replied,
"Oh, yes, I'd love to!"
They had a wonderful evening, and it wasn't until the end
of it that Dad confessed. His question had actually been
directed to the family dog, lying near Mom's feet on the
kitchen floor.
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And old fellow was snoozing away contentedly when he was
startled awake by the doorbell. He staggered off the couch to
make his way to the door. There stood a gorgeous young woman.
"Oh my goodness," the pretty young thing exclaimed, "I'm at
the wrong house."
"Sweety, you're at the right house," the old guy
assured her. "But you're forty years too late."
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I was listening to a lady who called a radio pastor.
The pastor was a wise, grandfatherly gentleman who
has that calm reassuring voice that can melt all fear.
The lady, who was obviously crying, said, "Pastor, I
was born blind, and I've been blind all my life. I don't
mind being blind but I have some well meaning friends
who tell me that if I had more faith I could be healed."
The pastor asked her, "Tell me, do you carry one of
those white tipped canes?"
"Yes I do," she replied.
"Then the next time someone says that, hit them over
the head with the cane," He said. "Then tell them 'If
they had more faith that wouldn't hurt!'"
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Taxiing down the tarmac, the jetliner abruptly stopped, turned
around and returned to the gate. After an hour long wait, it
finally took off.
A concerned passenger asked the flight attendant, "What was the
problem?"
"The pilot was bothered by a noise he heard in the engine," she
explained.
"Oh, and it took a while to fix it," said the passenger.
"Not exactly." replied the stewardess, "It just took us a bit to
find a deaf pilot."
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Today, July 7 in
1754 Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia
College 30 years later.
1846 U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after
the surrender of a Mexican garrison.
1862 The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and
St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri.
1885 G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine.
1917 Aleksandr Kerensky formed a provisional government in Russia.
1920 A device known as the radio compass was used for the first
time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, VA.
1930 Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the
Colorado River.
1937 Japanese forces invaded China.
1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first
American saint.
1950 The U.N. Security Council authorized military aid for South
Korea.
1969 Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure
that made the French language equal to English throughout the
national government.
1981 U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona
Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the
U.S. Supreme Court.
1983 Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for
a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet
leader Yuri V. Andropov.
1987 Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began.
1994 Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in Seattle, Washington under the
name "Cadabra."
1998 A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev of
murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside
robbery.
1999 In Sierra Leone, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and rebel leader
Foday Sankoh signed a pact to end the nation's civil war.
2000 Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it would buy Netiverse Inc.
for $210 million in stock. It was the 13th time Cisco had purchased
a company in 2000.
2000 Amazon.com announced that they had sold almost 400,000 copies
of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire," making it the biggest
selling book in e-tailing history.
2003 In Liberia, a team of U.S. military experts arrived at the
U.S. embassy compound to assess whether to deploy troops as part of
a peacekeeping force in the country.
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Friday, July 6, 2018, 08:41 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, July 6
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
When his waitress told him he was too drunk
for another drink, he got violent.
Bonehead
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Today, July 6 in
1923 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race
would very soon lose the use of speech.
--- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
People with courage and character always
seem sinister to the rest.
--- Hermann Hesse
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You Know You're Living in 2018 When...
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is
that they don't answer their e-mail.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see
if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of
the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have
the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for
panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your
coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward
this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9
on this list.
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Classic!
Just as John got in the door, after staying at the bar a bit
too long, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and
cuckooed 3 times. He realized his wife would probably wake
up, so he cuckooed another 9 times. He was really proud of
himself, having a quick witty solution, even when smashed, to
escape a possible conflict.
Next morning the wife asked him what time he got in and he
told her 12 o'clock. She didn't seem disturbed at all. Whew!
Got away with that one!
She then told him that they needed a new cuckoo clock. When
he asked her why, she said "Well, it cuckooed 3 times, said
'Oh, f@#%,' cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat,
cuckooed another 3 times, snickered, and finally cuckooed
twice more, and then it farted."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
William Banks,
49,
Spartanburg,
South Carolina
When his waitress told him he was too drunk
for another drink, he got violent.
A Wild Wing Cafe waitress made the call to stop serving drinks to a
customer who was too intoxicated, and when the man was cut off, it
was the start to a violent, drunken outburst, police say.
William Banks was outraged when he was denied another alcoholic
beverage shortly after midnight June 22 at the popular chicken wing
restaurant, according to the Spartanburg Police Department.
In less than an hour after being refused service, the South
Carolina man threatened to shoot multiple members of the Wild Wing
Cafe staff, assaulted his waitress, then told the officer arresting
him he would get him fired, police reported.
The waitress said she cut Banks off from alcohol after observing
how drunk he was, causing him to become "irate and (he) started
cussing her out when she refused him anymore alcohol," according to
the police report.
Police said Banks then tried to order a drink from the manager, who
also refused him service because of his intoxicated state. Banks
responded by swearing at the manager and "threatened to shoot her,"
police say.
Banks then returned his focus to his waitress, directing
vulgarities at her and "threatening to shoot her, as well," police
reported.
As the waitress tried to walk away, Banks struck her in the head,
according to the incident report, which said a bartender witnessed
the assault.
At this point, the son of a staff member removed Banks from the
restaurant by "physically carrying him outside," police said.
The responding police officer found Banks walking down the street
and detained the 49-year-old man, according to an incident report.
A person who was with Banks at the restaurant during the incident
told police "Banks was extremely intoxicated ... and knew Banks was
wrong," the report said.
After the waitress identified Banks, he was arrested. As Banks was
being taken to the Spartanburg County Detention Center, he
threatened the officer's job, saying "he knew who worked at the
Spartanburg Police Department," according to the incident report.
Banks, of Spartanburg, was charged with third-degree assault and
battery, and trespassing after notice, according to jail records,
which showed he was released the same day without bond.
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From: Frieda
Re: Firefox poblem
Dear Webby,
What's up with Firefox. All of a sudden when I try tiopen some
mail I get a pop up saying
couldn't load XPCOM. If Firefox decided to dump XP computers they
gave me no warning.
I went to Firefox sometime ago because Google kept saying a lot
of my contacts did not have a secure site. Everything was fine
until a couple days ago.
How are you getting along? Sure has been an odd summer down here
in States, weatherwise.
Any thoughts on my problem will be appreciated.
Frieda
Dear Frieda
Your FireFox is trashed.
This method has worked for most of the users and it is very easy to
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By the way, if you use Chrome or Gmail, the message of sites not
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that don't need security, like for example the Humor Letter, don't
have the same security as the bank. So what? You are not entering
your bank info or your bra size in the Humor Letter.
Don't worry about that.
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Thanks to Kati for this picture:
Finally found a way to stabilize my weight!
I can't believe I was doing it wrong all these years.
We must get the word out.
Kati
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Mrs. Culpepper was almost in tears.
"Oh Marie," she said to her maid,
"I have reason to suspect that my husband is having an affair
with his secretary."
"I don't believe it for one minute." Marie snapped.
"You're just saying that to make me jealous."
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Thanks to Phil for this story:
My two-year-old daughter, Paige, was with her mother while
her older sister was being examined by a dentist. Paige
kept herself busy playing with toys in the waiting room until
she noticed that her mom was resting, her eyes closed.
With about six other patients waiting, Paige marched up to
her mother, looked her straight in the face and shook her
shoulder.
"Mommy," she yelled, "wake up! This is not church!"
My wife, Lani, woke from her doze to the sound of the other
patients laughing hysterically.
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Today, July 6 in
1483 King Richard III of England was crowned.
1699 Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA,
and deported back to England.
1777 British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American
Revolution.
1858 Lyman Blake patented the shoe manufacturing machine.
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tested his anti-rabies vaccine. The
child used in the test later became the director of the Pasteur
Institute.
1905 Fingerprints were exchanged for the first time between
officials in Europe and the U.S. The person in question was John
Walker.
1917 During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured
the port of Aqaba from the Turks.
1919 A British dirigible landed in New York at Roosevelt Field. It
completed the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1923 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established.
1928 "The Lights of New York" was previewed in New York's Strand
Theatre. It was the first all-talking movie.
1942 Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis
in Amsterdam.
1945 Nicaragua became the first nation to formally accept the
United Nations Charter.
1947 "Candid Microphone" began airing on ABC radio.
1966 Malawi became a republic within the Commonwealth with Dr.
Hastings Banda as its first president.
1967 The Biafran War erupted. The war lasted two-and-a-half years.
About 600,000 people died.
1981 Former President of Argentina Isabel Peron was freed after
five years of house arrest by a federal court.
1981 The Dupont Company announced an agreement to purchase Conoco,
Inc. (Continental Oil Co.) for $7 billion. At the time it was the
largest merger in corporate history.
1985 The submarine Nautilus arrived in Groton, Connecticut. The
vessel had been towed from Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
1988 Several popular beaches were closed in New York City due to
medical waste and other debris began washing up on the seashores.
1989 The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an
ammunition plant in Karnack, TX. The dismantling was under the
terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
1997 The Mars Pathfinder released Sojourner, a robot rover on the
surface of Mars. The spacecraft landed on the red planet on July
4th.
1997 In Cambodia, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen ousted First Prime
Minister Norodom Ranariddh and claimed to have the capital under
his control.
1998 Protestants rioted in many parts of Northern Ireland after
British authorities blocked an Orange Order march in Portadown.
2000 A jury awarded former NHL player Tony Twist $24 million for
the unauthorized use of his name in the comic book Spawn and the
HBO cartoon series. Co-defendant HBO settled with Twist out of
court for an undisclosed amount.
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Thursday, July 5, 2018, 09:17 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, July 5
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
SC crook out of jail for 30 minutes
then stole a police car
Bonehead
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Today, July 5 in
1951 Dr. William Shockley announced that he had invented the junction transistor.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--- E E Cummings (1894 - 1962)
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Tom had proposed to young Maureen and was being
interviewed by his prospective father-in-law.
"Do you think you are earning enough to
support a family?" the older man asked the suitor.
"Yes, sir", replied Tom, "I'm sure I am."
"Think carefully now," said Maureen's father warningly.
"There are twelve of us."
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Interview with Yogi Berra
Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?
Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation.
The other half is the part people play while others are playing
something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if
you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it
might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too
right, it's wrong.
Interviewer: I don't understand.
Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand
it. It's too complicated. That's whats so simple about it.
Interviewer: Do you understand it?
Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I
wouldnt know anything about it.
Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today?
Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except
for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead,
that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones
that are dead. Some would kill for it.
Interviewer: What is syncopation?
Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either
before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when
they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other
types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as
something different from those other kinds.
Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.
Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Davon Deangelo Fuller
23,
Holly Hill,
South Carolina
SC crook out of jail for 30 minutes
then stole a police car
A South Carolina man was back behind bars less than 24 hours after
being released from a Lowcountry jail.
Davon Deangelo Fuller did not waste any time getting back into
trouble with law enforcement.
The 23-year-old Holly Hill man was released from the Hill-Finklea
Detention Center at 9:30 p.m. Monday, abcnews4.com reported.
By 9:55 p.m. Fuller had not left the parking lot, but Moncks Corner
Police said he already committed a crime, according to
live5news.com.
Fuller stole a car a Berkeley County Sheriff's Office deputy's
car from the detention center parking lot, live5news.com
reported.
Police said Fuller was caught on surveillance footage hanging
around outside the jail after his release. The video showed him
attempting to open several cars, according to abcnews4.com, which
said he wasn't successful until he got to the patrol car of
Berkeley County Sheriff's deputy Javon Dingle.
The car was unlocked, and a spare set of keys was not the only
thing inside, live5news.com reported. Police said that Dingle's
service pistol was also in the vehicle when Fuller stole the car.
After viewing the surveillance footage, it didn't take law
enforcement long to locate Fuller, who was arrested Tuesday, "in
possession of the car and the gun," in St. Stephen, where police
reported he told officers "he stole the vehicle because he needed a
ride," according to abcnews4.com.
Fuller was charged with grand larceny (value more than $2,000 but
less than $10,000), according to jail records.
Fuller, who had been in jail for unlawful carrying of a pistol, was
behind bars again, this time in the Berkeley County Detention
Center, according to the sheriff's office. He has not had a bond
hearing for the most recent charge.
Tech Support Pits
From: Joyce
Re: Choice of picture viewer
Dear Webby
Whenever someone sends me a picture attachment, the
Windows picture viewer pops up with the attachment. How
can I change it so that my Picasa shows the picture instead
of the Windows picture viewer? Is it even possible to change
it to something other than that?
Thanks and have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Joyce
Dear Joyce
Go to MyComputer
Tools
Folder Options
DON'T do what Microsoft says at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859
they are a bit confused about it. Instead click on
File Types
After a while, it will fill it's window with all the file types and
shows what programs are associated with them.
Find JPG, and change it's file association to Picasa
then do the same for GIF and PNG
When done, hit OK until you are out of all that.
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Q: How many women with PMS does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One. ONE!! And do you know WHY it only takes ONE? Because no one
else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb. They don't
even know the bulb is BURNED OUT. They would sit in this house in
the dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it OUT. And once they
figured it out they wouldn't be able to find the light bulbs
despite the fact that they've been in the SAME CUPBOARD for the
past SEVENTEEN YEARS. But if they did, by some miracle, actually
find the light bulbs, TWO DAYS LATER the chair that they dragged
from two rooms over to stand on to change the STUPID light bulb
would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!! AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE
CRUMPLED WRAPPER THE STUPID @*!#$% LIGHT BULBS CAME IN! WHY?!
BECAUSE NO ONE IN THIS HOUSE EVER CARRIES OUT THE GARBAGE!! IT'S A
WONDER WE HAVEN'T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE PILES OF GARBAGE THAT ARE
12 FEET DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE. THE HOUSE!! IT WOULD TAKE
AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS . . .
I'm sorry. . .what did you ask me?
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A young and arrogant pilot wanted to "show off" on the
aviation frequencies as he was approaching an airfield
during the night. So, he disregarded policy and, instead
of making an official request to the tower, he said,
"Guess who?"
The air traffic controller switched the field lights off
and replied, "Guess where?"
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A circus owner walked into a bar to see everyone crowded about
a table watching a little show. On the table was an upside-down
pot and a duck tap dancing on it. The circus owner was so
impressed that he offered to buy the duck from its owner.
After some wheeling and dealing they settled for $10,000 for
the duck and the pot.
Three days later the circus owner runs back to the bar in
anger, "Your duck is a rip-off! I put him on the pot before a
whole audience and he didn't dance a single step!"
"So?" asked the ducks former owner, "did you remember to light
the candle under the pot?"
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Fred had been a faithful Christian and was in the hospital with
heart trou8ble. The family called their pastor to stand with them.
As the pastor stood next to the bed, Fred's condition appeared to
deteriorate and he motioned frantically for something to write
on. The pastor lovingly handed him a pen and a piece of paper,
and Fred used his last bit of energy to scribble a note, then he
died. The pastor thought it best not to look at the note at that
time, so he placed it in his jacket pocket.
Several days later, at the funeral, as the pastor was finishing
the eulogy, he realized that he was wearing the same jacket that
he was wearing when Fred had died. He said, "you know, ol' Fred
handed me a note just before he died. I haven't looked at it,
but knowing Fred, I'm sure there's a word of inspiration there
for us all. Let's have his son read it to us!"
His son opened the note, and read aloud,
"You're standing on my oxygen tube, you useless windbag!"
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Today, July 5 in
1806 A Spanish army repelled the British during their attempt to
retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1811 Venezuela became the first South American country to declare
independence from Spain.
1814 U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeated a superior British
force at Chippewa, Canada.
1830 France occupied the North African city of Algiers.
1832 The German government began curtailing freedom of the press
after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule.
1839 British naval forces bombarded Dingai on Zhoushan Island in
China and then occupied it.
1863 U.S. Federal troops occupied Vicksburg, MS, and distributed
supplies to the citizens.
1865 William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London.
1865 The U.S. Secret Service Division was created to combat
currency counterfeiting, forging and the altering of currency and
securities.
1892 Andrew Beard was issued a patent for the rotary engine.
1916 Adelina and August Van Buren started on the first successful
transcontinental motorcycle tour to be attempted by two women. They
started in New York City and arrived in San Diego, CA, on September
12, 1916.
1935 U.S. President Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations
Act into law. The act authorized labor to organize for the purpose
of collective bargaining.
1940 During World War II, Britain and the Vichy government in
France broke diplomatic relations.
1941 German troops reached the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.
1943 The battle of Kursk began as German tanks attack the Soviet
salient. It was the largest tank battle in history.
1946 The bikini bathing suit, popularized by Louis Reard, made its
debut during a fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. Micheline
Bernardini wore the two-piece outfit.
1948 Britain's National Health Service Act went into effect,
providing government-financed medical and dental care.
1950 U.S. forces engaged the North Koreans for the first time at
Osan, South Korea.
1951 Dr. William Shockley announced that he had invented the
junction transistor.
1962 Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1975 Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon
singles title when he defeated Jimmy Connors.
1984 The U.S. Supreme Court weakened the 70-year-old "exclusionary
rule," deciding that evidence seized with defective court warrants
could be used against defendants in criminal trials.
1991 Regulators shut down the Pakistani-managed Bank of Credit and
Commerce International (BCCI) in eight countries. The charge was
fraud, drug money laundering and illegal infiltration into the U.S.
banking system.
1995 The U.S. Justice Department decided not to take antitrust
action against Ticketmaster.
1998 Japan joined U.S. and Russia in space exploration with the
launching of the Planet-B probe to Mars.
2000 Jordanian security agents shot and killed a Syrian hijacker
after he threw a grenade that exploded and wounded 15 passengers
aboard a Royal Jordanian airliner.
2000 10 Bengal tigers, including 7 rare white tigers, died at the
Nandankanan Zoo in India. The tigers died of trypanosomiasis
(sleeping sickness).
2000 Euan Blair, the oldest son of British prime minister Tony
Blair, was arrested after police found him drunk and lying on the
ground in London's Leicester Square.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 08:28 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, July 4
Happy Independence Day for the US!
Happy Independence Day for the Philippines!
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Florida woman tries to abduct kids from park,
punches pregnant woman
Bonehead
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Today, July 4 in
1776 The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas
Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President
of the Continental Congress in America.
1946 The Philippines achieved full independence
for the first time in over four hundred years.
More of today in history at HIstory
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
--- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
In mathematics you don't understand things.
You just get used to them.
--- Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
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A child was watching his mother sift through and delete a long list
of junk E-mail on the computer screen. "This reminds me of the
Lord's Prayer," the child said. "What do you mean?" "You know. That
part about 'deliver us from E-mail.' "
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>From Mickey
My boyfriend and I met online and we'd been dating for over a year.
I introduced Hans to my uncle, who was fascinated by the fact that
we me over the Internet. He asked Hans what kind of line he had
used to pick me up. Ever the geek, Hans naively replied," I just
used a regular 20 Mbps DSL modem."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Sarah Freeman,
34,
Port Orange
Florida
Florida woman tries to abduct kids from park,
punches pregnant woman
A 34-year-old Port Orange woman on Monday afternoon tried to abduct
two children from a park in the Wilbur-By-The-Sea neighborhood
before punching a pregnant woman, the Volusia County Sheriff's
Office said.
Deputies said they were called shortly before 1:30 p.m. to Toronita
Avenue Beach Park at Toronita and South Atlantic avenues after two
parents reported they had to pull their children away from Sarah
Freeman, Sheriff's Office spokesman Andrew Gant said.
Investigators said Freeman approached a 7-year-old girl, told her,
"This isn’t a Florida trip you’re going to want to remember," and
tried to grab her by the towel she was wearing.
The girl's mother, who is six months pregnant, pulled her daughter
away from Freeman, who hit the woman during the struggle, deputies
said.
Investigators said Freeman approached a man whose backside she
struck with a stick before saying, "We don’t know you around here."
"She told his 5-year-old son, 'It will be all right. He's not your
dad,' grabbed him by the arm and started to walk away," Gant said.
"The father intervened, got his son back and took him back to his
truck, where Freeman tried to force her way in through a passenger
window."
Deputies said Freeman turned to another woman and said, "I'll just
take your kid, then."
The woman took her child into their vehicle and locked the doors,
investigators said.
"Once in custody, she mumbled and made unintelligible statements to
a deputy, who noticed she appeared to be under the influence of
some unknown substance," Gant said.
Freeman was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on two
counts of attempted kidnapping and one count each of aggravated
battery on a pregnant victim, burglary of a conveyance and battery.
She is being held without bail.
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From: Britta
Re: More on Soft focus for picture
Dear Webby
Did somebody rudely interrupt you as you were explaining
how to make a sharp spot in a soft focus picture?
What is the next step?
Britta
Dear Britta
If somebody did, I would never tell on her '-)
Select the relevant part with the lassoo or any selecting tool,
Th0en the next step is to play and experiment.
Do you want the irrelevant parts of that machine, or whatever
you are describing, to be shaded, as if only the relevant
part was in the sun ? Then reduce brightness.
Do you want a light mist over the irrelevant parts?
Then increase brightness and reduce contrast.
Just play and experiment until yuo have the results that you
want. Then stick with that setting.
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A lady lost her handbag at the mall. found it
and returned it to her.
Looking in her purse, she said, "Hmm, that's funny. When I
lost my bag, there was a $20 bill in it. Now there are twenty
$1 bills."
replied, "That IS funny. The last time I found
a lady's purse, she didn't have any change for a reward."
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A voice on the bank loudspeaker announced: "We will be
testing the speaker system to make sure it will work pro-
perly in case of emergency."
My confidence in this safety precaution faded when the
voice added: "If you are unable to hear this announcement,
please contact the main office."
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>Thanks to Sarah for this one:
(She's not worried that her mother will read his submission.
She's not on the net, because she is afraid she might miss
a call from her)
Phone rings.
JEWISH MOTHER picks up the phone and answers)
Jewish Mother
Hello?
Daughter
Hi Mom. Can I leave the kids with you tonight?
Jewish Mother
You're going out?
Daughter
Yes.
Jewish Mother
With whom?
Daughter
With a friend.
Jewish Mother
I don't know why you left your husband. He is such a
good man.
Daughter
I didn't leave him. He left me!
Jewish Mother
You let him leave you, and now you go out with
anybodies and nobodies.
Daughter
I do not go out with anybody. Can I bring over the kids?
Jewish 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.
Jewish Mother
What are you hinting at?
Daughter
Nothing. I just want to know if I can bring the kids over
tonight.
Jewish Mother
You're going to stay the night with him? What will your
husband say if he finds out?
Daughter
My EX husband. I don't think he would be bothered.
From the day he left me, he probably never slept alone!
Jewish Mother
So you're going to sleep over at this loser's place?
Daughter
He's not a loser.
Jewish Mother
A man who goes out with a divorced woman with
children is a loser and a parasite.
Daughter
I don't want to argue. Should I bring over the kids or not?
Jewish Mother
Poor children with such a mother.
Daughter
Such a what?
Jewish Mother
With no stability. No wonder your husband left you.
Daughter
ENOUGH !!!
Jewish Mother
Don't scream at me. You probably scream at this loser too!
Daughter
Now you're worried about the loser?
Jewish Mother
Ah, so you see he's a loser. I spotted him immediately.
Daughter
Goodbye, mother.
Jewish Mother
Wait! Don't hang up! When are you bringing them over?
Daughter
I'm not bringing them over! I'm not going out!
Jewish Mother
If you never go out, how do you expect to meet anyone?
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A man went to the doctor complaining of insomnia. The
doctor gave him a thorough examination, found
absolutely nothing physically wrong with him,
and then told him,
"Listen, if you ever expect to cure your insomnia,
you just have to stop taking your troubles to bed with you."
"I know," said the man, "but I can't. She will divorce me
if I don't.
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Today, July 4 in
1776 The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas
Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President
of the Continental Congress in America.
1802 The U.S. Military Academy officially opened at West Point, NY.
1803 The Louisiana Purchase was announced in newspapers. The
property was purchased, by the U.S. from France, was for $15
million (or 3 cents an acre). The "Corps of Discovery," led by
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, began the exploration of the
territory on May 14, 1804.
1817 Construction began on the Erie Canal, to connect Lake Erie and
the Hudson River.
1845 American writer Henry David Thoreau began his two-year
experiment in simple living at Walden Pond, near Concord, MA.
1848 In Washington, DC, the cornerstone for the Washington Monument
was laid.
1863 The Confederate town of Vicksburg, MS, surrendered to General
Ulysses S. Grant.
1884 Bullfighting was introduced in the U.S. in Dodge City, KS.
1886 The first rodeo in America was held at Prescott, AZ.
1892 The first double-decked street car service was inaugurated in
San Diego, CA.
1894 After seizing power, Judge Stanford B. Dole declared Hawaii a
republic.
1901 William H. Taft became the American governor of the
Philippines.
1910 Race riots broke out all over the United States after African-
American Jack Johnson knocked out Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight
boxing match.
1934 Boxer Joe Louis won his first professional fight.
1934 At Mount Rushmore, George Washington's face was dedicated.
1946 The Philippines achieved full independence for the first time
in over four hundred years.
1955 The first king cobra snakes born in captivity in the U.S.
hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
1957 The U.S. Postal Service issued the 4¢ Flag stamp.
1959 The 49-star U.S. flag became official.
1960 The 50-star U.S. flag made its debut in Philadelphia, PA.
1966 U.S. President Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act,
which went into effect the following year.
1976 The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.
1982 The Soviets performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhl
Semipalitinsk.
1987 Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the "Butcher
of Lyon," was convicted by a French court of crimes against
humanity and sentenced to life in prison.
1997 The Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft, landed on Mars. A
rover named Sojourner was deployed to gather data about the
surface
of the planet.
1997 Ferry service between Manhattan and Staten Island was made
free of charge. Previously, the charge had ranged from 5 cents to
50 cents.
2004 In New York, the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower (One World
Trade Center) was laid on the former World Trade Center site.
2005 NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft took pictures as a space probe
smashed into the Tempel 1 comet. The mission was aimed at learning
more about comets that formed from the leftover buidling blocks of
the solar system. The Deep Impact mission launched on January 12,
2005.
2009 North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles into waters off
its east coast that defied U.N. resolutions.
2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopened to visitors. It had
been closed to the public since 2001.
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 07:45 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, July 3
The people in the US, who are still loyal subjects to the
Imperial British measurement system, and have not yet
gotten permission from the Queen to upgrade to metric,
will have to wait another day for their Independence
day.
So it's my day to razz you about your quaint
BTU (British Thermal Unit), Fahrenheit, Feet, Cubits,
Yards, Furlongs, heaped and struck bushels, and all the
neat stuff we read about in the old fairy tales and history
books.
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Florida woman sentenced for hiding
handcuff key in chicken sandwich
Bonehead
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Today, July 3 in
1939 Chic Young’s comic strip character, "Blondie" was first heard
on CBS radio.
More of today in history at HIstory
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world,
except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
--- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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After she woke up, a woman told her husband, "I just dreamed that
you gave me a pearl necklace for our anniversary. What do you
think it means?"
"You'll know tonight." he said.
That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to
his wife.
Delighted, she opened it to find a book entitled "The Meaning of
Dreams."
The husband had to visit the hospital after that.
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KNOW YOUR STATE MOTTO..
Alabama
Hell Yeah, We Have Electricity.
Alaska
11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!
Arizona
Yeah, But It's A Dry Heat.
Arkansas
Lituracy Ain't Everythang.
California
By 30, Our Women Have More
Plastic Than Your Honda.
Colorado
If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother.
Connecticut
Like Massachusetts , only smaller
Delaware
We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water.
Florida
Ask Us About Our Grandkids
And Our Voting Skills.
Georgia
We Put The Fun In Fundamentalist Extremism.
Hawaii
Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru
(Death To Mainland Scum, Leave Your Money)
Idaho
More Than Just Potatoes...
Well, Okay, We're Not, But The
Potatoes Sure Are Real Good
Illinois
Please, Don't Pronounce the "S"
Indiana
2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free
Iowa
We Do Amazing Things With Corn
Kansas
First Of The Rectangle States
Kentucky
Five Million People;
Fifteen Last Names
Louisiana
We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos,
But That's Our Tourism Campaign.
Maine
We're Really Cold, But We
Have Cheap Lobster
Maryland
If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It
Massachusetts
Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden 's And Our
Senators Are More Corrupt!
Michigan
First Line Of Defense Against The Canadians
Minnesota
10,000 Lakes... And 10 Zillion Mosquitoes
Mississippi
Come visit And Feel Better About Your Own State
Missouri
Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work
Montana
Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-wing
Crazies, and Honest Elections!
Nebraska
Ask About Our State Motto Contest
Nevada
Hookers and Poker!
New Hampshire
Go Away And Leave Us Alone
New Jersey
You Want A ##$%##! Motto?
I Got Your ##$%##! Motto Right here!
New Mexico
Lizards Make Excellent Pets
New York
You Have The Right To Remain Silent,
You Have The Right To An Attorney...
And No Right To Self Defense!
North Carolina
Tobacco Is A Vegetable
North Dakota
We Really Are One Of The 50 States!
Ohio
At Least We're Not Michigan
Oklahoma
Like The Play, But No Singing
Oregon
Spotted Owl.. It's What's For Dinner
Pennsylvania
Cook With Coal
Rhode Island
We're Not REALLY An Island
South Carolina
Remember The Civil War?
Well, We Didn't Actually Surrender Yet
South Dakota
Closer Than North Dakota
Tennessee
Home of the Al Gore Invention Museum
Texas
Se Hable Ingles
Utah
Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus
Vermont
Too liberal for the Kennedy's
Virginia
Who Says Government Stiffs And
Slackjawed Yokels Don't Mix?
Washington
Our Governor can out-fraud your Governor!
West Virginia
One Big Happy Family...Really!
Wisconsin
Come Cut the Cheese!
Wyoming
Where Men Are Men... And The Sheep Are Scared
Home of Brokeback Mtn.
The District of Columbia
The Work-Free Drug Place !
BC
Like California but more rain
ALBERTA
Where your natural gas comes from
SASKATCHEWAN
We got grain elevators taller than our mountains
MANITOBA
Hundreds of lakes and gazillions of mosquitos
ONTARIO
Center of the universe
QUEBEC
Everybody assumes you are an asshole,
but racism is socially bacceptable
NEW BRUNSWICK
You are sandwiched between French assholes
and drunken Celtic fiddlers
NOVA SCOTIA
Everyone is a fiddle player
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
You can drive across the the province in two minutes
NEWFOUNDLAND
Reason for the Newfie jokes
YUKON TERRITORY
Gold, fish and beer. And Midnight Sun.
NORTHWEST TERRITORY
Big ass diamond mine and a Million lakes
NUNAVUT
No scenery but lots of photogenic Polar bears
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Trisha Denlinger, 48,
Baldwin,
Florida
Florida woman sentenced for hiding
handcuff key in chicken sandwich
The Baldwin woman accused of concealing a plastic handcuff key in a
chicken sandwich at Florida State Prison has now been sentenced to
30 months in prison.
WOKV told you back in April that 48-year-old Trisha Denlinger had
been arrested. She has now pleaded “nolo contendere” in Bradford
County to unlawful possession of a handcuff key and conveying tools
to aid escape and been sentenced to 30 months, with credit for 60
days time served.
Denlinger arranged to visit her husband at Florida State Prison,
where he was an inmate, according to her arrest affidavit. Records
say she purchased a sealed chicken sandwich, unsealed it, heated it
in a microwave, and then gave it to a Correctional Officer to
search. Investigators say the Officer found a plastic handcuff key
in that sandwich.
The arrest affidavit says Denlinger went through three prison
fences, four gates, and a metal detector. Her person items had gone
through an X-ray scanner, per the Florida Department of
Corrections.
Tech Support Pits
From Susan
RE: Auto responders
Dear Webby
Hi there, your daily letter is not only funny but invariably
useful tech-wise! As always, many thanks (and a
question, of course)!
Is there an auto-responder software that you recommend?
I only want it for the two months this summer when we will
be out of the country and away from e-mail (yay).
Thanks, Susan
Dear Susan
Autoresponders are a nuisance and will get you blocked.
Since your friends seem to be more or less literate, send them an
email telling them that you will be off-line till fall.
Send the email to yourself, and put the entire address book into
the BCC.
Half of them will forget in two minutes and mail you anyway, but
will rememeber when there is no speedy reply.
Have FUN
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Out canvassing for a charity, my friend Irene and I knocked
at a door. It was opened by a huge bear of a man, who was
wearing a large black bra, over his shirt.
Irene, being a devout Catholic, crossed herself, backed up
ready to make a fast retreat. I asked politely for a donation,
trying to keep my eyes from wandering to his protruding
undergarment.
He grinned evilly at me, "Wanna feel em?"
Horrified, I turned to leave, when one side of his bra came
alive with motion. Irene was now crossing herself with a
flurry, muttering, "Jaysus, Mary and Murphy."
She was begging the saints to protect her, when a tiny
tail flipped out of his bra.
"Oh my sweet Lord," she squealed, "He's got rats in his
boobs," bolted for the car, offering up 'Hail Mary's.' as
she tore off the porch.
An old lady came out of the house, glared at the man, who
just grinned back. He put his hands up to cradle both cups,
which were now writhing with movement.
She turned to me asking, "Did he ask you to play with them?"
"Yes", I gulped.
"Well," she said, patting my hand, " He's not too bright,
but it's not what you think."
She ordered him to pull his bra out so I could peek inside.
Hesitantly I watched, while he pulled the garment down.
When I got a good look I burst out laughing.
Tiny muzzles with whiskers, long sinuous bodies, small
heads with bright beady eyes, stared back at me.
"Their mama died," he explained, " This bra is the perfect
place to keep them warm."
Both cups were filled to the brim with tiny baby ferrets.
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Ed was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary. His
wife was really angry. She told him "Tomorrow morning,
I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 250
in less then 6 seconds AND IT BETTER BE THERE!"
The next morning Ed got up early and left for work.
When his wife woke up she looked out the window and sure
enough there was a gift-wrapped box in the middle of the
driveway. Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to
the driveway, brought the box back in the house.
She opened it and found a brand new heavy duty bathroom
scale.
Ed has been missing since Friday.
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it will be held securely in any wind, but is easy to remove
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The stockbroker's secretary answered his phone one morning.
"I'm sorry," she said, "Mr. Bradford's on another line."
"This is Mr. Ingram's office," the caller said. "We'd like
to know if he's bullish or bearish right now."
"He's talking to his wife," the secretary replied.
"Right now I'd say he's sheepish."
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A newspaper reporter for the Los Angeles Times had received
instructions from his senior editor to get photographs of a brush
fire in the foothills of northern California. The instructions
included hurrying to the Santa Monica Airport to board a small
plane, taking some photos of the fire, and hurrying back by noon
with the story.
The reporter dressed quickly, rushed to the airport, saw the small
plane waiting on the runway, drove his car to the end of the
runway, parked, and climbed on board. Off they flew into the clear
blue skies.
At about 5,000 feet, the reporter took out his camera and said to
the man flying the plane, "Bank right and I'll take some pictures
of this fire."
Then he heard the most frightening questions of his life, "Bank
right? How do I do that? You ARE the instructor, aren't you?"
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Today, July 3 in
1608 The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1844 Ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiated a commercial
treaty with China that opened five Chinese ports to U.S. merchants
and protected the rights of American citizens in China.
1863 The U.S. Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, PA, ended after three
days. It was a major victory for the North as Confederate troops
retreated.
1871 The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced
the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma."
1878 John Wise flew the first dirigible in Lancaster, PA.
1898 During the Spanish American War, a fleet of Spanish ships in
Cuba's Santiago Harbor attempted to run a blockade of U.S. naval
forces. Nearly all of the Spanish ships were destroyed in the
battle that followed.
1903 The first cable across the Pacific Ocean was spliced between
Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.
1930 The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.
1937 Del Mar race track opened in Del Mar, CA.
1939 Chic Young’s comic strip character, "Blondie" was first heard
on CBS radio.
1940 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted on NBC radio.
1944 The U.S. First Army opened a general offensive to break out of
the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.
1944 During World War II, Soviet forces recaptured Minsk.
1945 U.S. troops landed at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield
on Borneo in the Pacific.
1945 The first civilian passenger car built since February 1942 was
driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in
Detroit, MI. Production had been diverted due to World War II.
1950 U.S. carrier-based planes attacked airfields in the Pyongyang-
Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean
War.
1954 Food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years after
the end of World War II.
1974 The Threshold Test Ban Treaty was signed, prohibiting
underground nuclear weapons tests with yields greater than 150
kilotons.
1981 The Associated Press ran its first story about two rare
illnesses afflicting homosexual men. One of the diseases was later
named AIDS.
1986 U.S. President Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York
Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1986 Mikhail Baryshnikov became a U.S. citizen at Ellis Island, New
York Harbor.
1991 U.S. President George H.W. Bush formally inaugurated the Mount
Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
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Preparing computer for trip to Europe
Monday, July 2, 2018, 10:00 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, July 2
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Blue Martini employees call police after
Rolex robber returns to business
Bonehead
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Today, July 2 in
1982 Larry Walters ("Lawnchair Larry") took flight in his homeade
airship that consisted of a lawnchair with 45 helium-filled weather
balloons attached to it. He stayed in flight for about an hour.
More of today in history at HIstory
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
--- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and
randomly enforced.
--- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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Thanks to Morris for this story:
One day, while driving with my then 5 year old daughter
Melanie, I beeped the horn by mistake. She turned and
looked at me as if she was demanding an explanation.
I said, "I did that by accident..."
She replied, "I know that....'cause you didn't scream
'F@#$%&g A********!' after beeping!"
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These were actual hospital patient reports...enjoy!
1. The patient refused autopsy.
2. The patient has no previous history of suicides.
3. Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.
4. She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she
was very hot in bed last night.
5. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a
year.
6. On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it
disappeared.
7. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears
to be depressed.
8. The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in
1993.
9. Discharge status: Alive but without permission.
10. Healthy appearing decrepit 69-year old male, mentally alert but
forgetful.
11. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.
12. She is numb from her toes down.
13. While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home.
14. The skin was moist and dry.
15. Occasional, constant infrequent headaches.
16. Patient was alert and unresponsive.
17. Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.
18. She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life,
until she got a divorce.
19. I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for
physical therapy.
20. Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.
21. Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.
22. The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
23. Skin: somewhat pale but present.
24. The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor.
25. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Kira White, 23,
Miami,
Florida
Blue Martini employees call police after
Rolex robber returns to business
A 23-year-old woman was arrested early Friday, nearly two weeks
after she stole $65,000 in jewelry from a man she met at the Blue
Martini bar at The Shops at Mary Brickell Village, authorities
said.
According to an arrest report, the victim, Israel Sosa, met Kira
White while standing near the VIP section of the bar around 1 a.m.
June 16.
Police said they interviewed several employees, one of whom said
they served White and the victim several bottles.
The employee noticed White would not drink from the glasses and
would just push the glass aside, the arrest report stated.
Police said White and Sosa left the bar as it was closing and the
victim told White he was going to his hotel and that he would pay a
driver to take her back home.
But White told him she wanted to hang out for a little longer, so
she accompanied Sosa back to his hotel, authorities said.
Surveillance video from the hotel shows Sosa walking into an
elevator with the woman.
Sosa, who is from New Jersey, told Local 10 News reporter Nicole
Perez via Facetime that he didn't realize White, whose name he
thought was Meghan, had already stolen his gold chain.
Police said the two had another drink in the hotel room and Sosa
left his drink unattended as he used the restroom.
Sosa told authorities he woke up several hours later and discovered
that White had left, taking with her his $30,000 Cuban-link gold
chain and his $30,000 Rolex watch, which had a $5,000 medallion on
it. The victim said she also took $5,000 in $100 bills that were
inside his wallet.
"I ran downstairs and told the front desk at the hotel," Sosa said.
"They were, like, dumbfounded, and I was like, 'We need to call the
police. This lady just took my belongings.'"
Surveillance video from the hotel shows a woman, believed to be
White, coming out of the elevator alone and rummaging through what
appears to be a bag before she pulls out a towel.
Sosa told Local 10 News that he had left his diamond Rolex on top
of a towel inside his hotel room.
"She gave me another drink. The last thing I recall, she said, 'I'm
going to use the restroom.' And then I walked up- there was a watch
I had- my diamond watch on top of a towel. And when I jumped up
around 7:30, I realized the towel was gone with the watch," Sosa
said.
A Blue Martini employee told Local 10 News that a member of the
nightclub's security team spotted White walking on the street below
the business early Friday and notified authorities.
White was arrested on a grand theft charge.
Tech Support Pits
From: Richard
Re: Computer for Europe
Dear Webby
I have to go to Europe for six month. Can my computer be
adapted to work over there, or would it be better to buy one
there? I also have an Iomega remote hard drive. Does that
one work there?
Thanks
Richard
Dear Richard
Yes, they all work just fine in Europe. Take along the power
bar that you use now, but cut the plug off. When you get there,
go to the nearest hardware store or supermarket and buy a
regular plug. Each country there has a different plug, and
some countries have different ones in different regions.
All that talk about a united and standardized Europe is just
BS. The only thing they all have in common is a dislike for
Americans, and usually also a fair bit of envy.
Get their local plug and attach it to the power bar cord.
Computers and Laptop chargers are all rated 100-250 Volt.
So, don't worry about the voltage.
The Iomega remote hard drive doesn't care what voltage
you power it with. It adapts automatically for anything
between 100 and 240. The newer remote hard drives are powered by
their USB connection and don't even have a separate power supply.
You COULD get an adapter for the area that you go to,
but they cost 8 - 10 times more than an ordinary power
plug, plus shipping.
If you are concerned about the remote hard drive causing problems
at airport security, you can just get a few 64 GB camera chips and
put your important files onto those. They are considerably lighter
when carrying your carry-on through a few miles of hard airport
corridors.
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From a passenger ship, everyone can see a bearded
man on a small island, shouting and desperately waving
his hands.
"Who is it?" a passenger asks the captain.
"I've no idea. Every year when we pass, he goes nuts."
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When her late husband's will was read, a widow learned he
had left the bulk of his fortune to another woman.
Enraged, she rushed to change the inscription on her spouse's
tombstone.
"Sorry, lady," said the stonecutter. "I inscribed 'Rest in Peace'
on your orders. I can't change it now."
"Very well," she said grimly. "Just add, `Until We Meet Again.' "
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the house when no one is home.
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In Bill Gates' book (Business @ The Speed of Thought), he
lays out 11 rules that students do not learn in high school
or college. He argues that our feel good, politically
correct teachings have created a generation of kids
with no concept of reality who are set up for failure in the
real world.
RULE 1 - Life is not fair; get used to it.
RULE 2 - The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world
will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about
yourself.
RULE 3 - You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of
high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until
you earn both.
RULE 4 - If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a
boss. He doesn't have tenure.
RULE 5 - Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called
it opportunity.
RULE 6 - If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't
whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
RULE 7 - Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as
they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning
your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So
before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your
parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.
RULE 8 - Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing
grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the
right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to
ANYTHING in real life.
RULE 9 - Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers
off and very few employers are interested in helping you find
yourself. Do that on your own time.
RULE 10 - Television is NOT real life. In real life people
actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
RULE 11 - Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for
one.
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A husband and wife are on the 9th green when suddenly she
collapses from a heart attack!
'Help me dear,' she groans to her husband.
The husband dials 911 on his cell phone, talks for a few
minutes, picks up his putter, and lines up his putt.
His wife raises her head off the green and stares at him.
'I'm dying over here and you're putting?'
'Don't worry dear', says the husband calmly. 'they found a
doctor on the second hole and he's coming to help you'.
'Well how long will it take for him to get here', she asks feebly?!
'No time at all', says her husband, practicing his putting
stroke. Everybody's already agreed to let him play through'!
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Today, July 2 in
1298 An army under Albert of Austria defeated and killed Adolf of
Nassua near Worms, Germany.
1625 The Spanish army took Breda, Spain, after nearly a year of
siege.
1644 Lord Cromwell crushed the Royalists at the Battle of Marston
Moor near York, England.
1747 Marshall Saxe led the French forces to victory over an Anglo-
Dutch force under the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Lauffeld.
1776 Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American colonies
"are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" was
adopted by the Continental Congress.
1850 Prussia agreed to pull out of Schlewig and Holstein, Germany.
1850 Benjamin Lane patented a gas mask with a breathing apparatus.
(Patent US7476 A)
1857 New York City’s first elevated railroad officially opened for
business.
1858 Czar Alexander II freed the serfs working on imperial lands.
1881 Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounded U.S. President James A.
Garfield in Washington, DC.
1890 The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1926 The U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps.
1937 American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in the
Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the
equator.
1939 At Mount Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt's face was dedicated.
1944 American bombers, as part of Operation Gardening, dropped land
mines, leaflets and bombs on German-occupied Budapest.
1947 An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force
insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to
speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.
1962 Wal-Mart Discount City opened in Rogers, Arkansas. It was the
first Walmart store.
1964 U.S. President Johnson signed the "Civil Rights Act of 1964"
into law. The act made it illegal in the U.S. to discriminate
against others because of their race.
1967 The U.S. Marine Corps launched Operation Buffalo in response
to the North Vietnamese Army's efforts to seize the Marine base at
Con Thien.
1976 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not
inherently cruel or unusual.
1976 North Vietnam and South Vietnam were reunited.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration for
males 18 years of age.
1981 Soyuz T-6 returned to Earth.
1982 Larry Walters ("Lawnchair Larry") took flight in his homeade
airship that consisted of a lawnchair with 45 helium-filled weather
balloons attached to it. He stayed in flight for about an hour.
1985 General Motors announced that it was installing electronic
road maps as an option in some of its higher-priced cars.
1995 "Forbes" magazine reported that Microsoft's chairman, Bill
Gates, was worth $12.9 billion, making him the world's richest man.
1998 Cable News Network (CNN) retracted a story that alleged that
U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during
the Vietnam War.
2000 In Mexico, Vicente Fox Quesada of the National Action Party
(PAN) defeated Francisco Labastida Ochoa of the Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the presidential election. The PRI had
controlled the presidency in Mexico since the party was founded in
1929.
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Sunday, July 1, 2018, 08:15 AM
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Today is Sunday, July 1
Happy Canada Day!
Because Hagar and his crew settled in Newfoundland 300 years
before Columbus, Canada Day is 3 days before the American July 4
holiday.
The name Canada dates to Jacques Cartier's second voyage (1535-
1536), when he transcribed the Huron-Iroquoian word, Kanata,
meaning settlement. By the mid-1500s, Canada was already
appearing on European maps of North America as the area north of
the St. Lawrence River.
Just like on July 4, huge quantities of beer get consumed.
Here is the site of Molson Canadian
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Britain's most prolific criminal, 62,
back behind bars for his 668th offence
Bonehead
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Today, July 1 in
1991 The Warsaw Pact dissolved.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
--- Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)
Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have;
it depends solely on what you think.
--- Dale Carnegie
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These ads could have benefitted from a bit of proof-reading!
Dinner Special -- Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25;
Children $2.00.
Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children.
We do not tear your clothing with machinery.
We do it carefully by hand.
For Rent: 6-room hated apartment.
Auto Repair Service. Free pick-up and delivery.
Try us once, and you'll never go anywhere again.
Illiterate? Write today for free help.
Great Dames for sale.
Mt. Kilimanjaro, the breathtaking backdrop for the Serena
Lodge. Swim in the lovely pool while you drink it all in.
Get rid of aunts: Zap does the job in 24 hours.
Stock up and save. Limit: one.
Save regularly in our bank. You'll never reget it.
Used Cars: Why go elsewhere to be cheated?
Come here first!
Wanted. Man to take care of cow that does not smoke or drink.
3-year-old teacher needed for pre-school.
Experience preferred.
Our experienced Mom will care for your child. Fenced yard,
meals, and smacks included.
Mother's helper--peasant working conditions.
Semi-Annual after-Christmas Sale.
And now, the Superstore--unequaled in size, unmatched in
variety, unrivaled inconvenience.
We will oil your sewing machine and adjust tension in your
home for $1.00.
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A nun is sitting with her Mother Superior chatting. "I used some
horrible language this week and feel absolutely terrible about it."
"When did you use this awful language?" asks the elder.
"Well, I was golfing and hit an incredible drive that looked like
it was going to go over 280 yards, but it struck a phone line that
is hanging over the fairway and fell straight down to the ground
after going only about 100 yards."
"Is that when you swore?"
"No, Mother," says the nun. "After that, a squirrel ran out of the
bushes and grabbed my ball in its mouth and began to run away."
"Is that when you swore?" asks the Mother Superior again.
"Well, no." says the nun. "You see, as the squirrel was running, an
eagle came down out of the sky, grabbed the squirrel in his talons
and began to fly away!"
"Is THAT when you swore?" asks the amazed elder nun.
"No, not yet. As the eagle carried the squirrel away in its claws,
it flew near the green and the squirrel dropped my ball."
"Did you swear THEN?" asked Mother Superior, becoming impatient.
"No, because the ball fell on a big rock, bounced over the sand
trap, rolled onto the green, and stopped about six inches from the
hole."
The two nuns were silent for a moment. Then Mother Superior sighed
and said, "You missed the @#$%^& putt, didn't you?"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Michael Schletter, 35,
Duval County,
Florida
Britain's most prolific criminal, 62,
back behind bars for his 668th offence
Patrick Ryan, 62,
Accrington, Lancashire,
England
Patrick Ryan, 62, has run up a staggering 469 convictions for a
total of 668 offences, costing UK taxpayers a staggering £3 million
to take to court. His criminal record runs to 100 pages and is so
long a police force once put a note on it warning workers not to
print it out as it would waste too much paper.
This week at Preston Crown Court a probation officer referred to
Ryan's 'sheer number' of convictions and admitted he had 'never
seen a record like it'. Judge Andrew Jefferies QC jailed him for 18
months after hearing how he exposed himself to a bus-load of
appalled passengers, groped one and urinated.
The judge told him: 'You're 62 and you expose yourself and urinate
on a bus.. 'You're drunk and stumbling and grope a woman. No one
should have to be groped by a drunk man. 'You then go on another
bus and because of the effect of the drink, you urinate again.
'Set against that record, I have no hesitation in sentencing you to
18 months in prison. 'You will serve half of that sentence and will
be released on licence and supervision after that. 'During the
period of licence and supervision, this would be be a good time to
look at your mental health and drinking problem.'
Tech Support Pits
From: Stormy
Re: Computer recommendation
Dear Webby
I'm giving my Toshiba lap top to my son. What would 'you'
recommend for someone who loves to download everything,
save up "stuff' and writes? Any help here would be
appreciated! The computer store here says they can build
one for me, keeping in mind what I want it for. They start at
about $1,1000. I am on a diet concerning income, so have
to be really sure of what I buy.
Thanks, have a super day,
stormy
Dear Stormy
I have heard about the computer stores in your town.
Forget them.
Go to the next big town, that has a Staples, or shop online.
You don't need a high performance machine for bragging on the
school bus. The cheapest laptop will be overkill.
Staples sometimes have dusty big screen laptops really cheap.
I got an Acer Aspire with a 17" screen there for around $300 about
7 years ago, because all the Yuppies want small ones to take into
Starbucks, and the huge 17" laptop just gathered dust.
It has been my work machine ever since.
Don't worry about the disk size. IF and when you run out of space,
you can get a USB connected external 2 TeraByte drive, that will
become an heirloom. You will never fill that.
Have FUN
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A chief and an admiral were sitting in the barber shop. They
were both just getting finished with their shaves--the barbers
were reaching for some aftershave to slap on their faces.
The admiral shouted, "Hey, don't put that stuff on me! My wife
will think I've been in a whorehouse!"
The chief turned to his barber and said, "Go ahead and put it on.
My wife doesn't know what the inside of a whorehouse
smells like."
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An excerpt from brilliant Kentucky state legislation. "No
female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within
this state unless she be escorted by at least two officers
or unless she be armed with a club." The following important
amendment however is to be considered here: "The provisions
of this statute shall not apply to females weighing less
than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds, nor shall it apply
to male horses."
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a spray bottle with ammonia and spray the outside of the
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What women say and what they mean:
FINE: This is the word we use at the end of any argument that we
feel we are right about but need to shut you up. NEVER use fine to
describe how a woman looks. This will cause you to have one of
those arguments.
FIVE MINUTES: This is a half an hour. It is equivalent to the five
minutes that your football game is going to last before you take
out the trash, so I feel that it's an even trade.
NOTHING: This means something and you should be on your toes.
"Nothing" is usually used to describe the feeling a woman has of
wanting to turn you inside out, upside down, and backwards.
"Nothing" usually signifies an argument that will last "Five
Minutes" and end with the word "Fine."
GO AHEAD (with raised eyebrows): This is a dare. One that will
result in a woman getting upset over "Nothing" and will end with
the word "Fine."
GO AHEAD (with normal eyebrows): This means "I give up" or "do what
you want because I don't care." You will get a raise! d eyebrow "Go
Ahead" in just a few minutes, followed by "Nothing" and "Fine" and
she will talk to you in about "Five Minutes" when she cools off.
LOUD SIGH: This is not actually a word, but is still often a verbal
statement very misunderstood by men. A "Loud Sigh" means she thinks
you are an idiot at that moment and wonders why she is wasting her
time standing here and arguing with you over "Nothing."
SOFT SIGH: Again, not a word, but a verbal statement. "Soft Sighs"
are one of the few things that some men actually understand. She is
content. Your best bet is to not move or breathe and she will stay
content.
THAT'S OKAY: This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman
can say to a man. "That's Okay" means that she wants to think long
and hard before paying you retributions for whatever it is that you
have done. "That's Okay" is often used with the word "Fine" and
used in conjunction with a raised eyebrow "Go Ahead." At some point
in the near future when she has plotted and planned, you are going
to be in some mighty big trouble.
PLEASE DO: This is not a statement, it is an offer. A woman is
giving you the chance to come up with whatever excuse or reason you
have for doing whatever it is that you have done. You have a fair
chance to tell the truth, ! so be careful and you shouldn't get a
"That's Okay."
THANKS: A woman is thanking you. Do not faint; just say you're
welcome.
THANKS A LOT: This is much different from "THANKS." A woman will
say, "Thanks A Lot" when she is really ticked off at you. It
signifies that you have hurt her in some callous way, and will be
followed by the "Loud Sigh." Be care not to ask what is wrong after
the "Loud Sigh," as she will only tell you "Oh Nothing."
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My boss wanted a "Clean Desk" policy, so he sent a memo saying
that any paperwork left on desks would be removed at night and we
would have to fill out a form to get it back.
So we left all our trash paper on our desks every night.
In a week, the boss had an office full of trash, nobody filled
out a retrieval form, and we never heard about the policy again.
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Today, July 1 in
0096 Vespasian, a Roman Army leader, was hailed as a Roman Emperor
by the Egyptian legions.
1543 England and Scotland signed the peace of Greenwich.
1596 An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard of
Effingham and Francis Vere captured and sacked Cadiz, Spain.
1690 The French defeated the forces of the Grand Alliance at
Fleurus in the Netherlands.
1798 Napoleon Bonaparte took Alexandria, Egypt.
1845 Uniform postal rates went into effect throughout the United
States. The Act of Congress was passed on March 3, 1845.
1847 In New York City, the U.S. Post Office issued its first
adhesive stamps. The two stamps available were a 5-cent Benjamin
Franklin and a 10-cent George Washington.
1862 The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
1863 During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at
Gettysburg began.
1867 Canada became an independent dominion.
1874 The Philadelphia Zoological Society zoo opened as the first
zoo in the United States.
1876 Montenegro declared war on the Turks.
1893 The first bicycle race track in America to be made out of wood
was opened in San Francisco, CA.
1898 During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his
"Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
1905 The USDA Forest Service was created within the Department of
Agriculture. The agency was given the mission to sustain healthy,
diverse, and productive forests and grasslands for present and
future generations.
1909 Thomas Edison began commercially manufacturing his new "A"
type alkaline storage batteries.
1916 The massive Allied offensive known as the Battle of the Somme
began in France. The battle was the first to use tanks.
1940 In Washington, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was opened to
traffic. The bridge collapsed during a wind storm on November 7,
1940.
1941 Bulova Watch Company sponsored the first TV commercial in New
York City, NY.
1942 German troops captured Sevestpol, Crimea, in the Soviet Union.
1943 The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal
income tax from paychecks.
1945 New York established the New York State Commission Against
Discrimination to prevent discrimination in employment because of
race, creed or natural origin. It was the first such agency in the
U.S.
1946 U.S. President Harry Truman signed Public Law 476 that
incorporated the Civil Air Patrol as a benevolent, nonprofit
organization. The Civil Air Patrol was created on December 1, 1941.
1946 The U.S. exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll
in the Pacific Ocean.
1948 The price of a subway ride in New York City was increased from
5 cents to 10.
1950 American ground troops arrived in South Korea to stem the tide
of the advancing North Korean army.
1960 Somalia gained its independence from Britain through the
unification of Somaliland with Italian Somalia.
1961 British troops landed in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats.
1961 The first community air-raid shelter was built. The shelter in
Boise, ID had a capacity of 1,000 people and family memberships
sold for $100.
1963 The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning
Improvement Plan) code.
1966 The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
1968 The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was signed by 60
countries. It limited the spreading of nuclear material for
military purposes. On May 11, 1995, the treaty was extended
indefinitely.
1969 Britain's Prince Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales.
1974 Isavel Peron became the president of Argentina upon the death
of her husband, Juan.
1979 Sony introduced the Walkman.
1981 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that candidates for federal
office had an "affirmative right" to go on national television.
1987 John Kevin Hill, at age 11, became the youngest to fly across
the U.S. when he landed at National Airport in Washington, DC.
1989 The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty, went into
effect. It limited the production of ozone-destroying chemicals.
1991 The Warsaw Pact dissolved.
1994 Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Organization
visited the Gaza Strip.
1997 The sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from Great
Britain to China. Britain had controlled Hong Kong as a colony for
156 years.
1999 The U.S. Justice Department released new regulations that
granted the attorney general sole power to appoint and oversee
special counsels. The 1978 independent-counsel statute expired on
June 30.
2003 In Hong Kong, thousands of protesters marched to show their
opposition to anti-subversion legislation.
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Screen Saver is full screen
Saturday, June 30, 2018, 10:41 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, June 30
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Florida Dean arrested for exposing pecker,
DUI, resisting arrest
Bonehead
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Today, June 30 in
1953 The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line
in Flint, MI. It sold for $3,250.
More of today in history at HIstory
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
--- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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On a street, where the speed is limited to 30 mph the police stop a
driver.
"Not only have you been driving too fast, you've been passing cars
where it is not allowed. Your lights don't work, your tires all
completely worn out. This is surely going to cost you a lot.Â
What's your name?"
"Schtrathewisizeski Vocgefastilongchinic."
"Well, I'll let you go this time but don't do it again."
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Nonaco Grand Prix 1962
Street race, with traffic
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While standing in line at airport security this morning, the
ahead of me poked her index finger at an article in the
newspaper she was reading and made a rather unflattering
comment about the author.
I read: "12 ideas to help you keep that resolution to lose
weight." After a couple of paragraphs, the article lists things
to do. The second of these hints reads: "When cooking yourself,
substitute lower-fat ingredients whenever possible...."
"HUH?" she then asked, "Am I supposed to hunt down and
cook low-fat jogger instead of myself?"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Michael Schletter, 35,
Duval County,
Florida
Florida Dean arrested for exposing pecker,
DUI, resisting arrest
A local man who works with children was arrested for a DUI and
resisting arrest- after a Nassau County deputy found him with his
genitals exposed.
It happened in Yulee at The Reserve at Amelia apartment complex.
Duval County Public Schools employee Michael Schletter was arrested
for DUI, exposing sex organs and resisting arrest.
Duval County Public Schools employee Michael Schletter was arrested
for DUI, exposing sex organs and resisting arrest.
a Nassau County Sheriff’s Office incident report that states that
earlier this month, Schletter was found passed out in a car that
was parked across multiple parking spaces and, when he got out of
the car, he “smelled highly of an alcoholic beverage.”
When he was found, the report states, the car’s motor was running
and the headlights were on.
The report also states that Schletter’s genitals were out and he
was asked several times to cover himself, but refused.
He was then arrested after failing to directly answer questions and
follow commands.
Tech Support Pits
From: Yolanda
Re: Screen Saver is full screen
Dear Webby
Good morning. I hope and pray you and yours are doing well?!
I messed up, I read this mornings email from you regarding
screensavers...ughhhh, should have come with warning Don't try this
at home...lol
I did as you had suggested to your reader and now my screen saver
is full screen and I can't get it to down size.
I know you have the answer and will you be so kind to share with
me...and possibly other readers who have the same issue. Thank you
for your time and help in regards to my mess up.
Have a Blessed day!!
Smiles,
Yolanda
Dear Yolanda
You did not mess up. Screen Savers are always full screen. They are
supposed to save and protect the entire screen.
In the old days, when we had green monitors, if they were left
running overnight, every night, with the word processor menu up, it
burned in. To prevent that, screen savers were invented in the
80's.
With today's monitors, that is not a problem. Today the screen
savers are mostly just to hide the games you are playing or
confidential client data while you run for coffee or a nap.
However, they are still full screen, and no command exists to make
them protect less than the entire screen.
As soon as you touch the mouse or hit a key on the keyboard, it
goes away and patiently waits for the next time it is needed.
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A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day
of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake
and a smile, gave him a broom and said, "Your first job
will be to sweep the entire store."
"But I'm a college graduate," the young man replied
indignantly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that," said the manager.
"Here, give me the broom - Let me show you how."
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Hillbilly Medical Terms...
Benign: What you be after you be eight.
Bacteria: Door to the cafeteria.
Barium: What doctors do when patients die.
Cesarean Section: A neighborhood in Rome.
Catscan: Searching for Kitty.
Cauterize: Made eye contact with her.
Colic: A sheep dog.
Coma: A punctuation mark.
D&C: Where Washington is.
Dilate: To live long.
Enema: Not a friend.
Fester: Quicker than someone else.
Fibula: A small lie.
G.I. Series: World Series of military baseball.
Hangnail: What you hang your coat on.
Impotent: Distinguished, well known.
Labor Pain: Getting hurt at work.
Medical Staff: A Doctor's cane.
Morbid: A higher offer than I bid.
Nitrates: Cheaper than day rates.
Node: I knew it.
Outpatient: A person who has fainted.
Pap Smear: A fatherhood test.
Pelvis: Second cousin to Elvis.
Post Operative: A letter carrier.
Recovery Room: Place to do upholstery.
Rectum: Damn near killed him.
Secretion: Hiding something.
Seizure: Roman emperor.
Tablet: A small table.
Terminal Illness: Getting sick at the airport.
Tumor: More than one.
Urine: Opposite of mine.
Varicose: Near by/close by.
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Stubborn Locks
If you have a stubborn lock, spray it with some graphite
lock spray. You can buy it at any hardware store. In a pinch,
you can try using some non-stick vegetable oil on both the
lock and key. You can also try dipping your key in talcum
powder and inserting it in the lock.
All of those items will ensure that your locksmith will charge
you extra, because they are a pain in the nuisance to clean
out off a lock. Actually, I got the term "pain in the nuisance"
from Garry, the guy who taught me most of what I know about
locksmithing and burglar alarm security. When a lock gets
stubborn, it's not from lack of lubrication, but because of
dirt causing friction. Adding more stuff, especially stuff
that will attract and hold even more dirt, just makes the
inevitable cleaning more expensive.
One of the few sprays that won't make things worse is Crown
Mold Release spray. It has a very thin carrier fluid that helps
flushing grit out, and it covers the parts with a dry, waxy
dirt repellant coating.
Unless you locked yourself into the garage and need to get
out, your best bet is to take the lock to a locksmith, and
tell him right away, that you have restrained yourself from
spraying weird stuff into the lock.
Have FUN!
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A hot red convertible with an equally hot woman driver raced
by as my husband and his friend stopped to stare.
"Wow," sighed Rick. "Nice."
"Yeah," agreed his buddy, transfixed.
"What color was the car?" I asked.
They answered simultaneously, "Blonde."
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The CIA loses track of one of its operatives, and so calls in
one of their top spy hunters.
The CIA boss says, "All I can tell you is that his name is
Murphy and that he's somewhere in Ireland. If you think
you've located him, tell him the code words, 'The weather
forecast calls for mist in the morning.' If it's really him, he'll
answer, 'Yes, and for mist at noon as well.'"
So the spy hunter goes to Ireland and stops in a bar in one of
the small towns. He says to the bartender, "Maybe you can
help me. I'm looking for a guy named Murphy."
The bartender replies, "You're going to have to be more
specific because, around here, there are lots of guys named
Murphy. There's Murphy the Baker, who runs the pastry shop
on the next block. There's Murphy the Banker, who's president
of our local savings bank. There's Murphy the Blacksmith, who
works at the stables. And, as a matter of fact, my name is
Murphy, too."
Hearing this, the spy hunter figures he might as well try the
code words on the bartender, so he says, "The weather forecast
calls for mist in the morning."
The bartender replies, "Oh, you're looking for Murphy the Spy.
He lives in the green house right down the street."
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Today, June 30 in
1097 The Crusaders defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum.
1841 The Erie Railroad rolled out its first passenger train.
1859 Charles Blondin became the first person to cross Niagara Falls
on a tightrope.
1894 Korea declared independence from China and asked for Japanese
aid.
1908 A meteor explosion in Siberia knocked down trees in a 40-mile
radius and struck people unconscious some 40 miles away.
1912 Belgian workers went on strike to demand universal suffrage.
1913 Fighting broke out between Bulgaria and Greece and Serbia. It
was the beginning of the Second Balkan War.
1915 During World War I, the Second Battle Artois ended when the
French failed to take Vimy Ridge.
1922 Irish rebels in London assassinate Sir Henry Wilson, the
British deputy for Northern Ireland.
1930 France pulled its troops out of Germany’s Rhineland.
1934 Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the SA and
bringing to power to the SS in the "Night of the Long Knives."
1935 Fascists caused an uproar at the League of Nations when Haile
Selassie of Ethiopia speaks.
1936 Margaret Mitchell’s book, "Gone with the Wind," was published.
1950 U.S. President Harry Truman ordered U.S. troops into Korea and
authorizes the draft.
1951 On orders from Washington, General Matthew Ridgeway broadcasts
that the United Nations was willing to discuss an armistice with
North Korea.
1953 The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in
Flint, MI. It sold for $3,250.
1955 The U.S. began funding West Germany’s rearmament with US made
jets and bombs.
1957 The American occupation headquarters in Japan was dissolved.
1958 The U.S. Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of
Alaska as the 49th state in the Union.
1960 The Katanga province seceded from Congo (upon Congo's
independence from Belgium).
1964 The last of U.N. troops left Congo after a four-year effort to
bring stability to the country.
1971 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government could not
prevent the Washington Post or the New York Times from publishing
the Pentagon Papers.
1971 The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth. The three
cosmonauts were found dead inside.
1971 The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified when
Ohio became the 38th state to approve it. The amendment lowered the
minimum voting age to 18.
1974 Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto,
Canada.
1974 The July 4th scene from the Steven Spielberg movie "Jaws" was
filmed.
1977 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his opposition to the B-
1 bomber.
1985 Yul Brynner left his role as the King of Siam after 4,600
performances in "The King and I."
1986 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states could outlaw
homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1994 The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of
the 1994 national championship and banned her from the organization
for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
1998 Officials confirmed that the remains of a Vietnam War
serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National
Cemetery were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J.
Blassie.
2000 U.S. President Clinton signed the E-Signature bill to give the
same legal validity to an electronic signature as a signature in
pen and ink.
2004 The international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit.
The craft had been on a nearly seven-year journey.
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Friday, June 29, 2018, 09:39 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, June 29
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Ivy Leaguer, Nobel nominee with long list of
liberal bona fides arrested for child porn
and activity with kids
Bonehead
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Today, June 29 in
1946 British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine
in an attempt to end alleged terrorism.
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Most people have seen worse things in private than they
pretend to be shocked at in public.
--- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
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Our priest suddenly became ill and asked his twin brother, also
a priest, to fill in for him and conduct a funeral Mass
scheduled for that day. His brother, of course, agreed. It was
not until the brother was accompanying the casket down the
aisle, however, that he realized that he had neglected to ask
the sex of the deceased. This was information that he would need
for his remarks during the service.
As he approached the first pew where the deceased's relatives
were seated he nodded toward the casket and whispered to one
woman, "Brother or sister?"
"Cousin," she replied.
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Thanks to Lynn for this story:
As the owner of a 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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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Joel Davis,
22,
NYC,
New York
Ivy Leaguer, Nobel nominee with long list of
liberal bona fides arrested for child porn
and activity with kids
An Ivy Leaguer who ran an organization advocating for the end of
sexual violence has been arrested in New York for trying to set up
a sexual tryst with children as young as two.
Joel Davis was charged with attempting to sexually exploit a child,
enticing a child to engage in sexual activity and possessing child
pornography, The Washington Post reported.
What makes the case so egregious is that Davis, a 22-year-old
Columbia University student, is the founding executive director of
the international group Youth to End Sexual Violence, focused on
child victims, the newspaper reported.
He has worked alongside actress Angelina Jolie and was reportedly
nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Davis is also an active Hillary Clinton supporter.
An Ivy Leaguer who ran an organization advocating for the end of
sexual violence has been arrested in New York for trying to set up
a sexual tryst with children as young as two.
Joel Davis was charged with attempting to sexually exploit a child,
enticing a child to engage in sexual activity and possessing child
pornography, The Washington Post reported.
What makes the case so egregious is that Davis, a 22-year-old
Columbia University student, is the founding executive director of
the international group Youth to End Sexual Violence, focused on
child victims, the newspaper reported.
He has worked alongside actress Angelina Jolie and was reportedly
nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Davis is also a Hillary Clinton supporter.
And his liberal bona fides don’t stop there, as he served as a
youth ambassador for the United Nations.
More from the Washington Post:
He was the founding executive director of the international
organization Youth to End Sexual Violence. He served as a youth
ambassador for the United Nations special representative on sexual
violence in conflict. He was on the steering committee of the
International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict,
a group of more than 5,000 human rights organizations and experts
worldwide.
The Post reported that, according to a federal criminal complaint,
Davis exchanged text messages with undercover FBI agents, trying to
arrange meetings with a 9-year-old girl, an 8-year-old girl and a
2-year-old boy.
He allegedly sent sexually explicit photos and videos of children
and infants, and was clear in his communications with the FBI
agents that he wanted to engage in sex with children of any age
The complain also said Davis admitted to meeting a 13-year-old boy
on the dating app Grindr, speaking with him on Snapchat. He engaged
in sexual activity with the child in June at his Manhattan
apartment.
U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman called Davis’s alleged actions
“unfathomable.”
“Davis started an organization devoted to stopping sexual violence,
while allegedly engaged in the duplicitous behavior of sharing
explicit images of infants engaged in sexual activity,” Berman
said, according to The Post.
“The conduct alleged against Joel Davis is as unfathomable as it is
sickening,” he said, adding that “law enforcement will keep its
watchful eye on the darkest corners of the internet to bring
predators to justice.”
Tech Support Pits
From: Carlie
Re: Screen Savers
Dear Webby
I got all kinds of mail telling me that I need to buy a screen
saver to protect my monitor. Is there any truth to that?
Carlie
Dear Carlie
No truth to that at all. Today's monitors don't need screen savers.
If you need to hide netflix or farmville from nosy co-workers, you
can use the built in screen savers.
There is a big choice, all the way from pitch-black to slide show.
Next company party take pictures of all the boneheads and drunks,
and put them into a new folder. Then Select slideshow or photos for
the screen saver, and browse to THAT folder. You can select the
time it waits before starting, and how long it shows each picture.
Charge $25 to remove somebody's picture.
You can also take screen shots of the spreadsheets you work on, and
put them into a folder. Make that one flip slides quickly.
On one old machine, where I use a traditional screen saver, I use
Mystify from Windows 3.3. It still works.
There are also screen savers built in. Just right-click on the
desktop,
Personalize,
Screen Saver (right hand bottom)
and select one.
You can also google for "Free screen savers" and get all kinds of
them for your particular version of Windows.
For Gramma's birthday you can make her a screensaver with all the
pictrues you got that she would love to see. Put them onto a camera
chip or thumb drive, and sneak them into a new folder on her
machine, then set a screen saver to use those pictures. I bet it
will make her cry!
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Since this is their first party and the wife hasn't done much
cooking, the husband suggests they order out for Chinese
food and she could bake a cake for dessert. She agrees,
but on Friday afternoon, the wife calls her husband in tears.
"The only recipe I can find is for a cake that will feed four,"
she says.
"Why don't you just double the recipe?" her husband asks.
Just before quitting time the husband gets another call
from her, and this time she is frantic.
"I just can't do it," she says. "It's impossible."
"Now, now, what's the matter?"
"Well, I doubled everything, just like you said," she tells
him, "and it's ready to go in the oven."
"Then what's the problem?" he asks.
The wife sobs. "The book says that the cake must be
baked at 350 degrees. I've checked the oven and it doesn't
go up to 700 degrees!"
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>From David
I'm also a counselor who helps coordinate support groups for
visually-impaired adults. Many participants have a
condition known as macular degeneration, which makes it
difficult for them to distinguish facial features.
I had just been assigned to a new group and was
introducing myself.
Knowing that many in the group would not be able to see
me well, I jokingly said, "For those of you who can't
see me, I've been told that I look like a cross between
Paul Newman and Robert Redford."
Immediately, one woman called out, "We're not THAT blind!"
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Inexpensive Desk
Make a great desk top out of an old smooth door
(knobs removed). Use short filing cabinets or milk crates
to support the door. This is a great way to recycle old
doors you may have sitting in your garage.
Some sanding and staining and then a few coats of marine
spar varnish will make it look really great and totally
impervious to ANY spills.
The darker you stain the door, the easier it will be on your
eyes. If the door is painted white, paint it brown or dark
green. The slate green that you may remember from old
school blackboards is the easiest on the eyes.
Have FUN!
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A Swiss guy, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus
stop where two Americans are waiting.
"Entschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?" he asks.
The two Americans just stare at him.
"Excusez-moi, parlez vous Francais?" he tries. The two
continue to stare. "Parlare Italiano?" No response.
"Hablan ustedes Espanol?" Still nothing.
The Swiss guy drives off, extremely disgusted. The first
American turns to the second and says, "Y'know, maybe we
should learn a foreign language."
"Why?" says the other. "That guy knew four languages, and
it didn't do him any good."
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Faced with hard times, the company offered a bonus of one thousand
dollars to any employee who could come up with a way of saving
money.
The bonus went to a young woman in accounting who suggested
limiting future bonuses to ten dollars.
The next morning her designated parking space was occupied by the
dumpster.
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Today, June 29 in
1236 Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon took Cordoba in Spain.
1652 Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.
1767 The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts.
The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea
shipped to America. It did not go over well.
1776 The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was
made governor.
1804 Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of
members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty.
Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.
1860 The first iron-pile lighthouse was completed at Minot’s Ledge,
MA.
1880 France annexed Tahiti.
1888 Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in
England.
1903 The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities
in the Congo.
1905 Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in ports all over
the country. Many ships were looted.
1917 The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.
1925 Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric
light bulb.
1926 Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day in an economic
efficiency measure.
1932 Siam’s army seized Bangkok and announced an end to the
absolute monarchy.
1946 British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine
in an attempt to end alleged terrorism.
1950 U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea blockade of
Korea.
1951 The United States invited the Soviet Union to the Korean peace
talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.
1953 The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500
miles of freeway from coast to coast.
1954 The Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J.
Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information.
1955 The Soviet Union sent tanks to Poznan, Poland, to put down
anti-Communist demonstrations.
1956 Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were married. They were
divorced on January 20, 1961.
1966 The U.S. bombed fuel storage facilities near the North
Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.
1967 Israel removed barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.
1972 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty could
constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." The ruling prompted
states to revise their capital punishment laws.
1982 Israel invaded Lebanon.
1987 Vincent Van Gogh’s "Le Pont de Trinquetaille" was bought for
$20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
1995 The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked,
forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
2007 The first generation Apple iPhone went on sale.
2011 The state of Nevada passed the first law that permitted the
operation of autonomous cars on public roads. The law went into
effect on March 1, 2012 and did not permit the use of the cars to
the general public. Google received the first self-driving vehicle
license in the U.S. on May 4, 2012 in Nevada.
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Today is Thursday, June 28
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Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
N.H. man arrested twice in one day faces
drug, DUI charges
Bonehead
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Today, June 28 in
2010 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right
to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.
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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest,
most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to
a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,
'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
--- Jeff Foxworthy
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
--- Lauren Bacall
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This country is so full of opportunity. Where else can a
woman hire another woman to do her housework, so that she
can volunteer at the Day Care Center where the cleaning
woman leaves her child?
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Royal Gorge Bridge, Colorado. 1929
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A man has six children and is very proud of his achievement.
He is so proud of himself that he starts calling his wife
"Mother of Six" in spite of her objections.
One night they go to a party. The man decides that it's time
to go home, and wants to find out if his wife is ready to
leave as well. He shouts at the top of his voice,
"Shall we go home, Mother of Six?"
His wife, irritated by her husband's lack of discretion
shouts back..."Anytime you're ready, Father of Four!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Benjamin Benoit,
33,
Boscawen,
New Hampshire
N.H. man arrested twice in one day faces
drug, DUI charges
Police in Concord and Bow said they arrested the same man hours
apart on charges of driving under the influence.
Benjamin Benoit, 33, of Boscawen, was arrested Thursday afternoon
after police received a report of a person at a Bow gas station
falling asleep in the driver's seat of a car.
Benoit was arrested again Friday morning in Concord after another
report was made about a person passed out in a vehicle at a gas
station. Concord police said the car Benoit was in was stolen from
the owner's place of employment in Pembroke.
Benoit is facing multiple charges, including driving under the
influence, possession of a controlled substance and possession of
stolen property.
After each arrest, Benoit was released on personal recognizance
bail. He is scheduled to appear in Merrimack County Superior Court
on the Bow charges on July 5 and on the Concord charges on July 12.
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From: Bobbie
Re: Defrag never finishes
Dear Webby
My computer is getting really slow, so a friend suggested
that I defrag it. I tried that, but the Windows defrag never
finishes. It just keeps re-starting. What am I doing wrong?
Bobbie
Dear Bobbie
There are countless defraggers available on the net.
99% of them are crap. Even the piriform defraggler, that I have
recommended in the past, has gone bad.
According to Moe, who tests and compares them as his mission,
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While digging a shaft into the German homeland, German
scientists discovered small pieces of copper at 50 meters.
After studying these pieces for a long time, Germany
announced that the ancient Germans 25,000 years ago had a
nationwide telephone network.
Naturally, the British government was not that easily impressed.
The British ordered their own scientists to dig even deeper.
At a depth of 100 meters, they discovered small pieces of glass.
Soon the British announced that the ancient Brits 35,000 years
ago already had a nationwide fiber net.
Israeli scientists were outraged. They dug 50, 100, and 200
meters underground, but found absolutely nothing. The Israelis
concluded that the ancient Hebrews 55,000 years ago had
cellular telephones.
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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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Uneven Cake Layers
Sometimes you bake a cake layer that comes out just a little bit
lopsided. Level the layer with a serrated knife. Then apply a coat
of frosting to the rough edge leftover from the cut. Let the
frosting dry before frosting the rest of the cake.
A serrated knife sounds rather barbaric to me!
Cut some leftover shelving or other wood with the same
thickness as a layer of the cake to just fit into your cake
pans and sand and varnish it nicely, because some day it
will become a heirloom. After you dump the cake, put the
wood spacer in and the cake on top of that.
Then use the edge of the cake pan as a guide to saw it
into layers with dental floss.
Remove the cake and put the top layer onto the
spacer and trim the top to be precisely the same as the
bottom.
You will get the same laser smooth cut that the professionals
get (who use that same old trick).
If you don't have any scrap wood, a book or a stack of junk
mail in a ziplock bag works fine too.
If you do a lot of cakes in a row, tie the ends of the dental
floss to wooden spoons or clothes pegs so that you don't cut your
hands.
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Two men were sitting in a doctors office.
"What are you here for?" asked one.
"Circumcision," came the reply.
"That's rough! I had one of those the day after I was born,"
the first man commented. "Afterward, I couldn't walk for a year."
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A customer was continually bothering the waiter in a restaurant;
first, he'd asked that the air conditioning be turned up because
he was too hot, then he asked it be turned down cause he was too
cold, and so on for about half an hour.
Surprisingly, the waiter was very patient, walking back and
forth and never once getting angry. So finally, a second
customer asked why didn't they just throw out the pest.
"Oh I don't care." said the waiter with a smile. "We don't have
an air conditioner."
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Today, June 28 in
1635 The French colony of Guadeloupe was established in the
Caribbean.
1675 Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes.
1709 The Russians defeated the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of
Poltava.
1776 American Colonists repulsed a British sea attack on
Charleston, SC.
1778 Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American
artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of
Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after
he was overcome with heat.
1894 The U.S. Congress made Labor Day a U.S. national holiday.
1902 The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner bill, it authorized a
canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
1911 Samuel J. Battle became the first African-American policeman
in New York City.
1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-
Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along with his wife,
Duchess Sophie. England used that as the start of WWI.
1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed ending World War I exactly
five years after it began. The treaty also established the League
of Nations.
1921 A coal strike in Great Britain was settled after three months.
1930 More than 1,000 communists were routed during an assault on
the British consulate in London.
1939 Pan American Airways began the first transatlantic passenger
service.
1938 The U.S. Congress created the Federal Housing Administration
(FHA) to insure construction loans.
1942 German troops launched an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields
in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad.
1945 U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced the end of Japanese
resistance in the Philippines.
1949 The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea,
leaving only 500 advisers.
1950 North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
1951 "Amos ’n’ Andy" moved to CBS-TV from radio.
1954 French troops began to pull out of Vietnam’s Tonkin Province.
1960 In Cuba, Fidel Castro confiscated American-owned oil
refineries without compensation.
1964 Malcolm X founded the Organization for Afro American Unity to
seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
1965 The first commercial satellite began communications service.
It was Early Bird (Intelsat I).
1967 Israel formally declared Jerusalem reunified under its
sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the June
1967 war.
1971 The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the draft evasion conviction
of Muhammad Ali.
1972 U.S. President Nixon announced that no new draftees would be
sent to Vietnam.
1976 The first women entered the U.S. Air Force Academy.
1978 The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the
University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke. Bakke, a
white man, argued he had been a victim of reverse racial
discrimination.
1996 The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-
only policy at the South Carolina military school.
1997 Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield's ear
after three rounds of their WBA heavyweight title fight in Las
Vegas, NV.
1998 Poland, due to shortage of funds, is allowed to lease, U.S.
aircraft to bring military force up to NATO standards.
1998 The Cincinnati Enquirer apologized to Chiquita banana company
and retracted their stories that questioned company's business
practices. They also agreed to pay more than $10 million to settle
legal claims.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court declared that a Nebraska law that
outlawed "partial birth abortions" was unconstitutional. About 30
U.S. states had similar laws at the time of the ruling.
2000 Darva Conger announced that she had done a layout for Playboy
magazine. Conger had married Rick Rockwell on Fox-TV's "Who Wants
to Marry a Multimillionaire."
2000 The European Commission announced that they had blocked the
planned merger between the U.S. companies WorldCom Inc. and Sprint
due to competition concerns.
2000 Six-year-old Elián González returned to Cuba from the U.S.
with his father. The child had been the center of an international
custody dispute.
2001 Slobodan Milosevic was taken into custody and was handed over
to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. The
indictment charged Milosevic and four other senior officials, with
crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of
war in Kosovo.
2001 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
set aside an order that would break up Microsoft for antitrust
violations. However, the judges did agree that the company was in
violation of antitrust laws.
2004 The U.S. turned over official sovereignty to Iraq's interim
leadership. The event took place two days earlier than previously
announced to thwart insurgents' attempts at undermining the
transfer.
2004 The U.S. resumed diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year
break.
2004 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that enemy combatants could
challenge their detention in U.S. Courts.
2005 The final design for the "Freedom Tower" (One World Trade
Center) was formally unveiled.
2007 The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered
species list.
2010 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right
to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.
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Today is Wednesday, June 27
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Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Arkansas purse thief nabbed by the waitress,
whose purse he had stolen, when he
used her credit card to pay for his meal.
Bonehead
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Today, June 27 in
1885 Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent
for the gramophone. It was granted on May 4, 1886.
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Swampy Marsh, the young Australian father-to-be, is waiting
anxiously outside the maternity ward where his wife is having
their first baby. He is pacing the floor when the nurse comes out
and says, "You have a little boy, Mr. Marsh, but you had better
go out and have a cup of coffee, because there may be another
one."
Swampy turns a little pale and leaves.
Some time later he phones the hospital and is told that he the
father of twins, but the nurse cautions, "There is another on the
way, so call back later."
At that Swampy decides that coffee is not strong enough, so he
goes to a bar and has some beer. When he phones the hospital
again he is told that the third baby has arrived and a fourth is on
the way. White-faced, he stumbles to the bar and orders a
double scotch.
Twenty minutes later, he tries to phone again, but he is so
drunk that he dials the wrong number and gets the recorded
cricket game score. When they pick him up off the floor the
recording is still going strong:
"The score is ninety-six all out," says the voice, "and the last
one was a duck."
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Bob took his 4 year old Josh, out to McDonald's for
dinner one evening for a "guy night".
As they were eating hamburgers, Josh asked
"Daddy, what are these little things on the
hamburger buns?"
He responded that they were tiny seeds and
were ok to eat.
Josh was quiet for a couple of minutes
and obviously in deep thought.
Finally, Josh looked up and said,
"Dad, if we go home and plant these seeds in our
backyard, we will have enough hamburgers to
last forever."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Shamon West,
21,
Pine Bluff,
Arkansas
Arkansas purse thief nabbed by the waitress,
whose purse he had stolen, when he
used her credit card to pay for his meal.
Authorities say an Arkansas thief got his just deserts when he
tried to pay for a meal using the waitress' stolen credit card.
Police spokesman Lt. David De Foor said in a news release that
officers arrested 21-year-old Shamon West on Tuesday at Shannon's
Restaurant in Pine Bluff. He says that "having no desire to pay for
the fellow's meal," waitress Flora Lunsford called to report that
the man had tried paying for his meal with her stolen credit card.
De Foor says officers found other items on West that had been in
Lunsford's purse when it was stolen from her car Sunday at a nearby
gas station while she was inside the station, including her Social
Security card and driver's license.
West is being held at the Jefferson County jail in lieu of $2,840
bond on forgery and theft by receiving charges.
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From: Kathleen
Re: Separate Window
Dear Webby
I saw one of the IT guys pop from a link on a page to a fresh
window, without overwriting the one where the link was. I asked
him how he did that and he managed o confuse not only me,
but also himself.
So, how is it done?
Kathleen
Dear Kathleen
Just hold down SHIFT and click the link.
If the link is just to a small pop-up, then hold down CTRL
while you click the link.
That's all there is to it.
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"You are all part of our team now," said the Human Resources rep
during the welcoming briefing. "You get all the usual benefits and
you can go to the cafeteria for something to eat, but please don't
eat any employees."
The cannibals promised they would not. Four weeks later their boss
remarked, "You're all working very hard and I'm satisfied with
your work. We have noticed a marked increase in the whole company's
performance. However, one of our secretaries has disappeared. Do
any of you know what happened to her?" The cannibals all shook
their heads, "No"
After the boss had left, the leader of the cannibals said to the
others, "Which one of you idiots ate the secretary?"
A hand rose hesitantly.
"You fool!" the leader continued. "For four weeks we've been eating
managers and no one noticed anything. But NOOOooo, you had to go
and eat someone who actually does something."
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Each evening bird lover Tom stood in his backyard, hooting like
an owl - and one night, an owl finally called back to him.
For a year, the man and his feathered friend hooted back and
forth. He even kept a log of the "conversation"...
Just as he thought he was on the verge of a breakthrough in
interspecies communication, his wife had a chat with her next
door neighbor.
"My husband spends his nights ... calling out to owls," she said.
"That's odd," the neighbor replied. "So does my husband!"
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Bathroom Maintenance
A good way to keep your tub or shower clean is to wipe it
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to dry yourself. Teach your kids to do the same. Your tub
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I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside
her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked.
She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to
this remote door un-locker. Now I can't get into my
car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant
convenient store) would have a battery to fit this?"
"Hmmm, I Dunno. Do you have an alarm too?" I asked.
"No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing
it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and
manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you
drive over there and check about the batteries...it's
a long walk."
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The skydiving instructor was going through the question and
answer period with his new students when one of them asked
the usual question always asked:
"If our chute doesn't open; and the reserve doesn't open,
how long would we have till we hit the ground?"
The jump master looked at him and in perfect deadpan
answered:
"The rest of your life."
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Today, June 27 in
0363 The death of Roman Emperor Julian brought an end to the Pagan
Revival.
1693 "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London.
It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and
answer" column that became known as a "problem page."
1743 King George II of England defeated the French at Dettingen,
Bavaria, in the War of the Austrian Succession.
1787 Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire." It was published the following May.
1801 British forces defeated the French and took control of Cairo,
Egypt.
1847 New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
1871 The yen became the new form of currency in Japan.
1885 Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent
for the gramophone. It was granted on May 4, 1886.
1893 The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600
banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1905 The battleship Potemkin succumbed to a mutiny on the Black
Sea.
1918 Two German pilots were saved by parachutes for the first time.
1923 Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch was wounded by Serb attackers
in Belgrade.
1927 The U.S. Marines adopted the English bulldog as their mascot.
1929 Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York revealed a system
for transmitting television pictures.
1931 Igor Sikorsky filed U.S. Patent 1,994,488, which marked a
breakthrough in helicopter technology.
1940 Robert Pershing Wadlow was measured by Dr. Cyril MacBryde and
Dr. C. M. Charles. They recorded his height at 8' 11.1." He was
only 22 at the time of his death on July 15, 1940.
1942 The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had
been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
1944 During World War II, American forces completed their capture
of the French port of Cherbourg from the German army.
1949 "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" premiered on the Dumont
Television Network.
1950 Two days after North Korea invaded South Korea, U.S. President
Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict.
The
United Nations Security Council had asked for member nations to
help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
1954 The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near
Moscow.
1955 The first "Wide Wide World" was broadcast on NBC-TV.
1955 The state of Illinois enacted the first automobile seat belt
legislation.
1959 The play, "West Side Story," with music by Leonard Bernstein,
closed after 734 performances on Broadway.
1961 Arthur Michael Ramsey was enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of
Canterbury.
1964 Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It only lasted
38 days.
1967 The world's first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays
Bank in Enfield, England. The device was invented by John Sheppard-
Barron. The machine operated on a voucher system and the maximum
withdrawal was $28.
1967 Two hundred people were arrested during a race riot in
Buffalo, NY.
1969 Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's
Greenwich Village, clashed with police. This incident is considered
to be the birth of the homosexual rights movement.
1972 Bobby Hull signed a 10-year hockey contract for $2,500,000. He
became a player and coach of the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey
Association.
1973 Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate
Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" that was kept by the
Nixon White House.
1973 Nixon vetoed a Senate ban on bombing Cambodia.
1980 U.S. President Carter signed legislation reviving draft
registration.
1984 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual colleges could
make their own TV package deals.
1984 The Federal Communications Commission moved to deregulate U.S.
commercial TV by lifting most programming requirements and ending
day-part restrictions on advertising.
1985 Route 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway
System.
1985 The U.S. House of Representatives voted to limit the use of
combat troops in Nicaragua.
1986 The World Court ruled that the U.S. had broken international
law by aiding Nicaraguan rebels.
1995 Qatar's Crown Prince Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani ousted
his father in a bloodless palace coup.
1998 An English woman was impregnated with her dead husband's sperm
after two-year legal battle over her right to the sperm.
1998 In a live joint news conference in China U.S. President
Clinton and President Jiang Zemin offered an uncensored airing of
differences on human rights, freedom, trade and Tibet.
2002 In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission required
companies with annual sales of more than $1.2 billion to submit
sworn statements backing up the accuracy of their financial
reports.
2005 In Alaska's Denali National Park, a roughly 70-million year
old dinosaur track was discovered. The track was form a three-toed
Cretaceous period dinosaur.
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Today is Tuesday, June 26
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Todays Bonehead Award:
French Teen detained for two weeks after
jogging across Canada-US border
Bonehead
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Today, June 26 in
1976 In Toronto, Canada, the CN Tower opened to the public. The
official opening date is listed as October 1, 1976. It was the
world's tallest free-standing stucture and the world's tallest
tower until 2010.
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Nothing is said that has not been said before.
--- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
He that is of the opinion money will do everything
may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
--- Benjamin Franklin
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>From Linda
True Story....my friend had a date and didn't have time to eat
supper. She grabbed a few dates to help tide her over and went
upstairs to change for the date. When the guy came....a different
guy than she'd ever gone out with before....her mom said "She's
upstairs changing and eating her last date."
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Deer family playing in a puddle during a thunderstorm
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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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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Cedella Roman, 19
White Rock,
BC
French Teen detained for two weeks after
jogging across Canada-US border
A young French woman was held by US border control for two weeks
after she accidentally crossed the border when she went for a jog.
Cedella Roman, 19, ran across the border just south of the town of
White Rock in Canada’s British Columbia, into the US state of
Washington on the evening of May 21. She headed back when the tide
began to come in, going up toward a dirt path before stopping to
take a photo of the stunning scenery, then turned around to retrace
her steps.
It was then that she was apprehended by two US Border Patrol
officers who told her she had crossed illegally and had been caught
on camera. ‘I told him I had not done it on purpose, and that I
didn’t understand what was happening,’ she said.
Roman protested that she hadn’t seen any warning signs, and didn’t
initially anticipate how serious the matter would become. ‘I said
to myself, well I may have crossed the border – but they’ll
probably only give me a fine or they’ll tell me to go back to
Canada or they’ll give me a warning.’ Complicating matters, Roman,
who had come to Canada to visit her mother and work on her English,
wasn’t carrying any government-issued ID on her at the time.
She was transferred by the officers to the Tacoma Northwest
Detention Center, run by the Department of Homeland Security, 200
kilometers (120 miles) south. ‘They put me in the caged vehicles
and brought me into their facility,’ she said. ‘They asked me to
remove all my personal belongings with my jewelry, they searched me
everywhere.
‘Then I understood it was getting very serious, and I started to
cry a bit.’ When she reached the centre, she contacted her mother,
Christiane Ferne, who quickly reached the centre with her passport
and study permits – but the workers at the site said the documents
would have to be verified by Canadian authorities. She was held at
the centre for two weeks before the matter was resolved and she was
allowed to return to Canada.
Ferne said the lack of clear signs had led to her daughter’s
predicament. ‘It’s like a trap… anybody can be caught at the border
like this,’ she said. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed to CBC that Roman was discharged on June 6. But neither
the ICE nor Immigration Canada would comment further on the case,
citing privacy concerns. A spokesperson for the US Customs and
Border Protection told CBC that anyone who enters the US outside an
official port of entry and without inspection has crossed the
border illegally and will be detained. ‘This applies regardless of
whether or not the individual claims to have inadvertently crossed
the border,’ the department said.
The Peace Arch and huge US border station are about a quarter mile
south of the border but clearly visible from two miles away.
The Canadian Welcome sign is about that far north of the border.
The beach is about 50 feet from the border station. The customs
officers have always looked out the windows on the West, just in
case some bikinis were bouncing by. I used to party there with
friends in the early 70s. Even then you had to have some legal ID
to show, if the customs officers asked for it. It was always a
friendly and low key affair, but they made sure you carried legal
ID, even in those days. In those days and until 9/11 a drivers
license was enough for Canadians to cross the border into the US
and for Americans to cross into Canada.
On the road there was always a lot of commuting to work, Americans
working in BC and Canadians working in the US. During rush hour,
having a hard hat or lunch kit on the dash got you waved through
with a nod. 9/11 changed that quite brutally.
They probably suspected that she was scouting a route for illegal
immigrants, and telling everybody in France how easy it was to get
into the USA from Canada.
Looks like they smartened her up!
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From: Ginny
Re: Move taskbar icons
Dear Webby
Is there a way to move the icons on the taskbar so that they
are in the order that I use them? I can only re-arrange the
icons in the little hot-bar section by the START, but the rest
of the task bar, that has the buttons for programs that are
running, there Windows won't let me move them.
Thanks
Ginny
Dear Ginny
Before Windows 7 we used to have to use the Taskbar Shuffler from
http://nerdcave.webs.com/
Nowadays you can drag them.
Carefully put the cursor onto a grey corner of a taskbar icon,
hold down the left mouse button and drag the icon to where you want
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Planning a weekend of entertaining guests, I made a list of
things I needed to do, including taking food out of the
freezer and grocery shopping.
As it happened, a friend whom I had been promising to take
to lunch asked if we could make it that Friday.
So, hopping into the car, I taped my "to do" list to the
dashboard and went and picked her up.
As she settled into the car, her face dropped.
"Thanks a lot!" she sulked.
Then I glanced at my list and saw the first item:
"Take out the Turkey."
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An agriculture student said to a farmer: "Your methods are too old
fashioned. I won't be surprised if this tree will give you less
than twenty pounds of apples."
"I won't be surprised either," said the farmer, "From orange trees
like this, I expect about 120 pounds of oranges".
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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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Today, June 26 in
1096 Peter the Hermit's crusaders forced their way across Sava,
Hungary.
1243 The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out by the
Mongols.
1483 Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.
1794 The French defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas
River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1819 The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
1870 The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, was
opened to the public.
1894 The American Railway Union called a general strike in sympathy
with Pullman workers.
1900 The United States announced that it would send troops to fight
against the Boxer rebellion in China.
1900 A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight
against the deadly disease yellow fever.
1907 Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken
against revolutionaries.
1908 Shah Muhammad Ali's forces squelched the reform elements of
Parliament in Persia.
1917 General John "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with the
American Expeditionary Force.
1925 Charlie Chaplin's comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered in
Hollywood.
That was the only movie about Canada that I had seen before I
immigrated.
1924 After eight years of occupation, American troops left the
Dominican Republic.
1927 The Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster opened in New York.
1936 The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 made its first flight. It is often
considered the first practical helicopter.
1942 The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time.
1945 The U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco,
CA.
1948 The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France
started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
1951 The Soviet Union proposed a cease-fire in the Korean War.
1959 U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II
in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1961 A Kuwaiti vote opposed Iraq's annexation plans.
1963 U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner"
(I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.
1971 The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel
Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
1974 In Troy, Ohio, a Marsh supermarket installed the first bar
code scanning equipment, made by IBM, and a product with a bar code
was scanned for the first time. The product was Juicy Fruit gum.
1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of
emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy."
1976 In Toronto, Canada, the CN Tower opened to the public. The
official opening date is listed as October 1, 1976. It was the
world's tallest free-standing stucture and the world's tallest
tower until 2010.
1979 Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was retiring
as world heavyweight boxing champion.
1996 The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute
to admit women or forgo state support.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency
Act of 1996 that made it illegal to distribute indecent material on
the Internet.
1997 J.K. Rowlings book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
was published in the U.K. The book was later released in the U.S.
under the name "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." This was
the first book in the Harry Potter series.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that allow for a ban
on doctor-assisted suicides.
1998 The U.S. and Peru open school to train commandos to patrol
Peru's rivers for drug traffickers.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always
potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an
employee.
2000 The Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corp. jointly
announced that they had created a working draft of the human
genome.
2000 Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a state of
emergency in the Moluccas due to the escalation of fighting between
Christians and Muslims.
2001 Ray Bourque (Colorado Avalanche) announced his retirement just
17 days after winning his first Stanley Cup. Bouque retired after
22 years and held the NHL record for highest-scoring defenseman and
playing in 19 consecutive All-Star games.
2002 David Hasseloff checked into The Betty Ford Center for
treatment of alcoholism.
2002 WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Monday, June 25, 2018, 09:20 AM
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Todays Bonehead Award:
Florida woman arrested for meth after
claiming children are missing
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1950 North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
--- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two
percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
--- Lily Tomlin
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not
know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
--- Theodore Roosevelt
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A Cop came to my house this morning. He asked me where I was in
between five and six. He seemed irritated when I said kindergarten.
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In the subway train the conversation turned to the merits and
demerits of various ways of preserving health.
One stout, florid man held forth with great eloquence on the
subject. "Look at me!" he said. "Never a day's sickness in my
life, and all due to simple food. Why, gentlemen," he continued,
"from the age of twenty to that of forty I lived an absolutely
simple regular life --- no effeminate delicacies, no late hours, no
extravagances. Every day, in fact, summer and winter, I was in bed
regularly at nine o'clock and up again at five in the morning.
I worked from eight to one, then had dinner--a plain dinner,
mark my words: after that, an hour's exercise; then.."
"Excuse me, sir," interrupted the facetious stranger in the corner,
"but what were you in prison for???"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Misty Brock, 39,
Funiak Springs,
Florida
Florida woman arrested for meth after
claiming children are missing
A woman from DeFuniak Springs who initially claimed her two
children had been kidnapped was arrested for possession of
methamphetamine and false 911 calls after her children were found
safe and sound, according to a press release.
Misty Michelle Brock, 39, was charged with false 911 calls,
resisting an officer without violence and making a false report to
law enforcement by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. She was
additionally charged with possession of paraphernalia and
possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell.
According to JCSO, Brock called dispatch reporting that her two
children, ages two and five, had gone missing from her vehicle at
the Chevron Station on Highway 231 and that she believed they were
in a semi-truck that had just departed the area. The call triggered
a response from JSCO, along with FHP, Cottondale Police, the Bay
County Sheriff’s Office and Houston County Sheriff’s Office as a
BOLO (Be on the Lookout) was issued for the semi-truck.
During the course of the investigation, deputies noted that Brock
displayed several signs that she was under the influence of an
illegal substance. A review of security footage showed no children
in Brock’s car. Brock was allegedly unable to provide consistent
information about her travel itinerary or even what her children
were wearing.
A JCSO Investigator traveled to the children’s father’s home, where
they were located and determined to have been all day. Contact had
also been made with Brock’s mother who provided the same
information. When deputies tried to relay this information to Brock
she stated those children were impostors, according to the press
release.
During the investigation, several items of paraphernalia were
allegedly found in Brock’s purse, along with five grams of “high
grade” methamphetamine. As she was being transported to the jail,
Brock was reportedly claiming to see her children under vehicles.
Tech Support Pits
From: Helga
Re: MS Office or Libre Office
Dear Webby
What is the difference between MS Office and Open Office?
I have to get one of them. Which one do you recommend?
Helga
Dear Helga
The biggest diffeernce that I can see is that you can install
Open Office on a shirt pocket USB hard drive and run it
from there when you plug it into any computer's USB port.
And unlike Microsoft Office, it is free.
With MS Office you would need to buy a license and pay annual
license fees for each machine, with the free Open Office you got
everything, from settings and preferences to your documents,
spreadsheets and pictures on your portable hard drive or thumb
drive, and basically just "borrow" the keybaord and the printer and
hardware of the computer that you plug it into.
The included features are about the same. Whichever one
you learn, that's the one you will be good at, and that one
will be your preferred choice. There is no single feature
that I an think of that is available in only one of them, except
maybe the ability to create PDF files. You can do that with
Libre Office, but if you have MS Office, you need to shell
out another $450 to get Adobe Acrobat Professional to do
the same. Microsoft was going to include it, but backed off
at the last minute, when Adobe threatened to sue. Seems there
was more copying than inspiration involved.
Since you don't have either one yet, and would not have to
un-learn and trade the peculiarities of one of them for those
of the other, I would recommend Libre Office.
You can download it free at
https://www.libreoffice.org/
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The newly wed wife said to her husband when he returned from
work: "I have great news for you. Pretty soon we're going to
be three in this house instead of two."
The husband started glowing with happiness and kissing his
wife said: "Oh darling, I'm the happiest man in the world."
But then she said: "I'm glad that you feel that way because
tomorrow morning my mother moves in with us."
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At a nursing home in Miami, Florida, a group of Senior
Citizens were sitting around talking about their ailments:
"My arms are so weak I can hardly lift this cup of coffee,"
said one.
"Yes, I know. My cataracts are so bad I can't even see my
coffee," replied another.
"I can't turn my head because of the arthritis in my neck,"
said a third, to which several nodded weakly in agreement.
"My blood pressure pills make me dizzy,".... another went on.
"I guess that's the price we pay for getting old," winced
an old man as he slowly shook his head. Then there was a
short moment of silence.
"Well, it's not that bad," said one woman cheerfully.
"Thank God we can all still drive."
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A woman with 14 children, ranging in age from one to
fourteen, went to court to sue her husband for divorce on
grounds of desertion.
"When did he leave you?" the judge asked.
"Thirteen years ago," the tired mother replied.
The judge was confused. "If he left thirteen
years ago, where did all these children come from?"
"Well," said the woman, "he kept coming back to
say he was sorry."
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The young Southern belle came to the hospital for a check-up.
"Have you ever been x-rayed?", asked the doctor.
"Nope," she replied, "But ah've been ultra-violated a few times."
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Today, June 25 in
0841 Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated Lothar at
Fontenay.
1080 At Brixen, a council of bishops declared Pope Gregory to be
deposed and Archbishop Guibert as antipope Clement III.
1580 The Book of Concord was first published. The book is a
collection of doctrinal standards of the Lutheran Church.
1658 Aurangzeb proclaimed himself emperor of the Moghuls in India.
1767 Mexican Indians rioted as Jesuit priests were ordered home.
1864 Union troops surrounding Petersburg, VA, began building a mine
tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
1867 Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire.
1868 The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour
day to workers employed by the Federal government.
1870 In Spain, Queen Isabella abdicated in favor of Alfonso XII.
1876 Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were
killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana.
The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."
1876 In Philadelphia, PA, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the
telephone for Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and Emperor Pedro
II of Brazil at the Centennial Exhibition.
1906 Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and
railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White.
White,
a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit
before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premeire of
Mamzelle Champagne in New York.
1910 The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.
1917 The first American fighting troops landed in France.
1920 The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.
1921 Samuel Gompers was elected head of the AFL for the 40th time.
1938 Gaelic scholar Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first
president of the Irish Republic.
1941 Finland declared war on the Soviet Union after securing help
from Germany.
1946 Ho Chi Minh traveled to France for talks on Vietnamese
independence.
1948 The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by
intercepting river barges heading for the city.
1950 North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
1951 In New York, the first regular commercial color TV
transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS
Color System. The public did not own color TV's at the time.
1959 The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new
agrarian reform law.
1959 Eamon De Valera became president of Ireland at the age of 76.
1962 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-
denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1964 U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to
Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights
workers.
1970 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a
ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put
telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person
being called.
1973 Erskine Childers Jr. became president of Ireland after the
retirement of Eamon De Valera.
1973 White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President
Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1975 Mozambique became independent. Samora Machel was sworn in as
president after 477 years of Portuguese rule.
1981 The U.S. Supreme Court decided that male-only draft
registration was constitutional.
1986 The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the Contras
fighting in Nicaragua.
1987 Austrian President Kurt Waldheim visited Pope John Paul II at
the Vatican. The meeting was controversial due to allegations that
Waldheim had hidden his Nazi past.
1990 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual,
whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical
treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs.
Missouri case.
1991 The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the
Warsaw Pact invasion.
1991 The Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared their
independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 Kim Campbell took office as Canada's first woman prime
minister. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.
1997 The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned cargo
vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and the station's
Spektr module was severely damaged.
1997 U.S. air pollution standards were significantly tightened by
U.S. President Clinton.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby
striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax
and spending legislation.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are
protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
1998 Microsoft's "Windows 98" was released to the public.
1999 Germany's parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to
be built in Berlin.
2000 U.S. and British researchers announced that they had completed
a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup of human beings. The
project was 10 years old at the time of the announcement.
2000 A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed
against America Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who
were forced to view "pop-up" advertisements.
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Todays Bonehead Award:
English secondary school makes boys wear skirts
to make transgender students feel more at home.
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Today, June 24 in
1675 King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists
at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
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I always judge of them by their actions.
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Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the opposing
lawyers.
"So," he said, "I have been presented, by both of you, with a
bribe."
Both lawyers squirmed uncomfortably. "You, attorney Morris, gave me
$15,000. And you, attorney Campos, gave me $10,000. In all
honesty I cannot fairly accept two bribes."
The judge reached into his pocket and pulled out a check. He handed
it to Morris saying, "Now then, I'm returning $5,000, and we're
going to decide this case solely on its merits!"
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Two confirmed bachelors are talking and their conversation
drifts from politics to cooking.
"I got a cookbook last Christmas," says the first, "but I
could never do anything with it."
"Too much fancy cooking in it, eh?" asks the second.
"You said it. Every one of the recipes began the same way,
'Take a clean dish and ...'"
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has been earned by
Secondary school
Oxfordshire, England
English secondary school makes boys wear skirts
to make transgender students feel more at home.
A private secondary school in Oxfordshire, England is banning its
male students from wearing shorts during the summer months, and is
instead requesting that they wear a more "gender neutral" ensemble
that includes that staple of men's athletic wear: The skirt.
According to the Daily Mail, Chiltern Edge Secondary School's rule
change comes after an unfavorable ruling by a government agency
tasked with overseeing educational standards.
School leaders said the skirts were a "more formal" alternative to
shorts, regardless of how uncomfortable they might make male
students at the school.
Unsurprisingly, parents are complaining about the bizarre school
dress code, which is part of a larger trend of schools adopting
"gender neutral" uniforms to make transgender students feel more at
home,
and alienate the straight ones.
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From: SueEllea
Re: Coping with hotels
Dear Webby
In my new positon, I have to do a fair bit of traveling, and
so far I don't like the computer part of it one bit. My
daughter told me that you travel a lot and have written
about that before. Well, you haven't, since I signed up.
Hopefully the other subscribers won't be bored if you write
an update on your travel tips.
Thanks
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Dear SueElla
The biggest nuisance with traveling is that most hotels use
high tables and low chairs. Nobody knows why, but even
hotels that claim to be business oriented and have office
type swivel chairs, use ridiculously high tables. Most
hotel tables come from China and just like un-hemmed
bargain pants, the legs are way too long and need to be trimmed
for the actually needed length. Unfortunately, that is
too challenging for hotel staff.
I cope with that problem by carrying a 5/16" thick piece of
plexiglass trimmed to precisely fit into the lid of my big
wheeled carryon. Well, nowadays I can't take it on board
a plane any more and I have to check it through, but that
piece of plexiglass has travelled with me for about 20 years.
When I get to a hotel, I jam it into a partly opened dresser
or night table drawer, and set my laptop on that. Then the
separate keyboard, that I also take along, is at the perfect
height for maximum typing speed while sitting in a low hotel
chair.
Yes, I take a regular keyboard along, with proper numeric
keypad. I also take along a 5 button mouse. I am used to using the
side buttons for copying and pasting.
I also take along the following:
Wireless DSL modem card
15 foot network cable
20 foot telephone cable
Female-Female telephone cable connector
Telephone line one-to-two splitter
20 foot light weight extension cord (Lamp Cord)
Two 5 watt LED lightbulbs
Print-out of Earthlink access numbers for the areas
that I travel to.
Naturally, I try to go to hotels that have wireless high-
speed connections, but sometimes the room is too far
away from the transmitter or the max number of people
are already logged on by the time I get set up. Then old
fashioned dial-up is better than nothing.
I have to say that Earthlink has never let me down, even
overseas, however, since their support was moved to Asia,
it has deteriorated. Instead of joking with a valley girl, you are
now arguing with somebody, who does not speak Engrish very well.
That is why you need that print-out of all the local access
numbers.
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A salesman of many years is tired of his job and gives it
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likes his new work.
"Well," says the salesman-turned-cop, "the pay is excellent
and the hours aren't bad. But what I like best is that the
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A scout for one of the leading colleges went to the office of
the athletic director and announced, "Have I got an athlete
for you! This guy can play every sport and excels at every
position. He is absolutely the finest athlete I have ever
seen play."
The athletic director was very impressed but had to ask the
question, "But how is he scholastically?"
The scout replied, "He makes straight "A"s in every subject.
However, I must tell you his "B"s are a little crooked."
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with a variety of pegs and hooks and store tools that you
need to have handy.
You can also get mop closet organizers that grip the handles
properly with soft cushion grips. That way wet tools don't
drool down the handle and leave a blister causing crust,
and it helps to keep the lower end of the handle from drying
out and getting sloppy. A tight fitting tool tires you out a
lot less.
A mop handle rack with six spring loaded cusion grips is
usually around $4.95 and holds anything except heavy sledge
hammers.
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As an instructor in driver education at the local
area High School, I've learned that even the
brightest students can become flustered behind
the wheel.
One day I had three beginners in the car, each
scheduled to drive for 30 minutes.
When the first student had completed his time, I
asked him to change places with one of the others.
Gripping the wheel tightly and staring straight
ahead, he asked in a shaky voice, "Should I
stop the car first?"
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My wife and I are teachers, and our jobs often spill over
into our family life. One morning, as our eight-year-old
Maggie was getting ready for school, I peeked into her
room just to be sure she had tidied it up.
"You call THAT a made bed?" I asked.
"No, Dad," Maggie replied. "It's just a rough draft."
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Today, June 24 in
1314 Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of
England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
1340 The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the
Flemish coast.
1497 Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of
England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
1509 Henry VIII was crowned King of England.
1664 New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1675 King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at
Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1717 The Freemasons were founded in London.
1793 The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1812 Napoleon crossed the Nieman River and invaded Russia.
1844 Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized
rubber.
1859 At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the
Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon III defeated the
Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy.
1861 Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias
Point, Virginia.
1862 U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu
forts in China.
1869 Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen
in San Francisco, CA.
1910 The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1913 Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria
following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1931 The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of
neutrality.
1940 France signed an armistice with Italy.
1940 TV cameras were used for the first time in a political
convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1941 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support
to the Soviet Union.
1947 Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt.
Rainier, Washington.
1948 The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1955 Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering
Strait.
1964 The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965,
cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on
their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1968 "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the
Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by
authorities.
1970 The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution.
1982 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no president could be
sued for damages connected with actions taken while serving as
President of the United States.
1985 Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.
1986 The Empire State Building was designated a National Historic
Landmark.
1997 The U.S. Air Force released a report titled "The Roswell
Report, Case Closed" that dismissed the claims that an alien
spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947.
1998 AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-
Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
1998 Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.
2002 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must
make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
2002 A painting from Monet's Waterlilies series sold for $20.2
million.
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Today is Saturday, June 23
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Todays Bonehead Award:
Florida woman, clocked at 73 mph in 40 mph zone,
admits to 'swerving' and being drunk
Bonehead
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Today, June 23 in
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an
invention that he called a "Type-Writer."
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author
if the line is good.
--- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment
to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater
profundity than they really are.
--- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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A civil servant is badly hurt falling down the stairs of the
Ministry of Absorption in Jerusalem. He is taken to Hadassah
hospital where he remains in a coma for several days.
Finally, an eye opens and his doctor tells him:
"My friend, I have bad news and I have good news. First of all,
you'll never be able to work again..."
"Nu," muttered the injured bureaucrat. "What's the bad news?"
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"TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR DEAD NEIGHBORS"
If you share a home with a friend or relative, be thankful.
They will give you company and support. And if you happen to
die, they will miss you dearly, especially when the dishes
start to pile up.
Not everyone is so lucky.
A 40-year-old woman in Marburg, Germany, lay dead in her
apartment for more than 10 months before police found her
body. The body was discovered only because the landlord
cared enough to ask, "Where's my darn rent?"
The woman's neighbors hadn't noticed anything strange. They
had apparently assumed she was hibernating. Just like Al
Gore.
Such cases seem to be a major problem in Germany, where
death often arrives a few months, even a few years, before
the undertaker. That's partly because of the country's
efficient banking system, which makes automatic bill-paying
so easy, even dead people can do it.
In 1998, a Hamburg man was found dead on his sofa. He had
expired five years earlier, but, sitting in front of his
television, he looked just as lively as most men. The only
thing missing was a sign that said, "I'd get up to answer
the door, but I'm dead tired."
Unfortunately Germany isn't the only country where dead
people are taking up valuable apartment space. Russian
workers once found a man's skeletal remains in a room in a
communal apartment. He had been dead for five years, but the
families sharing the other rooms were too preoccupied to
realize that a room was available.
Even people with roommates sometimes find themselves
neglected, as did 43-year-old William Everett Delaney. The
Key West, Florida, man lay dead on his kitchen floor for two
months. His 78-year-old roommate recalled that Delaney had
fallen on the floor, but thought he was still alive, perhaps
doing some close-up research on the kitchen tiles.
The roommate offered to take Delaney to the hospital or get
him something to eat or drink, but when Delaney didn't
reply, the roommate made the only logical conclusion:
Delaney was very stubborn.
The 78-year-old stepped over Delaney's body for two months,
probably shaking his head and thinking, "I wish he'd get up
and help me clean the kitchen. It's starting to get an awful
smell."
Nobody deserves to die so anonymously. That's why it's
important to check on your neighbors regularly, especially
if they're elderly. Just knock on their doors and ask if
they're OK.
You: "Hello! Is anyone there?"
Female neighbor (shouting from behind her door): "Whatever
you're selling, we don't want any. That includes religion."
You: "I'm not selling anything. I'm your neighbor. Just
stopping by to make sure you aren't dead."
Neighbor: "Dead? No, I don't think I'm dead. But I'm not
sure about my husband. He hasn't moved from the couch since
1983. Do you think that's abnormal?"
You: "Only if he isn't holding the remote."
If you don't want to disturb your neighbors, keep a lookout
for signs that they may have died years ago. Here are a few
telltales:
---The grass around their home is so tall, the Boy Scouts
want to camp there.
---Their blue Volvo has gradually turned white, getting a
free paint job from the birds.
---They have a sign on their driveway that reads, "Grover
Cleveland for President."
---They're still flying the confederate flag.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Stormi Winters, 29
St. Johns County Jail,
Florida
Florida woman, clocked at 73 mph in 40 mph zone,
admits to 'swerving' and being drunk
A St. Johns County woman was jailed on a misdemeanor DUI charge
after she was pulled over in the 1800 block of A1A in St.
Augustine.
Stormi Winters, 29, was stopped at 11:24 p.m. on Wednesday by a St.
Johns County deputy, an arrest report said.
Deputies said Winters was spotted driving erratically in her 2016
Kia on A1A. The arrest report said that Winters was speeding and
"violently turning left" instead of merging.
Winters was clocked going 73 mph in a 40 mph zone, deputies said.
She was asked if she knew why she was pulled over, she replied,
"Because I was swerving all over the road." When she was asking why
she was swerving, she replied, "Because I have been drinking," the
report said.
Winters was texting "frantically" on her phone when she was pulled
over, the arrest report said. She told deputies that she consumed
"two or three" drinks at "Dunes." She was trying to get home to her
6-year-old son, the report said.
Winters is being held in the St. Johns County Jail on $1,000 bond.
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Re: Launcher
Dear Webby
You once mentioned a program launcher to replace shortcut icons.
I use a lot of programs that I don't really want to advertise
on my work machine with shortcut icons, so that launcher would
be a good solution, if it is still available.
Thanks
Leonard
Dear Leonard
Yes, launchy is still available.
http://launchy.net/
Millions of us just love it!
For those of you, who don't know about it, it is a microscopic
little program that launches whatever you want, by typing the first
letter or two of that program name, and hitting Enter.
ALT Spacebar opens Launchy. Then you type, for example W
it suggests "Word" and you hit Enter. WORD starts up, as if you had
found the shortcut icon and double-clicked it.
A for Ancestry. H for humor letter, and so on.
If you have many programs starting with W, it shows you a list of
them, for example
Wordpad
Weather
Wikipedia
You use the arrow keys to highlight the one you want,
and hit ENTER. You never have to take your fingers off the keyboard
and wrestle the cat for the mouse.
If you type numbers, it is a calculator.
There are countless different "skins" available. I use a very basic
black background with a white entry line with black text. You can
use the default or pick whatever "skin" you like. Just pick one
and figure out what you would like instead. It would take you years
to try them all.
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"Mommy, my turtle is dead," the little boy, Futh, sorrowfully
told his mother, holding the turtle out to her in his hand.
The mother kissed him on the head, then said," That's all right.
We'll wrap him in tissue paper, put him in a little box, then have
a nice burial ceremony in the back yard. After that, we'll go out
for an ice cream soda, and then get you a new pet.
"Ice cream?" the little boy said, wiping his tears and smiling,
"Oh! Boy!"
His mother said, "I don't want you...." Her voice trailed off as
she noticed the turtle move. "Futh, you're turtle is not dead
after all."
"Oh," the disappointed boy said. "Can I kill it?"
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A boy was taking care of his baby sister while his parents went
to town shopping. He decided to go fishing and he had to take her
along.
"I'll never do that again!" he told his mother that evening. "I
didn't catch a thing!"
"Oh, next time I'm sure she'll be quiet and not scare the fish
away," his mother said.
The boy said, "It wasn't that. She ate all the bait."
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David bought his wife a piano for her birthday. A few weeks later,
his friend Bill asked how she was doing with it.
"Oh," said David, "I persuaded her to switch to a clarinet."
"How come?" Bill asked.
"Well," he answered, "because with a clarinet, she can't sing,
plus she can tak it with her, and annoy other people."
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A Texan, a Russian and a New Yorker go into a restaurant in
London. The waiter says, "Excuse me, but if you wanted the
steak you might not get one as there is a shortage."
The Texan said, "What's a shortage?"
The Russian said, "What's a steak...?"
The New Yorker said, "What's excuse me....?"
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Today, June 23 in
1683 William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape
Indians in Pennsylvania.
1700 Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the
Ottoman Empire.
1758 British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at Krefeld
in Germany.
1760 The Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.
1757 Robert Clive defeated the Indians at Plassey and won control
of Bengal.
1836 The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a
provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.
1848 A bloody insurrection of workers in Paris erupted.
1865 Confederate General Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee
chief, surrendered the last sizable Confederate army at Fort
Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention
that he called a "Type-Writer."
1884 A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina.
1902 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple
Alliance for a 12 year duration.
1904 The first American motorboat race got underway on the Hudson
River in New York.
1926 The first lip reading tournament in America was held in
Philadelphia, PA.
1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the
first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1934 Italy gained the right to colonize Albania after defeating the
country.
1938 The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.
1938 Marineland opened near St. Augustine, Florida.
1947 The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President
Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1951 Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire
discussions in the Korean War.
1952 The U.S. Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1966 Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by tear
gas.
1972 U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R.
Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's
Watergate investigation.
2003 Apple Computer Inc. unveiled the new Power Mac desktop
computer.
2004 The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of
nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange
for economic benefits.
2013 In Arizona, aerialist Nik Wallenda completed a quarter mile
tightrope walk over the Little Colorado River Gorge.
My yellow cap is down in that gorge.
2015 NASA's Mars Odyssey completed its 60,000th orbit around Mars.
The spacecraft entered orbit on October 23, 2001.
2015 Verizon announced it had completed its $4.4 billion purchase
of AOL, Inc. Have not heard much about AOL since then.
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Todays Bonehead Award:
Chilling 911 call reveals abuse in Turpin family
Bonehead
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Today, June 22 in
1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other
people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
--- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
--- C. V. R. Thompson
"Miami was voted the worst road rage city. You have 20-year-
olds doing 95, and 95-year-olds doing 20, that's why."
--- Craig Ferguson
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Asked by his third-grade teacher to spell "straight." The
boy did so correctly.
"Now," said the teacher, "what does it mean?"
"Without water."
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THE MILLAU VIADUCT – RECORD FIGURES
Length: 2,460 m (8,071 ft)
Width: 32 m (105 ft)
Maximum height: 343 m (1,125 ft), or 19 m higher than the Eiffel
Tower
Slope: 3.025 %, going up from north to south in the direction
Clermont-Ferrand – Béziers
Curve: 20 km (12.4 miles)
Height of the tallest pier (P2): 245 m (804 ft)
Height of the pylons: 87 m (285 ft)
Number of piers: 7
Length of the spans: Two end spans of 204 m (669 ft) each and six
central spans of 342 m (1,122 ft) each.
Number of stays: 154 (11 pairs per pylon laid out in one mono-axial
layer)
Tension of the stays: from 900 t to 1,200 t for the longest
Weight of the steel deck: 36,000 t, or 5 times that of the Eiffel
Tower
Volume of concrete: 85,000 m3, or 206,000 t
Cost of the construction: 400 Million Euros (585 m USD)
Contract duration: 78 years – 3 years for construction and 75 years
of operations
Structural guarantee: 120 years
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John and Mary were having dinner in a very fine restaurant.
Their waitress, taking another order at a table a few paces
away noticed that John was suddenly and silently sliding
down his chair and under the table, while Mary acted quite
unconcerned.
Their waitress watched as John slid all the way down his
chair and out of sight under the table.
After the waitress finished taking the order, she came over
to the table and said to the woman, "Pardon me, ma'am, but
I think your husband just slid under the table."
The woman calmly looked up at her and replied firmly, "Oh,
no he didn't. In fact, my husband just walked in the front
door."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Louise Turpin, left, and David Turpin, right, sit in
court for a preliminary hearing on June 20, 2018.
Louise Turpin, 49,
David Turpin, 56,
Perris,
California
Chilling 911 call reveals abuse in Turpin family
The 17-year-old girl who called police to report her allegedly
abusive parents in Perris, California, said the house the family
lived in smelled so badly that she could barely breathe, and she
thought she and her 12 siblings might need to go to the doctor.
And when she struggled to remember the address of the home, the 911
operator asked her if she was around the corner from her house.
"Yeah, I think," the girl said. "I've never been out. I don't go
out much."
That chilling 911 call was made public Wednesday as part of a
preliminary hearing in the case against David and Louise Turpin,
the California couple accused of holding their 13 children captive
in a "house of horrors."
'I've never been out': Chilling 911 call reveals abuse in Turpin
family
By Sonya Hamasaki and Eric Levenson, CNN
Updated 4:06 AM ET, Thu June 21, 2018
Surveillance shows Turpin siblings' escape
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Surveillance shows Turpin siblings' escape 01:05
Riverside, California (CNN)The 17-year-old girl who called police
to report her allegedly abusive parents in Perris, California, said
the house the family lived in smelled so badly that she could
barely breathe, and she thought she and her 12 siblings might need
to go to the doctor.
And when she struggled to remember the address of the home, the 911
operator asked her if she was around the corner from her house.
"Yeah, I think," the girl said. "I've never been out. I don't go
out much."
That chilling 911 call was made public Wednesday as part of a
preliminary hearing in the case against David and Louise Turpin,
the California couple accused of holding their 13 children captive
in a "house of horrors."
Louise Turpin, left, and David Turpin, right, sit in court for a
preliminary hearing on June 20, 2018.
Louise Turpin, left, and David Turpin, right, sit in court for a
preliminary hearing on June 20, 2018.
Prosecutors say the couple beat and tortured their children, kept
them chained to their beds and starved them- all while the family
dogs were kept clean and well-fed.
They were arrested on January 14 after their 17-year-old daughter
escaped from a window and called 911 on a deactivated cell phone.
The Turpin siblings are comprised of six minors and seven adults,
ranging in age from 2 years old to 29.
David Turpin, 56, and Louise Turpin, 49, pleaded not guilty to more
than 40 charges, including torture, false imprisonment, abuse of a
dependent adult and child abuse. David Turpin also pleaded not
guilty to one count of lewd conduct with a minor.
Despite the horror of the 911 call, the girl's voice sounded
remarkably calm and clear while relating her experience. But the
call, as well as police who responded to the scene, provided
several disturbing new details from the home and the degree to
which the parents controlled their children's lives.
"I can't breathe because of how dirty the house is," the Turpin
daughter said on the call. "We don't take baths. I don't know if we
need to go to the doctor."
Accounts of abuse and starvation
Other Turpin children told investigators they were abused.
A 14-year-old girl said Louise Turpin threw her down the stairs
when she was caught in her mom's room, investigator Brett Rooker of
the Riverside County Sheriff's Office testified.
"She said she was terrified of her mother," he said.
An 11-year-old girl said that Louise Turpin would often punch them
with a closed fist and hit her with an open hand, Riverside County
Deputy Sheriff Daniel Brown testified. The girl said that
sometimes, her mother pulled her hair so forcefully it would lift
her off the ground, Brown said.
The girl said she was "always hungry," he further testified. The
children were fed jalapeno baloney sandwiches while the parents ate
Jersey Mike's, pizza and fries, he said. The girl said Louise
Turpin would buy apple juice but the children weren't allowed to
drink it. She kept pie in the fridge or pantry until it became
moldy and then threw it away.
A doctor who treated the family said the 11-year-old girl was in
the worst condition when the examined her, Patrick Morris,
Supervising Investigator for Riverside County District Attorney,
testified.
She had a body weight percentile of .01 and her mid arm
circumference was equal to that of a 4.5-month-old baby, Morris
testified. The doctor said she had psychosocial dwarfism, stunted
growth due to living in an environment that is abusive or
neglected.
The 15-year-old boy had difficulty walking, vitamin D deficiency,
and visible scoliosis. He told the doctor that he wanted to kill
animals and could predict the future, Morris testified.
The 17-year-old Turpin daughter who made the 911 call weighed about
97 pounds with a BMI of 2.2% when doctors first examined her,
Morris said.
In other parts of the call, told the operator that her parents were
abusive and had chained up two of her sisters, and that she thought
her father had guns in the house. She also said she hadn't taken a
bath in almost a year.
Riverside Deputy Manuel Campos, who responded to the 911 call,
testified on Wednesday that the girl appeared much younger than 17.
"She appears not to bathe regularly," he also said. "There was odor
emitting from her body of one that doesn't bathe regularly."
The girl was shaking on the call and "scared to death" from the
daring escape out of the window, Campos said. She said that she was
kept in the room with her sisters for about 20 hours a day, and
that she was only allowed to leave the room to eat, use the
restroom and brush her teeth, Campos said.
If she broke the rules, she would be disciplined in the form of
knocking on the head, pulling of hair, or being smacked in the
face. After she watched a Justin Bieber video on a cell phone, her
mother choked her, she told Campos.
In addition to the physical abuse, there was a sexual incident with
her father, the girl told police. She said her father pulled her
pants down, grabbed her and put her on his lap. She tried to push
him away, and pulled her pants up, Campos said.
He also tried to force kisses on her mouth, she told Campos, and
this happened about 10 times. The girl said her father told her not
to tell anyone, Campos said.
They remain in custody in lieu of $12 million bail each after
pleading not guilty to all of their charges.
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Re: Spyware Protection
Dear Webby
love your Humor Letter and was wondering if you could
help me...do you know what the best spyware protection
to run on your computer..I am haveing problems
and don't know what to get.
Thanks Pat
Dear Pat
I use Spybot-Search&Destroy from the right side menu
in the Humor Letter. That one is free.
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A woman in my office who had recently divorced after years
of marriage, signed up for a refresher CPR course.
"Is it hard to learn?" someone asked.
"Not at all," my co-worker replied. "Basically you're asked
to breathe life into a dummy. I don't expect to have any
problem. I did that for 12 years."
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Linda is taking the driving portion of her driver's
license exam. She handles most of the maneuvers quite well.
She has a little trouble parallel parking, however, and
winds up a couple of feet from the curb.
"Could you get a little closer?" the examiner asks.
The blonde then unbuckles her seat belt and slides over
toward the examiner. "Now what?"
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fernweh? My longing is for Cades Cove in the Great Smoky
Mountains. The first and only time I visited it I cried all the
way through because it felt like I had "come home."Â I also have a
longing for Scotland, Ireland and England, and have always felt I
didn't belong in this time period either.
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HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?
You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling
at the same kids.
--- Derrick, age 8
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?
Both don't want any more kids.
--- Lori, age 8
IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?
It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need
someone to clean up after them.
--- Anita, age 9
HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED?
There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there?
--- Kelvin, age 8
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A fellow got up one Saturday morning with the odd feeling
that something about this day was to be different.
Something unusual WAS about to happen today.
He glanced out the window at the thermometer:
33 degrees. He went downstairs - the clock had
stopped at 3 o'clock. He picked up the newspaper
and read the date: the 3rd of the month.
Threes - that was it! He grabbed the paper and
flipped it open to the racing section. Sure enough
in the 3rd race, there was a horse named Trio!
The fellow hurried to the bank, drew out his life
savings and bet it all on the horse to win.
The horse finished 3rd.
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Today, June 22 in
1558 The French took the French town of Thioville from the English.
1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other
people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
1772 Slavery was outlawed in England.
1807 British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading
to the War of 1812.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
1832 J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.
1874 Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of
osteopathy.
1909 The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.
1911 King George V of England was crowned.
1915 Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as
the Russians retreat.
1925 France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in
Morocco.
1933 Germany became a one political party country when Hitler
banned parties other than the Nazis.
1939 The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach,
on Long Island, New York.
1940 France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms
dictated by the Nazis.
1941 Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet
Union.
1942 A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the
Columbia River.
1942 V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time.
1944 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of
Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1945 During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended
after 81 days.
1946 Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.
1956 The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were
blown up.
1964 The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller's book, "Tropic
of Cancer", could not be banned.
1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United
States to be 18.
1973 Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a
record 28 days in space.
1974 In Chicago, the Sears Tower Skydeck opened. (After 9/11 Sears
got scared and evacuated. It is now the Willis Tower)
1978 James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only
known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.
1980 The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces
from Afghanistan.
1989 The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the
UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil
war.
1990 Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin.
1992 The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws
that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias
violated free-speech rights.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained
by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted
criminal's parole.
1998 The 75th National Marbles Tournament began in Wildwood, NJ.
1999 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable
handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the
Americans with Disability Act.
2009 Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue
sales of the Kodachrome Color Film.
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Thursday, June 21, 2018, 08:02 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, June 21
Longest day of the year!
That always makes me sad. The weather is going to get hotter,
but the days will get shorter. I don't really work outside much
anymore, it's just a hang over from my youth. Oh, well, I will get
over it by December 21, when the days will get longer again.
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
NJ Dealer charged with homicide after
15-year-old customer's heroin overdose
Bonehead
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Today, June 21 in
1404 Owain Glyndwr established a Welsh Parliament at Machynlleth
and was crowned Prince of Wales.
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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
--- Cullen Hightower
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The difference between a job and a career is
the difference between forty and sixty hours a
week."
--- Robert Frost
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An irate woman burst into the baker's shop and said, "I sent
my daughter in here for two pounds of cookies this morning, but
when I weighed them there was only one pound. I suggest that
you check your scales."
The baker looked at her calmly and replied, "Ma'am, I suggest
you weigh your daughter."
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When I stopped the bus to pick up Chris for preschool, I
noticed an older woman hugging him as he left the house.
"Is that your grandmother?" I asked.
"Yes," Chris said. "She's visiting."
"How nice," I said. "Where does she live?"
"At the airport," Chris replied. "Whenever we need her,
we just go out there and get her."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Austin Cooper,
21,
Willingboro,
New Jersey
NJ Dealer charged with homicide after
15-year-old customer's heroin overdose
A suspected heroin dealer was charged with homicide on Monday after
one of his customers a 15-year-old girl fatally overdosed just
after Christmas last year.
Austin Cooper, 21, of Willingboro, was charged with first-degree
strict liability for drug-induced death, the Burlington County
Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.
On December 26, a family member found Madison McDonald unresponsive
at her home in Evesham Township's Marlton section.
She was barely alive and transported to Virtua Marlton Hospital,
and later flown to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She died on
December 28.
Authorities investigating McDonald's death found that Cooper
delivered 10 bags of heroin to the home before she died. He was
charged at the time possessing and dealing heroin.
Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina has pledged to
"aggressively" pursue the strict liability charge when possible in
prosecution, to help fight the opioid epidemic.
On that charge, a dealer can face 10 to 20 years in state prison,
as opposed to three to five years for drug distribution.
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From: Ana
Re: Interac
Dear Webby
I keep getting these emails looking like they are from Interac
claiming that somebody, whose name I have never heard of, had sent
me money. Well, nobody ever sends money to me, so I just let
MailWasher dump it. Mailwasher flags it as bad.
Is there the slightest chance that one of Hillary's buddies is
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I doubt it.
So, what is that stuff?
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Trust MailWasher.
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A tractor salesman was passing a farm, where the farmer
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him "I don't need a tractor, I have three new ones at the
barn"
Well if you have three new tractors at the barn, why are you
plowing this field with that bull, asked the salesman ?
The farmer replied, "This is part of the bulls continuing
education. I am teaching him that there is more to farming
than messing with cows and tearing down fences.
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Doctor!" said the woman as she loudly bounced
into the room, "I want you to tell me very frankly
what's wrong with me."
He surveyed her from head to foot. "Madam,"
he said at length, "I've just three things to tell
you."
"First, you need to lose at least twenty pounds.
Second, you should use about one tenth as
much rouge and lipstick. And third, I'm an artist -
the doctor's office is on the next floor."
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Blue-haired old aunts used to come up to me at weddings,
poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me "You're next!"
They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them
at funerals.
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When an express train to London made an unscheduled stop
at Reading, the philosopher, C.E.M. Joad, climbed aboard.
"You¹ve got to get off sir," the guard told him, "this train
doesn¹t stop here."
Replied Joad, "In that case, don't worry.
If it didn't stop here, I didn't get on it."
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Today, June 21 in
1404 Owain Glyndwr established a Welsh Parliament at Machynlleth
and was crowned Prince of Wales.
1788 The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire
became the ninth state to ratify it.
1834 Cyrus McCormick patented the first practical mechanical reaper
for farming. His invention allowed farmers to more than double
their crop size.
1859 Andrew Lanergan received the first rocket patent.
1893 The Ferris Wheel was introduced at the World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago, IL.
1913 Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an
airplane.
1937 In Paris, Leon Blum's Popular Front Cabinet resigned.
1938 In Washington, U.S. President Roosevelt signed the $3.75
billion Emergency Relief Appropriation Act.
1941 German troops entered Russia on a front from the Arctic to
Black Sea.
1945 Pan Am announced an 88-hour round-the-world flight at a cost
of $700.
1954 The American Cancer Society reported significantly higher
death rates among cigarette smokers than among non-smokers.
1958 In Arkansas, a federal judge let Little Rock delay school
integration.
1958 Linus Pauling and Detlev Bronke, both Americans, were elected
to the Soviet Academy of Science.
1963 France announced that they were withdrawing from the North
Atlantic NATO fleet.
1973 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials
found to be obscene according to local standards.
1974 The U.S. Supreme Court decided that pregnant teachers could no
longer be forced to take long leaves of absence.
1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil
were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as
a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.
2001 Former Haitian Army colonel Carl Dorelien taken into custody
in Port St. Lucie. Dorelien had been in exile since 1994 when he
was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 1994 massacre.
2003 The fifth Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Order of
the Phoenix," was published by J.K. Rowling. Amazon.com shipped out
more than one million copies on this day making the day the largest
distribution day of a single item in e-commerce history. The book
set sales records around the world with an estimated 5 million
copies were sold on the first day.
2004 SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Mike
Melvill, reached 328,491 feet above Earth in a 90 minute flight.
The height is about 400 feet above the distance scientists consider
to be the boundary of space.
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Any allowance for autoresponders?
Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 08:47 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, June 20
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Police find suspected burglar hiding
under bed with legs poking out
Bonehead
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Today, June 20 in
1977 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline began operation.
Still works fine.
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I'm still an atheist, thank God.
--- Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
--- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ),
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Schwartz goes to see his Rabbi.
He says, "Rabbi, I think my wife is poisoning me."
The Rabbi says, "I'll tell you what...let me talk to her.
I'll see what I can find out and I'll let you know."
A week later the Rabbi calls Schwartz and says,
"I spoke to your wife on the phone for four hours,
or rather listened to her for four hours."
Schwartz says, Do you have any advice?"
The Rabbi says, "Yeah. Take the poison."
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Two priests died at the same time and met Saint Peter at the Pearly
Gates. St. Peter said, "I'd like to get you guys in now but our
computer's down. You'll have to go back to Earth for about a week
but you can't go back as humans. What'll it be?"
The first priest says, "I've always wanted to be an eagle, soaring
above the Rocky mountains." "So be it," says St. Peter and off
flies the first priest.
The second priest mulls this over for a moment and asks, "Will any
of this week 'count', St. Peter?"
"No, I told you the computer's down.
There's no way we can keep track of what you're doing. The week's a
freebie."
"In that case," says the second priest, "I've always wanted to be a
stud."
"So be it," says St. Peter and the second priest disappears.
A week goes by, the computer is fixed, and the Lord tells St. Peter
to recall the two priests. "Will you have any trouble locating
them?" He asks.
"The first one should be easy," says St. Peter. "He's somewhere
over the Rockies, flying with the eagles. But the second one could
prove to be more difficult."
"Why?" asketh the Lord.
St. Peter answered, "He's on a snow tire somewhere in Tasmania."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Jan Sivak,
Calderdale,
England
Todays Bonehead Award:
Police find suspected burglar hiding
under bed with legs poking out
If you’re going to hide from the police, perhaps it would be wise
to make sure your legs aren’t sticking out from beneath your bed.
Burglary suspect Jan Sivak didn’t follow this advice and was
snapped with his feet hanging out at his home in Halifax.
West Yorkshire Police then posted the picture on social media with
the caption: ‘He will not be winning any awards for hide-and-seek
champion soon.’
Sivak, from Halifax, had gone on the run after failing to surrender
to bail at Bradford Magistrates Court on Tuesday. He had been
accused of stealing £4,500 in cash from a fish and chip shop. After
he was caught he eventually appeared in court and admitted failing
to surrender, which he received a 14 day sentence for.
Gulfraz Khan, defending, said Sivak had tried to get to court on
the day of his appearance but was unsuccessful.
Sivak pleaded not guilty to burglary of a non-dwelling and was
remanded into custody until July 28 for trial at Bradford Crown
Court.
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From: Brenda
Re: Is there any allowance for auto-responders?
Dear Webby
I can understand that with your volume of mail you
consider autoresponders a silly and unnhecessary nuisance.
I use Hoitmail and Yahoo mail, and as you probably know,
they are a bit flakey and one never knkows if mail to me
actually got through.
Woould an auto-responder be OK in my case, telling people
that their mail did get to me and will be answered soon?
Brenda
Dear Brenda
Get Gmail. It is free, and very reliable. I have used it since
it got started, and have not lost any mail.
Some got accidentally sorted into the spam or trash folder,
but it DID arrive.
Using an autoresponder because you are sleeping or on the potty is
silly. If somebody expects an instant reply, then you should tell
them to get a life and consider that other people have lives too!
I answer mail at all times of day or night. Depending on the time
zone, people might be sleeping or cooking or shopping or working
away from their computer. So, what?
Sooner or later they will see my mail, and that will be soon
enough.
I also know that many people use their employer's computer for
their email. If their address has the domain of some company, then
I know not to expect answers on the weekend. I do NOT need an
autoresponder telling me that Ms Hortensia Buttflower will return
to work on Monday.
The same probably applies to you and your contacts. If you don't
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A lady was taking her time browsing through everything at a
yard sale and said to the homeowner, "My husband is going
to be very angry when he finds out I stopped at a yard sale."
"I'm sure he'll understand when you tell him about all the
bargains," the homeowner replied.
"Normally, yes," the lady said. "But he just fell off the roof
and broke both his legs, and he's waiting for me to take
him to the hospital."
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On a Continental Flight with a very "senior" flight attendant crew,
the pilot said, "Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached cruising
altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for
your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight
attendants."
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The priest was passing a group of young teens sitting on
the church lawn and stopped to ask what they were doing.
"Nothing much, father," replied one boy. "We were just seeing
who can tell the biggest lie about their sex life."
"Boys, boys, boys!" he scolded. "I'm shocked. When I was
your age, I never even thought about sex."
In unison they all replied, "You win!"
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Thanks to Cookie for this story:
Stopping to pick up my daughter at kindergarten, I found out
that the topic of "Show and Tell" that day had been parents'
occupations.
The teacher pulled me aside.
Whispering, she advised, "You might want to explain a little
bit more to your daughter what you do for a living."
I work as a training consultant and often conduct my seminars
in motel conference rooms. When I asked why, the teacher
explained, "Your daughter told the class she wasn't sure
what you did, but said you got dressed real pretty and went
to work at motels."
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Today, June 20 in
0451 Roman and Barbarian warriors brought Attila's army to a halt
at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.
1397 The Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under
one monarch.
1756 In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that
became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta."
1782 The U.S. Congress approved the Great Seal of the United
States.
1791 King Louis XVI of France was captured while attempting to flee
the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes.
1793 Eli Whitney applied for a cotton gin patent. He received the
patent on March 14. The cotton gin initiated the American mass-
production concept.
1837 Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death
of her uncle, King William IV.
1863 The National Bank of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA, became
the first bank to receive a charter from the U.S. Congress.
1898 The U.S. Navy seized the island of Guam enroute to the
Phillipines to fight the Spanish.
1910 Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaimed martial law and
arrested hundreds.
1923 France announced it would seize the Rhineland to assist
Germany in paying its war debts. That did not go mover well.
1928 Washburn-Crosby Company merged with 26 other mills to become
General Mills.
1941 The U.S. Army Air Forces was established, replacing the Army
Air Corps. The Army Air Forces were abolished with the creation of
the United States Air Force in 1947.
1943 Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit. Federal troops were
sent in two days later to end the violence that left more than 30
dead.
1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was murdered in Beverly Hills, CA, at
the order of mob associates angered over the soaring costs of his
project, the Flamingo resort in Las Vegas, NV.
1963 The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set
up a hot line communication link between the two countries.
1967 Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective
Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The U.S. Supreme Court
later overturned the conviction.
1977 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline began operation.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement in
exchange for major relief from mounting lawsuits and legal bills.
2002 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution of mentally
retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel. The vote was 6 in
favor and 3 against.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 09:54 AM
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Today is Tuesday, June 19
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Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Woman called 'Asian Persuasion' accused
of robbing man in his W OKC hotel room
Bonehead
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Today, June 19 in
0240 BC Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth
using the length of the shadow of his walking stick at two
locations, and trigonometry. He was quite accurate.
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which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Little Johnny was in his math class one day when the
teacher singled him out.
"If I gave you $200," the teacher began, "and you gave
$50 to Mary, $50 to Sally and $50 to Susan, what would
you have?"
"Well, it sure would be no orgy!" Johnny answered,
"Helen, my girlfriend, would bust my skull for that!"
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had been misbehaving and was sent to bed.
After a while emerged and informed mother
that had thought it over and then said a
prayer.
"Fine", said the pleased mother. "If you ask God to
help you about your misbehaving, He will help you."
"Oh, I don't need help with misbehavin' ", said
. "I asked Him to help me not to get
caught quite so much."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Geiselle Stevenson,
31,
Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma
Woman called 'Asian Persuasion' accused
of robbing man in his W OKC hotel room
Police are looking for a woman who goes by the name "Asian
Persuasion" who they say helped rob a man at a hotel.
It happened at the Ramada at 2200 S. Meridian. Police say the
suspect whose real name is Geiselle Stevenson helped men ambush the
victim.
The victim was staying at the hotel from out of town. He told
police he went to pick her up at her apartment at the 10 West
Apartments and took her back to his room.
When he opened the door, he told police two men came up behind him
and forced him into the room at gunpoint. The three of them made
off with his clothing and cash, and yanked the gold chain he was
wearing around his neck.
Police are looking for a woman who goes by the name "Asian
Persuasion" on the street, who they say helped rob a man at a
hotel.
They escaped in a gray Chevy Impala with a "Jesus" sticker on the
back.
The victim told police it was Stevenson, describing the tattoos on
her face and the gem studs in her cheeks.
Police are looking for a woman who goes by the name "Asian
Persuasion" who they say helped rob a man at a hotel. She has a
number of previous arrests.
Back in March, Stevenson was in the news after police say she tried
to steal a woman's purse in a motel parking lot. Then, she was
caught trying to sneak into a man's room before he slammed the door
in her face. She did end up inside another victim's room.
The robbers stole four pairs of the victim's Jordan sneakers
totaling about $840 and a $600 gold chain, among other belongings,
according to the report.
One of the men, whom police identified as Dennico Henderson, 25,
held the victim at gun point with a .40-caliber semiautomatic
pistol while the other man and Asian Persuasion went through the
victim's belongings, according to the report.
Police impounded the Chevy Impala. They are still looking for
Stevenson.
Henderson, the gunman, was arrested and released on bail.
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Sue noticed her husband standing on the bathroom scale,
sucking in his stomach.
Thinking he was trying to weigh less with this
maneuver, she commented,
"I don't think that is going to help."
"Sure it does," he said. "It's the only way I can see
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A new miracle doctor was in town. He could cure
anything and anybody, and everyone was amazed with
what he can do. Everyone except for Mr. Smith, the
town grouch.
So Mr. Smith went to this 'miracle doctor' to prove that
he wasn't anybody special. "Hey, doc, I have lost my
sense of taste. I can't taste nothin', so what are ya goin'
to do?"
The doctor scratches his head and mumbles to himself
a little, then tells Mr. Smith,
"What you need is jar number 43."
Jar number 43? Mr. Smith wonders.
So the doctor brings the jar and tells Mr. Smith to taste it.
He tastes it and immediately spits it out,
"This is gross!" he yells.
"I just restored your sense of taste Mr. Smith," says the
doctor. That will be $100.
So Mr. Smith goes home very mad.
One month later, Mr. Smith goes back to the doctor
along with a new problem, "Doc," he starts,
"I can't remember!"
The doctor scratches his head and mumbles to himself
a little and tells Mr. Smith:
"What you need is jar number 43..."
Before the doctor finished his sentence, Mr. Smith fled
the office.
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Q: How can I avoid always being handed other
peoples' drooling brats?
A: Drop one or two.
Keep your hands in your pockets when they try to foist
them on you. That method really works!
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A man and his wife were planning a vacation. They ended up in an
argument, though..."It's 'Hawaii', I'm telling you!" she said. "I
never KNEW someone so stubborn! 'Havaii' is how it's pronounced!"
he replied. And so it went all the way to the vacation... As they
got off the airplane, they passed a man. The husband abruptly
stopped the wife and turned to the man to ask,
"Now that we're on the island, you can settle an argument between
my wife and me. Is this'Hawaii' or 'Havaii?'"
"This is Havaii," the man replied.
"Ha!" the husband gloated, turning to his wife. "See, didn't I tell
you never to argue with me? I'm alllll-ways right!"
As they began to walk away, he turned back and gave the man a
hearty "Thank you!"
"You're Velcome!!!"
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Today, June 19 in
0240 BC Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth
using the length of the shadow of his walking stick at two
locations, and trigonometry. He was quite accurate.
1586 English colonists sailed away from Roanoke Island, NC, after
failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in
America.
1778 U.S. General George Washington's troops finally left Valley
Forge after a winter of training.
1821 The Ottomans defeated the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani.
1846 The New York Knickerbocker Club played the New York Club in
the first baseball game at the Elysian Field, Hoboken, NJ. It was
the first organized baseball game.
1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation
Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.
1864 The USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama off of Cherbourg,
France.
1865 The emancipation of slaves was proclaimed in Texas.
1873 Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named
"Sallie Gardner" in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic
cameras. This is considered the first step toward motion pictures.
1903 The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under
investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland.
1910 The first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1911 In Pennsylvania, the first motion-picture censorship board was
established.
1912 The U.S. government established the 8-hour work day.
1917 During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal
family to dispense with German titles and surnames.
1933 France granted Leon Trotsky political asylum.
1934 The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC). The commission was to regulate radio and TV
broadcasting.
1937 The town of Bilbao, Spain, fell to the Nationalist forces.
1939 In Atlanta, GA, legislation was enacted that disallowed
pinball machines in the city.
1942 Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) and her 21-year-old
neighbor Jimmy Dougherty were married. They were divorced in June
of 1946.
1942 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in
Washington, DC, to discuss the invasion of North Africa with U.S.
President Roosevelt.
1943 Henry Kissinger became a naturalized United States citizen.
1944 The U.S. won the battle of the Philippine Sea against the
Imperial Japanese fleet.
1951 U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Universal Military
Training and Service Act, which extended Selective Service until
July 1, 1955 and lowered the draft age to 18.
1958 In Washington, DC, nine entertainers refused to answer a
congressional committee's questions on communism.
1961 Kuwait regained complete independence from Britain.
1961 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's
constitution that required state officeholders to profess a belief
in God.
1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an
83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
1965 Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky became South Vietnam's youngest
premier at age 34.
1968 50,000 people marched on Washington, DC. to support the Poor
People's Campaign.
1973 The Case-Church Amendment prevented further U.S. involvement
in Southeast Asia.
1973 Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) got his 2,000th career hit.
1973 The stage production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opened
in London.
1973 Gordie Howe left the NHL to join his sons Mark and Marty in
the WHA (World Hockey League).
1978 Garfield was in newspapers around the U.S. for the first time.
1981 "Superman II" set the all-time, one-day record for theater
box-office receipts when it took in $5.5 million.
1981 The European Space Agency sent two satellites into orbit from
Kourou, French Guiana.
1983 Lixian-nian was chosen to be China's first president since
1969.
1987 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Louisiana law that
required that schools teach creationism.
1989 The movie "Batman" premiered.
1998 Gateway was fined more than $400,000 for illegally shipping
personal computers to 16 countries subject to U.S. export controls.
1998 A study released said that smoking more than doubles risks of
developing dementia and Alzheimer's.
1998 Switzerland's three largest banks offered $600 million to
settle claims they'd stolen the assets of Holocaust victims during
World War II. Jewish leaders called the offer insultingly low.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a group prayer led by
students at public-school football games violated the 1st
Amendment's principle that called for the separation of church and
state.
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Bacdjking up to the cloud
Monday, June 18, 2018, 07:56 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, June 18
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Homeowner Returns From Work,
Interrupts Pot And Cake Party
Bonehead
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Today, June 18 in
1812 The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against
Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.
More of today in history at HIstory
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children
have teenagers of their own.
--- Doug Larson
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought
of as including our own.
--- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to
fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an
artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
--- Jay Leno
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A van carrying a dozen movie stuntmen on the way to a film
location in the mountains of Alberta spun out of control on
the icy road, crashed through a guard-rail, rolled down a
1200-foot embankment, landed on it's roof, and burst into
flames.
There were no injuries.
One of them yelled: "Let's do it again!"
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Thanks to Linda for this picture:
Plitvice Lakes in Croatia
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A driver who was bringing a meticulously prepared and
pre-dented bus to a location in New York City for an
on-location movie shoot, was too early and drove to a nearby
restaurant to wait there. Just to be funny, he carefully lined
up the artificial dent at the front with a light pole.
When he came back out of the restaurant, there were eight
passengers in the bus, moaning and groaning and "Oy-vey-it's me"
ing about whiplash and talking to their lawyers on their
cellphones.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Jeremiah Garib,
19,
Morganfield,
Kentucky
Homeowner Returns From Work,
Interrupts Pot And Cake Party
Four Union County residents have been accused of breaking into a
woman's house, smoking marijuana, baking a cake and stealing a pair
of shoes.
It happened around 3 p.m. Monday on East Houston Street, according
to 'The Gleaner.'
The Morganfield Police Department says a resident came home from
work to find Jeremiah Garib, 19, Xavion R. Elkins, 20, and two
juveniles running out of her house.
Officials said the resident was able to positively identify Garib
as an acquaintance of her son, who was not home. MPD Chief Geoffrey
Deibler said Garib, Elkins and the juveniles did not have
permission to be in the dwelling.
Police said after looking around the house, the owner discovered
that she'd interrupted a party of sorts with cake, ice cream, and
marijuana.
"When the individuals broke into the home they had baked a cake,
and were preparing to eat the cake and some ice cream when the
homeowner returned home from work," a news release said. "Upon
fleeing they had left some marijuana residue inside the home and
the smell of smoked marijuana was in the air."
In a later interview with The Gleaner, Chief Deibler said the group
apparently couldn't find icing so they opened a jar of homemade jam
and were using it to ice the cake.
Garib had allegedly left his shirt and loafers behind, but had
taken the time to grab a pair of the resident's son's shoes,
Deibler said.
When Garib allegedly left the house, he went to a local business
called Theramax on North Court Street. There he hid some marijuana
that had been "packaged for sale" in a trash can, Deibler said.
Two were arrested and face charges.
Tech Support Pits
From: Bill
Re: Cloud Backup, again
Dear Webby,
Good Morning:
I was wondering if you have had a chance to consider my question
about cloud backup. I am presently backing up to two external
drives using "EaseUS ToDo". I find this to be less than
satisfactory, because I still lose data.
The original email appears below.
Thanks again.
Bill
Hi Bill
I answered you on June 14.
Look for the one where I mentioned Xcopy.
To: gardner@cottagecountry.net
Subject: Re: Cloud Backup
Are you blocking me or sending me to your SPAM folder?
Here it is again:
==================================
Hi Bill
By using an intelligent method to backing up, you can save yourself
a lot of money.
For example, Windows is stashed on a hidden partition and can be
re-installed from there. If the hard drive fails, you can get it
again from the manufacturer.
Most programs you can download again and re-install, if you have
saved the download URL and your registration or serial number. You
can print those.
Do that with everything, except the stuff you have created or
received.
That will actually be very little and will easily fit into a free
Google Cloud back-up.
You can even put it onto a thumb drive or camera chip.
You can use a DOS bat using xcopy, the world's most powerful
"program".
With xcopy you just copy what is newer at the source than at the
destination, a trick that saves a lot of time and space.
Make a plain text list of what you want to back up.
then write a "bat" using that list and pasting
xcopy /D /E /C /H /I /O /R /Y /Z
in the front of each line,
and at the end a space and the destination.
An example line would be:
xcopy /D /E /C /H /I /O /R /Y /Z C:\Program Files
(x86)\Qualcomm\Eudora\*.* I:\alpha\eudora
I: in this case is the camera chip, that you use for back-up.
Once you got all the goodies listed like that, save the file as
back.bat
Find the file with the file explorer, and make a shortcut icon for
it, and drag that to the desktop.
Now, every time you swat that shortcut, it will check all items in
your list to see what is newer on the computer than on the camera
chip. It won't waste time on stuff, that is not newer, and just
back up what is newer.
You can, of course, use two camera chips, one to be in your safety
deposit box, and the other in a chip reader, and once a month you
swap the chips.
All those "switches" (/D /E /C /H /I /O /R /Y /Z) are optional.
You can read up on them here, but no need to study and memorize
them.
Just use them the way I got them in the example.
You can, of course, use different ones. Up to you.
XCOPY source [destination] [/A | /M] [/D[:date]] [/P] [/S [/E]]
[/V] [/W]
[/C] [/Q] [/F] [/L] [/G] [/H] [/R]
[/T] [/U]
[/K] [/N] [/O] [/X] [/Y] [/-Y] [/Z]
[/EXCLUDE:file1[+file2][+file3]...]
source Specifies the file(s) to copy.
destination Specifies the location and/or name of new files.
/A Copies only files with the archive attribute set,
doesn't change the attribute.
/M Copies only files with the archive attribute set,
turns off the archive attribute.
/D:m-d-y Copies files changed on or after the specified date.
If no date is given, copies only those files whose
source time is newer than the destination time.
/EXCLUDE:file1[+file2][+file3]...
Specifies a list of files containing strings. Each
string
should be in a separate line in the files. When any
of the
strings match any part of the absolute path of the
file to be
copied, that file will be excluded from being
copied. For
example, specifying a string like \obj\ or .obj will
exclude
all files underneath the directory obj or all files
with the
.obj extension respectively.
/P Prompts you before creating each destination file.
/S Copies directories and subdirectories except empty
ones.
/E Copies directories and subdirectories, including
empty ones.
Same as /S /E. May be used to modify /T.
/V Verifies the size of each new file.
/W Prompts you to press a key before copying.
/C Continues copying even if errors occur.
/I If destination does not exist and copying more than
one file,
assumes that destination must be a directory.
/Q Does not display file names while copying.
/F Displays full source and destination file names
while copying.
/L Displays files that would be copied.
/G Allows the copying of encrypted files to destination
that does
not support encryption.
/H Copies hidden and system files also.
/R Overwrites read-only files.
/T Creates directory structure, but does not copy
files. Does not
include empty directories or subdirectories. /T /E
includes
empty directories and subdirectories.
/U Copies only files that already exist in destination.
/K Copies attributes. Normal Xcopy will reset read-
only attributes.
/N Copies using the generated short names.
/O Copies file ownership and ACL information.
/X Copies file audit settings (implies /O).
/Y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to
overwrite an
existing destination file.
/-Y Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
existing destination file.
/Z Copies networked files in restartable mode.
/B Copies the Symbolic Link itself versus the target of
the link.
/J Copies using unbuffered I/O. Recommended for very
large files.
Instead of a camera chip, you can, of course, also back up onto
Google Drive, Microsoft Drive, BackBlaze, whatever. Entirely up to
you.
The major advantage is that Xcopy is extremely fast, since it does
not waste time on files, that are not new since the last back-up.
That greatly reduces the chance of a power bump or impatient shut-
down while a back-up is still in progress.
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From: Darlene
Re: SecurityCenter.FirewallDisableNotify
Good Morning, DearWebby
This is in reply to Don and removing the Firewall Disable
notify from his Spybot. I had the same problem all the time
and finally I right clicked on it when it appeared in the
remove panel and then clicked on DO NOT CHECK FOR
THIS and it stopped coming up all the time.
Have a super day and thanks again for the great humour letter
Darlene
Dear Darlene
yes, that certainly works, and with that particular item is
quite safe to use. You can also tell it not to worry about
navigational cookies for your bank, telephone company
Amazon, and other legitimate places.
Have FUN
DearWebby
Automatically move ALL your settings and programs.
No need to re-install them.
The only mover recommended by Intel and Microsoft.
From Shirley:
Sensational warnings spawned south of the border
WASHINGTON (AP) - An odd-looking Canadian quarter with a
bright red flower was the culprit behind a false espionage
warning from the U.S. Defense Department about mysterious
coins with radio frequency transmitters, The Associated Press
has learned.
The harmless ''poppy quarter'' was so unfamiliar to suspicious
U.S. army contractors travelling in Canada that they filed
confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried
contractors described the coins as ''filled with something
man-made that looked like nano-technology,'' according to
once classified U.S. government reports and e-mails
obtained by the AP.
The silver-coloured 25-cent piece features the red image of a
poppy, Canada's flower of remembrance and support for the
troops, inlaid over a maple leaf..
..........
Shirley
Dear Shirley
We don't just have Support The Troops quarters with the red
poppy, we also have Breast Cancer Quarters with the pink
ribbon. This one is a bit worn, but the only one I had in my
wallet today.
Ask your friends to click on the pretty link to the Breast
Cancer Site in the right side menu! Give them a free gift
subscription to the Humor Letter to make sure they click.
Last time I looked you and others who clicked on the breast
cancer site button funded 12.1 mammograms for women who
could not afford one. That is awesome!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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A judge was instructing the jury that a witness was not
necessarily to be regarded as untruthful because he changed
his statement after he gave it to the police.
"For example," he said, "when I entered my chambers today, I
was positive that I had my gold watch in my pocket. But then I
remembered that I left in on my nightstand in my bedroom."
When the judge returned home that evening, his wife asked him
"Why so much urgency for your watch? Isn't sending three men
to pick it up for you a bit extreme?"
"What?" said the judge, "I didn't send anyone for my watch,
let alone three people. What did you do?"
"I gave it to the first one," said the wife, "he knew exactly
where it was."
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Potato Storage
To keep potatoes from budding, place a small apple in the
bag with the potatoes. You should also store them in a dark,
cool location and keep them away from onions, to avoid
moldy potatoes and onions.
Tip provided by Thriftyfun.com
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 | Let's snoop around F. Scott Fitzgerald's French Villa
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An ancient classic:
A woman suspects her husband is cheating on her. One day, she dials
her home and a strange woman answers. The woman says, " Who is
this?"
"This is the maid," answered the woman. "We don't have a maid,"
said the woman.
The maid says, "I was hired this morning by the man of the house."
The woman says, "Well, this is his wife. Is he there?"
The maid replied, "He is upstairs in the bedroom with someone who I
figured was his wife."
The woman is fuming. she says to the maid, "Listen, would you like
to make $50,000?"
The maid says, "What will I have to do?" The woman tells her,
"I want you to get my gun from the desk, and shoot the jerk and the
witch he's with."
The maid puts the phone down; the woman hears footsteps and the gun
shots. The maid comes back to the phone, "What do I do with the
bodies?"
The woman says, "Throw them in the swimming pool."
Puzzled, the maid answers, "But there's no pool here."
A long pause
and the woman says, "Is this 555-4821?"
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Ophelia Dingbatter's
NewsNo sermon and not suitable for church, just
jokes and fun for grownups.
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Thanks to Dianne for this literary masterpiece:
(don't think of it as blasphemy, but as literary art)
CARSTIANITY (Read it aloud!)
"Haul a Yugo. Haul a Yugo."
Gearly beloved, we are Blazered here in the name of our Four-door,
who art in Half-ton.
I'm speaking of our lord and Mazda, Jeep-sus Chrysler.
He is the Alfa and the Romeo.
He was born in a Ranger, he was Tempo'd by the DeVille,
and he Daihatsu'd for your Sentras.
He said, "Dodge not, that ye not be Dodged.
Thou shalt not Corvette thy neighbor's Whitewall,
but turn the other Cherokee.
If ye have Fiat, ye can move Montecarlos.
He ain't Chevy, he's my Beretta."
He ate the Last Supra, and he climbed the mount of Cavalier,
where they Cruise-controlled him on the Motocross.
But God, in his Infiniti Mercedes, did Rolls away the Stanza.
Let us Prelude:
Sayeth the prophet Isuzu, in the Dusenburg Bible,
In the 23rd Saab, "The Ford is my Chauffeur. I shall not Walk.
He Lexus me in the paths of Right-turn-signals.
Yea, though I walk through the Valet of the Shadow of Dart,
I shall Fiero no Eagle.
Subaru Goodwrench and Mercury shall Volvo me Audi Daytonas
of my life, and I shall Dwellmeter house of Delorean,
Four-cylinder."
Gloria, In Ex-Celica Geo!
GM
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Today, June 18 in
1155 Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned emperor of Rome.
1429 French forces defeated the English at the battle of Patay. The
English had been retreating after the siege of Orleans.
1621 The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in
Massachusetts.
1667 The Dutch fleet sailed up the Thames toward London.
1778 Britain evacuated Philadelphia during the U.S. Revolutionary
War.
1812 The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great
Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.
1815 At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an
international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated
on June 22.
1817 London's Waterloo Bridge opened. The bridge, designed by John
Rennie, was built over the River Thames.
1863 J.J. Richardson received a patent for the ratchet wrench.
1873 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a
U.S. President.
1898 Atlantic City, NJ, opened its Steel Pier.
1915 During World War I, the second battle of Artois ended.
1918 Allied forces on the Western Front began their largest
counter-attack against the German army. (World War I)
1925 The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by
Harvard University.
1927 The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp
for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St.
Louis."
1928 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the
Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to
Wales.
1936 The first bicycle traffic court was established in Racine, WI.
1942 The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard
University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its
International Declaration of Human Rights.
1951 General Vo Nguyen Giap ended his Red River Campaign against
the French in Indochina.
1953 Egypt was proclaimed to be a republic with General Neguib as
its first president.
1959 A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school
closings to prevent integration.
1959 The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the
U.S. over NBC-TV.
1961 "Gunsmoke" was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio.
1966 Samuel Nabrit became the first African American to serve on
the Atomic Energy Commission.
1979 In Vienna, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev
signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2.
1982 The U.S. Senate approved the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights
Act for an additional twenty-five years.
1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard
the space shuttle Challenger.
1998 The Walt Disney Co. purchased a 43% stake in the Web search
engine company Infoseek Corp.
2000 In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and
Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work
toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.
2009 NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS probes
to the Moon. It was the first American lunar mission since Lunar
Prospector in 1998.
2009 Greenland assumed control over its law enforcement, judicial
affairs, and natural resources from the Kingdom of Denmark.
Greenlandic became the official language.
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Sunday, June 17, 2018, 06:14 AM
Posted by Administrator
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Good Morning, !
Today is Sunday, June 17
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
NJ Bank robber dropped the stolen loot
Bonehead
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Today, June 17 in
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard
the French ship Isere.
More of today in history at HIstory
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether
what you're doing is work or play.
--- Warren Beatty (1937 - )
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Three pastors from different congregations were having
lunch and sharing experiences and ideas to help each other
out with their different fellowships.
After several minutes of animated conversation, the first
one remarks, "Hey, you know, we've got a serious problem
at our church that I want to discuss with you guys."
The other two pastors nod and he goes on, "Well, it's bats.
We can't seem to get these bats out of our attic. The
singing and organ playing wake them up, and they start
flapping around. Then when I start to preach, we can
still hear them moving around up there and it's really
hard for anyone to pay any attention. The kids start to
cry and, well, it's starting to really get in the way
of a good church service."
The second pastor says "Well that's interesting, because
we've had the same problem, they won't stay out of our
belfry. We've tried ringing the bells at all hours,
spraying chemicals, we've even had a couple of
exterminator companies out. Nothing's worked yet." He
throws up his hands in exasperation and shakes his head.
The third pastor smiles and nods his head knowingly.
"Well, gentlemen. We had that problem a few years ago,
and we found a quick solution." he says. The other two
pastors look up with hope on their faces, and he goes on,
"It was easy. We went up there, got to know 'em a little
bit, got 'em baptized and started passing the collection plate
to them. Haven't seen 'em since."
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Dave was talking to his buddy, John, about his love life.
"So, John, how's it going with the ladies?"
"Women, to me, are nothing but sex objects."
"Really?"
"Yep," John shook his head sadly,
"Whenever I mention sex, they object."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Jeffrey Wolfman,
32,
Milltown,
New Jersey
Bank robber dropped the stolen loot
on the way out
A Milltown man has been charged in connection with Wednesday's
robbery of a Somerset County bank, the Somerset County Prosecutor's
Office announced Thursday afternoon.
Jeffrey Wolfman, 32, was arrested after the robbery at Peapack-
Gladstone Bank in Bedminster.
Witnesses told police they saw Wolfman on a nearby side street
removing an outer layer of clothing. As he did so, they saw money
dropping to the ground, according to the prosecutor's office.
When police approached Wolfman, more cash dropped out of his
clothes, it was stated in a news release.
Wolfman had reportedly entered the bank and demanded money from a
bank teller before fleeing on foot, according to the prosecutor's
office. Wolfman was charged with second-degree robbery and is being
held in Somerset County Jail awaiting a detention hearing.
Tech Support Pits
From: Don Camillo
Re: SecurityCenter.FirewallDisableNotify
Dear Webby,
Could you tell me if I should remove the following:
"SecurityCenter.FirewallDisableNotify"
I use Search & Destroy and the program asks me to
remove that item....
Thank you for your help.
Don Camillo
Dear Don
Don't worry about that. It's just a Windows bug about
Windows getting into a snit when you use a better fire wall
than the Windows fire wall.
Just ignore that.
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Advice to aspiring newsletter writers:
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. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually)
unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
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 generalise.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
16. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
17. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
18. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
19. The passive voice is to be ignored.
20. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical
words
however should be enclosed in commas.
21. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
22. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
23. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth
earth
shaking ideas.
24. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate
quotations. Tell me what you know."
25. 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.
26. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
27. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
28. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
29. Who needs rhetorical questions?
30. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
31. Eschew obfuscation.
And the last one...
32. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
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Parental Dictionary:
Bottle feeding: An opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2 am too.
Defense: What you'd better have around de yard if you're going to
let the children play outside.
Drooling: How teething babies wash their chins.
Dumbwaiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert.
Family planning: The art of spacing your children the proper
distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster
Feedback: The inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate
the strained carrots.
Full name: What you call your child when you're mad at him.
Grandparents: The people who think your children are wonderful even
though they're sure you're not raising them right.
Hearsay: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.
Impregnable: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.
Independent: How we want our children to be as long as they do
everything we say.
Look out: What it's too late for your child to do by the time you
scream it.
Prenatal: When your life was still somewhat your own.
Preprared childbirth: A contradiction in terms.
Puddle: A small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing
dry shoes into it.
Show off: A child who is more talented than yours.
Sterilize: What you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it
and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it.
Storeroom: The distance required between the supermarket aisles so
that children in shopping carts can't quite reach anything.
Temper tantrums: What you should keep to a minimum so as to not
upset the children.
Top bunk: Where you should never put a child wearing Superman
jammies.
Two-minute warning: When the baby's face turns red and she begins
to make those familiar grunting noises.
Verbal: Able to whine in words
Whodunit: None of the kids that live in your house.
Whoops: An exclamation that translates roughly into "get a sponge."
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Grow a Rose Cutting in a Potato
By attosa [651 Posts, 3,516 Comments]
If you have a rosebush that's doing well and want to grow more from
it, or give some as a gift, it's a good idea to propagate a cutting
from that bush inside of a potato. Potatoes have a good amount of
moisture and nutrients for a new cutting to develop from.
Cut a 6 to 8 inch stem from a rose cane that has flowered. Snip at
a 45 degree angle with pruning clippers, then snip off any flower
heads and hips.
Use a screwdriver or drill bit to make a hole in the potato for the
stem to go in snuggly. Push the rose stem into the potato, but not
all the way through.
In a pot or in the ground away from direct sunlight, dig a hole in
some good soil and pop in the potato and cutting. Cover with at
least 3 inches of soil, making sure the potato is fully covered.
Keep the soil moist.
After some time, if you gently tug on the cutting and feel
resistance, that means its roots have grown and it's time for it to
be moved to more direct sunlight.
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Two dogs were walking down the street. The one dog says to
the other, "Wait here a minute, I'll be right back." He walks
across the street and sniffs this fire hydrant for about a
minute, then walks back across the street.
The other dog says, "What was that about?"
The dog first dog says, "I was just checking my p-mail."
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Thanks to Dora for this story:
One evening, two girlfriends and I went to a nightclub, only to
find the place packed with young people. At 40+, we felt old,
but before we could make a dignified exit, a tall, handsome
man approached us.
"Perhaps we were being a little hasty in leaving," I thought.
Then with a big smile, the man extended his hand to one of
my friends and said, "Hello. Remember me? You taught me
in third grade."
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Today, June 17 in
0362 Emperor Julian issued an edict banning Christians from
teaching in Syria.
1579 Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England.
(California)
1775 The British took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
1789 The Third Estate in France declared itself a national
assembly, and began to frame a constitution.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte incorporated Italy into his empire.
1837 Charles Goodyear received his first patent. The patent was for
a process that made rubber easier to work with.
1848 Austrian General Alfred Windischgratz crushed a Czech uprising
in Prague.
1854 The Red Turban revolt broke out in Guangdong, China.
1856 The Republican Party opened its first national convention in
Philadelphia.
1861 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed Dr. Thaddeus Lowe
demonstrate the use of a hydrogen balloon.
1872 George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas.
The town had been dry up until this point.
1876 General George Crook’s command was attacked and defeated on
the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership
of Crazy Horse.
1879 Thomas Edison received an honorary degree of Doctor of
Philosophy from the trustees of Rutgers College in New Brunswick,
NJ.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the
French ship Isere.
1912 The German Zeppelin SZ 111 burned in its hangar in
Friedrichshafen.
1913 U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American
interests in Mexico.
1917 The Russian Duma met in a secret session in Petrograd and
voted for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army.
(World War I)
1924 The Fascist militia marched into Rome.
1926 Spain threatened to quit the League of Nations if Germany was
allowed to join.
1928 Amelia Earhart began the flight that made her the first woman
to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
1930 The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill became law. It placed the highest
tariff on imports to the U.S.
1931 British authorities in China arrested Indochinese Communist
leader Ho Chi Minh.
1932 The U.S. Senate defeated the bonus bill as 10,000 veterans
massed around the Capitol.
1940 The Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
1940 France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.
1941 WNBT-TV in New York City, NY, was granted the first
construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the U.S.
1942 Yank, a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, began
publication. The term "G.I. Joe" was first used in a comic strip by
Dave Breger.
1944 French troops landed on the island of Elba in the
Mediterranean.
1944 The republic of Iceland was established.
1950 Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in
a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.
1953 Soviet tanks fought thousands of Berlin workers that were
rioting against the East German government.
1963 The U.S. Supreme Court banned the required reading of the
Lord's prayer and Bible in public schools.
1965 Twenty-seven B-52’s hit Viet Cong outposts but lost two planes
in South Vietnam.
1970 North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in
Cambodia.
1991 The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population
Registration Act. The act had required that all South Africans be
classified by race at birth.
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Saturday, June 16, 2018, 10:57 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, June 16
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Fake California cop arrested thanks to smart mother
Bonehead
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Today, June 16 in
1976 In Soweto, thousands of school children revolted against the
South African government's plan to enforce Afrikaans as the
language for instruction in black schools.
More of today in history at HIstory
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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
--- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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How many members of your sign does it take to change a light
bulb?
ARIES: Just one. You want to make something of it?
TAURUS: One, but just try to convince them that the burned-
out bulb is useless and should be thrown away.
GEMINI: Two, but the job never gets done -- they just keep
discussing who is supposed to do it and how it's supposed to
be done!
CANCER: Just one. But it takes a therapist three years to
help them through the grieving process.
LEO: Leos don't change light bulbs, although sometimes their
agent will get a Virgo in to do the job for them while they're
out.
VIRGO: Approximately 1.000000 with an error of +/- one
millionth.
LIBRA: Er, two. Or maybe one. No, on second thought, make
that two. Is that okay with you?
SCORPIO: That information is strictly secret and shared only
with the Enlightened Ones in the Star Chamber of the Ancient
Hierarchical Order.
SAGITTARIUS: The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got
our whole lives ahead of us, and you're inside worrying about a
stupid burned-out light bulb?
CAPRICORN: I don't waste my time with these childish jokes.
AQUARIUS: Well, you have to remember that everything is
energy, so....
PISCES: Light bulb? What light bulb?
Too true!
However, I HAVE finally tossed all burned out lightbulbs!
I might need some help getting rid of all the empty cardboard
boxes, though.
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A woman in our diet club was lamenting that
she had gained weight. She'd made her family's
favorite cake over the weekend, she reported,
and they'd eaten half of it at dinner.
Her husband teased her and said she would
never be able to stay away from the other half
until dinner the next night.
The next day, she said, she kept staring at the
other half, until finally she cut a thin slice for
herself. One slice led to another, and soon
the whole cake was gone. The woman went
on to tell us how upset she was with her lack
of willpower, and how she knew her husband
would rub it in.
Everyone commiserated, until someone asked
what her husband said when he found out.
She smiled. "He never found out. I made
another cake and ate half!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by

Juan Rodriguez,
Los Angeles,
California
Fake California cop arrested thanks to smart mother
A California woman was praised for her “momma bear instincts” after
she distracted a gun-toting fake cop who was terrorizing her
husband and four children on Sunday by simply offering him a taco,
police said.
The family was enjoying carne asada tacos and soda from a food
truck in the City of Industry in Los Angeles County around 6:30
p.m. when a “dangerous stranger” approached the family and began
terrorizing them, police said in a news release Monday. The family
had stopped to get food after a day at the waterpark.
The man, identified as Juan Rodriguez, allegedly claimed to be an
undercover cop and flashed his gun concealed on his waistband and
flashed a badge in an attempt to prove his identity, police said.
The mother, however, saw right through the disguise, police said.
“The mother instantly began to put together a plan in place to
distance her husband, three daughters and toddler who was still
buckled in his car seat inches away from the man with a gun,”
police said.
The mother, going for the "taco tactic," offered the 38-year-old
suspect a taco and told him she needed to grab napkins from the
food truck.
“The man with the gun continued to flash his gun and ransack
through the mother’s purse as she walked away,” the news release
stated.
The mother approached customers at the taco truck, told them not
too look a back and told them a man with a gun was threatening her
family. The taco truck employees and customers immediately called
911.
Police found Rodriguez standing next to the family’s van when they
arrived at the scene. Rodriguez allegedly tried to escape by
tossing his gun in the van and trying to get in.
“Deputies were able to detain the suspect before anything further
occurred. Deputies recovered the gun and made sure all family
members were unharmed,” police said.
Rodriguez was charged with child endangerment, impersonation an
officer and outstanding warrants.
Tech Support Pits
From: Richard
Re: End to spam
Dear Webby,
is there any hope that spam will ever decrease?
Richard
Dear Richard
Yes, sure, there is always hope. Just rent more senators
than the spammers do. (You can't buy them any more,
because they won't stay bought, but you can rent them.)
As it is, there are spammers suing people who get them
kicked out from their servers, claiming that they are
protected by the U-CAN-SPAM law.
Unless you have more money than the spammers, about all
you can do now is to get some good spam control software
like FireTrust Mail Washer and get good at tuning it.
It's easy enough for anybody to make filters with it, and
some people even treat it as a challenging game to stay
ahead of the spammers and trash their stuff, unseen.
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A couple moved to the country when they retired. One mild
winter, they had a bit of a problem with rodents in the
garage. So they bought one of those little sub-sonic mouse
repellants, the kind you plug in and they emit some kind
of sound that drives off mice. The husband was showing it
to their neighbor and explaining that it was an animal
repellant. He told her that it worked on every thing from
mice to elephants.
"Really!?" she said, "Mice to elephants, eh." sounding a
bit skeptical.
"Yes," he replied, seriously. "We've had it here for a
couple of weeks now and we haven't had a single elephant
in the garage the whole time!"
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>From Bill
In a misguided burst of creativity, I installed a night-light
into a conch shell I found on the beach. My wife took an
instant dislike to it, and at the next yard sale, it was the
first thing she put out.
I felt vindicated when a woman kept coming back to check it
out and finally bought it.
"That'll look great in your home," I said.
"Oh," she replied. "It's not for me." My bridge club is having
a charity sale, and we were asked to bring the most hideous
thing we could find. What I have here is the winner!"
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Baking Soda and Dawn For Clothing Stains
A great way to remove clothing stains is to mix baking soda
and dish soap (Dawn) into a paste. Brush it into the stain
and let sit, depending on the severity of stain. Leave the
paste in and wash clothes as usual, works great. By Shirley
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"How was your golf game, dear?" asked Jack's wife Tracy.
"Well, I was hitting pretty well, but my eyesight's gotten so bad I
couldn't see where the ball went."
"But you're seventy-five years old, Jack!" admonished his wife,
"Why don't you take my brother Scott along?"
"But he's eighty-five and doesn't even play golf anymore,"
protested Jack.
"But he's got perfect eyesight. He could watch your ball,"
Tracy pointed out.
The next day Jack teed off with Scott looking on. Jack swung,
and the ball disappeared down the middle of the fairway.
"Do you see it?" asked Jack.
"Yup," Scott answered.
"Well, where is it?" yelled Jack, peering off into the distance.
"Where is what ?", Scott answered.
"My ball! My golf ball!"
"Oh, I don't know. I was watching that cute lady over there.
Her ball went into the water."
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A customer sent an order to a distributor for a large amount
of goods totaling a great deal of money. The distributor
noticed that the previous bill hadn't been paid. The collections
manager left a voice-mail for them saying,
"We can't ship your new order until you pay for the last one."
The next day the collections manager received a collect
phone call, "Please cancel the order. We can't wait that long.
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Today, June 16 in
0455 Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
1487 The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke.
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in
Scotland.
1815 Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny,
Netherlands.
1858 In a speech in Springfield, IL, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham
Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He declared, "A
house divided against itself cannot stand."
1884 At Coney Island, in Brooklyn, NY, the first roller coaster in
America opened.
1897 The U.S. government signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.
1903 Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
1907 The Russian czar dissolved the Duma in St. Petersburg.
1909 Glenn Hammond Curtiss sold his first airplane, the "Gold Bug"
to the New York Aeronautical Society for $5,000.
1922 Henry Berliner accomplished the first US helicopter flight at
College Park, MD.
1925 France accepted a German proposal for a security pact.
1932 The ban on Nazi storm troopers was lifted by the von Papen
government in Germany.
1940 Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the prime minister of the
Vichy government of occupied France.
1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the closure of
all German consulates in the United States. The deadline was set as
July 10.
1952 "Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" was published in the
United States.
1955 The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend Selective
Service until 1959.
1955 Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Peron.
The ban was lifted eight years later.
1955 Argentine naval officers launched an attack on President Juan
Peron's headquarters. The revolt was suppressed by the army.
1961 Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union while in Paris,
traveling with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet.
1963 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit aboard the
Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days. She was the first female space
traveler.
1972 Ulrike Meinhof was captured by West German police in Hanover.
She was co-founder of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group and the
Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion).
1975 The Simonstown agreement on naval cooperation between Britain
and South Africa ended. The agreement was formally ended by mutual
agreement after 169 years.
1976 In Soweto, thousands of school children revolted against the
South African government's plan to enforce Afrikaans as the
language for instruction in black schools.
1977 Leonid Brezhnev was named the first Soviet president of the
USSR. He was the first person to hold the post of president and
Communist Party General Secretary. He replaced Nikolai Podgorny.
1978 U.S. President Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos
ratified the Panama Canal treaties.
1983 Yuri Andropov was elected chairman of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet. The position was the equivalent of president.
1984 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate was arrested upon his return from an
eleven year exile. Aldunate had been a popular Uruguayan opposition
leader.
1992 U.S. President George H.W. Bush welcomed Russian President
Boris Yeltsin to a meeting in Washington, DC. The two agreed in
principle to reduce strategic weapon arsenals by about two-thirds
by the year 2003.
1996 Russian voters had their first independent presidential
election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off.
1999 The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that a 1992 federal
music piracy law does not prohibit a palm-sized device that can
download high-quality digital music files from the Internet and
play them at home.
2000 U.S. federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic
and GTE Corp. The merger created the nation's largest local phone
company.
2000 U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson reported that an
employee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico had
discovered that two computer hard drives were missing.
2008 California began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex
couples.
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Friday, June 15, 2018, 08:17 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, June 15
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
2 Florida men arrested for using pop "bombs".
Bonehead
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Today, June 15 in
1215 King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta.
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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been
irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other
people.
--- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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A preacher said to the farmer,"Do you belong to the Christian
family ?"
"No", he said, " they live two farms down ".
"No,no, I mean are you lost ?"
"No, I've been here thirty years."
"I mean are you ready for Judgement Day?"
"When is it ?"
"It could be today or tomorrow."
"Well, when you find out for sure when it is , you let me know .
My wife will probably want to go both days !"
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If you catch a bad cold, and you go to the doctor, it will, with
medication, last for seven days. if you catch that same cold, and
you don't see a doctor, it will last a whole week!
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Bruce Steffenhagen, 56,
Nathan Martin, 38,
Orange County,
Florida
2 Florida men arrested for using pop "bombs".
One Florida man wanted tenants out of an apartment off the garage
of his home. So, he went along with his pal's plan to get them out
using a bomb.
That's according to Orange County deputies, who said Nathan Martin
and Bruce Steffenhagen admitted to setting off a pair of "acid
bombs" — homemade noise makers often involving plastic pop
bottles and common household materials — to create noise and
ruckus, after they were arrested last week.
Most kids have at one time or other used "pop bombs", usually
involving putting some Altos mints into a nearly full pop bottle,
capping it and tossing it. The sound created is identical to an 8
foot 2 x 8 standing on end on a driveway, and being knocked over by
a bit of wind, - after the kids have retreated out of sight.
Pop bombs don't do any damage unless they are tossed into a window
box full of geraniums the morning of the flower competition. It
apparently can mess them up and get the owner a lower ranking.
Other than that, they are just nuisance noise.
Usually, that is not a big deal, except the boneheads called
them"acid bombs" and got some bored deputies all excited.
Martin, 38, is in Orange County Jail on a charge of throwing or
projecting explosives. Steffenhagen, 56, posted $15,000 bond after
being charged with being a principal to discharge a destructive
device. (It destroyed the pop bottle used to make noise)
Both live with Steffenhagen's 86-year-old father, Jack
Steffenhagen, in a Beach Boulevard house owned by Jack's living
trust. Police were called to the house after neighbors heard two
explosions.
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From: Gloria
Re: Digital zoom
Dear webby,
You have mentioned "digital zoom" a few times, and always
recommended agaisnt it. What actually IS it?
Gloria
Dear Gloria
Digital zoom is just enlarging a picture, the same as you do in
your graphics program. As you may have noticed, when you do that,
the picture gets coarse and/or fuzzy.
You can do that much better and cleaner with your graphics program.
Just totally ignore what they claim as "digital zoom". It is just
BS to con newbies, who don't know any better.
The only zoom that counts is optical zoom accomplished with the
lenses.
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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.
"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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An American tourist refused to be too greatly impressed with
the masterpieces at the Louvre.
"We've got plenty of priceless canvasses in the United States
too," he declared.
"I know," said the guide. "Rembrandt painted seven hundred
pictures in his lifetime, and America has over ten thousand
of them."
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Sorting Dirty Clothing
Put a cardboard divider in your clothes hamper, one side
for whites and one for darks. When your family puts clothes
in, they will already be sorted. Towels and sheets can also
go on the white side. This has worked very well in my
household for several years. By Hazel
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I was browsing in a souvenir shop when the man next to me
struck up a conversation. Just as he was telling me that
his wife was getting carried away with her shopping, a brief
power shortage caused the lights to flicker overhead.
"Ah," he sighed that must he her checking out now."
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A recent study was made to find out what days men prefer
to have intimate relations with their wives. It was found
that most men preferred to engage in these matrimonial
activities on the days that started with "T."
Examples of those days are:
Tuesday
Thursday
Thanksgiving
Today
Tomorrow
Thaturday and Thunday!
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Today, June 15 in
1215 King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta.
1381 The English peasant revolt was crushed in London.
1389 Ottoman Turks crushed Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo.
1607 Colonists in North America completed James Fort in Jamestown,
VA.
1667 Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully-documented
human blood transfusion. He successfully transfused the blood of a
sheep to a 15-year old boy.
1752 Benjamin Franklin experimented by flying a kite during a
thunderstorm. The result was a little spark that showed the
relationship between lightning and electricity.
1844 Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for the process that
strengthens rubber.
1846 The United States and Britain settled a boundary dispute
concerning the boundary between the U.S. and Canada, by signing a
treaty.
1866 Prussia attacked Austria.
1898 The U.S. House of representatives approved the annexation of
Hawaii.
1909 Benjamin Shibe patented the cork center baseball.
1911 The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in the
state of New York. The company was later renamed International
Business Machines (IBM) Corp.
1917 Great Britain pledged the release of all the Irish captured
during the Easter Rebellion of 1916.
1919 Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur W. Brown won $50,000 for
successfully completing the first non-stop trans-Atlantic plane
flight. (Newfoundland to Ireland)
1940 The French fortress of Verdun was captured by Germans.
1944 American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan
during World War II.
1947 The All-Indian Congress accepted a British plan for the
partition of India.
1948 Soviet authorities announced that the Autobahn in East Germany
would be closed indefinitely "for repairs."
1958 Greece severed military ties to Turkey because of the Cypress
issue.
1964 The last French troops left Algeria.
1978 King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old American Lisa
Halaby, who became Queen Noor.
1981 The U.S. agreed to provide Pakistan with $3 billion in
military and economic aid from October 1982 to October 1987.
1982 In the capital city of Stanley, the Falklands war ended as
Argentine troops surrendered to the British. All Argentinians were
subsequently deported.
1983 The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced its position on abortion by
striking down state and local restrictions on abortions.
1986 Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, reported that the chief
engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dismissed for
mishandling the incident at the plant.
1992 It was ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court that the government
could kidnap criminal suspects from foreign countries for
prosecution.
1992 U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell
"potato" with an "e" on the end during a spelling bee. He had
relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the
student's teacher.
1994 Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.
1999 South Korean naval forces sank a North Korean torpedo boat
during an exchange in the disputed Yellow Sea.
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Todays Bonehead Award:
Man arrested after taking cash register from Walmart,
then trying to carjack 2 people at knifepoint
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Today, June 14 in
1907 Women in Norway won the right to vote.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history.
--- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child.
We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives.
--- Rita Rudner
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes
arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as
to speak only four at a time?"
--- Madame Swetchine
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Three ministers a Presbyterian, a Methodist, and a Southern
Baptist and their wives were on a cruise. A tidal wave came
up and swamped the ship.
They all drowned, and next thing you know, they're standing
before St. Peter.
First in line was the Presbyterian and his wife. St. Peter
shook his head sadly and said, "I can't let you in. You were
moral and upright, but you loved money too much. You loved
it so much, you even married a woman named Penny."
St. Peter waved sadly, and poof! Down the chute to the
'Other Place' they went.
Then came the Methodist. "Sorry, can't let you in either,"
said Saint Peter. "You abstained from liquor and dancing
and cards, but you loved food too much. You loved food so
much, you even married a woman named Candy!"
Sadly, St. Peter waved again, and whang! Down the chute
went the Methodists.
The Southern Baptist turned to his wife and whispered
nervously, "It doesn't look good, Fanny."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Christopher Hill, 36,
Jacksonville,
Florida
Man arrested after taking cash register from Walmart,
then trying to carjack 2 people at knifepoint
A man was arrested Friday after he took a cash register drawer
from the Walmart at River City Marketplace and then tried to
carjack two people at knifepoint.
Christopher Raymond Hill, 36, was arrested on charges of strong arm
robbery, carjacking with firearm or deadly weapon, aggravated
battery with a deadly weapon and trespassing, according to the
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office online inmate information search.
Investigators found the incident began when Hill went into the
Walmart liquor store and asked if he could have change for a $20.
Hill was told by the cashier he would have to buy something and he
then bought a pack of cigarettes.
The cashier, LaToya King, spoke with Action News Jax about the
incident. She said she didn't think twice of Hill, who was dressed
in bright orange, until she opened her cash register.
"When I did that, he leaped over the counter and he grabbed my hand
and I was like, 'Sir, what are you doing?'" King said.
Once the register was open, Hill grabbed the register and ran out
of the store, according to a JSO arrest report.
A witness saw Hill get into a silver Ford SUV, but it did not
appear to start, so he got out and ran.
Police said Hill approached a man who was sitting in the parking
lot near Supercuts. Hill asked the man for a ride and the man
refused.
Hill asked for a ride when he refused the 36-year-old pulled out a
knife cutting his hands and leg.
"I turned the ignition off, grabbed my keys, opened the door and
boom, there he was," Scott Reardean said.
According to the report, Hill put the cash register in the
Reardean's truck bed and pulled a knife, cutting Reardean on the
hands and leg, the arrest report said.
"I was bascially just doing this, trying to get the knife off me,
and he's like, trying to pull me and he yanked my shirt and ripped
it all up," Reardean said.
Reardean said to Action News Jax that he was able to grab his
pistol from his truck and pointed it at Hill, who then ran away
toward Starbucks.
Hill ran to the car of a woman who was in line at the Starbucks
drive-through. She told police she rolled down her passenger's side
window to see what he wanted and she said Hill opened her door and
got into the car.
The woman said Hill told her to drive because someone was chasing
him. She told police she tried to push him out of the vehicle and
he would not get out. According to the report, she was in fear for
her life, so she got out of her car to to get her Ruger pistol out
of her trunk.
Hill got out of the car and came toward her. She said she pointed
her pistol at him and he ran away.
When police arrived, they found Hill had barricaded himself inside
the bathroom at Supercuts, but he came out when officers ordered
him to.
According to the report, Hill told police, "The reason I was
running and did this was because somebody was after me."
King said she is still shocked about what happened, but she said
she's glad Hill is behind bars.
"Now I know he's locked up and he can't do this to anyone else
again," King said.
As of Monday morning, Hill was still in the Duval County Jail being
held on a bond of $91,512. His next court date is set for July 2.
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of cigarettes. He pulls one out and starts
smoking it.
The cashier says, "Excuse me sir, but you can't
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The guy says, "Don't you think it's kinda dumb
that I buy them here but can't smoke them here?"
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They get wop sided:
When they talk, the flailing arms knock them off balance.
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A young boy called the pastor of a local "corner" church
to ask the pastor to come by to pray for his mother who
had been very ill with the flu.
The pastor knew the family and was aware they had been
attending another church down the road. So the pastor
asked, "Shouldn't you be asking Brother Simon down the
road to come by to pray with your mom?"
The young boy replied, "Yeah, but we didn't want to take
the chance that he might catch whatever it is that Mom has."
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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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Today, June 14 in
1775 The Continental Army was founded by the Second Continental
Congress for purposes of common defense. This event is considered
to be the birth of the United States Army. On June 15, George
Washington was appointed commander-in-chief.
1777 The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the "Stars
and Stripes" as the national flag of the United States. The Flag
Resolution stated "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be
made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union
be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new
Constellation." On May 20, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson
officially proclaimed June 14 "Flag Day" as a commemoration of the
"Stars and Stripes."
1789 Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrived in Timor in a
small boat.
1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping
machine.
1834 Isaac Fischer Jr. patented sandpaper.
1841 The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.
1846 A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of
California.
1893 Philadelphia observed the first Flag Day.
1900 Hawaii became a U.S. territory.
1907 Women in Norway won the right to vote.
1917 General John Pershing arrived in Paris during World War I.
1919 The first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight began. Captain John
Alcot and Lt. Arthur Brown flew from Newfoundland to Ireland.
1927 Nicaraguan President Adolfo Diaz signed a treaty with the U.S.
allowing American intervention in his country.
1940 The Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in
German-occupied Poland.
1940 German troops entered Paris. As Paris became occupied loud
speakers announced the implementation of a curfew being imposed for
8 p.m.
1943 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schoolchildren could not be
made to salute the U.S. flag if doing so conflicted with their
religious beliefs.
1944 Sixty U.S. B-29 Superfortress' attacked an iron and steel
works factory on Honshu Island.
1945 Burma was liberated by Britain.
1949 The state of Vietnam was formed.
1951 "Univac I" was unveiled. It was a computer designed for the
U.S. Census Bureau and billed as the world's first commercial
computer.
1952 The Nautilus was dedicated. It was the first nuclear powered
submarine.
1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the
words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1954 Americans took part in the first nation-wide civil defense
test against atomic attack.
1965 A military triumvirate took control in Saigon, South Vietnam.
1967 Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy, FL. The space
probe's flight took it past Venus.
1982 Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the Falkland
Islands.
1989 Former U.S. President Reagan received an honorary knighthood
from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
1990 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld police checkpoints that are used
to examine drivers for signs of intoxication.
1994 The New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup by defeating the
Vancouver Canucks. It was the first time the Rangers had won the
cup in 54 years.
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Today is Wednesday, June 13
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Todays Bonehead Award:
Appeal denied for wannabe kidnapper
Bonehead
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Today, June 13 in
1920 The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children
may not be sent by parcel post.
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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
---David T. Wolf (1943 - )
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good,
and not quite all the time.
--- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children
because they are more certain they are their own.
---Aristotle
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A noted psychiatrist was a guest at a gathering, and Anni, his
hostess, naturally broached the subject in which the doctor
was most at ease. "Would you mind telling me, Doctor,"
Anni asked, "how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody
who appears completely normal?"
"Nothing is easier," he replied. "You ask him a simple
question which everyone should answer with no trouble.
If he hesitates, that puts you on the track."
"What sort of question?" Anni questioned.
"Well, you might ask him, 'Captain Cook made three trips
around the world and died during one of them. Which one?'
Anni thought a moment, then said with a nervous laugh,
"You wouldn't happen to have another example would you?
I must confess I don't know much about history."
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Terri and Buzz, a retired couple from New York City,
living in Miami, are getting ready to go out to
dinner. Terri says, "Buzz, darling, do you
want me to wear this Chanel suit or the Gucci?"
Buzz says, "Do I care?"
A few minutes later Terri says, "Buzz, should I wear
my Cartier watch or my Rolex?"
Buzz says, "Who cares?"
A few more minutes pass and Terri says, "Buzz, love,
shall I wear my five-carat pear diamond ring or my
six-carat round diamond ring with the baguettes?"
Buzz says, "Terri, I really don't care what you wear,
but if you don't move your butt , we're going to miss
the Early Bird Special at McDonalds.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Todd Richard Ferry,
59,
in jail in
Pennsylvania
Appeal denied for wannabe kidnapper
A middle-aged man who tried to kidnap a teenage Mennonite girl in
the driveway of her family's home deserves the 10- to 20-year
prison sentence he's serving for the crime, a state appeals court
panel has ruled.
The fact that Todd Richard Ferry left an anonymous apology note in
the family's mailbox the day after the kidnapping attempt in no way
lessens the terrifying impact of what he tried to do, Judge Mary
Jane Bowes concluded in the Superior Court's opinion.
Investigators said Ferry, now 59, of New Enterprise, had an
obsession with Mennonite girls in Bedford County long before he
tried to snatch the 17-year-old off her bicycle in November 2014.
The girl told police that she rode her bike home from work at a
produce farm and was getting mail from her family's mailbox when a
man knocked her off her bike and grabbed her. She didn't see her
attacker's face, but heard him say, "Get in the car, you're coming
with me." She broke free and ran home, but not before her assailant
ripped her dress and bruised her shoulders and knees.
The girl's mother called state police the next day after finding an
envelope in her mailbox from the attacker. "I'm sorry about the
wrestling match I had with you," the unsigned note read. "I fell in
love with you...There is no way to approach you and now I have
failed my only way...I still want to meet you and you don't need to
fear me."
Police said they later found Ferry's DNA on that envelope, and on a
pair of sweat pants found lying in the victim's driveway. They said
Ferry at first denied trying to abduct the girl, then admitted to
accosting her because "he just wanted to talk to her."
A county jury convicted Ferry on charges of attempted kidnapping,
false imprisonment, child luring and simple assault after hearing
that evidence. Several Mennonite witnesses testified during his
trial that Ferry was "overly friendly" with young Mennonite girls.
In denying Ferry's appeal, Bowes rejected his arguments that his
sentence the maximum allowed for his crime is too severe and that
prosecutors should not have been allowed to use the DNA evidence or
the testimony of other Mennonite and "English" witnesses against
him.
Bowes discounted Ferry's contention that there was no proof he
actually was trying to kidnap the teen. She cited the terror
inflicted on the girl by Ferry's "highly inappropriate attempt to
get to know her by force."
The evidence of Ferry's guilt is "overwhelming," the judge found.
Bowes upheld Ferry's jail sentence despite his claim that "there
was minimal harm caused" to the victim. Instead, Bowes agreed with
county Judge Travis W. Livengood that only the maximum prison
sentence was appropriate in the case.
She cited Livengood's conclusions that Ferry showed "absolutely no
remorse," that Ferry planned the abduction in great detail, and
that his behavior was "anti-social" and "strange."
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She met a young man,
Who loved her and ran.
Now she goes to the park everyday.
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A couple of Torontonians had just closed down their store on
busy Yonge Street and were standing in the middle of their empty
shop when one said to the other, "I'll bet you ten bucks that if
we wait here a few minutes, some Newfie is going to come by,
peer through the window, and come in and ask us what we're
selling."
Sure enough, just as he finished speaking, a Newfie stuck his
face up to the window, looked around at the empty shelves
and then walked over and asked, "How's she goin, b'y. I was
just wonderin' what you fellas was sellin'??"
One of the Torontians grinned at the other and replied, "We're
selling idiots, friend",
To this the Newfie responded, "Well, ya must be doin' some
good business 'cause dere's only two o' ya left."
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Two country doctors out in the hills of West
Virginia were discussing the population
explosion in the world.
One physician says, "Why, Bubba, thiseyer
crazy birth thang isa gettin' so bad that
perty soon, they ain't gonna be room for
ever'body! There'sa gonna be standin' room
only on this here planet!"
The other doctor replied, "Heck, that sure
oughta slow 'em down a bit!"
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Today, June 13 in
1415 Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an
expedition to Africa.
1777 The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to
help with their rebellion against the British.
1789 Ice cream was served to General George Washington by Mrs.
Alexander Hamilton.
1825 Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the
rights for $400.
1866 The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the
U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was
designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of
recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from
denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or
property without due process of law, or denying to any person
within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
1898 The Canadian Yukon Territory was organized.
1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese
Christians erupted into violence.
1912 Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump
from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi.
1920 The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be
sent by parcel post.
1922 Charlie Osborne started the longest attack on hiccups. He
hiccuped over 435 million times before stopping. He died in 1991,
11 months after his hiccups ended.
1923 The French set a trade barrier between the occupied Ruhr and
the rest of Germany. That did not go over well.
1927 Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New
York City.
1927 For the first time, an American Flag was displayed from the
right hand of the Statue of Liberty.
1940 Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.
1943 German spies landed on Long Island, New York. They were soon
captured.
1944 Germany launched 10 of its new V1 rockets against Britain from
a position near the Channel coast. Of the 10 rockets only 5 landed
in Britain and only one managed to kill (6 people in London).
1944 Marvin Camras patented the wire recorder.
1949 Bao Dai entered Saigon to rule Vietnam. He had been installed
by the French.
1951 U.N. troops seized Pyongyang, North Korea.
1966 The landmark "Miranda v. Arizona" decision was issued by the
U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had
to be informed of their constitutional rights before being
questioned by police.
1971 The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers". The
articles were a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
1978 Israelis withdrew the last of their invading forces from
Lebanon.
1979 Sioux Indians were awarded $105 million in compensation for
the U.S. seizure in 1877 of their Black Hills in South Dakota.
1983 The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first
spacecraft to leave the solar system. It was launched in March
1972. The first up-close images of the planet Jupiter were provided
by Pioneer 10.
1988 The Liggett Group, a cigarette manufacturer, was found liable
for a lung-cancer death. They were, however, found innocent by the
federal jury of misrepresenting the risks of smoking.
1992 Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer
Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" towards
whites.
1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Exxon Corp. and Captain
Joseph Hazelwood to be reckless in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1995 France announced that they would conduct eight more nuclear
tests in the South Pacific.
2000 In Pyongyang, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il welcomed South
Korea's President Kim Dae for a three-day summit. It was the first
such meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea.
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Todays Bonehead Award:
Couple involved in major drug bust in Johnstown
Bonehead
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Today, June 12 in
1979 Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across
the English Channel.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless,
but planning is indispensable.
--- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that
comes from bad judgment.
--- Socratex
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Judge: "Was the child born out of wedlock?"
Mother: "No, sir, just outside of Louisville."
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Food for thought...
You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night. You pass
by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect man (or) woman you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there
could only be one passenger in your car.
Think before you continue reading.
This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as
part of a job application.
You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and
thus you should save her first; or you could take the old friend
because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect
chance to pay him back.
However, you may never be able to find your perfect dream
lover again.
The candidate who was hired! (out of 200 applicants) had no
trouble coming up with his answer. I love this, I may actually
use it sometime for an interview situation.
WHAT DID HE SAY?
He simply answered: "I would give the car keys to my old friend,
and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would stay behind
and wait for the bus with the woman of my dreams."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Scott Miller,
Kathy Miller,
Johnstown,
Florida
Couple involved in major drug bust in Johnstown
Johnstown police have identified two people they say were involved
in a major drug bust Saturday night.
The police chief, Robert Johnson, said Scott and Kathy Miller were
arrested and are now facing felony charges.
JOHNSTOWN- Johnstown police have identified two people they say
were involved in a major drug bust Saturday night.
The police chief, Robert Johnson, said Scott and Kathy Miller were
arrested and are now facing felony charges.
Johnstown said officers were tipped off about suspicious drug
activity happening at a home on Bedford Street.
He said they got a search warrant and served it at the home
Saturday night.
Inside, police said they seized 45 pounds of marijuana, a gun and
$3,000 in cash.
"As I'm told, these people just moved into the neighborhood within
the last week or so. So, this is a really nice bit of police work
in a very quick time period for what these people have been here
for," said Johnson.
Johnson said the street value of the drugs seized is about
$325,000.
According to online documents, the Millers are facing felony
charges including, manufacturing or possession with intent to
deliver.
Bail is set at $500,000 each.
Tech Support Pits
From: Nina
Re: Camera comparison
Dear webby,
What should I look for when comparing different cameras?
Nina
Dear Nina
Look for a large lens to reach further into twilight, darkness
and indoor shots without flash, and also higher picture
quality.
Look for a long optical zoom and anti-shake.
Totally ignore digital zoom. That's a gimmick that
doesn't work.
Look for a real optical view finder that shows the correct
zoom. I do like having the fold-out swivel
monitor for indoor shots, but outside I find a camera
quite useless, if it has no optical viewfinder.
Don't worry about how many MegaPixels are claimed
in the ads. That number is as phony as a Sears vacuum
cleaner horsepower rating. About all that number is
good for is for comparing cameras of the same brand.
Different manufacturers use different size pixels and
different ways to use them.
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There was this city doctor who started a practice
in the countryside.
He once had to go to a farm to attend to a
sick farmer who lived there.
After a few housecalls he stopped coming to
the farm.
The puzzled farmer finally phoned him to
ask whats the matter, didn't he like him
or somethin'.
The doctor said, "No, its your ducks at
the entrance... Every time I enter the
farm, they call me a quack!"
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A Catholic boy was bragging to his Jewish friend.
"My priest knows more than your rabbi."
"Of course he does," said the Jewish boy. "You tell
him everything."
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Cheap Cleaner
For large cleaning projects, try TSP (TriSodiumPhospahte)
TSP used to be the main active ingredient in most detergents,
but got a bad name because it promoted underwater weed
growth in canals, rivers and lakes, into which improperly
treated sewage was dumped into. What was bad was not the
TSP, but Millions of people using a lot of it all year long.
It was simply too much of a good thing.
TSP is still a powerful phospate fertilizer, and your tomatoes
will love it, when you dump the used cleaning water near them.
You won't find TSP at the supermarket, where all the overpriced
and nicely packaged retail cleaners are. You can find it at
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Painters use it, after thinning it down with a lot of water,
to clean dirty walls before painting.
TSP is dirt cheap. At Canadian Tire for example, a gallon jug
of concentrate is CDN $4.95.
For cleaning previously painted stuff, use 40 parts of water to
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engines, use one part water and one part TSP.
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A father is asked by his friend, "Has your son decided what he
wants to be when he grows up?" "Yes, he wants to be a garbage
collector," replied the boy's father.
His friend thought for a moment and responded, "That's a rather
strange ambition to have for a career." "Well," said the boy's
father, "he thinks that garbage collectors only work on Tuesdays!"
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One woman was bragging to her next-door neighbor about her
son, a college student at the University of Illinois. "Why,
our son is so brilliant, every time we get a letter from
him we have to go to the dictionary."
"You're lucky," the neighbor said. "Every time we get a
letter from our son in college, we have to go to the bank!"
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Today, June 12 in
1099 Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a
hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.
1442 Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.
1665 England installed a municipal government in New York. It was
the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.
1839 Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the
legend.
1849 Lewis Haslett patented a gas mask. (Patent US6529 A)
1897 Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became
known as the Swiss army knife.
1898 Philippine nationalists declared their independence from
Spain.
1900 The Reichstag approved a second law that would allow the
expansion of the German navy.
1901 Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting
the Platt Amendment.
1918 The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred
on World War I's Western Front in France.
1921 U.S. President Warren Harding urged every young man to attend
military training camp.
1923 Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the
ground, escaped from a strait jacket.
1926 Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to
admit Germany.
1935 U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on
Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by
150,000 words.
1935 The Chaco War was ended with a truce. Bolivia and Paraguay had
been fighting since 1932.
1937 The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders under Joseph
Stalin.
1941 In London, the Inter-Allied Declaration was signed. It was the
first step towards the establishment of the United Nations.
1944 Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would
support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against
Japan.
1963 "Cleopatra" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and
Richard Burton premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
1967 State laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled
unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of
corrupt election practices in 1971.
1979 Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across
the English Channel.
1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" opened in the U.S.
1982 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York
City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce
Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.
1985 Wayne "The Great One" Gretsky was named winner of the NHL's
Hart Trophy. The award is given to the the league Most Valuable
Player.
1985 The U.S. House of Representatives approved $27 million in aid
to the Nicaraguan contras.
1986 South Africa declared a national state of emergency. Virtually
unlimited power was given to security forces and restrictions were
put on news coverage of the unrest.
1987 U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to
tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its
sovereignty.
1991 Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N.
Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
1992 In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated
that in the early 1950's the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S.
planes and held 12 American survivors.
1996 In Philadelphia a panel of federal judges blocked a law
against indecency on the internet. The panel said that the 1996
Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech
rights of adults.
1998 Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corp. in
largest high-tech acquisition.
1999 NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in
Yugoslavia.
2003 In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly
19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after
being injured in a car accident.
2009 In the U.S., The switch from analog TV trasmission to digital
was completed.
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Monday, June 11, 2018, 10:35 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, June 11
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Philadelphia teacher accused of
taking bribes from students
Bonehead
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Today, June 11 in
1990 The U.S. Supreme Court wimps struck down a law that
would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag.
More of today in history at HIstory
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We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following
rules of good grooming.
--- Don Delillo
Things that matter most must never be at the mercy
of things that matter least.
--- Goethe
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How to Make a Woman Happy
It's not difficult to make a woman happy.
A man only needs to be:
1. a friend
2. a companion
3. a lover
4. a brother
5. a father
6. a master
7. a chef
8. an electrician
9. a carpenter
10. a plumber
11. a mechanic
12. a decorator
13. a stylist
14. a sexologist
15. a gynecologist
16. a psychologist
17. a pest exterminator
18. a psychiatrist
19. a healer
20. a good listener
21. an organizer
22. a good father
23. very clean
24. sympathetic
25. athletic
26. warm
27. attentive
28. gallant
29. intelligent
30. funny
31. creative
32. tender
33. strong
34. understanding
35. tolerant
36. prudent
37. ambitious
38. capable
39. courageous
40. determined
41. true
42. dependable
43. passionate
44. compassionate
WITHOUT FORGETTING TO:
45. give her compliments regularly
46. love shopping
47. be honest
48. be very rich
49. not stress her out
50. not look at other girls
AND AT THE SAME TIME, YOY MUST ALSO:
51. give her lots of attention, but expect little yourself
52. give her lots of time, especially time for herself
53. give her lots of space, never worrying about where she goes
IT IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT:
54. Never to forget:
* birthdays
* anniversaries
* arrangements she makes (Whether she tell you about them or not)
FOR WOMEN HOW TO MAKE A MAN HAPPY
1. Show up naked
2. Bring food
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Oswego Harbor with the Oswego Lighthouse.
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The young secretary was describing her evening's exploits to
a friend. "After dinner," she said, "he wanted to come back
to my apartment, but I refused. I told him my mother would
worry if I did anything like that."
"That was smart," her friend said, approvingly, "Then what
happened?"
"He kept insisting, and I kept refusing," the secretary said.
"You didn't weaken your resolve did you?" asked the friend.
"Not one bit. In the end, we went to his apartment. I figured,
let HIS mother worry."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Amanda Richardson,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia teacher accused of
taking bribes from students
A Philadelphia high school has removed a teacher from the classroom
after she was accused of taking bribes from students in exchange
for better grades. NBC10 received a tip that Amanda Richardson, a
humanities teacher at LINC High School, was giving students higher
grades in exchange for undisclosed bribes.
The school district said that the teacher was "promptly" removed
from the classroom and the Inspector General and Philadelphia
police were notified of the allegations.
"We are aware of the situation and once it was brought to our
attention, we acted immediately. The teacher was promptly removed
from the school and both the Inspector General and Philadelphia
Police have been notified. The School District of Philadelphia is
fully cooperating with the investigation."
Richardson refused to comment on the claims until everything is
cleared with the teachers union.
Tech Support Pits
From: Carole
Re: Attachments
Dear webby:
Does the Humor Letter ever have attachments?
Do you have a virus or spyware?
Carole
Dear Carole
No, the Humor Letter never has attachments, never did
and never will. It is not sent from a Windows computer,
but from a big server running Linux.
Windows viruses and spyware don't work on Linux any more
than a bicycle works on the ocean.
If you saw an attachment with the Humor Letter, then either
your computer or the computer of your ISP is infected,
or else you got your mail program misconfigured so that it
shows mail with embedded pictures as if they were
attachments.
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A man makes a suggestion to his wife, "Honey, what do you
say that tonight we change positions?"
His wife responds with, "yes, I would really like that. Tonight,
you do the dishes and the n stand by the ironing board for a
couple of hours, and I'll lay on the couch and fart."
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A Swedish couple in Minnasohda are applying for a marriage license.
The clerk asks the man his name and he replies, Yan Yohansenn.
The clerk asks the woman what her name is. She replies Yolanda
Yohansenn.
The clerk asks, "Oh, any relation"? The woman blushes and says,
Yust vunce, ve couldn't vait.
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Inspect Your Gutters
Spring is a good time of year to check your gutters. Nail any
droopy gutters back to the fascia. The next time you get a good
rain, make sure the gutters are draining correctly and that water
is being chanelled 3 to 4 feet from your house.
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A guy is sitting in a bar, absolutely drooling at a pretty
young thing in her short, pink mini-dress. Using the time
honored ice breaker, he sends her a drink.
"How lucky am I," he thinks, as she gets up to come sit
next to him. They strike up a wonderful conversation.
Finally the girl turns to him and says, "Look, you seem like
a really nice guy, so I have to tell you that I'm a working girl.
I get two hundred dollars for what you think you'll ply out of
me with liquor."
He replies, "I have no problem with the money but, since you
were so straightforward I must tell you that when I come, I
go nuts. I bite, scratch, kick, punch, pull hair, break
furniture, and just plain destroy the place."
"Oh my God! How long does that last?" she asked.
"Just until I get my two hundred bucks back," he replied.
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A minister, a priest and a rabbi were discussing when life
begins.
"Those of my faith," said the minister, "believe that life
starts when the heart begins to beat."
"We take a different view," said the priest. "We believe
life starts at the moment of conception."
"Well," said the rabbi, "it is our belief that life starts
when the kids move out and the dog dies."
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Today, June 11 in
1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in
Germany.
1509 King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of
Aragon.
1770 Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of
Australia when he ran aground.
1776 In America, the Continental Congress formed a committee to
draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
1798 Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.
1895 Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an
American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
1912 Silas Christoferson became the first pilot to take off from
the roof of a hotel.
1915 British troops took Cameroon in Africa.
1927 Charles A. Lindberg was presented the first Distinguished
Flying Cross.
1930 William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off
the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a
bathysphere.
1934 The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure.
1937 Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals.
1940 The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in
the Mediterranean.
1942 The U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to
aid the Soviets in their effort in World War II.
1943 During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria
surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.
1947 The U.S. government announced an end to sugar rationing.
1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying
to integrate restaurants.
1963 Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to
enroll at the University of Alabama.
1967 Israel and Syria accepted a U.N. cease-fire.
1973 After a ruling by the Justice Department of the State of
Pennsylvania, women were licensed to box or wrestle.
1977 In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end
when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by South
Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were
killed.
1987 Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in
160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.
1990 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit
the desecration of the American Flag.
1991 Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash
and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.
1993 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate
crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also
ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a
constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.
1993 Steven Spielberg's movie "Jurassic Park" opened.
1998 Mitsubishi of America agreed to pay $34 million to end the
largest sexual harassment case filed by the U.S. government. The
federal lawsuit claimed that hundreds of women at a plant in
Normal, IL, had endured groping and crude jokes from male workers.
1998 Pakistan announced moratorium on nuclear testing and offered
to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.
2010 The FIFA World Cup opened in South Africa. It was the first
time it was held in Africa.
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Sunday, June 10, 2018, 08:52 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Sunday, June 10
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Mum ‘set daughter on fire to try and
revive her after she drowned in bath’
Bonehead
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Today, June 10 in
1920 The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.
More of today in history at HIstory
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All charming people have something to conceal,
usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
--- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing
to do. The hard part is doing it.
--- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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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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Greater-bird-of-paradise
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Thanks to Kati for these winning excerpts from actual High
School writings:
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two
sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking
alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog
makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike
Phil, this plan just might work.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck,
either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from
stepping on a land mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended
one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
with power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he
heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Carly Harris,
37,
Trealaw,
Rhondda, south Wales
Mum ‘set daughter on fire to try and
revive her after she drowned in bath’
Carly Harris, 37, was arrested after Amelia-Brooke Harris was found
dead at their home in Trealaw, Rhondda, south Wales, at 10.20pm
last night.
Nicole Sallam, who claims to be a family friend, said Amelia
tragically drowned in the bath before Harris, who she says has
mental health issues, tried to bring her back to life by setting
her on fire. She said: ‘She drowned in the bath and the mother who
has mental health problems thought she could revive her child by
burning her.
Some neighbors, who knew Amelia, don't quite believe that story.
Police are still investigating.
Tech Support Pits
From: Rheta
Re: Lost mouse
Dear webby:
My grand son has lost his mouse. I think he has melinium
not sure of the spelling of it. And I'm not sure of the keys that
can be used to find it. Got any ideas On this problem ?
Dear Rheta
Every time I lost a mouse and rebooting didn't help,
plugging in a new one fixed the problem. They don't
last very long, especially the cheaper ones.
Worst are the $1.49 mice that get shipped with new
computers.
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Two women were paired together as partners in a club
tournament and met on the putting green for the first time.
After introductions, the first golfer asked,
"What's your handicap?"
"Oh, I'm a scratch golfer," the other replied.
"Really!" exclaimed the first woman, suitably impressed
that she was paired up with her.
"Yes, I write down all my good scores and scratch out the
bad ones!
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An IRS man asks a farmer,
"How much is your prize bull worth?"
The farmer says,
"For tax purposes, or has he been hit by a train?"
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Less Sweeping and Vacuuming
Limit the wear and tear on your flooring and how frequently
you have to vacuum by not wearing shoes in your house.
It will cut down on the amount of dirt that winds up on your
floor dramatically.
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The workplace of the tomorrow will have two employees:
a man and a dog.
The man will be there to feed the dog
The dog is there to keep the man from touching the
computers.
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Two deaf men were talking on their coffee
break about being out late the night before.
The first man signed to his friend, "My wife
was asleep when I got home, so I was able
to sneak into bed, and not get into trouble."
The second deaf man signed back, "Boy,
you're lucky. My wife was wide awake,
waiting for me in bed, and she started
swearing at me and giving me heck for
being out so late."
The first deaf man asked, "So, what did you
do?"
The second deaf man signed, "I turned out
the light!"
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Today, June 10 in
1776 The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a
Declaration of Independence.
1793 The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first
public zoo.
1801 The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the U.S.
The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely
through the Mediterranean. The US responded by organizing the
Marines and sending them to Tripoli.
1854 The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, held its first
graduation.
1898 U.S. Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1902 The "outlook" or "see-through" envelope was patented by
Americus F. Callahan.
1903 Binney & Smith Company began developing a product line of wax
crayons. The product was named Crayola.
1909 The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The
Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the
Azores.
1916 Mecca, under control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during
the Great Arab Revolt.
1920 The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.
1924 The Republican National Convention was broadcast by NBC radio.
It was the first political convention to be on radio.
1925 The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that
denied the theory of evolution.
1933 Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were in a car accident on a
rural road in north Texas. The third-degree burns suffered by
Parker resulted in a pronounced limp for the rest of her life.
1935 Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr.
Robert Smith.
1940 Italy declared war on France and Britain. In addition, Canada
declared war on Italy.
1943 Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian
journalist.
1943 The Allies began bombing Germany around the clock.
1944 The youngest pitcher in major league baseball pitched his
first game. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old (and 10 months and 11
days).
1946 Italy established a republic replacing its monarchy.
1948 Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1. He
was the first American to go that fast. Germans had gone over the
speed of sound with Messerschmitts before 1945, but only briefly.
1954 General Motors announced the gas turbine bus had been produced
successfully.
1967 Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that ended the Six-Day
War.
1971 The U.S. ended a 21-year trade embargo of China.
1984 The U.S. Army successfully tested an antiballistic missile.
1984 The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic
relations for the first time in 117 years.
1985 The Israeli army pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of
occupation.
1990 The Civic Forum movement won Czechoslovakia's first free
elections since 1946. The movement was founded by President Vaclav
Havel.
1990 Bulgaria's former Communist Party won the country's first free
elections in more than four decades.
1993 It was announced by scientists that genetic material was
extracted from an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the
Earth.
1994 U.S. President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's
military leaders. U.S. commercial air travel was suspended along
with most financial transactions between Haiti and the U.S.
1996 Britain and Ireland opened Northern Ireland peace talks. The
IRA's political arm Sinn Fein was excluded.
1998 The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that poor children in
Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.
1999 NATO suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after Slobodan
Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.
2015 The movie Jurassic World opened in 60 countries. It became the
first movie to make $500 million its opening weekend.
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Saturday, June 9, 2018, 09:56 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, June 9
3.8% Unemployment, more job openings than applicants!
If Trump keeps that up, pretty soon I'll have to move
South to help out!
With Mexifornia handing out Visas with Democratic Party
registrations, that should not be difficult.
I was told you don't really have to vote for Pelousy
just because of registering for Democratic Party junkmail.
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Man from Georgia busted with guns, hollow-point
bullets at Port Authority Bus Terminal
Bonehead
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Today, June 9 in
1534 Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river
he named Saint Lawrence.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the
whole government working for you.
--- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many
rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
--- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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One day as the water of the mighty Mississippi River rose a
man and his son were forced to retreat to their rooftop. While
there, a neighbour passed by in a row boat and shouted,
"Come with me I'll take you to higher ground."
The man politely refused saying, "I have faith in the lord,
he will save me."
Two hours later as the water continued to rise another
neighbour passed in a rubber raft, offering to take them to
higher ground.
Again he refused saying, "I have faith in the lord, he will
save me."
Four hours passed and as the man and his son clung to
the chimney, trying to avoid the rising water a Coast Guard
helicopter hovered overhead and threw down a ladder,
"Climb up so we can take you to higher ground!" he
heard them say.
Again he refused saying, "I have faith in the lord,
he will save me!"
Well no one else came and they met their fate. Standing
before God, the man said, "Lord I believed in you, my faith
was strong and unwavering and you let us drown!"
Looking at him God replied, "You dumb ass! I sent a boat,
a raft, and a helicopter, what more did you want from me?
A cruise ship?"
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Leroy was telling his friend Bubba about the date he had the night
before, "It was a bummer. She used four letter words all evening."
Bubba exclaimed, "Really? I can't believe you didn't enjoy that."
"Guess again," said Leroy, "All night she kept saying 'Quit,'
'Stop,' and 'Don't!'"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Grant Hall, 21,
Georgia
Man from Georgia busted with guns, hollow-point
bullets at Port Authority Bus Terminal
A man from Georgia who has been living out of his car at Midtown’s
Port Authority Bus Terminal for the last two weeks was arrested
after Port Authority police found two handguns, dozens of hollow-
point bullets and a machete inside his vehicle, sources said
Tuesday.
Grant Hall, 21, is facing a host of weapons possession charges
after the firearms were found in his 2006 Honda Element Monday.
His car was found in the LAZ parking lot above the terminal on the
fifth floor of the Midtown terminal, Port Authority police said.
Police Officer Shaun Kehoe and rookie Police Officers Joey Cassera,
William Salzmann, and Jeffrey Hager — who were on their first day
of service at the bus terminal — were called to the parking lot on
a report of a suspicious person looking into car windows of parked
vehicles.
The cops quickly found Hall, who confessed that he had been living
in his car inside the parking lot for the past two weeks.
Hall was making his way to Montreal, he told the officers.
Cops inspected Hall’s vehicle, recovering the two unloaded
handguns, a 9-mm. magazine that can hold 30 rounds, two more
magazines that can hold 15 rounds each, 60 9-mm. hollow-point
bullets, a machete and a hatchet.
Hall was charged with two counts of gun possession, according to
court documents.
Tech Support Pits
From: Fast Eddie
Re: Which computer is faster?
Hi Mr Webby;
I am in search of another computer and saw one over
on "Tigerdirect" it is.......
blah blah blah
And I have one here at home (below!) I just wanted to know
which one is faster? (in speed!) Reason why is because I
want to give one of these to my daughter and I would like
something faster!
Fast Eddie
Dear Fast Eddie
Whichever machine has fewer programs and utilities, will be
the faster one.
The hardware makes little difference, since the slowest part
is the chair-to-keyboard interface.
Give the polluted one to your daughter, get yourself a new one,
and try as hard as you can to refrain from installing utilities.
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A lion woke up one morning feeling rowdy. He went out and
cornered a small monkey and roared,
"Who is mightiest of all jungle animals?"
The trembling monkey says, "You are, mighty lion!
Later, the lion confronts a deer and bellows, "Who is
mightiest of all jungle animals?"
The terrified deer stammers, "Oh great lion, you are by far
the mightiest animal in the jungle!"
On a roll now, the lion swaggers up to an elephant and roars,
"Who is the mightiest of all jungle animals?"
Fast as lightning, the elephant snatches up the lion with his
trunk, slams him against a tree half a dozen times, the lion
is feeling like it'd been run over by a safari wagon. The
elephant then stomped on the lion till it looked like a corn
tortilla, then crapped on it, and ambled away.
The lion hollered after the elephant, "Damn, just because you
don't know the answer, you don't have to get so p'd off !"
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The Importance Of "Correct Punctuation"
*Version One*
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous,
kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being
useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for
you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be
forever happy--will you let me be yours? Jane
*Version Two*
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous,
kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being
useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn.
For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be
forever happy. Will you let me be? Yours, Jane
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Storing Paint Cans
Before storing paint, put some paint on the top and side of
the can so you can easily see what color it is. If the can is
almost empty, transfer it to a smaller container since paint
cans take up a lot of shelf space.
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"'Muesli' is not a word we use in America. When we sweep up
after we have been doing woodwork and put it in a bag with
mixed nuts and a little birdseed, and pretend it's a health-
ful breakfast, we call it granola."
---Bill Bryson
Rabbi Mendel was one day walking along a very narrow street, when
he came face to face with a rival Rabbi.
The street was too narrow for the two to pass.
The rival, pulling himself up to his full height, said haughtily:
. . . "I never make way for fools "
Smiling, Rabbi Mendel stepped aside and said, . . ."I always do."
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>From Ella
At the Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle, there is a full
size mockup of an F/A-18 fighter. A ramp allows visitors
to climb into the cockpit and get a sense of what the pilot
sees and feels.
A guide at the top of the ramp points out the various
controls and gauges in the cockpit and gives information
about the aircraft's capabilities to each visitor who gets
in.
When my four-year-old grandson sat down in the plane, he seemed
fascinated by all he saw and heard. Then, he looked out at
us and said, "Gramma, could I have a quarter?"
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Today, June 9 in
1064 Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.
1534 Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he
named Saint Lawrence.
1790 John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia Spelling Book." It was
the first American book to be copyrighted.
1790 Civil war broke out in Martinique.
1860 The Ms. Ann Stevens book "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the
White Hunter" was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first
published "dime novel."
1923 Bulgaria's government was overthrown by the military.
1931 Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design.
1934 Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon
"The Wise Little Hen."
1940 Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
1943 The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S.
Congress.
1945 Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would
fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.
1959 The first ballistic missile carrying submarine, the USS George
Washington, was launched.
1973 Secretariat won the 105th Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths and ran
the fastest 1 1/2 miles on dirt at 2:24.
1978 Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the
Mormon priesthood.
1980 Richard Pryor was severely burned by a "free-base" mixture
that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months.
1985 Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in
Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.
1986 The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger
disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a
result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint.
1999 NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.
2000 Canada and the United States signed a border security
agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-
enforcement team.
2000 The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and
estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over
10 years.
2001 Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first National
Hockey League (NHL) player to win three Conn Smythe Trophies. The
award is given to the playoff's Most Valuable Player.
2011 The world's first artificial organ transplant was performed.
It was an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
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Friday, June 8, 2018, 11:15 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, June 8
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Villager who drank ’14 to 15’ beers
arrested after passenger knocked from golf cart
Bonehead
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Today, June 8 in
1869 Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the
suction vacuum cleaner.
More of today in history at HIstory
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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
[info][add][mail][note]Louis L'Amour (1908 1988)
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy
driving cabs and cutting hair.
--- George Burns (1896 1996)
Or yapping on TV and papers.
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At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an
elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall.
"Big breaths," I instructed.
"Yeth, they uthed to be," remorsed the patient.
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Teacher: If you had $1.00 and you asked your father
for another, how many dollars would you have.
: "I would have $1.00!"
Teacher: "You don't know your arithmetic."
: "You don't know my father!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Suzette Ruth Martin, 50,
The Villages,
Florida
Villager who drank ’14 to 15’ beers
arrested after passenger knocked from golf cart
A Villager who admitted to drinking “14 to 15” beers was arrested
after a passenger was knocked from a golf cart.
Lady Lake police were called at 8 p.m. Sunday to 1753 Lauren Lane
on the Historic Side of The Villages to investigate the accident.
Suzette Ruth Martin, 50, had been driving a golf cart out of a
garage when it “slammed into” nearby landscaping, according to an
arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. Martin then
tried to move the golf cart forward and her passenger was thrown
out. Lake EMS transported the passenger from the scene by
ambulance.
Martin said she had consumed 14 to 15 beers and admitted she was
drunk, the report indicated.
She declined to take part in field sobriety exercises, indicating
she was certain she would fail them.
She was unable to provide a breath sample and told police she has
emphysema and lung cancer.
Martin was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence and
booked at the Lake County Jail. She was released after posting
$1,000 bond.
Even though there are no cars allowed in most parts of The
Villages, residents know that impaired driving with golf carts and
lawn mowers is the same crime there as anywhere else.
Tech Support Pits
From: Tony
Re: MOV to MP4 converter (ALL media converter)
Dear Webby,
In reply to this one... I've been using IrfanView for years and,
IMHO, it's a great media converter. (and it's also free)
Home page:https://www.irfanview.com/
Download page: https://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm
IIRC, I think I downloaded IrfanView from one of your past
recommendations...
The media converter I use almost daily (I do a lot of video and
audio recording as well as format conversions) is Format Factory
(https://format-factory.en.softonic.com/) which I think I also got
from another DearWebby recommendation...
IMHO, Format Factory may be a better program for your subscriber's
(Trish) needs of converting MOV files to MP4. (Also a free program)
https://format-factory.en.softonic.com/#app-softonic-review
Format Factory 4.3.0.0
The ultimate free conversion software for PC
Tony
Dear Tony
Yes, I remember Ifranview! I used it once about 20 years ago.
I haven't got much to do with movies, otherwise I would probably
have remembered it.
Have FUN
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Thanks to Simone for this confession:
My sex life is so bad ... that when I called one of those phone
sex lines, a voice came on and said,
"Not tonight. I have an earache."
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One evening while I was preparing dinner, my daughter came
into the kitchen asking for homework help on her vocabulary
words. "Mom," she asked, "what's a quarter horse?"
As I thought of a simple explanation, my five-year-old son
piped up, "I know! It's the one they have in front of the
grocery store."
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Opening Jars
Having trouble opening a jar? A latex dishwashing glove
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lid lightly with the back of a butter knife. This will break
the seal, but be careful not to break the glass jar.
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A ninety-five year old woman at the nursing home received
a visit from one of her fellow church members.
"How are you feeling?" the visitor asked.
The lady said, "Oh, I'm just worried sick!"
"What are you worried about, dear?" her friend asked.
"You look like you're in good health. They are taking
care of you, aren't they?"
"Yes, they are taking very good care of me," said the old lady.
"Are you in any pain?" her friend asked.
"No, I have never had a pain in my life."
"Well, what are you worried about?" her friend asked again.
The lady leaned back in her rocking chair and slowly
explained her major worry. "Every close friend I ever had
has already died and gone on to heaven.
I'm afraid they're all wondering where I went."
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*Rules for Writers*
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 clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually)
unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Don't never use no double negatives.
12. Proffer carefully to see if you any words out.
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Today, June 8 in
0452 Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun.
0793 The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England.
1786 In New York City, commercially manufactured ice cream was
advertised for the first time.
1790 The first loan for the U.S. was repaid. The Temporary Loan of
1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander
Hamilton.
1866 Prussia annexed the region of Holstein.
1869 Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum
cleaner.
1904 U.S. Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S.
citizens and to stop piracy.
1953 The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in
Washington, DC.
1965 U.S. troops in South Vietnam were given orders to begin
fighting offensively.
1967 Israeli airplanes attacked the USS Liberty in the
Mediterranean during the 6-Day War between Israel and its Arab
neighbors. 34 U.S. Navy crewmen were killed. Israel later called
the incident a tragic mistake due to the mis-identification of the
ship. The U.S. has never publicly investigated the incident.
1969 U.S. President Richard Nixon met with President Thieu of South
Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops would pull out by August.
1978 A jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled that the "Mormon will,"
was a forgery. The work was supposedly written by Howard Hughes.
1982 U.S. President Reagan became the first American chief
executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
1986 The Boston Celtics won their 16th NBA championship.
1991 A victory parade was held in Washington, DC, to honor veterans
of the Persian Gulf War.
1994 The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-
fire.
1995 U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S.
Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was
shot down on June 2.
1996 China set off an underground nuclear test blast.
1998 The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be
its president.
1998 In the U.S., the FTC brought an antitrust complaint against
Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of
microprocessor chips.
1998 Honda agreed to pay $17.1 million for disconnecting anti-
pollution devices in 1.6 million cars.
1998 The space shuttle Discovery pulled away from Mir, ending
America's three-year partnership with Russia.
2000 The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the NHL's
longest scoreless game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth
game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game
ended with a goal by Mike Madano that allowed the Stars to play a
game six back in Dallas.
2001 Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen
from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was
valued at about $1 million. A group called the International
Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return
the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace.
2004 Nate Olive and Sarah Jones began the first known continuous
hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They
completed the trek at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 28.
2018 smiled.
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Thursday, June 7, 2018, 07:20 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, June 7
Have FUN!
Dearwebby
Todays Bonehead Award:
Hammer-Wielding Robber Gets Canned
(2 cans of baked beans)
Bonehead
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Today, June 7 in
2000 U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the
breakup of Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft said "NO!"
More of today in history at HIstory
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
--- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
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On a whim a man decided to get his wife a dozen roses and
surprise her after work.
The minute he opened the door, his wife took one look at
the flowers in his hand and started screaming, "This is
the worst day that I have EVER had! The kids have been
terrible. They got in a food fight, the washing machine
broke and flooded the basement, I burned dinner, the dog
chewed up my best pair of shoes...AND NOW YOU'VE GOT THE
NERVE TO COME HOME DRUNK!"
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PeregrineFalcon flies at 389 kmh
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Jarhead Math
The Korean War, in which the Marine Corps fought and won
some of its most brutal battles, was not without its gallows
humor.
During one such conflict a ROK (Republic of Korea) Commander,
whose unit was fighting along with the Marines, called legendary
Marine General Chesty Puller, to report a major Chinese attack
in his sector.
"How many Chinese are attacking you?" asked Puller.
"Many, many, many many, many Chinese!" replied the excited
Korean Officer.
General Puller asked for another count and got the same answer,
"Many, many, many, many Chinese!"
"Dammit!" swore Puller, "Put my Marine Liaison Officer on the
radio."
In a minute, an American voice came over the air: "Yes Sir?"
"Lieutenant," growled Chesty, "Exactly how many Chinese you got up
there?"
"General, we got a whole shitload of Chinese up here!"
"Thank God!" exclaimed Puller, "At least there's someone up there
who knows how to count!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by
Justin Tyler Stanford, 25
Youngstown,
Florida
Hammer-Wielding Robber Gets Canned
A hammer-wielding suspect got nailed, twice, by a veteran Bay
County Sheriff's deputy armed with canned goods.
Surveillance video of a tense confrontation between Bay County
Sheriff's officials and the suspect shows Major Jimmy Stanford
throwing two cans at the suspect's head.
The suspect, shocked and perhaps dazed, is then surrounded and
arrested by Stanford, Chief Joel Heape and Sheriff Tommy Ford.
The incident began shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday when 25-year-old
Justin Tyler Stanford, of Fountain, crashed his car near the
Rainbow Foods store in Youngstown. He then walked into the store
with a hammer and threatened to shoot and kill patrons and
customers.
tanford, no relation to Major Jimmy Stanford, was charged with
assault with a deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer and
assault.
Justin Stanford was taken to the hospital for injuries he sustained
while in car crash prior to the hammer incident. He totaled his car
near the store.
While in the emergency room, the suspect attempted to get a gun
from a deputy that was guarding him, deputies wrote in a news
release.
For that, he was charged with resisting arrest with violence.
Tech Support Pits
From: Trish
RE: .MOV to MP4
Dear Webby,
After reading todays letter, I thought of a problem I have.
I have videos taken on my camera and they are .MOV How do I change
that to .MP4, don’t seem to be able to do it on the computer as
in ‘save as’.
Thanks if you can help,
Trish in Oz
Dear Trish
Try Wondershare
I have had it on my machine for decades, though I have never
actually used it.
I don't remember ever getting any naggers about paying or renewing.
Try it. If you don't like it, I'll find you more.
Have FUN
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"So tell me, Mrs. Smith," asked the interviewer, "have you any
other skills you think may be worth mentioning?"
"Actually, yes," said the applicant modestly. "Last year I had
two short stories published in national magazines, and I finished
my novel."
"Very impressive," he commented, "but I was thinking of skills
you could apply during office hours."
Mrs Smith explained brightly, "Oh, that was during office
hours.
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A boy, frustrated with all the rules he had to follow, asked
his father, "Dad, when will I be old enough to do as I please?"
The father answered immediately, "I don't know, son. Nobody
has lived that long yet."
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Ring Around the Collar
My husband gets ring around the collar because he has oily
skin. I use liquid dishwashing detergent and smear it on the
stains and wash as usual. The oil comes right out. Cheap
shampoo also works well.
By Misty
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A Missouri farmer passed away and left 17 mules to his three
sons. The instructions left in the will said that the oldest
boy was to get one-half, the second oldest one-third, and the
youngest one-ninth. The three sons, recognizing the difficulty
of dividing 17 mules into these fractions, began to argue.
Their uncle heard about the argument, hitched up his mule and
drove out to settle the matter. He added his mule to the 17,
making 18. The oldest therefore got one-half, or nine, the
second oldest got one-third, or six, and the youngest son got
one-ninth, or two. Adding up 9, 6 and 2 equals 17. The uncle,
having settled the argument, hitched up his mule and drove
home.
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"How was your blind date?" a college student
asked her 21 year old roommate.
"Terrible!" the roommate answered. "He showed
up in his 1932 Rolls Royce."
"Wow! That's a very expensive classic car. What's so
bad about that?"
"He is the original owner."
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Today, June 7 in
1494 Spain and Portugal divided the new lands they had discovered
between themselves.
1498 Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration.
1546 Peace of Ardes ended the war between France and England.
1654 Louis XIV was crowned king of France.
1712 The Pennsylvania Assembly banned the importation of slaves.
1775 The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.
1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental
Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1863 Mexico City was captured by French troops.
1892 J.F. Palmer patented the cord bicycle tire.
1900 Boxer rebels cut the rail links between Peking and Tientsin in
China.
1903 Professor Pierre Curie revealed the discovery of Polonium.
1909 Mary Pickford made her motion picture debut in "The Violin
Maker of Cremona."
1929 The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as
copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
1932 Over 7,000 war veterans marched on Washington, DC, demanding
their bonuses.
1935 Pierre Laval received emergency powers to save the franc.
1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in the
U.S. It was the first visit to the U.S. by a reigning British
monarch.
1942 The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4
days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and
suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the
destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.
1942 Japan landed troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the
Aleutians. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Alutians one year
later.
1944 Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony
sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.
1948 The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia.
1955 "The $64,000 Question" premiered.
1965 In the U.S., the Gemini 4 mission was completed. The mission
featured the first spacewalk by an American.
1968 In Operation Swift Saber, U.S. Marines swept an area 10 miles
northwest of Danang in South Vietnam.
1968 Legoland Billund opend in Billund, Denmark. It was the
original Legoland park.
1981 Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed Iraq’s only nuclear
reactor.
1983 The U.S. ordered Nicaragua to close all six of its consulates
and informed 21 Nicaraguan consular officials that they could no
longer remain in the U.S.
1994 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Virginia declared the RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST) salvor-in-possession
of the wreck and the wreck site of the RMS Titanic.
2000 U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup
of Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft said "NO!"
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