Get rarely used icons out of the way
Monday, February 28, 2011, 07:11 AM
Good Morning, !
It's Monday, February 28, 2011
Thanks Carol!
You made the world beautiful again!
I had just gotten more or less over one of the nasty designer-flu's,
but it had taken me almost a week to beat it, and during that
time I had not moved much more than the fingers on the keyboard,
because anything more than that, made me dizzy. I knew that
my lungs were starting to feel tight and heavy, so on Saturday
I went for a 2 mile walk.
That was rough, and I briefly mentioned it on Skype to Dianne
the lady who provides the Bonus Links, sorta excusing why I
was going to have a 45 minute power-nap.
44 minutes later, as I was just waking up, there was a knock
on the door. Three friendly and smiling EMTs and a huge,
Winnebago size Ambulance.
While I was wondering what charity or who they were collecting
for, they kept asking me how I was doing. Apparently Dianne had
called them and asked them to check up on the ol curmudgeon.
30 seconds after they left, the RCMP showed up. No hostile glare
as I am used to, when I get a speeding ticket, but friendly, smiling
face. Just doubling up on the EMTs and Ambulance.
Eventually Dianne came onto Skype, and explained things. She had
figured out, that I had COPD and Pneumonia, and needed to go
to the hospital to have my lungs drained.
Huh ?
Not much point going there late Saturday night. Our little rural
hospital is not fully staffed on Saturday night.
When I couild not get enough oxygen, when I went to bed after
sending then newsletters out, and had to spend the night sitting
up, I realized that Dianne indeed had a point.
Then Carol's letter came in, and the world was beautiful again!
Thanks,Carol!
Then I was wondering, if they still did that lung draining like they
used to in the Yukon (hold on to one nurse, and when she says
SQUEEZE, another nurse or a doctor rams a hollow lance in
below the rib cage and connects it to a vacuum jar).
Once it was daylight, I did go to the hospital, looking forward to
squeezing a cute nurse.
No such luck. One pretty nurse asked a bunch of questions while
another cutie took blood samples and checked blood pressure,
then they let me snooze in a chair, while I was waiting for the
X-Ray nurse to show up.
They had a big fancy Toshiba X-Ray machine that would have
looked good in a Star-War movie, but she took actual film
X-ray pictures, not digital.
Then I got to snooze in the chair again until the doctor showed
up. "You got COPD, Pneumonia and Emphysema. Get this stuff
from the drug store, no exercise or anything strenuous for three
days, and you'll be OK in a week. But it may happen again."
Oh, OK.
That's exactly what Dianne had told me via Skype from far away.
I currently can't afford the local drug store, so I drove to Costco
in the next town. Their prices are about a third of what they
charge at most drug stores, but even that was way more than
I had.
So the pharmacist, who really knows his stuff, re-arranged the
prescription and knocked it down to close to what I had. Then
phoned the hospital and flirted the nurse there into giving me a
bong for the inhaler.
That saved another $28 and brought it down to $97.50
My emergency medical stash in the heel of my hiking boot
was $100, so I squeaked through.
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Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
--- Will Rogers
A golfer who was known for his bad temper walked into the
pro shop one day and plunked down big bucks for a new set of
Woods.
The staff all watched to see what would happen after he used
them for the first time - more than half expecting he'd come
in and demand his money back.
But the next time he came in, he was all smiles.
"They're the best clubs I've ever had," he said. "In fact,
I've discovered I can throw them at least 10 yards farther
than I could my last ones."
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"Dr. Benjamin Porter visited the school yesterday and
lectured on 'Destructive Pests.' A large number were
present."
An expectant mother was being rushed to the hospital, but
didn't quite make it.
She gave birth to her baby on the hospital lawn. Later, the
father received a bill, listing "Delivery Room Fee: $5000."
He wrote the hospital and reminded them the baby was born
on the front lawn. A week passed, and a corrected bill arrived:
"Greens Fee: $2000."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to a dope grower in Prospect, NS
Man arrested after 375 pot plants seized
A 37-year-old man from Prospect, N.S., faces charges of
marijuana production and electricity theft after police raided
a large grow-op in Bedford overnight Saturday.
RCMP said they seized 375 marijuana plants from above a
car repair shop in an industrial building on Bluewater Road.
This was the second major bust in three days in Nova Scotia.
On Friday, police seized more than 200 plants from a home
in Lakeview, near Lower Sackville.
Staff Sgt. Roddie MacDonald, the federal drug co-ordinator
for the RCMP, said the Bedford operation had more marijuana
plants than typical grow-ops.
"The normal, or the typical grow-op, around these areas are
50,100,150 to 200 maybe," MacDonald said. "So, you know,
375 marijuana plants — this is a large grow and it was very
sophisticated."
"Someone with 375 marijuana plants, it's definitely not for
personal use. This would be harvested and sold at a high
level so there would have to be some organized crime
component."
MacDonald said police secured the building Saturday night,
but investigators did not take an inventory of the drugs
until Sunday morning for safety reasons.
"We found hazardous electrical wiring," he said, describing
bare wires resting against wood. "This put the other tenants
in the complex at great risk for fires."
The man will be in court in May.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Amanda
Re: rarely used icons
Dear Webby....
I would like to get some icons off my desktop but not remove
them from my computer...can you help?
Thanks Amanda
Dear Amanda
Just make a folder on your desktop and name the folder
"Rarely-used-stuff" or "Rare" or whatever you want.
Then drag the icons into that new folder. You can make
folders like that for task groups, for example one for all
your graphics stuff, one for all your wordprocessing stuff,
one for all your spreadsheets, and so on.
have FUN!
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A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party.
When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned,
"Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit."
"And why not, darling?" "You know that it always gives
you a headache the next morning."
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Store Cookie Sheets Lined With Foil
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nonstick foil on my cookie sheets and storing them in the oven
to be both a money and time saver. I have two cookie sheets;
one large and one smaller one. I store them lined with nonstick
foil at all times in the oven.
I take them out to preheat the oven and then put whatever I am
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always ready to go, space in my cabinets and since I can just
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Short on funds, Lisa decided with some apprehension to let
her roommate, a professional dog groomer, give her a haircut.
To her relief, she did a terrific job. "It's great!" she said.
"But how can I be sure to get the same style the next time
I go to the beauty shop?"
"Simple," she answered. "Just tell me you want the top cut like
a poodle, the sides like a schnauzer, and the back like a
Lhasa apso."
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An old nun who was living in a convent next to a construction
site noticed the coarse language of the workers and decided
to spend some time with them to correct their ways.
She decided she would take her lunch, sit with the workers
and talk with them. She put her sandwich in a brown bag and
walked over to the spot where the men were eating.
She walked up to the group and with a big smile asked,
"Do you men know Jesus Christ?"
They shook their heads and looked at each other. One of the
workers looked up into the steelwork and yelled,
"Anybody up there know Jesus Christ?"
One of the steelworkers asked why.
The worker yelled, "His wife is here with his lunch".
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Sunday, February 27, 2011, 11:22 AM
Good Morning, !
It's Sunday, February 27, 2011
A Greek policeman who was trying to stop the looting and burning,
got hit by a Molotov Cocktail. His buddy managed to slap the flames
out, and he lived. I have not seen pictures like that on the left wing
media, but in my opinion, that cop is a hero!
The anarchists are trying to cause chaos, because the Greek
Government can't borrow money for some of the fancier socialist
perks, that people have gotten used to. The anarchists don't have
a better idea, other than raising the taxes to over 100% for
anybody not on Social Assistance.
Just like the noisy crowd in Madison, they just don't get it.
When you can't borrow any more, then there has to be some
belt tightening, even if the unionized writers at the Enemy
Times disagree.
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no one can say what is good or bad,
although you can be sure that everyone will.
--- John Kenneth Galbraith
While a friend and I were visiting Annapolis, we noticed
several students on their hands and knees assessing
the courtyard with pencils and clipboards in hand.
"What are they doing?" I asked our tour guide.
"Each year," he replied with a grin, "The upperclassmen
ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving
this courtyard."
When we were out of earshot of the freshmen, my friend
asked our guide: "So what's the answer?"
The guide replied: "One."
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A man told his friend, "I haven't been feeling very well,
so I visited the doctor yesterday."
His friend was concerned and asked,
"Did he find out what you had?"
"Almost," answered the man.
"What do you mean by 'almost'?" asked his friend.
"Well," the man continued, "I had $76.50
and he charged me $75.00."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Phillip Niere, 38, in Aachen, Germany
Bank robber sues police after being arrested with his
underpants showing
The 38-year-old was arrested after he threatened to kill five
staff at Noris Bank in Aachen, west Germany, if they did not
dispense £200,000 to him immediately.
He was caught out when a cashier pushed the silent alarm button
in the bank without him realising, and police soon surrounded
the building.
Police managed to convince him that if he handed himself in,
he would be treated nicely.
He surrendered after an hour and he was removed from the bank
by a single police officer, and taken down the street with his trousers
around his ankles and his jumper dangling over his head.
Mr Niere said he was left ‘humiliated’ after being led away
with his underwear exposed.
His lawyer said: 'The handcuffs are understandable, but what
the police have to explain is why he was brought out with his
jeans pulled down and his underwear on show.
‘It is clearly a breach of his human rights.'
If you decide to wave a gun around in Germany and they are
short of cops and ankle cuffs, wear clean underwear, because
you might be doing the Penguin Parade.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Ann
Re: Mysterious Pop-Ups
Dear Webby,
its me again, first I want to say how much I enjoy your
news letter every day and what a big help you are to me!!
thanks for everything, now! can you tell me how I can get this
to stop! a little window will pop up and then all kinds of things
pop up going wacky, the message is windows task bar what
does that mean, should I click on where it says to organize task
bar? I do not know what this is all about, thanks
Sincerly Ann.
Dear Ann
That sounds like a nasty infection.
Don't click on an of that weird stuff, and try to clean up the machine
with a good and reputable anti-virus cleaner, like McAfee.
It may be too late, because the first thing most of those viruses do,
is block any anti-virus programs, that could get rid of them.
So, please don't waste any time!
You can get McAfee at a $45 discount, if you go in through the
wholesale entrace at http://webby.com/mac
Good Luck!
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A little girl was wearing one of those Medical Alert bracelets.
Someone asked her what the bracelet was for. She replied,
"I'm allergic to nuts and raw eggs."
The person asked, "Are you allergic to cats?"
The girl said, "I don't know.... I don't eat raw cats."
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Store Cookie Sheets Lined With Foil
I have two young boys and a very busy life. I found keeping
nonstick foil on my cookie sheets and storing them in the oven
to be both a money and time saver. I have two cookie sheets;
one large and one smaller one. I store them lined with nonstick
foil at all times in the oven.
I take them out to preheat the oven and then put whatever I am
cooking directly on them. This saves on time since they are
always ready to go, space in my cabinets and since I can just
re-use them without washing, or remove the foil if it is dirty.
Then I don't have to wash the cookie sheet. This tip saves
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The wise old Mother Superior from county Tipperary was
dying. The nuns gathered around her bed trying to make
her comfortable. They gave her some warm milk to drink,
but she refused it.
Then one nun took the glass back to the kitchen.
Remembering a bottle of rum they had received as a gift the
previous Christmas, she opened and poured a generous
amount into the warm milk.
When she walked back to Mother Superior's bed, she held
the glass to her lips.
Mother drank a little, then a little more. Before they knew it,
she had drunk the whole glass down to the last drop.
Mother," the nuns asked with earnest, "Please give us
some wisdom before you die."
She raised herself up in bed with a pious look on her
face and said…”Don't sell that cow.”
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Carole was planning her upcoming wedding and asked to wear
her mother's wedding gown. When she tried it on, it was a
perfect fit on her petite frame.
Suddenly, her mother's eyes filled with tears. Putting an
arm around her, Carole lovingly said, "Don't cry, Mom.
Remember, you aren't losing a daughter, you're gaining a
son."
"Oh, forget about that sillinyess!" her mother sobbed. "You know
and I know that he is an idiot, but has a steady job and is just
barely smart enough not to argue with you or me. That doesn't
bother me."
"Then what is it, Mom?", Carole pleaded.
"Waaaaaaaa! Sob, Sniff! I, I, I used to fit into that gown!",
her mother wailed.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011, 05:38 PM -
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The Worrying Doctrine
Write down everything that you want to worry about.
Pick one hour per week, anytime that you desire, to do nothing but worry about the things on your list.
Note: No other time is acceptable once a predetermined
Time is established - should something prevent you from
Utilizing that time period for worrying, you must wait
Until that period arrives the following week.
Never, under any circumstances, worry before noon
Or after 5 PM, Monday through Friday or before 10 AM
Or after 8 PM on Saturday, Sunday, or Holidays.
Never, under any circumstances worry while at work, or
While working on work materials or business related items.
If you insist on worrying, this immediately disqualifies your spouse or any other family member in the same household, from worrying. . . Only ONE worrier per household is allowed.
If any other member of the family wishes to assume the
Responsibility as the OFFICIAL WORRIER, you may
Relinquish the position, but immediately you are disqualified
From future worrying. In this event, you must adhere to
The above schedule and list all of your worries for the
Appointed WORRIER to worry about for you.
You must never put on your list, or entertain worrying about things over which you have absolutely no control.
As a WORRIER, upon acceptance and association with any other group, club, association, etc., you must adhere to the above principles and monitor those with whom you associate,
That they do also.
Severe penalties for "Not Worrying Properly"
Must be administered.
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What is winmail.dat about?
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 08:45 AM
Good Morning, !
It's Saturday, February 26, 2011
Today's Tech Support Pits are about Winmail.dat and similar
turdlets. They don't do me any good, so I just dump them,
but a lot of people have very strong opinions about them,
so I will lear up the mystery about them.
W7-SP1 is out. So far, there are no dire warnings about it,
and apparently it helps the Adobe Flash Player to run for
hours without crashing. W7-SP1 is a surprisingly small file,
but it DOES require a reboot.
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
-- Indira Gandhi
----------
Yeah, I know, a lot less pay, though :(
A third grade class is doing some spelling drills. The
teacher asks Tommy if he can spell "before."
He stands up and says, "Before, B-E-P-H-O-R."
The teacher says, "No, that's wrong. Can anyone else spell
before?"
Another little boy stands up and says, "Before,
B-E-F-O-O-R."
Again the teacher says, "No, that's wrong." The teacher
asks, "Little Johnny, can you spell 'before'?"
Little Johnny stands up and says, "Before, B-E-F-O-R-E."
"Excellent Johnny, now can you use it in a sentence?"
Little Johnny says, "That's easy. Two plus two be fore."
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Whenever my aunt went to the doctor, she would complain to
me about the long delay she always endured. One day, when
my aunt's name was finally called, she was asked to step on
the scale. "I need to get your weight today," said the nurse.
Without a moment's hesitation, my aunt replied, "One hour
and 45 minutes!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Charles Cain, Hamilton, NJ
Hamilton Township Deputy Mayor Charles Cain asked for
"professional courtesy" during DWI arrest
On the night he was charged with drunken driving, Hamilton
Township Deputy Mayor Charles Cain pleaded for
"professional courtesy" from the arresting officer, saying
he was the "designated driver," according to a police report
obtained by The Press of Atlantic City through an Open
Public Records Act request.
"Come on, you and I both know I'm gonna blow over the limit,
how about a little professional courtesy," Cain reportedly told
the arresting officer after being taken to the police station for
a breath test and processing. "Come on, it's not like I was
hurting anyone. I was the designated driver. I was just
trying to drive them home."
Cain also said, "I can't believe you're going to do this to me.
I can't believe you're going to hang me out there like this,"
according to a report of the motor vehicle stop.
Cain was arrested early Jan. 22 on Clarksville Road, just
a few blocks from his Mays Landing house. The arrest
came five days after Hamilton Township Committee began
the process of laying off 20 percent of the municipal
government, including, at the time, 11 police officers.
They still seem to have enough cops to catch idiots like
Charles Cain.
In the police report, Officer Peter Burns stated that he was
monitoring Clarktown Road for drunken drivers because it is
"known as an alternative route for motorists attempting to
avoid police patrols on Route 559".
Burns stated that a vehicle with its high beams on traveled
across the middle line and was heading directly at his patrol
car. "I began preparing to avoid an impact when the vehicle
veered right, back toward its side of the road."
Burns then clocked the SUV at 40 mph in a 25 mph zone and
pulled it over, the report says.
Cain was too drunk to cooperate in a field sobriety test.
------------------
Mentioning "Designated Driver" while drunk is a really, really
dumb idea.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Mike
Re: What are those Winmail.dat files about?
Dear Webby,
Occasionally I get mail that has a winmail.dat or similar
file attached, that I can't open. What is that all about?
Mike
Dear Mike
Actually, quite a few people asked about that lately.
Most people refer to them as turds or turdlets. They are a
harmless nuisance.
Once upon a time, long, long ago, in the days of 7.2 KB
networks, somebody at Microsoft smoked some really weird
stuff, and decided to do things different from Eudora and Pegasus,
the popular email programs in those days. Instead of embedding
formatting information like fonts, sizes, colors, etc., they
were going to keep all that info on the SENDER machine, and
only attach routing information, so that a recipient, who was on
the same LAN, could retrieve it. That routing information, not the
formatting information, is in the turdlet, the .dat file.
It doesn't work over the Internet, but on a LAN is a security issue.
Over the Internet that LAN specific routing information is useless,
especially since the sender machine is probably not even running
when you get your mail.
Within companies or departments, that led to really beautiful
emails, and a drastic drop in roductivity. People spent more
time on making their emails look pretty, than on the content.
From the same machine, or the one downstairs, your wife can
send you a beautifully formatted shopping list. But if she
sends it to your work address, it will be very plain. The
attached .dat turdlet won't find the formatting information
over the net.
The same applies to not only Outlook and Outlook Express,
but most Microsoft programs.
If people are complaining about you littering turdlets onto
their computer, here is how to configure Outlook NOT to send
turdlets.
To Turn off Rich Text sending for messages in Microsoft Outlook
1) Click on Tools
2) Click Options, and then click the Mail Format tab.
3) In the Send in this Message Format list, select Plain Text,
and then click OK.
This will set your default sending method to Plain Text, which
will lose your special formatting options with fonts, colors, etc.
However everyone, no matter what email program they are
using, will now be able to receive your email with no problems.
If you want specific formatting like colors, fonts, sizes, etc
to work over the Internet, then you need a full-featured
email program like Eudora, Pegasus, Alpine, etc. Those do it
without turdlets, that nobody can use. There isn't really a
good reason to use fancy formatting, if the sender is the only
one, who can see that.
Have FUN!
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Thanks to Ross for this story:
After booking my 96 year old aunt 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 aunt because of her arthritis and
impaired vision and absentmindedness..
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 aunt need a rental car?"
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Air Out New Shower Curtain Before Hanging
We bought a new plastic shower liner, used inside fabric
curtain. You should not hang up in the bathroom, as it gives
off harmful chemicals. So what we did was hang the liner
in the outside garage for 10 days.
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While waiting for a prescription to be filled, I heard an explosion
from behind the divider, followed by an outpouring of dense
black smoke.
The Pharmacist emerged several minutes later, his white uniform
scorched black. He glared at the woman waiting next to me and
said, "Would you ask your doctor to write your prescription again,
and this time -- PRINT IT !"
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An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends
and took along a few pictures to show the hostess. She
looked at the photos and commented
"These are very good! You must have a good camera."
He didn't make any comment, but, as he was leaving to
go home he said: "That was a really delicious meal! You
must have a very good stove."
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How to get rid of icon arrows on W7
Friday, February 25, 2011, 09:24 AM
Good Morning, !
It's Friday, February 25, 2011
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Don't learn the hard way, that it’s illegal to recite the
Gettysburg Address on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
without a permit, even if you are 6'4 and dressed up as Lincoln!
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income
tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
--- Arthur C. Clarke
Linda is from New Jersey, a state where pumping your
own gas is prohibited. So when she moved to Florida, she
had to get used to to self-serve stations. Linda was
embarrassed when she stopped for gas in Orlando and
couldn't figure out how to use the pump.
Finally she went into the station and confessed to the women
behind the counter that she needed help.
One said, "Honey, are you a recent widow,
or are you from New Jersey?"
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A Sunday-school teacher was trying to explain about saying grace
before meals. One of the pupils was the young son of the minister of
that church, so she started the discussion by asking him,
"Jerry, what does you father say when the family sits down
to dinner?"
Jerry answered, "He says 'Go easy on the butter, kids -- it's
four dollars a pound!'"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Mark Spellen, 23 in Sudbyry, Ontario
Drunken driver missing a tire fails to elude police
Police arrested a drunken driver last night after a short
chase in which the driver, whose car was missing a tire,
drove down a dead-end street and crashed into a snowbank.
Officer Kevin Abraham investigated a hit-and-run accident
around 9:30 p.m. and first heard Marc Spellen driving north
on Broadway. Spellen's Chevrolet Cavalier had heavy front
end damage and was missing a front tire, said Sgt. Stephen Smith.
"He was driving on the rim. He was just shooting sparks
everywhere."
Abraham tried to stop Spellen while on foot, but Spellen
drove around him. The officer got into his cruiser and chased
Spellen, and Spellen drove down Horne Street, which is a dead end.
"He hit a few snowbanks on the way and eventually got the car
stuck in the snow," Smith said.
Police hadn't booked Spellen as of 11:15 last night because
he was too drunk.
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From: Marnie
Re:
Dear Webby,
you are amazing!
I have been asking all kinds of people for a way to remove those
stupid, ugly arrows, and there you have been doing it for a dozen
years.
Does that work for Blonde Windows too?
Marnie
Dear Marnie
Unfortunately not.
There are some VISTA programs that work on W7-32 bit,
but don't work on W7-64 bit. Apparently W7-32 bit is just
more or less Vista with cosmetic changes, so those programs
work fine.
Hit the Windows key and PAUSE, to see which OS you got.
If you have W7-32 bit, then you can use
Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover 2.0
For 64 bit W7, you will need the programs from Kill W7 Arrow
Since I don't have time to mess with W7, I have not personally
tried that, but there are no warnings about that program on the net.
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Father O'Malley answers the phone: "Hello, is this Father O'Malley?"
"It is"
"This is the IRS. Can you help us?"
"I can"
"Do you know a Ted Houlihan?"
"I do"
"Is he a member of your congregation?"
"He is"
"Did he donate $10,000 to the church?"
"He will".
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Polystyrene Containers for Seedlings
My tip is saving all the polystyrene cups you get for take outs,
and use them for potting up seedlings. The take-away trays
can be used as mini propagators sitting nicely along a sunny
window; no need for a big glass house.
Source: My old auntie told me.
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An elderly man went to his doctor and said, "Doc, I think I'm
getting senile. Several times lately, I have forgotten to zip up."
"That's not senility," replied the doctor.
"Senility is when you forget to zip down."
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A woman went to a computer dating service and said she
didn't care about looks, income or background. All she
wanted was a man of upright character.
Then a man came in and told them the only thing he was
seeking in a woman was intelligence.
The service matched them together instantly. They both
had identical scores on the BS meter.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011, 12:10 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Thanks Hilary!
That's Hilary M. in GB.
Italy used to get 10% of their natural gas from Lybia. They have
switched oer to Russian gas. France is considering dong the same.
Other countries will follow. Ghadafi doesn't really have any friends
anywhere outside Lybia, and is quickly losing income.
He is stuck now. He can't fly to Venezuela, because he has no
long range airplanes, and he really does not want to stop to refuel
in Scotland. Those Scotts hold a grudge for a long time!
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All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
--- Socratex
"Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself
reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly, then
everybody else seems to be friendly too."
--- Dr. David Hawkins:
BOY : Since we met, I haven't been able to eat or drink.
GIRL : Why not ??
BOY : I'm broke.
BOY : I think the poorest people are the happiest.
GIRL : Then marry me and we'll be the happiest couple.
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A man walked out into the street and managed to get
a taxi just going by. What luck, he thought, as he slid
into the cab.
"Perfect timing," the cabby said. "You're just like Bill."
"Bill who?"
"Bill Smith. There's a guy who did everything right," the
cabby said. "Like my coming along when you needed a
cab. It would have happened like that to Bill every time."
"Nah," the man said to the cabby. "There are always a
few clouds over everybody."
"Not Bill," said the cabby. "He was a terrific athlete. He
could have gone on the pro tour in tennis. He could golf
with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced
like a Broadway star."
"Bill was really something, huh?"
"Oh, yeah," continued the cabby. "Bill had a memory like
a trap. Could remember everybody's birthday. He knew all
about wine, which fork to eat with. He could fix anything.
Not like me. I change a fuse, and the whole neighborhood
blacks out."
"No wonder you remember him," the man said.
"Well, I never actually met Bill," said the cabby.
"Then how in the world do you know so much about him?"
"I married his widow," replied the cabby.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Pawel Adamczyk, 27,
Robber asks victim to let him out
Bungling burglar Pawel Adamczyk got himself into a spot of bother
during a recent raid in Poland when, unable to escape with his
stash of stolen goods, he had to ask his victim to let him out of
the house.
Adamczyk, 27, was drunk as tried to steal from a house in
Poland in a crime that went not quite to plan.
The burglar had made a hole in a garden fence before entering
the property but he later found that he could not escape.
Mr Adamczyk could not squeeze through the gap in the fence
as he had too many stolen goods.
Not wanting to leave the wide load behind Mr Adamczyk knocked
on the front door and asked the owner to let him out.
He was arrested for filling his coat with stolen items and
drinking a bottle of whisky.
The owner said: ‘I walloped him and called the cops.’
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From: John
Re: How to get rid of the arrow on icons
Dear Webby
I am a Humor fan and I am a desk top Icon Fanatic. I have
Firefox and for a long time I had a custom Icon on desktop.
And suddenly my custom icon disappeared and was replaced
with a Firefox icon with the damnable small check mark in
lower right in a white background.I want them back.
help me pls.
john
Dear John
There are two things at work there. What you call a checkmark
is actually an arrow, indicating that th icon is a shortcut
to a program somewhere, not a direct icon to something that
was sloppily left on the desktop.
Proper icons come in two versions, one with and one without
the shortcut arrow. Home made, hand painted icons usually
just have one version, the one without the arrow, because
by the time they start painting icons, people usually know
better than to leave programs on th desktop.
If you download TweakUI from my Tool Box or from
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/tweakui.htm
Then you can Open TweakUI, click Explorer,
click Shortcut.
Choose Arrow, Light Arrow or None.
If you don't need the arrow to indicate, whether a program
is properly installed or still loitering on the desktop, then
choose NO Arrow.
You don't have to reboot after that. Just chaneg the icon size
to something different than what it is, and hit Apply, then
change it back to your preferred size. That forces Windows
to re-draw them, and this time does it without the arrow.
By the way, there are a whole lot of tweaks and toys in
TweakUI. The only problem with them is that they work so
flawlessly, that you tend to forget about them and consider them
part of XP. Then when you get onto a machine that is not
tweaked, you wonder what is wrong.
Some of those tweaks, that have been around for over a
dozen years, -I used them first in Windows 98 -,
and they still go further than Windows 7.
There is no officially approved TweakUI for Windows 7 yet,
but there are a few experimental ones avaiable,
if you google for them.
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This guy says to his buddy, "You'll never believe what
happened last night."
His buddy says, "Well then, tell me what happened."
The guy says, "Last night the doorbell rang, and when I
opened the door, there was my ex-mother-in-law on the front
porch, asking me, "Can I stay here for a few days?"
"I said, 'Of course, you can,' and shut the door."
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My tip is saving all the polystyrene cups you get for take outs,
and use them for potting up seedlings. The take-away trays
can be used as mini propagators sitting nicely along a sunny
window; no need for a big glass house.
Source: My old auntie told me.
By Bubbleswire from Ireland
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Best are the clear muffin trays. If you don't have used ones,
they are dirt cheap at restaurant and bakery supply stores.
Use metal salad tongs to get the seedlings out of the muffin
cups, and give them a good squeeze. Loose and aerated soil
is very bad for transplanting.
If you grow second and third crop seedlings later in the year,
prop the trays open a bit, so that you don't cook the seedlings.
They don't mind cool nights, as long as there is no frost.
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At long last the good-humored boss was compelled to call
Fisk into his office. "It has not escaped my attention," he
pointed out, "that every time there's a home game at the
stadium you have to take your aunt to the doctor."
"You know you're right, sir," exclaimed Fisk. "I didn't realize it.
Do you think she might be faking it ?"
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A young mother paying a visit to a friend and her husband, who
was the village doctor. She made no attempt to restrain her
five-year-old son, who was ransacking an adjoining room. But
finally, an extra loud clatter of bottles did prompt her to say,
"I hope, doctor, you don't mind Johnny being in there."
"No," said the doctor calmly, "He'll be quiet soon. Those are
just different snake poisons."
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 12:15 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Thanks Wayne!
Welcome back!
It warmed up to -16 and we got a sprinkling of fresh snow on
top of the old polished snow and ice on the roads. That made
driving quite interesting, but everybody was aware of the
conditions and I saw no accidents.
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
--- Euripides
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A friend, driving home from a fishing trip in northern
Michigan with his boat in tow, had engine trouble a few miles
inland from Lake Huron. He didn't have a phone in his car,
so he decided to use his marine radio to get help. Climbing
into his boat, he broadcast his call letters and asked for
assistance.
A Coast Guard officer responded, "Please give your location."
"I'm on Interstate-75, two miles south of Standish."
The officer paused, "Could you repeat that?"
"I-75, two miles south of Standish."
A longer pause. Then an incredulous voice asked,
"How fast were you going when you hit shore?"
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Did you hear about the teacher who was helping
one of her kindergarten students put his boots on?
He asked for help and she could see why.
With her pulling and him pushing, the boots still didn't
want to go on. When the second boot was on, she had
worked up a sweat.
She almost whimpered when the little boy said,
"Teacher, they're on the wrong feet." She looked, and
sure enough, they were. It wasn't any easier pulling the
boots off than it was putting them on.
She managed to keep her cool as together they worked
to get the boots back on- this time on the right feet.
He then announced, "These aren't my boots." She bit her
tongue rather than get right in his face and scream,
"Why didn't you say so?" like she wanted to.
Once again she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots
off. He then said, "They're my brother's boots. My Mom made
me wear them."
She didn't know if she should laugh or cry. She mustered up
the grace to wrestle the boots on his feet again. Then, finally,
she asked him, "Now, where are your mittens?"
He replied: "I stuffed them in the toes of my boots."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Andrae Comer, 28, in Orlando, Florida
Store employee snapped photos of woman in dressing room
A woman who tried on clothes at the Mall at Millenia caught
a store employee secretly snapping a photo of her partly
unclothed in a dressing room, Orlando police said today.
The woman asked Andrae Comer, who worked at Express
Clothing store, to open a fitting room for her, police said.
Once inside, she closed the door and removed her pants.
When she reached for a new pair to try on, she saw a hand
holding a silver camera phone under the door with the lens
pointed at her, officers said.
The woman cried out and quickly put her pants back on.
When she opened the door, Comer, 28, was standing outside
the dressing-room holding a cell phone, she told investigators.
"I know what you just did!" she yelled at him, according to police.
"You were taking pictures with your phone!"
Comer and the woman told a store manager their versions of
the story, and Comer left the store, investigators said. The
woman called police, who said they later found five images
of women on Comer's phone, including the woman in the
dressing room. None knew a photograph was being taken,
officers said. Police don't know where the other photos were
taken, they said.
Comer, who lives a few blocks from the mall, was arrested
Sunday on a warrant. The charge is video voyeurism, a
misdemeanor.
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From: Karen
Re: Is there a fast way to gain space on Gmail?
Dear Webby
My mail got totally blocked when I ran up against my limit
on Gmail. Buy more space or clean up your act!
I could not find a way to dump mail from before a set date,
and deleting them one at a time would take me years!
I don't want to abandon that address and get a new one,
so how can I do it in a day or two?
Karen
Dear Karen
Go in through Settings and make some hot-keys.
assign 1 for "Select ALL"
assign ` for "delete selected" ( ` is the left quote to the left of the #1 key)
Then change the number of emails shown per page to 100.
Back at the INBOX, go to the OLDEST mail.
Hit 1 and then `
The hundred oldest mails are gone.
Just keep hitting 1 and then `.
and dumping hundred mails at a time.
Every five minutes, dump the trash.
Soon you will find that the process goes faster and faster,
and in half an hour you will have your space down to 50%.
It's a good idea to make it a rule that, whenever you are
on hold on the phone or talking without having to take notes,
you open Gmail and hit 1 and then `.
That will keep it from getting to dangerous levels.
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At the conclusion of his lecture to a group of young recruits,
the legendary paratrooper asked for questions. A hand shot
up. "What made you decide to make that first jump, sir?"
Without hesitating, the paratrooper replied, "An airplane at
eighteen thousand feet with a bad engine."
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When the family car developed a slight knock, the husband
asked his wife if she had bought regular or premium gas,
but she couldn't remember.
"You probably got the cheaper gas," he said. "That could
account for the engine running so rough."
"No, the gas wasn't cheaper!" she replied indignantly.
"Well, how much did it cost?" asked the husband.
"It cost the same as always," said the wife. "I bought the
usual ten dollars worth."
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A tour guide was showing a tourist around Washington, D. C.
The guide pointed out the place where George Washington
supposedly threw a dollar across the Potomac River.
"That's impossible," said the tourist. "No one could throw
a coin that far!"
"You have to remember," answered the guide. "A dollar went
a lot further in those days."
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 11:22 AM
Good Morning, !
It's Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Looks like Ghadafi has finally been kicked out. European news
figure he is on the way to visit his fan Chavez in Venezuela, but
all they know for sure, is that he got chased out of Tripoli.
By the time you read this, more news will be available.
There is no way back for him. His decision to use brute force
split his army and he lost control.
What is surprising is that the demonstrators were not
organized enough to have a flag, and when they took control of
Benghazi, Lybia's second largest city, they took down the
Lybian flag from the main courthouse and replaced it with the
old monarchy flag.
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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it
upon the wall instead of using it.
--- Gordon R. Dickson
-------------
That sounds awfully familiar!
Someone in our neighborhood put a huge sofa out by the
curb for trash collection. Since it was in good shape, many
motorists slowed down for a look. But when they saw how
enormous it was, they'd leave.
Eventually a compact car pulled up, and two men got out.
"This I've got to see," I thought. They removed the cushions,
turned the sofa upside down, and shook it hard. Then they
picked up all the coins that tumbled out and drove off.
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A minister gave a talk to the Lions Club on sex. When he got
home, he couldn't tell his wife that he had spoken on sex, so
he said he had discussed horseback riding with the
members.
A few days later, she ran into some men at the shopping
center and they complimented her on the speech her
husband had made.
She said, "Yes, I heard. I was surprised about the subject
matter, as he's only tried it twice. The first time he got so
sore he could hardly walk, and the second time he fell off."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Scott Raymond Burgert, 45, and Bradley Thomas Jones,
both in Florence, TN
Workers accused of stealing pot from police station
Workers accused of stealing pot from police station
FLORENCE - Two men who were working on renovations at the
Florence Police Station are in jail after they were accused of taking
48 pounds of marijuana from the evidence locker.
Scott Raymond Burgert, 45, Old Cloverdale Road, Florence, and
Bradley Thomas Jones, 40, Calhoun Street, Florence, are both
charged with first-degree theft of property and trafficking marijuana,
Florence Police Chief Rick Singleton said.
The two men were part of a construction crew involved in remodeling
the first floor of the police department, officials said.
The chief said the two men were putting in an exhaust fan in the
evidence vault to take out fumes from confiscated drugs
stored there.
Singleton said the marijuana, from a case made in 2004 that
had been adjudicated, was scheduled for disposal. It was on
a top shelf in the vault.
Police said Burgert was arrested Wednesday night, while
Jones was taken into custody early Thursday.
Singleton said during a search of the two residences, about
four pounds of what’s believed to be the stolen marijuana
were recovered.
The Lauderdale Drug Task Force said the marijuana, because
of its condition and age, had about a $10,000 street value.
Investigators said some of the marijuana recovered was so
old that it was moldy.
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From: Mary Lou
Re: Can't copy paste in email
Dear Mary Lou
Which email program do you use?
Gmail
Or do you use the browser peeker to peek at your gmail,
without using a proper email program?
Also, which Operating System do you use?
My server is MetaLink,com
Dear Mary Lou
Gmail is an ADDRESS.
Don't confuse the browser based peeker with the address.
You got ******@gmail.com as an ADDRESS.
It's just an address, just like ******@telus.net or ******@verizon.net or
******@earthlink.net or ******@posty.net.
What I suggested was getting a Gmail ADDRESS, and continue
using whatever email program you have used since Kindergarten,
(except AOL or Yahoo).
If you are used to Outluck or Outluck Express, use that!
If you are used to Eudora or Pegasus or Alpine, use them.
Whatever email program you are used to, keep using it to
check your ******@gmail.com ADDRESS.
No need to learn easier methods.
The Gmail browser page is just ONE of over a hundred ways of
looking at your gmail ADDRESS. It is made for peeking at your
mail from the courtesy computer at Home Depot or Costco, to see
if there are any last minute additions to your shopping list.
When you are at home and sitting down, you are expected to use
a real email program, no matter whether you have a gmail address
or an earthlink address or a telus address.
Save the browser peeker for when you are strutting by the contractor's
counter at Home Depot and trying to impress the guys with tape
measures in their holsters.
Use whatever email program you use for your ISP based address,
unless you are using just a peeker there too.
If you are using, for example, Outluck Express for your metalink.com
address, simply tell it to also check your gmail address.
Outluck Express is just Microsoft's answer to Eudora and just like
Eudora, it can check a whole stack of different addresses at the
same time.
However, even in the browser based peeker, you can copy and
paste, once you hit REPLY and thereby open a mail. Until then,
you are just viewing.
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Thanks to Bonnie for this story:
My 12-year-old daughter asked me, "Mom, do you have a
baby picture of yourself? I need it for a school project."
I gave her one without thinking to ask what the project was.
A few days later I was in her classroom for a parent-teacher
meeting when Inoticed my face pinned to a mural the
students had created. The title of
their project was ... "The oldest thing in my house."
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Keep Chalkboard in Garage
We keep a blackboard with chalk hanging in our garage. Many
people think it is strange, until they read the notes written on it.
Right now it reads:
Change oil in Aveo in March.
Lawnmower blades on rider last sharpened and changed Nov of 2010.
Had to add transmission fluid to Monte Carlo in Dec.
Only 14 quarts of 10-40 oil left.
It contains all the garage, barn, and farm outdoor messages that
would otherwise take up room on our kitchen chalkboard.
By mom-from-missouri from NW MO
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Thanks to Bill for this story:
One time while in the Millington, Tennesee Naval Air Station,
there was a fearsome thunderstorm which knocked out the
electricity in the Navy Exchange. This killed the cash registers,
naturally, but the Navy always has a backup.
The emergency intercom came on, and a loud female voice
announced,
"CASHIERS TAKE YOUR CRANKS OUT OF YOUR DRAWERS!"
As if that alone was not funny enough, the cash register
drawers, which had the little manual cranks inside them,
needed electricity to unlock,
OR those little cranks, that were safely locked up inside them.
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After Jane's son fell into the pond yet again and came home
with his good school clothes dripping wet, the exasperated
Jane sent him to his room and washed and dried his clothes.
A little later, Jane heard a commotion in the back yard. She
called out "Are you out there wetting your pants again!?"
There was dead silence for a moment. Then a deep, masculine
voice answered meekly, "No, ma'am, I'm just reading the meter."
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Monday, February 21, 2011, 12:23 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Monday, February 21, 2011
Moe sent me a fun quiz:
Who said that?
"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s."
"I've now been in 57 states I think one left to go."
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of
fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today."
"What they'll say is, 'Well it costs too much money,' but you know what?
It would cost, about. It it it would cost about the same as what we would
spend. It. Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs
us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We're going to. It. It would cost us
about the same as it would cost for about hold on one second.
I can't hear myself. But I'm glad you're fired up, though. I'm glad."
"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice,
savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."
"I bowled a 129. It's like - it was like the Special Olympics, or
something."
"Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our
Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than
selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest
court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents
who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of
applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some
of the most difficult questions of our time."
"Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to
the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end
up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave,
you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a,
a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer."
"It was. Interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not
that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of I don’t
know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing."
"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good
judgments in the future."
Wonder who that could be?
Hint: It was not Jay Leno.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
--- Lily Tomlin
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...
well, I have others.
--- Groucho Marx
Everything you can imagine is real.
--- Pablo Picasso
"How did the wedding go?" asked the preacher's wife.
"Just fine until I asked the bride if she would obey and
she said, 'Do you think I'm nuts?' and the groom said,
'I do,' and then things really began to happen fast."
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After watching the movie Cinderella, five-year-old Sarah started
using her pinwheel as a magic wand, pretending she was a fairy
godmother. "Make three wishes," she told her mother, "and I'll
grant them."
Her mom first asked for world peace. Sarah swung her wand and
proclaimed the request fulfilled. Next, her mother requested for
a cure for all ill children. Again, with a sweep of the pinwheel,
Sarah obliged. The mother, with a glance down at her rather ample
curves, made her third wish, "I wish to have a trim figure again."
The miniature fairy godmother started waving her wand madly,
and throwing furtive glances at her mother, checking for the first
signs of any results.
Finally she sighed and exclaimed: "For THAT I'll need more power!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Andrew H. Stcyr, 24, in Maryland Heights, MO
Andrew H. Stcyr
Caller tells cops man broke windshield,
leaves out that he tried to run him over
A Maryland Heights man who is deaf had an interpreter report to
police earlier this month that a man broke the windshield of his car.
What Andrew H. Stcyr, 24, failed to have the caller mention,
according to police, is that he was trying to run over the man
at the time. And he tried to run him over not once, but twice.
Stcyr, of Maryland Heights, faces felony charges of first-degree
assault and armed criminal action.
Lt. Craig McGuire, of the St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department,
said the incident appeared to be a case of road rage.
It began near the traffic signal at Jungs Station Road and
Upper Bottom Road shortly after 1 p.m. Jan. 14 when James A.
Richardson, 52, of St. Louis, said he noticed a Lincoln Town Car
following closely behind his Ford Taurus.
Richardson told officers he stopped at the signal and Stcyr
began blowing his horn.
McGuire said Stcyr followed Richardson onto Arrow Rock Drive
where he forced him to pull over. Stcyr was not only blowing his horn,
but yelling at Richardson as well, McGuire said.
Richardson exited his car and approached the Lincoln.
Stcyr drove into Richardson, throwing him onto the hood and
breaking the windshield, McGuire said. Richardson rolled off the
hood and, according to McGuire, Stcyr drove into him again.
Stcyr reportedly left the scene, and Richardson was taken to
SSM St. Joseph Health Center for treatment.
He has since been released.
Maryland Heights police later were contacted by an interpreter
calling on behalf of Stcyr, who reported that a man had
smashed his windshield, McGuire said.
Stcyr was released from the St. Charles County jail
after posting a $20,000 bond.
Stcyr was ordered to stay away from Richardson as part of his release.
“Mr. Stcyr is hostile towards the victim for an unknown reason,”
according to a deputy’s statement in the court file.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Guinn
Re: DOS is too fast
Hi, Webby,
I have been trying most of the day to get xcopy to work per your instructions
but without success. I, too, weaned on DOS but haven't opened the command
line in a dog's age, until today.
I have written the line out 10 times at least in Word Pad, checked and
rechecked. When I saved it, it went into my Programs as a file and
does bring up DOS for a second when I click on the icon.
Obviously I need help. HELP!
Guinn
Dear Guinn
DOS is extremely fast. Like I mentioned, it just does what
it is told to do, and goes away.
To watch it, try
START
RUN
cmd
At the command prompt, type:
cd \
edit test.bat
That opens the ol DOS editor.
write your bat, save it and exit.
then type
test
(you don't need to type the extension if it is .bat or .exe or .com)
ENTER
it will run and let you watch.
When everything works as intended, then from then on
you can just use the shortcut icon.
Have FUN!
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An older Jewish man is on the operating table awaiting
surgery. He has insisted that his son, a renowned surgeon,
perform the operation. As he is about to receive the
anesthesia, the patient asks to speak to his son.
"Yes, Dad, what is it?"
"Don't be nervous, do your best, and just remember, if
it doesn't go well, if something happens to me, your mother
is going to come and live with you and your wife."
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Tiny Christmas Lights on the Deck
I have a deck on the back of my house and at night it's pitch
dark out there. I don't like to turn the porch light on because
it attracts mosquitoes, etc. And citronella candles don't do a
thing to repel them either.
So I came up with a great idea. I took the tiny Christmas
lights, and strung them under the railing all the way around.
It gives a nice soft light, without attracting the bugs. Also
lights up the steps just enough so the dogs and us are
able to go up and down without falling. Now it's really
nice to sit out there at night.
By the way, I want to thank Deeli for her idea of lighting
her way around inside and using green lights. The green
ones would be even nicer on my deck too.
By Cricketnc from Parkton, NC
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My husband and I were browsing in a crafts store when he
noticed a display of country-style musical instruments. After
looking over the flutes, dulcimers and recorders, he picked
up a shiny, one-stringed instrument he took to be a mouth harp.
He put it to his lips and, much to the amusement of other
shoppers, twanged a few notes on it.
After watching from a distance, I walked up and whispered
in his ear, "I hate to tell you this, honey, but you're trying to
play a cheese slicer."
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The man passed out in a dead faint as he came out
of his front door onto the porch.
Someone dialed 911.
When the paramedics arrived, they helped him regain
consciousness and asked if he knew what caused him to faint.
"It was enough to make anybody faint," he said. "My
son asked me for the keys to the garage, and instead of
driving the car out, he came out with the snow shovel !!!!"
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The Punishment Fits The Crime
Sunday, February 20, 2011, 07:57 PM
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Noise violators in Fort Lupton sentenced to listen to Barry Manilow
FORT LUPTON —
Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs" may begin with the line"I've been alive forever'" but for noise ordinance violators listening to Manilow may feel like forever.
Fort Lupton Municipal Judge Paul Sacco says his novel punishment of forcing noise violators to listen to music they don't like for one hour has cut down on the number of repeat offenders in this northwestern Colorado prairie town.
About four times a year, those guilty of noise ordinance violations are required to sit in a room and listen to music from the likes of Manilow, Barney the Dinosaur, and The Platters' crooning "Only You"
"These people should have to listen to music they don't like" said Judge Paul Sacco for a segment about the program that aired Friday on Denver's KUSA-TV.
Sacco began the program years ago when he noticed that many of the repeat offenders simply showed up at his courtroom to pay their fine with cash.
"Most kids don't want to hear somebody like Glenn Close trying to sing opera" he said.
Video of a recent class showed teenagers with long faces shifting in their seats or looking up at the ceiling.
"You can't fall asleep" said teenager Rueben Fuentes right before letting out a bit of a sigh.
Members of a garage band were at the class after playing music late at night in their backyard.
"The cop station was two blocks away" said band member Robert Mort. "People who were at the party loved it. I'm not sure the cops did."
"Too much music too loud too late" added band member Harrison DeRuiter.
So what does Sacco think of Barry Manilow?
"I actually don't think Manilow's too bad" he said.
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How to get porn off a computer
Sunday, February 20, 2011, 01:16 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Sunday, February 20, 2011
Demonstration Moon is now over the US.
Union members and Democrats bused in from all over the place
and are making a racket outside the Capitol in Madison, Wis.
The Unions are furious about measures, that would prohibit unions
from bargaining over issues other than wages, stop them from
having dues automatically deducted from state paychecks and
require them to hold annual elections to stay in existence.
Common sense and the majority of the people agree that those
measures are necessary to bring the unions into this century,
but the unions desperatly cling to rights, they have won in
the 50's and 60's. Even Obama weighed in on their side.
He and the Democrats are considering this as the start of the
2012 Election campaign.
The government in Wisconsin isn't too worried about all the
imported noise. Noisy tourists!
They are more concerned about all the Democrat senators fleeing
the state and depriving the senate of a quorum. At least one
Democrat senator has to be present for a senate vote.
(They got the quorum set at 20, but the Republicans have only 19,
so they can't vote until at least one Democrat is present)
They COULD fire the shirkers and call elections for their seats.
That would easily get them a few more Republican senators,
but would delay a lot of Government business for half a year.
The Governor is counting on constituents telling those shirkers
to get their lazy butts back to work.
Arrest warrants are being prepared and locals are joking
about hiring bounty hunters.
In the meantime, coffee shops and restaurants in walking
distance of the Capitol are appreciatig the business from
all the noisy crowds.
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"All men commend patience,
although few be willing to practice it."
--- Thomas Kempis
"Be careful what you pretend to be, because
in the end, you are what you pretend to be."
--- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
A friend and I were standing in line at a fast-food restaurant,
waiting to place our order. There was a big sign posted.
"No bills larger than $20 will be accepted."
The woman in front of us, pointing to the sign, remarked,
"Believe me, if I HAD a bill larger than a $20,
I wouldn't be eating here."
Since nobody seems to want to have that Rogue remover getting
rid of phony virus removers and guarding against them, I have
moved it into the Tool Box. When you do need it, and if your
infection allows you to get it, it will be there.
Download movies, from recent releases to old classics.
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A playboy falls in love with a showgirl and lavishes everything
on her. He buys her expensive clothes, jewelry and even a
new car. Then one day, he proposes.
The showgirl answers, "Me marry you? No way! The way you
throw your money around???"
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Yesterday morning
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Zachary Alan-Charles LaFlair in Port Charlotte, Florida
Marijuana and cash seized from convicted felon's home
PORT CHARLOTTE - Charlotte County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit
detectives seized $24,261 cash and 4 pounds 11 ounces of
marijuana in a convicted felon’s home in Port Charlotte.
CCSO received a call at 11:30 p.m. from a Probation Officer
checking on Zachary Alan-Charles LaFlair who is currently
on probation for Cocaine Trafficking. LaFlair was released
from prison July 2010 and returned to Charlotte County.
While searching his home, detectives seized numerous large
bags with marijuana, baggies of marijuana in a suitcase,
numerous small size baggies of marijuana, a digital scale,
boxes of small baggies and rubber bands. They also seized
a notebook/ledger containing names of LaFlair’s clients
and other information.
Spread out on his bed were several piles of cash amounting
to $21,261, and another $3,000 in his closet. The unemployed
LaFlair was transported to the Charlotte County Jail where
he remains on no bond.
In Florida, same as in most states, probation means an open
search warrant. Anybody on probation, who is featured in
that confiscated ledger, can expect a search shortly.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Goldie
Re: Cleaning porno off a computer
Hi Webby,
I enjoy reading you page every day.
I have a friend that loaned her laptop to someone and while
the other person had it someone downloaded pornography
on to it. How does she go about getting this off of her hard
drive short of reinstalling from the recovery disc..?
She also thinks that since she has a built in cam that she can
be spied on by the government, so she is afraid to us her
laptop to go on line.
Thanks for answering this for us.
Goldie
Dear Goldie
If the porno is just pictures, she can do this:
make a new folder in the root directory and call it SORT.
Then do a search for *.jpg
That will find 99% of all pictures. She can SHIFT-drag
them to the SORT folder.
Then do the same for *.gif, *.bmp, *.tif*
That will get the rest of the pictures.
Then she can browse the SORT folder, with it set to show
Thumbnails.
Proper pictures, that she wants to keep, can be dragged to
where they belong, and all the rest can be deleted.
That way she does not have to hunt them down in weird and
hidden locations.
The same goes for movies. Those are usueally *.wmv, *.mov
and *.avi
Re the Government spying on her, that is rather silly.
As long as she is not involved with terrorism, child porno,
or major drug dealing, the Government does not pay anybody
big wages to pay attention to her.
If she is so cute, that she figures that the CIA watches every
time she struts her stuff naked in front of her laptop, she can
always stick a corner from a post-it-note over the little camera.
If she worries that somebody records what she mutters while
in front of the laptop, she can plug in a microphone. That
turns off the internal microphone, and she can put the external
microphone in front of a radio tuned to a bible station.
However, if she is NOT a terrorist or drug dealer, she does
not have to be paranoid.
Have FUN!
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Classmates at college were lamenting the cost of
long distance phone service, and debating the
relative advantages of AT&T, MCI, and Sprint.
"I've found CTC to be the cheapest plan around,"
offered one.
"CTC? Who are they?" another asked.
"You know," he responded. "Call Them Collect."
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Use the Sun to Whiten Linens
If you want to use bleach on your laundry, use very little
bleach and then hang it outside in the winter sun. The
Victorians used this method, in large houses, laying
out white linen on special "bleaching lawns" on bright
winter days.
By Lucy L. from Oxford, England
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When a teenage girl smiles at a boy, he tries to decide
what makes him so sexy.
When a young lady smiles at a man in his fifties, he turns
around to see who's the handsome dude behind him.
But when a female of any age smiles at a man of 80, he
looks down to see if he's unzipped.
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The doorbell rang and the little girl ran to open the door.
In the doorway stood a man with a clipboard. He explained
he was from the Census Bureau and wanted to know how
many were in the family.
Coming over, drying her hands on her apron, the mother
said, "Let's see. There's me and my husband, and my
children Tracy, Katherine, Amanda, Alfred, Benjamin--"
The census taker interrupted, saying, "I'm not interested
in the names. The numbers will be enough."
The little girl pitched in. "We don't use numbers yet. So far
we haven't run out of names, an my brothers always make
up new ones for me anyway!"
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Saturday, February 19, 2011, 02:20 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Saturday, February 19, 2011
Thanks Gregory!
Thanks, John!
Re yesterday's report about Obama proposing a $5.50 head tax
on Canadians entering the US, that is not Obama bashing. He
seems to be doing a pretty good job of that himself. And it's not
a dumb idea by the "Republican Controlled Congress", and it's
not Bush's doing, but in Obama's budget proposal.
http://snipurl.com/5.50-fine
Canada's answer? WestJet will add more direct flights to Mexico
and the Caribbean Islands.
Canadians and Canadian Dollars are welcome there.
There is a lot of demand for those flights for medical reasons,
because people don't want to or can't wait for Medicare, but
also to save BIG bucks on voluntary procedures like Lasik eye
surgery, dental work, and cosmetic surgery.
Especially during a colder than normal winter a lot of people
find it hard to resist being able to combine no-wait Lasik, a few
days tanning at a warm beach plus the flight for less
than what they pay here for an eye exam and new glasses.
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learn to paddle your own canoe."
--- Socratex
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human
knowledge is moonshine.
--- H. L. Mencken
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of,
but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
--- Robert Heinlein
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician.
We need more statesmen.
--- Bob Edwards
An efficiency expert concluded his lecture with a note of
caution. "You don't want to try these techniques at home."
"Why not?" asked somebody from the audience.
"I watched my wife's routine at breakfast for years," the
expert explained. "She made lots of trips between the
refrigerator, stove, table and cabinets, often carrying a
single item at a time. One day I told her, 'Hon, why don't
you try carrying several things at once?'"
"Did it save time?" the person in the audience asked.
"Actually, yes," replied the expert. "It used to take her
20 minutes to make breakfast. Now I do it in seven."
Since nobody seems to want to have that Rogue remover getting
rid of phony virus removers and guarding against them, I have
moved it into the Tool Box. When you do need it, and if your
infection allows you to get it, it will be there.
Download movies, from recent releases to old classics.
Full movies in DVD quality
Legal and direct, not file sharing!
$5 per month for unlimited* downloads short term,
about $1 per month for unlimited* downloads long term.
No installation or extra hardware Required!
You do not need to be computer experienced to download
and watch movies. Simply register, login, and
start downloading FULL DVD movies, LEGALLY!
* "Unlimited" does not refer to YOUR hard drive space!
The impish girl turned on the tractor and pushed the
outhouse into the river. Later, her father told her the
story of George Washington chopping down his father's
cherry tree.
The girl proudly announced, "I cannot tell a lie. I pushed
the outhouse into the river." He told her to bend over and
the shocked child protested that George Washington had not
been punished. The father replied, "Well, George's father
wasn't IN the cherry tree when it got chopped down!"
One day a little girl was watching her mother as she sat before
her bedroom mirror arranging her hair. The little girl asked:
"What do you call those fancy curves you trick into your hair?"
The mother replied: "These are waves, dear."
The little girl pondered that for a moment and then solemnly
declared: "Poor Daddy, he's all beach."
Click through the picture to the large version.
Linda: What's that you're reading?
Judie: A diary.
Linda: What's in it?
Judie: I can't tell you that. A diary is a highly personal and
confidential affair; It has important secret dreams and secret
yearnings. It's private. It's not meant to be shared lightly with
other people. And besides, this diary belongs to Margaret.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Laura Campanello, 43, in Bradenton, Florida.
Cleavage Beef Ends With Woman's Bust
A Florida woman upset that a visitor to her son’s school was
showing too much cleavage was arrested yesterday morning
after she allegedly took matters into her own hands, literally.
Laura Campanello, 43, was leaving a meeting with her
17-year-old son’s guidance counselor at Bayshore High School
when she passed a woman whom she believes was too scantily
clad. After Campanello demanded that the woman--who was
visiting the Bradenton school with an enrolling student--
to cover up her chest area, an argument broke out.
According to a Manatee County Sheriff Office affidavit,
Deputy Greg Jenkins, the school’s resourse officer, arrived
on the scene and advised Campanello that the other woman
“was an adult and that he could not tell this lady how to dress.”
“Oh then I can…just do this,” Campanello responded. As detailed
by Jenkins, Campanello then allegedly “pulled the front of her
own blouse down, reached in with both hands and pulled both
breasts out and squeezed them together.”
The impromptu display in front of several onlookers resulted
in Campanello’s arrest for disorderly conduct.
Campanello was booked into the county jail on the misdemeanor
rap. After posting $220 cash bond, she was freed early this morning.
In an interview, Campanello, a former Spanish teacher from
Ohio whose various medical conditions forced a recent move to
Florida, denied exposing her breasts. “I am a proper person,”
she said, adding that Deputy Jenkins was a “chubby, rude,
lewd, and lascivious” man who “had it out for her.”
Campanello said yesterday’s incident has left her suffering
from post-traumatic stress disorder, and that she intends to
sue the school, sheriff, and jail for their mistreatment of her.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Robert
Re: Running out of space on C: drive
Morning Webby,
Still loving your new and insights. I am looking for some advice again.
I want to buy an external hard drive to back up my computer.
I would back up weekly my invoices, etc. from my small business
but also want to back up my many pictures.
What back up program would you suggest that, if used weekly,
would only back up the files that have been changed? Also
where would be the best place to buy and not cost an arm
and/or a leg?
Thanks again. Chip
Dear Chip
A good place for USB drives is http://tigerdirect.com
For backing up, get comfortable with the DOS command: xcopy
It is awesome.
And it has been included in DOS, which is still the secret core of
Windows, for over 30 years.
Click on
START
RUN and type
cmd
You are at the DOS command line.
type
xcopy /?
It will list the switches.
The most important switch is /D
When you use that, it copies only files that are newer at the source
than at the destination.
For example, to copy all the NEW jpg files from c:\pix\flowers
to F:\pix\2011, but ignore GIF, BMP and TIF, you would type
xcopy /D c:\pix\flowers\*.jpg F:\pix\2011
Now, stop panicking!
I know it would be too hard on the typo finger to do that each time.
So you copy and paste that command into a plain text file.
Save that as back.bat
and make a short-cut icon to it.
If you want to copy all the NEW Excel spreadsheets from
E:\Num\11 to F:\xls\11, you type
xcopy /D /Q E:\Num\11\*.xls F:\xls\11
The /Q causes it to do the copying quietly, without displaying
the file names, as it copies them.
Copy and paste that command into the back.bat, as the second line.
Add whatever else you want to back up, one command per line,
and save it.
Whenever you hit that shortcut icon, it executes ALL the commands
in that .bat file, in the order that you put them.
You can add more commands any time, or edit them at any time.
You have total control and total flexibility.
There are well over a hundred different commands like xcopy.
A neat one is
echo
If you put into the bat, for example as the second line (after copying the JPG files):
echo All the JPG files are backed up now
then it will show, after it has backed up all those files,:
All the JPG files are backed up now
Another one is
pause
It causes the computer to ask you to hit any key to continue.
In the early 80's, when I wrote the programs for the weigh
stations in the Yukon, I wrote a back-up bat for them, and
put these lines at the end:
echo Everything backed up successfully.
pause
echo Not THAT key!
pause
echo That's better!
I got yelled at, of course, but it was worth it.
You can use the echo command to put in a running commentary,
so that even years later you instantly know what each line is doing.
Once you are comfortable with the xcopy and the echo command,
you can of course play with any of the other ones too.
For example
dir /b produces a bare directory listing.
dir /b F:\xls\11
will show all the files in that folder
dir /b F:\xls\11 >> F:\xls\log.txt
will add that list into the log.txt file.
date /T >> F:\xls\log.txt
will add the date to the log.txt
So, by adding this to the bottom of the back.bat, you get
a neat log of the back-ups, with the date showing when
it was done.
dir /b F:\xls\11 >> F:\xls\log.txt
date /T >> F:\xls\log.txt
echo ====================== >> F:\xls\log.txt
Instead of buying a back-up program, that is not nearly
as flexible, just write a bat and edit it to suit you whenever
you want to change or add anything.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
If you can write emails, you can blog and make money.
Blogging To The Bank
Yes, you CAN!
However, you have to actually start doing it, not just thinking
about it. Here is a way to get the famous Blogging To The Bank book
for 1/5 of what you pay elsewhere. Stop dreaming and CLICK
From Georgina
I was nervous the night my husband and I brought our kids
to an upscale restaurant for the first time. My husband
ordered a bottle of wine with the meal.
When the waitress brought it, our children became quiet
as she began the ritual uncorking. When she poured a
small amount for my husband to taste, our six-year-old
piped up, "Let Mom try it. Mom can drink a lot more than
that!"
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
100 Calorie Snack Packs
Why spend hard earned money on pre-packaged 100 calorie
snacks? Here are some you can package yourself and always
have ready for yourself or your kids' lunch box. Each of
these will fit into a small snack zip lock bag which I buy
at my local dollar store.
* 1 small orange, peeled and sectioned
* 2/3 cup of cocoa puffs cereal
* 15 mini carrots
* 3 tablespoons raisins
* 6 reduced fat Triscuits
* 1 cup of washed and cut celery slices
* 12 soy crisps
* 1 cup of watermelon
* 13 Stauffer's animal crackers
* 3/4 oz. cheddar cheese
* 2 twizzlers stix
* 7/8 cup of cheerios
* 2/3 cup mini marshmallows
* 1 cheese stick and 5 slices of shaved ham
I am so glad I saw this suggestion. I know you will like it, too.
Source: Ladies Home Journal Sept. 2009 issue
By Bobbie G from Rockwall, TX
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Little Johnny was eating breakfast one morning and got to
thinking about things.
"Mommy, mommy, why has daddy got 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.
Or she was until Johnny thought for a second and said,
"I'm glad you don't do any thinking. You would look silly
without long hair."
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The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost.
They are added to the age of the women that she talks about.
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Friday, February 18, 2011, 11:39 AM
Good Morning, !
It's Friday, February 18, 2011
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Full Moon mania affects Obamanov, again.
This time he proposed to charge Canadians, who fly into
the US $5.50 per trip, ostensibly to help pay down the
deficit.
That charge or fine for hauling hard currency into the US and
spending it there, discourages travel to the US, and since
the collection of the charge or fine is done in Canada, it
boosts Canadian jobs.
US citizens would be excempt from that fine for hauling
hard currency to the US, since they would be hauling
US dollars to Canada.
In sumary, he wants to
discourage travel to the US and
subsidize travel within Canada,
create employment in Canada, all just to
collect a ridicuous fine, that probably costs more
to collect, than it brings in.
Either Obamanov or his speech writer, or both,
are giving dope a bad name,
but the Canadian tourism industry is heartily
applauding.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.
The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted."
--- Mary O'Connor
Getting away from their high-stress jobs, a couple spends
relaxing weekends in their motor home. When they found their
peace and quiet disturbed by well-meaning, but unwelcome,
visits from other campers, they devised a plan to assure
themselves some privacy.
Now, when they set up camp, they place this sign on the door
of their RV:
"Insurance agent. Ask about our term-life package."
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Another trick that used to work quite well was putting a
violin case and a sheaf of musical scores onto the picnic
table. Nobody will park on either side of you. By the way,
you can fit 11 cans of beer or pop into a good violin case.
Since nobody seems to want to have that Rogue remover getting
rid of phony virus removers and guarding against them, I have
moved it into the Tool Box. When you do need it, and if your
infection allows you to get it, it will be there.
Download movies, from recent releases to old classics.
Full movies in DVD quality
Legal and direct, not file sharing!
$5 per month for unlimited* downloads short term,
about $1 per month for unlimited* downloads long term.
No installation or extra hardware Required!
You do not need to be computer experienced to download
and watch movies. Simply register, login, and
start downloading FULL DVD movies, LEGALLY!
* "Unlimited" does not refer to YOUR hard drive space!
One evening after dinner, my five-year-old son noticed that his
mother had gone out and he asked, "Where did mommy go?"
In answer to his questions, I told him, "Mommy is at a
Tupperware party." This explanation satisfied him for only a
moment.
Puzzled, he asked, "What's a Tupperware party, Dad?"
I've always given my son honest answers, so I figured a simple
explanation would be the best approach. "Well, son," I said, "at
a Tupperware party, a bunch of ladies sit around and sell plastic
bowls to each other for twice the price they cost at Walmart."
He nodded, indicating that he understood this curious pastime.
Then he burst into laughter.
"Come on, Dad," he said. "What is it really?"
Thanks to Sandie for this picture:
Click through the picture to the large version.
For those, who had trouble seeing the baby hawk, here he
is with a more contrasting background.
If you like the Dear Webby Daily Humor Letter,
please vote for it at the Ezine Finder:
Thanks for your votes!
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Texas legislature
Prisons full in Texas
The rate of violent crime in Texas has fallen sharply since
the mid 1990s, and thanks to permissive gun laws, overall
violent crime in Texas today is at its lowest level in more
than thirty years, but you wouldn’t know that by looking
at the state’s prisons.
The Texas Department of Corrections Institutional Division
is bulging with convicts, and the Bexar County Jail is
overflowing to the point that costs to the county are
skyrocketing.
A conservative and business group says the reason is
simply...Texas has too many crimes.
“There are thousands of amazing things you can be sent to
prison for today by both state and federal courts,” said
State Rep. Jerry Madden (R-Plano). “You can go to jail
for importing orchids without the proper paperwork,
shipping lobster tails in the wrong packaging, and even
for failing to return a library book.”
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Robert
Re: Running out of space on C: drive
Dear Webby,
I partitioned my hard drive, like you suggested, and have
almost only the Operating System on the C: drive, but I
started getting warnings, that it is getting too full.
What is going on?
Robert
Dear Robert
Shut down all programs before sutting down the computer.
Yes, ALL! Even little and insignificant helper utilities.
That will drastically reduce the start-up cheater files pagefile.sys
and hiberfil.sys. Windows uses them to cache what is running,
and uses that to help starting up next time, so that the start-up
is not quite THAT embarrassing.
Just closing all programs can gain you 3 - 5 GB of space on
the C: Drive. Usuallythat is enough elbow room to do some weeding.
Also use Crap Cleaner and dump the recycle bin.
By the way, you CAN move the Recycle Bin to the E: drive.
Reboot and start looking for log files.
If you, for example, use the Tab Saver, a very handy and highly
recommended FireFox Add-In, it saves the open tabs every time
you open or close another tab. That comes in extremely handy,
when a malicious program or a nasty user malfunction closes
the browsers without saving the tabs, or dumps the cookies and
history (inluding tabs). TabSaver writes a little log file, each time
you ipen or close a tab. If you told it to save them on the C: drive,
and somebody in your famiy is a prolific browser, after a couple of
years you could have over a Million of those little 4 - 5 KB log files.
Usually there is no need to keep them longer than a week, and maybe
one a month for sentimental reasons, but the rest can be dumped.
Just make a folder and call it Tab-Keepers, and drag one from
each month into it, and delete the rest.
You will be surprised how much space you gain, and how much
faster everything works.
The same, of course, also applies to any other program that keeps
a log.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
If you can write emails, you can blog and make money.
Blogging To The Bank
Yes, you CAN!
However, you have to actually start doing it, not just thinking
about it. Here is a way to get the famous Blogging To The Bank book
for 1/5 of what you pay elsewhere. Stop dreaming and CLICK
An elderly widow and widower had been dating for about five years
when the man finally decided to ask her to marry. She immediately
said, "Yes."
The next morning when he awoke, he couldn't remember what her
answer was! "Was she happy? I think so. Wait, no, she looked at
me funny," he thought. After about an hour of trying to remember
to no avail, he called her on the telephone. He was very embarrassed
and admitted to her that he just could not remember her answer to
the marriage proposal.
"Oh", she said, "I am so glad you called. I remembered saying 'yes'
to someone, but I couldn't remember who it was."
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Epsom Salts for Plants
Use Epson salt to perk up your plants and make them lush and
healthy. Use a teaspoon per gallon.
By Fran from Bath, PA
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or if you want to share your tips, then you can subscribe to it here:ThriftyFun
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One night a teenage girl brought her new boyfriend home to
meet her parents, and they were appalled by his appearance:
leather jacket, motorcycle boots, tattoos and pierced nose.
Later, the parents pulled their daughter aside and confessed
their concern. "Dear," said the mother diplomatically, "he
doesn't seem very nice."
"Oh please, Mom," replied the daughter, "if he wasn't nice,
why would he be doing 500 hours of community service?"
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Little Suzie ran into the house, crying as though her
heart would break. "What's wrong, dear?" asked her
mother.
"My doll! Johnny broke it!" she sobbed.
"How did he break it, Suzie?"
"With his head!
I hit him over the head with it."
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Thursday, February 17, 2011, 10:31 AM
Good Morning, !
It's Thursday, February 17, 2011
Thanks Joseph!
I was surprised that nobody had any helpful idea about Adobe
Flash Player crashing at least once a day on W7. FireFox wrote
the "Container.exe" to contain and isolate Adobe, so that
it's crash does not crash the browser or the computer.
Well, they tried. IF you have another window with FireFox open
with some unimportant butsafe sites open in tabs, closing some
of those will generally unlock the other window with the crashed
Adobe Flash Player, and even restart it.
I am still hoping for a better solution than that.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that
within me there lay an invincible summer."
--- Albert Camus
These two ol' boys from Beaumont bought a new mule, but had
trouble getting him in their barn. Every time they would
get him to the door, his ears would brush the top of the
doorway and he'd start kicking and go wild. Finally, they
decide the best way to solve the problem is to jack up the
barn. So, they go out and get a half dozen jacks.
The two Texans are scrambling from jack to jack to try
to get the barn raised when this Cajun walks up. "Wot chall
doin?" Boudreaux asks.
"We's raisin thuh barn, yuh stoopid Cajun," Billy Bob says.
"Why you do dat?"
"Cause thuh mule's ears keep touchin' thuh doorway when we
try to put him in iss-here barn and he goes haf-crazy wild,"
Billy Bob says. "He kicked Ernest Wayne plumb in thuh haid
twicet already."
"Why come you don' just dig a four inch lower in de doorway?
Dat way him got to go down when he get to de do' an him ear
don't touch nutin."
"Ya stoopid Cajun," Ernest Wayne chimes in. "It's his ears
at's too long, not his laigs!"
A State Police Officer exited the freeway near one of those
chicken restaurants and noticed that a customer had left a
bucket of chicken on top of his car and was driving out of the
parking lot. The officer decided to pull him over and perform
a community service by giving the driver his chicken. So, he
pulled him over, walked up to the car, pulled the bucket off
the roof and offered it to the driver.
The driver says, "No thanks, I just bought some."
Thanks to Sandie for this picture:
Click through the picture to the large version.
Do you see the worried looking baby hawk ?
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Joel Dobrin, 32, of San Diego, Calif.
Dog tosses dope out the window
MORO, Ore. - An Oregon sheriff's deputy didn't need a drug dog
to point out a stash during a recent traffic stop. The driver's
dog did it for him.
KGW-TV reports Sherman County sheriff's Sgt. John Terrel
was pulling over a pickup truck Feb. 9 when he saw a sock
fly out the window. It turned out to be stuffed with marijuana
and hashish.
The driver told Terrel he was trying to hide the sock, but
his pit bull mix grabbed it and wouldn't let go, enjoying
a tug-of-war game.
The dog won the tussle and tossed the sock out the
window, and the 32-year-old driver was indicted on
drug possession charges.
Dobrin was indicted by the Sherman County Grand Jury and
is scheduled to appear in Sherman County Circuit Court on
charges of possession of a controlled substance.
Not more details, but hilarious comments at http://snipurl.com/dog-tosses-dope
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Hanna
Re: Play PPS in Open Office
Dear Webby,
Open Office opens PPS files ready for copying or editing
slides. Most of the time, that's exactly the way I like it.
Sometimes, though, I just want a PPS to play on it's own.
How do I ger Open Office to do that?
Thanks
Hanna
Dear Hanna
Just hit F5
There is a sneaky trick embedded in that, though.
If you are in a long slide show presentation, you can scroll
down to where you paused, highlight the last slide you watched,
and hit F5. It will start playing there, no need to tediously
wade through from the beginning.
You can even use the mouse scroll wheel to back up a frame
or a few frames, however, that stops the sound, until you hit
F5 again.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
If you can write emails, you can blog and make money.
Blogging To The Bank
Yes, you CAN!
However, you have to actually start doing it, not just thinking
about it. Here is a way to get the famous Blogging To The Bank
for 1/5 of what you pay elsewhere. Stop dreaming and CLICK
An elderly widow and widower had been dating for about five years
when the man finally decided to ask her to marry. She immediately
said, "Yes."
The next morning when he awoke, he couldn't remember what her
answer was! "Was she happy? I think so. Wait, no, she looked at
me funny," he thought. After about an hour of trying to remember
to no avail, he called her on the telephone. He was very embarrassed
and admitted to her that he just could not remember her answer to
the marriage proposal.
"Oh", she said, "I am so glad you called. I remembered saying 'yes'
to someone, but I couldn't remember who it was."
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Softer Line Dried Clothing
Do you line dry your laundry only to discover when it's
dried out that it needs ironing? Try putting 1/3 cup of
vinegar in the washer. Vinegar will take the soap residue
out of the laundry and your laundry will be lots softer.
By Queen Bee from TN
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A couple was having some trouble, so they did the right thing
and went to a marriage counselor. After a few visits, and a lot
of questioning and listening, the counselor said that he had
discovered the main problem.
He stood up, went over to the woman, asked her to stand, and
gave her a tight hug and kiss. He looked at the man and said,
"This is what your wife needs, at least once a day!"
The man frowned, thought for a moment, then said, "Ok, what
time do you want me to bring her back tomorrow?"
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An Australian travel writer touring North America was
checking out of the Spokane Hilton, and as he paid
his bill asked the manager, "By the way, what's with
the Indian chief sitting in the lobby? He's been there
ever since I arrived."
"Oh that's 'Big Chief Forget-me-Not'," said the manager.
"The hotel is built on an Indian reservation, and part
of the agreement is to allow the chief free use of the
premises for the rest of his life.
He is known as 'Big Chief Forget-me-Not' because of
his phenomenal memory. He is 92 and can remember
the slightest detail of his life."
The travel writer took this in, and as he was waiting
for his cab decided to put the chief's memory to the test.
"'ello, mate!" said the Aussie, receiving only a slight nod
in return.
"What did you have for breakfast on your 21st birthday?"
"Eggs," was the chief's instant reply, without even
looking up, and indeed the Aussie was impressed by
the speed and certainty in the chief's reply.
He went off on his travel writing itinerary, right across
to the east coast and back, telling others of
Big Chief Forget-me-Not's great memory.
One local noted to him that 'How' was a more
appropriate greeting for an Indian chief than ''ello mate.'
On his return to the Spokane Hilton six months later
he was surprised to see 'Big Chief Forget-me-Not' still
sitting in the lobby, fully occupied with whittling away
on a stick.
"How!" said the Aussie.
"Scrambled," said the Chief.
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Adobe Flash Player crashing on W7
Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 01:17 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Thanks Joseph!
Texas wants $269 Million from Amazon for sales tax it should have
charged Texans. Amazon figured that was just a guessed ball-
park figure and is demanding in court, that the Texas Comptroller's
office fork over detailed tax information for 2005 to Dec 2009.
I have a hunch they will settle out of court for half the money.
Have FUN!
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If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end,
I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
--- Dorothy Parker
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
--- Sydney J. Harris
Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
Willing is not enough, we must do.
--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ending his sermon, a preacher announced that he would preach
on Noah and the Ark on the following Sunday, and gave the
scriptural reference for the congregation to read ahead of time.
A couple of boys noticed something interesting about the
placement of the story in the Bible. They slipped into the
church and very carefully glued two pages of the pulpit
Bible together.
The next Sunday, the preacher got up to read his text.
"Noah took unto himself a wife," he began, "and she was"
- he turned the page to continue - "three hundred cubits long,
fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high."
He paused, scratched his head, turned the page back, read
it silently, and turned the page again.
Then he looked up at his congregation and said, "I've been
reading this old Bible for near fifty years, but there are some
things in it that still amaze me."
When my aunt's son was 3, he wanted a cuss word that he
could use without getting yelled at. To appease the kid she
told him that he could say, "Dag nabbit."
Well, the problem was that next time his toy crane fell over
it sounded like: "Damn Wabbit !!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Steve Urbansky, 46, of Lorain, Ohio
Sidewalk Mower, Gets DUI
This news story wouldn’t even be a news story had it not
been for the boozebrained inspiration of the protagonist here,
Steve Urbansky of Lorain. The 46-year old was collared by police
a little after midnight Sunday morning, according to Fox 8. The
driver had pulled his car into a snow bank. It got stuck.
Police arrived, did a field sobriety test which Urbansky failed.
By way of explanation for his driving, he repeatedly told police
he was “just trying to mow the sidewalk.”
---------------
He was probably trying to remember the old saw:
"If you don't like my driving, stay off the sidewalk!",
but was too drunk to remember it.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Ruth
Re: Adobe Flash player crashing
Dear Webby,
We use Accu-Radio for background music in the warehouse
and also in the office. In the warehouse it is running on my
old PC, that I retired about 5-6 years ago. Other than the music
that machine is just used for spreadsheets and email. It
gets rebooted whenever an update requires it and automatically
does it in the dark of the night. Sometimes, after an update, the
radio has to be restarted, but it has never locked up.
In the front we got the radio running on the Windows 7 machine,
that I very briefly used last year. That machine runs just the radio
and is not used for anything else. However, on that one, the
radio stops sometimes once, somtimes a few times a day.
Each time it does that, there is an error message, that Adobe
Flash Player crashed.
That machine has 4 GB of RAM and almost 250 GB free space
on the hard drive. Why is that one crashing, and the old
fossil in the back keeps running? What can we do to fix that?
Ruth
Dear Ruth
Most likely you have occasional brief connectivity problems.
W7 does not cope with those as gracefully as the old XP.
In the days it was made, connectivity interuptions were the
rule, not the exception.
I doubt that you can do anything to guarantee that there will
never be any interruptions. If the crashes or lock-ups of the
Flash Player, browser, mail and FTP are too much of a nuisance,
you'll have to put XP or Linux onto that machine. For unattended
single task machines Linux makes a lot of sense. Then it
makes no difference, if the user interface is not as cute.
The same applies to XP. If you just use it for radio and fax,
it will run without crashing for years.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
If you can write emails, you can blog and make money.
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However, you have to actually start doing it, not just thinking
about it. Here is a way to get the famous Blogging To The Bank
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Little Sally went to the store with her grandmother.
On the way home, she looked through her bags to see
what gramma had purchased.
In one package, Little Sally found some panty hose
and she began to sound out the words "Queen Size."
She then turned to her grandmother and exclaimed,
"Wow Gramma, your butt is as big as Mom's bed!"
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Make a Flannel Half Slip for Warmth
Make a flannel 1/2 slip to keep you warm. Cut a piece of
new flannel, baby blankets or section of a flannel sheet.
For the length: measure from waist to knee. Add 2 inches
for hem, and 3 inches for top casing for elastic. The width
of fabric needs to equal your hip measurement plus 4 inches.
Sew side seams, hem and upper casing. Cut 1 inch elastic
to fit waist and use large safety pin to feed it through the
casing. Sew ends. These slips plus turtlenecks have enabled
me to wear "summer" clothes all year.
By ruthellen from Columbia, MD
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A young and arrogant pilot wanted to "show off" on the
aviation frequencies as he was approaching an airfield
during the night. So, he disregarded policy and, instead
of making an official request to the tower, he said,
"Guess who?"
The air traffic controller switched the field lights off
and replied, "Guess where?"
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Sue: "I like cats, do you?"
Bob: "Yes, I like cats, too. Let's exchange recipes."
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 12:15 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Thanks for all the Valentines cards and letters!
The servers handled this years Valentines Day quite nicely.
None of them overloaded, though one of them slowed down a
bit early in the morning, when all the pre-sent Valentines
cards were delivered. Nowadays most people pre-send them
days or even weeks in advance, to make sure they don't
forget anybody.
Next peak will be Easter, and then comes the big Mothers Day.
Surprisingly, Fathers Day is an even bigger peak, when all
the kids butter up dad to hopefully get an increase in their
allowance.
Have FUN!
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
--- Saint Francis of Assisi
Always acknowledge a fault.
This will throw those in authority off their guard
and give you an opportunity to commit more.
--- Mark Twain
Always do right.
This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
--- Mark Twain
Delivering his speech at the opening banquet of a national
convention, the visiting minister told several anecdotes he
expected to repeat at meetings the next day.
Because he wanted to use the jokes again, he requested
that the reporters omit them from any accounts they might
turn in to their newspapers.
A cub reporter, in commenting on the speech, ended his piece
with the following:
"The minister told a number of stories that cannot be printed
here."
Permanent SMTP account.
Have you ever had problems sending email?
Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
who use their business email address.
SMTP-To-Go solves all those problems. It works from anywhere
in the world, no matter what ISP you use, even from hotels
that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of
Chicken Little to her class. She came to the part of the story
where Chicken Little tried to warn the farmer. She read,
".... and so Chicken Little went up to the farmer and said,
"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"
The teacher paused then asked the class,
"And what do you think that farmer said?"
One little girl raised her hand and said, "I think he said:
'Holy Cow! A talking chicken!'"
Thanks to Edward for this picture:
Webby, doon"t let anyone tell you ARIZONA is just ugly desert,
these flowers bloomed in our front yard, sorry all the quail
were missing. The neighborhood cats got them. LOL
Keep up the good work friend, Edward
Click through the picture to the large version.
I have been going to Arizona every spring for the last 25 years.
This year I can't, because of financial reasons, not because
I don't like Arizona.
If you like the Dear Webby Daily Humor Letter,
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Jerrie Perkins, 30, of Pontiac, Micigan
Shoplifter gets stuck in doorway
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A 400-pound Michigan
woman was caught shoplifting when her motorized cart got stuck in
the store's door, authorities say.
Jerrie Perkins, 30, of Pontiac was attempting to leave a Meijer
store in Rochester Hills with more than $600 worth of stolen
electronic merchandise Tuesday night, the Oakland County
Sheriff's Office told The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens, Mich.
She set off the door alarm and hit a store employee, who
confronted her, authorities said. When a sheriff's deputy
arrived, she "took a fighting stance". She didn't appear to
be mobility impaired, and had to be tasered to be subdued,
the report said.
Perkins was charged with unarmed robbery, resisting and
obstructing a police officer and second-degree retail fraud.
Her bond was set at $15,000 at her arraignment Thursday.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Rebbie
Re: Rainlendar
Hi Webby,
Regarding your February 13th newsletter and Jeanne who wants a simple
calendar. Tell Jeanne there is a small program called Rainlendar. This cute
calendar is on my desktop and has many options to it. You can also change
the color of the calendar and have events that will pop up and inform you
of any events you might have coming up. You can also scroll to see a
previous month, or any upcoming month. The best thing about this small
calendar is it's FREE !
Keep up the good work on your wonderful newsletter.
Smiles.............Rebbie
Dear Rebbie
I have mentioned Rainlendar a few times before,
and it is still in my Tool Box,
though quite a ways down.
Quite a few subscribers use it and like it.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
was recovering from surgery when a charity representative
phoned asking me to take part in a door-to-door fund-raising
effort. "Sorry," I replied, "but I've been incapacitated."
Undaunted, the caller kept trying to convince me to change
my mind and volunteer.
I interrupted and said, "I'm incapacitated. Do you know what
that means?"
She hesitated. "It means your head was cut off?"
--------------
Reminds me of the time I told a telemarketer that the reason
I was not interested in her long distance scam was because
I didn't have a phone.
She apologized for calling.
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Use Tall Laundry Hampers as Trash Cans
Tall laundry hampers are about half the price of kitchen size
trash cans. You can get them for as little as $5 at Deals!,
Family Dollar, and Dollar General and they hold a kitchen
size trash bag nicely. You can use it on laundry day for
clothes and the rest of the time for a trash can.
By Mrslinkous from KC
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Q: What is the most dangerous part of a car?
A: The nut that holds the steering wheel.
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"Mom," said the little girl, "Is it alright to say you are going
to water the horse when you are giving him a drink of water?"
Yes," said her mother, "that is the correct thing to say."
Well then, I'm going to milk the parrot!"
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Monday, February 14, 2011, 12:07 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentines Day!
Since some people turn it into Guilt Day, if you don't show a sign
of life on February 14, here are some non-traditional
Valentines cards:










You can send those cards to 25 people at a shot, and each will see it,
as if he or she was the only one to receive a card from you.
If the links don't work in your email program, just go to the online version
of the humor letter at http://humor.webby.com
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Never exaggerate your faults.
Your friends will attend to that.
--- Sir Francis Bacon
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
--- Anthony Burgess
A TV can insult your intelligence,
but nothing rubs it in like a computer.
--- Socratex
Officer: Soldier, do you have change for a dollar?
Soldier: Sure, buddy.
Officer: That's no way to address an officer! Now let's
try it again.
Do you have change for a dollar?
Soldier: NO, SIR!
Permanent SMTP account.
Have you ever had problems sending email?
Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
who use their business email address.
SMTP-To-Go solves all those problems. It works from anywhere
in the world, no matter what ISP you use, even from hotels
that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
For our 20th anniversary my husband and I vacationed
in Hawaii, where we went snorkeling. After an hour in
the water, everyone got back on the boat, except for
me and one handsome young man. As I continued my
underwater exploring, I noticed that everywhere I swam,
he swam. I snorkeled for another 40 minutes. So did he.
I felt very flattered and, as I took off my fins, asked him
coyly why he had stayed in the water for so long.
"I'm the lifeguard," he replied matter-of-factly. "I couldn't
get out until you did."
Thanks to Christine from Australia for this picture:
Click through the picture to the large version.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Stanislav Vadimovich Bakanov, 30, in Marion County, Oregon
Thanks to Jackie for sending this report:
Stupid is as stupid does: Man filmed his 225-km/h
joyride for YouTube
OREGON - A man who filmed the speedometer of his car while
driving more than 225 kilometres per hour so he could post it on
YouTube ended up in jail on Saturday and the video confiscated,
police said.
Stanislav Vadimovich Bakanov, 30, was pulled over by police on
Oregon Interstate 5 after he was clocked driving his black 2005 BMW
at 189 kilometres per hour. He filmed Sheriff's Deputy Ryan Postlewait
as he approached the car.
When Postlewait asked why he was videotaping, Bakanov said he was
filming his speedometer, and his arrest, to post on YouTube. The video
later revealed that Bakanov had attained speeds in excess of 225
kilometres per hour.
He was arrested and confined in Marion County jail Saturday night,
charged with reckless driving and speeding. It was his third speeding
incident in the past year. The video was confiscated and will be used
as evidence against him.
Marion County Police spokesman Don Thompson said winds were
gusting at up to 80 kilometres per hour during the day.
"There were tree branches down on the freeway. To be driving at
these speeds today was just plain crazy," he said.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Ann
Re: Mouse is going berserk
Dear Webby,
hope you are having a good day and the weather is nice there,
we have beautiful weather in Tx. today, like a spring day, loving
it after all the cold and messy days.
I am having a problem with my cursor freezing up and flying all
over the screen, what can I do to fix this problem? I am about
ready to throw this computer out the window,
thanks for all your help!!
Ann
Dear Ann
That is your mouse, or the surface you use your mouse on.
Clean the mouse, and use it on regular paper,
not on anything shiny.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
I went with my daughter to visit a prestigious university.
Our student guide pointed out the nationally ranked library
and state-of-the-art science facilities. She told us that
the professors were the best in the country, and she re-
commended my daughter apply early to improve her chances
for admission. "We get so many applicants," she boasted,
"because of the stature of the school."
After the tour I asked our guide, "So, why did you choose
this school?"
"Oh," she replied matter-of-factly, "my boyfriend went there
and now works at the McDonalds across the street."
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Heart Shaped Pizza for Valentine's Day
This is a great way to share your love on Valentine's Day
or any other day. I cooked Ellio's frozen pizzas and cut
them into hearts using a heart shaped cookie cutter after
they cooled a bit. They were gone in no time and best
part is Mom gets to eat the piece's that are left over after
cutting them! Thank you for looking.
By CinnamonRoseCottage from York County, PA
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Confusion is one woman plus one multiple choice left turn;
Excitement is two women plus one secret;
Bedlam is three women plus one bargain;
Chaos is four women plus one lunch check and one coupon.
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Five Belgians in an Audi Quattro arrive at the French border.
The French Customs agent stops them and tells them:
"It's illegal to put 5 people in a Quattro."
"Oh, no, Quattro is just the name of the automobile. Look
at the papers: this car is designed to carry 5 persons."
"You can't pull that one on me," replies the French customs
agent. "Quattro means 4!"
"Oh, you are so stupid! Call your supervisor over!"
"He can't come. He's busy with the 2 guys in the Fiat Uno."
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Sunday, February 13, 2011, 07:46 PM -
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Sunday, February 13, 2011, 10:57 AM
Good Morning, !
It's Sunday, February 13, 2011
It is truly amazing how many people swallow the left-wing propaganda,
that Obama withdrawing support from Mubarak "brought democracy"
to Egypt.
Reality could not be further from the truth.
Mubarak was elected democratically in 2005.
People chose him, because they knew it took a big meany to
drag a herd of barbarians towards civilization, especially when
most of the burocracy insisted on religiously enshrined
traditions of demanding and eciving bribes.
Mubarak was hated like a too strict father or coach, but
he was democratically chosen from amongst four candidates.
And he had stated, that he would not run again, and that they
should get organized and find some other scapegoat to curse.
With the left wing media equating the noisy third with "The People",
and Obama calling Mubarak a dictator, even though he was an
elected president, the situation deteriorated, and when the US
withdrew support, Mubarak didn't have a choice.
He had to end democracy, and hand control over to the military.
NOW they have a Military Dictatorship. Thanks to Obama,
Egypt has been set back 35 years and is no longer a democracy.
Have FUN!
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
--- William Blake
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
--- Kurt Vonnegut
A little boy got lost at the YWCA and found himself in the
women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst
into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for
cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked,
"What's the matter, have you never seen a kid before?"
Permanent SMTP account.
Have you ever had problems sending email?
Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
who use their business email address.
SMTP-To-Go solves all those problems. It works from anywhere
in the world, no matter what ISP you use, even from hotels
that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
Here is a classic you can read to anybody:
Judie decides to try horseback riding, even though she has had
no lessons or prior experience. She mounts the horse,
unassisted, and the horse immediately springs into motion.
It gallops along at a steady and rhythmic pace, but Judie
begins to slip from the saddle. In terror, she grabs for the horse's
mane, but cannot seem to get a firm grip. She tries to throw
her arms around the horse's neck, but she slides down the side
of the horse anyway.
The horse gallops along, seemingly impervious to its slipping
rider. Finally, giving up her frail grip, Judie attempts to leap
away from the horse and throw herself to safety. Unfortunately,
her foot has become entangled in the stirrup, she is now at the
mercy of the horse's pounding hooves as her head is struck
against the ground over and over.
As her head is battered against the ground, she is mere
moments away from unconsciousness when to her great
fortune, Bill, the Wal Mart greeter, sees her difficulty and
unplugs the horse.
Thanks to Verna from Beechy, Saskatchewan
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Geneva Ward, 48 in Joliet, Ill
Drunk gramma calls 911
JOLIET, Ill., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Authorities in Illinois said
a drunken grandmother called 911 with a false report
of being held hostage when family members wouldn't
hand over her car keys.
Will County sheriff's deputies said Geneva Ward, 48,
called 911 Sunday and reported she was being held at gunpoint,
but deputies discovered a different situation when they arrived
at the Lockport Township home, The (Joliet) Herald-News
reported Friday.
"When deputies arrived, they discovered Ward had wanted to
drive her grandchildren somewhere, but the parents felt she
was too intoxicated and hid her keys," sheriff's spokeswoman
Kathy Hoffmeyer said. "Ms. Ward stated when she called 911
she said there was a gun because she 'just wanted deputies to
get there fast.'"
Hoffmeyer said Ward was charged with disorderly conduct.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Jeanne
Re: Simple calendar
Dear Webby,
I need a simple and not too expensive calendar program,
not to enter stuff into it, just for looking up what kind of
weekday certain dates are.
Thanks
Jeanne
Dear Jeanne
Just hover the mouse over the clock in the right bottom of
the screen. It will show you today's day of the week and date.
Double-Click it, and you get a look-up calendar.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
A little boy was attending his first wedding. After the service,
his cousin asked him, "How many women can a man marry?"
"Sixteen," the boy responded.
His cousin was amazed that he knew the answer so quickly.
"How did you know that?"
"Easy," the little boy said. "All you have to do is add it up,
like the preacher said:
'Four better, four worse, four richer, four poorer.' "
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Use Less Ground Beef In Recipes
A lot of recipes call for 1 pound of beef, like Hamburger Helpers,
tacos, etc. To get an extra meal out of a package of hamburger
I use 3/4 of a pound of meat. I get the same flavor but more bang
for my buck. So that way a 3 pound pack of beef will be good for
4 meals.
Then I'll include something else to supplement the meal. For example
when I make Hamburger Helper I'll make a salad (I'll get those
bags of salad for 99 cents and add some tomatoes), for tacos
since it doesn't make as much meat I'll make a can of refried
beans so we layer meat and beans in our tacos.
My family loves it! With lasagna I'll add more cheese layers
since meat is still more expensive than cheese.
By Parsnip39 from USA
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He'd 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 $25 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 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 or brunette?"
"Neither, Her grandfather is bald."
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Saturday, February 12, 2011, 12:02 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Saturday, February 12, 2011
I wonder how much Obamanov's lying and whining and lack
of support for an organized transition figured in Mubarak's decision
to tell everybody, that now THEY have a problem?
The liar was talking about "transition to democracy"!
Egypt DID have a democracy, and Mubarak was elected
democratically.
He was forced from office, UNdemocratically, because
40% of Egypt made more noise than the other 60%,
and because Obama shifted support from the democratically
elected president to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Did anybody realize, that Mubarak handed control NOT
to Obama's favorites, the Muslim Brotherhood,
but to the Army,?
Or, if you look at it closely, left it with the Army?
He was Army, and came in the same way. He rode in with the
Army and became Vice president, and became President when
Sadat was assassinated.
Mubarka became the top scapegoat 30 years ago, taking
all the criticism, while the generals did the homework and
made the real decisions, which Mubarak had to announce
and defend.
There were a lot of social improvements and quite remarkable
economic develeopment during his shift, but like elsewhere,
the creeping advance of socialism sapped the economy and
caused a downturn and lot of unemployment.
It will be interesting to see whether the Army rolls back
Socialism to a sustainable level, or whether they get somebody
to play Mr Nice Guy and let things deteriorate to a bankrupt
welfare state.
Have FUN!
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"According to a new study, children that snore get
lower grades...especially if they're snoring in class."
--- Jay Leno
Oh, I don'rt know about that. I usually got yelled at a lot
less for snoring than for pranking.
Sitting by the window in her convent, Sister Anne opened
a letter from home and found a $10 bill inside.
As she read the letter, she caught sight of a shabbily
dressed stranger leaning against a lamppost below.
Quickly she wrote, "Don't despair, Sister Anne" on a piece
of paper, wrapped the $10 in it and dropped it out the window.
The stranger picked it up and, with a puzzled expression
and a tip of his hat, went off down the street. The next day
Sister Anne was told that a man was at the door,
insisting on seeing her.
She went down and found the stranger waiting.
Without a word, he handed her a roll of bills.
"What's this?" she asked. "That's the 60 bucks you
have coming.
'Don't Despair' paid five to one."
Permanent SMTP account.
Have you ever had problems sending email?
Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
who use their business email address.
SMTP-To-Go solves all those problems. It works from anywhere
in the world, no matter what ISP you use, even from hotels
that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
Thanks to George for this story:
A few years ago the battery in my beat-up VW Beetle had
died because I left the lights on overnight. I was in a hurry to
get to work on time so I ran into the house to get my wife
to give me a hand to start the car. I told her to get into
our second car, a prehistoric oversized gas guzzler, and use
it to push my car fast enough to start it. I pointed out to
her that because the VW had an automatic transmission, it
needed to be pushed at a speed of at least 30mph for
it to start.
She said fine, hopped into her car and drove off.
I sat there fuming wondering what she could be doing.
A minute passed by and when I saw her in the rear-view mirror
coming at me at about 40 mph, I realized that I should have
been a bit clearer with my directions.
Thanks to Verna from Beechy, Saskatchewan
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Prairie Sunset
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Sarah Casareto, 33, of Forest Lake, Minnesota
Nurse steals patient's medication
Sarah Casareto, a nurse is accused of stealing a patient’s
pain medication moments before he was wheeled into
surgery. The 33-year-old woman allegedly told her patient
to “man up” because she couldn’t give him anymore pain
medication.
Why not? Because she’d already injected it herself. The
man then underwent surgery to remove kidney stones with
only 150 of the 500 micrograms of pain medication he
should’ve been given, an experience he described as
feeling like “very long needles going through my skin
and down into my kidneys.”
The nurse’s co-workers say they became suspicious
when the patient seemed to have an unusual amount
of pain. Their suspicions were confirmed when the
nurse fell asleep on the job.
The medicine was Fentanyl, an opium-based medication
used almost exclusively by hospitals for anesthesia,
because it is powerful and fast-acting. It's considered
80 times stronger than morphine and highly addictive.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Andrea
Re: Hide icons
Dear Webby,
is there a way to temporarily hide the icons on the desktop ?
Also, I need to know how to capture the desktop background
and save it in a usable format.
Thanks,
Andrea
Dear Andrea
JC Matt's Icon Hider does a very nice job.
This program puts an icon into your task bar. One click of it
hides the icons on your desktop. Next time you click that
Icon Hider taskbar icon, all your desktop icons return in their
old places. The program is free.
You can download it from my Tool Box at
http://webby.com/tools
The easiest way to capture your desktop is to first hide the
icons, then hit the PrintScreen key. That copies the screen
into the clipboard.
Restore the icons, open a paint program like PaintShopPro,
Hit CTRL V and a picture is opened that shows what you
captured.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
A passenger jet was suffering through a severe thunderstorm.
As the passengers were being bounced around by the turbulence,
a young woman turned to a minister sitting next to her and, with
a nervous laugh asked, "Reverend, you're a man of God, can't
you do something about this storm?"
And the minister said, "Young lady, I'm in sales, not
air conditioning."
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Sore Throat Remedy: Gargle With Cola
When a sore throat is beginning to develop, pull out the cola!
Just gargle with any type of a cola (Dr. Pepper, Coke, Pepsi,
favorite store brands of cola). Gargle and "spit" until the cola
return looks like cola with no mucus. Do this as often as
necessary. Sounds gross, but it works!
Source: Ole wives tale handed down through generations of
my family.
By Joyce from Knoxville, TN
http://www.thriftyfun.com/
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Driving my friend Bill and his girlfriend to the airport, we
passed a billboard showing a bikini-clad beauty holding a
can of beer. Bill's girlfriend glanced up at it and announced,
"I suppose if I drank a six-pack of that brand, I'd look like
her."
"No," Bill corrected, "If I drank a six-pack, THEN you'd look
like her."
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Donna called in a repairman to fix his electric clock.
He examined it and told her, "There's nothing wrong with
the clock. You didn't have it plugged in."
Donna replied, "I don't want to waste electricity, so I only
plug it in when I want to know what time it is."
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If you have a battery operated wall clock, batteries that are
too weak to run a camera or a mouse, will still power a wall
clock for about a year.
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W7 even slower than it used to be
Friday, February 11, 2011, 12:27 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Friday, February 11, 2011
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Lindsay Lohan's crocodile tears mixed with confident smiles
didn't help her in court. The silly dingbat was confident on
getting out ealy, like Paris Hilton, but clearly did not realize
that the sentence was booby-trapped with return tickets:
All kinds of probation, which in the case of an undisciplined
spoiled brat just mean a delayed sentence.
For a heart warmer:
92 year old lady beats up three robbers
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city,
it might be better to change the locks.
--- Doug Larson
The illusion that times that were
are better than those that are,
has probably pervaded all ages.
--- Horace Greeley
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough,
try more laughter.
--- Socratex
"I've just had the most awful time," said a boy to his friends.
"First I got angina pectoris, then arteriosclerosis. Just as I
was recovering, I got psoriasis. They gave me hypodermics,
and to top it all, tonsillitis was followed by appendectomy."
"Wow! How did you pull through?" sympathized his friends.
"I don't know yet," the boy replied. "but it sure was the
toughest spelling test I ever had!"
Permanent SMTP account.
Have you ever had problems sending email?
Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
who use their business email address.
SMTP-To-Go solves all those problems. It works from anywhere
in the world, no matter what ISP you use, even from hotels
that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
A man will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he needs.
A woman will spend three dollars to find a two dollar item that
she does not need, but is marked on sale for one dollar off regular.
Click through the picture to the large version.
Sunset from the Webby Office
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Nicole Scott, 27 in Sandusky, Ohio
Drunk pulled herself over
SANDUSKY, Ohio - Police in Ohio can't take too much credit
for stopping a woman they say was drinking and driving -
they say she pulled herself over.
Officers in the town of Sandusky say the woman stopped because
she thought she saw police lights, but it turns out the flashing
lights were from a skating rink sign.
The Sandusky Register reports that the woman's car got stuck
in a snowbank near the sign when she stopped early Monday
and another motorist called police.
Officers say they took 27-year-old Nicole Scott to jail on
charges of operating a vehicle under the influence. Police
say Scott denied she had been driving.
Yeah, right. It mush have been the schnow man, but he melted
wish all the glullible drinkin, ah, ah mean glullible warning,
ah, whatever it isch that causesch all the schnow.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Alex
Re: W7 even slower than it used to be
Dear Webby
Yeah, I know, getting W7 was a dumb idea. No need to rub
it in. Lately, though, it has gotten even slower than it
used to be. Why is that, and what can I do about it?
Alex
Dear Alex
Windows in general, and W7 in particular, give sloppy
programming a bad name. A lot of stuff is duplicated all over
the place. Microsoft says, that is inevitable when over 40,000
different programmers in many different countries work on
a project, and that we should be glad it runs at all.
You can get auto-runs from Technet.
It is free.
It will show you which programs and procedures are started
automatically, when you boot up. Scary!
You CAN weed out stuff, that you don't need, but be careful!
Microsoft often labels different sub programs with the same
name.
However, it is quite safe to use for weeding out tool bars,
that you don't want anyway, old mouse drivers, and any other
third party items, that are obsolete.
On most macines, that will speed up the boot-up quite nicely,
because Windows won't waste time searching for partially
un-installed items.
To really make a difference, though, you need a high quality
Registry Booster.
Yes, I know, there are all kinds of free Registry tuners available.
They are usually worth about as much as you pay for them.
With Registry Booster you will immediately
see a very noticeable difference. However, if you manually
weed out even more than it does, Windows might not start up
again.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Bob was on vacation, playing the slot machines. It was his
first time in a casino, and he wasn't sure how the machines
operated.
"Excuse me." he said to a casino employee. "How does
this work?"
The worker showed him how to insert a bill, hit the spin
button, and operate the release handle.
"And where does the money come out?" he asked.
He smiled and motioned to a far wall before saying,
"Usually at the ATM."
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Storing Fishing Lures
Fishing season is just around the corner. Pick up CD organizers
that have separate compartments to store all your fishing rigs,
sinkers, small lures, etc. They keep everything tangle free
and easy to find. You can find the CD organizers at rummage
sales this spring. They're inexpensive and effective.
Source: Fishing magazine
By annelaundrie from green bay, wi
http://www.thriftyfun.com/
Personally, I do the opposite!
I use tackle boxes for first aid kits,
nail and bolt bins for small screws, bolts and nails,
one for garden hose and plumbing fittings,
even one to hold all the different types of glue I ocasionally
need.
Just don't send a glue box like that by air!
I made that mistake once, many years ago. Dad had admired my
glue box, each glue in it's own little compartment. So I put
together a tackle box just like that, and sent it to him for
Christmas.
For one reason or another, most of the glue tubes and
containers burst open and permanently glued the box shut.
Not a single tray folded out after that. So I sent him another
tackle box and a gift certificate for stocking it with 25 types
of glue.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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A teenager was headed to school one morning when his
mom told him that the neck tag on his shirt was hanging out.
"I know," he replied. "It's a fad me and some of the guys
started."
Weeks later, as the style persisted, she commented,
"I can't stand it! Every time I see that, I want to fix it for you."
She gently tucked the tag in place and rumpled his hair.
"Yeah," he said smiling slyly. "All the girls do that."
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The census taker knocked on Donna's door. She answered
all his questions except one. She refused to tell him her age.
"But everyone tells their age to the census taker," he said.
"Did Miss Maisy Hill, and Miss Daisy Hill tell you their ages?"
she asked.
"Certainly," he replied
"Well, I'm the same age as they are," she snapped.
"OK, I'll just write down: 'As old as the Hills'," he told her
as he safely stepped out of reach.
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Hard Drive LED on task bar
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 12:45 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Thursday, February 10, 2011
Moe sent me a link about the newest ship hijacking, a super tanker
carrying 200 Million dollars worth of oil,
and a crew of 25 absolute minimum wage employees,
seven Greeks, 17 Filipinos and one Georgian.
Brinks uses two or more heavily armed guards to pick up the
change from the corner store, but the Greek owners of that
Billion Dollar super tanker were too cheap or too dumb to
put some protection onto that big tanker. It looks like they
were trying to lose it, probably to mess with the oil price.
Oh, well. Canada has plenty of oil, and we can always open
the valve on one of the southbound piplines a bit more.
Have FUN!
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You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
--- Lawrence Peter Berra
Then the preacher introduced the choir:
"This is our prison choir," he said,
"behind a few bars and always looking for the key."
Permanent SMTP account.
Have you ever had problems sending email?
Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
who use their business email address.
SMTP-To-Go solves all those problems. It works from anywhere
in the world, no matter what ISP you use, even from hotels
that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
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
do you plan to marry?"
Click through the picture to the large version.
Phidippus Spider
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to the British Government Forensics Agency
Alcohol and drug sample testing dumped overnight.
The Forensic Science Service is being wound down by March
NEXT year, 13 months from now. So they stopped accepting
any more samples today.
Police are scrambling to find licensed labs to do the testing.
The works is dead simple and easily automated, but the
licensing for producing data, that is accepted by the courts,
is apparently a nightmare, and could take many months.
In the meantime, the cops are supposed to store urine and
blood samples in the station fridge, beside their sandwiches
and yoghurts.
Apparently there is not a lot of enthusiasm for that, and
road side testing is expected to come to a halt.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Sara
Re: Hard Drive LED in task bar
Dear Webby
I used to have a little icon that showed me when my hard
drive was in use, so that I know if something is auto-saving
properly, and also to tell me when a download was finished.
It was just a little piece of freeware, but somehow I missed
transferring it to this computer, and I can't find it anywhere
on the net.
Thanks
Sara
Dear Sara
It is still available, but hard to find, and even harder to
find the download link on their site. So I put it into my
Tool Box, right at the top.
For those of you, who are not familiar with it, Disk LED is a
small task bar icon, that shows when your hard drive is active.
It can aslo be used to show printer queue activity, so that you
don't print into the middle of other people's print jobs.
It is a very tiny program, less than 3/4 of a MB,
and it is free, not even ads.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
"Did your wife have much to say when you got home last
night?"
"No, but that didn't keep her from yelling for two hours."
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Use Snow To Water Houseplants
Take advantage of snow to water houseplants! We have had
an overabundance of snow this year. It dawned on me one
evening that just outside my front door lay a wealth of totally
FREE nutrients for my plants!
I went just outside the door with my coffee pot and a jumbo
drink cup and scooped them both full of powdery snow!
Then I sat the coffee pot onto the burner plate of the
coffee maker so it could melt and also warm a little bit
before watering my plants with it, so they wouldn't chill
or shock.
While there is still plenty of snow on the ground, I should
do this enough times to fill a couple clean empty milk
jugs for more free nutrient rich water later!
By Melody_yesterday from Otterville, MO
http://www.thriftyfun.com/
Melody_yesterday, whoever told you that
there are any nutrients in snow, lied to you.
Snow is distilled water, good for African Violets, but not
much more.
Ground water, river or lake water has the minerals and metals,
that the plants need. Snow has absolutely nothing but H2O,
and possibly a little bit of pollution.
If you want nutrient rich water, use dirty, silty river water,
or the clear final overflow from a three or four stage septic
system.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Q: How do I make my wife stop buying all these expensive
gloves?
A: Buy her a diamond ring.
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It had been snowing for hours when an announcement came over
the intercom: "Will the students who are parked on College
Drive please move their cars so that we may begin plowing."
Twenty minutes later there was another announcement:
"Plowing has been completed. The six hundred and twenty-seven
students, who went to move 26 cars, can return to class now."
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Mideast Nation Names And Their Translations
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 04:09 PM -
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 11:28 AM
Good Morning, !
It's Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Looks like all the professional demonstrators that we see at G8, G20
and other big conferences, have arrived in Kairo. Between them
and the left-wing media, they make quite a racket, and seem to
do a good job of inspiring the locals.
The anti-Mubarak side still has not come up with any plans
or specific demands, other than that Murbarak must go, and the
professional demonstrators trying to get chants going by yelling
"Kill Mubarak".
It will be interesting there for a while!
Have FUN!
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Few things help an individual more than to place
responsibility upon him, and to let him know that
you trust him.
--- Booker T. Washington
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows
you're scared to death.
--- Earl Wilson
A drunk walked into a bar and, after staring for a few seconds
at the only woman seated at the bar, walked over to her and
kissed her.
She jumped up and slapped him. He immediately apologized
and explained, "I'm sorry. I thought you were my wife. You
look exactly like her."
"Who would marry you you worthless, wretched, no good,
drunken bum?!" she screeched at him.
"Funny," he muttered, "you even sound like her."
Permanent SMTP account.
Have you ever had problems sending email?
Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
who use their business email address.
SMTP-To-Go solves all those problems. It works from anywhere
in the world, no matter what ISP you use, even from hotels
that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
Peter called his doctor’s office for an appointment.
“I’m sorry,” said the receptionist, “we can’t fit you in for at
least two weeks.”
“But I could be dead by then!”
“No problem. If your wife lets us know, we’ll cancel the
appointment.”
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Skyler A. Evans, 24, Coty D. Faulkenberry, 21, and
Kyle A. Seimetz, 22, all of Lakeview, Arkansas
Burglars leave footprints in snow
Lakeview's chief of police, David Manley, said Saturday that
three men were each charged with three felonies in connection
with a commercial burglary at Lakeview in the early hours of
Saturday morning.
Arrested later Saturday and charged with commercial burglary,
theft of property, and felony criminal mischief, Manley said, were
Skyler A. Evans, 24, Coty D. Faulkenberry, 21, and Kyle A.
Seimetz, 22, all of Lakeview. They were jailed at the Baxter
County Detention Center on $25,000 bond each. Both
Faulkenberry and Seimetz were released Saturday. Evans
remained in jail Sunday.
Manley said an alarm at the Lakeview business was activated
about 4 a.m., and Baxter County Sgt. Mike Holland and Deputy
Rocky Morrell responded to find the business' front door glass
broken out. Manley was notified and responded as did Brad Hurst,
a criminal investigator with the county sheriff's office.
After the initial investigation was completed at the business,
officers began following tracks in the freshly fallen snow,
which eventually led to the front door of the residence of
one of the suspects, Manley said. Property taken from the
business was recovered at the residence, according to
Manley.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Jerome
Re: Leave the recovery partition
Dear Webby
You can tell her that unless she tells the formatter to
delete the partition that the backup is on, it will still stay
on and will only format and install whichever partition
you keep. I often recommend that you leave the backup
partition, because if it is under warranty, you must have
that partition or they won’t honor the warranty
(Especially HP- they are by far the worst).
So just leave it, as it wont hurt and is only 10gb
anyway.
Jerome
Dear Jerome
Great advice, as usual!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
A new secretary was confused about paying a bill,
so she asked me for some mathematical help.
"If I were to give you $23,540, minus 7%, how much would
you take off?" she asked me.
So I told her: "Everything but my glasses!"
Judging by how hard she threw the calculator at me,
it seems that was not quite the answer she expected
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Reusing Every Bit Of Jar Candles
I hate to waste and I love to burn scented jar candles. The
candles say to only burn the wick down to a certain point,
then dispose of the candle. Since these candles are not
cheap, I don't want to throw away that much wax, so I
ignored the directions and burned the candle all the way
to the bottom.
Until the day I almost burned my house down. The jar
was so hot that the glass broke, and the burning wax
began to burn my coffee table. But I still don't want to
throw away that much wax.
So here's a tip that I came up with. When the candle
begins to get low, put the candle in an oven safe baking
pan that has about 1/2 inch of water in the bottom. If the
candle should break, the glass and wax will be contained
within the baker and the water would immediately extinguish
whatever fire may still be burning.
As a side note, if you would rather follow the directions,
but still hate the thought of throwing that much wax away,
take a knife and gently break up the remaining wax into
small bits. Take some sort of mesh, like tulle, place the
wax bits on top of the mesh and tie it up so that it looks
like those wedding favors that are so popular. Or put
them in closets, drawers, cabinets, etc for a lovely scent
when you open the doors/drawers. Or save them to use
for a wedding or baby shower or even a birthday.
By aprilcotton from Aurora, CO
http://www.thriftyfun.com/
Burning jar candles down below the
mark is dangerous, even in a water pan. When that large
flame is too deep down, it heats up the glass. If the water
has evaporated, the glass can melt all the wax and vaporize
some. Then you have an explosion or flare.
It is much safer to get cheap tea-light candles and drop
them into the jar. The flame will be shorter, but they are
very predictable and very safe. And very cheap.
You can even get scented wax and bees-wax honeycomb
sleeves, that are sized for tealight candles.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Thanks to Marnie for this story:
While attending college, I worked evenings at a retail store.
On slow nights my co-worker Susan would often sing along
with the radio while we did paperwork or restocked merchandise.
One evening as the manager was leaving, I expressed my concern
to him about our safety, with just us two working alone at night.
"Oh, you'll be fine," he said, waving his hand.
"If you see anybody who looks suspicious, just warn him that
Susan knows karaoke."
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It was a cold winter day. An old man walked out onto a frozen
lake, cut a hole in the ice, dropped in his fishing line, and waited
patiently for a bite. He was there for almost an hour, without
even a nibble, when a young boy walked out onto the ice, cut a
hole in the ice ten feet from him.
The young boy dropped his fishing line and minutes later he
hooked a Largemouth Bass.
The old man couldn't believe his eyes but chalked it up to plain
luck. But, shortly thereafter, the young boy pulled in another
large catch. The young boy kept catching fish after fish.
Finally, the old man couldn't take it any longer. "Son, I've been
here for over an hour without even a nibble. You've been here
only a few minutes and have caught a half dozen fish! How do
you do it?"
The boy responded, "Roo raf roo reep ra rowms rrarm."
"What was that?" the old man asked.
Again the boy responded, "Roo raf roo reep ra rowms rrarm."
"Look," said the old man, "I can't understand a word you're saying."
The boy spit the bait into his hand and said,
"You have to keep the worms warm!"
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Humor: Recovery partition
Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 01:18 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Why are the good anti-virus programs so expensive now?
A lot of people asked me about that lately.
"Kapersky is $90, McAfee is over $80, Norton just causes
problems, what is there, that is good and still affordable?"
Possibly they want to widen the gap to the free and ultra-cheap
programs. Possibly they need to pay for all the research
needed to keep you safe.
I gave up trying to find the answer and instead looked
for a better deal for you. It took a lot of time to find one
and set it up, but eventually I succeeded.
Now YOU can get the best deal on McAfee on the net,
a $45 discount!
I didn't limit the discount to just subscribers. You can pass
the link on to friends and relatives.
Have FUN!
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what
inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."
--- Franklin P. Jones
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake
at the moment.
--- Willis Player
On their way to a justice of the peace to get married, a couple
had a fatal car accident. The couple found themselves sitting
outside Heaven's Gate waiting on St. Peter to do an intake.
While waiting, they wondered if they could possibly get
married in Heaven.
Saint Peter finally showed up and they asked him.
Peter said, "I don't know, this is the first time anyone has
asked. Let me go find out." and he left. The couple sat and
waited for an answer ... for two months ... and they began
to wonder if they really should get married in Heaven, what
with the eternal aspect of it all.
"What if it doesn't work?" they wondered, "Are we stuck
together forever?"
Peter returned after yet another month, looking somewhat
bedraggled. "Yes," he informed the couple, "you can get
married in Heaven."
"Great," said the couple, "but what if things don't work out?
Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?"
St. Peter, red-faced, slammed his clipboard onto the ground.
"What's wrong?" asked the frightened couple.
"COME ON!" Peter shouted, "it took me THREE months to
find a priest up here! Do you have any idea how long it would
take me to find TWO lawyers AND a judge?"
Permanent SMTP account.
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Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
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that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
Computer Bumper Snickers...
Don't make me use uppercase.
Get a Life?
Cool! Where can I download one of them from?
The truth is out there? Does anyone know the URL?
Click through the picture to the large version.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Cody Wilkins, 25, in Silver Springs, MD
Charging phone leads to burglary suspect
SILVER SPRING, Md. (UPI) -- Police in Maryland said a man who
left his cellphone charging when he fled the scene of a burglary
has been charged in 10 incidents.
Investigators said Cody Wilkins, 25, was arrested after leaving
his cellphone plugged into the wall in a Silver Spring home
when he was surprised by the homeowner's son and fled
through a window during a burglary Friday.
Wilkins was arrested and charged with 10 burglaries.
Police said they believe he may have been involved in
more than 42 burglaries involving jewelry thefts reported
since Jan. 1.
The suspect was taken to the Montgomery County jail
in lieu of $1 million bond.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Wayne
Re: recovery partition
Dear Webby
Here's an off the wall question for you. I have read of your
love for XP over Win 7 and I disagreed somewhat, but with
my brand new dell laptop with 6GB ram and 350 GB h/d started
acting up (specifically I.E. 8) I started thinking back to XP.
Here's my question: IF I format the c drive and start over with
my XP disc, I also lose the recovery partition from the factory.
What is your answer/response/suggestion.
Wayne
Dear Wayne
Why on earth would you want to recover W7, after exorcising
it off the computer?
You actually do the opposite. You make double-sure that W7
Recovery partition is thoroughly nuked, so that you don't have
to worry about problems leaking out of there into the XP set-up.
Once you have XP installed, you can make an extended partition,
and partition that into virtual drives.
I set up C: as a very small drive, just for the operating system.
That makes it fast to do a virus scan or defrag and makes
Windows run faster.
D: is the CD
E: is for tools and programs
F: is for the stuff I produce with those programs.
G: is for queuing stuff for back-up to the external drive H:
H: is the external USB drive
I: is the USB camera chip reader (it acts like a drive)
Except for the CD and the chip reader, that is how I have
set up my computers since DOS in the late 80's.
CDs and memory chips had not been invented yet in those
days. That configuration works quite well for me.
Plan out your partitioning in advance. The first time you
do it, it may be a bit scary and not a good time to do any
long range planning.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
The good bishop knew very well that not only did everyone
in his small town look to him for an example, but that all
too often, all eyes were on him as potential fodder for
the local gossip mill, as well.
This could be wearing; but usually, he was able to provide
the good example and escape the tattlers. One night,
however, after a long, hard day, a social obligation
beckoned on top of his church responsibilities, and he
came to a sudden stopping place.
His hostess, noting that he looked tired, asked with
concern, "A spot of tea, Bishop?"
"No, thank you," he managed. "No tea."
"Ah," she said. "Coffee, then?"
"No coffee either, thank you."
In the spirit of conspiracy, she leaned closer and
murmured,
"I could bring you a scotch and soda in an opaque mug?"
"My dear, this is my last word: NO soda."
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Plastic Lids for Moving Furniture
Keep all of your plastic lids. They are very handy to place
under furniture when moving it around. They are slick so
furniture will glide easily even on carpet and they will
protect your wood or vinyl floors.
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A rather Posh Lady was sauntering around an exclusive
London art gallery when she stopped by one particular
exhibit.
"I suppose this picture of a hideous witch is what you
would call modern art?" she sneered in a very pompous manner.
"No, Ma'm," replied the gallery assistant,
"it's what we call a mirror."
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The young couple invited their aged parson for Sunday dinner.
While they were in the kitchen preparing the meal, the
minister asked their son what they were having.
"Goat," the little boy replied.
"Goat?" replied the startled man of the cloth, "Are you sure
about that?"
"Yep," said the youngster. "I heard Ma say to Pa:
'Let's have the old goat for dinner this Sunday.'"
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A sales representative stops at a small manufacturing plant in the Ontario. He presents a bottle of maple syrup to the manager as a gift.
"No, thanks," says the plant manager. "I tried maple syrup once and I didn't like it."
The sales rep shows his display case and then, hoping to clinch a sale, offers to take the manger out for a beer.
"No, thanks," the plant manager replies. "I tried beer once, but didn't like it."
Then the salesman glances out the officer window and sees a golf course. "I suppose you play golf," says the salesman. "I'd like to invite you to be a guest at my club."
"No, thanks," the manager says. "I played golf once, but I didn't like it."
Just then a young man enters the office. "Let me introduce my son, Bill," says the plant manager.
"Let me guess," the sale rep replies. "An only child?"
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Invoice files take too much space
Monday, February 7, 2011, 12:21 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Monday, February 7, 2011
Egypt seems to be settling down. Even the Muslim Brotherhood,
not the biggest opposition party, but the media favorite,
because they can be counted on to do something photogenic
and / or stupid, whenever they see somebody with a press badge,
decided to sit down with Suleiman and talk. They couldn't bear
the thought of the other opposition parties getting media coverage
and they weren't.
Have FUN!
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"We start with gifts. Merit comes from what
we make of them."
--- Jean Toomer
"Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great
if given with affection."
--- Pindar
"Thanks for the harmonica you gave me for Christmas,"
little Johnny said to his uncle the first time he saw him after
the holidays. "It's the best Christmas present I ever got."
"That's great," said his uncle. "Do you know how to
play it?"
"Oh, I don't play it," the little fellow said.
"My mom gives me a dollar a day not to play it during the day
and my dad gives me five dollars a week not to play it at night.
And I am renting it out to Billy across the street for a dollar
a day. He gets TWO dollars a day for not playing it."
Permanent SMTP account.
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Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
who use their business email address.
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in the world, no matter what ISP you use, even from hotels
that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
Fima bought his wife a beautiful diamond ring for Christmas.
A friend of his said, "I thought she wanted one of those pretty
4-Wheel drive vehicles."
"Oh, she did," he replied, "But where in the world was I going to
find a fake jeep for under $50!!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan got caught stealing again
Lindsay Lohan was accused Tuesday of stealing high-end jewelery,
and cops issued a search warrant for her Venice Beach home.
She got away and a friend of the actress turned the necklace,
valued at $2500, in to the Pacific Division of the LAPD Tuesday
night. Lt. Jeff Bert told RadarOnline.com, "If the LA county DA's
office files charges, it could be grand theft which is a felony."
Now RadarOnline reports that a "surveillance video clearly shows
Lindsay Lohan taking the (allegedly stolen) necklace from the store."
Their source continued, saying, "Law enforcement believe the
video will prove that the actress took the necklace, because it
doesn't, at any point, show her paying for the item. It's the
strongest evidence authories have against [her] ...
If the video didn't exist, she wouldn't be in this precarious
situation."
This isn't the first time Lohan has been accused of having
sticky fingers. In 2007, she was accused of stealing $10,000
worth of shoes and accessories from a former friend. Then
in 2008, she "accidentally" grabbed an $11,000 blond mink
coat from a New York club, then was later photographed in
her impromptu loaner much to the chagrin of its rightful owner.
On the flip side of things, Lohan herself was burgled by the
"Bling Ring" in 2008, and then testified to jurors that she felt
"so violated and uncomfortable" not because of "the things
that were taken, it was just the fact that someone came into
the only private space that I have in my life at this point."
The troubled 24-year-old is still on probation after allegations
from a Betty Ford clinic worker who claimed Lohan assaulted
her. Further trouble with the law could definitely land the starlet
back in court, and maybe even behind bars.
However, since California judges are usually rather lenient
with her type, the story may get changed to a "misunderstanding".
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Bretta
Re: Invoices take too much file space
Dear Webby
We save the doc files of all invoices, but they are beginning to
take up more space than I want to allocate for that. They take
over 200 KB each! Any tips?
Bretta
Dear Bretta
The smallest files would be HTML format. A typical invoice in
HTML format takes 2 - 3 KB per invoice.
With HTML you can use a common header and footer and
small print include files, that are used by each invoice, when
it is displayed or printed or emailed. So all you actually store
is what is different on a particular invoice.
Second best is to use a word processor that allows you to
merge in a boilerplate or header and footer at print time. That
way, similar to HTML, the invoice only contains the parts that
are specific to that particular invoice. That takes about 10 KB
per invoice.
Third best is to convert your letterhead. Don't use pictures for
logos or anything else. At 200 KB you are obviously using
pictures for your logo or whatever. Use fancy fonts instead.
That reduces the file size to about 15 KB
Have FUN!
DearWebby
If you have Windows 7, sooner or later you WILL need this!
Reset your
Windows Password if you forgot or
accidentally changed it. No need to re-install Windows
or an expensive service call, IF you can find a tech
willing to do it without calling the cops about a
potentially stolen computer.
RoboForm is great, once you are booted up.
This program takes care of the boot-up password,
so that you CAN get to RoboForm and all your other
passwords.
YOUR memory might be perfect, and YOU might never
make a mistake, but if somebody in your house is not
quite as perfect as you are, then better get the
Password Resetter
Son: Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa
a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?
Father: That happens in every country, son.
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Gift Idea: Photo Album For Valentine's Day
You don't have to spend a lot of money for a nice Valentine's
gift. A few years ago my husband had to travel overseas and
was going to be gone over Valentine's Day. Although we don't
normally do much for each other on that day, I hated that he
would be alone in a hotel. I took a small photo album (the kind
you get for $1 at some discount stores), and I put photos of
myself, our children, and close family and friends. I wrote on
a piece of paper and stuck in the first slot
"Happy Valentine's Day, from those of us who love you very
much!" I put it in his brief case for him to find later. He was
very pleasantly surprised with his very unique gift.
By Skeesics56 from NW Ohio
http://www.thriftyfun.com/
You can do the same thing on-line as well.
$2 gets you a site. Collect some pictures, poetry, stories, etc.
and write one or more pages with a word processor, that lets
you save the file in HTML format. Upload it, and it is done.
Then you just send them an email or Internet Postcard and
tell them the URL where their page is.
With minor re-writing, you can save the pages for a different
person. Unless you tell them, the won't know, that you wrote
a similar page, with just the name different, for all your
other lovers, ahem relatives.
If they appropriately appreciate it, you can update their
page for birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, etc.
If you are interested, let me know!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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A preacher retired and moved to the country to enjoy life and
practice his hobby of yard work. Needing a lawn mower, he
headed into town to buy one. On the way he saw a sign
advertising a lawn mower for sale. He stopped at the house and
a young lad came out to greet him. The preacher asked about
the lawn mower and the kid said it was behind the house.
The two went to look at the lawn mower. The engine was sputtering
along at idle speed. The preacher increased the speed of the
engine and mowed a few strips. Satisfied that the mower would
do the job they settled on a price of $75.00.
Later in the day, the young lad was riding his bicycle when he
spied the preacher pulling on the engine starter rope. The kid
stopped and watched for a couple of minutes. He asked,
"What's wrong?"
The reply came, "I can't get this mower started. Do you know
how?"
The kid said, "Yep."
"Well, then how do you do it? Tell me!", the preacher yelled.
The kid replied, "You have to cuss at it."
The preacher rose up indignantly. "Now you listen here. I am a
preacher and if I ever did cuss, not saying I have, I've forgotten
how to do it after all these years."
With a wise look on his face , the kid said,
"Preacher, you keep on pulling that rope and it'll all come
back to ya."
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The real world!
The graduate with a Science degree asks,
"Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks:
"How does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks:
"How much will it cost?"
The graduate with a Social Science degree asks:
"Do you want fries with that?"
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Windows forces me to select a user
Sunday, February 6, 2011, 12:05 PM
Good Morning, !
It's Sunday, February 6, 2011
Seems the US State Department is as far out of step with reality
as the White House. After Special Envoy Wisner, who was on
location and knows what is going on, suggested that Mubarak
should stay in office to oversee a controlled transition of power,
so that it would not be too chaotic, the State Department effectively
disowned him and said that was HIS opinion, not the position
of the US Government.
Which obviously does not have a clucking fue.
Ice cream parlors and food shops at and near Tahir square
are open and doing great business with the hordes of reporters
and celebrities. who want to be seen and photographed. The
protest seems to have simmered down to about the level of a
Seattle SPCA protest or a San Francisco Gay Rights protest.
Right now it seems to be mostly young people trying to see
what they can get away with, and a few older ones, desperately
trying to outnumber the media.
Most of the opposition seems to have realized that they have
nobody to replace Mubarak and his people, and need time to
get organized. Mubarak's Judo move, 'you push, so I pull'
of dumping the entire cabinet, got them rather scared.
Who is going to do the work? Who KNOWS how to do the work?
In the meantime, there are over 70,000 people making a big
raket in Belgrade, Serbia. And Serbians are not as calm and
laid back as Egyptians.
Huh?
I can just hear Obama complaining that nobody tells him nothing.
Where is Serbia anyway?
Didn't Bush have some kinda war over there?
What's going on over there?
Well, they got a bit too Socialistic and their economy got
stuck.They have trouble getting more loans, and people are
hungry. The next election is not scheduled until 2012, and
people feel they can't survive that long on what there is
available.
It's too early to tell whether the current protest will turn as
violent as previous ones, but as I am writing this, the
riot police is in firm control, and some say the protest
is surprisingly civilized.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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A Navigator's Definition of Latitude & Longitude:
Latitude is Where We are Lost,
&
Longitude is How Long We've been Lost There!
--- USAF Navi-guesser
Did you ever see the customers in health-food store?
They are pale, skinny people who look half dead.
In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people.
They're dying, of course, but they look terrific!
--- Bill Cosby
Did you know that dolphins are so intelligent that within only
a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand at the
very edge of the pool and throw them fish?
Permanent SMTP account.
Have you ever had problems sending email?
Every traveler has had problems with that, and most people
who use their business email address.
SMTP-To-Go solves all those problems. It works from anywhere
in the world, no matter what ISP you use, even from hotels
that block outgoing emails.
There is a free trial, where you can send up to 10 emails a day,
plenty to see how well it works.
For a very limited time, you can get a standard account
for just $1.99.
There is no need to change your address
or your email program, and you CAN use 5 different email
addresses. You simply SMTP-To-GoBypass the ISP, that is causing
you problems.
One day, Little Johnny visited a doctor for a vaccination.
After the doctor gave him an injection, he tried to bandage
around Johnny's arm.
"I think you'd better bandage around the other arm, doc!"
asked Little Johnny.
"But, why? I'm supposed to bandage around the injected
part of your arm to let your friends know not to touch it."
"You really don't seem to have a clue about how kids
behave!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to a parking valet in Montreal, Quebec
Montrealer caught doing 240
A 20-year-old man was pulled over in Montreal early Friday
morning for allegedly driving more than three times the
speed limit in a BMW sport utility vehicle.
Sgt. Genevieve Bruneau of the Surete du Quebec told CTV.ca
the young man was clocked at 240 kilometres per hour,
in a 70 km/h zone.
The man was travelling on Highway 720 at about 3 a.m.
when he passed by police officers conducting a speed
monitoring operation.
The driver pulled over as soon as police pulled out behind
him, and came to a stop just before the entrance to the
Ville Marie Tunnel.
Bruneau said police issued a ticket for $2,598,
suspended the man's license and had the vehicle towed.
He also received 42 demerit points. After 15 points,
drivers in Quebec are effectively unable to obtain
or maintain a licence.
Bruneau would not confirm nor deny reports that the
man works as a valet at a nearby hotel, however other
sources confirmed that.
Bruneau said new laws in Quebec allow police to double
set fines and demerit points when excessive speeds
are reached, such as in this case.
Officers are also able to immediately suspend the
driver's license for seven days.
Police can impose even harsher penalties on a second offence.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Sharon
Re: Windows forces me to select a user
Dear Webby
Thanks again for your wonderful humor. It sure brightens a
dull looking day. Thank you for taking time to share with us.
I have a couple of curious questions:
Something odd happened yestrday after I ran an antispyware
run that has not happened before. I don't think this is due
to that action but now when I restart or turn on my pc my
"Welcome page" comes up 1st wanting me to log in.
Luckily all I have to do is click on "owner" as I have
never set a password for it. I went to conrol panel &
opened "user accts". Then I clicked on "change the
way users log on or off"
Then I noticed the "use the welcome screen" had a
check mark next to it. I didn't do anything with it. Usually
all I do is turn on the pc & my usual desktop comes up,
not the welcome page. Should I uncheck that box to
go back to my usual way? I am the only one who uses this pc.
Another thing that happens is for some reason I have to go
almost every day to my address book & change the view in it.
I have it set to read names by alphabet w/ A -Z in the ascending
order but it keeps changing to the descending order.
Neither of these seem to be major issues just a nuisance.
Any tips on how to correct them?
I sure appreciate you help.
Have a purrfect day,
Sharon
Dear Sharon
Dear Sharon
With XP, if you have only one user, and no password set,
it normally boots straight to the desktop.
If an intruder changed that, it's fairly easy to get THAT part
back to normal:
Go to Start -> Run.
Copy and paste the following into the Open box:
control userpasswords2
Click OK.
In the "Users for this computer" box, click on the account you
want to have logged on automatically.
Uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this
computer".
Click OK.
In the box that pops up, make sure the account you clicked on
earlier is entered next to User Name.
Enter your password twice.
Note: You can leave the password box blank if the account does
not have a password.
Click OK.
Reboot to see if you get the desired results.
If you prefer, you can download a Microsoft program called
TweakUI or PowerToys and configure it accordingly.
While you are in there, you will also see who the mystery
alternate user is. Unless that is somebody you authorized
to go in and change the address book sort order and other stuff,
but forgot about it,
you might want to dump that alternate user.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
If you have Windows 7, sooner or later you WILL need this!
Reset your
Windows Password if you forgot or
accidentally changed it. No need to re-install Windows
or an expensive service call, IF you can find a tech
willing to do it without calling the cops about a
potentially stolen computer.
RoboForm is great, once you are booted up.
This program takes care of the boot-up password,
so that you CAN get to RoboForm and all your other
passwords.
YOUR memory might be perfect, and YOU might never
make a mistake, but if somebody in your house is not
quite as perfect as you are, then better get the
Password Resetter
Mother: "How's your history paper coming?"
Son: "Well, dad suggested that I use the Internet for
research and it's been very helpful.
Mother: "Really?"
Son: "Yes, so far I've located 17 people who sell them!"
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Disinfecting Wipes for Kitchen and Bath Clean Up
To keep my kitchen and bathrooms smelling fresh and germ free,
I use Lysol disinfecting wipes. After doing the dishes and
wiping the counters, tables and appliances, I go back over
the counters, tables and appliances with a Lysol wipe. I
also use a wipe to clean the stove hood. With a simple wipe,
all the greasy build up comes off clean.
I do the same thing in the bathroom. After cleaning, I use
a wipe and wipe everything down again. I keep a jug of the
wipes on the toilet and after using it, the toilet gets wiped
down with a wipe. Another jug is kept next to the sink for
wiping it down after each use. Only takes a second or two
and leaves it smelling nice and tackles the germs at the
same time!
I buy the wipes at Dollar General, and lots of times I can
even find them at the Dollar Tree. But even if I have to
buy them at Wal Mart, they aren't too expensive. And it's
a small price to pay for such a clean smelling room and
to get rid of the germs!
By Cricketnc from Parkton, NC
http://www.thriftyfun.com/
Do you realize, that your obsession with germs stymies and
de-trains your immune system?
The odd germs in low quantity are good training and updating
for your immune system, so that it CAN fight off germ based
illnesses. It is usually best to not get too fanatic with the
anti-germ-warfare in the house.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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Two women, who are dog owners, are arguing which dog is
smarter:
First woman: My dog is so smart. Every morning he
waits for a paper boy to come around and then he takes
a newspaper and brings it to me.
Second woman: Yes, I know.
First one: Who told you ??
Second one: My dog wrote about it on FaceBook.
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The Navy Captain looked the crew over and said, "Men before
anything more is said, I would like to clear up one thing. This
isn't MY ship, this is YOUR ship."
From deep in the ranks came a voice: "Great! Hey guys,
let's sell the silly old boat and have a PARTY!"
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