Can we vote yet at the Ezinefinder?
Sunday, January 25, 2015, 08:53 AM
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Today is Sunday, January 25
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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a Texas man whose phone had been stolen and sold
and contained Child Porn
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1881 Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others signed
an agreement to organize the Oriental Telephone Company.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an
artist has always to be out of step with his time.
--- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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A Latin American tour guide was addressing a small group of senior
citizens and telling them about the country they were visiting. When he
asked if they had any questions, one person inquired,
"What is the number one sport in this country?"
"Bullfighting," the guide replied.
The same person asked "Isn't that revolting?"
"No," replied the tour guide. "That's number two!"
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>From David
The scene: The "E" train of the subway line in New York City.
I was commuting from the Borough of Queens to my job in
Manhattan. I'd finished reading the morning paper and was
saving it to bring to friends on the job. How do you save
a newspaper on the subway? You sit on it.
A new commuter came in, saw the newspaper under my rear and
asked the second most stupid question I've ever heard (someday
I may tell of the first), "Are you reading that paper?"
I stood up, turned the page, sat down on the paper and answered,
"Yes.
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Daniel Garcia,
20,
Houston
Texas
Child Porn Discovered
On Stolen Phone
A Houston man is behind bars after authorities allegedly
discovered child porn on his stolen phone.
Daniel Garcia, 20, had his Galaxy Note 3 stolen some time
last year. It was purchased in July by a woman at a
Pagetel store.
The woman had no clue the phone was stolen merchandise and
asked an employee to transfer her contacts and photos to
the new phone, Click2Houston.com reports.
When she got home, the woman told police she looked at the
photos and saw a few of her own pictures and a whole bunch
she didn't recognize, showing naked children.
The woman took the camera to police, who determined that
the phone originally belonged to Garcia, KHOU.com reports.
Investigators said many of the images were pornographic
in nature and executed a search warrant of Garcia's home
where they interviewed him.
Garcia allegedly admitted that he had owned the phone
that held the images, but said it had been stolen,
ABC11.com reports.
Police said he allegedly admitted downloading the
pornographic images and that he has been viewing
child pornography since he was 12 years old,
according to Click2Houston.com.
During the investigation, detectives said they
discovered Garcia had been inappropriately touching
an 8-year-old girl since she was in kindergarten.
Garcia was arrested Tuesday and charged with three
counts of child pornography and one count of indecency
with a child. He remains behind bars on $90,000 bail.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Cora
Re: Do we vote yet?
Dear Webby,
Do we vote yet? Haven't heard any thing so was wondering.
Gosh Jan. is coming to an end.
Cora
Dear Cora
The votes are currently added to last year's totals.
Most of the time.
You can see the results at
http://www.ezinefinder.com/index.html
They missed the first 14 days of the year,
but since Jan 15/2015 there are votes getting
added to the 1014 total. Some days the count
seems to be credible.
The customary two staff votes for their own
Happy Garden Newsletter have been missing
since January 1/2015. I have no idea if those two
people got fired, or if they decided to not bother
to vote for their newsletter until their boss
switches the date over to 2015.
Yes, I still do the graphs and see what is going on
every day.
Since they don't answer my email or mail form
submissions, I have no idea what is going on there
at the Ezinefinder. You can try writing to them and
see if they answer you.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Pots and Kitchen Utensils as Toys
My son loves to get ahold of my mom's pot and potato masher
when he visits her. I didn't want to give him mine and have
to continually take them away to use them. So I decided to
buy a few items at Goodwill and let him have his own set.
He loves them!
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Bambi sidled up to a guest at the party. She had heard him addressed
as doctor and now she said diffidently, "Doctor, may I ask a question?"
"Certainly," he said.
"Lately," said Bambi, "I have been having a funny pain right here
above the heart..."
The guest interrupted uncomfortably and said, "I'm terribly sorry,
Bambi, but the truth is, I'm a doctor of philosophy."
"Oh," said Bambi, "I'm sorry!" She turned away, but then overcome with
curiosity, she turned back. "Just one more question, doctor.
Tell me, what kind of disease is philosophy?"
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A guy goes to a gypsy fortune teller. The gypsy tells him his lucky number
is five, he should do everything in fives and he'll have great success.
So on the 5th May (the fifth month) he gets up at 5 am.He has 5 slices of
toast for breakfast. Then he walks 5 kilometres to the racetrack. He puts
five $5 bills on horse no. 5 in the fifth race.
And sure enough, it comes in fifth.
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A hillbilly came into town and started walking down the street. His
coonskin cap attracted a lot of attention and young folk gathered about
him, gaping and giggling. He paid no attention until some smart alec said,
"Tell me, do they have many fools back in the hills?"
The visitor shrugged, "Well, we come across one every once in a while.
But they don't run around in herds, like they do here in town."
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Today in
1504 The English Parliament passed statutes against retainers
and liveries, to curb private warfare.
1533 England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife
Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1579 The Treaty of Utrecht was signed marking the beginning
of the Dutch Republic.
1799 Eliakim Spooner patented the seeding machine.
1858 Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first
time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown
Prince of Prussia.
1870 G.D. Dows patented the ornamental soda fountain.
1881 Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others signed
an agreement to organize the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 The United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1915 In New York, Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant
in San Francisco, inaugurating the first transcontinental
telephone service.
1924 The 1st Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix
in the French Alps.
1961 John F. Kennedy presented the first live presidential news
conference from Washington, DC. The event was carried on
radio and television.
1971 Charles Manson and three female members of his "family"
were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder
and seven counts of murder in the first degree. They were
all sentenced to death for the 1969 killings. The sentences
were later commuted to life sentences.
1971 Maj. Gen. Idi Amin led a coup that deposed Milton Obote
and became president of Uganda.
1981 Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, was tried for treason and
received a death sentence, which was subsequently commuted
to life imprisonment.
1981 The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived
in the United States and were reunited with their families.
1993 A gunman shot and killed two CIA employees outside the
agencies headquarters in Virginia. Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani
national, was later convicted of the shootings.
1999 - At least 1,000 people were killed when an earthquake hit
western Columbia.
1999 In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant
in the United States.
2011 A revolution began in Egypt with the demonstrations that
demanded the end of President Hosni Mubarak's rule.
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Saturday, January 24, 2015, 08:41 AM
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Saturday, January 24
Had to go to the doctor and decided to walk instead of
driving. Considering that the side roads are still solid ice,
that was a dumb idea. On the way home I klunked my head down
solid on the ice. When the Klunk stopped echoing, I saw my
feet, with clouds behind them. No harp. Harps are at
http://www.harpcenter.com/ with Sylvia in Hawaii. Nice lady!
Hmm, guess I am not on THAT cloud. So I lowered my feet,
and contemplated what I had to do to get up. Then I heard a
kind lady asking me if I was OK. Next she stretched out
a hand and helped me up.
Once I was up, she asked if she should come around in an
hour or two to check uop on me. I really must have been
rattled, because all I could think of was the mess in the
house, and the aching back and chest and lack of ambition
to do a majot clean-up in a hurry. So I declined.
That was rather dumb and a sure sign of a concussion!
Oh, well, I am sure most of you have klunked down onto
hard ice or pavement, and felt just as silly as I did.
Back to work!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to
An Alabama teacher was arrested after sex with a student
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1990 Japan launched the first probe to be sent to the Moon since
1976. A small satellite was placed in lunar orbit.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
--- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The best ideas come as jokes.
Make your thinking as funny as possible.
--- David M. Ogilvy
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The boss ordered one of his men to dig a hole eight feet deep. After the job
was completed the boss returned and explained an error had been made
and the hole wouldn't be needed. "Fill 'er up," he ordered.
The worker did as he'd been told. But he ran into a problem. He couldn't
get all the dirt packed back into the hole without leaving a mound on top.
He went to the office and explained his problem.
The boss snorted. "Geee! The kind of help you get these days!
There's obviously only one thing to do.
You'll have to dig that hole deeper!"
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It was the end of the school year, and a kindergarten teacher was
receiving gifts from her pupils. The florist's son handed her a gift.
She shook it, held it overhead, and said,
"I bet I know what it is. Some flowers."
"That's right" the boy said, "but how did you know?"
"Oh, just a wild guess," she said.
The next pupil was the candy shop owner's daughter.
The teacher held her gift overhead, shook it, and said,
"I bet I can guess what it is. A box of sweets."
"That's right, but how did you know?" asked the girl.
"Oh, just a wild guess," said the teacher.
The next gift was a box from the son of the liquor store
owner. The teacher held the package overhead, but it was
leaking. She touched a drop of the leakage with her finger
and touched it to her tongue.
"Is it wine?" she asked.
"No" the boy replied.
The teacher repeated the process, taking a larger drop of
the leakage to her tongue.
"Is it champagne?" she asked.
"No," the boy replied.
The teacher took one more taste before declaring,
"I give up, what is it?"
The boy replied, "A puppy dog!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
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Jessica Acker,
23
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
Teacher Accused Of Having
'Deviant Sexual Intercourse' With Her
Student
A teacher at an Alabama high school is accused of having a
sexual relationship with one of her students.
Al.com reports that Jessica Acker, 23, was arrested on Friday
and charged with engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual
intercourse with a student under the age of 19.
The student is an 18-year-old male, according to WBRC.
Acker has resigned from her job as a teacher at Bryant
High School in Tuscaloosa.
It's unclear how school officials became aware of the
alleged relationship on January, 6. But after they were
alerted, they told authorities.
"The Tuscaloosa City School System learned of these
allegations Tuesday, January 6, at which time an
investigation was immediately conducted by both the
Tuscaloosa Police Department and Tuscaloosa City School
officials,” the school system said in a statement
obtained by WIAT. “The following day, January 7, the
Board of Education accepted the resignation of the
teacher involved.“
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Tech Support Pits
From: Frodo
Re: Reboot how often?
Dear Webby,
How often should one reboot Windows 7?
It is slow at the best of times, but gets slower when not
rebooted frequently.
What Do you Suggets?
Frodo
Dear Frodo
I reboot whenever a Windows Update requires it. No more
than that. I use the Uniblue PC Mechanic to keep Windows
tuned and unnecessary crap removed.
My Windows is protected by McAfee and Malwarebytes, and
thanks to PC Mechanic probably runs a bit faster than on
day 1.
Without those programs I would recommend shutting down
every evening, real shut down, not just hibernating,
and restarting the next day.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Cinnamon and Spices French Toast
Yield: 6-8 slices of french toast
Ingredients:
3 eggs, beaten
1 tsp brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
dash of nutmeg
dash of allspice
1 tsp vanilla
2 Tbsp flavored liquid creamer (Hazelnut or French Vanilla)
butter
6-8 slices 12 grain bread (or whatever bread you like)
maple syrup
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You can use milk or water instead of the phony creamer
and whisk in a 1/4 tsp hazelnut- or almond-butter.
Check the BulkBarn for all kinds of different butters.
They are all natural, unlike the liquid flavorings.
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Bumper Sticker:
The truth is out there. Anyone know the URL?
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During an Army war game a commanding officer's jeep got stuck
in the mud. The C.O. saw some men lounging around nearby and
asked them to help him get unstuck.
"Sorry sir," said one of the loafers, "but we've been
classified dead and the umpire said we couldn't contribute
in any way."
The C.O. turned to his driver and said,
"Go drag a couple of those dead bodies over here and throw
them under the wheels to give us some traction."
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A young man is an avid listener to the city's police frequency, and he
leaves the scanner on all the time. One morning while making his bed, I
heard the dispatcher say, "Car 34, there is a twelve-foot boa constrictor in
the front yard of 27 Oak Street. The resident wants a policeman to come
and remove it, but not to use shotguns or hand grenades, because there is
a Kindergaten across the street."
There was a long pause, then some static. Slowly, a voice said,
"Looks like we have some engine trouble."
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Today in
1848 James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill
in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush
of '49.
1899 Humphrey O’Sullivan patented the rubber heel.
1916 Conscription was introduced in Britain.
1922 Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.
1924 The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad.
The name has since been changed back to St. Petersburg.
1930 Primo Carnera made his American boxing debut by knocking
out Big Boy Patterson in one minute, ten seconds of the
opening round.
1935 Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on
sale in Richmond, VA.
1965 Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.
1972 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare
benefits to people who had resided in a state for less
than a year.
1978 A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's
atmosphere and disintegrated. The radioactive debris was
scattered over parts of Canada's Northwest Territory.
1980 The United States announced intentions to sell arms to China.
1985 Penny Harrington became the first woman police chief of a
major city. She assumed the duties as head of the Portland, Oregon,
force of 940 officers and staff.
1986 The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus. The probe came
within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.
1989 Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in
Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of
12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
1990 Japan launched the first probe to be sent to the Moon since
1976. A small satellite was placed in lunar orbit.
2001 In Colorado Springs, CO, Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury
were taken into custody after a 5-minute phone interview was
granted with a TV station. They were the remaining fugitives
of the "Texas 7."
2002 John Walker Lindh appeared in court for the first time
concerning the charges that he conspired to kill Americans
abroad and aided terrorist groups. Lindh had been taken into
custody by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
2003 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security began operations
under Tom Ridge.
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Friday, January 23, 2015, 11:56 AM
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Friday, January 23
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence
whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of
the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread
belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
--- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970),
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At one of the last all girl schools in Dallas years ago, the instructor in a
"Charm Course" was urging her students to give their escorts every chance
to be gallant.
"Remain seated in the truck until he has had time to step
around and open the door for you," she said.
Then, returning to reality, she added,
"But, if the big, dumb klutz is in the restaurant ordering
his steak or flirting at the waitress,
... don't wait any longer."
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An Amish man answered a knock on his door one morning. An electric
company worker handed him a piece of paper stating that the electric
company would like to run a power line through his pasture.
The Amish man said, "No, you can not."
"Legally, that paper says we can," replied the line worker.
As he turned and left returning to his co-workers in the field,
the Amish man went to his barn and let his bulls into the
pasture.
The ground shook and a cloud of dust rose as the big
2500 pound Black Angus bulls rumbled toward the workers
in the field.
The Amish man hollered to the linemen:
"Don't worry, just show those bulls your paper!"
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Jason Davis
33,
Monroe,
Michigan
Fleeing Suspect
Jason Davis Drives Right Into
Ohio Prison's Parking Lot
Police in Ohio say a Michigan man who drove away from a
traffic stop smashed through a gate and landed right in a
prison parking lot.
Officers arrested the man early Wednesday after he drove
around the outside of the Toledo Correctional Institution
and then back into it's parking lot.
Court records show that the charges against Jason Davis of
Monroe, Michigan, include vandalism of government property,
drug possession and failing to use his turn signal.
Police tell The Blade newspaper in Toledo that they were
able to arrest Davis after his vehicle ran over stop sticks
that deflated his tires.
The 33-year-old is due in court Thursday.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Eric
Re: Nigerian Scams
Dear Webby,
I can't believe that people are still falling for these
Nigerian Scams. Do you recommend forwarding them to the FTC
as well as getting them over to Spam Cop?
Eric
Dear Eric
They still fall for AOL too. And Hillary.
FTC is a total waste of time. They pick one or two celebrity
cases a year, and with all the other complaints they just
make pretty graphs.
Spamcop sends an email to the ISP of the scammer.
About all you can do is be aware of those scammers
and not fall for them.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Fill Your Bird Feeders
Just a little reminder to fill your bird feeders this
winter. Many birds may fly south, but those in the northern
states have birds come in the winter, too. Add a birdseed
bell and suet blocks on a low branch near the feeder and
you can enjoy watching the little birds come to feed on
bitter snowy winter days.
By Evelyn from McHenry, IL
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"You and your husband don't seem to have an awful lot in common," said
the new tenant's neighbor. "Why on earth did you get married?"
"I suppose it was the old business of 'opposites attract',"
was the reply. "He wasn't pregnant and I was."
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Little Tommy is at the zoo on a school visit and he spots a deer.
Being a city kid he's never seen one before and so he asks his teacher,
"What's that, Miss?"
Miss decides to play a word game with him and says,
"That's what your Mom calls your Dad, Tommy."
Tommy thinks for a moment and then says, "I'm not that
stupid Miss,
I know that is not a 'Dumb-Ass' !"
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Sign in a stationery store:
"For the man who has everything: A calendar -
to remind him when payments are due."
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Today in
1556 An earthquake in Shanxi Province, China, was thought
to have killed about 830,000 people.
1845 The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would
be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1920 The Dutch government refused the demands from the Allies
to hand over the ex-kaiser of Germany.
1937 In Moscow, seventeen people went on trial during Josef
Stalin's "Great Purge."
1943 The British captured Tripoli from the Germans.
1950 The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
1960 The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste descended to a record
depth of 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) in the Pacific Ocean.
1968 North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging
it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a
spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.
They kept the ship.
1971 In Prospect Creek Camp, AK, the lowest temperature ever
recorded in the U.S. was reported as minus 80 degrees.
1973 U.S. President Nixon announced that an accord had been
reached to end the Vietnam War.
1978 Sweden banned aerosol sprays because of damage to
environment. They were the first country to do so.
1985 O.J. Simpson became the first Heisman Trophy winner to
be elected to pro football’s Hall of Fame in Canton, OH.
1997 A judge in Fairfax, VA, sentenced Mir Aimal Kasi to
death for an assault rifle attack outside the CIA
headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded
three other people.
2001 A van used by the remaining two fugitives of the "Texas 7"
was recovered in Colorado Springs, CO. A few hours later
police surrounded a hotel where the convicts were hiding.
Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury were taken into
custody the next morning without incident.
2002 John Walker Lindh returned to the U.S. under FBI custody.
Lindh was charged with conspiring to kill U.S. citizens,
providing support to terrorists and engaging in prohibited
transactions with the Taliban while a member of the
al-Quaida terrorist organization in Afghanistan.
2003 North Korea announced that it would consider sanctions
for North Korea's reinstatement of its nuclear program
an act of war.
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Thursday, January 22, 2015, 08:58 AM
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Thurday, January 22
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DearWebby
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man in England for performing sex into a mailbox
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1980 Gold was valued at $850 an ounce.
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings
into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was
already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not
all the performers are well trained.
--- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
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A defendant was asked if he wanted a bench trial or a jury trial.
"Jury trial," he replied.
"Do you understand the difference?" asked the judge.
"Sure," replied the defendant.
"That's where twelve ignorant people decide my fate instead of just one.
OOOPS!"
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A group of women were talking together. One woman said,
"Our congregation is sometimes down to 30 or 40 on a Sunday."
Another said:
"That's nothing. Sometimes our congregation is down to six or seven."
A lady in her seventies added her bit,
"That's not so bad. In our church it is bad! It's so bad in our church on
Sundays that when the minister says 'dearly beloved,' it makes me blush!"
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Paul Bennett
45
Wigan,
England
Paul Bennett
Convicted after having sex
into a mailbox
A man in Wigan, England, has been stamped as a sex offender
after being found guilty of having sex with a mailbox.
Paul Bennett, 45, pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts
of indecent exposure and using threatening and abusive
words with abusive behavior, the Mirror reports.
The plea stemmed from a Sept. 9 incident where he attempted
to have sex with a mailbox in a public area.
Witnesses told the court they saw Bennett pull down his
pants in a shopping arcade and start to publicly perform
a sexual act on himself in public.
Prosecuting attorney Kate Beattie said Bennett then walked
over to the postbox and "started to make sexual advances
towards it," according to the Mirror.
Bennett reportedly rubbed himself against the mailbox while
holding his hands in the air. Witnesses said he kept
shouting “Wow!” during his mailbox masturbation.
After he finished, Bennett pulled up his pants and started
swinging on a lamppost, according to the Manchester
Evening News.
Police later found Bennett exposing himself in front of
another store. Officers said he drunkenly shouted and
swore at them, according to the Express.
Bennett's attorney, Martin Jones, told the court he realizes
his client's behavior left witnesses "ashamed, disgusted
and upset." "My client accepts that," he said, according
to the Telegraph. "Clearly there are issues that need to
be addressed."
A court ordered Bennett to undergo alcohol treatment,
and pay $75 to the woman who witnessed his mailbox sex
session.
He will also have to register as a Sex Offender,
Wigan Today reports.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Sophia
Re: Laptop Keyboard
Dear Webby,
Your web site is wonderful. I love it. It's humorous, clean,
helpful in technology and inspirational. It lifts up my spirit
lots of times. Many times when I felt down, I went to your
web site, read some philosophical excerpts, humors,
special news here and there, watched some rare photos,
read the tech support, I learned something, I felt better.
Thank you very much for your great work to create this
web site.
I have a question regarding my laptop, I hope you could
help. Two buttons of my laptop are stop working: the period
button and the arrow up button. When I press them, they
don't function at all. What can I do to fix this problem?
I really hope you could help.
Thanks again and have a nice day!
Sophia
Dear Sophia
That would depend a lot on what brand and model laptop you
have. If it is still under warranty, they will replace the
keyboard free. If it is not, most likely you will have to
buy a new keyboard.
Laptop keyboards are not repairable.
Personally, I use regular keyboards with laptops. They are
much faster, easier on the hands and wrists and arms and back,
and cheap to replace.
When buying a keyboard, first measure your carry-on and
see how long a keyboard you can fit into it, then buy the
biggest that will just fit in. Usually, the wider a keyboard is,
the faster and easier it is on your hands.
A good example is the Logitech K360 920-004088 Glossy Black
USB RF Wireless Mini Keyboard for $25 at NewEgg.
http://newegg.com
or
NeweEgg.ca Keyboard
You can use it wireless, or plug it into the USB port, and
never worry about batteries.
It has the proper "inverted T" formation of the arrow keys,
and a full numeric keypad including big + and ENTER keys on
the numeric keypad.
That keyboard is quite compact and should fit into your
laptop carry case.
You caqn also search Amazon for replacement keyboards for
your laptop. Some of them are even cheaper, and many of
them include illustrated replacement instructions.
"Take sharp dagger and pry up decorating stripper further
of keyboard and take Phillips screw extrator/driver and
undo both screwes in visibility..."
It's not really difficult, and translating the instructions
will have you chuckling.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Crockpot Rustic Ham and Potatoes
Don't you just love recipes that combine pre-made ingredients
along with fresh? It saves you so much time! This easy recipe
begins with 2 humble boxes of Au Gratin potatoes. When
combined with savory turkey ham and a bunch of veggies,
it is transformed into a meal you will want to make again
and again. At least I do.:)
The best part is, if you forget to start this in the morning
(which I always do), you can crank your trusty crockpot up
to high and this delicious meal will be ready in less
than 3 hours!
Approximate Time: About 10 minutes prep.
Yield: 6-8 main servings
Ingredients:
2-4 9 oz. boxes Au Gratin potatoes, cheese packet included
3 cups turkey ham, cubed (regular ham may be used)
1 1/2 chopped bell peppers, green, red, or yellow....a mixture is nice
1 large carrot, shredded
1 1/2 cup thawed frozen peas
2 cups water
2 cups whole milk
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 cups extra sharp cheddar cheese
Steps:
Place potatoes and cheese packets in a large bowl.
Pour 2 cups warm water over all, mix well. Pour your milk
in, along with your pepper, mix well.
Add in all of your chopped veggies and cheese, mix well.
Pour your ingredients into a greased slow cooker, cook
on the high setting for about 2 hours and 50 minutes.
I haven't tried this, but I imagine they would also cook
on low for around 6 hours or so. Enjoy!
Source: Modified from a Rival crockpot booklet.
By melissa [66]
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"You and your husband don't seem to have an awful lot in common," said
the new tenant's neighbor. "Why on earth did you get married?"
"I suppose it was the old business of 'opposites attract',"
was the reply. "He wasn't pregnant and I was."
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>From Roland
A lawyer phoned the governor's mansion shortly after midnight.
"I need to talk to the governor -- it's an emergency!" exclaimed the lawyer.
After some cajoling, the governor's assistant agreed to wake him up.
"So, what is it that's so important that it can't wait until morning?"
grumbled the governor.
"Judge Pierson just died, and I want to take his place," begged the
attorney.
"Well, it's OK with me if it's OK with the funeral home," replied
the governor.
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A man was speeding down the highway, feeling secure in a gaggle of cars
all traveling at the same speed. However, as they passed a speed trap, he
got nailed with an infrared speed detector and was pulled over.
The officer handed him the citation, received his signature and was about
to walk away when the man asked,
"Officer, I know I was speeding, but I don't think it's fair -
there were plenty of other cars around me who were going just as fast,
so why did *I* get the ticket?"
"Ever go fishing?" the policeman asked the man.
"Ummm, yeah..." the startled man replied.
The officer grinned and added, "Ever catch *all* the fish?"
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>From Lillemor
The Prophet Muhammad's wife furiously called him a pedophile.
He replied, "that's a mighty big word for a 9 year old!"
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Today in
1793 During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was
executed on the guillotine. He had been condemned for treason.
1812 The Y-bridge in Zanesville, OH, was approved for
construction.
1846 The first issue of the "Daily News," edited by
Charles Dickens, was published.
1853 Dr. Russell L. Hawes patented the envelope folding
machine.
1861 The future president of the Confederacy, Jefferson
Davis of Mississippi, resigned from the U.S. Senate.
Four other Southerners also resigned.
1865 An oil well was drilled by torpedoes for the first time.
1900 Canadian troops set sail to fight in South Africa.
The Boers had attacked Ladysmith on January 8, 1900.
1911 The first Monte Carlo car rally was held. Seven days
later it was won by Henri Rougier.
1924 Soviet leader Vladimir Llyich Lenin died. Joseph Stalin
began a purge of his rivals for the leadership of the
Soviet Union.
1941 The British communist newspaper, the "Daily Worker,"
was banned due to wartime restrictions.
1954 The Nautilus was launched in Groton, CT. It was the
first atomic-powered submarine. U.S. First Lady Mamie
Eisenhower broke the traditional bottle of champagne
1954 The gas turbine automobile was introduced in New
York City.
1970 The Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight
from New York to London for Pan American.
1976 The French Concorde SST aircraft began regular
commercial service for Air France and British Airways.
1977 U.S. President Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War
draft evaders.
1980 Gold was valued at $850 an ounce.
1994 A jury in Manassas, VA, acquitted Lorena Bobbitt by
reason of temporary insanity of maliciously wounding
(severing his penis) her husband John. She accused him
of sexually assaulting her.
1997 Newt Gingrich was fined as the U.S. House of
Representatvies voted for first time in history to
discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.
1998 A former White House intern said on tape that she
had an affair with U.S. President Clinton.
1999 The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a ship headed for
Houston, TX, that had over 9,500 pounds of cocaine aboard.
It was one of the largest drug busts in U.S. history.
2002 In Goma, Congo, about fifty people were killed when
lava flow ignited a gas station. The people killed were
trying to steal fuel from elevated tanks. The eruption
of Mount Nyiragongo began on January 17, 2002.
2003 It was announced by the U.S. Census Bureau that estimates
showed that the Hispanic population had passed the black
population for the first time.
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Monday, January 19
We got quite a Chinook gusting out there. Sandie's hurricane
gong is chiming like crazy, even though it is inside the
covered deck. It will be interesting to see in daylight how
many branches and trees have been knocked down. There won't
be a lot, since we have Chinooks every now and then cleaning
up any trees, that have become weak or not strong enough
to withstand a Chinook.
Judging by the gong, the Chinook is blowing at 50,
gusting to 100. Snow and ice are getting evaporated,
without going through a liquid state. It is all heading
towards Toronto and Chicago, and will get there in
about 5 days.
Have FUN!
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Mother, who set newborn on fire
on New Jersey road
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1825 Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City
patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters
and lobsters.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is
what we do.
--- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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A neighbor down the street was home every day, sitting on his porch.
After a few weeks I asked him what was going on.
He replied, "I left my job because of illness and fatigue in management."
A few weeks later, his wife gave me the real truth of what happened.
Turns out his boss got sick and tired of him.
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A missionary discovered a tribe of natives who had never recorded
a baptism, confirmation or marriage. The missionary soon rectified the
situation by baptizing and confirming everyone. He also married every
couple that walked by and desired such.
Later, the tribal chief told the missionary that the tribe had never had so
much fun.
The missionary asked the chief which part they enjoyed the most.
"The marriage stuff," the chief said, smiling.
"We all got new wives,
and all without the oldfashioned and traditional hassles with divorce
lawyers and courts and custody battles and waiting periods!"
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Earth, Jupiter, and Venus seen from Mars
>From Lillemor
Best Prank
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
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Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier
22,
Pemberton Township,
NJ
Mother Set Newborn On Fire
On New Jersey Road
A New Jersey woman who authorities say put her newborn baby
in the middle of a road and set the child on fire was
charged Saturday with murder.
Burlington County prosecutors said Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier,
22, of Pemberton Township was jailed on $500,000 bail.
Police responded to a Friday night call about a fire in the
middle of a residential road in the township, about 30 miles
east of Philadelphia. Officers found the baby in flames and
put out the fire.
The child reportedly was alive and breathing at the time
she was flown to a hospital in Philadelphia, said Joel Bewley,
a spokesman for the prosecutor's office. She died about two
hours later, he said in a news release. An autopsy will be
performed to determine the cause of death.
Authorities believe the mother doused her baby with an
accelerant then set her on fire, Bewley said. They do not
have a motive. The woman was taken into custody Friday night.
Prosecutor Robert Bernardi said details of the baby's birth
were still being investigated. The baby's age has not been
disclosed. Bernardi would not comment on whether the mother
has a criminal record or if she has been involved with child
welfare officials.
Dave Joseph, 45, of Pemberton Township told The Burlington
County Times that he saw a young woman get out of her car
and light something on fire in the middle of Simontown Road.
He said the woman told him she was burning dog waste.
Joseph said the woman appeared calm and soon tried to flee
the scene, but residents stopped her.
"It was just mind-boggling," Joseph said. "It was a nightmare
even if you have a strong heart."
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Tech Support Pits
From: Elsa
Re: Printing a hassle with Chrome
Dear Webby,
I got Chrome on your advice, and I love it, except for
printing. I am used to print some stuff, like personal
letters, at high resolution and no scaling and in color,
and I print invoices at 70% scale, just black, and low
resolution, toner-save mode.
Switching between the two is a real hassle with Chrome.
What do you suggest?
Elsa
Dear Elsa
Yes, I agree, when it comes to printing, Chrome is way
behind FireFox and still rather immature.
Just open FireFox on the side and use that for printing.
There is no problem running FF beside Chrome.
CTRL SHIFT P lets you get into the printer system settings,
but it is much more time consuming than to just use
FireFox for printing.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Making a 1/2 Pie for a Half Birthday
In our family, we usually celebrate our kids' half birthday
by purchasing them a 1/2 pie from the store. However this
year I decided to try searching the internet for a 1/2 pie
pan, in the off chance that I could actually find one.
What do you know; Amazon sells one! It is called the
Split Decision pie pan and I am in love with it. It cost
a few dollars more than one 1/2 pie which is going to
save me a lot of money over the years.
To purchase: Split Decision Pie Pan
It is actually better than what I had in mind because it
has multiple options. You can bake 1/2 a pie, two different
1/2 pies, or swap out the bottom and bake a whole pie. So
it also is great for the times that you can't decide on a
flavor that will make everyone happy. :)
Whether you want to give our tradition a try or you want
to have harmony at Thanksgiving, you should get this pie pan!
birthday girl with pie 2
*** Half for her and half for everyone else to share! :)
By lalala... [551]
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A bum asks a man for some money.
The man asked, "Will you buy booze?"
The bum said, "No."
The man asked, "Will you gamble it away?"
The bum said, "No."
Then the man asked, "Will you come home with me so
my wife can see what happens to a man who doesn't
drink or gamble?"
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A woman met her husband at the train station after work for the ride home.
He looked haggard, so she asked, "Rough day?"
"You bet it was," he groaned. "Our computers were down,
and we had to think ourselves all day long."
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Ed asks his eight year-old son if he knows about the birds and the bees.
"I don't want to know!" the child said, bursting into tears. Confused, the
father asked his son what was wrong.
"Oh dad," he sobbed, "at age five I got the 'there's no Santa'
speech. At age six I got the 'there's no Easter bunny'
speech. Then at age seven you hit me with the 'there's no tooth fairy'
speech!
If you're going to tell me now that grown-ups don't really have sex,
I've got nothing left to live for!"
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Today in
1419 Rouen surrendered to Henry V, completing his conquest
of Normandy.
1793 King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention,
found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine.
1825 Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City
patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters
and lobsters.
1883 Thomas Edison's first village electric lighting
system using overhead wires began operation in Roselle, NJ.
1915 George Claude, of Paris, France, patented the neon
discharge tube for use in advertising signs.
1915 More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins
bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped
on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.
1937 Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record. He
flew from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours
1942 The Japanese invaded Burma (later Myanmar).
1944 The U.S. federal government relinquished control of
the nation's railroads after the settlement of a wage dispute.
1949 The salary of the President of the United States was
increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional
$50,000 expense allowance for each year in office.
1966 Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.
1969 In protest against the Russian invasion of 1968, Czech
student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague.
1971 At the Charles Manson murder trial, the Beatles'
"Helter Skelter" was played. At the scene of one of his
gruesome murders, the words "helter skelter" were written
on a mirror.
1977 U.S. President Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino
(the "Tokyo Rose").
1983 China announced that it was bannning 1983 purchases
of cotton, soybeans and chemical fibers from the United States.
1993 IBM announced a loss of $4.97 billion for 1992. It was
the largest single-year loss in U.S. corporate history.
1995 Russian forces overwhelmed the resistance forces
in Chechnya.
1996 U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was subpoenaed to
appear before a federal grand jury. The investigation was
concerning the discovery of billing records related to the
Whitewater real estate investment venture.
1997 Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron for the first time in
more than 30 years. He joined 60,000 Palestinians in
celebration over the handover of the last West Bank city
in Israeli control.
2000 In New York's Time Square, the first WWF restaurant
2001 Texas officials demoted a warden and suspended three
other prison workers in the wake of the escape of the "Texas 7."
2013 In Scottsdale, AZ, the original Batmobile for the TV
series "Batman" sold at auction for $4.6 million. It was
the first of six Batmobiles produced for the show.
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Today is Sunday, January 18
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
NH man put toddler into running dryer
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1778 English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the
Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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--- Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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A city slicker stopped his large, expensive car on a country road and
looked about in confusion. He noticed a young farm hand leaning on a
fence and called to him, "Hey, you know how far it is to Shrewsbury?"
The farm hand thought about it and said, "Don't know."
"Well then, do you know the best way to get there?"
Again, the farm hand thought a bit and said, "Don't know."
"Look, can you just tell me where the nearest gas station is so I can pick
up a map?"
"'Fraid I don't know that either."
Frustrated, the man in the car snapped, "You don't know much do you?"
To which the farm hand replied:
"I know enough not to get lost in these here parts."
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A doctor's secretary called an old farmer and said:
"Your check came back."
The old man replied, "So did my arthritis."
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Adam Morton
27
Berlin,
New Hampshire
Putting Toddler In Running Dryer
A New Hampshire man who put his girlfriend's 2-year-old
son in a running clothes dryer at her home has pleaded
guilty to assault.
WABI-TV reports that Adam Morton, of Berlin, New Hampshire,
entered his plea in a Bangor courtroom on Tuesday.
Authorities say the 27-year-old Morton was taking care of
the boy in August while his girlfriend was at work.
According to court documents, the boy suffered second-degree
burns on his arms and back and burns and blisters on his feet.
Morton told police the boy was in the dryer's drum for just
one revolution, but investigators determined that the boy was
in the dryer for a prolonged period.
Morton is scheduled to be sentenced February 2. Prosecutors
are recommending a two-year sentence.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Donny
Re: IE address bar
Dear Webby,
Tried this - doesn't work.
Any other ideas ?
Was using 'Internet Eraser' and it did the job, but,
am trying not to have too many programs running.
Donny
Dear Donny
I thought you had written that you just want the
address bar cleaned.
If you don't mind that the history is wiped, then
there are a few methods you could use. Even
CrapCleaner will do that.
Microsoft writes:
Close all running instances of Internet Explorer and
all browser windows.
In Control Panel, click Internet Options.
Click the General tab, and then click Clear History.
Click Yes, and then click OK to close the Internet Options
dialog box.
Try that.
Yes, I know it is a nuisance, but so is IE.
Here is more information:
https://kb.iu.edu/d/ahic
Have FUN!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Food Strainer for Cleaning Up Hard Boiled Eggs
My husband loves hard boiled eggs for a quick, healthier,
more than normal snack. With time, I've tried other tips
I've read about concerning hard boiled eggs and would
like to share my recent discovery.
I now place our food strainer in the sink before I peel
the hard boiled eggs under water. When I'm done, I just
empty the strainer into the trash can and then rinse
the strainer. It took less than a minute to clean up
the peeled shells from a dozen eggs.
Once peeled, I lay some paper towels in the bottom of
some Rubbermaid containers, place in the refrigerator,
and the eggs stay good for over a week.
By CaroleeRose from Madison, AL
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>From Lorna
On a trip to Enseñada, Mexico, for the day, we parked in front of some
interesting-looking shops. A little boy ran over to us and said,
"Señor, I watch your car, fifty cent!"
I asked him to wait "un momento" and entered a shop to ask the owner in
Spanish about the young lad. He explained to me,
"You give him the fifty cents, he runs away.
You don't give him money, he runs away with your hubcaps
and gas cap."
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The preacher spent his whole sermon relating the evils of sin
and how all men are sinners with no exceptions. At the end of
the sermon he asked rhetorically, "Now does anyone here think
they are without sin?"
He had only to wait a few seconds before a man in one of the
back pews stood up. The pastor asked the man who had the
audacity to stand after such a fiery sermon, "Sir, do you really
think you are completely without sin?"
The man quickly answered, "No sir, I'm not standing up for myself,
but for my wife's first husband."
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An Avon lady was along in an elevator when she suddenly
had to fart. She promptly reached into her bag and sprayed
the air with her deodorizer.
Two floors later a gentleman got onto the elevator.
He began to sniff.
The Avon lady asked, "Do you smell something?"
"Why, yes, I do," he replied.
"What does it smell like?"
"Hmmm, I'm not sure, ......
but it smells like a pine tree fell on an outhouse."
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January 18
1778 English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the
Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."
1788 The first English settlers arrived in Australia's
Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. The group moved
north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson.
1871 Wilhelm, King of Prussia from 1861, was proclaimed
the first German Emperor.
1896 The x-ray machine was exhibited for the first time.
1911 For the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. Pilot
Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania
in San Francisco harbor.
1939 Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded
"Jeepers Creepers."
1943 During World War II, the Soviets announced that they
had broken the Nazi siege of Leningrad, which had began
in September of 1941.
1943 U.S. commercial bakers stopped selling sliced bread.
Only whole loaves were sold during the ban until the end
of World War II.
1950 The federal tax on oleomargarine was repealed.
1957 The first, non-stop, around-the-world, jet flight came
to an end at Riverside, CA. The plane was refueled in
mid-flight by huge aerial tankers.
1978 The European Court of Human Rights cleared the British
government of torture but found it guilty of inhuman and
degrading treatment of prisoners in Northern Ireland.
1990 In an FBI sting, Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry
was arrested for drug possession. He was later convicted
of a misdemeanor.
1993 The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed in
all 50 U.S. states for the first time.
1995 A network of caves were discovered near the town of
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in southern France. The caves contained
paintings and engravings that were 17,000 to 20,000
years old.
2002 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced
the approval of a saliva-based ovulation test.
2012 Wikipedia began a 24-hour "blackout" in protest against
proposed anti-piracy legislation (S. 968 and H.R. 3261)
known as the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in
the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the
House. Many websites, including Reddit, Google, Facebook,
Amazon and others, contended would make it challenging
if not impossible for them to operate.
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Ezinefinder is still stuck in 2014,
but it looks like they are trying to add the votes to the
2014 total. Well, maybe next week they will figure
it out.
Have FUN!
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
man in Florida for tossing a bag of cocaine onto a
police car.
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Today, in
2000 British pharmaceutical companies Glaxo Wellcome PLC and
SmithKline Beecham PLC agreed to a merger that created the
world's largest drugmaker.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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getting it first and getting it right.
--- Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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A clean house is a sign of a broken computer.
My computer is not broken, and thanks to Uniblue PC Mechanic,
it is actually in pretty good shape. I wish there was
something like that for house cleaning!
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A husband said to his wife, "No, I don't hate your relatives. In
fact, I like your mother-in-law better than I like mine."
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Luis Vazquez, 30,
Jose Vales, 38,
Kissimmee,
Florida
Thrown Cocaine Landed
On Hood Of Police Car
In a botched bid to ditch evidence, a Florida man allegedly
threw a bag of cocaine out the sunroof of a vehicle in which
he was a passenger, but the drug landed squarely on the
hood of a trailing police car, according to investigators.
As detailed in a Kissimmee Police Department report, cop
Christopher Breuer sought to pull over a gold Acura around
2 AM yesterday after the vehicle nearly slammed into his
cruiser. Though Breuer activated his car’s overhead lights,
the other vehicle, which carried two men, continued moving.
While shining a spotlight on the Acura, Breuer noted,
“I saw the sun roof of the vehicle open.” Breuer slowed
his car down since, “I knew the passenger was going to throw
something out of the vehicle.”
Breuer then watched as the vehicle’s passenger stick his
right hand out of the sunroof. “At this time, I observed
a clear bag come out of the sun roof and fly into the air.
This same bag landed on the hood of my vehicle as I slowed
down,” the cop reported.
After the Acura eventually pulled into the parking lot of
a 7-Eleven store, Breuer quizzed the car’s occupants about
the airborne cocaine. While Luis Vazquez, 30, denied tossing
the stash, driver Jose Vales, 38, did not hesitate to finger
his passenger as the coke hurler.
“Vales spontaneously uttered to me that it was Vazquez that
threw the ‘baggie’ out of the window,” Breuer reported.
Both men were subsequently arrested on a variety of drug
counts. Vazquez was also charged with evidence tampering
for flinging the cocaine. Vazquez (left) and Vales are
pictured in the above mug shots.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Donny
Re: Clean IE address bar
Dear Webby,
Hope your health and eyesight are well.
Love your letter - read it every day and fwd some jokes
to friends.
Am wondering if you can help -I would like to know how to
permanently delete the list of typed URL's in the address
bar, short of rebooting constantly.
Any advice would be welcome - am using Windows 7 and IE11.
Donny
Dear Donny
Try this:
Tools
Internet Options
Content
AutoComplete
Clear Forms
Anything more radical would delete your history.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Cube Potatoes to Speed Cooking Time
If you are boiling potatoes to mash, it doesn't take long
to dice the raw, peeled potatoes instead of halving or
quartering them. It really speeds up boiling time.
Having said this, I did read of someone who took it a bit
further. They grated their potatoes, and the result was
grey wallpaper paste! So half inch cubes is probably the
best option.
By Verity Pink [20]
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A tourist climbed out of his car in downtown Washington, D.C.
He said to a man standing near the curb,
"Listen, I'm going to be only a couple of minutes. Would you watch
my car while I run into this store to get some smokes?"
"What?" the man huffed. "Do you realize that I am a member of the
United States Senate?"
"Well no," the tourist said, "I didn't realize that.
I guess I better find somebody a bit more trustworthy."
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After tucking their three-year-old child Sammy in for bed one night, his
parents heard sobbing coming from his room. Rushing back in, they found
him crying hysterically. He managed to tell them that he had swallowed a
penny and he was sure he was going to die.
No amount of talking was helping. His father, in an attempt to calm him
down, palmed a penny from his pocket and pretended to pull it from
Sammy's ear. Sammy was delighted.
In a flash, he snatched it from his father's hand, swallowed it, then
cheerfully demanded,
"Do it again, Daddy, do it again!!!"
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A monastery in the English countryside had fallen on hard times,
and decided to establish a business to defray their expenses,
such as a bakery or winery. Being English, however, they
decided to open a fish-and-chips restaurant.
The establishment soon became very popular, attracting people
from all over. One city fellow, thinking himself clever, asked
one of the brothers standing nearby, "I suppose you're the
'fish friar'?"
"No", answered the brother levelly, "I'm the 'chip monk'."
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Today in
1377 The Papal See was transferred from Avignon in France
back to Rome.
1562 French Protestants were recognized under the Edict
of St. Germain.
1773 Captain Cook's Resolution became the first ship to
cross the Antarctic Circle.
1852 The independence of the Transvaal Boers was recognized
by Britain.
1871 Andrew S. Hallidie received a patent for a cable
car system.
1882 Thomas Edison's exhibit opened the Crystal Palace
Exhibition in London.
1893 Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of
businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani
to abdicate.
1900 The U.S. took Wake Island where there was in important
cable link between Hawaii and Manila.
1900 Yaqui Indians in Texas proclaimed their independence
from Mexico.
1900 Mormon Brigham Roberts was denied a seat in the U.S.
House of Representatives for his practicing of polygamy.
1912 English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the
South Pole. Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there
by one month. Scott and his party died during the
return trip.
1913 All partner interests in 36 Golden Rule Stores were
consolidated and incorporated in Utah into one company.
The new corporation was the J.C. Penney Company.
1928 The fully automatic, film-developing machine was
patented by A.M. Josepho.
1934 Ferdinand Porsche submitted a design for a people's
car, a "Volkswagen," to the new German Reich government.
1945 Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during WW II.
1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Hungary
while in Soviet custody. Wallenberg was credited with
saving tens of thousands of Jews.
1959 Senegal and the French Sudan joined to form the
Federal State of Mali.
1961 In his farewell address, U.S. President Eisenhower
warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."
1966 A B-52 carrying four H-bombs collided with a refuelling
tanker. The bombs were released and eight crewmembers were
killed.
1977 Double murderer Gary Gilmore became the first to be
executed in the U.S. in a decade. The firing squad took
place at Utah State Prison.
1991 Coalition airstrikes began against Iraq after
negotiations failed to get Iraq to retreat from the
country of Kuwait.
1992 An IRA bomb, placed next to a remote country road in
County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, killed seven building
workers and injured seven others.
1994 The Northridge earthquake rocked Los Angeles, CA,
registering a 6.7 on the Richter Scale. At least 61 people
were killed and about $20 billion in damage was caused.
1995 More than 6,000 people were killed when an earthquake
with a magnitude of 7.2 devastated the city of Kobe, Japan.
1997 A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the
Roman Catholic country's history.
1997 Israel gave over 80% of Hebron to Palestinian rule,
but held the remainder where several hundred Jewish settlers
lived among 20,000 Palestinians.
1998 U.S. President Clinton gave his deposition in the Paula
Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against him. He was the
first U.S. President to testify as a defendant in a criminal
or civil lawsuit.
2000 British pharmaceutical companies Glaxo Wellcome PLC and
SmithKline Beecham PLC agreed to a merger that created the
world's largest drugmaker.
2001 The director of Palestinian TV, Hisham Miki, was killed
at a restaurant when three masked gunmen walked up to his
table and shot him more than 10 times.
2002 It was announced that Microsoft had signed a joint venture
agreement to produce software with two partners in China.
The two partners were Beijin Centergate Technologies (Holding) Co.
and the Stone Group.
2009 The iTunes Music Store reached 500 million
applications downloaded.
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Friday, January 16
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
kentucky man, who held woman at gunpoint and
tattooed 'slut' on her back
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1979 The Shah of Iran and his family fled Iran for Egypt.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
--- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
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I went out to this restaurant not long ago and met the waitress of my
dreams. About halfway through dinner I called the waitress over and said,
"Ma'am, this potato is bad."
She nodded, picked up the potato, and smacked it.
Then she put it back on my plate and said,
"Sir, if that potato causes any more trouble,
you just let me know."
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The captain was attempting to rally the GIs on the eve of a big offensive.
"Out there," he yelled, "is your enemy. The man who has made your life
miserable, who is working to destroy you; the man who has been trying to
kill you day after day! He is out there!."
Private Johnson jumped to his feet.
"The cook ! The cook is working for THEM!"
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Mount Kilimanjaro
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Michael Aaron Joseph,
30,
Shelby County
Kentucky
Held Woman At Gunpoint,
Tattooed 'Slut' On Her Back
A Kentucky man remains behind bars after allegedly
assaulting a woman by tattooing the word "slut" on her back
while holding her at gunpoint.
A grand jury indicted Michael Aaron Joseph, 30, last week
on a variety of charges including second-degree assault,
first-degree wanton endangerment and first-degree
unlawful imprisonment.
The charges stem from an incident last May, where Joseph
allegedly accused the victim of contacting her
ex-boyfriend.
During an argument, Joseph “repeatedly struck [the victim]
in the mouth, face and head area with a pistol,”
according to a police report obtained by the Anderson News.
When the two arrived home, the suspect allegedly grabbed a
.22 caliber pistol and showed the woman it was loaded.
Then he held her on the floor while tattooing "slut" on
her back, LEX18.com reports.
Joseph remains jailed in the Shelby County Detention
Center on $15,000 cash bail.
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Tech Support Pits
From: MooMoo
Re: Uni Blue
Dear Webby,
You used to have a link to a registry fixer called Blue or
Uno Blue or something like that. I used it for years and
was quite happy with it. Where do you hide it now?
MooMoo
Dear MooMoo
It's in the tool box at http://webby.com/tools
It is just below the LapLink PC-Mover, the one and only
program for hassle-free, hands-free migrating to a new
machine or new Operating system. Go have lunch while it
moves your programs and files from XP to W7 or W8.
Because of your sexy name, I'll put the link to UniBlue
here too for a while.
They have a very nice discount for January, if you use
that link.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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please donate what you can!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Cube Potatoes to Speed Cooking Time
If you are boiling potatoes to mash, it doesn't take long
to dice the raw, peeled potatoes instead of halving or
quartering them. It really speeds up boiling time.
Having said this, I did read of someone who took it a bit
further. They grated their potatoes, and the result was
grey wallpaper paste! So half inch cubes is probably the
best option.
By Verity Pink [20]
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A local Pastor joined a community Service Club, and the members thought
they would have some fun with him. Under his name badge they printed,
"Hog Caller" as his occupation.
Everyone made a big fanfare as the badge was presented.
The Pastor responded by saying,
"I usually am called the "Shepherd'...
but I am sure you know your people better than I do."
Ophelia Dingbatter's News
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As the high school teacher was correcting essays written by her students
she read,
"Diana jumped on his burrow and rode off into the sunset."
She wrote at the bottom of the page, "You obviously have problems with
similar sounding words. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A burro is an
ass. At your age it's time to learn the difference."
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An elderly Jewish woman decided to have her portrait painted.
She told the artist, "Paint me with diamond earrings, a diamond
necklace, emerald bracelets, a ruby broach, and a Rolex."
"But you are not wearing any of those things."
"Oy, don't I know it," she said. "My husband never buys me anything!
It's in case I should die before my husband.
I'm sure he will remarry right away,
and I want his new wife to go crazy looking for the jewelry."
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I'm a dog lover and I'm
so glad that lost "Arthur"
found this race team from
Sweden to join on their
430 mile endurance trek
through the Amazonian
rain forest. Arthur has
a brave heart and the
four people whom he
attached himself to
were good people to
allow and help him
to travel with them.
Arthur deserves a medal
for bravery and endurance.
Dogs are awesome!
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Today in
1547 Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.
1572 The Duke of Norfolk was tried for treason for
complicity in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in
England. He was executed on June 2.
1809 The British defeated the French at the Battle of
Corunna, in the Peninsular War.
1866 Mr. Everett Barney patented the metal screw,
clamp skate.
1900 The U.S. Senate consented to the Anglo-German treaty
of 1899, by which the U.K. renounced rights to the Samoan
islands.
1919 The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which
prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages,
was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
1920 Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.
1925 Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chairman of the
Revolutionary Council of the USSR.
1970 Colonel Muammar el-Quaddafi became virtual president
of Libya.
1970 Buckminster Fuller, the designer of the geodesic dome,
was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of
Architects.
1979 The Shah of Iran and his family fled Iran for Egypt.
1982 Britain and the Vatican resumed full diplomatic
relations after a break of over 400 years.
1985 "Playboy" magazine announced its 30-year tradition of
stapling centerfold models in the bellybutton and
elsewhere would come to an immediate end.
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports
commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington,
DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred
to produce stronger offspring.
1998 Researchers announce that an altered gene helped to
defend against HIV.
1991 The White House announced the start of Operation Desert
Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces
out of Kuwait.
1992 Officials of the government of El Salvador and rebel
leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of
civil war. At least 75,000 people were killed during
the fighting.
1998 The first woman to enroll at Virginia Military
Institute withdrew from the school.
1998 It was announced that Texas would receive $15.3
billion in a tobacco industry settlement. The payouts
were planned to take place over 25 years.
2002 U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that
John Walker Lindh would be brought to the United States
to face trial. He was charged in U.S. District Court in
Alexandria, VA, with conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens,
providing support to terrorist organizations, and
engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban
of Afghanistan.
2002 The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted
sanctions against Osama bin Laden, his terror network
and the remnants of the Taliban. The sanctions required
that all nations impose arms embargoes and freeze
their finances.
2009 The iTunes Music Store reached 500 million
applications downloaded.
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Thursday, January 15, 2015, 01:17 PM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, ,
Today is Thursday, January 15
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Folkestone dad Lee Webb jailed
after sending three-year-old son to nursery
with drug dealer's kit including
Class A drugs and knives
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1624 Many riots occurred in Mexico when it was announced that
all churches were to be closed.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three
major categories - those that don't work,
those that break down and
those that get lost.
--- Russell Baker (1925 - )
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
--- Totie Fields
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From Buzzy
CALLER: "I cannot log onto your Internet."
BUZZY: "What error message are you getting?"
CALLER: "I am not getting an error message. It just says
'Error, incorrect username or password'."
BUZZY: "That IS an error message!"
CALLER: "Then what does it mean?"
BUZZY: "Can you read me that Error message again?"
CALLER: "Incorrect user name or password."
BUZZY: "Try using the password that your wife wrote on the
mouse pad for you"
CALLER: "Why didn't you tell me that right away instead
of wasting all my time?"
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Computer problems?
Have you checked the loose nut in front of the keyboard?
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The temple of sky, Iceland
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to
Lee Webb
Folkestone
23
Burrow Road,
Folkestone,
England
Folkestone dad Lee Webb jailed
after sending three-year-old son to nursery
with drug dealer's kit including
Class A drugs and knives
A dopey dad accidentally sent his son to nursery school
with a "drug dealer's kit" instead of his usual pack lunch.
EDF Tree surgeon Lee Webb confused the two bags before
taking his child to the Smarty Pants Nursery in Folkestone.
Staff opened up the toddler's rucksack expecting to find
food and drink for lunch, but instead, discovered cocaine
and mephedrone – a banned stimulant – inside.
And alongside the illegal substances, they found two knives,
a set of scales and other drugs paraphernalia.
Judge James O'Mahony told him: "You sent your three-year-old
son to nursery with a rucksack containing a significant
quantity of class A and B drugs. In effect, you sent your
son there with a drug dealer's kit!"
Prosecutor Mary Jacobson told Canterbury Crown Court that
staff alerted police – but then the child's father Lee Webb
turned up and demanded the bag back.
She said that they refused to hand over the Tupperware box
and Webb then left.
Now Webb, 23, from Burrow Road, Folkestone has been jailed
for four years after admitting possessing the Class A and
B drugs.
Judge O'Mahony told him: "Your stupidity put children at
risk and I consider the potential exposure to children
of these drugs is so serious only an immediate custodial
sentence can be justified."
“The staff noted the bag contained what they thought could
be drugs and they called the police.
“The defendant later returned and asked for the bag back
but staff would not return it and the defendant then left.
“A PCSO then arrived and took possession of the Tupperware
tub with white powder, a blue wrap, a spoon, weighing
scales and two knives, “ she added.
Officers later raided his home and arrested him – and noted
of his hand he had written details of a local solicitor.
Webb, who also had a stash of £680 at hishouse, claimed
he had been given the bag by another person to look after
overnight. But the judge told him: “You maintain you were
holding the drugs on behalf of another and that you were
expecting to be paid cash for holding the drugs.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Rita
Re: Ezinefinder
Dear Webby,
Hello, dear Webby, EZINE is working, do not worry:
Rita
Dear Rita
Did you check at http://www.ezinefinder.com/index.html
to see if they are just messing with your head,
or if they finally switched over to 2015?
Last year, 2014, ended with 15840.
This year, 2015, if the votes were actually counted,
not just a placebo screen to fool you,
then they should be about 700.
You can write to
lewis@cumuli.com
support@cumuli.com
cumuli@cumuli.com
http://www.ezinefinder.com/contact.html
http://www2.thriftyfun.com/about/contact.lasso
and tell them to stop pretending
and to finally change the date to 2015.
They don't answer me.
Maybe they think the big brutes on Linux are
picking on the little guys on Apples.
They HAVE now added a couple of votes to last year's votes.
Maybe they will switch to 2015 soon.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Citrus Peels for Garbage Disposal Odors
To avoid odor or make odor go away, put lemon, lime, or
orange peels and grind in the disposal with hot water.
You will notice the odors will go away.
Source: My grandma used to do it
By Tiffany R. [2]
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A bus load of new recruits arrived at the reception center, and was greeted
by an old drill sergeant. He began his speech,
"Welcome to Fort Dix, men. From now on, I want you to think of the Army
as your family and as your home."
Hearing this, one of the recruits broke formation, sat down and lit a
cigarette.
"Private, what the F**K are you doing?" yelled the sergeant.
"Well," said the private, "I'm just making myself at home.
Like you said, this is my home."
Thinking fast, the sergeant said, "Son, you listen good,
and you're right. This is your home. So, as soon as you
finish that cigarette, I want you to report to the mess
hall to help mother with the dishes for the next 3 months."
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A woman answered her front door and found Little Johnny and Billy holding
a list.
"Lady," Johnny explained, "we are on a scavenger hunt, and we still need
three grains of wheat, a pork chop bone and a piece of used carbon paper
to earn a dollar."
"Wow," the woman replied. "Who sent you on such a challenging hunt?"
"Our baby-sitter's boyfriend."
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A woman was telling her friend, "It is I who made my husband a
millionaire."
"And what was he before you married him?" asked the friend.
The woman replied, "A billionaire."
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“There was nowhere to go
but everywhere” Beautiful roads
from around the world. I especially
like the tree covered roads that
feel like you're going through
a tunnel.
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Today in
1559 England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1624 Many riots occurred in Mexico when it was announced that
all churches were to be closed.
1863 "The Boston Morning Journal" became the first paper in
the U.S. to be published on wood pulp paper.
1870 A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking
a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used
the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time.
1892 "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the
rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved
attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now
known as basketball.
1913 The first telephone line between Berlin and New York
was inaugurated.
1936 The first, all glass, windowless building was completed
in Toledo, OH. The building was the new home of the Owens-
Illinois Glass Company Laboratory.
1943 The Pentagon was dedicated as the world's largest office
building just outside Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA.
The structure covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles
of corridors.
1953 Harry S Truman became the first U.S. President to use
radio and television to give his farewell as he left office.
1955 The first solar-heated, radiation-cooled house was built
by Raymond Bliss in Tucson, AZ.
1967 The first National Football League Super Bowl was played.
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the
American Football League. The final score was 35-10.
1973 U.S. President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S.
offensive action in North Vietnam. He cited progress in peace
negotiations as the reason.
1986 President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther
King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on
the third Monday of January.
1987 Paramount Home Video reported that it would place a
commercial at the front of one of its video releases for the
first time. It was a 30-second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning
of "Top Gun."
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress had
permission to repeatedly extend copyright protection.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 06:49 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, ,
Today is Wednesday, January 14
Ezinefinder is still not working.
It might take a bunch more nagging to
get them to change the date to 2015.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
______________________________________________________
Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
NY woman, who was arrested for drunk driving after drinking
vanilla extract.
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1878 Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for
Britain's Queen Victoria.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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the word you first thought of.
--- Burt Bacharach (1928 - )
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Used to being the center of attention, Robbie was a little
more than jealous of his new baby sister. The parents sat
him down and said that now that she was getting older,
the house was too small and they'd have to move.
"It's no use." Robbie said, "She's crawling pretty good
now and she'd probably just follow us."
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Little Johnny 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.
Little Johnny said, "It wasn't that. She ate all the bait."
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NY Subway
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to
Carolyn Kesel
46,
Seneca Falls,
New York
Arrested for
drunk driving after drinking
vanilla extract
An accused drunk driver who allegedly blew a .26 on a
breathalyzer told authorities she had been drinking
vanilla extract before her arrest.
Carolyn Kesel, 46, of Seneca Falls, New York, was
arrested Jan. 5 after she was seen allegedly driving
erratically around a Walmart parking lot in Mecedon,
according to the New York Daily News.
Kesel allegedly told police she drank two hand-sized
bottles of pure vanilla extract in Lyons, became lost
and could not find her way out of the Walmart parking lot.
Her blood alcohol level at the time of her arrest was .26,
three times the legal limit.
The alcohol level on the vanilla extract was listed at 41
percent, which is similar to the alcohol content found in
vodka or gin, ABC7.com reports.
Kesel was charged with Felony DWI and Felony Aggravated DWI.
She was remanded to the Wayne County Jail on $10,000 cash or
$20,000 bond, Syracuse.com reports.
The suspect was previously convicted of DWI in 2006.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Hermon
Re: Trovi causing W7 Pop-Ups
Dear Webby,
Your reader’s problem with the pop ups is due to having
contacted Trovi...... I had it attached to my browser.
Hermon in Ky.
Dear Hermon
You are quite likely right, that it is indeed Trovi
or something similar with a different name.
Because I use McAfee and MalwareBytes, I have no
first hand experience with those, just read about them.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
K-Cup Drain Stopper
Take an unused Keurig cup and place it in the drain.
A great temporary solution that works like a charm!
K-Cup Drain Stopper
By Craig J. [1]
A 4" x 4" piece of car or truck innertube works even better.
It snugs onto the bottom of a sink or tub and works better
than any store-bought stopper. You can punch a hole into
a corner and tie a string or ball-chain to it for easy
retrieval. Tie the other end of the string to the overflow
or faucets. For a dollar you can get the same at the Dollar
Store.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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===from Gina
Esplanade - v., to attempt an explanation while drunk.
Negligent - adj., describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly
answer the door in your nightie.
Bustard - n., a very rude bus driver
FLORIDA: If you think we can't vote, wait 'till you see us drive.
FLORIDA: Viagra voters do it again and again!
Btw., I am from Florida, where you can get away with anything
if you have blue hair.
Gina===
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Two guys were at a bar talking about how highly their wives
thought of them. The first guy said,
"My wife, she thinks so much of me that she won't let me
do any work around the house. It's incredible."
The second guy says, "That might be because you are such a
klutz. My wife thinks I'm a God."
"She thinks you're God? What makes you say that?"
"Quite obvious. Every night she places a burnt offering
before me."
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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 found a phone message:
"Please cancel the order. We can't wait that long."
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Was that Kate in New York?
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This is beautiful
and so serene.
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Today in
1784 The United States ratified a peace treaty with England
ending the Revolutionary War.
1858 French emperor Napoleon III escaped attempt on his life.
1873 John Hyatt's 1869 invention ‘Celluloid’ was registered
as a trademark.
1878 Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for
Britain's Queen Victoria.
1907 An earthquake killed over 1,000 people in Kingston,
Jamaica.
1943 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first
U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office. He
flew from Miami, FL, to French Morocco where he met with
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss
World War II.
1953 Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia
1954 Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The
marriage only lasted nine months.
1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-
Kelvinator. The new company was called the American
Motors Corporation.
1969 An explosion aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier
Enterprise off Hawaii killed 25 crew members.
1993 The British government pledged to introduce legislation
to criminalize invasions of privacy by the press.
1994 U.S. President Clinton and Russian President Boris
Yeltsin signed Kremlin accords to stop aiming missiles
at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of
Ukraine.
1996 Juan Garcia Abrego was arrested by Mexican agents.
The alleged drug lord was handed over to the FBI the
next day.
1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham
Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the
gathering of FBI background files on past Republican
political appointees.
1998 In Dallas, researchers report an enzyme that slows
the aging process and cell death.
1999 The impeachment trial of U.S. President Clinton
began in Washington, DC.
1999 The U.S. proposed the lifting of the U.N. ceilings
on the sale of oil in Iraq. The restriction being that
the money be used to buy medicine and food for the
Iraqi people.
2000 A U.N. tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croats to up
to 25 years for the 1993 massacre of over 100 Muslims
in a Bosnian village.
2005 A probe, from the Cassini-Huygens mission, sent back
pictures during and after landing on Saturn's moon Titan.
The mission was launched on October 15, 1997.
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Tuesday, January 13
Thank you, Julia !!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Florida couple arrested for romp on car at dealership
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1906 Hugh Gernsback, of the Electro Importing Company,
advertised radio receivers for sale for the price of just
$7.50 in "Scientific American" magazine.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
--- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance
for another nuisance.
--- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
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A lady lost her handbag in the bustle of Christmas shopping.
found it and returned to her.
Looking in her purse, she commented,
"That's funny. When I lost my bag there was a $20 bill in it.
Now there are 20 $1 bills."
replied, "That's right, lady.
The last time I returned a lady's purse,
she didn't have any change for a reward."
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Most people use their hands and feet to drive --
a few also use their heads.
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A professor was giving a lecture on company slogans in a college
advertising and marketing class. "Joe," he asked,
"which company has the slogan, 'Come fly the friendly skies'?"
"United Airlines," Joe answered.
"Brenda, can you tell me which company has the slogan,
'Don't leave home without it'?"
Brenda easily answered correctly, "American Express."
"Now, John, Tell me which company uses the slogan, 'Just do it'?"
And John answered, "Mom."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to
Erin Byrd,
18, and
Ramon Mitchell,
29,
West Palm Beach
Florida
Police Arrest Couple
For Auto Romp at
dealership
A Florida couple was arrested early yesterday after they
were spotted having sex atop a 2004 Kia Sedona at a West
Palm Beach auto dealership, police report.
Officers responding to Mike’s Auto Sales discovered
Erin Byrd, 18, and Ramon Mitchell, 29, “inside of a
dealership vehicle which did not belong to either subject,”
according to a police report.
Cops were summoned to the closed business shortly before
midnight by a witness who “advised officers he just
witnessed both suspects having sex on top of the vehicle
in plain sight.” The 39-year-old man added that he heard
the trysting duo moaning.
Apparently they had moved into the vehicle between the call
for cops and their arrival.
Upon exiting the minivan, Byrd and Mitchell were arrested.
As the 300-pound Mitchell was being handcuffed, he spit
in the face of a female officer, police reported.
Owner Michael Melendez arrived at the dealership and told
police that he “did not authorize anyone to be in his
property after the business was closed,” the report states.
Pictured above, Byrd and Mitchell were each charged with
auto burglary, trespass, and lewd and lascivious behavior.
Mitchell, who told cops he works at the Improv comedy club
in West Palm Beach, was also hit with a felony charge of
aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer for
allegedly spitting on Officer Sarah Burgoon.
Byrd was freed today from the Palm Beach County jail, where
Mitchell remains locked up in lieu of $11,000 bail.
The police report does not indicate whether a markdown may
be in store for the used four-door sedan, which has been
priced to move at $3995.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Miriam
Re: W7 Pop-Ups
Dear Webby,
I have Windows 7 and use Chrome. I have been getting pop ups
saying I need to update Java drivers, Attention 13 viruses
detected, You may need to fix Windows errors, also need
to update media center, etc.
I ran a McAfee scan and they found 3 viruses and 4 things
they blocked. I have trouble deciding which things I really
should update or which I should ignore.
Miriam
Dear Miriam
SOME of that looks legit, the rest of it seems to be from
an invited Trojan infection.
Java probably does need to be updated, but with the rest
of it, I would be very careful. Try to find out where the
PopUp is trying to send you to, and tell me.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Making a Multidirectional Spray Bottle
It's really annoying trying to get your cleaning done when you are forced to hold your spray bottle upright in order for anything to spray out. Here is an easy fix to use your spray bottle in any position.
Materials:
flexible aquarium air tubing (about 1 inch shorter than
the original tube)
stainless steel nut
scissors
Directions:
Twist the nut on to one end of the aquarium tubing.
Closeup of the tubing with the nut attached.
Cut off about an inch and a half of the original spray bottle's
tube and push it into one end of the aquarium tubing. Reattach
this to the spray handle.
The weight of the nut will swing the tube, keeping the tip
submerged under the liquid.
If you add more nuts, you can even use your spray bottle
upside down!
Source: My genius husband
By attosa from Los Angeles, CA
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A woman phoned her dentist when she received a huge bill.
"I'm shocked!" she complained.
"This is three times what you normally charge."
"Yes, I know," said the dentist. "But you screamed so loudly,
you scared away two other patients."
Ophelia Dingbatter's News
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Ole and Lena lived on a lake in Northern Minnesota. It was
beginning of winter and the lake had just frozen over. Ole
asked Lena if she would walk across the frozen lake to the
general store to pick him up some tobacco.
She asked for some money, but he told her to put it on their
tab.
So she walked across, got the tobacco and walked back.
Then she asked Ole why he didn't send her with any money.
He said, "I vasn't goin' to send any money ven I vasn't sure
how tick de ice vas."
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During a friendly argument, a husband asked his wife why she married
him in the first place. "I was just stupid," she teased.
When he said he was happy to hear that, she requested an explanation.
"People get divorced all the time because they fall out of love,"
he said. "But I've never heard of anybody falling out of stupid."
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Too many great photos
to choose a favorite but being an
animal lover I just love "One
Happy Fox" and the two baby
ducks "First Flight."
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Today in
1128 Pope Honorius II granted a papal sanction to the military
order known as the Knights Templar. He declared it to be an
army of God.
1854 Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, PA, was granted the first
U.S. patent for the accordion. He made improvements to the
keyboard and enhanced the sound of the ancient instrument.
1900 In Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph decreed that
German would be the language of the imperial army to combat
Czech nationalism.
1906 Hugh Gernsback, of the Electro Importing Company,
advertised radio receivers for sale for the price of just
$7.50 in "Scientific American" magazine.
1928 Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public
demonstration of television.
1942 Henry Ford patented the plastic automobile referred
to as the "Soybean Car." The car was 30% lighter than
the average car.
1984 Wayne Gretzky extended his NHL consecutive scoring
streak to 45 games.
1992 Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean
women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during
World War II.
2002 Japan and Singapore signed a free trade pact that would
remove tariffs on almost all goods traded between the
two countries.
2009 Ethiopian military forces began pulling out of Somalia,
where they had tried to maintain order for nearly two years.
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Monday, January 12, 2015, 11:06 AM
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Monday, January 12
Have FUN!
DearWebby
______________________________________________________
Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Drunk Florida woman, who tried hit
and run during traffic stop
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave police
broad authority to stop and question people who run at
the sight of an officer.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong,
as when you find a trout in the milk.
--- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Children have started growing up
when they stop asking you where they came from
and start refusing to tell you where they are going.
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In America the late night news used to broadcast this message:
"It's 11 o'clock do you know where your children are?
In England they say
"Its 11 o'clock do you know where your wife is?"
In France they say
"It's 11 o'clock do you know where your husband is?"
In Poland they say:
"Its 11 o'clock do you know where you are?"
In Iran they say:
"Its 11 o'clock and we know where you are."
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Cordon del Caulle erupts in Chile
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to
Amy Lee Giorgio
30
Gulf Breeze
Florida
Drunk woman tries hit
and run during traffic stop
A Gulf Breeze police officer was seriously injured Monday
afternoon when he was run over by a motorist during a
traffic stop, according to law enforcement officials.
About 2 p.m., Sgt. Kerstan Tatro stopped Amy Lee Giorgio,
30, after seeing her driving erratically near the south
end of the Pensacola Bay Bridge, Gulf Breeze Chief of
Police Robert Randle said. As Tatro was standing by
Giorgio's driver's side window speaking to her, he
reportedly noticed Giorgio trying to put her Lexus CV
into gear.
Tatro reached into the window in an attempt to grab her
car keys out of the ignition, Randle said. Giorgio
accelerated with Tatro still partway in her window,
carried him a short distance and ran him over when he
fell from the vehicle's side.
"I don't know the complete extent of his injuries, but his
arm was fractured in the window," Randle said. "It was
pretty obviously broken."
Tatro was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. His
injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, according
to Randle.
A motorist who saw the incident called 911 and followed
Giorgio to the rear parking lot of the Crowne Plaza
Pensacola Grande Hotel. The Pensacola Police Department
arrived at the parking lot moments later and took
Giorgio into custody.
Randle said officers found drugs in her possession, and
she appeared to be impaired during her arrest. Giorgio
was transferred into the custody of the Gulf Breeze
Police Department to be transported to Santa Rosa
County Jail.
Giorgio was previously scheduled for a Jan. 20 trial
on charges of possession of cocaine, possession of
drug equipment and driving under the influence.
She has numerous prior arrests for drug offenses,
according to jail records, as well as active warrants
in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, according to Randle.
By coincidence, one of the people who stopped and ran to
help the downed Sgt Tatro was his teenage daughter, screaming
'My dad, that’s my dad'
Sgt Tatro is sitting comfortably in hospital with a big
cast from armpit to knuckles and expects to get a shorter
cast in a week.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Bob
Re: Windows compatibility warning
Good Morning Webby,
I got another problem for you to solve.
I don't know whether this is Microsoft trying to scare me
to use their updates or whether this is a legitimate fact.
I have an old SONY VGC-RB30 desktop with XP and SP3. I
try to keep it updated but with Microsoft not supporting
XP I tried using "Advanced System Care 8.0 PRO "
"Drive Booster 2" to update. Part way through the update
I get the following message:
"The software you are installing has not passed Windows
Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP".
"Continuing your installing of this software may impair
or destabilize the correct operation of your system either
immediately or in the future. Microsoft strongly
recommends that you stop this installation now and
contact the software vendor for software that has
passed Windows Logo testing."
Depending upon your advice (which I always follow because
I trust you) will determine whether I call the vendor
or continue with the update.
I plan to buy a new computer when Windows 10 becomes
available as my SONY is between 5 to 10 years old.
Thank you for your advice,
Daily Voter,
Bob
Dear Bob
A lot of Microsoft stuff does not have the requirements to
pass the Logo standard. Skype is one example.
It used to be compatible, but a couple of years after they
bought it for 8 Billion dollars, they screwed it up and it
is no longer Windows compatible.
DUH!
I would ignore that thilly fear mongering BS.
If you do want to get free XP updates until 2019, read this:
Free Windows XP updates until 2019
As long as you have McAfee and Malwarebytes you are safe,
and don't really have to worry about XP updates.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Save Money By Baking Your Own Bread
One way to save quite a bit on food is to learn your way
around baking yeast. You can find a whole pound of it for
about $2.50 at little shops or places that sell in bulk
and you use it a tablespoon at a time - it lasts for
months in the refrigerator. There are plenty of sites
on the internet that will walk you through the process
of making bread.
The finished product will taste better than anything you
can buy in the store, and will cost less than the most
marked down loaf on the shelf.
By Linda in the kitchen from Weirton, WV
By Linda Craig
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This guy found the neatest way to make his wife a
more careful and defensive driver. He pointed out
to her if she's ever in an accident,
the paper will print her real age.
Ophelia Dingbatter's News
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This guy found the neatest way to make his wife a more
careful and defensive driver. He pointed out to her if
she's ever in an accident,
the paper will print her real age.
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The father watched through the window as his young daughter
made a snowman with a little friend. Entertained by the sight,
he went closer and heard the little neighbor boy say:
"I've got an idea. To finish it off, I'll go to the kitchen
and find a carrot."
And his daughter replied, "Make it two. The second can be
his nose."
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The majestic Friesian
is my favorite breed of horse.
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Today in
49 BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River signaling a
war between Rome and Gaul.
1519 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died. (executed)
1875 Kwang-su was made emperor of China.
1879 The British-Zulu War began when the British invaded
Zululand.
1882 Thomas Edison's central station on Holborn Viaduct
in London began operation.
1908 A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first
time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1915 The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal
to give women the right to vote.
1938 Austria recognized the Franco government in Spain.
1940 Soviet bombers raided cities in Finland.
1943 The Office of Price Administration announced that
standard frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners would be replaced
by 'Victory Sausages.'
1945 During World War II, Soviet forces began a huge
offensive against the retreating Germans in Eastern Europe.
1964 Leftist rebels in Zanzibar began their successful revolt
against the government and a republic was proclaimed.
1966 U.S. President Johnson said in his State of the Union address
that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until
Communist aggression there was ended.
1970 The breakaway state of Biafra capitulated and the
Nigerian civil war came to an end.
1971 "All In the Family" debuted on CBS-TV.
1973 Yassar Arafat was re-elected as head of the Palestinian
Liberation Organization.
1991 The U.S. Congress passed a resolution authorizing President
Bush to use military power to force Iraq out of Kuwait.
1995 Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew announced that
as of January 16 British troops would no longer carry out
daylight street patrols in Belfast.
1998 Tyson Foods Inc. pled guilty to giving $12,000 to former
Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Tyson was fined $6 million.
1998 19 European nations agreed to prohibit human cloning.
1998 Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's
office with taped conversations between herself and former
White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave police
broad authority to stop and question people who run at
the sight of an officer.
2005 NASA launched "Deep Impact". The spacecraft was planned
to impact on Comet Tempel 1 after a six-month, 268
million-mile journey.
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Sunday, January 11
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to an
Indiana couple, that was arrested
for making and uploading bestiality videos
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1867 Benito Juarez returned to the Mexican presidency,
following the withdrawal of French troops and the execution
of Emperor Maximilian.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
--- Greek Proverb
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While handing a 25 cent-off coupon to the supermarket clerk at the
checkout counter, a woman inadvertently missed her hand, and the coupon slipped
beneath the scale and was gone.
The checker looked distressed, so I the woman said, "That's Okay, it's
in coupon heaven now."
"Coupon heaven?", the checker said.
"Yes", the woman said, "That's where coupons go when they die."
"Only the redeemed ones go to heaven!" said the checker.
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The temporary Sunday School teacher was struggling to open a
combination lock on the supply cabinet. She had been told the
combination, but couldn't quite remember it. Finally she went
to the pastor's study and asked for help.
The pastor came into the room and began to turn the dial. After
the first two numbers, he paused and stared blankly for a moment.
Finally, he look serenely heavenward and his lips moved silently.
Then he looked back at the lock, and quickly turned to the final
number, and opened the lock.
The teacher was amazed, "I'm in awe at your faith, pastor."
"It's really quite simple." he mumbled to himself.
"The number is on a piece of tape on the ceiling."
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Nikki Colleen Murphy-Johnson,
33, and
Jason Erin Johnson,
37,
Anderson,
Indiana
Indiana couple arrested
for making and uploading
bestiality videos
A couple in Anderson, Indiana, have been charged with
bestiality after a video surfaced allegedly showing a
woman having sex with their pit bull.
Nikki Colleen Murphy-Johnson, 33, and Jason Erin Johnson,
37, were each charged with three counts of bestiality in
connection with a video and photos produced this past
June and July, Fox59.com reports.
A detective in Fairfax County, Virginia, discovered the
footage on Beastforum, a bestiality-oriented website and
alerted Indiana authorities in Anderson, according to
the Daily Mail.
Anderson police said the couple admitted to making and
posting the video during questioning, WTHR.com reports.
The pit bull used in the video -- whose name is "Lucky" --
has been taken from the couple, according to the
Indianapolis Star.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Daniel
Re: Pre-set window size
How do set a screen size so it stays full screen every
time you open it?
daniel
Dear Daniel
Most people want the opposite, but if that is what you
want, try this:
Click the middle button at the right top,
then drag the edge of the window to the size you want
to be the default, then close the window and/or program.
Next time you open it, it will open at the size you set.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Homemade Taco Seasoning
I love cooking with taco seasoning! I do NOT love paying an
arm and a leg for each tiny little envelope. In one of my
cookbooks, I found a recipe for homemade taco seasoning.
The first thing I thought when I tasted it was,
"Where have you been all my life?"
Not only does it taste better than pre-packaged, it is
super quick, easy and cheap! It is also better for you,
as it does not have preservatives in it. I figure each
serving costs me around 35 cents. Compared to about
$1.50 a serving that I usually pay, I'm doing a happy
dance.:)
Try it, you won't be disappointed! This would make a nice
gift in a jar tied with pretty ribbon as well.
Approximate Time: About 5 minutes
Yield: About 6-- 1/4 cup servings
Ingredients:
1/2 cup dried minced onion
1/4 cup sweet paprika
1/4 cup cornstarch
3 Tbsp chili powder
2 Tbsp salt
2 Tbsp garlic powder
1 Tbsp ground cumin
1 Tbsp dried oregano
1 tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
*I buy generic spices at Walmart and Aldi's. This will keep
your cost very low.
Steps:
Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Stir with a whisk to
blend well.
Store in an airtight container. Use 1/4 cup for any recipe
that calls for an envelope of taco seasoning.
A jar of homemade taco seasoning
Enjoy!
Source: "Family Feasts for $75 a Week", Mary Ostyn
By melissa [59]
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The man told his doctor he wasn't able to do all the things
around the house that he used to do. When the examination was
complete, he said,
"Now, Doc, I can take it. Tell me in plain English what's
wrong with me."
"Well, in plain English," the doctor replied,
"You're just a plain lazy old fart."
"Thank You." said the man. "Now give me the
medical term, so I can tell my wife!"
Ophelia Dingbatter's News
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The teacher asked little Johnny,
"Can you name four shooting stars?"
Little Johnny said, "I sure can. Wyatt Earp,
Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, and John Wayne."
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Little asked dad where they came from.
Dad squirmed a bit, but thought it was time for the facts of life.
So, Dad told of how the expression of love resulted in the beginning
of life, how life developed and finally how a child was born.
As Dad told the story, 's eyes got wider and wider.
When Dad was finished, said,
"Wow, that's really neat. That sure beats what Billy told me.
He said that he came from Chicago."
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Being a llama lover I especially
like the “Admiring Machu Picchu
with a Friend”
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Today in
1569 England's first state lottery was held.
1770 The first shipment of rhubarb was sent to the United S
tates from London.
1815 U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieved victory at the
Battle of New Orleans. The War of 1812 had officially ended
on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of
Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British
troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans.
1861 Alabama seceded from the United States.
1867 Benito Juarez returned to the Mexican presidency,
following the withdrawal of French troops and the execution
of Emperor Maximilian.
1878 In New York, milk was delivered in glass bottles for
the first time by Alexander Campbell.
1902 "Popular Mechanics" magazine was published for the
first time.
1913 The first sedan-type car was unveiled at the National
Automobile Show in New York City. The car was manufactured
by the Hudson Motor Company.
1922 At Toronto General Hospital, Leonard Thompson became
the first person to be successfully treated with insulin.
1935 Amelia Earhart Putnam became the first woman to fly
solo from Hawaii to California.
1942 Japan declared war against the Netherlands. The same
day, Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies.
1943 The United States and Britain signed treaties
relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report
that said that smoking cigarettes was a definite health
hazard.
1977 France released Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected
of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at
the 1972 Munich Olympics.
1978 Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule
linked up with the Salyut 6 orbiting space station, where
the Soyuz 26 capsule was already docked.
2001 The Texas Board of Criminal Justice released a review
of the escape of the "Texas 7." It stated that prison staff
missed critical opportunities to prevent the escape by
ignoring a fire alarm, not reporting unsupervised inmates
and not demanding proper identification from inmates.
2002 Thomas Junta, 44, was convicted of involuntary
manslaughter for beating another man to death at their
son's hockey practice. The incident occurred on July 5, 2000.
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
man in Floriduh for throwing his 5 year old daughter
off a bridge in full view of police
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Today, in
2000 It was announced that Time-Warner had agreed to buy
America On-line (AOL). It was the largest-ever
corporate merger priced at $162 billion.
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instead of bleeding, he sings.
--- Ed Gardner
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
--- Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
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"Remember, the first five minutes of a human
being's life are the most dangerous."
Underneath, a nurse had written:
"The last five are pretty risky, too."
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Nancy was studying to be a counselor always went
into her counseling sessions with an ear muff over one ear.
After a while the supervisor became very curious
and asked her about it.
She replied, "It's for confidentiality."
"Confidentiality?" asked the bewildered supervisor.
"Yes, confidentiality," Nancy explained, "I've been told what
goes in one of my ears comes out the other, and I don't
want anyone else knowing what my client says."
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25
St. Petersburg
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Girl, 5, dies after being thrown
from bridge; father arrested
God will not likely be representing John Jonchuck Jr., a
judge told the 25-year-old father when he appeared in court
Thursday on a charge that he killed his 5-year-old daughter
by throwing her off of a St. Petersburg, Florida, bridge.
During the video hearing, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge
Michael Andrews asked the handcuffed Jonchuk if he was
able to hire his own lawyer.
"No," Jonchuk replied.
Would he like one appointed?
Again, the reply was, "No."
"Are you sure?" Andrews pressed.
"I want to leave it in the hands of God," Jonchuk said.
Asked if that meant he wanted to represent himself,
Jonchuk repeated his answer, to which the judge said,
"Pretty sure God's not going to be representing you
in this case. You're going to be standing trial.
Would you like someone standing next to you as you're
standing trial?"
"Yes, that is pure and good, not evil," the
defendant said.
"I'm going to do the best I can to give you a pure and
good lawyer," Andrews said.
"I don't want a court-appointed lawyer," Jonchuk said,
seeming slightly perturbed. "I want to leave it in the
hands of God."
Andrews instructed an officer to bring Jonchuk back to his
courtroom Monday "to see if he wants an attorney."
Though he ordered Jonchuk held on bonds of $10,000 each
for charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement
officer and aggravated fleeing and eluding, Andrews ruled
there would be no bond on the first-degree murder charge.
Jonchuk was arrested Thursday after a St. Petersburg police
officer was driving home just after midnight and saw a car
whiz past him, driving about 100 mph, authorities said.
According to the arrest affidavit, Jonchuk parked on the
Dick Misener Bridge, exited, ignored the officer's command
to stay in the vehicle and reached into the right rear
passenger seat where his daughter, Phoebe, was sitting.
Jonchuk "then carried the child in his arms to the side
of the bridge and intentionally dropped the child into
the water. Then he entered his vehicle and fled the scene,"
the affidavit said.
The officer heard a splash and tried to climb beneath the
bridge to save the girl, but the current was too strong,
St. Petersburg police spokeswoman Yolanda Fernandez told
CNN affiliate WFLA.
It's about a 62-foot drop to the water from that point on
the bridge.
Another officer tried to pull over Jonchuk's white
Chrysler PT Cruiser on Interstate 275, but the defendant
allegedly "conducted a U-turn and drove directly at a
backup officer's vehicle, in which case the officer had
to take evasive action to avoid a crash," another arrest
affidavit said.
Several law enforcement agencies joined the chase,
including marked patrol cars with their emergency lights
and sirens activated, for several miles. Jonchuk eventually
stopped his vehicle in the middle of the interstate and
was taken into custody, according to the affidavit.
The body of the girl was later recovered.
Jonchuck is being held at the Pinellas County Jail.
Police have not disclosed a motive.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Doris
Re: Print preview, page setting in Chrome
Dear Webby
I like Chrome, but when it comes to printing,
it is brain-dead. There is no easily findable page setting
for printing or print preview. Do I have to crank up
FireFox each time I want to print something in other than
stnadard zoom or change color to mono?
Thanks
Doris
Dear Doris
CTRL P is for printing "As Is".
CTRL SHIFT P is for getting into the printer preferences
like zoom, mono, etc.
Keep in mind, some printers will keep those preferences.
If you set the zoom for 70% for printing a batch of invoices,
it will continue printing at 70% until you change that.
Some printers, like for example Brother printers, will revert
to default on the next print job, and you have to select the
alternate profile again.
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Luggage Tote as Grocery Bag
I wish I could take the credit for this. I saw this in the
Aldi's Food Store. A customer used an large luggage tote
with wheels to transport his groceries. Since he lived
alone he only brought enough to fit inside. I told him
it was genius. I ask could I share his tip. He said OK.
He wouldn't share his name.
Source: A gentleman I met at the store
By Georgetta Ruth [57]
I have seen some seniors use baby carriages with big 12 inch
pneumatic wheels, with a big climber's expedition packsack
mounted on them. They had no problem getting around and met
smiles and jokes everywhere.
Have FUN!
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A man had a ticket for the theater but when he was seated by the
usher, he found that he was too far from the stage.
He whispered to the usher, "This is a mystery play, and I have to
watch a mystery close up. Get me a better seat, and I'll give you
a handsome tip."
The usher moves him into the second row, and the man hands the
usher a quarter.
The usher looks at the quarter, frowns at him, then leans over
and whispers, "The wife did it".
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John had been playing golf for years, and he had the finest
equipment, but his technique never improved a bit. As his
friend watched, he teed up at the first hole and promptly
drove a brand-new ball into the woods. On the second hole, he
drove another new ball into a lake. On the third, he lost a
new ball in another part of the woods.
"Why don't you use an old ball?" his friend asked.
"I've never had an old ball," he said.
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A Chinese couple while working in a Chinese restaurant,
fall in love and get married - and she's a virgin.
On the wedding night, she cowers naked under the bed
sheets as her husband undresses. He climbs in next to her
and tries to be reassuring: "My darling, I know dis you firs
time and you bery frighten. I promise you, I give you anyting
you wann, I do anyting you wann.... What you wann?"
"I wann have numma 69" she replies.
He looks at her very puzzled and says,
"You wann .. Beef Bloccoli Tsow Mein?"
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Today in
1840 The penny post, whereby mail was delivered at a
standard charge rather than paid for by the recipient,
began in Britain.
1861 Florida seceded from the United States.
1863 Prime Minister Gladstone opened the first section of
the London Underground Railway system.
1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
1901 Oil was discovered at the Spindletop oil field near
Beaumont, TX.
1911 Major Jimmie Erickson took the first photograph from
an airplane while flying over San Diego, CA.
1928 The Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky.
1951 Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet
on a trip from Chicago to New York City.
1978 The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard a
Soyuz capsule for a redezvous with the Salyut VI space
laboratory.
1984 The United States and the Vatican established full
diplomatic relations for the first time in more than
a century.
1990 Chinese Premier Li Peng ended martial law in Beijing
after seven months. He said that crushing pro-democracy
protests had saved China from "the abyss of misery."
1990 Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. completed a
$14 billion merger.
1994 In Manassas, VA, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial. She
had been charged with maliciously wounding her husband
John. She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.
1997 Shelby Lynne Barrackman was strangled to death by her
grand-father when she licked the icing off of cupcakes.
He was convicted of the crime on September 15, 1998.
2000 It was announced that Time-Warner had agreed to buy
America On-line (AOL). It was the largest-ever
corporate merger priced at $162 billion.
2001 American Airlines agreed to acquire most of Trans
World Airlines (TWA) assets for about $500 million. The
deal brought an end to the financially troubled TWA.
2002 In France, the "Official Journal" reported that all
women could get the morning-after contraception pill
for free in pharmacies.
2003 North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from
the global nuclear arms control treaty and that it had
no plans to develop nuclear weapons.
2007 The iTunes Music Store reached 1.3 million feature
length films sold and 50 million television episodes sold.
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Today is Friday, January 9
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
man in Floriduh advertising his criminal activity
on his T-shirt
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1902 New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
--- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems,
except the things in the world that just don't add up.
--- James Magary
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody
agrees that it is old enough to know better.
--- Socratex
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If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be
committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what
language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
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A well respected surgeon was relaxing on his sofa one
evening just after arriving home from work. As he was
tuning into the evening news, the phone rang. The doctor
calmly answered it and heard the familiar voice of a colleague
on the other end of the line.
"We need a fourth for poker," said the friend.
"I'll be right over," whispered the doctor.
As he was putting on his coat, his wife asked,
"Is it serious?"
"Oh yes, quite serious," said the doctor gravely.
"In fact, three doctors are there already!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to
John Balmer
50
Hudson
Floriduh
'I Have Drugs' T-Shirt Worn By
Marijuana And Methamphetamine carrier
The words written across John Balmer's chest really fit
him to a tee.
The 50-year-old was wearing a shirt that read,
"Who Needs Drugs?" in big letters, with "Seriously, I
Have Drugs" in smaller letters underneath when cops
allegedly found him with a bag containing drugs in a
Kmart in Hudson, Florida, according to TampaBay.com.
The ironic arrest occurred after a Pasco County Sheriff's
deputy allegedly saw Balmer attempt to pass a plastic
bag containing pot and meth to another customer on the
checkout line, TBO.com reports.
When that person didn't take the bag, police said Balmer
walked to another register where he allegedly placed the
drug-filled baggie on the ground.
Balmer returned to pay for his items, but store employees
informed officers about the bag. The officers picked up
the bag and discovered the drugs, according to
MyFoxChicago.com
Balmer was arrested on one count of possession of
methamphetamine and one count of possession of marijuana,
WFLA.com reports.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Doris
Re: Print preview, page setting in Chrome
Dear Webby
I like Chrome, but when it comes to printing,
it is brain-dead. There is no easily findable page setting
for printing or print preview. Do I have to crank up
FireFox each time I want to print something in other than
stnadard zoom or change color to mono?
Thanks
Doris
Dear Doris
CTRL P is for printing "As Is".
CTRL SHIFT P is for getting into the printer preferences
like zoom, mono, etc.
Keep in mind, some printers will keep those preferences.
If you set the zoom for 70% for printing a batch of invoices,
it will continue printing at 70% until you change that.
Some printers, like for example Brother printers, will revert
to default on the next print job, and you have to select the
alternate profile again.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Cleaning Paint/Artist's Brushes
As an artist I sometimes forget to rinse my brushes out
well. By the time I get back to it it is completely stiff
and dried with paint. The way I rescue these brushes is
to fill an old plastic cup with enough Murphy's oil soap
to cover the bristles and let it sit overnight. In the
morning rinse well with cold water (hot water breaks down
brushes faster). I do this every 6 months to all of my
brushes whether they need it or not because it makes
them feel like they are brand new.
By Rachel Guillotte [1]
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Thanks to Martin for this story:
Two men are out ice fishing at their favourite fishing hole,
just fishing quietly and drinking beer.
Almost silently, so as not to scare the fish, Rick says,
"I think I'm going to divorce my wife - she hasn't spoken
to me in over 2 months."
Dave continues slowly sipping his beer, then thoughtfully says,
"You better think it over - women like that are hard to find."
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On the way hom as I was sitting in the Phoenix
airport, they announced that the flight was full. The
airline was looking for volunteers to give up their seats.
In exchange, they'd give you a $100 voucher for your next
flight and a first class seat in the plane leaving an hour later.
About eight people ran up to the counter to take advantage
of the offer.
About 15 seconds later all eight of those people sat down
grumpily as the lady behind the ticket counter said, "If there
is anyone else OTHER than the flight crew who'd like to
volunteer, please step forward!"
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One night, a lady stumbled into the police station with
a black eye. She claimed she heard a noise in her back
yard and went to investigate. The next thing she knew,
she was hit in the eye and knocked out cold.
An officer was sent to her house to investigate, and he
returned 1-1/2 hours later with a black eye.
"Did you get hit by the same person?" his captain asked.
"No," he replied. "I stepped on the same rake."
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Today in
1793 Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first successful balloon
flight in the U.S.
1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced
income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise
funds for the Napoleonic Wars.
1894 The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company put the
first battery-operated switchboard into operation in
Lexington, MA.
1902 New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.
1905 In Russia, the civil disturbances known as the Revolution
of 1905 forced Czar Nicholas II to grant some civil rights.
1929 The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, TN. The
company's purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.
1936 The United States Army adopted the semi-automatic rifle.
1940 Television was used for the first time to present a
sales meeting to convention delegates in New York City.
1969 The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial
flight, at Bristol.
1972 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by fire
in Hong Kong harbor.
1972 British miners went on strike for the first time since 1926.
1986 Kodak got out of the instant camera business after 10 years
due to a loss in a court battle that claimed that Kodak
copied Polaroid patents.
1995 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Poliakov, 51, completed his
366th day in outer space aboard the Mir space station,
breaking the record for the longest continuous time spent
in outer space.
2002 Yasmine Bleeth was sentenced to two years of probation,
regular drug tests, 100 hours of community service and pay
the court costs in connection to a cocaine-possession charge.
2002 The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was
pursuing a criminal investigation of Enron Corp. The company
had filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.
2003 Archaeologists announced that they had found five more
chambers in the tomb of Qin Shihuang, China's first emperor.
The rooms were believed to cover about 750,000 square feet.
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Today is Thursday, January 8
Ezinefinder still has not been switched to 2015.
It is still stuck in 2014
The Humor Letter got 15840 votes in 2014,
and my friend Ophelia got 4214 in 2014.
I am continuously amazed that Ophelia can't seem to
increase her subscriber numbers. Sure, she is a bit
raunchy, but so are Playboy or Playgirl. It's a mystery.
Have FUN!
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Florida dad, who took his 5 month old baby along to
a burglary
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1610 Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons. He
named them Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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Some have been thought brave
because they were afraid to run away.
--- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping
reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep
next to a tree, something is wrong.
--- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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Visiting the modern art museum, a lady turned to an
attendant standing nearby.
"This," she said, "I suppose, is one of those hideous
representations you call modern art?"
"No, Madam," replied the attendant.
"That one's called a mirror."
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The preacher was having a heart-to-heart talk with a backslider
of his flock, whose drinking of moonshine invariably led to
quarrelling with his neighbours, and occasional shotgun
blasts at some of them.
"Can't you see, Ben," intoned the parson, "that not one good
thing comes out of this drinking?"
"Well, I sort of disagree there," replied the backslider.
"It makes me miss the folks I shoot at."
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22
607 7th Street North
St. Petersburg
Florida
Florida Man, Accused Of
Toting Baby To Home Burglary
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida man is accused of bringing
his 5-month-old son to a home burglary attempt, during which
he set the baby down so that he could pull a knife on the
homeowner, police said on Tuesday.
Corey Mathews, 22, was arrested on charges including
aggregated assault and child neglect for his role in the
attempted burglary on Monday evening, according to the
St. Petersburg Police Department.
Police said Mathews held his baby in a carseat as he acted
as the lookout for another man trying to break into a
home. Mathews yelled upon seeing the homeowner, and the
other suspect fled.
The homeowner followed Mathews down an alley, where he put
the baby on the ground and threatened the owner with a
knife, police said in a statement.
Mathews was still carrying the infant when police later
apprehended him, the statement said. Police say they
found the knife he threatened the homeowner with
on his person.
Corey Mathews is now charged with residential burglary,
aggravated assault, child neglect
and violation of probation.
The child is now in the custody of Mathew's mother,
police said.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Hank
Re: Registry problem alerts
Dear Webby
Thanks for all your help in the past and your Daily Humor Letter.
I have "Smart PC Fixer" for my registry problems.
I will run the Fixer, which states that my PC is at 100.
Then some other "warning" will appear than my PC has a sever registry problem.
I let them scan my PC and they give the results that I have problems.
Is this just a scan or a scam?
Thanks.
hank
Dear Hank
That seems to be a scam.
Try to find out which program is generating the fake alerts.
Quite possibly your machine is infected with a hijacker.
You might need Malwarebytes to get rid of that.
Avast doesn't protect you against stuff like that.
Have FUN!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Dry Laundry Soap for Twenty Dollars a Year
Homemade Laundry Deteregent using Borax and baking soda.
Buy these ingredients at the dollar store. You will only
need 2 tablespoons per load of laundry.
Materials
3 bars of Fels Naptha soap
1 box of borax
1 box of washing soda
2 cups of baking soda
2 containers of Oxiclean
Instructions
First grate your soap, then mix all ingredients together.
I used two garbage bags doubled up. Tie well and shake all
your ingredients around a few times. Put into a container
with a lid.
You can add 1-2 containers of fabric softener crystals
into the mix for a nice smell.
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Husband: I know you are having a lot of trouble with the baby,
Dear, but keep in mind, "the hand that rocks the cradle is the
hand that rules the world."
Wife: How about taking over the world for a few hours while
I go shopping ?
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Two Yuppettes were shopping. When they started
to discuss their home lives, one said, "Seems like
all Alfred and I do anymore is fight. I've been so
upset, I've lost 20 pounds."
"Why don't you just leave him then?" asked her
friend.
"Oh! Not yet." the first replied, "I'd like to lose at
least another fifteen pounds first."
Today in
1815 The Battle of New Orleans began. The War of 1812 had
officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing
of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not
reached British troops in time to prevent their attack
on New Orleans.
1838 Alfred Vail demonstrated a telegraph code he had
devised using dots and dashes as letters. The code
was the predecessor to Samuel Morse's code.
1856 Borax (hydrated sodium borate) was discovered by
Dr. John Veatch.
1877 Crazy Horse (Tashunca-uitco) and his warriors fought
their final battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
1886 The Severn Railway Tunnel, Britain's longest, was opened.
1889 The tabulating machine was patented by Dr. Herman
Hollerith. His firm, Tabulating Machine Company, later
became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1900 U.S. President McKinley placed Alaska under
military rule.
1908 A catastrophic train collision occurred in the smoke-
filled Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City. Seventeen
were killed and thirty-eight were injured. The accident
caused a public outcry and increased demand for electric trains.
1935 The spectrophotometer was patented by A.C. Hardy.
1973 Secret peace talks between the United States and North
Vietnam resumed near Paris, France.
1973 The trial opened in Washington, of seven men accused of
bugging Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate
apartment complex in Washington, DC.
1982 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) settled the Justice
Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest
itself of the 22 Bell System companies.
1982 The U.S. Justice Department withdrew an antitrust suit
against IBM.
1992 U.S. President George H.W. Bush collapsed during a state
dinner in Tokyo. White House officials said Bush was
suffering from stomach flu.
1994 Tonya Harding won the ladies' U.S. Figure Skating
Championship in Detroit, MI, a day after Nancy Kerrigan
dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her
right knee. The U.S. Figure Skating Association later
took the title from Harding because of her involvement
in the attack.
1998 Ramzi Yousef was sentenced to life in prison for his role
of mastermind behind the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1998 Scientists announced that they had discovered that galaxies
were accelerating and moving apart and at faster speeds.
1999 The top two executives of Salt Lake City's Olympic
Organizing Committee resigned amid disclosures that civic
boosters had given cash to members of the International
Olympic Committee.
2009 In Egypt, archeologists entered a 4,300 year old pyramid
and discovered the mummy of Queen Sesheshet.
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Music on Internet postcards
Wednesday, January 7, 2015, 10:19 AM
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Today is Wednesday, January 7
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DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to two
US Ski team members, who suicided on the
day before the opening World Cup race
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1610 Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons. He
named them Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell
your parrot to the town gossip.
--- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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A young and foolish hot-shot pilot wanted to sound cool and
show who was boss on the aviation radio frequencies. So,
this was his first time approaching an airfield during the nighttime.
Instead of making any official landing requests to the tower, he said:
....."Guess who?"
The tower controller switched the field lights off and replied:
"Guess where...!"
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I bet it was really tough being an Apostle of Jesus. What if
you wanted a day off?
You ring up Jesus and say, "Jesus, I'm sick today, running a
little fever and feeling congested so I won't be able to make
it to today's sermon. What...? Say that again..?" I'm cured?"
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Solden, Tirol
The avalanche, that those guys set off, is a third in
from the left.
There are 160 KM (100 miles) of groomed, safe ski runs
in that picture.
http://www.soelden.com/ski-area-map
When clicking on the life panorama cameras, keep in mind
the time difference. The panrorama cameras are high
resolution color.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
and a DARWIN AWARD
goes to
Ronnie Berlack,
20,
Bryce Astle,
19,
US Ski team members suicide day before
2015 Alpine Skiing World Cup Opening race
Two American skiers suicided in an avalanche, that they
set off in the Austrian Alps near their training base.
Ronnie Berlack, 20, and Bryce Astle, 19,
were junior members of the US team.
They were part of a group of six who were descending from
a mountain near the Rettenbach glacier, the venue for the
races that will open the 2015 Alpine Skiing World Cup.
Officials in Tyrol say avalanche alerts had been declared
following days of heavy snowfall and mild temperatures,
and all unsafe slopes were fenced off. Those suiciders
climbed over the fencing onto an the avalance ready slope,
and skied down in the SLOW and deep snow until they set
off an avalanche.
There are 160 KM (100 miles) of groomed, safe ski runs
right there, which are all tens of times faster than
unprepared deep snow.
They triggered an avalanche on the 3,000m (10,000 feet)
Gaislachkogel mountain near Solden, and were buried
under the snow of the avalanche, that they had set off.
The four other skiers with Mr Berlack and Mr Astle were
dug out in time by rescue teams and were not hurt.
Usually there are follow-up avalanches making rescues
extremely dangerous, but none of the rescue team members
were killed or hurt.
The president of the US Ski and Snowboard Association
Tiger Shaw said, the two victims were "outstanding ski
racers who were passionate about their sport".
Messing with an avalanche in deep snow has absolutely
nothing to do with the type of skiing used on hard packed
and precision groomed racing runs. There are plenty of
groomed and hard packed fast runs there, that are
perfectly safe. That is why their training base is there.
Well, the boneheads were not able to outrace the
avalanche, that THEY had set off. So they are in
caskets getting shipped home instead of participating
in today's Opening Race of the 2015 Alpine Skiing World Cup.
It is fortunate, that no rescuers were killed or hurt
because of their suicides.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Jeff
Re: Music on Internet Postcards
Dear Webby
Hi -- sort of 'something else.' I have music as part of
my ecards site here:
http://www.pulpcards.com/e-pcs/epcindex.html
and a visitor wrote recently that he
"... can’t get music on my Mac mini can you help?"
I've never had a Mac Mini Q. before and don't have one.
Any suggestions? Or is it perhaps you only support
Windows-based machines?
Thanks for any feedback I can pass along to the
visitor.
Best regards,
Jeff
Dear Jeff
It makes no diff whether the user uses UNIX or Linux or
Windows or Mac or a tablet or a phone. His problem is
HIS choice of browsers.
Some browsers play .mid files like they always have,
and some browsers have chickened out, claiming copyright
issues as an excuse, and require the user to download and
install an add-in, extension or player.
Mac users probably need to install the Apple QuickTime player,
if they use the Mac Safari browser,
or switch to a browser, that will work on a Mini Mac and will
play midi files.
We only send the midi files. The user needs to have some
kind of player.
We might switch over to .wav files, if there is enough demand
or if I get some spare time.
Have FUN!
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>From Arby
When my daughter was about 10 years old I became pregnant.
Of course, she wwanted to know how it happened,so I gave
what I considered an appropriate explanation of the process.
She asked, "Did you do that to get me?"
I said yes, and she responded, "And you did it again?"
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>From Curtis
While I was serving as a chief master sergeant at Barksdale
Air Force Base in Bossier City, La., my son and namesake
was also serving there. His two-month-old son, whose name
was the same as ours, was receiving medical treatments at
the base hospital.
I went on sick call one morning, and as the doctor reviewed
my file, he looked at me in disbelief. "Are you Curtis E.
Chaffin?" he asked.
When I answered yes, he told me, "It says here that you
turn blue when you cry."
Today in
1558 Calais, the last English possession on mainland France,
was recaptured by the French.
1610 Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons. He
named them Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
1785 French aeronaut/balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard
successfully made the first air-crossing of the English
Channel from the English coast to France.
1887 Thomas Stevens completed the first worldwide bicycle
trip. He started his trip in April 1884. Stevens and his
bike traveled 13,500 miles in almost three years time.
1894 W.K. Dickson received a patent for motion picture film.
1896 The "Fannie Farmer Cookbook" was published.
1904 The distress signal "CQD" was established. Two years
later "SOS" became the radio distress signal because it
was quicker to send by wireless radio.
1927 Transatlantic telephone service began between New York
and London. 31 calls were made on this first day.
1932 Chancellor Heinrich Brüning declared that Germany
cannot, and will not, resume reparations payments.
1942 The World War II siege of Bataan began.
1949 The announcement of the first photograph of genes was
shown at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
1953 U.S. President Harry Truman announced the development of
the hydrogen bomb.
1954 The Duoscopic TV receiver was unveiled this day. The TV
set allowed the watching of two different shows at the
same time.
1959 The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new
government in Cuba.
1975 OPEC agreed to raise crude oil prices by 10%, which
began a time of world economic inflation.
1979 Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of
Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that
authorized $1.5 billion in loans for the bail out of
Chrysler Corp.
1989 Crown Prince Akihito became the emperor of Japan
following the death of his father, Emperor Hirohito.
1990 The Leaning Tower of Pisa was closed to the public.
The accelerated rate of "leaning" raised fears for the
safety of its visitors.
1996 One of the biggest blizzards in U.S. history hit the
eastern states. More than 100 deaths were later blamed
on the severe weather.
1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an
affidavit denying that she had an affair with U.S.
President Clinton.
1999 U.S. President Clinton went on trial before the
Senate. It was only the second time in U.S. history that
an impeached president had gone to trial. Clinton was later
acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
2002 Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates introduced a new
device code named Mira. The device was tablet-like and was
a cross between a handheld computer and a TV remote control.
2009 Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through
Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the
move and urged greater international involvement in the
energy dispute.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015, 11:15 AM
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Tuesday, January 6
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
wimp in Connecticut, who threatens town to
'be ready for a hail of bullets'
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1945 The Battle of the Bulge ended with 130,000 German and
77,000 Allied casualties.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world
if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
--- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy,
but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
--- Bill Vaughan
"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do,
and that is to contradict other philosophers."
--- William James
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>From Roland
I saw an old friend of mine and came up to speak with him.
He smiled and went the other way. "I'm sorry but I've got
to go online" he called to me, running next door. I looked
in the next room for his computer or cell phone but did
not see one.
Instead, I saw him put in his hearing aids and look at me
again, "You were saying?"
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John came from San Francisco to Depoe Bay and
asked a native,
"Say, is this really a healthy place?"
"It sure is," the native replied. "When I came here I couldn't
say one word. I had hardly any hair on my head. I didn't
have the strength to walk across a room, and I had to be
lifted out of bed."
"That's wonderful!" said John. "How long have you been here?"
"I was born here."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to
Tyler McKenzie
18
EAST LYME,
Connecticut
Tyler McKenzie Threatens Connecticut
Town To 'Be Ready For A Hail Of Bullets'
An 18-year-old man was arrested after allegedly threatening
that a Connecticut town "better be ready for the hail of
bullets" because he had been bullied for so long.
The threat by Tyler McKenzie prompted the East Lyme school
district to cancel sporting events and plan for additional
security measures when classes resume Monday, police said.
McKenzie was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree
threatening and second-degree breach of peace.
The arrest came about a week after the threatening comment
was posted on YikYak, a social media website. State, local
police and the FBI searched McKenzie's home in East Lyme
and recovered evidence, authorities said.
Investigators say McKenzie admitted he wrote the threatening
post. They say he acted alone, and they don't anticipate
additional arrests.
McKenzie was held on a $25,000 bond and is scheduled to
appear in New London Superior Court on Friday.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Jean
Re: Back up your ID
Dear Webby
1. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put 'PHOTO ID REQUIRED.'
2. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT
put the complete account number on the 'For' line. Instead, just put the last
four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone
who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing
channels won't have access to it.
3. Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a
PO Box use that instead of your home address. If you do not have a PO Box, use
your work address. Never have your SS# printed on your checks. (DUH!)
You can add it if it is necessary. But if you have It printed, anyone can get it.
4. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine.
Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you
had in your wallet and all of the account numbers
and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place.
I also carry a photocopy of my passport when I travel either here or
abroad. We've all heard horror stories about fraud that's committed on
us in stealing a Name, address, Social Security number, credit cards.
In case your luggage is lost, take another list in your carry
on bag, especially if you are abroad and need immediate access to
those numbers.
Unfortunately, I, an attorney, have firsthand knowledge because
my wallet was stolen last month. Within a week, the thieves ordered
an expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for a VISA credit
card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer,
received a PIN number from DMV to change my driving record
information online, and more.
But here's some critical information to limit the damage in case this happens
to you or someone you know:
5. We have been told we should cancel our credit cards immediately. But
the key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you
know whom to call.. Keep those where you can find them.
6. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction
where your credit cards, etc.., were stolen. This proves to credit
providers you were diligent, and this is a first step toward
an investigation (if there ever is one).
But here's what is perhaps most important of all: (I never even thought to do this.)
7. Call the 3 national credit reporting organizations immediately
to place a fraud alert on your name and also call the Social Security fraud
line number. I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that
called to tell me an application for credit was made over the Internet in my
name.
The alert means any company that checks your credit knows
your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by
phone to authorize new credit.
By the time I was advised to do this, almost two weeks after
the theft, all the damage had been done. There are records of
all the credit checks initiated by the thieves' purchases,
none of which I knew about before placing the alert.
Since then, no additional damage has been done, and
the thieves threw my wallet away this weekend (someone
turned it in). It seems to have stopped them
dead in their tracks..
Now, here are the numbers you always need to contact
about your wallet, if it has been stolen:
1.) Equifax: 1-800-525-6285 1-800-525-6285
2.) Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742 1-888-397-3742
3.) Trans Union : 1-800-680 7289 1-800-680 7289
4.) Social Security Administration (fraud line):
1-800-269-0271 1-800-269-0271
Jean
Dear Jean
That is valuable information indeed!
Let's hope a lot of the subscribers will heed your advice.
I will!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Homemade Play Dough
My kids love this play dough. I have made just about every
kind you can imagine, but we always go back to this one.
I've been making it so long (over 10 years!), that I have
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It's very soft and silky. It's perfect for little hands.
It smells wonderful, too! My daughter plays with it for
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Ophelia Dingbatter's News
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I urgently needed a few days off work but I knew the boss
would not allow me to take leave. I thought that maybe if I
acted 'crazy', then he would tell me to take a few days off.
So, I hung upside-down on the ceiling and made funny
noises.
My secretary asked me what I was doing.
I told her that I was pretending to be a light bulb, so the
Boss might think I was 'crazy' and give me a few days off.
A few minutes later, the boss came into the office and asked,
'What in the name of Sam Hill are you doing?'
I told him I was a light bulb.
He said, 'You are clearly stressed out. Go home and
recuperate for a couple of days.'
I jumped down and walked out of the office.
When my secretary followed me, the boss asked her,
'And where do you think you're going?!'
To which she replied:
'I'm going home too. I can't work in the dark.'
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"Pastor," Johnny says, "I heard you say today that our
bodies came from the dust."
"That's right, Johnny, I did."
"And I heard you say that when we die, our bodies go
back to dust."
"Yes, I'm glad you were listening. Why do you ask?"
"Well you better come over to our house right away and
look under my bed, 'cause there's someone either
comin' or goin'!"
Today in
0871 England's King Alfred defeated the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown.
1205 Philip of Swabia was crowned as King of the Romans.
1453 Frederick III erected Austria into an Archduchy.
1540 King Henry VIII of England was married to Anne of Cleves,
his fourth wife.
1720 The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble
published its findings.
1838 Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for
the first time.
1900 In India, it was reported that millions of people were
dying from starvation.
1900 Off of South Africa, the British seized the German
steamer Herzog. The boat was released on January 22, 1900.
1930 The first diesel-engine automobile trip was completed
after a run of 792 miles from Indianapolis, IN, to New York City, NY.
1942 The first commercial around-the-world airline flight
took place. Pan American Airlines was the company that
made history with the feat.
1945 The Battle of the Bulge ended with 130,000 German and
77,000 Allied casualties.
1950 Britain recognized the Communist government of China.
1952 "Peanuts" debuted in Sunday papers across the United States.
1967 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces launched a major
offensive, known as Operation "Deckhouse V".
1982 William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles, CA, of
being the "freeway killer" who had murdered 14 young men and boys.
1987 After a 29-year lapse, the Ford Thunderbird was presented
with the Motor Trend Car of the Year Award. It was the first
occurrence of a repeat winner of the award.
1994 Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right
leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI. Four men
were later sentenced to prison for the attack, including
Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
1998 The spacecraft Lunar Prospect was launched into orbit
around the moon. The craft was crashed into the moon, in
an effort to find water under the lunar surface, on
July 31, 1999.
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Monday, January 5, 2015, 09:27 AM
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Monhday, January 5
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
William Mattson Beaten To
Bloody Pulp After Allegedly Raping
Nephew's Girlfriend
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1896 It was reported by The Austrian newspaper that Wilhelm
Roentgen had discovered the type of radiation that became
known as X-rays.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...
and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake?
Where does the glue go?
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your hips!
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As a young married couple, a husband and a wife lived in a
cheap housing complex near the base where he was
working. Their chief complaint was that the walls were
paper-thin and that they had no privacy.
This was painfully obvious when one morning the husband
was upstairs and the wife was downstairs on the telephone.
She was interrupted by the doorbell and went to greet
her neighbor.
"Give this to your husband," he said thrusting a roll of
toilet paper into her hands. "He's been yelling for it for
15 minutes!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to
William Mattson,
52
Myrtle Beach
South Carolina
William Mattson Beaten To
Bloody Pulp After Allegedly Raping
Nephew's Girlfriend
A South Carolina man was severely beaten after allegedly
raping his nephew's girlfriend on New Year's Eve.
William Mattson, 52, can be seen in his mugshot with an
eye swollen shut and cuts and bruises. The sexual assault
suspect is accused of attacking the woman at a party while
his nephew --the victim's boyfriend --was away,
according to Myrtle Beach Online.
The nephew told police that he heard sounds coming from
inside his father's bedroom when he returned to the party.
He kicked down the door and says he found Mattson on top
of his girlfriend. He said he punched Mattson repeatedly,
driving him from his house.
When police were called at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 1, Mattson
returned to the property to tell officers that the sex was
consensual, according to the New York Daily News.
Mattson's nephew lunged again, attacking the suspect in front
of officers. Nevertheless, the police department described
the nephew's attack as being in defense of the victim,
according to a press release.
The victim, of course, standing between her boyfriend and
the cops, denied that the incident was consensual.
Mattson was charged with first-degree criminal sexual
conduct.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Alex
Re: SSH
Dear Webby
What exactly is SSH?
A program I am trying to buy, requires that I have SSH access.
However, my web host tells me that I don't need it and would
not know how to use it, even if I had it. So, what is it and
what does it do?
Alex
Dear Alex
SSH is secure access to the server command line, just like
Telnet used to be until about 15 years ago. The main
difference is that SSH is securely encrypted and can't be
intercepted.
It is not difficult to use, and programs, that require it, are
very specific and detailed about what you need to do.
Usually they even give you the exact command to type
or paste to the command line.
Then you type that in and hit Enter.
No big deal at all.
Web hosting is often like an MLM pyramid. The farther down
you are, the fewer rights and privileges you have. When you
don't get SSH, but instead get a snotty reply implying that
you would not know how to use it, then you know you have hit
rock bottom, and it's time to move up a few levels or get a
better web host.
The bare command line can be a bit intimidating to some
people, but at our level, for example, we explain what each
command does, and step you through it while connected to
you via Skype chat. It's no big deal.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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I couldn't find a rubber band or any kind of tie to bind up
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Ophelia Dingbatter's News
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From a passenger ship one can just barely see a bearded man
on a small island in the distance who is shouting and
desperately waving his hands.
"Who is that?" a passenger asked a passing steward.
"I've no idea. Every year when we pass by, he goes nuts."
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>From Vi
All my relatives know that I refold the wrapping paper from
my Christmas presents for reuse later.
"Auntie," asked one of my young nieces, "why do you save
all that paper?"
"I'm doing what's best for the environment," I replied. "So
I'm recycling."
"Good thing you didn't ask that question five years ago,"
my daughter interrupted. "Then she was just plain cheap."
Today in
1781 Richmond, VA, was burned by a British naval expedition
led by Benedict Arnold.
1885 The Long Island Railroad Company became the first to
offer piggy-back rail service which was the transportation
of farm wagons on trains.
1896 It was reported by The Austrian newspaper that Wilhelm
Roentgen had discovered the type of radiation that became
known as X-rays.
1900 In Ireland, Nationalist leader John Edward Redmond
called for a revolt against British rule.
1903 The general public could use the Pacific cable for
the very first time.
1914 Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a
new daily minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday.
1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began.
1944 The London "Daily Mail" was the first transoceanic
newspaper to be published.
1948 Warner Brothers-Pathe showed the very first color
newsreel. The footage was of the Tournament of Roses
Parade and the Rose Bowl football classic.
1956 In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy walked on two
legs for the first time.
1972 U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered the
development of the space shuttle.
1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan underwent prostate
surgery.
1993 The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd.
It was America's first legal hanging since 1965. Dodd
was an admitted child sex killer.
1996 Yahya Ayyash, a member of the Hamas in Israel, is
killed by a booby-trapped cellular phone.
1998 U.S. Representative Sonny Bono died in skiing accident.
2002 A 15 year-old student pilot, Charles Bishop, crashed a
small plane into a building in Tampa, FL. Bishop was about
to begin a flying lesson when he took off without permission
and without an instructor.
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Sunday, January 4, 2015, 09:31 AM
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Saturday, January 3
Have FUN!
DearWebby
______________________________________________________
Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Father and son criminal duo, who murdered and robbed
an old couple, set their house on fire, took their bodies
on a 4 hour ride to a different state, and shot at two cops.
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1885 Dr. William Grant performed the first successful appendectomy.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me,
I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead
him to a quiet place, and kill him.
--- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself;
I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
--- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
"Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones,
so is science made of facts;
but a pile of stones is not a house and a
collection of facts is not necessarily science."
--- Henri Poincare
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Bubba goes to the revival and listens to the preacher.
After a while, the preacher asks anyone with needs to come
forward and be prayed over. Bubba gets in line.
When it's his turn the preacher says, "Bubba, what you want
me to pray about?"
Bubba says, "Preacher, I need you to pray for my hearing."
So the preacher puts one finger in Bubba's ear and the other
hand on top of his head and prays a while.
After a few minutes, he removes his hands and says,
"Bubba, how's your hearing now?"
Bubba says, "I don't know preacher, it's not until
next Wednesday in Dallas.
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After a church service on Sunday morning, a young boy suddenly
announced to his mother, "Mom, I've decided to become a minister when I
grow up." "That's okay with us, but what made you decide that?"
"Well," said the little boy, "I have to go to church on Sunday
anyway, and I figure it will be more fun to stand up and yell,
than to sit and listen."
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Eric Campbell, 21
Edward Campbell, 54
Indian Acres,
Texas
Father and son criminal duo,
who murdered and robbed an old couple,
set their house on fire, took their
bodies on a 4 hour ride to a different
state, and shot at two cops.
A Texas father and son went on a multi-state crime spree
Thursday, robbing and killing a couple in North Carolina
before transporting the bodies to West Virginia, where
they shot two officers, police say.
Eric Campbell, 21, and his father, 54-year-old Edward Campbell,
both of Indian Acres, Texas, were pulled over in Lewisburg,
West Virginia on Thursday afternoon. They were in separate
vehicles, one of which police flagged as stolen.
Edward Campbell, who was driving a red truck at the time,
allegedly opened fire on two officers, wounding both of
them. Cops returned fire and hit the suspect in the leg.
Edward fled, but was later collared as he hid in the woods.
Eric turned himself in about 90 minutes after the shootout.
Both wounded officers have just superficial wounds.
Upon further investigation, cops found the bodies of Jerome
Faulkner, 73, and his 62-year-old wife, Dora, under a mattress
in the bed of the red pickup truck, WVNS reports.
Investigators believe the Campbells chose the couple at
random to rob and murder in their Oak Hill, North Carolina
home. The suspects allegedly lit the house on fire at about
7 a.m., threw the bodies in the back of the truck and drove
nearly four hours to West Virginia.
"When we first got the call, we thought it was just a
structure fire," Granville County, North Carolina Sheriff
Brindell Wilkins told WVNS. "As things progressed, we found
some things here that didn't look right."
Both of the suspects were charged with malicious assault
and attempted murder of an officer. Eric Campbell, whose
mugshot is above, was held without bail at the Southern
Regional Jail in West Virginia, while his father is still
hospitalized with a bullet wound to the leg.
The officers, identified as Jeromy Dove and Nicholas Sams,
are recovering with superficial wounds from the shooting.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Ron
Re: Monitor colors
Dear Webby
My monitors (work and home) show colors as different as
Fuji and Kodak. When I fix a picture to look right at home,
it looks crappy on the monitor at work. And vice versa.
Is one of them dying or is there an adjustment to save it?
Ron
You can adjust the color temperature of a monitor. Just play
with the menu buttons until you get to a menu that has big
numbers, like 4500 and going up to 9300, or sometimes
even higher. A low number gives you a warm lighting, like
candle light, a high number gives you a hot light, like
mercury vapor or arc, or "cool white" fluorescent.
Straight from the factory, most monitors come set at
9300, and most people never change that setting. If you
set your monitor to 9300, then if a picture looks OK for
you, it will look OK for most people.
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Baking Powder For Glowing Skin
One should use baking powder on their face for a glow.
After that, there is no need to do a facial, this will
automatically give you a facial look.
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There was a large revival meeting on the outskirts
of town, and at the appropriate corner there was
a large sign proclaiming...."If you are weary of
sin and want to be saved, turn here, go 100 yards,
and come into the revival tent."
Below the sign someone had hung another smaller
one.
"If NOT weary,
call Sherry
555-3550."
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A college drama group presented a play in which one character would
stand on a trap door and announce, "I descend into hell!" A stagehand
below would then pull a rope, the trapdoor would open, and the
character would plunge through. The play was well received. When the actor
playing the part became ill, another actor who was quite overweight took his
place. When the new actor announced,
"I descend into hell!" the stagehand pulled the rope, and he actor
began his plunge, but became hopelessly stuck.
No amount of tugging on the rope could make him descend.
One student in the balcony jumped up and yelled:
"Hallelujah! Hell is full!"
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Today in
1884 The socialist Fabian Society was founded in London.
1885 Dr. William Grant performed the first successful appendectomy.
1936 The first pop music chart based on national sales was
published by "Billboard" magazine.
1944 The attack on Monte Cassino was launched by the British
Fifth Army in Italy.
1948 Britain granted independence to Burma.
1951 During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist
Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
1953 Tufted plastic carpeting was introduced by Barwick Mills.
1958 The Soviet satellite Sputknik I fell to the earth from
its orbit. The craft had been launched on October 4, 1957.
1962 New York City introduced a train that operated without
conductors and motormen.
1965 The Fender Guitar Company was sold to CBS for $13 million.
1984 Wayne ‘The Great One’ Gretzky scored eight points (four
goals and four assists) for the second time in his National
Hockey League (NHL) career. Edmonton’s Oilers defeated the
Minnesota North Stars, 12-8. The game was the highest-
scoring NHL game to date.
1991 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn
Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied
territories.
1997 The Greek Cypriot government signed an agreement to
buy S-300 surface-to-air missiles from Russia.
1999 A drifting Nicaraguan fishing boat was found by the
Norwegian oil tanker Joelm. The fisherman had been lost at
sea for 35 days after the engine of their vessel quit
working.
1999 Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn
in as Minnesota's 37th governor.
2006 Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.
2010 In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the Burj Dubai
(Dubai Tower) opened as the world's tallest tower at
2,625 feet
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A Floriduh couple, who hid in a museum closet
and thought they were locked in.
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1833 Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the
South Atlantic. About 150 years later, Argentina seized the
islands from the British, but Britain took them back after
a 74-day war.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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--- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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>From Barbara
I have a joke for you.
Shortly before our 25th wedding anniversary, my husband
sent 25 long-stemmed yellow roses to me at my office.
A few days later, I plucked all the petals and dried them.
On the night of our anniversary, I spread the petals over
the bed and lay on top of them, wearing only a negligee.
As I’d hoped, I got a reaction from my husband.
When he saw me, he exclaimed, “Are those potato chips?”
Barbara
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Before Linda became engaged, she was quite the beauty, and
didn't mind letting her boyfriend know it, too:
"A lot of men are gonna be totally miserable when I marry."
she told him.
"Really?" asked the boyfriend, "And just how many men are
you planning to marry?"
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Amber Campbell, 24
John Arwood
Daytona Beach,
Floriduh
Florida couple spent days in
unlocked closet, thought they were trapped
A pair of hapless accused trespassers spent two days in
a closet, thinking they were trapped inside.
John Arwood and Amber Campbell told police that someone had
chased them into the closet at Daytona State College's
Marine and Environmental Science Center on Sunday. Once
they were inside the janitor's closet, they couldn't
get out.
But it wasn't until Tuesday that Arwood decided to call 911.
When Daytona Beach police arrived, they discovered that the
door did not lock.
Cops found human feces and suspected drug paraphernalia in
the closet, but they didn't find any drugs.
Arwood and Campbell were both charged with trespassing.
Campbell was also charged with violating her probation.
In 2013, she was arrested after escaping a mental health
treatment facility, crashing a car and escaping from the
back of a police cruiser. Interesting tramp stamp on her
throat. "Deep throat for $"
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Arwood's record includes
five jail sentences in Florida since 2000, with offenses
including armed burglary, possession of more than 20 grams
of marijuana, and fleeing law enforcement.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Lee
Re: Mozbackup
Dear Webby
Wouldn't it be best to install Thunderbird fresh on new
computer and then use Mozbackup to save info on old computer
and then transfer that file (large) to new computer.
I use Mozbackup in case of loss. Carbonite saves the file
for me.
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Thanks Lee!
That could simplify things for some people!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Add Ranch Dressing to Mashed Potatoes
As old people are wont to do, DH and I sometimes forget to
go to the supermarket. Today I wanted mashed potatoes and
noticed that there was no butter in the fridge. I got out
my bottle of ranch dressing and smushed the bottle so that
a good sized blob came out. I then whipped them in the
usual manner and they were delicious!
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The local priest came across Paddy who had stumbled out of
the town tavern.
"Paddy," he said, " I'm afraid I'll not be seeing you in Heaven
one day."
"Really, Father?" slurred Paddy. "What have you done now?"
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Bidding at a local auction was proceeding furiously when the
auctioneer suddenly announced, "A gentleman in this room
has lost a wallet containing $10,000. If it is returned, he will
pay a reward of $2,000."
There was a moment's silence, and then from the back of
the room came the cry, "Two thousand five hundred!"
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Today in
1496 References in Leonardo da Vinci notebooks suggested that
he tested his flying machine. The test didn't succeed and he
didn't try to fly again for several years.
1521 Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther.
1777 The Battle of Princeton took place in the War of Independence,
in which George Washington defeated the British forces,
led by Cornwallis.
1815 By secret treaty, Austria, Britain, and France formed a
defensive alliance against Prusso-Russian plans to solve
the Saxon and Polish problems.
1833 Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the
South Atlantic. About 150 years later, Argentina seized the
islands from the British, but Britain took them back after
a 74-day war.
1868 The Shogunate was abolished in Japan and Meiji dynasty
was restored.
1871 Henry W. Bradley patented oleomargarine.
1888 The drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone.
1924 English explorer Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus
of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
1925 In Italy, Mussolini announced that he would take
dictatorial powers.
1947 In Trenton, NJ, Al Herrin, passed away at age 92. He
had claimed that he had not slept at all during his life.
1957 The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.
1959 In the U.S., Alaska became the 49th state.
1961 The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister
Fidel Castro.
1967 Jack Ruby died in a Dallas, TX, hospital.
1980 Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," was
killed in northern Kenya by a servant.
1990 Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to
U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's
diplomatic mission.
1993 U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President
Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty (START) in Moscow.
1998 China announced that it would spend $27.7 billion to
fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river
valleys.
1999 Israeli authorities detained, and later expelled, 14
members of Concerned Christians. Israili officials claimed
that the Denver, CO-based cult was plotting violence in
Jerusalem to bring about the Second Coming of Christ.
2000 Charles M. Schulz's final original daily comic strip
appeared in newspapers.
2001 The ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) charged
the "Texas 7" with weapons violations. An autopsy showed
that Aubrey Hawkins, killed by the convicts, had been shot
11 times and run over with a vehicle.
2004 NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars. The craft was able
to send back black and white images three hours after landing.
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Today is Friday, January 2
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
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It usually takes about a week and a lot of nagging,
until they restart it in a new year.
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Missouri man, who choked his wife with a
roll of wrapping paper in Christmas day attack
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1492 The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain
surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to
King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
--- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable
uncertainty.
--- Mark Twain
Every teenager should get a high school education.
Even if they already know everything.
--- Socratex
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Is it proper for a man to profit from the mistakes of another?"
a Angus mcKenzie asked his minister.
"Definitely not," was the preacher's answer.
"Are you absolutely certain?"
"Yes, my son, absolutely."
"Okay. In that case, I wonder if you'd mind returning that
$25 I gave you after my wedding last year?"
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Q: This myasthenia gravis -- does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget. Can you give us an example of something
that you've forgotten?
A: What was your question?
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David Hampton,
33,
St. Peters
Missouri
Missouri man choked wife with
roll of wrapping paper in
Christmas day attack
David Hampton, a Missouri man, 33, is locked up for domestic
assault after he allegedly used a cardboard roll of wrapping
paper to choke his wife during a Christmas Day attack in
their home.
According to a probable cause statement, Hampton’s wife told
police that she “blacked out” during the attack. “The victim
had injuries consistent with being strangled,” a cop reported.
Hampton, pictured in the above mug shot, lives with the
victim and the couple’s two children in St. Peters, a city
30 miles from St. Louis.
Charged with felony domestic assault, Hampton was booked
into the St. Charles County jail, where he remains locked
up in lieu of $50,000 cash bail. A judge has ordered Hampton
to have no contact with his spouse.
Hampton is scheduled for a January 8 Circuit Court hearing.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Noella
Re: Move Thunderbird data to new laptop
Dear Webby
Need to find Thunderbird files, not Outlook Express.
I've already transferred everything over to Thunderbird.
Now I just need to transfer Thunderbird files to my laptop.
Noella
Dear Noella
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Removing Wax or Crayon from Clothes
Heat an iron. Damp a face cloth. Put the face cloth on the
item of clothing with the crayon or wax to be removed.
Place the hot iron on the damp face cloth and move around
for 30 seconds until wax or crayon is removed.
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A dietitian was once addressing a large audience in
Chicago. "The material we put into our stomachs is
enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years
ago.
Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach
lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can
be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term
harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.
But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of
all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here
tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and
suffering for years after eating it?"
A 75-year-old man in the front row stood up and said,
"Wedding cake"
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"Today's Sermon: HOW MUCH CAN A MAN DRINK?
with hymns from a full choir."
"The concert held in Fellowship Hall was a great success.
Special thanks are due to the minister's daughter, who labored
the whole evening at the piano, which as usual fell upon her."
"During the absence of our pastor, we enjoyed the rare privilege of
hearing a good sermon when J.F. Stubbs supplied our pulpit."
"The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in the
church basement on Friday at 7 p.m. The congregation is invited to
attend this tragedy."
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Today in
1492 The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain
surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to
King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
1842 In Fairmount, PA, the first wire suspension bridge
was opened to traffic.
1872 Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon
Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.
1879 Thomas Edison began construction on his first generator.
1890 Alice Sanger became the first female White House staffer.
1900 The Chicago Canal opened.
1917 Royal Bank of Canada took over the Quebec Bank.
1942 The Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese
forces during World War II.
1955 Panamanian President Jose Antonio Remon was assassinated.
1968 Fidel Castro announced petroleum and sugar rationing in Cuba.
1996 AT&T announced that it would eliminate 40,000 jobs over three years.
1998 Russia began circulating new rubles in effort to keep
inflation in check and promote confidence.
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Today is Thursday, January 1
Happy New Year!
First day for breaking resolutions.
Isn't that what they are for?
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Tattooed Hilbilly in Florida, who admitted that he has
started fires with Molotov cocktails
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1622 The Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning
of the New Year (instead of March 25th).
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground;
but a kind word is never thrown away.
--- Sir Arthur Helps
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
--- Garry Shandling (1949 - )
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A famed English explorer was invited to Dartmouth to tell
of his adventures in the African jungle.
"Can you imagine," he demanded, "people so primitive that
they love to eat the embryo of certain birds, and slices
from the belly of certain animals? And grind up grass seed,
make it into a paste, burn it over a fire, then smear it with
a greasy mess they extract from the mammary fluid of certain
other animals?"
When the students looked startled by such barbarism, the
explorer added softly, "What I've been describing, of course,
is a breakfast of bacon and eggs and buttered toast."
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My friend, Monica, is an accomplished harpist who frequently
plays for weddings, receptions, parties and other such events.
She is also blonde and has an appropriately cherubic face.
She was on her way to an engagement at a hotel and stepped
into an elevator with her large golden harp. Just before the
doors closed, a distinguished gray-haired man stepped on.
As the elevator rose, he looked thoughtfully first at her and
then her harp and asked, "How far up does this elevator go?"
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Jeffrey Mark Jalinski,
30,
Orange County
Florida
Started Fires With Gas-Filled Bottles
A Florida man with very distinctive facial tattoos allegedly
told police he had a burning desire to start fires.
Now his heated hobby has landed him in hot water.
Police in Orange County, Florida, arrested Jeffrey Mark
Jalinski, 30, on Dec. 22, after he admitted to using
homemade devices to start fires in burn barrels, the
Orlando Sentinel reports.
Deputies and a SWAT team initially showed up at Jalinski's
motor home with a search warrant looking for drugs.
Instead, they said, they found three beer bottles believed
to contain gasoline and rags stuck in the neck of each bottle.
The suspect allegedly told deputies that the bottles were
his and confirmed they were filled with gas.
He also allegedly confessed to using the bottles to start
fires, KIRO TV reports.
Jalinski was charged with possession of or discharging a
destructive device.
He has since bonded out of Orange County Jail, but not before
posing for this memorable mug shot, according to AR15.com.
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I have seen Hillbillies light their burning barrels that way,
if they stunk too much or had too many wasps or horseflies.
Usually though, the bottle did not break and required a shot
from a shotgun to shatter it and light the barrel.
That is, if they were sober enough to actually get the bottle
INTO the barrel.
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From: Noella
Re: Move Thunderbird daqta to new laptop
Dear Webby
Need to find Thunderbird files, not Outlook Express.
I've already transferred everything over to Thunderbird.
Now I just need to transfer Thunderbird files to my laptop.
Noella
Dear Noella
You need "Moving Thunderbird Data to a New Computer"
at
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Crust Cover from Metal Pie Plate
With the holidays coming and after wasting countless strips
of aluminum foil just to cover my pie crusts when baking,
I tried cutting up an old aluminum pie pan to place over
my pie crusts while baking. It worked!
Use craft scissors and cut cleanly so you leave no sharp
edges. I would suggest you wear work gloves and possibly
use needle nose pliers to bend down and crimp closed the
cut ends after cutting the circle out of the bottom just
to guarantee no cuts!
I intend to reuse these again and again.
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A real estate salesman had just closed his first deal, only to
discover that the piece of land he had sold was completely
under water.
"That customer's going to come back here pretty mad," he said
to his boss. "Should I give him his money back?"
"Money back?" roared the boss. "What kind of salesman are
you? Get out there and sell him a houseboat."
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Our young daughter had adopted a stray cat. To my distress,
he began to use the back of our new sofa as a scratching
post. "Don't worry," my husband reassured me. "I'll have him
trained in no time."
I watched for several days as my husband patiently "trained"
our new pet. Whenever the cat scratched, my husband deposited
him outdoors to teach him a lesson.
The cat learned quickly. For the next 16 years, whenever he
wanted to go outside, he scratched the back of the sofa.
Today in
0404 The last gladiator competition was held in Rome.
1622 The Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning
of the New Year (instead of March 25th).
1772 The first traveler's checks were issued in London.
1797 Albany became the capital of New York state,
replacing New York City.
1801 The Act of Union of England and Ireland came into force.
1801 Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi became the first
person to discover an asteroid. He named it Ceres.
1804 Haiti gained its independence.
1808 The U.S. prohibited import of slaves from Africa.
1863 U.S. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation
Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the
rebel states were free.
1887 Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India in Delhi.
1894 The Manchester Ship Canal was officially opened.
1898 Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island
were consolidated into New York City.
1901 The Commonwealth of Australia was founded. Lord Hopetoun
officially assumed the duties as the first Governor-General.
1909 The first payments of old-age pensions were made in Britain.
People over 70 received five shillings a week.
1913 The post office began parcel post deliveries.
1924 Frank B. Cooney received a patent for ink paste.
1934 Alcatraz Island officially became a Federal Prison.
1936 The "New York Herald Tribune" began microfilming its
current issues.
1945 France was admitted to the United Nations.
1956 Sudan gained its independence.
1958 The European Economic Community (EEC) started operations.
1959 Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio
Batista, and seized power in Cuba.
1968 Evel Knievel, stunt performing daredevil, lost control
of his motorcycle midway through a jump of 141 feet over
the ornamental fountains in front of Caesar’s Palace in
Las Vegas.
1971 Tobacco ads representing $20 million dollars in
advertising were banned from TV and radio broadcast.
1973 Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Norway joined the EEC.
1975 The magazine "Popular Electronics" announced the
invention of a person computer called Altair. MITS,
using an Intel microprocessor, developed the computer.
1981 Greece joined the European Community.
1984 AT&T was broken up into 22 Bell System companies
under terms of an antitrust agreement with the U.S.
Federal government.
1986 Spain and Portugal joined the European Community (EC).
1987 A pro-democracy rally took place in Beijing's Tiananmen Square (China).
1990 David Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
1993 Czechoslovakia split into two separate states, the
Czech Republic and Slovakia. The peaceful division had
been engineered in 1992.
1994 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.
1995 Frederick West, an alleged killer of 12 women and girls,
was found hanged in his jail cell in Winston Green prison,
in Birmingham. West had been under almost continuous watch
since his arrest in 1994, but security had reportedly been
relaxed in the months preceding the apparent suicide.
1995 The World Trade Organization came into existence. The
group of 125 nations monitors global trade.
1998 A new anti-smoking law went into effect in California.
The law prohibiting people from lighting up in bars.
1999 The euro became currency for 11 Member States of the
European Union. Coins and notes were not available until
January 1, 2002.
1999 In California, a law went into effect that defined
"invasion of privacy as trespassing with the intent to
capture audio or video images of a celebrity or crime
victim engaging in a personal of family activity."
2001 The "Texas 7," rented space in an RV park in Woodland Park, CO.
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1879 Thomas Edison gave his first public demonstration of
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--- Bruce Barton
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
--- Garry Shandling (1949 - )
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A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. The
old man cleared his throat, fingered his worsted wool vest and
said, "Well, son, it was 1932, the depth of the Great Depression.
I was down to my last nickel. I invested that nickel in an apple.
I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the
day, I sold the apple for ten cents. The next morning, I invested
those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing
them and sold them at 5:00 pm for 20 cents. I continued this
system for a month, by the end of which I had accumulated a
fortune of $1.37.
Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars."
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Little Johnny was eating breakfast one morning and started
thinking about things. "Mommy, why does daddy have so few
hairs on his head?" he asked his mother.
"He thinks a lot," replied his mother, pleased with herself for
coming up with a good answer to her husband's baldness.
Johnny thought for a second and replied,
"I'm glad you don't do any thinking. You would look weird
if you were bald!"
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Hartford,
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a guy who ‘fought everyone’ and lost
Edward Miller of Hartford, Connecticut went full-blown
Screech in the metropolis of nearby West Hartford over
the weekend–and the glorious result is a late contender
for Mugshot of the Year. It seems that the 21-year-old
set out to pretty much fight everybody at a local
restaurant. That included the police who were called
in to the incident.
Alcohol might have been involved. The cops sure got
involved. Miller kept brawling even after getting
pepper-sprayed. After he was suitably tenderized and
stuffed into the police car, Miller kicked out the back
window of the police car.
Charges include interfering with a police officer,
first degree criminal mischief, and breach of peace.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Brook
Re: RCA Cables
Dear Webby
It seems like I can never get the RCA cables to work. I
have an older Wii and an older DVD player that I would
like to connect (to different TVs). The cables are red,
white and yellow, yet the TVs never seem to have a yellow
connector. I checked on wiki and it says that
"...beyond 7.1 audio, there are no color standards."
Please hellp.
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Dear Brook
I think the RCA standard is history.
You would need an old style TV for that.
Wii might have some converters, but I would not count
on that. They would rather sell you a new one, that
works with today's TVs.
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal
Oatmeal is so filling, quick, and cheap! But oatmeal can
get so boring. I like to "spice" it up every now and then
to make it enjoyable again.:) One of the things I like
about this recipe is that you can use your less than
perfect apples that are starting to get a bit soft. This
is quite tasty on a cold winter morning. And still very
healthy! :)
Approximate Time: About 10-15 minutes
Yield: About 6 servings
Ingredients:
6 cups water
3 1/2 cup oatmeal
3 large apples, any kind will do. I used Granny Smith.
1/3 - 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 - 2 tsp cinnamon
butter or margarine
Steps:
Peel and cube 3 large apples, any kind. I used Granny Smith,
but any will be great. Try and use up the ones that are
going soft. They will still be tasty!
Put 6 cups of water into a pot. Add apples,
1/3 - 1/2 cup brown sugar (depending on how sweet you like it).
Add 1 - 2 teaspoons cinnamon (depending on how "cinnamony"
you like it.:) Cook on high until you have a rolling boil.
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal
Add 3 1/2 cups oatmeal, quick or regular, either one, stir
constantly for about 5 minutes.
Top with a lovely pat of butter or margarine and enjoy! :)
You could easily halve this recipe if you don't want such a
large pot. I just have a lot of people to feed!
Source: Modified from "Blissful and Domestic" blog
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A guy walked into his friend's office, he found him sitting at
his desk, looking very depressed.
"Hey, what's up with you?", he asks.
"Oh, its my wife," replied the man sadly. "She's hired a new
secretary for me."
"Well, nothing wrong in that. Is she blonde, redhead or
brunette?"
"Neither, her grandfather is bald."
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Bumper Stickers from 20 years ago:
If that phone was up your butt,
maybe you could drive better!
Don't be sexist, broads hate that.
Saw it... Wanted it... Had a fit... Got it!
Constipated people don't give a crap.
Who lit the fuse on your tampon?
My kid got your honor roll student pregnant.
If you can read this... I lost my trailer.
Your just jealous cause the voices
are only talking to me.
I have the body of a God.... Buddha.
So many pedestrians...so little time.
Eat right, exercise, die anyway!
Illiterate...Write for help.
Cover me... I'm changing lanes.
Boldly going nowhere.
Body by Nautilus, brain by Mattel.
Honk if anything falls off.
If we quit voting, will they all go away ?
Heart attacks...
God's revenge for dieting.
Today in
1687 The first Huguenots set sail from France for the Cape
of Good Hope, where they would later create the South African
wine industry with the vines they took with them on the voyage.
1695 The window tax was imposed in Britain, which resulted in
many windows being bricked up.
1775 The British repulsed an attack by Continental Army
generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec.
Montgomery was killed in the battle.
1857 Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the
capital of Canada.
1879 Thomas Edison gave his first public demonstration of
incandescent lighting to an audience in Menlo Park, NJ.
1891 New York's new Immigration Depot was opened at Ellis
Island, to provide improved facilities for the massive
numbers of arrivals.
1897 Brooklyn, NY, spent its last day as a separate entity
before becoming part of New York City.
1923 In London, the BBC first broadcast the chimes of Big Ben.
1929 Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played
"Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time.
1946 U.S. President Truman officially proclaimed the end of
hostilities in World War II.
1955 General Motors became the first U.S. corporation to earn
more than one billion dollars in a single year.
1960 The farthing coin, which had been in use in Great Britain
since the 13th century, ceased to be legal tender.
1961 In the U.S., the Marshall Plan expired after distributing
more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
1974 Private U.S. citizens were allowed to buy and own gold
for the first time in more than 40 years.
1978 Taiwanese diplomats struck their colors for the final
time from the embassy flagpole in Washington, DC. The event
marked the end of diplomatic relations with the U.S.
1979 At year end oil prices were 88% higher than at the
start of 1979.
1986 A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
killed 97 and injured 140 people. Three hotel workers later
pled guilty to charges in connection with the fire.
1997 Michael Kennedy, 39-year-old son of the late U.S. Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy, was killed in a skiing accident on
Aspen Mountain in Colorado.
1999 Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned. Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin was designated acting president.
1999 Five hijackers left the airport where they had been
holding 150 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane. They
left with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be
freed from an Indian prison. The plane had been hijacked
during a flight from Katmandu, Nepal to New Dehli on December 24.
1999 Sarah Knauss died at the age of 119 years. She was the
world's oldest person. She was born September 24, 1880.
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Tennessee woman, who dressed up in armor
and went on a shooting spree.
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Today, in
1953 The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.
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society has the teenagers it deserves.
--- J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)
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it all in.
~ Get rid of aunts: Zap does the job in 24 hours.
~ Sheer stockings. Designed for fancy dress, but so
serviceable that lots of women wear nothing else.
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>From Sandie
My wife and I spent a vacation on Washington's Olympic
Peninsula. We were eager to visit the rain forests near
the coast, but we heard that snow slides had made some of
the roads impassable. Although apprehensive about the
conditions we might run into, we drove on.
Sure enough, we had only gone a short way up the High Rain
Forest road when we saw a sign that read, "Ice: 10 Miles."
Five miles farther on, there was another sign that said, "Ice:
5 Miles." The next one read, "Ice: 1/2 Mile."
We practically crept that half-mile. We finally came to the
last sign. It was outside a small grocery store and it said,
"Ice: $1.98."
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Julia Shields
45,
Chattanooga,
Tennessee
Woman in body armor drove
around Chattanooga shooting at people
A woman dressed in body armor fired shots at multiple people
yesterday afternoon, resulting in a police chase on
Hixson Pike, which ended in the woman's arrest.
Chattanooga Police officers first responded to a report of
shots fired on 1300 Cloverdale around 3:52 p.m., according
to a news release from the Chattanooga Police Department.
Once the officers arrived on scene, they found two victims
who said they were at a stop sign when the suspect, Julia
Shields, pulled up in a dark colored sedan and fired shots
into their vehicle, the release said.
A short time after this incident, police received several
additional calls reporting that Shields was pointing her
firearm at people as she drove pass them.
It was reported that she shot at another vehicle in the
same area around 1300 Cloverdale Drive, and officers
eventually located her sitting in her vehicle in the
Stuart Heights Baptist Church Parking lot on Hixson
Pike, the release states.
Shields escaped the parking lot in her car and led
officers on a chase down Highway 153 and Hixson Pike,
and continued to point her firearm at vehicles as she
passed them.
The chase ended at the intersection of Cloverdale Drive
and Koblan Drive, as Shields pointed her firearm at an
officer, before being taken into custody without
incident or injury.
Shields has been charged with 3 counts of attempted first
degree murder, seven counts of aggravated assault,
possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony,
felony evading arrest, and felony reckless endangerment,
the release says.
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Tech Support Pits
From: Daniel
Re: Red X
Dear Webby
How do you get of the red x in a place where a picture
should be?
daniel
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Dear Daniel
Tell the writer of that site, that he or she forgot to
upload that picture.
That can happen. Happens to me too about once a year.
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Hot Chocolate Bar for Parties
At your next holiday, why not warm up your guests by having
a hot chocolate bar. It was a big hit at our son's birthday
party, especially for the kids! We had both a large
crockpot with a ladle and an electric kettle for
hot water.
Supplies:
hot chocolate mix
whipped cream
candy canes (crushed or whole)
mini marshmallows
sprinkles
cups with lids and sleeves
stir sticks
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Mrs. Jones was reading a letter at breakfast. Suddenly
she looked up suspiciously at her husband.
"Henry," she said, "I've just received a letter from mother
saying she isn't accepting our invitation to come and stay,
as we do not appear to want her.
What does she mean by that? I told you to write and say
that she was to come at her own convenience.
You did write, didn't you?"
"Er, yes, I did," said the husband. "But I couldn't spell
conveeniance, so I made it risk."
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By the time Ted arrived at the hockey game, the first
quarter was almost over. "Why are you so late?" his
friend asked.
"I had to toss a coin to decide between going to
church and coming to the game."
"How long could that have taken you?"
"Well, I had to toss it 114 times."
Today in
1460 At the Battle of Wakefield, in England's Wars of the
Roses, the Duke of York was defeated and killed by the
Lancastrians.
1853 The United States bought about 45,000 square miles
of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.
1880 The Transvaal was declared a republic. Paul Kruger
became its first president.
1887 A petition to Queen Victoria with over one million
names of women appealing for public houses to be closed
on Sundays was handed to the home secretary.
1903 About 600 people died when fire broke out at the
Iroquois Theater in Chicago, IL.
1919 Lincoln's Inn, in London, admitted the first
female bar student.
1922 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.
1924 Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other
galactic systems.
1927 The first subway in the Orient was dedicated in Tokyo, Japan.
1935 Italian bombers destroyed a Sweedish Red Cross unit in
Ethiopia.
1936 The United Auto Workers union staged its first sit-down
strike, at the Fisher Body Plant in Flint, MI.
1940 California's first freeway was officially opened. It
was the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and
Pasadena.
1944 King George II of Greece proclaimed a regency to rule
his country, virtually renouncing the throne.
1947 King Michael of Romania abdicated in favor of a
Communist Republic. He claimed he was forced from his
throne.
1953 The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.
1972 The United States halted its heavy bombing of
North Vietnam.
1993 Israel and the Vatican established diplomatic relations.
1996 A passenger train was bombed by Bodo separatists in
India's eastern state of Assam. At least 26 people were
killed and dozens were seriously injured.
1996 About 250,000 striking workers shut down vital services
across Israel in protests against budget cuts proposed by
Prime Minister Netanyahu.
1997 More than 400 people were massacred in four villages
in the single worst incident during Algeria's insurgency.
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Nebraska woman, who rammed a couple,
who parked where she wanted to park
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1890 The U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred over 400 men, women
and children at Wounded Knee Creek, SD. This was the last
major conflict between Indians and U.S. troops.
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is the mark of a civilized man.
--- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
--- William James
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A minister, having served the same church for many years,
decided to leave and take a similar position in another
church. Without telling anyone or writing a letter to the
congregationhe had made this decision. He waited until Sunday
morning to announce his resignation in church. When he
spoke to the congregation he said, "The same Jesus that
called me to this church many years ago has now called upon
me to leave and serve another church."
The choir all stood and sang,
"What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
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>From Andy
My daughter's fifth grade class had been studying astronomy.
One morning over breakfast she announced, "On Friday we're having a
quiz on the moon."
At once her little brother's eyes got big and he asked, "Are you
gonna let her go, Mom?"
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Lincoln,
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Nebraska woman rams couple,
who parked where she wanted to park
Last Saturday, a couple named Julie and Christopher Weakly
went to their local Walmart in Lincoln, Nebraska.
While parking, they allegedly took a space that 36-year-old
Kimberley Pankratius (pictured above) had been waiting for.
The couple say they were unaware that Kimberley had had her
eye on the spot.
According to a police report, Kimberley wound down her window
and yelled at the couple, calling them "douchebags."
Julie says that she and her husband ignored Kimberley and
walked toward the store. As they were walking, police say,
Kimberley drove her PT Cruiser directly at the couple,
hitting Julie with the wing mirror hard enough to break
it from the car.
Kimberley fled the scene, but was tracked down later by
police. She was arrested and charged with assault and use
of a deadly weapon to commit a felony.
Kimberley told police that she "felt really bad" about the
whole thing, and claimed she'd been trying to scare the
couple, rather than actually hit them with her car.
The police report does not specify why she appears to be
wearing one of those capes, that they give you when you
get your hair cut, for her mugshot.
Tech Support Pits
From: Jim
Re: Monitor Internet usage
Dear Webby
Good morning!
I am looking for your expertise on a problem I have.
The Grandson is at our house a lot with his X-Box and using
a lot of our internet capacity. I hear rumors of a download
that enables me to monitor internet usage to determine where
it is going. Our internet supplier only indicates total usage
for the day. I am looking for something a little more specific.
Do you have any recommendations. This is getting to be a real
problem. Thanks a lot for your help and have a Great New Year!!
Jim
Dear Jim
There are no free programs, that I know of, that will tell
you where connections have gone to.
The best you can do for free are these 5:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/monitor-internet-usage/
They will tell you what times of day how much data has
been used.
Since you can already monitor usage per day, it is easy
enough to compare days, when he is not visiting to days
when he is, and bill him accordingly.
Once you start billing him, he will find somebody else
to mooch of.
He probably does know some people, who have unlimited
bandwidth. He can go visit them with his X-box, or
at least spread his mooching around.
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Saving Leftover Egg Yolks or Whites
With all the holiday cooking, there is bound to be some that
use only half the egg. I have one now that used only 6 whites.
Rather then wasting them or scrambling to make some other
recipe, you may save either your white or yolks separately
in individual ice cube trays.
Whites are fine as is but you need to add a little sugar OR
salt to your yolks before freezing. I use salt since it's
used in so many recipes. Then just pop them out and let
them defrost when you need them! They keep for at least
three months.
Happy Baking!
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The Judge admonished the witness, "Do you understand
that you have sworn to tell the truth?"
"I do."
"Do you understand what will happen if you are not truthful?"
"Sure," said the witness. "My side will win."
"OK, then, if your side wins, you are guilty of perjury and will
get ten years."
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Bob's wife uses curlers in her hair after she washes it. She
came into the Family Room as he was watching TV. He
stared at her funny because she said, "I just set my hair."
The last thing he remembers saying was,
"Oh, really? And what time does it go off?"
Today in
1170 - St. Thomas à Becket, the 40th archbishop of Canterbury,
was murdered in his own cathedral by four knights acting on
Henry II's orders.
1812 The USS Constitution won a battle with the British ship
HMS Java about 30 miles off the coast of Brazil. Before
Commodore William Bainbridge ordered the sinking of the Java
he had her wheel removed to replace the one the Constitution
had lost during the battle.
1813 The British burned Buffalo, NY, during the War of 1812.
1837 Canadian militiamen destroyed the Caroline, a U.S.
steamboat docked at Buffalo, NY.
1848 U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light
at the White House.
1860 The HMS Warrior, Britain's first seagoing iron-hulled
warship, was launched.
1890 The U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred over 400 men, women
and children at Wounded Knee Creek, SD. This was the last
major conflict between Indians and U.S. troops.
1895 The Jameson Raid from Mafikeng into Transvaal, which
attempted to overthrow Kruger's Boer government, started.
1911 Sun Yat-sen became the first president of a republican
China.
1934 Japan renounced the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922
and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1940 During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary
bombs on London.
1952 The first transistorized hearing aid was offered for
sale by Sonotone Corporation.
1975 A bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York's
LaGuardia Airport. 11 people were killed.
1986 The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, FL, reopened for business
after eighteen years and $47 million expended on restoration.
1989 Following Hong Kong's decision to forcibly repatriate some
Vietnamese refugees, thousands of Vietnamese 'boat people'
battled with riot police.
1996 The Guatemalan government and leaders of the leftist
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union signed a peace accord
in Guatemala City, ending a civil war that had lasted 36 years.
1997 Hong Kong began killing 1.25 million chickens, the entire
population, for fear of the spread of 'bird flu'.
1998 Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the 1970s genocide in
Cambodia that claimed 1 million lives.
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Florida driver trying to impersonate a cop
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Today, in
1869 William E. Semple, of Mt. Vernon, OH, patented an
acceptable chewing gum.
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lives in two houses.
--- John Green
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It was their fifth anniversary, and Sandra and Michael had
just returned from the movies. Sandra was feeling
romantic.
"Will you love me when my hair has turned to silver?" she
crooned.
"Why not?" Michael grunted. "Didn't I love you through
hundred and fourteen other shades?"
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Once there was a little boy that lived in the country. They
had to use an outhouse, and the little boy hated it because it
was hot in the summer and cold in the winter and stank all the
time.
The outhouse was sitting on the bank of a creek and the boy
determined that one day he would push that outhouse into the
creek.
One day after a spring rain, the creek was swollen so the
little boy decided today was the day to push the outhouse into
the creek. So he got a large pole and started pushing.
Finally, the outhouse toppled into the creek and floated away.
That night his dad told him they were going to the woodshed
after supper. Knowing that meant a spanking, the little boy
asked why.
Dad replied, "Someone pushed the outhouse into the creek
today. It was you, wasn't it son?"
The boy answered "Yes father".
Then he thought a moment and said,
"Dad, I read in school today that George Washington chopped
down a cherry tree and didn't get into trouble because he
told the truth."
The dad replied, "Well, son, George Washington's father
wasn't in the cherry tree."
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James Buck,
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Spring Hill,
Florida
Florida driver impersonating
officer had 'Let's Be Cops' DVD
Deputies arrested a driver and charged him with impersonating
an officer after he allegedly tried pulling over a motorist
that almost collided with his car on Christmas night.
Hernando County sheriff's deputies got a call from someone
saying that a reckless driver in an SUV nearly hit him in
Spring Hill, Florida. After the near crash, the caller said
the SUV driver chased him with flashing lights at a high
speed and was trying to get him to pull over, according
to WTSP.
Deputies eventually caught up with James Buck and they
discovered several items of law-enforcement paraphernalia.
Affixed to the 23-year-old's SUV was a sticker saying
"Department of Defense registered vehicle," a police
interceptor emblem often seen on official patrol cars and
accessories like L.E.D. lights and a siren or public
address speaker.
A shield-style badge was hanging from his rearview mirror
and another was in Buck's wallet, deputies said.
Buck allegedly told deputies that he added the police lights
and other faux law-enforcement gear to his truck so "no one
would mess with him," according to WESH.
It's possible that Buck has criminally bad taste in movies too.
Deputies said they found a "Let's Be Cops" DVD inside his truck.
The 2014 buddy-cop flick stars Damon Wayans, Jr. and Jake Johnon
as two wannabe Los Angeles policemen. It was poorly received
by critics.
Buck was charged with one count of fraud of impersonating a
law enforcement officer and remained in jail on Friday afternoon,
according to Hernando County sheriff's office records.
Tech Support Pits
From: Susan
Re: Decrapifier
Dear Webby
Hello again, I was reading in a computer magizine's list
of '20 downloads you can't do without'...CCleaner is the
first on the list. (I got that years ago after you
recommended it)
The next on the list is called PC De-Crapyfier (also free). I am
curious but would appreciate your oppinion on this download.
Where do I get it without a bunch of bad stuff added?
Thank you.
Susan
Dear Susan
Most new machines come with all kinds of crap pre-loaded.
In addition to that, as you seem to have noticed, many
programs come with undesired extras thrown in as payload.
Decrapifier gets rid of all that crap.
You can get it without ANY payload right from the people
who created it at
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/download
You will be surprised at all the crap it finds on your
computer. It is quite civilized. First it makes a restore
point, then it shows you lists of stuff. If you have never
used it, or not used it for years, put a checkmark on it
for removal.
Have FUN!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Saving Leftover Egg Yolks or Whites
With all the holiday cooking, there is bound to be some that
use only half the egg. I have one now that used only 6 whites.
Rather then wasting them or scrambling to make some other
recipe, you may save either your white or yolks separately
in individual ice cube trays.
Whites are fine as is but you need to add a little sugar OR
salt to your yolks before freezing. I use salt since it's
used in so many recipes. Then just pop them out and let
them defrost when you need them! They keep for at least
three months.
Happy Baking!
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Thanks to Arvid for this report:
I decided to stop worrying about my wife's driving
and take advantage of it. I got one of those bumper
stickers that say, "How's my driving?" and put a
900 number on it.
At 50 cents a call,
I've been making about $38 a week.
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"So, what's the matter? I thought you just got back from a nice
relaxing fishing trip with your husband."
"Oh, everything went wrong: First he said I talked so loud I
would scare the fish. Then he said I was using the wrong bait;
and then that I was reeling in too soon.
"All that might have been all right; but then, to make matters
worse, I ended up catching twelve fish and he caught none!"
Today in
1065 Westminster Abbey was consecrated under Edward the Confessor.
1694 Queen Mary II of England died after five years of joint rule
with her husband, King William III.
1836 Mexico's independence was recognized by Spain.
1869 William E. Semple, of Mt. Vernon, OH, patented an
acceptable chewing gum.
1877 John Stevens applied for a patent for his flour-rolling mill,
which boosted production by 70%.
1879 In Dundee, Scotland the central portion of the Tay Bridge
collapsed as a train was passing over it. 75 people were killed.
1908 An earthquake killed over 75,000 at Messina in Sicily.
1912 The first municipally-owned street cars were used on the
streets of San Francisco, CA.
1917 The New York Evening Mail published a facetious essay by
H.L. Mencken on the history of bathtubs in America.
1937 The Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland when a new
constitution established the country as a sovereign state under
the name of Eire.
1945 The U.S. Congress officially recognized the "Pledge of Allegiance."
1964 Initial filming of the movie "Dr. Zhivago" began on location near
Madrid, Spain. The movies total running time is 197 minutes.
1973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose
of the Soviet prison system.
1981 Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, was
born in Norfolk, VA.
1982 Nevell Johnson Jr. was mortally wounded by a police officer
in a Miami video arcade. The event set off three days of race
related disturbances that left another man dead.
1989 Alexander Dubcek, who had been expelled from the Communist
Party in 1970, was elected speaker of the Czech parliament.
1991 Nine people died in a rush to get into a basketball game
at City College in New York.
1995 Pressure from German prosecutors investigating pornography
forced CompuServe to set a precedent by blocking access to
sex-oriented newsgroups on the Internet for its customers.
2000 U.S. District Court Judge Matsch held a hearing to ensure
that confessed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh understood
that he was dropping his appeals. McVeigh said that he wanted
an execution date set but wanted to reserve the right to seek
presidential clemency.
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1978 Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy
after 40 years of dictatorship.
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it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it
into practice.
--- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
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>From N.W.
I was taking a shower when
my 2 year old son came into the bathroom and wrapped
himself in toilet paper. Although he made a mess, he
looked adorable, so I ran for my camera and took a few
shots.They came out so well that I had copies made and
included one with each of our Christmas cards. Days
later, a relative called about the picture, laughing
hysterically, and suggesting I take a closer look.
Puzzled, I stared at the photo and was shocked to
discover that in addition to my son, I had captured my
reflection in the mirror wearing nothing but a camera!
- Name Withheld
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My sister and I were at
the mall and passed by a store that sold a variety of
nuts. As we were looking at the display case, the boy
behind the counter asked if we needed any help. I
replied, "No, I'm just looking at your nuts."
My sister started to laugh hysterically, the boy grinned,
and I turned beet red and walked away.
To this day, my sister has never let me forget.
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Jared Kreft,
30,
Wausau,
Wisconsin
Wisconsin perv arrested
for performing oral sex on horse
A man in Wausau, Wisconsin, is facing bestiality charges
after admitting he performed oral sex on a horse.
Jared Kreft, 30, was arrested last Wednesday after deputies
in Marathon County responded to a call about strange goings-on
in a Wausau barn, according to TheNorthwestern.com.
When they arrived, they saw Kreft near a horse wearing a
face mask, black jacket and blue wind pants with holes cut
in the areas of the crotch and butt.
The suspect also had a marijuana pipe and a jar of petroleum
jelly in his possession, according to court documents.
Police said Kreft allegedly admitted that he had been
performing oral sex on the horse in the barn, which came
about after viewing "horse pornography," according to
the Metro.
Deputies searched Kreft's apartment in the city of Wausau,
and allegedly found a small amount of marijuana, the Wausau
Daily Herald reports.
Kreft was charged with sexual gratification with an animal
sex organ, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of
marijuana as a repeat offender and bail jumping, according
to court records.
He remains in Marathon County Jail, unable to post a
$2,000 bond, WSAU.com reports.
He is due in court Tuesday afternoon.
Tech Support Pits
From: Mathilda
Re: Chrome tabs slowing everything down
Dear Webby
Lately my Windows has been getting really slow and sluggish,
especially when I got a bunch of tabs open in Chrome. Yeah,
I am a Taurus and a packrat, and usually have a bunch of tabs
open, to get back to them later.
Is there a way to deal with that, without manualy putting
each URL into a spreadsheet?
Thanks
Mathilda
Dear Mathilda
You are not the only Taurus out there, and there is indeed
a program made just for us. It is called OneTab.
It puts a little blue funnel icon to the right of the
address bar. You hit that, and all the open tabs vanish.
Instead you have one tab called OneTab.
Hit that, and there are all your previously open tabs,
clickable to open when needed.
You get it free at One Tab
When you hit the funnel tab you see all your tabs, clickable.
You can sort them by dragging a tab up or down.
You can even upload the tabs by clicking "Share as a Web Page",
and then send the secret URL of the generated page to friends
or to your home machine.
Plus a few more nifty tricks at the far right top,
like Export and Import.
OneTab even lists the tabs from separate windows nicely
separated.
I can highly recommend it!
OneTab is also available for FireFox, not just Chrome,
and they have a version for Mac too.
Check http://www.one-tab.com/
Have FUN!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Keeping Dog Hair Out of the Drain
Bathe you dog in the tub? Catch his hair before it clogs the
drain. Save the netted bags that potatoes and onions come in.
Scrunch one up tightly and stick it down into the drain
before letting the water out. All of the dog hair will
collect around the top of it. Then, just toss it in the
trash.
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Judi was almost crazy with her three kids. She complained
to her best friend, "They're driving me nuts. Such pests, they
give me no rest and I'm half-way to the nut hatch."
"What you need is a playpen to separate the kids from
yourself," her friend said.
So Judi bought a playpen. A few days later, her friend called
to ask how things were going.
"Superb! I can't believe it," Judi said. "I get into that pen and I
can answer all of my email before the first one climbs over it!"
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Jack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob. They loaded up
Jack's mini van and headed north. After driving for a few hours,
they got caught in a terrible blizzard. They pulled into a nearby
farm and asked the attractive lady who answered the door if
they could spend the night. "I realize it's terrible weather out
there and I have this huge house all to myself, but I'm recently
widowed," she explained. "I'm afraid the neighbors will talk if
I let you stay in my house."
"Don't worry," Jack said. "We'll be happy to sleep in the barn.
And if the weather breaks, we'll be gone at first light."
The lady agreed, and the two men found their way to the barn
and settled in for the night.
Come morning, the weather had cleared, and they got on their
way. They enjoyed a great weekend of skiing.
About nine months later, Jack got an unexpected letter from an
attorney. It took him a few minutes to figure it out, but he finally
determined that it was from the attorney of that attractive widow
he had met on the ski weekend.
He dropped in on his friend Bob and asked, "Bob, do you
remember that good-looking widow from the farm we stayed
at on our ski holiday up North, 9 months ago?"
"Yes, I do."
"Did you happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to
the house and pay her a visit?"
"Yes," Bob said, a little embarrassed about being found out.
"I have to admit that I did."
"And did you happen to use my name instead of telling her
your name, and give her my business card?"
Bob's face turned red and he said, "Yeah, sorry, buddy.
I'm afraid I did. Why do you ask?"
"She just died and left me everything."
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Four strangers traveled together in the same compartment of a
European train. Two men and two women faced each other.
One woman was a very wealthy and sophisticated 75-year-old lady
who was decked out in the finest of furs and jewelry. Next to her
sat a beautiful young woman, nineteen years old, who looked like
something right off the cover of a fashion magazine. Across from
the older lady was a man in his late-forties who was a highly
decorated Sergeant Major in the Army. And next to the Sergeant
Major sat a young private fresh out of boot camp.
As these four strangers traveled, they talked and chatted about
trivial things until they entered an unlighted tunnel, and there
they sat in complete darkness and total silence, until the sound
of a distinct kiss broke the silence; following the kiss a loud
slap could be heard throughout the cabin.
In the ensuing period of silence the four strangers sat quietly
with their own thoughts.
The older lady was thinking, "Isn't it wonderful that even in
this permissive day and age there are still young women who have
a little self-respect and dignity?"
The young woman, shaking her head and greatly puzzled, asked
herself, "Why in the world would any man in his right mind want
to kiss an old fossil like that when I'm sitting here?"
The Sergeant Major, rubbing his sore face, was outraged that any
woman could ever think that a man in his position would try to
sneak a kiss in the dark.
And the private, grinning from ear to ear, was thinking, "What a
crazy and mixed up world this is when a private can kiss the back
of his hand and then smack a Sergeant Major in the face and get
away with it!"
Today in
1703 The Methuen Treaty was signed between Portugal and England,
giving preference to the import of Portuguese wines into England.
1831 Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard
the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped
him form the basis of his theories on evolution.
1845 Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for childbirth
for the first time. The event was the delivery of his own child
in Jefferson, GA.
1900 Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the
Carey Hotel in Wichita, KS. She broke each and every one of
the liquor bottles that could be seen.
1927 Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1949 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted sovereignty to
Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule.
1951 In Cincinnati, OH, a Crosley automobile, with a
steering wheel on the right side, became the first vehicle
of its kind to be placed in service for mail delivery.
1965 The BP oil rig Sea Gem capsized in the North Sea, with
the loss of 13 lives.
1978 Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy
after 40 years of dictatorship.
1979 Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. Babrak Karmal
succeeded President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown
and executed.
1985 Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome and
Vienna airports. A total of twenty people were killed,
including five of the attackers, who were slain by police
and security personnel.
1985 Dian Fossey, an American naturalist, was found murdered
at a research station in Rawanda.
1992 The U.S. shot down an Iraqi fighter jet during what the
Pentagon described as a confrontation between a pair of Iraqi
warplanes and U.S. F-16 jets in U.N.-restricted airspace
over southern Iraq.
1996 Muslim fundamentalist Taliban forces retook the strategic
air base of Bagram, solidifying their buffer zone around
Kabul, the Afghanistan capital.
1997 In Northern Ireland, Billy Wright was assassinated. He was
imprisoned as a Protestant paramilitary leader.
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush granted China permanent
normal trade status with the United States.
2002 North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the
country and said that it would restart a laboratory capable
of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons.
2002 In Chechnya, at least 40 people were killed when suicide
bombers attacked the administartion of Grozny.
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Good Morning, ,
Today is Friday, December 26
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
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Idaho batman with warrants
drawing the attention of the cops
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Today, in
1865 The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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--- Japanese Proverb
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
--- Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
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Thanks to Ann for this story:
I wanted a haircut and phoned a salon early for an appoint-
ment but was told customers were taken on a walk-in basis
only. On Saturday I got there by 9 a.m. and there were
already ten people waiting. I drove to another salon, but
it was booked solid. Still another had no openings.
The situation seemed hopeless, so I went home. My husband
greeted me at the door. "That was fast," he said cheerfully.
"Your hair looks great!"
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The heaviest element known to science is Managerium.
This element has no protons or electrons, but has a nucleus
made up of 1 neutron, 2 vice-neutrons, 5 junior vice-neutrons,
25 assistant vice-neutrons, and 125 junior assistant vice-
neutrons all going round in circles.
Managerium has a half-life of three years, at which time it
does not decay but institutes a series of reviews leading to
reorganization.
Its molecules are held together by means of the exchange of
tiny particles known as morons.
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Pocatello,
Idaho
Cops arrest batman on
outstanding warrant
Late Saturday evening, cops in Pocatello, Idaho received a
call that suspicious subjects “dressed as Batman and
Superman were attempting entry into a residence.”
When cops later approached the pair, they claimed to be
looking for a party, according to police.
Upon further questioning, officers determined that Batman--
Andrew Michael Christenson--had an active arrest warrant.
“The Dark Knight was taken into custody and incarcerated,”
cops reported.
Seen above, the 24-year-old Christenson was arrested and
booked into the Bannock County jail, where he was
photographed sans mask.
No charges were filed against Superman.
Tech Support Pits
From: Nina
Re: Play DVD on W8.1
Dear Webby
My not very bright husband traded in my W7 computer for a
new one with W8.1. Yuck!
Worst of all, it does not play music and games off DVDs!
He is not going to hear the end of that anytime soon!
Is there a way around that?
Nina
Dear Nina
Yes, there is. You are not the only one upset about that,
but there is a very popular program called VLC, that takes
care of that. It does a much better job of it than MediaPlayer
did even in W7.
The only downside is the myriad of options in it. Do you want
Surround Sound for 7 speakers or for 5, or just two?
And so on. It is usable with the default settings, but you
can tweak it to perfection if you read the instructions.
You can download it free from VideoLan #download
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Hot Dog Bun Garlic Toast
One night I realized I had forgotten to buy garlic
bread for our dinner. Too late for a trip to the store.
I realized I had some extra hot dog buns though, and decided
I could improvise. The improvising turned out well and I
haven't bought pre-made garlic bread since. Not only are
they tasty, but this costs way less since hot dog buns
are so cheap. Enjoy! :)
Approximate Time: Around 14 minutes
Yield: As many as you like
Ingredients:
hot dog buns
butter or margarine
salt
powdered Parmesan cheese
Italian seasoning
garlic powder
Steps:
Split as many hot dog buns in half as you like.
split in half
Spread a generous amount of butter or margarine on each.
spread with butter or margarine
Sprinkle generous amounts of salt, Parmesan cheese,
Italian seasoning, and garlic powder on each buttered
half.
butter and seasonings addd
Bake in a 450 degree F oven for about 13 minutes or
until golden brown. Enjoy!
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
Because he's a longtime Harley rider, my grandfather looks
at everything from a biker's perspective. I once gave him a
haircut and got carried away. He looked at the pile of gray
hair on the floor, smiled and said, "You cut off half the chrome!"
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My 50-something friend Nancy and I decided to introduce her
mother to the magic of the Internet. Our first move was to
access the popular "Ask Jeeves" site, and we told her it
could answer any question she had.
Nancy's mother was very skeptical, but finally typed in a
question: "How is aunt Nellie doing?
Today in
1620 The Pilgrim Fathers landed at New Plymouth, MA, to
found Plymouth Colony, with John Carver as Governor.
1776 The British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of
Trenton during the American Revolutionary War.
1865 The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.
1908 Texan boxer "Galveston Jack" Johnson knocked out Tommy
Burns in Sydney, Australia, to become the first black boxer
to win the world heavyweight title.
1917 During World War I, the U.S. government took over operation
of the nation's railroads.
1921 The Catholic Irish Free State became a self-governing
dominion of Great Britain.
1941 Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister
to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
1943 The German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was sunk in the
North Sea, during the Battle of North Cape.
1947 Heavy snow blanketed the Northeast United States, burying
New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours. The
severe weather was blamed for about 80 deaths.
1956 Fidel Castro attempted a secret landing in Cuba to
overthrow the Batista regime. All but 11 of his supporters
were killed.
1991 The Soviet Union's parliament formally voted the country
out of existence.
1995 Israel turned dozens of West Bank villages over to the
Palestinian Authority.
1996 Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found
beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home
in Boulder, CO.
1998 Iraq announced that it would fire on U.S. and British
warplanes that patrol the skies over northern and southern Iraq.
2002 The first cloned human baby was born. The announcement was
made the December 27 by Clonaid.
2004 Under the Indian Ocean, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake sent
500-mph waves across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. The
tsunami killed at least 283,000 people in a dozen countries,
including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand and India.
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Today is Thursday, December 25
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Louisiana Woman Nabbed For Trying To "Forcefully"
Steal Shoes Off 11-Year-Old Boy's Feet
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Today, in
1223 St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first
Nativity scenes, in Greccio, Italy.
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not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious,
but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
--- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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In the office where I work, there is a constant battle between our
technical-support director and customer-service personnel over the
room temperature, which is usually too low.
The frustrated director, trying to get us to understand his position,
announced one afternoon, "We need to keep the temperature below
seventy-five degrees or the computers will overheat."
Thinking that this was just another excuse, one of my shivering
colleagues retorted, "Yeah right. So how did they keep the computers
from overheating before there was air conditioning."
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A guy goes to the doctor due to a hangnail. He walks in,
tells the nurse what is wrong and she immediately tells
him:
"Go into the cubicle on the left and take off all your
clothes. The doctor will be with you shortly." Wondering
why this problem would require one to undress, he nontheless
complies. After a few minutes, he becomes aware someone is
in the cubicle next to his, separated only by a curtain.
He peeks and there is another guy standing there undressed.
He attracts the man's attention, then asks "Why do you
suppose that nurse told me to take off all my clothes? I
only have a hangnail?"
The other man replied, "No idea, I'm just the UPS man
trying to deliver a package."
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Chessly Brimberry,
36,
Louisiana
Louisiana Woman
Nabbed For Trying To Forcefully
Steal Shoes Off 11-Year-Old
Boy's Feet
Chessly Brimberry, a Louisiana woman, 36, is jailed
after allegedly trying to “forcefully” steal the
shoes off an 11-year-old boy.
Following Saturday afternoon’s attempted theft, cops
arrested Brimberry based on a description provided by the
young victim. After being collared, Brimberry “stated she
could not believe she was being arrested for trying to
take shoes from an 11 year old kid,” according to a
probable cause affidavit.
Police noted that Brimberry’s blood alcohol content was
measured at more than three times the legal limit for
motorists (though the affidavit does not indicate that
Brimberry was driving).
While being booked into jail, Brimberry reportedly told
a cop, “When I see you I will kill you.” She also
twice tried to run out of the jail, investigators
noted. Pictured above, Brimberry is locked up in lieu
of $7500 bond.
Brimberry was charged with attempted robbery and public
intimidation. The affidavit does not disclose what kind
of shoes she wrestled off the child.
Tech Support Pits
From: Bev
Re: MS Office nagger
Dear Webby
I have windows 7 with Chrome and use Open Office.
I've been getting a notice to update Microsoft office
starter 2010. Should I do it and do I need it?
Thanks once again for your help.
bevtank
Dear Bev
Difficult to say from this distance whether that is a scam
or whether it is Microsoft whining about you not buying
their stuff. Some people would probably consider that
the same.
Since you got open Office, you don't need their starter.
Just ignore it.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Hot Dog Bun Garlic Toast
One night I realized I had forgotten to buy garlic
bread for our dinner. Too late for a trip to the store.
I realized I had some extra hot dog buns though, and decided
I could improvise. The improvising turned out well and I
haven't bought pre-made garlic bread since. Not only are
they tasty, but this costs way less since hot dog buns
are so cheap. Enjoy! :)
Approximate Time: Around 14 minutes
Yield: As many as you like
Ingredients:
hot dog buns
butter or margarine
salt
powdered Parmesan cheese
Italian seasoning
garlic powder
Steps:
Split as many hot dog buns in half as you like.
split in half
Spread a generous amount of butter or margarine on each.
spread with butter or margarine
Sprinkle generous amounts of salt, Parmesan cheese,
Italian seasoning, and garlic powder on each buttered
half.
butter and seasonings addd
Bake in a 450 degree F oven for about 13 minutes or
until golden brown. Enjoy!
finished
Source: Self
By melissa [53]
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>From Ed
"The first thing I did after being hired as the director of
learning technology at a high school was to change the sign
outside my door -- the one that had my name followed by the
acronym D.O.L.T."
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Three tourists climbed up the tower with London's Big Ben
and decided to throw their watches off the top, run down
the stairs and try to catch them before they hit the ground.
The first tourist threw his watch but heard it crash before
the had taken three steps. the second threw his watch and
made only two steps before hearing his watch shatter. The
third tourist threw his watch off the tower, went down the
stairs, bought a snack at a shop up the street and walked
slowly back to Big Ben in time to catch the watch." How did
you do that?" asked one of his friends.
"My watch is 20 minutes slow."
Today in
0800 Charlemagne was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor
in Rome by Pope Leo III.
1066 William the Conqueror was crowned king of England.
1223 St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first
Nativity scenes, in Greccio, Italy.
1776 Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the
Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian
forces at Trenton, NJ.
1818 "Silent Night" was performed for the first time,
at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria.
1868 U.S. President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional
pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion
that resulted in the Civil War.
1914 During World War I, British and German troops observed
an unofficial truce and even playing football together
on the Western Front.
1926 Hirohito became the emperor of Japan after the death
of his father Emperor Taisho.
1941 Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese.
1962 The Department of Commerce Census Clock in Washington,
DC, recorded the U.S. population on this day as 188 M.
1972 The Nicaraguan capital Managua was hit by an earthquake.
Over 10,000 people were killed.
1979 The USSR invaded Afghanistan in a bid to halt civil war
and protect USSR interests.
1989 Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife,
Elena, were executed following a popular uprising.
1989 Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was elected president
of Czechoslovakia.
1991 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television
to announce his resignation as leader of a Communist superpower
that had already gone out of existence.
2000 Over 300 people were killed and dozens were injured by fire
at a Christmas party in the Chinese city of Luoyang. The
incident occurred at the Dongdu Disco.
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Today is Wednesday, December 24
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DearWebby
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Today's Bonehead Award goes to a
Man Pulled Gun Over "Missing" McDouble Burger
Details at Boneheads
Today, in
1966 Luna 13 landed on the moon.
More of what happened on this day in history at History
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to
change everything - or nothing.
--- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you
only have to assume that they will always try to escape a
disagreeable situation with the smallest possible
expenditure of intelligence.
--- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I figured that at age seven it was inevitable for my son
to begin having doubts about Santa Claus. Sure enough,
one day he said, "Mom, I know something about Santa Claus,
the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy."
Taking a deep breath, I asked him, "What is that?"
He replied, "They're all nocturnal."
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My brother and his wife shared their apartment with a parakeet
named "Nicky." The exterminator was scheduled to come, so my
sister-in-law put Nicky in the bedroom and hung a sign on the
door: "Please skip this room. Do not open door. Pet flies."
The exterminator came. On his receipt he wrote this comment:
"Finished all of the apartment except room with the pet flies."
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Demetri Johnson,
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Nashville
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Man Pulled Gun Over Missing McDouble Burger
Tennessee cops are hunting for a McDonald’s patron who pulled
a gun on restaurant workers after complaining that his
drive-thru order was short a McDouble cheeseburger.
According to police, Demetri Johnson, 21, placed an order
early last Thursday at a McDonald’s in Nashville. After
receiving his food, he pulled away from the restaurant’s
drive-thru lane.
Johnson, pictured at right, soon returned to the eatery
“and complained that he was missing a McDouble cheeseburger,”
cops reported. A McDonald’s manager asked Johnson to park
his car and promised “he would bring out the missing item.”
Detectives allege that after waiting for a few minutes,
Johnson entered the restaurant with a gun in his hand.
After racking the weapon, he demanded that his McDouble
order be fixed. “He and the three women with him also
demanded fresh fries and new soft drinks,” cops added.
The quartet departed after receiving their food.
Johnson is being sought on a felony aggravated assault
charge. According to court records, Johnson has previously
been arrested for weapons possession and theft.
Whether the original hamburger was already missing or not,
won't have any effect when it comes to the sentencing for
armed robbery.
Tech Support Pits
From: Aesop
Re: Old Skype
Dear Webby
I don't like the new version of Skype at all. What are those
bozos smoking? Whatever it is, it makes them look stupid.
Is there a way to go back to a decent version?
Thanks
Aesop
Dear Aesop
Try Skype 6.20.
That site might be VERY busy. If it is too busy, try
Skype 6.20.0.104
I am using the first of those two.
Keep in mind that after you have had one of the bad versions
like 6.22 or later installed, it will try to re-install that
when you are not watching, for example during a reboot after
updating something else. The result of course is quite obvious
when you see the nuisance pufter design. Then you have to
re-install 6.20 over top of it, again.
They just like rubbing it in that you are the victim and
they are the Queens Of Nuisance.
Have FUN!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Almost Grandma's Applesauce
My grandma recently passed away. She was the best cook in
the world, anyone that knew her would tell you the same
thing. One of her specialties was her applesauce. I have
been fiddling with my recipe for quite some time, and
this is finally "almost" just like Grandma's!
This is shockingly quick to make, only cooks for 8-10 minutes.
It tastes great still hot off the stove, you can also use
any or all varieties of apples. I used what I had, red
delicious, golden delicious, and Granny Smith.
*This is a great way to use up those apples that you
forgot about and are now less than perfect.
Approximate Time: 10 minutes
Yield: 7 Cups
Ingredients:
15 smallish apples, any variety
2 cups water
3/4 cup white sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
Steps:
Peel and quarter your apples, place them in a stock pot.
Put water and spices in the pot.
Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook for
about 10 minutes. You will want to stir occasionally.
Using a potato masher, push down on your mixture
only a few times to break up the very large pieces.
Leave it chunky, that's what Grandma did. It's
better that way!:)
It is wonderful eaten hot off the stove, also very
good from the fridge, freezes well too. That is if
you have enough left over to do so!
Source: My Grandma
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After booking my 80-year-old mother on a flight from Florida
to Nevada, I called the airline to go over her needs. The
representative listened patiently as I requested a wheelchair
and an attendant for my mother because of her arthritis and
impaired vision.
My apprehension lightened a bit when the woman assured
me that everything would be taken care of. I thanked her
profusely.
"Oh, you're welcome," she replied. I was about to hang up when
she cheerfully asked, "And will your mother need a rental car?"
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Thanks to Millie for this story:
As a new grandmother, I am very protective of my daughter
Meredith's baby girl. One cool afternoon I dropped by to
see my grandchild. Meredith and a friend had taken little
Allison for a walk in her stroller and were just coming up
the street.
As soon as they reached me, I bent down to admire Allison
and, in my fussiest voice, remarked, "Your little head is
cold. You should have a hat on."
My daughter looked knowingly at her friend and said, "You
owe me ten bucks."
Today in
1814 The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended
1818 Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for
"Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr.
1851 A fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington,
DC, destroying about 35,000 volumes.
1865 Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private
social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.
1906 Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast
a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, MA.
1914 In World War I, the first air raid on Britain was made
when a German airplane dropped a bomb on the grounds of a
rectory in Dover.
1943 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of
Operation Overlord.
1944 A German submarine torpedoed the Belgian transport ship
S.S. Leopoldville with 2,235 soldiers aboard. About 800
American soldiers died. The soldiers were crossing the
English Channel to be reinforcements at the battle that
become known as the Battle of the Bulge.
1948 The first completely solar-heated house became occupied
in Dover, MA.
1951 Libya achieved independence as the United Kingdom of
Libya, under King Idris.
1965 A meteorite landed on Leicestershire. It weighed
about 100lbs.
1966 Luna 13 landed on the moon.
1968 Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and
Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times
before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first
landed on the moon.
1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the
country's Marxist government.
1985 Fidel Castro, the Cuban president, announced that he
was now a non-smoker.
1989 Ousted Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega took refuge at
the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City.
1992 U.S. President George H.W. Bush pardoned former Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the
Iran-Contra scandal.
1997 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal,"
was sentenced by a French court to life in prison for the
1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese.
1998 At Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, a tourist was hit by a
piece of flying metal while waiting to board a ride. The
man's wife and a Disneyland employee were also injured.
Luan Phi Dawson died December 26th from his injuries.
1999 An Indian Airlines plane was seized during a flight
from Katmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi. In Afghanistan, the
150 hostages were freed on December 31 after India
released three Kashmir militants from prison.
2000 The "Texas 7," seven convicts that had escaped a Texas
prison, robbed a sports store in Irving, TX. The suspects
killed Officer Aubrey Hawkins, stole $70,000, 25 weapons
and clothing. The men had escaped on December 13.
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