How to "get rid of IE hack"?
Saturday, May 3, 2014, 09:34 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, May 3.
Last night, by the time I shut down around 04:30, it had
started to rain. First rain of the year!
By noon the lawn had some green patches in the brown.
By evening the rain turned to snow.
No panic yet about readying the lawn mower.
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to
woman in Texas, who went berserk about a corn dog
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Today, in
1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles,
CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the
acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.
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The Japanese eat very little fat, and suffer fewer heart
attacks than the British or Americans. On the other hand,
the French eat a lot of fat, and also suffer fewer heart
attacks than the British or Americans.
The Japanese drink very little red wine, and suffer fewer
heart attacks than the British or Americans.
The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine,
and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or
Americans.
Conclusion:
Eat and drink what you like.
It's speaking English that kills you.
A couple was going out for the evening. They were both ready to go,
nice clothes, hair done, perfume, cologne, cat put out, etc.
The taxi arrived, and as the couple walked out of their home, the cat
shot back into the house. Not wanting their often rowdy cat to have
free run of the house while they were out, the husband went back
upstairs to chase the cat out.
Well, the wife did not want anyone to know the house would be empty
for the evening, so she explained to the taxi driver, "He's just going
upstairs to say good-bye to my mother."
A few minutes later, the husband got into the cab and said, "Sorry
I took so long. The stupid old thing was hiding under the bed and I
had to poke her with a wet mop to get her to come out."
The taxi driver laughed so hard, he almost hit a parked car.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to
Charmelle Henry, 45, Midland, Texas
Corn Dog Raider
She's really in the doghouse now.
A West Texas woman is in jail after allegedly threatening
the lives of a store employee over corn dogs Tuesday.
Workers at a Midland, Texas business said Charmelle Henry
threw 75 cents at them and demanded a corn dog, according
to News West 9. When the 45-year-old wasn't happy with the
corn dog she received, she threw that at them as well and
demanded a dog that was not microwaved.
After giving her a second corn dog, the workers noticed
that Henry had a knife in her hand. She allegedly told
the workers that she would "stab [them] in cold blood"
unless she got another corn dog.
She also began stabbing the counter with her pocketknife,
according to an arrest report obtained by MRT.com.
One employee called police, who subdued the "extremely
agitated" woman with a K-9 unit until she followed
their orders.
WFAA reports she faces two counts of aggravated assault
with a deadly weapon.
Tech Support Pits
From: Jim
Re: How to get rid of IE Hack
Dear Webby
.... You're wonderful!
While I'm at it....what can one do if he has already fallen into the internet explorer trap? Anything besides taking it to the shop? Really enjoy your stuff. First thing I look at (after Ophelia). : )
Jim
Dear Jim
The Internet Explorer hack is not a virus, that can be
removed, it's a hole in Internet Explorer, through which
hackers can enter your computer and get access to all your
information.
Simply don't use Internet Explorer until Microsoft
has fixed their problem.
Make Firefox or Chrome or Opera or Safari your default
browser. In most cases, that will be enough.
If you have some program, that specifically calls
Internet Explorer, replace that program with a
better one, or UNinstall Internet Explorer.
Because Microsoft has interwoven Internet Explorer
with all kinds of Windows functions, - and got sued for
really big money about that by the European Union-,
here it is not fast or easy to weed it out.
If you do decide to get rid of it, save all your work and
close all running programs, since you will have to reboot
anyway.
Then follow the instructions at How-To-Geek: Remove IE
Have FUN!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Buy Unwanted Gifts At Garage Sales
All year long, I love to go garage sale hopping. If you
go early, you get the best stuff. Many people get gifts
that are just not their thing and sell them at the
garage sales. These gifts are bath sets, unopened games,
oh the list is long. I get these gifts and hide them in
my gift closet.
There is always someone that gets forgotten and you have
a gift for them - co-worker newspaper carrier, even the
mail lady. This also helps when I have been invited to
a home party and they make great hostess gifts, too!
I save about 10-20 dollars per gift.
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"The Related Sale" was the subject of a pep talk given
recently by the manager of a certain super-drug store.
"For instance, if a customer wants razor blades," he
told employees, "ask him how he's fixed for shaving
cream and after-shave lotion. That way you can turn a
small sale into a bigger one and make more commission."
The youngest clerk was very impressed with the talk and
was eager to try the technique on his very next
customer. This turned out to be a rather embarrassed
gentleman who shyly requested a box of Tampax for his
wife.
Ten minutes later, the manager of the store was amazed
to see The customer staggering out loaded down with
assorted fishing equipment, tackle, nets, boots and a
one-man inflatable life raft.
"What happened?!" The manager gasped, and the clerk
modestly attributed his success to "The Related Sale."
"Related Sale!" Exclaimed the manager. "But all he
wanted was a box of Tampax."
"I know," said the clerk. "So I said, 'Look, mister,
there isn't going to be much doing around your house
this weekend. Why don't you take a fishing trip?'"
A butcher, who had had a particularly good day, proudly
flipped his last chicken on a scale and weighed it.
"That will be $6.35," he told the customer.
"That's a good price, but it really is a little too small,"
said the woman. "Don't you have anything larger?"
Hesitating, but thinking fast, the clerk returned the
chicken to the refrigerator, paused a moment, then took
it out again.
"This one," he said faintly, " will be $6.65."
The woman paused for a moment, then made her decision...
"You know what," she said, "I'll take both of them!"
Today in
1568 - French forces in Florida slaughtered hundreds of Spanish.
1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.
1859 - France declared war on Austria.
1888 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Works.
1916 - Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were
executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.
1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
1926 - In Britain, trade unions began a general strike.
1945 - Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from
the Japanese.
1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants
prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other
minorities were legally unenforceable.
1952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.
1968 - After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retook
Dai Do complex in Vietnam. They found that the North
Vietnamese had evacuated the area.
1971 - Anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations
in Washington, DC.
1986 - In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned
Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after
liftoff. Safety officers destroyed it by remote control.
1988 - The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy
Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule
her husband's activities.
1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles,
CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the
acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.
1997 - The "Republic of Texas" surrendered to authorities
ending an armed standoff where two people were held hostage.
The group asserts the independence of Texas from the U.S.
2000 - The trial of two Libyans accused of killing 270 people
in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 (over Lockerbie) opened.
2006 - In Alexandria, VA, Al-Quaida conspirator Zacarias
Moussaoui was given a sentence of life in prison for his
role in the terrorist attack on the U.S. on
September 11, 2001.
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Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:07 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, May 2.
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to
2 NC dope dealers caught next to a school
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From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in
1982 The British submarine HMS Conqueror sank Argentina's only
cruiser, the General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands War.
More than 350 people died.
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A young man excitedly tells his mother he's fallen in love and
going to get married. He says,"Just for fun, Ma, I'm going to
bring over 3 women and you try and guess which one I'm going
to marry."
The mother agrees.
The next day, he brings three beautiful women into the house
and sits them down on the couch and they chat for a while.
He then says, "Okay, Ma, guess which one I'm going to marry."
She immediately replies, "The one in the middle."
"That's amazing, Ma. You're right. How did you know?"
"I don't like her."
>From Eddie
My wife-to-be and I were at the county clerk's office to get
our marriage license. After recording the vital information;
names, dates of birth, etc. the clerk handed me our license
and deadpanned, "No refunds, no exchanges, no warranties."
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Easter cactus still going strong on May 1
Look at all the buds still to open!
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to
Brittany Robinson, 26, and Trenton Simmons, 20, Rock Hill,NC
Pot Dealers Busted Near
Elementary School
Two South Carolina men were arrested near an elementary
school after cops found their drug stash hidden inside a
Scooby-Doo lunchbox, police report.
Brittany Robinson, 26, and Trenton Simmons, 20, were nabbed
Monday afternoon about 50 feet from Northside Elementary
School in Rock Hill, a city 25 miles south of Charlotte,
North Carolina.
Robinson (left) and Simmons were both jailed on two
narcotics charges--possession of pot with intent to
distribute and possession of pot near a school.
Responding to a report of two men using drugs behind
a residence, Rock Hill Police Department officers
encountered Robinson and Simmons, who reportedly admitted
that the pair had been smoking pot. A subsequent search
of the area turned up the Scooby-Doo lunchbox, which was
wrapped in cellophane and found inside a grocery bag.
The plastic lunchbox--of which both men denied ownership
--contained more than four ounces of marijuana, 10 glass
pot pipes, and a bag with "3 glass pipes with hash
residue within it."
Cops noted that Simmons wept and became “weak in the knees”
when police located the orange lunchbox
Tech Support Pits
From: Noella
Re: Brother got hit by IE hack
Dear Webby
My brother was caught with IE open on the first day this
warning came out.
He happened to have a file open that contained all his
private data - including bank account numbers and passwords
for both himself, my mom and other members of his family.
He lives in Anchorage and received a call from someone in
Las Vegas that they were getting "tons" of e-mail from
him and the person told him that his computer had been
"hacked."
He's had to close every bank account they owned, every
debit card, every credit card and open new accounts.
This includes accounts (banking, savings, cd, money
market, etc) for my mom as well. My mom is 94 years
old and has severe dementia. Many of the institutions
are not accepting his power of attorney. We're going
to have to get her to sign cards and papers (and her
signature is now unreadable). It is very possible
that the lawyer who drew up her trust agreement may
have to get involved - so that could even mean a trip
for him to southwest Missouri.
When I saw the words "homeland security" in the first
warnings, I immediately thought this is fake (it reminded
me of the notices one gets that really are fake), but
then I started seeing the warning from other reliable
sources.
I don't know what operating system he was using, but he
did have IE and Chrome open on the day the warning came out.
It has turned into a nightmare for him.
Noella
Dear Noella
I hope you suggested to him, that he subscribe to the
Humor Letter. It would have saved him a lot of grief!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Use Towels to Dry Clothes Faster
I saw my husband using this trick over the weekend when our
dryer broke and we had to go to a laundromat. To absorb
excess moisture from clothes and reduce drying time, place
a dry towel or two in the dryer along with your wet clothes.
Make sure you pause the drying and pull out the towels after
10 to 15 minutes or else the wetness will just recycle its
way back on to your drying clothes. Compared to when I did
the drying on my own the week prior, we saved some money
and quite the wait time!
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One woman was talking to her friend, "You should listen to
my neighbor," she says. "She is always bad-mouthing her poor
husband behind his back. I think that's so rude. Look at me!
My husband is fat, lazy and cheap; but have you ever heard
me say a bad word about about him?"
Two Englishmen walking through the woods with a large Salmon
under each arm when they met two Irishmen, Michael and Donal.
"Hey there's some wonderful salmon, where did you get them?"
"Don't tell anyone," replied the Englishmen, "but we poached them
out of the river."
"How did you do that?" asked Donal
"Well, Fred here dangles over the bridge, I hang on to his legs
and when the salmon leap out of the water on their way upstream,
he just catches them."
"We'll try that, Michael, me boy." says Donal
They get to the bridge and Donal hangs Michael over the edge of
the bridge by his legs, after about twenty minutes Michael
screams...
"Quick pull me up, pull me up!"
"Have you got a salmon?" asks Donal,
"No," replies Michael "but there's a train a-comin'."
Today in
1670 The Hudson Bay Company was founded by England's
King Charles II.
1776 France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American
rebels fighting the British.
1797 A mutiny in the British navy spread from Spithead
to the rest of the fleet.
1798 The black General Toussaint L’ouverture forced British
troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo.
1808 The citizens of Madrid rose up against Napoleon.
1813 Napoleon defeated a Russian and Prussian army at
Grossgorschen.
1865 U.S. President Andrew Johnson offered $100,000 reward for
the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1885 The Congo Free State was established by King Leopold II
of Belgium.
1885 The magazine "Good Housekeeping" was first published.
1887 Hannibal W. Goodwin applied for a patent on celluloid
photographic film. This is the film from which movies are
shown.
1902 "A Trip to the Moon," the first science fiction film
was released. It was created by magician George Melies.
1926 U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to put down a revolt
and to protect U.S. interests. They did not depart until
1933.
1933 Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.
1941 Hostilities broke out between British forces in Iraq
and that country’s pro-German faction.
1945 Russians took Berlin after 12 days of fierce
house-to-house fighting. The Allies announced the surrender
of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
1946 Prisoners revolted at California's Alcatraz prison.
1965 The "Early Bird" satellite was used to transmit television
pictures across the Atlantic.
1970 Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University
burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard took
control of the campus.
1974 Former U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by
the Maryland Court of Appeals.
1974 The filming of "Jaws" began in Martha's Vineyard, MA.
1982 The British submarine HMS Conqueror sank Argentina's only
cruiser, the General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands War.
More than 350 people died.
1994 Nelson Mandela claimed victory after South Africa's first
democratic elections.
1999 In Panama, Mireya Moscoso de Grubar, of the Armulfista
Party, was elected president.
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Your Email address forged into spam mails
Thursday, May 1, 2014, 09:03 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, May 1.
Thank you Leesa for the wonderful heat pad fo my back!
You can vote again! Ezinefinder is fixed!
Today I have to drive to Calgary for a colorectal screening
consultation. No idea whey they can't do that consultation
over the net. I just hope whoever does the consulting is not
the marblemouthed mumbler, who phoned me. I had to ask to
speak to somebody else.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award
AND a Darwin Award goes to a
NC woman who texted while driving
Details at International Bonehead Awards
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Today, in
2011 An announcement was made that U.S. soldiers had killed Osama
bin Laden in Pakistan.
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There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
--- Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
--- Lance Armstrong
"I am not where I need to be, but thank God
I am not where I used to be"
--- Joyce Myers
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One evening at story time, a little girl asked her father,
"Daddy? Do all Fairy Tales begin with 'Once Upon A Time'?"
"No, Honey," he replied, "there's a whole series of
Fairy Tales that being with, 'If Elected I Promise' . . . "
The day I got married was really embarrassing. When
the minister said, "If anyone present doesn't agree with
this marriage; come forward and speak now, or forever
hold your peace", I turned around and noticed her family
had formed a double line. And they had shotguns!
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to
NOT a recent picture. A glamor shot from a many years ago.
Courtney Ann Sanford,
Texting to death
Courtney Ann Sanford was a 32-year-old woman from Clemmons,
N.C. was frantically posting selfies and happy comments
on Facebook while she was driving her car.
Seconds after her last post, Courtney's car crossed the
median and hit an oncoming truck on Business Route 85
in High Point, N.C.on Thursday. Her vehicle ran off
the road and burst into flames. She was pronounced dead
at the scene.
The truck hit a tree, but the driver wasn't injured.
Police said Courtney Ann Sanford had her seat belt on,
but that it wasn't properly buckled. High Point Police
Lt. Chris Weisner said investigators have ruled out drugs,
alcohol, and speed as being involved in the fatal accident.
Sanford posted her Facebook message at 8:33 a.m., just
before she rammed the oncoming truck.
“As sad as it is, it is a grim reminder for everyone…
you just have to pay attention while you are in the
car,” Weisner.
Luckily she rammed a sturdy truck, and not YOU
or a soft SUV full with a mom and kids.
Suicide? Or just a boneheaded Kamikaze klutz?
Tech Support Pits
From: Alex
Re: Forged address
Dear Webby
I get all kinds of mail that has my address
forged into the sender address. Since I DO send mail
to myself as a fast way to record and file notes, I can't
block my own address and spam gets through the same
way. How do I filter forged addresses?
Alex
Dear Alex
You will notice that spammers usually use some name other
than yours, just your address. Put your name into the sender
name field in your email program. All email programs have
a way of doing that, even OE. Then make a filter that
IF
the Sender address contains alex234@domain.com
AND
the sender address does NOT contain "Alex P"
then dump the mail automatically, don't even list it.
If your address has been assigned and contains your entire
first and lat name, then make the sender name slightly
different, for example by adding a middle initial. If the
incoming mail does not have the initial, it gets dumped.
Have FUN!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Clear Browser for Cheaper Online Airline Tickets
Many travel websites track your activity and see how many
times you've been on their page. Clearing your web browser's
cookies and cache can help you score cheaper air travel
online, making it look like it's your first visit to their
site, giving you better chances of lower prices. My
girlfriend who travels a lot told me about this. I was
skeptical until I tried it for myself - it works!
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What's the difference between a general practitioner
and a specialist?
One treats what you have, the other thinks you have
what he treats.
Once I did system support in a law firm. One day, I had
to log a user off and then back on. I entered her initials
and then I asked her for her password.
Her password was "genius".
After three tries and the system telling me "access denied,"
I asked her how to spell it.
She said, "G - E - N - I - O - U - S."
Today in
0408 Theodosius II succeeded to the throne of Constantinople.
1308 King Albert was murdered by his nephew John, because
he refused his share of the Habsburg lands.
1486 Christopher Columbus convinced Queen Isabella to fund
an expedition to the West Indies.
1707 England, Wales and Scotland were united to form
Great Britain.
1805 The state of Virginia passed a law requiring all freed
slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment
or deportation.
1867 Reconstruction in the South began with black voter
registration.
1877 U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew all
Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
1884 The construction of the first American 10-story
building began in Chicago, IL.
1898 The U.S. Navy under Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet
at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
1905 In New York, radium was tested as a cure for cancer.
1915 A German submarine sank the U.S. ship Gulflight.
1927 Adolf Hitler held his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.
1931 The Empire State Building in New York was dedicated
and opened. It was 102 stories tall and was the tallest
building in the world at the time.
1934 The Philippine legislature accepted a U.S. proposal
for independence.
1937 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of
neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
1944 The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet,
made its first flight.
1945 Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler,
escaped from the Fuehrerbunker as the Red Army
advanced on Berlin.
1948 The People's Democratic Republic of Korea
(North Korea) was proclaimed.
1958 James Van Allen reported that two radiation
belts encircled Earth.
1960 Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down
over the Soviet Union. Powers was taken prisoner.
1961 Fidel Castro announced there would be no more
elections in Cuba.
1968 In the second day of battle, U.S. Marines, with
the support of naval fire, continue their attack
on a North Vietnamese Division at Dai Do.
1970 Students at Kent State University riot in
downtown Kent, OH, in protest of the American
invasion of Cambodia.
1981 The Japanese government announced that it would
limit passenger car exports to the United States over
the next three years.
1986 The Tass News Agency reported the Chernobyl nuclear
power plant accident.
1986 Bill Elliott set a stock car speed record with his
Ford Thunderbird in Talladega, AL. at 212.229 mph.
1992 On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting
from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in
public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?"
1998 Arrow Air was fined $5 million for using spare parts that
lacked federal approval in the U.S.
1999 On Mount Everest, a group of U.S. mountain climbers
discovered the body of George Mallory. Mallory had died
in June of 1924 while trying to become the first person
to reach the summit of Everest. At the time of the discovery
it was unclear whether or not Mallory had actually reached
the summit.
2011 An announcement was made that U.S. soldiers had killed Osama
bin Laden in Pakistan.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 07:08 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, April 30.
Ezinefinder is still down. Currently it looks like they took
the machine from the server farm in California, where they
had co-located it, and took it home to Washington, State.
With Mac servers you can't just pop the hard drives into
the next machine, because all the next machines are
thousands of powerful Linux machines. Mac servers are
getting to be close to extinct, and so are the highly
specialized techs, who work on them.
I wish the best of luck to Lewis!
Thanks to Walter the Stonecarver for this alert:
ALERT!
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised computer
users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp.s
Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security
flaw that hackers have used to launch attacks.
The United States Computer Emergence Readiness Team said in
an advisory released on Monday morning that the vulnerability
in versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer, could lead to the
complete compromise of an affected system.
Microsoft is trying to close the security hole and will have
an update with a fix some time in the future. Their fix will
just be for W7 and W8 machines. If somebody is using an
XP machine instead of W7 or W8, then Microsoft recommends
that they go buy a newer computer, that has W7 or W8 on it.
HOWEVERRRRR
There is a smart alternative.
Simply stop using Internet Explorer and use FireFox, Chrome,
Opera or Safari instead. Those don't have Microsoft's
security flaw in them.
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Tennessee Man, who faked his own kidnapping
but whose mom refused to pay a $200 ransom.
Details at International Bonehead Awards
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Today, in
1991 An estimated 125,000 people were killed in a
cyclone (hurricane) that hit Bangladesh.
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A four year old was at the pediatrician for a check up.
As the doctor looked in her ears with an otoscope, he
asked, "Do you think I'll find Big Bird in here?"
The little girl stayed silent.
Next, the doctor took a tongue depressor and looked
down her throat.
He asked, "Do you think I'll find the Cookie Monster
down there?"
Again, the little girl was silent.
Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest. As he
listened to her heart beat, he asked, "Do you think
I'll hear Barney in there?"
"Oh, no!" the little girl replied. "Jesus is in my heart.
Barney's in my panties."
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I asked my two-year-old to take his dirty clothes and
put them into the hamper.
He looked puzzled, and I explained, "You know; it's the
place where we put our dirty clothes before they're
washed."
My son picked up his things, trotted into my bedroom,
and slam-dunked his clothes on the floor on his dad's
side of the bed.
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Zachery Logsdon,25, Knoxville, Tenn.
Man Fakes Kidnapping
But Mom Won't Pay $200 Ransom
A man accused of staging his own kidnapping failed to quickly
make cash when his mother wasn't willing to pay his ransom.
Zachery Logsdon, 25, of Knoxville, Tenn., allegedly sent his
mother text messages on April 18 claiming his drug dealer
was going to kill him if he didn't pay $200, Wave3.com
reports.
Logsdon's mother repeatedly asked if he was telling the
truth because, she told police, he had tried this scam before
in order to get drug money, according to WBIR.com.
This time around, she called 911. With her help, investigators
set up a meeting to drop off the money. When Logsdon came to
get the cash, he saw investigators and ran, according to the
Tennesseean newspaper.
After a short chase, Logsdon was taken into custody and
charged with filing a false report and resisting arrest,
Local8Now.com reports.
He is being held at the Knox County Jail in lieu of $3,500,
or $3,300 more than the amount he allegedly asked for his
fake ransom.
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From: Wendy
Re: Get rid of IE ?
Hi Webby,
thanks so much for the info about IE. Heard it all on the
news last night.
Downloaded Chrome this a.m. but have a question-------
how do I get rid of IE or can I?
Thanks for all your help.
Wendy
Dear Wendy
Simply don't use it.
Use Chrome or FireFox.
UNinstalling IE would cause even more problems, because
Microsoft interwove it with all kinds of other stuff.
From the information I got, if you make FireFox or Chrome
the default browser and never call up IE, you will be safe.
Firefox is like Linux, and you can add countless nifty
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There once was a drunk man who decided to visit
Texas.
When he arrived on the plane, he felt the seats and
said, "Wow, these seats are big!" The person next to
him answered, "Everything is big in Texas."
When he finally arrived in Texas, he decided to
visit a bar. Upon arriving in the bar, he ordered a
beer and got a mug placed between his hands.
He exclaimed, "Wow these mugs are big!" The
bartender replied, "Everything is big in Texas."
After a couple of beers, the drunk asked the
bartender where the bathroom was located. The
bartender replied, "Second door to the right." The
drunk man headed for the bathroom, but accidentally
tripped over and skipped the second door. Instead, he
entered the third door, which lead to the swimming
pool and fell into the pool by accident. Scared to
death, the drunk man started shouting, "Don't flush,
PLEASE, don't flush!"
A State Government Employee sits in his office and out of
boredom, decides to see what's in his old filing cabinet. He
pokes through the contents and comes across an old brass lamp.
"This will look nice on my mantelpiece," he decides, and
takes it home with him. While polishing the lamp, a genie
appears and grants him three wishes.
"I wish for an ice cold diet Pepsi right now!"
POOF!
He gets his Pepsi and drinks it. Now that he can think more
clearly, he states his second wish.
"I wish to be on an island where beautiful nymphomaniacs
reside."
POOF!
Suddenly he is on an island with gorgeous females eyeing him
lustfully.
He tells the genie his third and last wish:
"I wish I'd never have to work ever again."
POOF!
He's back in his government office.
Today in
0030 Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.
0313 Licinius unified the whole of the eastern empire
under his own rule.
1250 King Louis IX of France was ransomed for one
million dollars.
1789 George Washington took office as first elected U.S.
president.
1803 The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from
France for $15 million.
1849 The republican patriot and guerrilla leader Giuseppe
Garabaldi repulsed a French attack on Rome.
1864 Work began on the Dams along the Red River. The work
would allow Union General Nathaniel Banks' troops to sail
over the rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana.
1900 Hawaii was organized as an official U.S. territory.
1900 Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway
train "Cannonball Express."
1930 The Soviet Union proposed a military alliance with France
and Great Britain.
1939 The first railroad car equipped with fluorescent lights was
put into service. The train car was known as the
"General Pershing Zephyr."
1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been
married for one day. One week later Germany surrendered
unconditionally.
1947 The name of Boulder Dam, in Nevada, was changed back to
Hoover Dam.
1968 U.S. Marines attacked a division of North Vietnamese in
the village of Dai Do.
1970 U.S. troops invaded Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese
Army base areas. The announcement by U.S. President Nixon
led to widespread protests.
1972 The North Vietnamese launched an invasion of the South.
1975 Communist North Vietnamese troops entered the
Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon. 11 Marines
lifted off of the U.S. Embassy were the last soldiers to
evacuate.
1980 Terrorists seized the Iranian Embassy in London.
1984 U.S. President Reagan signed cultural and scientific agreements
with China. He also signed a tax accord that would make it easier for
American companies to operate in China.
1991 An estimated 125,000 people were killed in a cyclone that
hit Bangladesh.
1998 NATO was expanded to include Poland, Hungary and the
Czech Republic. The three nations were formally admitted
the following April at NATO's 50th anniversary summit.
1998 United and Delta airlines announced their alliance that
would give them control of 1/3 of all U.S. passenger seats.
1998 In the U.S., Federal regulators fined a contractor $2.25
million for improper handling of oxygen canisters on ValuJet
that crashed in the Florida Everglades in 1996.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, April 29.
Thank you, Betty!
Thanks to Walter the Stonecarver for this alert:
ALERT!
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised computer
users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp.s
Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security
flaw that hackers have used to launch attacks.
The United States Computer Emergence Readiness Team said in
an advisory released on Monday morning that the vulnerability
in versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer .could lead to the
complete compromise of an affected system.
Microsoft is trying to close the security holeand will have
an update with a fix some time in the future. Their fix will
just be for W7 and W8 machines. If somebody is using an
XP machine instead of W7 or W8,then Microsoft recommends
that they go buy a newer computer, that has W7 or W8 on it.
HOWEVERRRRR
There is a smart alternative.
Simply stop using Internet Explorer and use FireFox, Chrome,
Opera or Safari instead. Those don't have Microsoft's
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Texas teacher, who gave a boy a
lap dance in the classroom
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Today, in
1990 The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.
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to give a thought for the other fellow.
He could be plotting something.
--- Hagar the Horrible
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship
to the size of his paycheck.
--- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972)
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A family who had just moved into a new neighborhood was
anxious to make a good impression.
But the neighbors seemed cold and made no overtures of
welcome. The mother of the brood was overjoyed when finally
her youngest son ran in and announced happily,
"Mommy, the lady down the street asked my name today!"
"Oh, how nice!" exclaimed the mother enthusiastically.
"And then what did she do?"
"Then she gave it to the policeman." the boy said.
A graduate in economics who completed his degree in the 1950's
returned to his old university for a visit. He was amazed to
see that the examination questions were identical to the ones
asked in his day.
When he pointed this out to a member of staff, he replied,
"That's true, but, of course, in Economics the answers are
completely different every year."
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Felicia Smith, 42, Houston, Texas
Texas teacher, who gave a boy a
lap dance in the classroom
In celebration of a student’s 15th birthday, a Houston
public school teacher gave the boy a “full contact lap
dance” in front of her entire class, an encounter that
resulted yesterday in the educator’s arrest on a felony
charge.
As detailed in a probable cause affidavit, Felicia Smith,
42, admitted to performing the lap dance when questioned
by cops. Smith, a Stovall Middle School teacher, claimed
that “the class convinced her” to perform the lap dance,
which lasted about four minutes and was accompanied by
recorded music.
Police first learned of the February 26 performance earlier
this month, and subsequently interviewed the boy and his
mother. Additionally, investigators obtained a videotape
of the lap dance, which was apparently shot by another
student.
After the boy entered Smith’s classroom around 10:20 AM,
the educator “grabbed a chair and placed it next to her
desk.” The teenager told cops that fellow students were
“yelling and telling him to sit down on the chair that
was placed by Ms. Smith.”
As music played, the victim recalled, Smith sat down on
his lap “with her buttocks making contact with his penis
while she began to move back and forth.” The action caused
the boy to “have an erected penis,” cops noted. Smith, the
boy said, also “fondled him with her hands by touching him
all over his body.” The teen admitted that he “slapped
Ms. Smith buttocks a few times.”
Near the lap dance's conclusion, Smith “got on her two
knees and placed her head between” the boy’s legs, police
allege. “I love you baby, Happy Birthday,” Smith reportedly
said as she hugged the boy.
Charged with improper relationship with a student, Smith
is free on $30,000 bond, and is scheduled for a May 22
court hearing.
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Awwww, poor boy, got to slap the teacher's butt and got
away with it, and is now crying crocodile tears, that he was
hard done by. I have a hunch that some day Karma is going
to come back and bite his ass!
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From: Cora
Re: Ezinefinder
Hi Webby,
What is with Ezine Finder? When I click to vote,
I wait and wait and nothing. Usually it pops up right away.
Cora
Dear Cora
They are not on any of our servers. They are on a Mac server
on the West Coast somewhere. However,the machine is not
dead, I get this response:
Lasso: Internal exception of unknown type.
That would indicate something is messed up with the
software,not the hardware.
I wrote to them on Thursday,and again yesterday,
but they never respond to me anyway.
We just have to wait until they get their problem fixed.
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My dry cleaner very generously provides a stack of free news-
papers for his customers.
As I took my copy, I told him, "I hope the business grows
enough to offset the cost of the papers."
"Oh, don't worry about us," he chuckled... "Nothing dirties
clothes more than newsprint."
Two elderly women were out driving in a large car - both
could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising
along, they came to an intersection. The stoplight was
red, but they just went on through. The woman in the
passenger seat thought to herself "I must be losing it.
I could have sworn we just went through a red light."
After a few more minutes, they came to another intersection
and the light was red again. Again, they went right through.
The woman in the passenger seat was almost sure that the
light had been red but was really concerned that she was
losing it. She was getting nervous.
At the next intersection, sure enough, the light was red
and they went on through. So, she turned to the other
woman and said, "Mildred, did you know that we just ran
through three red lights in a row? You could have killed
us both!" Mildred turned to her and said, "Oh my! Am I
driving?"
Today in
1289 Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli.
1429 Joan of Arc led Orleans, France, to victory over Britain.
1661 The Chinese Ming dynasty occupied Taiwan.
1672 King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands.
1813 Rubber was patented by J.F. Hummel.
1856 A peace treaty was signed between England and Russia.
1858 Austrian troops invaded Piedmont.
1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.
1879 In Cleveland, OH, electric arc lights were used for
the first time.
1913 Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper.
1924 An open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.
1927 Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis was completed
for Lindbergh.
1945 The German Army in Italy surrendered unconditionally
to the Allies.
1945 In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were
married. Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.
1945 The abandoned Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.
1975 The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North
Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon.
1984 In California, the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor went
online after a long delay due to protests.
1990 The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.
1992 Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his
Morris Township, NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a
former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity.
1992 Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four
Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial.
54 people were killed in 3 days.
1997 Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went
on the first U.S.-Russian space walk.
1998 The U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in
NAFTA trade.
1998 Brazil announced a plan to protect a large area of Amazon
forest. The area was about the size of Colorado.
2003 Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) filed a lawsuit against
Best Buy Co. Inc., that claimed the store did not have
permission to use his likeness in a print ad.
2009 NATO expelled two Russian diplomats from NATO headquarters
in Brussels over a spy scandal in Estonia. Russia's Foreign
Ministry criticized the expulsions.
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Monday, April 28, 2014, 10:43 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, April 28.
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DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Fayetteville teen poisoned grandma's
collards over cellphone suspension
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Today, in
2001 A Russian rocket launched from Central Asia with the
first space tourist aboard. The crew consisted of California
businessman Dennis Tito and two cosmonauts. The destination
was the international space station.
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--- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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I was working in a scrap yard during summer vacation at
engineering university. I used to work repairing
construction equipment.
One afternoon, I was taking apart a piling hammer that had
some very large bolts holding it together. One of the nuts
had corroded on to the bolt; to free it I started heating
the nut with an oxy-acetylene torch. As I was doing this,
one of the dimmest apprentices I have ever known came along.
He asked me what I was doing. I patiently explained that if
I heated the nut it would grow larger and release its grip
on the bolt so I could then remove it.
"So things get larger when they get hot, do they?" he asked.
Suddenly, an idea flashed into my mind. "Yes," I said,
"that's why days are longer in summer and shorter in winter."
There was a long pause, then his face cleared. "You know, I
always wondered about that," he said.
This lady is giving a party for her granddaughter, and has
gone all out. She had a caterer, band, and a hired clown.
Just before the party starts, two bums show up looking for
a handout.
Feeling sorry for the bums, the woman tells them that they
can get a meal if they will chop some wood out back.
Gratefully, they head to the rear of the house.
Guests arrive, and all is going well with the children
having a wonderful time.
But the clown has not shown up, and finally, the clown
calls to report that he is stuck in traffic, and will probably
not make the party at all.
The woman is very disappointed and unsuccessfully tries
to entertain the children herself.
She happens to look out the window and sees one of the
bums doing cartwheels across the lawn. She watches in
awe as he swings from tree branches, does midair flips,
and leaps high in the air.
She speaks to the other bum and says, "What your friend is
doing is absolutely marvellous. I have never seen such a
thing. Do you think your friend would consider repeating
this performance for the children at the party?
I would pay him $50!"
The bum replies, "Well, I dunno. Let me ask him.
"HEY Neil! FOR $50, WOULD YOU CHOP OFF ANOTHER TOE?"
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Tyt'ana Lisa-Nicole Johnson, 17, Fayetteville, N.C.
Fayetteville teen poisoned grandma's
collards over cellphone suspension
A Fayetteville teen was arrested Thursday and accused of
spiking her grandmother's Easter dinner with insecticide,
according to an arrest warrant.
Tyt'ana Lisa-Nicole Johnson, 17, of 206 Harrison St., was
charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder.
She was being held Friday in the Cumberland County jail
under a $500,000 bond.
According to a warrant, Johnson tried to kill Gaylon Moody
on Sunday by pouring insecticide and termite killer into
a pot of collard greens cooking on the stove, knowing that
Moody planned to eat them.
Moody said it was payback after she confiscated her
granddaughter's cellphone for a week.
"I just couldn’t understand it," Moody said Friday.
"Over a cellphone, you want to kill somebody?"
She said she cooked her collard greens and the rest of
dinner before heading off to church for Easter services.
Later, she and friend Clifton Evans sat down to eat.
"About an hour and a half later, we started getting sick,"
she said. "My fingers started feeling numb, (and it spread to)
my chest, my face, my mouth."
They tried to drive to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center but
weren't able to.
"We were staggering like we were intoxicated, but neither
one of us drank," she said.
"You couldn’t smell it. You couldn’t taste it," Evans said.
"We couldn’t even stand up we were so weak."
A friend of Moody's who overheard Johnson making suspicious
comments about sickening her grandmother rushed over and drove
Moody and Evans to the hospital, where they were treated and
spent the night.
On Wednesday, Moody said, she found an empty pesticide bottle
in a cabinet at home, and she and Evans confronted her
granddaughter, who confessed to the poisoning.
"She said, 'Mr. Evans, I didn’t mean to make you sick. I was
trying to get back at grandma,'" Evans said. "They got her
locked up, but she needs help. Seriously, something's wrong
with her. People don’t do that over cellphones."
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From: R
Re: Earthlink blocking newsletters?
Dear Webby
Is Earthlink blocking newsletters? None of them come through
any more. What is going on?
R
Dear R
Most likely you told Earthlink to use their totally idiotic
anti-spam program, that requires everybody, who wants to send
mail to you, to fill out their form and get onto THEIR mailing
list.
Naturally, newsletters are too smart for that crap and don't
fall for it. Absolutely NO newsletter will fall for that.
Actually,they can't. Newsletter programs send out the
newsletters, but have no ability to fill forms.
You have to either turn that moron-malfunction OFF,
or figure a way to whitelist the sender addresses of all
the newsletters,that you are subscribed to.
I would recommend that you do that soonest. Most newsletters
will dump you,if they get 3 of those dumb auto-responses.
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Morris had just reached the airport in
the nick of time to catch the plane for their two-week's
vacation in France.
"I wish we'd brought the refrigerator with us," said Morris.
"What on earth for?" asked the wife.
"I've left our airline tickets on it."
Jill and John boarded a crowded subway car on their way
home to Brooklyn. Standing next to them was a man who'd
clearly had a liquid lunch.
When the doors opened at the next station, the man tumbled
out and landed flat on his back. John rushed to his side, picked
him up, and hauled him back into the car.
As the train was pulling away, the man mumbled to Jill and
John, "That wasch my schtop. I alwaysch fall out there!"
Today in
0357 Constantius II visited Rome for the first time.
1282 Villagers in Palermo led a revolt against French
rule in Sicily.
1686 The first volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathamatic"
1789 A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel
crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers
left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift.
1818 U.S. President James Monroe proclaimed naval disarmament
on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1896 The Addressograph was patented by J.S. Duncan.
1902 A revolution broke out in the Dominican Republic.
1910 First night air flight was performed by Claude
Grahame-White in England.
1914 W.H. Carrier patented the design of his air conditioner.
1916 The British declared martial law throughout Ireland.
1920 Azerbaijan joined the USSR.
1932 The yellow fever vaccine for humans was announced.
1937 The first animated-cartoon electric sign was displayed on
a building on Broadway in New York City. It was created by
Douglas Leight.
1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were
executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee
the country.
1947 Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others
set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove
that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. The
trip began in Peru and took 101 days to complete the crossing
of the Pacific Ocean.
1952 The U.S. occupation of Japan officially ended when a
treaty with the U.S. and 47 other countries went into effect.
1953 French troops evacuated northern Laos.
1965 The U.S. Army and Marines invaded the Dominican Republic
to evacuate Americans.
1967 Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and
was stripped of boxing title. He cited religious grounds
for his refusal.
1969 Charles de Gaulle resigned as president of France.
1974 The last Americans were evacuated from Saigon.
1985 The largest sand castle in the world was completed
near St. Petersburg, FL. It was four stories tall.
1988 In Maui, HI, one flight attendant was killed when the
fuselage of a Boeing 737 ripped open in mid-flight.
1989 Mobil announced that they were divesting from South Africa
because congressional restrictions were too costly.
1997 A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons took effect. Russia
and other countries such as Iraq and North Korea did not sign.
2001 A Russian rocket launched from Central Asia with the
first space tourist aboard. The crew consisted of California
businessman Dennis Tito and two cosmonauts. The destination
was the international space station.
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Sunday, April 27, 2014, 11:36 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Sunday, April 27.
10 cm (4") of fresh snow Saturday morning.
A friend came by and brought a couple of corn cobs.
Judging by their small size, and the time of year,
they were probably from South America.
Nuked them for 8 minutes and slid the leaves and
hairs off, rubbed a bit of butter on them and sprinkled
some salt and pepper on them. Delicious!
There we sat, gnawing fresh corn off the cobs, and
watching it snow outside the window. Big, slow Christmassy
snowflakes.Quite a contrast between taste and vision.
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Woman Arrested On Bestiality Charges
After Looking For Horse On Craigslist
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2005 The A380, the world's largest jetliner, completed its
maiden flight. The passenger capability was 840.
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a lot more will be said than done.
--- Socratex
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the
greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
--- John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
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A young minister sitting down to dinner was about to say grace
when he opened the casserole dish that his thrifty bride had
prepared from all of the refrigerator leftovers.
"I don't know," he said dubiously, "but it seems to me that
I've blessed all this stuff before."
Thanks to Joe for this story:
I made the decision to finally do something about the 600
pounds I'm carrying on my 5'4" frame. So, I headed down to
the local sports shoe store and was just amazed at the
tremendous selection of different shoes.
I finally selected a pair and, as I was trying 'em on,
I asked June, "What's this little pocket thing on the
side for?"
She said, "Oh, that's to carry spare change for the
payphone, so that you can call me when you've jogged
too far to walk back from."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to
Ms Donald Waelde, 22,Phoenix, AZ
Woman Arrested On Bestiality Charges
After Looking For Horse On Craigslist
An Arizona woman has been arrested on bestiality charges
after allegedly trying to arrange sex with a horse via
Craigslist.
The woman, who's described as transgender and who the
police report is legally known as Donald Waelde, 22,
posted this ad on the Missed Connections section of
Phoenix Craigslist on April 8:
"I am 22 years old and I want to play with a male Horse.
Simple as that. If you have access to a Male horse, and
can allow me access to a male horse, then contact me
please ;) I will do something in return.
Waelde's ad caught the eye of another Craigslist visitor
who reported it to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office,
Phoenix New Times reports.
Undercover deputies contacted Waelde. During a subsequent
conversation, she allegedly stated she wanted to perform
oral sex on the horse and agreed to meet the undercover
detective, the paper reports.
The meeting took place on Tuesday and deputies brought along
a horse from the sheriff's Mounted Posse as a prop.
During the meeting, Waelde allegedly admitted to placing the
ad and her sexual intentions with the animal.
She was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit
bestiality.
Tech Support Pits
From: Louise
Re: Too much spam
Dear Webby
I made the mistake of signing up toa Yahoo group,that
seemed to be harmless enough, but within days I was
flooded with allkinds of spam. The group's admin says
they didn't sell my address, that it must have been Yahoo.
Is there anything I can do about stopping all that spam?
Thanks
Louise
Dear Louise
I use MailWasher,and have for over 15 years, to stop spam
right on the server,withut bothering to download it.
MailWasher recognizes most spam, and you can make filters.
For example,you can filter out anything,that has korean or
Chinese or Arabic characters, since you probably can't read
that anyway, and tell mailWasher to trash that right on
the server, automatically, without showing you even their
subject line.
At the end of a week you can then look at the stats and
see in a very cute pie chart what percentage was dumped
with which filter.
Making filters is really easy, you can use all the regular
expressions like "If SUBJECT LINE contains .... but FROM
does not contain ....,then delete on the server,automatically.
All those expressions are just pulll-downs. You don't have
to remember them. By occasionally adding other filters you
wind up with a personalized and extremely effective spam
controller. Try the Free Trial and see how well it works!
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more wash cloths and dampen them with plain water and put
them in another ziplock baggie. When the kids or I need to
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Wendy tried to sell her old car. She was having a lot of
problems selling it, because the car had 250,000 miles on it.
One day, she told her problem to Paul her good friend.
Paul told her, "There is a possibility to make the car easier
to sell, but it's not legal."
"That doesn't matter," replied Wendy, "if I only can sell the
car."
"Okay," said Paul. "Here is the address of a friend of mine.
He owns a car repair shop. Tell him I sent you and he will
turn the counter in your car back to 50,000 miles. Then it
should not be a problem to sell your car anymore."
The following weekend, Wendy made the trip to the mechanic.
About one month after that, Paul asked Wendy, "Did you sell
your car?"
"No," replied Wendy, "why should I? It only has 50,000 miles
on it."
Groan Alert!
Mrs. O'Malley arrived in Boston from Ireland, and in no time at all her
bean soup made her the talk of New England society. At a party
celebrating the sale of her recipe to a fancy Charles Street restaurant,
an old matron approached Mrs. O'Malley and said, "My dear girl, what is
the secret of your soup?" Mrs. O'Malley said, "The secret o' me soup is
that I use but two-hundred thirty-nine beans to make it."
The woman asked, "Why only two-hundred thirty-nine?"
Mrs. O'Malley said, "Because one more would make it too farty."
Today in
1296 The Scots were defeated by Edward I at the Battle of
Dunbar.
1509 Pope Julius II excommunicated the Italian state of
Venice.
1521 Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by
natives in the Philippines.
1565 The first Spanish settlement in Philippines was
established in Cebu City.
1805 A force led by U.S. Marines captured the city of
Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
1861 U.S. President Lincoln suspended the writ of
habeas corpus.
1861 West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia
seceded from the Union during the American Civil War.
1865 In the U.S. the Sultana exploded while carrying
2,300 Union POWs. Between 1,400 2,000 were killed.
1880 Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the
electrical hearing aid.
1909 The sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II,
was overthrown.
1937 German bombers devastated Guernica, Spain.
1938 Geraldine Apponyi married King Zog of Albania.
She was the first American woman to become a queen.
1945 The Second Republic was founded in Austria.
1946 The SS African Star was placed in service. It was the
first commercial ship to be equipped with radar.
1950 South Africa passed the Group Areas Act, which
formally segregated races.
1953 The U.S. offered $50,000 and political asylum to
any Communist pilot that delivered a MIG jet.
1960 The submarine Tullibee was launched from Groton, CT.
It was the first sub to be equipped with closed-circuit
television.
1965 "Pampers" were patented by R.C. Duncan.
1975 Saigon was encircled by North Vietnamese troops.
1978 Pro-Soviet Marxists seized control of Afghanistan.
1982 The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr. began in Washington.
Hinckley was later acquitted by reason of insanity for
the shooting of U.S. President Reagan and three others.
1989 Student protestors took over Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
1987 The U.S. Justice Department barred Austrian President
Kurt Waldheim from entering the U.S.
1992 Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry
into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
2005 The A380, the world's largest jetliner, completed its
maiden flight. The passenger capability was 840.
2005 Russian President Vladimir Putin became the first
Kremlin leader to visit Israel.
2006 In New York, NY, construction began on the 1,776-foot
Freedom Tower on the site of former World Trade Center.
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Her computer forgets poetry
Saturday, April 26, 2014, 07:39 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, April 26.
Correction:
>From Jim
Hi Webby,
I'm from Michigan, but Vipre is in Florida
I'm glad you like it, I especially like their tech support
I'm glad I found a good one for you
Jim
Combat Medic Retired
IT Tech
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
PA woman charged with selling heroin from hospital bed
Details at International Bonehead Awards
From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in
1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred
at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Thirty-one people died in the incident
and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.
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>From Dianne
Did I tell you about trying to explain to the kids what a
station wagon was?
I was telling them about our trip to California when I was
little, and they had no idea what a station wagon meant.
I explained it as a car with a long bed in the back, where
we put a quilt and had pillows and toys.
One of them asked, “Was it pulled by horses?”
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to
Lori Sullenberger, 38, Pittsburgh, PA
Charged with selling heroin from hospital bed
A Pennsylvania woman will be charged today with allegedly
dealing heroin from her bed in the intensive care unit of
a Pittsburgh area hospital, police said.
Lori Sullenberger, 38, is suspected of selling $1,400 worth
of heroin from her room in the Excela Westmoreland
Hospital ICU.
“She will be charged with possession with intent to deliver,
delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a
controlled substance and probably a paraphernalia charge
as well,” Greensburg Police Chief Captain Chad Zucco told
ABC News today.
Hospital staff became suspicious and alerted police after
noticing the patient was receiving an unusually large number
of visitors to her room in the ICU, and many of the visitors
would stay mere minutes before leaving. Some of the people
who came and visited her didn’t even know her last name,
police said.
“The ICU is where our sickest of the sick patients are, so
our staff are very attuned to what is happening in the patient’s
rooms,” Excela health spokeswoman Robin Jennings told ABC News.
“What they observed was an inordinate amount of foot traffic
into a patient’s room."
Detectives set up surveillance on the room and eventually were
able to get a confidential informant into the room to buy
approximately 30 bags of heroin. A subsequent search of the
patient and her room yielded 380 bags of heroin, syringes,
and $1,400 in cash, Zucco said.
The drugs were kept in her purse and in hospital room drawers,
police said. The woman apparently also had several cell phones
in her room that would ring at odd hours, police said.
“I’ve not seen anything thing like this before, dealing heroin
set up out of a hospital bed,” the chief said.
Zucco said it is unclear how the women was able to smuggle the
heroin into the hospital. The patient checked into the hospital
on April 14 for an undisclosed reason and the alleged drug
dealing took place from April 14 to April 18, police said.
In addition, the 38-year-old woman, who was being treated at
the medical facility for an undisclosed illness, even managed
to inject heroin into her IV line, according to police.
Meanwhile, Sullenberger remains hospitalized as police are
seeking arrest warrants for not only her but also against
boyfriend Jason Bates, 32, and Robert Rearick, 27, whom
investigators say either bought or possessed drugs from
the suspect.
Tech Support Pits
From: Ellie
Re: Computer forgets poetry
>Sent to AngelWinks and Forwarded to me
I have used you for years and have written over 1,000 poems,
usually no problems but lately all I seem to do is have
problems. Dear Webby used to help me but I can’t get
him either lately. Today really was a disaster. Three verses
into the poem with two angels about friendship and it froze
up on me and I could not go back, my verse was gone and my
cursor froze and you were no longer there. Naturally I
can’t remember what I wrote to do it again. Can you track
it down for me, it meant so much to me as you do. I love
your company, I see a certain picture and a poem comes to
mind and I’m in heaven . Please find my poem from about
two hours ago when I lost it.
Ellie
Dear Ellie
Until you hit SEND, your poem is just in your computer.
There is no way for me to see what you have in your
computer,
or had, before it froze.
I have recommended to you in the past to compose your poems
in a text editor, and occasionally save them.
You can use Notepad, NoteMaid, WordPad, etc., any of the
free text editors.
Save each poem with a name, that will help you find it,
for example
Betty-Jo-April-25.txt
And after each paragraph hit CTRL S to save it.
Just CTRL S
Once you have given it a name, CTRL S is enough to update it.
Once upon a time computers used to lock up or crash
frequently, and there were tons of jokes about Jesus versus
Satan, and Jesus always won, because "Jesus Saves!"
As your computer is getting older, you too will have to save
your work frequently, just like the rest of us have been
doing all along.
Imagine the poems you would have at your disposal, if you
had saved each of them!
At least start doing that now!
When a poem is finished, hit CTRL A to select ALL,
CTRLC to Copy
Jump to the postcards and paste it with CTRL V
AFTER you have hit SEND on the postcards,
THEN I can look it up for you, but until that SEND,
it is only on your computer.
Good Luck!
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ingredients for the meatballs were well mixed, he would roll
small amounts of the meat in the palms of his hands. Then
we put them on a cookie sheet to brown slightly in the oven,
this helps hold them together better. It is also a good way
to remove some of the extra fat. I hope this helps.
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After our friend Tom had been a temporary Bachelor for
several weeks, we stopped by his Home to visit him. My wife
asked if he was eating Properly. "Well, I do eat a lot of
dog food," Tom Told her.
"Dog food!" my wife exclaimed, horrified. "I can't believe
you would be eating anything Like that!"
"Come to the kitchen and I'll show you," Tom replied.
Opening the refrigerator door, He waved his hand at a row
of doggie bags from half of the restaurants in town.
The bathroom scale manufacturer was very proud of the new
model being introduced at the trade fair. "Listen to these
features: it's calibrated to one-one-hundredth of a pound; it
can measure your height as well, in feet or meters; it gives
you a readout via an LED or human-voice simulator; and
that's not all..."
"Very impressive," interrupted a none-too-slender sales rep
for a chain of home furnishings stores, "but before I place an
order I'll have to try it out."
"Be my guest," said the manufacturer graciously.
No sooner had the sales rep taken his place on the scale
than a loud, very human-sounding voice issued forth:
"One at a time, please, one at a time!"
Today in
1478 - Pazzi conspirators attacked Lorenzo and killed
Giuliano de'Medici.
1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.
1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry,
Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in
the Western Hemisphere.
1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.
1929 - First non-stop flight from England to India was completed.
1964 - The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged
to form Tanzania.
1968 - Students seized the administration building at Ohio
State University.
1985 - In Argentina, a fire at a mental hospital killed 79
people and injured 247.
1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred
at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Thirty-one people died in the incident
and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.
1998 - Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was bludgeoned
to death two days after a report he'd compiled on atrocities
during Guatemala's 36-year civil war was made public.
2000 - Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar purchased the NHL's
New York Islanders.
2002 - In Erfurt, Germany, an expelled student killed 17
people at his former school. The student then killed himself.
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Friday, April 25, 2014, 12:54 PM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, April 25.
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Jim from Florida recommended Vipre for antivirus.
Since a lot of people had asked for a lower cost alternative
to mcAfee and kasperski, I decided to try it and do my
homework on it.
Well, surprise, surprise! It beat McAfee and Kasperski!
The installation could be improved a bit. When it offers to
get rid of any remnants of McAfee, it does a good job of that,
but requires a reboot.
McAfee does not go without one last kick at the can.
After you reboot, nothing happens. Between Windows and McAfee,
the installation process is forgotten.
No problem starting the installation again. This time, without
remants of mcAfee in the way, it is smooth sailing. It installs,
updates, scans, and gives you a list of bad files.
For test purposes I keep "Gift.exe", an ancient file from the
days of Windows 3. When run, it shos a message from CocaCola
and says it is giving you a gift, a beverage holder. And opens
the CD tray. Totally harmless joke from the 80's, when jokes
were fun and Trojans not invented yet.
However, modern security programs freak at the sight of an exe,
that bypasses regular inputs and actually does something with
the hardware. That makes it a perfect test file.
Vipre found that file and wanted to dump or quarantine it.
OK, how do you rescue the file from well intentioned Vipre?
Good chance to test their Support.
Chat Support
Less than two minutes wait. WOW! I AM impressed!
A guy who speaks clean and casual English, definitely
not a Taliban using the Babelfish or Yahoo translatot.
I explained the situation, he told me what to hit and
how to make sure Vipre won't object to tat file ever again.
Definitely most impressed!
McAfee's Taliban would have wasted an hour or more on what
the Vipre tech solved in seconds.
Next I tested FTP and SFTP, up and downloading files from
a windows machine to far away Linux servers.
No problem at all.
Last month I tested BitDefender. It got low marks on a bunch
of things, but totally failed on FTP. BitDefender seems to
be made for Mac users who don't get beyond FaceBook.
OK, back to Vipre.
Next I tested SSH, the communication method between Linux
servers and between them and Windows machines. With SSH I
get to the raw command line on servers. Very powerful stuff!
Vipre handled it smoothly. There was a tiny delay, but that
showed me, that it was scrutinizing the weird stuff I was
doing on a Linux server.
One criterium, which I observed from the start, was readability.
There was no zoom, but readability was quite good, good enough
so that I can wholeheartedly recommend VIPRE Internet Security 2014
(That link should open in a new browser tab)
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Knoxville Woman. who hid loaded gun inside her body
on her trip to jail.
Details at International Bonehead Awards
From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in
2003 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader and
ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was sentenced
to four years in prison for her conviction on fraud and theft
charges. She was convicted of 43 counts of fraud and 25 of
theft of money from a women's political league.
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but a comedy to those who think.
--- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
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When the spread of the seals and the fishing by foreign
fleets made fishing less and less profitable in Newfoundland,
Angus and Farley approached the Governemnt with a bid to
dig a tunnel to the mainland. They asked for $100,000 each.
"Considering equipment and labor costs", the Transport Dept
asked them, "how do you propose to do the job for such a
pittance?"
"It's simple," the Angus replied. "My partner grabs a shovel,
goes to the mainland and starts digging. I take another
shovel and start digging from here.
We dig until we meet -- and you've got a tunnel!"
"But what if you never meet?"
"Then you've got TWO tunnels for the price of one!"
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to
Dallas Archer, 19. Knoxville, Tenn.
Woman hid loaded gun inside her body
Police say a woman smuggled a stolen, loaded gun into a
jail, which they discovered during a body cavity search.
Officers searched Dallas Archer, 19, while booking her in
the Kingsport jail and found the 22-caliber revolver inside
her crotch. After checking gun records, police learned the
gun was reported stolen in 2013.
Officials initially arrested the Kingsport woman for driving
on a suspended license, but now Archer is also facing charges
for possession of stolen property and bringing contraband
into the jail.
Tech Support Pits
From: Betty
Re: Protection for 5 machines
Dear Webby
I need affordable protection for 5 mchines.
What do you recommend?
Betty
Dear Betty
After thorough testing, I recommend Vipre.
Check out the link I added further up.
Vipre also covers mobile devices.
Have FUN!
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During basic training for the Army Nurse Corps, we were required to
spend one week in the field roughing it. It rained the entire week. We
arose daily in our swampy tent, took a cold-water beauty bath from
our helmets, donned our pistol belts and ponchos, and trudged
through the mud to set up field hospitals. Obviously, our personal
appearance frequently left much to be desired.
The final blow to our feminine pride occurred while we waited in the
mess line in the mud and rain. A young private came by with a
camera and asked to take our picture. "It will prove to my girl," he
said, "that she has NO reason to be jealous!"
He lived, barely.
A fisherman returned to shore with a giant Marlin that was
larger & heavier than he was. On the way to the cleaning
shed he ran into a buddy who had maybe a dozen or so
one-pound Rockfish.
The buddy eyed the Marlin & said, "Gave up after one,
huh ?"
Today in
1590 The Sultan of Morocco launched his successful attack
to capture Timbuktu.
1644 The Ming Chongzhen emperor committed suicide by
hanging himself.
1684 A patent was granted for the thimble.
1707 At the Battle of Almansa, Franco-Spanish forces
defeated the Anglo-Portugese.
1792 The guillotine was first used to execute highwayman
Nicolas J. Pelletier.
1846 The Mexican-American War ignited as a result of disputes
over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war
fixed Texas' southern boundary at the Rio Grande River.
1859 Work began on the Suez Canal in Egypt.
1860 The first Japanese diplomats to visit a foreign power
reached Washington, DC. They remained in the U.S. capital
for several weeks while discussing expansion of trade
with the United States.
1862 Union Admiral Farragut occupied New Orleans, LA.
1864 After facing defeat in the Red River Campaign,
Union General Nathaniel Bank returned to Alexandria, LA.
1867 Tokyo was opened for foreign trade.
1882 French commander Henri Riviere seized the citadel of
Hanoi in Indochina.
1898 The U.S. declared war on Spain. Spain had declared war
on the U.S. the day before.
1901 New York became the first state to require license
plates for cars. The fee was $1.
1925 General Paul von Hindenburg took office as
president of Germany.
1926 In Iran, Reza Kahn was crowned Shah and choose
the name "Pehlevi."
1928 A seeing eye dog was used for the first time.
1945 U.S. and Soviet forces met at Torgau, Germany
on Elbe River.
1952 After a three-day fight against Chinese Communist
Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment was annihilated
on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea.
1957 Operations began at the first experimental sodium
nuclear reactor.
1959 St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping. The water
way connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
1961 Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the
integrated circuit.
1962 The U.S. spacecraft, Ranger, crashed on the Moon.
1971 The country of Bangladesh was established.
1974 Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar was overthrown
in a military coup.
1976 Portugal ratified a constitution. It was first
revised on October 30, 1982.
1980 In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was
aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the
eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a
helicopter and a transport plane collided and exploded.
Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed
at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the
U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event
took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.
1982 In accordance with Camp David agreements, Israel
completed its Sinai withdrawal.
1983 The Pioneer 10 spacecraft crossed Pluto's orbit,
speeding on its endless voyage through the Milky Way.
1984 In France, over one million people demonstrated
to show they favored the decentralization of education.
1984 David Anthony Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy,
was found dead of a drug overdose in a hotel room.
1987 In Washington, DC, 100,000 people protested the U.S.
policy in Central America.
1988 In Israel, John "Ivan the Terrible" Demjanuk was
sentenced to death as a Nazi war criminal.
1990 Sandinista rule ended in Nicaragua.
1990 The U.S. Hubble Space Telescope was placed into
Earth's orbit. It was released by the space shuttle
Discovery.
1992 Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of
the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the
Communist government.
1996 The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization
voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an
armed struggle to destroy Israel.
1998 U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on was questioned
by Whitewater prosecutors on videotape about her work as a
private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center
of the investigation.
2003 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader and
ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was sentenced
to four years in prison for her conviction on fraud and theft
charges. She was convicted of 43 counts of fraud and 25 of
theft of money from a women's political league.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 08:15 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, April 23
Have FUN!
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to an
La Teacher jailed on aggravated incest,
child porn charges
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From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in
2005 The first video was uploaded to YouTube.com
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A dietitian was once addressing a large audience in Chicago:
"The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have
killed most of us sitting here years ago," he said. "Red meat
is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining. Chinese food
is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can be disastrous, and none
of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our
drinking water.
"But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and
we ll have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food
it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after
eating it?"
An elderly gentleman in the front row stood up and said,
"Wedding cake."
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A good friend of mine warned me that, as my three daughters
became old enough to date, I'd disapprove of every young man
who took them out.
But when the time came, I was pleased that my friend's pre-
diction was wrong. Each boy was pleasant and well mannered.
Talking to my daughter Joanna one day, I said that I liked
all the young men she and her sisters brought home.
"You know, Dad," she replied, "we don't show you everybody."
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Murray Duncan Jr., 45, Washington Parish, La
La Teacher jailed on aggravated incest,
child porn charges
Murray Duncan Jr., a 45-year-old special education teacher
at Mt. Hermon Junior High School, was jailed Wednesday
after he allegedly molested 6 children.
According to the Washington Parish Sheriff's Office, an
investigation was launched after a parent came forward
with allegations that Duncan had sexually molested
their child.
Following the allegation, a search warrant was obtained
by the sheriff's office which turned up child pornography
on Duncan's computer. Duncan was taken into custody a
short time later on child pornography charges.
Since Duncan's arrest, several more allegations of child
molestation have surfaced, including one child molestation
complaint that involves a relative. The victims range in
age from 5-years-old to their mid-teens, according to
detectives with the sheriff's office.
Four of the alleged victims told police they were touched
inappropriately during two different overnight church
trips in which Duncan was a volunteer.
During a police interview, Duncan reportedly admitted to
possessing child pornography and admitted to engaging in
sexual activity with two children.
"I have been battling these demons for a long time,"
Duncan reportedly told detectives.
Duncan was booked into the Washington Parish Jail on
child pornography and aggravated incest charges. Additional
charges are expected to be forthcoming, according to the
sheriff's office.
Despite Duncan's reported confession, he remains on
paid administrative leave.
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From: CD
Re: Mam Zeilmaniana
Dear Webby
have a cactus question for your dad or you
if you know the answer..
I got this plant from a friend of mine a couple of years
ago and it has bloomed for me.. I think it's a
Mammillaria zeilmanniana
My question is ..you will notice in the pic that it's hanging over the
plastic container she had it in..there are only 2 plants..now when
it bloom, where the blooms are will there be little baby plants coming
out?...
should I be separating or transplanting the two once the blooms
have died? (that's if the blooms will not turn into babies)
I know I need cactus soil to transplant and a high potassium and
phosphorus but poor in nitrogren plant food..
what size pot should I transplant it into do I go with a pot just a bit
bigger or can I put it into a large pot, which will save me transplanting
later on?..
have a good week ahead..
CD
Dear CD
I asked dad.
Simply cut a 4" - 6" piece off and lay it flat onto some
dry sand.
Let the cut dry out 3 weeks.
Set it with the cut end down onto DRY, dirty sand.
Just regular desert sand, not washed construction sand.
Brace it with some rocks, so that it does not fall over.
Put it into the wind and sun for 5 weeks.
It will draw the moisture needed for making roots from above.
You can mist it a bit now and then, but no deluge.
After 5 weeks it should have built 1/2" long fine hair roots.
Then you can transplant it, gently, into a pot with dirtier sand.
With any luck, if you don't murder it with over-watering,
your new baby cactus will have one or more blossoms next
Mothers Day.
Like most cacti, it thrives on wind.
The more wind and draft, the better.
And of course sun.
And totally forget the BS and lies about special
cactus soil.
There is no expensive cactus soil in the desert,
where they grow.
Just dirty sand or sandy dirt will do fine.
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Out in space two alien forms are speaking with each other.
The first spaceman says, "The dominant life forms on the
earth planet have developed satellite controlled weapons."
The second alien, who looks exactly like the first, asks,
"Are they an emerging intelligence?"
The first spaceman says, "I don't think so...They have them
aimed at themselves."
A man, fond of practical jokes, decided late one night to
send his friend a collect telegram which read:
"I am perfectly well."
A week later, the joker received a heavy parcel...
collect...on which he had to pay considerable charges.
Upon opening it, he found a big block of concrete
which had this message:
"This is the weight your telegram lifted from my mind."
Today in
1348 The first English order of knighthood was founded.
It was the Order of the Garter.
1500 Pedro Cabal claimed Brazil for Portugal.
1521 The Comuneros were crushed by royalist troops in Spain.
1759 The British seized Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe in the
Antilies from France.
1789 U.S. President George Washington moved into Franklin
House, New York. It was the first executive mansion.
1861 Arkansas troops seized Fort Smith.
1895 Russia, France, and Germany forced Japan to return
the Liaodong peninsula to China.
1896 The Vitascope system for projecting movies onto
a screen was demonstrated in New York City.
1900 The word "hillbilly" was first used in print in an
article in the "New York Journal." It was spelled "Hill-Billie".
1950 Chaing evacuated Hainan, leaving mainland China to
Mao and the communists.
1951 The Associated Press began use of the new service of
teletype setting.
1967 The Soyuz 1 was launched by Russia.
1971 The Soyuz 10 was launched.
1985 The Coca-Cola Company announced that it was changing
its 99-year-old secret formula. New Coke was not
successful, which resulted in the resumption of selling
the original version.
1985 The U.S. House rejected $14 million in aid to Nicaragua.
1988 In Martinez, CA, a drain valve was left open at the
Shell Marsh. More than 10,000 barrels of oil poured into
the marsh adjoining Peyton Slough.
988 Kanellos Kanelopoulos set three world records for
human-powered flight when he stayed in the air for 74 miles
and four hours in his pedal-powered "Daedalus".
1996 An auction of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'
possessions began at Sotheby's in New York City. The sale
brought in #34.5 million.
2004 U.S. President George W. Bush eased sanctions against
Libya in return for Moammar Gadhafi's agreement to give up
weapons of mass destruction.
2005 The first video was uploaded to YouTube.com.
2009 The iTunes Music Store reached 1 billion applications downloaded.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, April 22
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to an
AK pervert who raped two-year-old girl, recorded assault
with ex-girlfriend's cell phone
Details at International Bonehead Awards
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Today, in
1889 At noon, the Oklahoma land rush officially started
as thousands of Americans raced for new, unclaimed land.
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A classic to start out with:
Dear Grandson:
I have become a little older since I saw you last, and a few
changes have come into my life since then. Frankly, I have
become a frivolous old gal. I am seeing five gentlemen
everyday.
As soon as I wake up, Will Power helps me get out of bed.
Then I go to see John. Then Charlie Horse comes along, and
when he is here he takes a lot of my time and attention.
When he leaves, Arthur Ritis shows up and stays the rest of
the day. He doesn't like to stay in one place very long, so he
takes me from joint to joint.
After such a busy day, I'm really tired and glad to go to bed
with Ben Gay. What a life. Oh yes, I'm also flirting with Al Zymer.
Love, Grandma
P.S. The preacher came to call the other day. He said at my
age I should be thinking of the hereafter. I told him, "Oh I do
it all the time. No matter where I am, in the parlor, upstairs,
in the kitchen, or down in the basement, I ask myself ...
"Now, what am I here after?"
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A man realized he needed to purchase a hearing aid, but
he felt unwilling to spend much money.
"How much do they run?" he asked the clerk.
"That depends," said the salesman.
"They run from $2.00 to $20,000."
"Let's see the $2.00 model," he said.
The clerk put the device around the man's neck.
"You just stick this button in your ear and run this little
string down to your pocket," he instructed.
"How does it work?" the customer asked.
"For $2.00 it doesn't work," the salesman replied.
"But when people see it on you, they'll talk louder!"
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Scott Sholds, 31, Fayetteville, AK
Raped Two-Year-Old Girl, Recorded Assault
With Ex-Girlfriend's Cell Phone
Scott Sholds, a 31-year-old Arkansas man, was jailed
Wednesday after he allegedly raped a two-year-old girl
and recorded it on a cell phone.
According to police, an investigation was launched after
Sholds' ex-girlfriend discovered a video on her cell phone
which showed a man having sexual contact with a very
young girl.
The ex-girlfriend went forward to police to report the video,
stating that she recognized the man in the video as being
her ex-boyfriend, Sholds. A forensic investigation later
confirmed that Shold was the adult depicted in the video.
The child in the video was identified as the two-year-old
daughter of an acquaintance.
Sholds initially denied being in the video, and told police
he never lived or slept at the little girl's home. Police
later discovered that Sholds lived with the girl and her
family for 9 days.
Sholds, who has been arrested repeatedly on domestic
battery charges, was booked into the Washington County
Detention Center and charged with felony rape or sexual
intercourse, computer exploitation of a child and
suspicion of distributing, possession and viewing child
pornography. He remains held on $100,000 bond.
Tech Support Pits
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Re: Not getting the Humor Letter
Dear Webby
I have been receiving the Humor Letter for a long time,
and I do check it every time I get it. I do enjoy it—all
the funny stuff along with the non-funny-stuff.
I noticed that I do not seem to be getting it anymore,
in fact the last one I got was on April 1st.
When I subscribed again, it said that I was already in
the data base. I am not sure what that means, but I do
want to keep on getting the Humor Letter.
Thanks,
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Dear Jane
that means your humor Letter is being sent out to you every
night.
Once it has entered the server of your ISP, usfamily.net,
there is nothing more,that I can do about it.
Check first in your spam folder, and if it is not there,
then contact the support of usfamily.net and screech a
temper tantrum at them.
You can show them http://webby.com/humor/no-sub.html
and show them that they have absolutely NO excuse for acting
like a bunch of sniveling ninnies and censor your
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Hopefully you can get them to smarten up and pretend to be
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I can't say I've ever gotten a shave from a barber, but I've
seen others who have. I was in a shop once, and an
obviously new barber nicked a customer several times while
giving him a shave.
The new man, in an effort to smooth things over asked
solicitously, "Do you want your head wrapped in a hot towel?"
"No thanks." said the customer.
"I'll carry it home under my arm."
The pastor shocked the congregation when he announced
that he was resigning from the church and moving to a drier
climate.
After the service, a very distraught lady came to the pastor
with tears in her eyes, "Oh, Pastor Bob, we are going to
miss you so much. We don't want you to leave!"
The kindhearted pastor patted her hand and said "Now, now,
Carolyn, don't carry on. The pastor who takes my place
might be even better than me".
"Yeah", she said, with a tone of disappointment in her voice,
"That's what they said the last time too."
Today in
1500 Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral discd Brazil.
1509 Henry VIII ascended to the throne of England upon the
death of his father Henry VII.
1529 Spain and Portugal divided the eastern hemisphere in
Treaty of Saragosa.
1792 U.S. President George Washington proclaimed American
neutrality in the war in Europe.
1861 Robert E. Lee was named commander of Virginia forces.
1864 The U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed the
inscription "In God We Trust" to be included on one-cent
and two-cent coins.
1889 At noon, the Oklahoma land rush officially started
as thousands of Americans raced for new, unclaimed land.
1898 The first shot of the Spanish-American war occurred
when the USS Nashville captured a Spanish merchant ship.
1931 James G. Ray landed an autogyro on the lawn of
the White House.
1952 An atomic test conducted in Nevada was the first
nuclear explosion shown on live network television.
1997 In Lima, Peru government commandos storm and capture
the residence of the Japanese ambassador ending a 126-day
hostage crisis. In the rescue 71 hostages were saved. Those
killed: one hostage (of a heart attack), two soldiers,
and all 14 rebels.
2002 Filippino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered
a state of emergency in the city of General Santos in
response to a series of bombing attacks the day before.
The attacks were blamed on Muslim extremists.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Sunday, April 20
Happy Easter!
many years ago I put together this page:
What Easter is all about
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Man Punched Jogger And Ran Down
2 Women On Drive To School
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1962 The New Orleans Citizens' Council offered a free
one-way ride for blacks to move to northern states.
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A man started to snore in his seat at the church.
"Please stop your snoring," the usher pleaded.
"You are disturbing the others..."
"Look, buddy," the man said angrily, "This is my seat and
I'll do whatever I want!"
"Yes, sir," replied the usher. "But please be considerate...
you are keeping everybody else awake!"
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Our young daughter had adopted a stray cat. To my distress,
he began to use the back of our new sofa as a scratching
post. "Don't worry," my husband reassured me. "I'll have him
trained in no time."
I watched for several days as my husband patiently "trained"
our new pet. Whenever the cat scratched, my husband deposited
him outdoors to teach him a lesson.
The cat learned quickly. For the next 16 years, whenever he
wanted to go outside, he scratched the back of the sofa.
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Flower On Easter Cactus
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Eric Noel Montez, 28, Naples, Floriduh
Man Punched Jogger And Ran Down
2 Women On Drive To School
A Florida man is facing attempted murder charges for
allegedly running hitting two women with his car and
punching a jogger while driving his 7-year-old daughter
to school.
A jogger tapped the car of Eric Noel Montez, 28, for
driving dangerously close to him on Thursday morning,
police say.
Montez allegedly stopped his vehicle and ran after the
jogger. He allegedly punched the man numerous times in
the face, according to NBC-2.com.
The suspect was pummeling the victim when Lorraine McDaniel,
52, and Kristee Barres, 33, told him to stop and that they
were calling police.
There was a verbal exchange before Montez got back into his
car and pulled forward, allegedly hitting Barres and vaulting
her over the hood.
As he drove away, McDaniel ran screaming after him. He
allegedly stopped the car and drover over her in reverse,
the Naples News reports.
Montez dropped off his daughter at home before returning to
the scene of the crime, RawStory.com reports.
He has been charged with two counts of attempted second
degree murder and one count of battery. More charges may
be added later.
Barres remains hospitalized in stable condition while
McDaniel is listed in critical condition.
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From: Betty
Re: McAfee versus Kasperski
Dear Webby
Hi - I have been buying McAfee (your site) for several years
and noticed that you now have another one advertised.
I have not had any problems with McAfee except I cannot tell
when a scan is running - my computer just slows down.
I do not have any scans scheduled so I can only assume McAfee
runs a scan for downloads etc. as I get a notice after the
scan is finished. I do not like this but I do want to be
protected.
I was not too happy with the comments McAfee himself made
about the "new" management problems and no one fixing
them. He said he was glad they had removed his name as he
did not wish to be associated with it any more. I knew
he sold the company several years ago but I thought he
was still associated with the company. I did not hear
but info was relayed by a friend so not real sure about
all that was said.
I have several computers so I need protection for all of
them and Kasperski's only has for 3 (and I need for 5) so
not sure about what to do right now. My McAfee runs out
on 4/25 so I have to make a decision soon.
Do you think McAfee is still the best?
Sorry to hear about your health problems - hope you have
found some true relief from the pain.
Thanks for all your time with all the info in your daily
newsletter. Jokes are always a treat...
Betty
Dear Betty
I agree, McAfee has gotten too big and too snooty.
But so did Kasperski.
Personally, I don't find a significant advantage of one
over the other.
I offer links to both because it has become a religious
issue. Some people are fanatics for one, some for the other.
Talk to them and find out who offers the better deal
for 5 machines.
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Now then," said the warden addressing the three instigators
of a failed prison riot. "I would like to know two things.
First: Why did you revolt?
Second: How did you get out of your cell?"
One of the three men stepped forward,
"Warden, we rebelled because the food is awful."
"I see. And the cell? What did you use to break the bars?"
Replied the spokesman, "Toast...."
Mrs. Goldman, the 6th grade teacher, posed the following
problem to one of her arithmetic classes:
"A wealthy man dies and leaves ten million dollars. One-third is to
go to his wife, one-fifth is to go to his son, one-sixth to his butler,
one eighth to his secretary; and the rest to charity. Now, what
does each get?"
After a very long silence in the classroom, Little Morris raised
his hand.
The teacher called on Little Morris for his answer.
With complete sincerity in his voice, Morris answered,
"A good lawyer...!"
Today in
1534 Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, set sail from
St. Malo to explore the North American coastline.
1653 In England, Oliver Cromwell expelled the Long Parliament
for trying to pass the Perpetuation Bill that would have
kept Parliament in the hands of only a few members.
1689 The siege of Londonderry began. Supporters of James II
attacked the city.
1775 American troops began the siege of British-held Boston.
1792 France declared war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia.
It was the start of the French Revolutionary wars.
1809 Napoleon defeated Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria.
1832 Hot Springs National Park was established by an act of
the U.S. Congress. It was the first national park in the U.S.
1865 Safety matches were first advertised.
1879 First mobile home (horse drawn) was used in a journey
from London to Cyprus.
1902 Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the
radioactive element radium.
1916 Sir Roger Casement landed in Ireland to incite rebellion
against the British. Casement, a British diplomat, was
captured within hours and was hanged for high treason
on August 3.
1919 The Polish Army captured Vilno, Lithuania from the
Soviets.
1940 The First electron microscope was demonstrated by RCA.
1945 Soviet troops began their attack on Berlin.
1945 During World War II, Allied forces took control of
the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
1953 Operation Little Switch began in Korea. It was the
exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of war. Thirty
Americans were freed.
1962 The New Orleans Citizens' Council offered a free
one-way ride for blacks to move to northern states.
1967 U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for first time during the
Vietnam War.
1971 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to
achieve racial desegregation in schools.
1972 The manned lunar module from Apollo 16 landed on the moon.
1977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premiered.
1981 A spokesman for the U.S. Navy announced that the U.S.
was accepting full responsibility for the sinking of the
Nissho Maru on April 9.
1988 The U.S. Air Forces' Stealth (B-2 bomber) was
officially unveiled.
1989 Scientist announced the successful testing of
high-definition TV.
1992 The worlds largest fair, Expo '92, opened in
Seville, Spain.
1998 Kenyan runner Moses Tanui, 32, won the Boston
Marathon for the second time. He also registered the
third fastest time with 2 hours 7 minutes and 34 seconds.
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Saturday, April 19, 2014, 11:39 AM
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Good Morning, !
Thhank you, Fred!
Today is Saturday, April 19
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Accused Killer, who texted victim's father:
'she's dead. I have the last laugh'
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Today, in
1993 The Branch-Davidian’s compound in Waco, TX, burned to
the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the
cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed
including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped
the fire.
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Rummaging through her attic one day, my friend Kathryn found
an old shotgun. Unsure how to dispose of it, she called her
parents.
"Take it to the police station," her mother suggested. My
friend was about to hang up when her mom added....
"And, Kathryn?"
"Yes, mom?"
"Call them first and let them know you're coming."
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Mr. Gable had a leak in the roof over his dining room, so he
called a repairman to take a look at it. "When did you first
notice the leak?" the repairman inquired.
Mr. Gable scowled. "Last night, when it took me two hours to
finish my soup!"
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Gabriel Galan Navarro, 20, Renton, WA
Accused Killer, who texted victim's father:
'she's dead. I have the last laugh'
Prosecutors say a Washington state man, accused of killing
his girlfriend, sent text messages to her family members
after allegedly strangling her.
Gabriel Galan Navarro, 20, faces first-degree murder charges
in the death of Allison Leedy, also 20.
On April 12, Navarro allegedly strangled Leedy in the Renton
apartment where they lived, then texted her family.
"If you are getting this you are responsible for Allison's
death. You turned her against me," Navarro wrote, according
to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Navarro also texted the woman's father, writing: "She's dead.
I have the last laugh."
Prosecutors said Navarro had been aware of and angered by
the young woman's plans to end their relationship and attend
college in California, and was "determined to prevent
Allison and her family from realizing her dreams.”
Prosecutor Adrienne McCoy described the couple's three-year
relationship as one characterized by "manipulation,
isolation and psychological destruction," according to the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Police said that Navarro also called 911 and lied to a
dispatcher, saying that he had flooded his apartment with
propane gas and rigged it to explode if anyone entered.
He also allegedly said that he was armed with a hand gun.
Renton police responded to the apartment complex and shot
a window out with bean bags in an attempt to clear the
residence of any gas. Navarro surrendered a short time
later.
Police told KCPQ that they believe Navarro's actions were
an attempt to get officers to shoot him.
After he was arrested, Navarro told police that his
alternate personality, "Frost," had killed Leedy.
Tech Support Pits
From: Connie R
Re: Mammogram Site
Dear Webby
is it possible to add this web site address to your
humor newsletter. I feed the dogs each day, and I think
being able to click onto this web url to give a free mammogram
to an underpriviledged woman would be another good thing
to do.
Connie R
The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough
people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of
donating at least one free mammogram a day to an
underprivileged woman....
Dear Connie
Look in the side menu.
I have had a link to the Breastcancersite for about
15 years.
Thanks to the efforts of a few dedicated people like me, the
Breast Cancer site is nowhere near worrying about ONE
mammogram per day. Just click on the two cheerful ladies
and also tell your friends to do the same.
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At a dinner party, one of the guests, an obnoxiously loud
young man, tried to make clever remarks about everyone and
everything. He was served a piece of meat, he picked it up
with his fork, held it up and smirked: "Is this pig?"
Another guest, sitting opposite, asked quietly:
"Which end of the fork are you referring to?"
Delighted by the gift she had received, the lady spoke warmly
to the boy, "At church tomorrow, I'll thank your mother for
this lovely pie."
"If you don't mind, Ma'am," the boy suggested nervously,
"would you thank her for two pies?"
Today in
1539 Emperor Charles V reached a truce with German
Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany.
1587 English admiral Sir Francis Drake entered Cadiz harbor
and sank the Spanish fleet.
1689 Residents of Boston ousted their governor, Edmond Andros.
1713 Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the Pragmatic
Sanction, which gave women the rights of succession to
Hapsburg possessions.
1764 The English Parliament banned the American colonies
from printing paper money.
1770 Captain James Cook discovered New South Wales, Australia.
Cook originally named the land Point Hicks.
1775 The American Revolution began as fighting broke out
at Lexington, MA.
1782 The Netherlands recognized the new United States.
1794 Tadeusz Kosciuszko forced the Russians out of Warsaw.
1802 The Spanish reopened the New Orleans port to American
merchants.
1861 Thaddeus S. C. Lowe sailed 900 miles in nine hours
in a hot air balloon from Cincinnati, OH, to Unionville, SC.
1861 The Baltimore riots resulted in four Union soldiers
and nine civilians killed.
1861 U.S. President Lincoln ordered a blockade of
Confederate ports.
1892 The Duryea gasoline buggy was introduced in the
U.S. by Charles and Frank Duryea.
1897 The first annual Boston Marathon was held. It
was the first of its type in the U.S.
1927 In China, Hankow communists declared war on
Chaing Kai-shek.
1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a
proclamation that removed the U.S. from the gold standard.
1938 General Francisco Franco declared victory in the
Spanish Civil War.
1943 The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule began.
The Jews were able to fight off the Germans for 28 days.
1951 Shigeki Tanaka won the Boston Marathon. Tanaka had
survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, Japan during
World War II.
1956 Actress Grace Kelly became Princess Grace of Monaco
when she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
1967 Surveyor 3 landed on the moon and began sending photos
back to the U.S.
1971 Russia launched the Salyut into orbit around Earth. It
was the first space station.
1982 The U.S. announced a ban on U.S. tourist and business
traval to Cuba. The U.S. charged the Cuban government with
subversion in Central America.
1987 In Phoenix, AZ, skydiver Gregory Robertson went into a
200-mph free-fall to save an unconscious colleague 3,500
feet from the ground.
1987 The last California condor known to be in the wild
was captured and placed in a breeding program at the San
Diego Wild Animal Park.
1989 A gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa. 47 sailors
were killed.
1989 A giant asteroid passed within 500,000 miles of Earth.
1993 The Branch-Davidian’s compound in Waco, TX, burned to
the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the
cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed
including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped
the fire.
1994 A Los Angeles jury awarded $3.8 million to Rodney King
for violation of his civil rights.
1995 The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City,
OK, was destroyed by a bomb. It was the worst bombing on
U.S. territory. 168 people were killed including 19 children,
and 500 were injured. Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of
the bombing on June 2, 1997.
1998 Wang Dan, a leader of 1989 Tienanmen Square
pro democracy protests, was freed by the Chinese government.
2002 The USS Cole was relaunched. In Yemen, 17 sailors were
killed when the ship was attacked by terrorists on
October 12, 2000. The attack was blamed on Osama bin Laden's
al-Qaida network.
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Today is Friday, April 4.
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Floriduh Gramma jailed for child neglect
Details at International Bonehead Awards
From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in
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The owner of a manufacturing firm decided to make a
surprise tour of the factory. Walking through the warehouse
he noticed a young man lazily leaning against a packing
crate.
The factory owner angrily said, "Just how much are you
being paid?"
The young man replied, "Two hundred dollars a week."
The owner pulled out his wallet, peeled off ten $20 bills
and shouted at the young man:
"Here is a week's pay--now get out and don't come back!"
Without a word, the young man stuffed the money into his
pocket and left.
The warehouse manager, standing nearby, stared in
amazement.
"Tell me," the boss asked him, "How long has that guy
worked for us?"
"He doesn't work here," replied the warehouse manager,
"He was just the Pizza guy waiting for George to find two
more dollars for his lunch order."
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Larry's barn burned down and his wife, Susan, called the
insurance company.
Susan told the insurance company, "We had that barn
insured for fifty thousand and I want my money."
The agent replied, "Whoa there, just a minute, Susan.
Insurance doesn't work quite like that. We will ascertain
the value of what was insured and provide you with a new
one of comparable worth."
There was a long pause before Susan replied,
"Then I'd like to cancel the policy on my husband."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to
Crystal Hernandez, 34, Broward County, Floriduh
5 Kids Left Alone in Filthy House
While Grandma Gambles at Casino
Some things change when you become a mom, and the ability
to come and go as you please when you have little kids is
one of them. Children are not pets ... you can't just
leave them alone while you gallivant off to the slots.
This should be common sense, but apparently not for Crystal
Hernandez, the 34-year-old Florida grandmother who left her
four kids and one grandchild at home so she could go to
the casino.
She was arrested at her home on Tuesday after neighbors called
the cops when the five kiddos were wandering around outside
asking people for food. They ranged in age from 2 to 12. No
word on where the mother (or father?) of the grandchild was,
or if Hernandez has custody.
She doesn't have custody of any of them anymore, and it isn't
just because she left them home alone to go gambling. Apparently
the environment of the house was toxic and unlivable. We are
talking pee and poop awful here.
In a report, Broward Sheriff's Deputy Matthew McGee noted
that the overwhelming smell of urine and feces in the house
was "almost unbearable to stand."
According to McGee, there was also "feces on the kitchen
counter, along with feces on the floor," and "dirty clothes
were thrown around the residence, along with old food."
The one place there wasn't any food was in the cupboards,
and there was only "minimal" food in the fridge.
All five children were removed by the authorities, and
Hernandez is being held on $5,000 bond.
Tech Support Pits
From: Karen
Re: Better sound for laptop
Dear Webby
How can I increase the sound quality for my laptop?
I got some fairly expensive aftermarket speakers for it,
but the sound is still quite trashy compared to my home
stereo.
Help!
Karen
Dear Karen
Those "fairly expensive aftermarket speakers" are not worth
the shipping cost. As you noticed.
Get a stereo cable, exactly like the one leading from the
computer to the first of those squeakers, and connect that
to the AUX-IN on your home stereo, or any old boom box.
Switch the stereo or boom box to AUX, and you have sound
the way it was meant to be.
As a free bonus you have the headphone jack on the stereo
for plugging in the earphone half of a communication
head set. The pink microphone plug still goes to the
pink computer microphone jack.
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The Priest had just finished hearing the man's confession
and was considering the man's penitence.
"Are you sure you're going to try to set aside all sin?"
"Yes Father, I certainly am going to try." replied the man.
"I here-by resolve to double my efforts."
"And you're going to attend Mass regularly my son?" the
Priest went on.
"Yes Father, I realize I have strayed." said the man. "I
shall both worship and confess every week."
"And how about your debts and those you have cheated?"
inquired the Priest.
"Now just a minute Father." said the man. "Now you're
talking business and not religion."
At the end of my factory shift, I was asked to purchase some
supplies. The machines' conveyor belts needed talcum powder
to prevent them from sticking, and we had run out of aspirin for
workers with noise-induced tension headaches.
I drove to the nearest store and loaded a shopping cart with
four cases of baby powder and several cartons of aspirin.
As the woman behind me in the checkout line peered at my
purchases, she laughed and exclaimed,
"Must be one heck of a kid!"
Today in
1521 Martin Luther confronted the emperor Charles V
in the Diet of Worms and refused to retract his views
that led to his excommunication.
1676 Sudbury, Massachusetts, was attacked by Indians.
1775 American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes
and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of
Massachusetts giving the warning that "the Regulars
are coming out." Later, the phrase "the British are
coming" was attributed to Revere.
1791 National Guardsmen prevented Louis XVI and his
family from leaving Paris.
1818 A regiment of Indians and blacks were defeated
at the Battle of Suwann, in Florida, ending the first
Seminole War.
1846 The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House
1847 U.S. troops defeated almost 17,000 Mexican soldiers
commanded by Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo. (Mexican-American War)
1853 The first train in Asia began running from Bombay to Tanna.
1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee turned down an offer to command
the Union armies during the U.S. Civil War.
1877 Charles Cros wrote a paper that described the process
of recording and reproducing sound. In France, Cros is
regarded as the inventor of the phonograph. In the U.S.,
Thomas Edison gets the credit.
1895 New York State passed an act that established
free public baths.
1906 San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The original
death toll was cited at about 700. Later information
indicated that the death toll may have been 3 to 4 times the
original estimate.
1910 Walter R. Brookins made the first airplane flight at
night.
1934 The first Laundromat opened in Fort Worth, TX.
1937 Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet
leader Josef Stalin.
1942 James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the USS Hornet,
raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1943 Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku
Yamamoto, was shot down by American P-38 fighters.
1946 The League of Nations was dissolved.
1949 The Republic of Ireland was established.
1950 The first transatlantic jet passenger trip was completed.
1954 Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power in Egypt.
1955 Albert Einstein died.
1978 The U.S. Senate approved the transfer of the
Panama Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999.
1980 Rhodesia became in independent nation of Zimbabwe.
1983 The U.S. Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a suicide
car-bomber. 63 people were killed including 17 Americans.
1985 Ted Turner filed for a hostile takeover of CBS.
1989 Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy
tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.
1999 Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) played his final game
in the NHL. He retired as the NHL's all-time leading
scorer and holder of 61 individual records.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, April 16.
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to an
NC man, who shot up strip club
after getting kicked out
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1982 Queen Elizabeth proclaimed Canada's new constitution
in effect. The act severed the last colonial links with Britain.
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someone else would play the ace.
--- John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969)
"Women and cats will do as they please,
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A police officer in a small town stopped a motorist who was
speeding down Main Street.
"But officer," the man began, "I can explain."
"Just be quiet," snapped the officer. "I'm going to let you
cool your heels in jail until the chief gets back."
"But, officer, I just wanted to say..."
"And I said to keep quiet! You're going to jail!"
A few hours later the officer looked in on his prisoner and
said, "Lucky for you that the chief is at his daughter's
wedding. He'll be in a good mood when he gets back."
"Don't count on it," answered the fellow in the cell.
"I'm the groom."
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When my mother was called for jury duty, she felt confident
of her ability to answer the questions asked of prospective
jurors.
As a young attorney, I had filled her in on what to expect.
Asked about the occupations of family members, Mom answered,
"My son is a lawyer."
As a follow-up, she was asked if she had ever used the
services of an attorney.
"Only to mow my lawn."
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Mario Chavez, 33, Gaston, NC
NC man, who shot up strip club
after getting kicked out
A man accused of trying to feel up a strip club dancer got
touchy when he was kicked out of the North Carolina nudie
bar.
After being forced to leave the Leather & Lace Strip Club
for trying to reach inside a dancer's underwear, Mario Chavez,
33 allegedly fired 13 shots into the strip joint on Thursday.
“He told the bouncer that he’d done apologized to me and
the bouncer told him that I’d done gave him a warning and
he was going to have to leave,” the dancer, who wished
to remain anonymous, said according to RawStory.com.
Chavez allegedly went to his truck, grabbed a .40-caliber
Beretta handgun and fired it into the club.
When that gun jammed, Chavez allegedly went back to the
truck and grabbed a 9 mm Taurus handgun. Investigators
said he then fired seven more shots at the building and
two more shots as he drove away, the Gaston Gazette
reports.
The gunfire sent the 18 people inside the club into a
panic. One of the bullets flew over two pool tables
and in a sofa, MyFox8.com reported.
No one was injured.
Chavez was arrested a short time later and charged with
18 counts of counts of assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill, shooting into an occupied building and
one count of sexual battery.
The suspect is currently in the Gaston County Jail on
$1 million bond.
Tech Support Pits
From: Renee
Re: Outlook Limit
Dear Webby
I read that Outlook suicides and loses all the mail if you
have too much mail in it. Is that true, and if so, what are
the limits?
Thanks
Renee
Dear Renee
Yes, unfortunately that is true.
The limits are not hard and not predictable. Usually it is
fairly save to keep a year's worth of mail in it, as long
as the IN, OUT and other most used mailboxes are kept
small and tidy.
Some people have been able to keep it going for two-three
years, but sooner or later the inevitable crash happened.
If you need to keep mail for over a year for business
purposes, then I would recommend Eudora or Thunderbird.
With those you can easily split off months or years or
clients and store them on a CD, and return them if and
when needed.
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>From Jim
As a department head stationed on a Navy vessel, I was con-
cerned about one of my senior enlisted men. He was a superb
technician, but he had a problem taking orders. One day I
took him aside and suggested he try something that had
worked for me.
"Whenever an officer gives you a directive that you think
is stupid," I told him, "just say, 'Yes, sir.' But in your
mind, think, 'You're a f****n idiot!' Will this work for you?"
He smiled at me and replied, "Yes, sir!"
Two men working in a facory were talking. "I know how
to get some time off," said one.
"How are you going to do that?"
"Watch," he said, and climbed up on a rafter. The foreman
asked what he was doing up there, and the man replied.
"I'm a lightbulb."
"I think you need some time off," the foreman said said,
and the first man walked out of the factory. After a moment,
the second man followed him.
"Where do you think you're going?" the foreman shouted.
"I can't work in the dark," he said.
Today in
0069 Otho committed suicide after being defeated by
Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum.
1065 The Norman Robert Guiscard took Bari. Five centuries
of Byzantine rule in southern Italy ended.
1705 Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton.
1746 The Duke of Cumberland defeated Bonnie Prince Charlie
(and his Jacobites) at the battle of Culloden.
1818 The U.S. Senate ratified Rush-Bagot amendment to form
an unarmed U.S.-Canada border.
1854 San Salvador was destroyed by an earthquake.
1905 Andrew Carnegie donated $10,000,000 of personal money
to set up the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching.
1912 Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across
the English Channel.
1917 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start
Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile.
1922 Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set
a women's record.
1942 The Island of Malta was awarded the George Cross in
recognition for heroism under constant German air attack.
1943 In Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hoffman
accidently discovered the the hallucinogenic effects of
LSD-25 while working on the medicinal value of
lysergic acid.
1944 The destroyer USS Laffey survived immense damage from
attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa.
1947 The Zoomar lens, invented by Dr. Frank Back, was
demonstrated in New York City. It was the first lens
to exhibit zooming effects.
1947 In Texas City, TX, the French ship Grandcamp, carrying
ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up. The
explosions and resulting fires killed 576 people.
1951 75 people were killed when the British submarine Affray
sank in the English Channel.
1968 The Pentagon announced that troops would begin coming
home from Vietnam. The Vietnam war became a defeat from home.
1972 Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon. It was
the fifth manned moon landing.
1975 The Khmer Rouge Rebels won control of Cambodia after
five years of civil war. They renamed the country Kampuchea
and began a reign of terror.
1982 Queen Elizabeth proclaimed Canada's new constitution
in effect. The act severed the last colonial links with Britain.
1983 China shelled the Vietnam border in retaliation for raids.
1983 Brazil detained four Libyan planes en route to Nicaragua
after finding weapons, explosives and ammunition on planes.
1987 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sternly
warned U.S. radio stations to watch the use of indecent
language on the airwaves.
1987 The U.S. Patent Office began allowing the patenting of
new animals created by genetic engineering.
1992 The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former
lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.
1995 The European Union and Canada agreed to protect
threatened fish stocks in the north Atlantic.
1996 An Italian court found former Prime Minister Bettino
Craxi guilty on charges of corruption. He was sentenced to
eight years and three months in prison.
1999 Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement from the
National Hockey League (NHL).
2002 The U.S. Supreme Court overturned major parts of a 1996
child pornography law based on rights to free speech.
2007 In Blacksburg, VA, a student killed 33 people at Virginia
Tech before killing himself.
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Monday, April 14, 2014, 08:30 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Thank you, Nancy!
Today is Monday, April 14.
The back pain shifted tithe right side.
Getting upright is a bit easier now. Acid reflux, that had
been broght on by Naproxen kept getting worse, even though
I stopped it after one day on Thursday. Now it added
stomach cramps. A cup of hot water with a Tablespoon of
Baking Soda tasted obnoxious, but stopped the cramps and
the acid reflux. An apple probably helped too.
What a mess! I am about as far from the Mr.Indestructible,
that I was, as I can go.
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Alabama Teacher - Charged With Having
Sexual Contact With Three Middle
School Students
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1988 In New York, real estate tycoons Harry and Leona
Helmsley were indicted for income tax evasion.
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When a physician remarked on a new patient's extraordinarily
ruddy complexion, he said, "High blood pressure, Doc.
It comes from my family."
"Your mother's side or your father's?" he asked. "Neither,"
he replied. "It's from my wife's family." "Oh, come now,"
the doctor said. "How could your wife's family give you high
blood pressure?"
He sighed. "You oughta meet 'em sometime, Doc!"
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A father noticed that his son was spending way too much
time playing computer games. In an effort to motivate the
boy into focusing more attention on his schoolwork, the
father said to his son, "When Abe Lincoln was your age,
he was studying books by the light of the fireplace."
The son replied, "When Lincoln was your age, he was
The President of The United States."
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Kristina McMillan Kelly, 41, Mobile, Alabama.
Alabama Teacher - Charged With Having
Sexual Contact With Three Middle
School Students
Kristina McMillan Kelly, a 41-year-old substitute teacher
at Denton Middle School, was jailed Friday after she
allegedly had sexual contact with three students.
According to police, an investigation was launched
after Kelly propositioned a 15-year-old student for sex,
and the student reported it to school administrators.
During a subsequent investigation, Kelly reportedly
admitted to having sex with two other students,
ages 15 and 14.
Investigators say the alleged sexual abuse began in
January and took place at her home. Police do not
believe sexual contact with any of the students took
place on school grounds.
She was booked into jail and charged with two counts of
second-degree rape, two counts of second-degree sodomy,
one count of sexual abuse and three counts of a school
employee having sexual contact with a student under the
age of 19. She was released Saturday after posting bail.
Tech Support Pits
From: Randall
Re: Weird Windows desktop
Webby,
Sorry to hear of your back troubles. My problem this
morning is I did a Microsoft update on my laptop which
i do monthly when asked and have never had a problem
with it in the past. Well this time when the update
was done my whole look of my desktop and my task bar
is different, it looks like the first edition of windows
or something, the task bar is white,where before it was
black and new looking. the colors around the windows
are nothing like they were either. I have tried to go
into the personalization setting to see if i could
change them back and didn't find any settings that
i could use....can you help?
Hope your back settles down for you. Any assistance
with my problem would be appreciated.
Randall
Check if it accidentally went into High Contrast mode.
Also reboot and make sure you are not in Safe Mode.
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Mary was almost crazy with her three young kids.
She complained to her best friend, "They're driving me nuts!! S
uch pests. They give me no rest and I'm half way to the
funny farm."
"What you need is a playpen to separate the kids from yourself,"
her friend said. So Mary bought a playpen A few days later,
her friend called to ask how things were going.
"Superb! I can't believe it," Mary said. "I get in that pen
with my laptop, a coffee and a chocolate bar, and the kids
don't bother me for hours!"
The patrol officer stopped a motorist for a traffic violation.
Standing outside his expensive foreign car, the red-faced
driver frantically waved his hands and jumped up and down.
"I'll have your job for this!" he shouted at the top of his
lungs.
"Sir, you wouldn't want my job," replied the unruffled
officer as he wrote out the citation. "The hours are long,
the pay is low, and you got to put up with some of the
weirdest idiots you can imagine!"
Today in
1775 The first abolitionist society in U.S. was organized
in Philadelphia with Ben Franklin as president.
1793 A royalist rebellion in Santo Domingo was crushed by
French republican troops.
1860 The first Pony Express rider arrived in San Francisco
with mail originating in St. Joseph, MO.
1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in
Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died
early the next morning.
1894 First public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope
took place.
1902 James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store
in Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store.
1912 The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden
voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost
their lives and more than 700 survived.
1931 King Alfonso XIII of Spain went into exile and the
Spanish Republic was proclaimed.
1946 The civil war between Communists and nationalist
resumed in China.
1953 Viet Minh invaded Laos with 40,00 troops.
1956 Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA, demonstrated
the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound
and picture.
1981 America's first space shuttle, Columbia, returned
to Earth after a three-day test flight. The shuttle
orbited the Earth 36 times during the mission.
1984 The Texas Board of Education began requiring that
the state's public school textbooks describe the evolution
of human beings as "theory rather than fact".
1986 U.S. President Reagan announced the U.S. air raid on
military and terrorist related targets in Libya.
1987 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed banning all
missiles from Europe.
1988 Representatives from the U.S.S.R., Pakistan, Afghanistan
and the U.S. signed an agreement that called for the
withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan starting on
May 15. The last Soviet troop left Afghanistan on
February 15, 1989.
1988 In New York, real estate tycoons Harry and Leona
Helmsley were indicted for income tax evasion.
1998 The state of Virginia ignored the requests from the
World Court and executed a Paraguayan for the murder of
a U.S. woman.
1999 Pakistan test-fired a ballistic missile that was capable
of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching its rival neighbor
India.
2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two
days after being arrested by his country's military.
2008 Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced they were
combining.
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Today is Sunday, April 13.
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So does the vibrating massage mat.
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1984 U.S. President Reagan sent emergency military aid to
El Salvador without congressional approval.
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"According to Newsweek, they've now come out with the carbon
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house gases. Let me tell you something. If your diet is so
bad that you are causing global warming... just stay out of
Taco Bell."
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A guy and his wife were cleaning out the attic one day when
he came across a ticket from the local shoe repair shop.
The date stamped on the ticket showed that it was over 11
years old. They both laughed and tried to remember which of
them might have forgotten to pick up a pair of shoes over a
decade ago.
"Do you think the shoes will still be in the shop?" the man
asked.
"Not very likely," his wife said.
"It's worth a try," he said, pocketing the ticket. He went
downstairs, hopped into the car, and drove to the shoe shop.
With a straight face, he handed the ticket to the man behind
the counter.
With a face just as straight, the man said, "Just a minute.
I'll have to look for these."
He disappeared into a dark corner at the back of the shop.
Two minutes later, the man called out, "Here they are!"
"No kidding?" the customer called back. "That's terrific!
Who would have thought they'd still be here after all this
time."
The man came back to the counter, empty-handed.
"They'll be ready Thursday," he said calmly.
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A major research institution has recently announced the
discovery of the heaviest chemical element yet known to
science. The new element has been tentatively named
Governmentium.
Governmentium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75
deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it
an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called
morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-
like particles called peons. Since governmentium has no
electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected as it
impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A
minute amount of governmentium causes one reaction to
take over 4 days to complete when it would normally take
less than a second.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 3 years; it does not
decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a
portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons
exchange places. In fact, governmentium's mass will actually
increase over time, since each reorganization will cause
some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists
to speculate that governmentium is formed whenever morons
reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical
quantity is referred to as Critical Morass.
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Ellen Wermeling, 32, Houston, TX
Texas School Cosellor jailed for
Repeatedly Having Sex With Student
Ellen Wermeling, a 32-year-old counselor at Aldine MacArthur
High School, has been charged with repeatedly having sex
with a student.
According to police, an investigation was launched after the
student told a school staff member that he and Wermeling had
engaged in sex on multiple occasions.
Investigators say the student contacted Wermeling through
her Instagram account on Feb. 28 and she agreed to pick him
up so they could "hang out" at her residence.
It was there Wermeling and the student watched a movie and
then engaged in sexual intercourse. The teen told detectives
that he and Wermeling also had sex at her residence on March
6 and March 8.
During an interview with police, Wermeling stated that she
never spoke to the teen through her Instagram account. She
reportedly closed her Instagram account on March 25, the
same day she was contacted about the allegations.
Wermeling also denied that the teen had ever been to her
residence.
Wermeling was booked into jail and charged with improper
relationship between educator and student. She was released
after posting a $10,000 bond.
________
I can't understand why a cute woman like that would mess
with a yappy student and wreck her career.
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Thanks to Sandie for this:
Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work,
they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes
my taxes to those, who don't work.
In order to get that paycheck. I am required to pass a
random urine test, which I have no problem with.
What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my
taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test.
Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check,
because I have to pass one to earn it for them?
Please understand, I have no problem with helping people
get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a
problem with helping someone sit on their butt forever.
Can you imagine how much money the state would save,
if people had to pass a urine test to get a public
assistance check ?
"I want to buy a dress to put on around the house."
"Yes, Madam. How large is your house?"
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"We are having mother for dinner, darling."
"Make sure she's well done."
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"It seems that everything I say to you goes in one ear
and out the other."
"Well, I guess that's why I've got two ears."
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"Do these stairs take you to the second floor?"
"No, you'll have to walk"
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"I have changed! my mind."
Thank heaven! Does it work better now?"
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Waiter: Would you like your coffee black?
Customer: What other colors do you have?
Today in
1598 King Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes
which granted political rights to French Protestant Huguenots.
1759 The French defeated the European allies in Battle of Bergen.
1775 Lord North extended the New England Restraining Act to
South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.
The act prohibited trade with any country other than Britain
and Ireland.
1782 Washington, NC, was incorporated as the first town to be
named for George Washington.
1829 The English Parliament granted freedom of religion
to Catholics.
1849 The Hungarian Republic was proclaimed.
1860 The first mail was delivered via Pony Express when a
westbound rider arrived in Sacremento, CA from St. Joseph, MO.
1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, the Union-held Fort Sumter
surrenders to Confederates.
1916 The first hybrid seed corn was purchased for 15-cents
a bushel by Samuel Ramsay.
1919 British forces killed hundreds of Indian nationalists
in the Amritsar Massacre.
1933 The first flight over Mount Everest was completed by
Lord Clydesdale.
1941 German troops captured Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1945 Vienna fell to Soviet troops.
1949 Philip S. Hench and associates announced that
cortizone was an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
1959 A Vatican edict prohibited Roman Catholics from voting
for Communists.
1960 The first navigational satellite was launched into Earth's orbit.
1961 The U.N. General Assembly condemned South Africa due to apartheid.
1962 In the U.S., major steel companies rescinded announced price
increases. The John F. Kennedy administration had been applying
pressure against the price increases.
1970 An oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, preventing a
planned moon landing.
1979 The world's longest doubles ping-pong match ended
after 101 hours.
1984 U.S. President Reagan sent emergency military aid to
El Salvador without congressional approval.
1990 The Soviet Union accepted responsibility for the
World War II murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish
officers in the Katyn Forest. The Soviets had previously
blamed the massacre on the Nazis.
1998 Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, gave natural
birth to a healthy baby lamb.
2002 Twenty-five Hindus were killed and about 30 were wounded
when grenades were thrown by suspected Islamic guerrillas
near Jammu-Kashir.
2002 Venezuela's interim president, Pedro Carmona, resigned
a day after taking office. Thousands of protesters had
supported Hugo Chavez.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, April 12.
I dumped the Naproxen. Seems I am allergic to it.
Ibuprofen + Tylenol seems to help, though something is
still making me dizzy.
For the back, Moe in California suggested Aspercreme
and have a girlfriend smear it on my back.
Went to the drugstore, and they had it on the shelf.
Have not found a girlfriend, but was able to reach
most of the affected areas myself. It does seem
to help!
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1985 U.S. Senator Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator
to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from
Cape Canaveral, FL.
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I was sitting in the foyer of a bank when a young man walked
by, and then stopped for a moment on his way out. I noticed
that one of the latches on his overstuffed briefcase was
unfastened, putting strain on the remaining latch.
"You're going to lose the contents of your briefcase," I
warned him.
As he yanked it up to look, the case burst open.
He stared at me with something akin to fear in his eyes
as he gasped, "How on earth did you do that?"
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While on leave, my Marine buddy and I met two nursing
students from Southern California. After chatting them
up awhile, the conversation turned to what we did in the
service. When we told them we were in the infantry, the
girls seemed very impressed, giving us big smiles as they
told us how sweet that was.
Since infantry and sweet are seldom used in the same sen-
tence, I was a little confused. Until, that is, one of the
girls said, "We admire any man who works with infants."
We never did tell them the truth.
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Cameo Crispi, 31, Naples, Utah
Utah woman jailed after burning bacon
extra crispy while attempting to burn
down ex-boyfriend's home
Cameo Crispi, a 31-year-old Utah woman, was jailed Wednesday
after she allegedly tried to set fire to her ex-boyfriends
home with a pound of burning bacon.
According to Naples police, officers were contacted by
Crispi's ex-boyfriend on March 14 after she allegedly
harassed him with repeated phone calls and text messages.
The man told police that he wanted the calls to stop and
didn't want Crispi to be inside his home.
Officers were then dispatched to the man's home on suspicion
that she might be at the ex-boyfriend's residence against
his wishes.
Investigators say officers arrived at the man's home to find
smoke pouring through the front door and an intoxicated
Cameo Crispi inside.
The officer entered the home and found a wood burning stove
with a fire burning inside and several hot coals laying on
the floor outside of the stove.
In the kitchen the officer found a cookie sheet loaded with
a pound of bacon sitting on top of the kitchen stove. The
officer noted that the burner was set to "high" and that
the bacon was "severely burned and smoking badly."
The officer shut down both stoves, arrested Crispi and
then transported her to a local hospital to receive a
medical clearance before taking her to jail. When a doctor
at the hospital asked Crispi about what had transpired at
the residence, Crispi allegedly stated that she was
attempting to start a fire in the house to get back at
her ex-boyfriend, according to the arrest affidavit.
Crispi was booked into the Uintah County Jail and charged
with arson, burglary, assault by a prisoner, interfering
with an arresting officer, electronic communication
harassment and intoxication. She is expected back in
court on April 14.
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>From jean
Last night I was sitting on the sofa watching TV when I
heard my wife's voice from the kitchen.
"What would you like for dinner, sweetheart?
Chicken, beef or lamb?”
I said, “Why thank you, I’ll have chicken!"
She replied, "You're having soup Dear.
I was talking to the cat."
A guy walked into a crowded bar, waving his model
1911 Colt .45 caliber pistol with an 8 round magazine,
and yelled, " Who in here has been sleeping with my wife?"
A voice from the back of the bar yelled back,
"You need a lot more ammo."
Today in
1096 Peter the Hermit gathered his army in Cologne.
1204 The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.
1606 England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag.
1782 The British navy won its only naval engagement against
the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of
Saints, off Dominica.
1799 Phineas Pratt patented the comb cutting machine.
1811 The first colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment,
Washington.
1833 Charles Gaylor patented the fireproof safe.
1861 Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting
America's Civil War.
1864 Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort
Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughters the black Union troops
there.
1892 Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S.
to use voting machines.
1905 The Hippodrome opened in New York City.
1911 Pierre Prier completed the first non-stop London-Paris
flight in three hours and 56 minutes.
1916 American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clashed
at Parrel, Mexico.
1927 The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting
rights.
1938 The first U.S. law requiring a medical test for a
marriage license was enacted in New York.
1944 The U.S. Twentieth Air Force was activated to begin
the strategic bombing of Japan.
1945 In New York, the organization of the first eye bank,
the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration, was announced.
1955 The University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation
Center announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk
was "safe, effective and potent."
1961 Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to
orbit the Earth.
1963 Police used dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil
rights demonstrators in Birmingham, AL.
1982 The British Navy began enforcing a blockade around
the Falkland Islands.
1984 Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger made the first
satellite repair in orbit by returning the Solar Max satellite
to space.
1984 Israeli troops stormed a bus that had been hijacked the previous
evening by four Arab terrorists. All the passengers were rescued and
2 of the hijackers were killed.
1985 U.S. Senator Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator
to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from
Cape Canaveral, FL.
1987 Texaco filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it failed to
settle a legal dispute with Pennzoil Co.
1988 Harvard University won a patent for a genetically altered
mouse. It was the first patent for a life form.
1989 In the U.S.S.R, ration cards were issued for the first time
since World War II. The ration was prompted by a sugar shortage.
1992 Disneyland Paris opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France.
1993 NATO began enforcing a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2000 More than 1,500 anti-drug agents raided four cities in
Colombia and arrested 46 members of the "most powerful"
heroin ring.
2000 Robert Cleaves, 71, was convicted of second degree murder
and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Cleaves had
repeatedly run over Arnold Guerreiro on September 30, 1998
with his car after the two had an argument.
2002 It was announced that the South African version of
"Sesame Street" would be introducing a character that
was HIV-positive.
2002 JCPenney Chairman Allen Questrom rang the opening bell
to start the business day at the New York Stock Exchange as
part of the company's centennial celebrations. James Cash
(J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store on April 14, 1902.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, April 10.
Yesterday evening I had some sortof diabetic malfunction.
I was hot and sweating, yet my skin was cold and wet.
So I decided to have a short nap and let it straighten
out. Woke up 2 hours later, (I had expected to wake up in
45 minuts) with terrible lower back pain.
Went tothekitchen for some coffee, and remember hearing
clattering down on the floor.
I didn't break anything important, because nything
important is on a high shelf.
However, I was very disoriented and dizzy in addition to
the backache, and it took me ten minutes to get up.
Tried to call Barb, my friend and former secretary.
Wrong area code.
Staggered to my computer and sat down. Remembered her
correct number and called her. She showed up in a minute.
I checked blood sugar: 4.6. Low record for me. So I ate
some Dextrose tablets.
Then Barb called 911. Five minuteslaterthe EMTs were here.
They did a full 16 point EKG and hemmed and hawed over the
print-out but finally admitted that the heart was OK.
Blood pressure was very low, but not catastrophic. Sugar
was now very high, due to the dextrose tablets.
They were stumped and suggested hauling me to the hospital.
At the hospital they repeated all those tests and added soms
blood analysis. White blood cell count was very high, I was d
dehydrated, but they had no clue why.
So they decided to keep me in triage overnight, on a very
narrow and uncomfortable "bed".
By mid mornin they still did not have a clue as to what was
causing it, but noticed that the triangle muscle pack in my
lower back was all cramped up.
So they prescribed Naproxen 375 mg, and told me to get it
from the drugstore. It would not alleviate the pain, but
if it was caused by some inflammation, it would reduce that.
And not to take Aspirin alongside it.
Well, I have never seen an inflammation come on THAT suddenly,
but Barb drove me to the drugstore and I got that medicine
anyway.
So far it has not made a diffeence, and sittinge at the
computer is very painful.
I took Copper fora walk. That was a dumb idea. His excited
bouncing around would have been good for a normal twisted
or "put out" back, but sure was not good for what I got now.
I wonder if I could take a muscle relaxerlike Ibuprofen
alongside the Naproxen. If any one of you know, please
tell me as soon as possible!
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1986 Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.
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I was sitting in the foyer of a bank when a young man walked
by, and then stopped for a moment on his way out. I noticed
that one of the latches on his overstuffed briefcase was
unfastened, putting strain on the remaining latch.
"You're going to lose the contents of your briefcase," I
warned him.
As he yanked it up to look, the case burst open.
He stared at me with something akin to fear in his eyes as
he gasped, "How on earth did you do that?"
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While on leave, my Marine buddy and I met two nursing
students from Southern California. After chatting them
up awhile, the conversation turned to what we did in the
service. When we told them we were in the infantry, the
girls seemed very impressed, giving us big smiles as they
told us how sweet that was.
Since infantry and sweet are seldom used in the same sen-
tence, I was a little confused. Until, that is, one of the
girls said, "We admire any man who works with infants."
We never did tell them the truth.
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Utah woman jailed after burning bacon
extra crispy while attempting to burn
down ex-boyfriend's home
Cameo Crispi, a 31-year-old Utah woman, was jailed Wednesday
after she allegedly tried to set fire to her ex-boyfriends
home with a pound of burning bacon.
According to Naples police, officers were contacted by
Crispi's ex-boyfriend on March 14 after she allegedly
harassed him with repeated phone calls and text messages.
The man told police that he wanted the calls to stop and
didn't want Crispi to be inside his home.
Officers were then dispatched to the man's home on suspicion
that she might be at the ex-boyfriend's residence against
his wishes.
Investigators say officers arrived at the man's home to find
smoke pouring through the front door and an intoxicated
Cameo Crispi inside.
The officer entered the home and found a wood burning stove
with a fire burning inside and several hot coals laying on
the floor outside of the stove.
In the kitchen the officer found a cookie sheet loaded with
a pound of bacon sitting on top of the kitchen stove. The
officer noted that the burner was set to "high" and that
the bacon was "severely burned and smoking badly."
The officer shut down both stoves, arrested Crispi and
then transported her to a local hospital to receive a
medical clearance before taking her to jail. When a doctor
at the hospital asked Crispi about what had transpired at
the residence, Crispi allegedly stated that she was
attempting to start a fire in the house to get back at
her ex-boyfriend, according to the arrest affidavit.
Crispi was booked into the Uintah County Jail and charged
with arson, burglary, assault by a prisoner, interfering
with an arresting officer, electronic communication
harassment and intoxication. She is expected back in
court on April 14.
Tech Support Pits
From: Dani
Re: Is it time to panic about XP?
Dear Webby,
What will happen when Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP?
My computer is 9 years and working great. Will I have to
purchase a new computer with Microsoft 8??
Please tell me no!!
Is it possible to still an XP and if so where?
Should I be backing up or saving specific information other
than the normal things?
Thank you so much.
Dani
Dear Dani
Nothing will happen when Microsoft stops supporting XP,
just like nothing happened whenever you needed support
in the last 9 years.
There are billions of XP machines in use in industry and
commerce, and nobody is rushing out to get W7 or W8 machines.
They are generally considered cutesy crap and not really
suitable for work.
W7 and W8 are an incentive to finally switch to Linux, and
a lot of industry and commerce are doing just that, whenever
an XP machine dies of old age.
However, they are not letting Microsoft stampeding them or
getting worried about an April deadline.
They never call Microsoft for support anyway.
Exactly the same as those Billions of XP machines in industry
and commerce all over the world, your machine will continue
to run until the drives or the motherboard die of old age.
By then you have hopefully gotten used to Opne Office and
Thunderbird and GIMP.
Those programs are equivalents to Microsoft Office,
Windows Live Mail, and Photoshop, except that they are free,
and work exactly the same on Windows as on Linux. That way,
when the time comes to upgrade, you are already used to
the programs you work with.
Also hang around on some Linux forums and get familiar with
the slang they use. Just lurk and observe and get to know
the gals and guys, and find one, who might be a good mentor
for you.
It's no big deal, if you slowly prepare for the upgrade.
You can even run Linux from a "Live CD", while you still have
Windows on the computer.
W7 can be made usable for work, but it takes some doing.
It's strength is in easy networking, connecting to networks
and letting networks connect to W7 machines. However, they
shuffled everything around. The gas pedal is now in the
ashtray and the shift lever is in the glove compartment.
Eventually you might find all the stuff, but it takes time,
and by then you will thoroughly hate W7. W8 is even worse.
W8 is great for automatically connecting to everything from
your and your neighbor's phone to tablets and garage door
openers, but to find what you need to get some work done
apparently is a nightmare.
Personally, I have managed to avoid it.
It is a lot easier to slide onto Linux, and you don't need
a new and powerful machine with Linux. Just prepare and don't
worry about it.
Have FUN!
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Mesh Bags for Dishwashing Small Items
I save the mesh bags from produce items, such as onions and s
hallots, the finer the mesh the better. Make sure there are no
holes in the bag, other than those already in the mesh fabric.
Cut off the ends of the bag to form a tube shape. Place a rubber
band tightly at one end. Place small items that would fly around
during the dishwasher cycle. Close the other open end with another
rubber band, again, wound tightly. Put the mesh bag in an area
of the dishwasher, preferably the top rack in a spot where the
bag will stay put. Run your dishwasher, and voila! The small
items will be clean, and the bag will be re-usable. Keep in mind
to make certain the items you plan to wash are dishwasher safe.
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A boy had reached four without giving up the habit of sucking
his thumb, though his mother had tried everything from
bribery to reasoning to painting it with lemon juice to
discourage the habit.
Finally she tried threats, warning her son that, "If you
don't stop sucking your thumb, your stomach is going to
blow up like a balloon."
Later that day, walking in the park, mother and son saw
a pregnant woman sitting on a bench. The four-year-old
considered her gravely for a minute, then spoke to her
saying, "Uh-oh ... I know what you've been doing."
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 do you know that?"
"Easy," the little boy said. "All you have to do is add it
up, like the preacher said: '4 better, 4 worse, 4 poorer,
4 richer.'"
-------------
I have done all except the "4 richer".
Wonder what I should do to attract those?
Today in
1741 Frederick II of Prussia defeated Maria Theresa's forces
at Mollwitz and conquered Silesia.
1790 The U.S. patent system was established.
1809 Austria declared war on France and its forces entered
Bavaria.
1814 Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Toulouse by the
British and the Spanish. The defeat led to his abdication
and exile to Elba.
1825 The first hotel opened in Hawaii.
1849 Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights
for $100.
1862 Union forces began the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in
Georgia along the Tybee River.
1902 South African Boers accepted British terms of surrender.
1912 The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.
1919 In Mexico, revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was
killed by government troops.
1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Great Gatsby"
1930 The first synthetic rubber was produced.
1932 Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany
with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with
13 million votes.
1938 Germany annexed Austria after Austrians had voted in
a referundum to merge with Germany.
1941 In World War II, U.S. troops occupied Greenland to
prevent Nazi infiltration.
1941 Ford Motor Co. became the last major automaker to
recognize the United Auto Workers as the representative
for its workers.
1944 Russian troops recaptured Odessa from the Germans.
1945 German Me 262 jet fighters shot down ten U.S. bombers
near Berlin.
1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito married commoner
Michiko Shoda.
1960 The U.S. Senate passed the Civil Rights Bill.
1963 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS
Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA.
1968 U.S. President Johnson replaced General Westmoreland
with General Creighton Abrams in Vietnam.
1972 An earthquake in southern Iran killed more than 5,000 people.
1972 The U.S. and the Soviet Union joined with 70 other nations
in signing an agreement banning biological warfare.
1973 In Switzerland, 108 people died when a plane crashed while
attempting to land at Basel.
1980 Spain and Britain agreed to reopen the border between
Gibraltar and Spain. It had been closed since 1969.
1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was elected to
the British Parliament.
1984 The U.S. Senate condemned the CIA mining of
Nicaraguan harbors.
1990 Three European hostages kidnapped at sea in 1987 by
Palestinian extremists were released in Beirut.
1994 NATO warplanes launched air strikes for the first time
on Serb forces that were advancing on the Bosnian Muslim
town of Gordazde. The area had been declared a U.N. safe area.
1996 U.S. President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have
outlawed a technique used to end pregnancies in their
late stages.
1998 Negotiators reached a peace accord on governing British
ruled Northern Ireland. Britain's direct rule was ended.
1999 The www.June4.org web site was launched by Chinese
dissidents and human rights activists to promote their
campaign for democracy in China.
2001 The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted
suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
2009 In Fiji, President Josefa Iloilo suspended the nation's
Constitution, dismissed all judges and constitutional appointees
and assumed all governance in the country.
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Is it time to panic about XP?
Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 11:31 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, April 8.
Thanks to Anna for sending the link to Earth from the
space station at night. The video is speeded up to show
about one shot per minute smoothly. There are lots of northern
lights sequences in there too. Earth from space
There are probebly a years worth of pictures in that
compilation. Don't worry, they are all night shots and don't
show what you do in the back yard or i the bushes down by
the river.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to an
Oregon drunk wearing a "Drunk As Shit" t-shirt,
who was arrested for drunk driving
Details at International Bonehead Awards
From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in
1986 Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.
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civilized taste.
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Trisha is five feet, three inches tall and pleasingly
plump. After she had a minor accident, her sister
accompanied her to the emergency room. The triage
nurse asked for her height and weight, and she blurted
out, "Five-foot-eight, 125 pounds."
While the nurse pondered over this information,
her sister leaned over to her.
"Trisha," she gently chided, "This is not the Internet."
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A six-year-old ran up and down the supermarket aisles
shouting frantically, "Marian, Marian!"
Finally reunited with his mother, he was chided by her,
"You shouldn't call me 'Marian.' I'm your mother, you
know."
"I know," said the child, "but the store is full of
mothers."
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Oregon drunk wearing a "Drunk As Shit"
t-shirt is arrested for drunk driving
An Oregon motorist wearing a “Drunk As Shit” t-shirt was
arrested Sunday night on a DUI charge.
Ross McMakin, a 21-year-old Corvalis resident, was collared
after he drove his vehicle on the sidewalk, struck a parked
car, and then assaulted his girlfriend when she tried to
seize the car keys.
According to cops, McMakin, seen in the above mug shot,
was behind the wheel because his girlfriend did not know
how to drive a stick shift.
McMakin was charged with an assortment of crimes, including
drunk driving, reckless endangerment, harassment, and
strangulation (for throttling his girlfriend).
Since he will be doing that again, she better take up body
building to get a thick neck, and learn karate!
Tech Support Pits
From: Dani
Re: Is it time to panic about XP?
Dear Webby,
What will happen when Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP?
My computer is 9 years and working great. Will I have to
purchase a new computer with Microsoft 8??
Please tell me no!!
Is it possible to still an XP and if so where?
Should I be backing up or saving specific information other
than the normal things?
Thank you so much.
Dani
Dear Dani
Nothing will happen when Microsoft stops supporting XP,
just like nothing happened whenever you needed support
in the last 9 years.
There are billions of XP machines in use in industry and
commerce, and nobody is rushing out to get W7 or W8 machines.
They are generally considered cutesy crap and not really
suitable for work.
W7 and W8 are an incentive to finally switch to Linux, and
a lot of industry and commerce are doing just that, whenever
an XP machine dies of old age.
However, they are not letting Microsoft stampeding them or
getting worried about an April deadline.
They never call Microsoft for support anyway.
Exactly the same as those Billions of XP machines in industry
and commerce all over the world, your machine will continue
to run until the drives or the motherboard die of old age.
By then you have hopefully gotten used to Opne Office and
Thunderbird and GIMP.
Those programs are equivalents to Microsoft Office,
Windows Live Mail, and Photoshop, except that they are free,
and work exactly the same on Windows as on Linux. That way,
when the time comes to upgrade, you are already used to
the programs you work with.
Also hang around on some Linux forums and get familiar with
the slang they use. Just lurk and observe and get to know
the gals and guys, and find one, who might be a good mentor
for you.
It's no big deal, if you slowly prepare for the upgrade.
You can even run Linux from a "Live CD", while you still have
Windows on the computer.
W7 can be made usable for work, but it takes some doing.
It's strength is in easy networking, connecting to networks
and letting networks connect to W7 machines. However, they
shuffled everything around. The gas pedal is now in the
ashtray and the shift lever is in the glove compartment.
Eventually you might find all the stuff, but it takes time,
and by then you will thoroughly hate W7. W8 is even worse.
W8 is great for automatically connecting to everything from
your and your neighbor's phone to tablets and garage door
openers, but to find what you need to get some work done
apparently is a nightmare.
Personally, I have managed to avoid it.
It is a lot easier to slide onto Linux, and you don't need
a new and powerful machine with Linux. Just prepare and don't
worry about it.
Have FUN!
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Sunday Evenings for Shopping
My dear husband has found that it's easy to shop for
groceries for us on Sunday evenings. Not only that, but
they seem to have great specials. The flower bouquets of
the week are marked down to $1 a piece to clear them!
(and with trimming them and adding the preservative that
comes along, they last a week or more.) So now I can have
fresh cut flowers all the time!
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One evening a man was very impressed with the meat
entree his wife had served. "What did you marinate this
in?" he asked.
His wife immediately went into a long explanation about
how much she loves him and how life wouldn't be the
same without him, etc.
Eventually, his puzzled expression made her interrupt
her answer with a question of her own, "
What did you ask me?"
She chuckled at his answer and explained, "I thought
you asked me if I would marry you again!"
As she left the room, he called out, "Well, would you
marry me again?"
Without hesitation, she said, "Vinegar and barbecue
sauce."
Here is a Classic from England:
For months he had been her devoted admirer. Now, at
long last, he had collected up sufficient courage to ask
her the most momentous of all questions:
"There are quite a lot of advantages to being a
bachelor," he began, "but there comes a time when
one longs for the companionship of another being
-- a being who will regard one as perfect, as an idol;
whom one can treat as one's absolute own; who
will be kind and faithful when times are hard; who will
share one's joys and sorrows."
To his delight he saw a sympathetic gleam in her eyes.
Then she nodded in agreement. Finally, she
responded, "I think its a great idea!
Sure I can help you choose which puppy to buy!"
Today in
1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.
1525 Albert von Brandenburg, the leader of the Teutonic
Order, assumes the title "Duke of Prussia" and passed the
first laws of the Protestant church, making Prussia a
Protestant state.
1789 The U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting.
1832 About 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry left
Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, to confront the Sauk Indians
in the Black Hawk War.
1839 The first Intercollegiate Rodeo was held at the
Godshall Ranch, Apple Valley, CA.
1873 Alfred Paraf patented the first successful oleomargarine.
1939 Italy invaded Albania.
1942 The Soviets opened a rail link to the besieged city of
Leningrad.
1952 U.S. President Truman seized steel mills to prevent a
nationwide strike.
1962 Bay of Pigs invaders got thirty years imprisonment
in Cuba.
1985 India filed suit against Union Carbide for the
Bhopal disaster.
1985 Phyllis Diller underwent a surgical procedure for
permanent eyeliner to eliminate the need for eyelid makeup.
1986 Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.
1990 In Nepal, King Birendra lifted the 30-year ban on
political parties.
1992 In Britain, the last issue of "Punch Magazine"
1994 Smoking was banned in the Pentagon and all U.S.
military bases.
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Putting subject line into an email link
Monday, April 7, 2014, 11:55 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, April 7.
Thank you, Dr Bill!
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DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Notre Dame college student, who went on a booze
and dope fuelled munchie rampage and break-in.
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From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in
1970 John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in
"True Grit." He had been in over 200 films.
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and keeps on writing prose.
--- Samuel McChord Crothers
Modern poetry is mostly just bad grammar.
--- Socratex
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Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Why you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
Why "abbreviated" is such a long word?
Why doctors call what they do "practice"?
If con is the opposite of pro, is
Congress the opposite of progress?
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After playing 18 holes of golf, our foursome was sitting
around the clubhouse settling our bets when another golfer
stormed in. Fuming after a lousy round, he slammed down
his scorecard and announced,
"If I wasn't married,
I'd give this stupid game up!"
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Temple in Luxor Egypt
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Brian McCurren, South Bend, Ind.
Notre Dame college student, who went on a booze
and dope fuelled munchie rampage and break-in.
A Notre Dame college student was arrested after breaking
into a massage parlor, devouring a stockpile of Hot Pockets
and nearly causing a serious fire.
Brian McCurren, 19, was arrested Sunday morning after police
say he used a flower pot to break into Therapeutic Indulgence,
a massage parlor in South Bend, Ind.
Parlor owner Sara Ros Frazier said McCurren crawled through
the hole he made in a stained glass window.
"Then he grabbed a hammer and pounded his way through a wall
to get inside," Frazier told WNDU-TV. "It's just so senseless."
McCurren allegedly broke lamps, mirrors, furniture and other
spa equipment before spraying a fire extinguisher throughout
the building.
Things got messy in the kitchen.
"He went through half a box of Hot Pockets," she told the
station. "Macaroni and cheese was warming up in an antique
style oven and then [he] passed out eating Drumsticks on a
table where the police found him."
The mac-and-cheese mac out set off the fire alarm, Frazier
said.
“The police actually pulled it out and threw it in the sink
because it was so toasted, but he was sleeping through the
fire alarm and everything. He could have burned the house
down. Thankfully we had someone coming in here,” she told
ABC57.com.
Police say McCurren was visibly intoxicated upon being found
and could not remember how he arrived at the location nor
what he was doing there.
McCurren was arrested for alleged burglary, vandalism and
underage consumption. After being brought to the police
station, he reportedly blew a .106 BAC, Fox28.com reports.
He also allegedly admitted smoking synthetic marijuana to
police, ABC57.com reports.
He might be too young for drinking in Indiana, but an alcohol
and break-in record is federal.
Tech Support Pits
From: Olga
Re: Subject in email address link
Dear Webby,
Everybody starts with "You told us once, but I forgot
where I saved that..." Add me to the choir.
I need the trick for adding the subject line and a bit
of the body into an email link, so that emails coming
from that link have a consistent subject line, and can
be easily filtered into a specific mailbox.
AND to eliminate emails from bozos, who ferget to put
anything into the subject line.
Sounds simple enough, now how do I do that?
Thanks
Olga
Dear Olga
I am not going to use any < or >
("less than" or "greater than") signs here, because most
likely your email program will see them as commands and
act on them. You know where to add them.
I will use { and } instead
If you want to have a specific subject in the email,
you can add it to the html code using
?subject=....
{a href="mailto:email@olgasdomain.com?subject=Report from Camp"}{/a}
If you want to add part of the body, use &body= and your text
{a href="mailto:email@olgasdomain.com?subject=Report
from camp &Body= Contrary to what the National Enquirer wrote,.."}{/a}
Once you put the "less than" or "greater than" signs in,
it won't look so weird and will make perfect sense.
During the stone age, before I got the MagicList in 1995
for sending the Humor letter, I used to handle subscriptions
manually like that. It works quite well.
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Clean Veggies With Water and Vinegar
Whatever you do, don't use anti-bacterial soap! You don't
want any residue in you, and it's not that good anyway,
and in time causes resistance in bacteria.
Mostly just water soaking will take care of cleanliness,
but if you want to be safer from corporate malfeasance,
1 part vinegar (apple cider is nice) to 4 parts water kills
many harmful bacteria, according to Cook's among others.
That assumes you bought non-organic veggies, or maybe even
organic if from a big distant company, not a local farmer.
Super-perfectionists have been known to spray everything
first with food grade peroxide (H2O2), wait a few minutes,
then vinegar. If it's a salad, just leave the vinegar on.
Source: Partly from Cook's Illustrated, but I don't have
the issue. The rest I've collected over time.
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>From Dave
We went to the movie the other night. I sat in an aisle seat
as I usually do because it feels a little roomier. Just as
the feature was about to start a yuppie from the center
of the row got up and started working her way out. "Excuse
me, sorry, oops, excuse me, pardon me, gotta hurry, oops,
excuse me."
By the time she got to me I was trying to look around her
and I was a little impatient so I said, "Couldn't you have
done this a little earlier?" "No!!" she said in a loud
whisper, "The TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE PLEASE message just
flashed up on the screen and mine is out in the car."
Daffynitions
Abdicate-v., to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
Carcinoma-n., a valley in California, notable for its
heavy smog.
Esplanade-v., to attempt an explanation while drunk.
Willy-nilly-adj., impotent.
Flabbergasted-adj., appalled over how much weight you
have gained.
Negligent-adj., describes a condition in which you
absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie.
Lymph-v., to walk with a lisp.
Bustard-n., a very rude Metrobus driver.
Coffee-n., a person who is coughed upon.
Flatulence-n., the emergency vehicle that picks you up
after you are run over by a steamroller.
Balderdash-n., a rapidly receding hairline.
Testicle-n., a humorous question on an exam.
Semantics-n., pranks conducted by young men studying for
the priesthood, including such things as gluing the pages
of the priest's prayer book together just before vespers.
Rectitude-n., the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a
proctologist immediately before he examines you.
Oyster-n., a person who sprinkles his conversation with
Yiddish expressions.
Today in
1712 A slave revolt broke out in New York City.
1798 The territory of Mississippi was organized.
1864 The first camel race in America was held in
Sacramento, California.
1922 U.S. Secretary of Interior leased Teapot Dome
naval oil reserves in Wyoming.
1927 The first long-distance TV transmission was sent from
Washington, DC, to New York City.
1933 Prohibition ended in the United States.
1943 British and American armies linked up between Wadi Akarit
and El Guettar in North Africa to form a solid line against
the German army.
1945 The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world’s largest
battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet
was headed for a suicide mission.
1953 IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine.
It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer.
1957 The last of New York City's electric trolleys completed its
final run from Queens to Manhattan.
1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed itself a Socialist republic.
1963 Josip Broz Tito was proclaimed to be the leader of
Yugoslavia for life.
1966 The U.S. recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off
the coast of Spain.
1967 Israel reported that they had shot down six Syrian MIGs.
1969 The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws
prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1970 John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in
"True Grit." He had been in over 200 films.
1971 U.S. President Nixon pledged to withdraw 100,000 more
men from Vietnam by December, thereby ensuring defeat
of the USA.
1980 The U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Iran and
imposed economic sanctions in response to the taking of
hostages on November 4, 1979.
1983 Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson made the
first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
1985 The Soviet Union announced a unilateral freeze on
medium-range nuclear missiles.
1988 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to final terms
of a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet troops
began leaving on May 16, 1988.
1988 In Fort Smith, AR, 13 white supremacists were acquitted
on charges for plotting to overthrow the U.S. federal government.
1989 A Soviet submarine carrying nuclear weapons sank in the
Norwegian Sea.
1994 Civil war erupted in Rwanda between the Patriotic Front rebel
group and government soldiers. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered
in the months that followed.
1998 Mary Bono, the widow of Sonny Bono, won a special election
to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term.
1999 Yugoslav authorities sealed off Kosovo's main border crossings
to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving.
2000 U.S. President Clinton signed the Senior Citizens Freedom to
Work Act of 2000. The bill reversed a Depression-era law and allows
senior citizens to earn money without losing Social Security
retirement benefits.
2002 The Roman Catholic archdiocese announced that six priests
from the Archdiocese of New York were suspended over allegations
of sexual misconduct.
2009 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced
to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings
by security forces.
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Today is Sunday, April 6.
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to Chris Miller,
who, after serving 15 years for armed robbery,
did it again the day after he got out.
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1985 William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart
recipient to be discharged from the hospital.
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When a coworker received a phone call from her daughter,
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I'm so proud!" After she had hung up, I asked, "Boy or girl?"
"Neither," my colleague replied... "Diet."
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"Information. Can I help you?"
"I'd like the number of the Theater Guild, please."
"One moment, please." Pause. "I'm sorry sir, I have no
listing for a Theodore Guild."
"No, no. It isn't a person. It's an organization. It's Theater
Guild."
"I told you, sir. I have no listing for a Theodore Guild."
"Not *Theodore*! *Theater*! The word is *theater*.
T-H-E-A-T-E-R!"
"That, *sir*, is NOT the way you spell Theodore."
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Christopher Miller, 40, back in jail
After serving 15 years for armed robbery,
he did it again.
Police say a man walked out of a New Jersey prison after
serving 15 years for robbing a children's shoe store,
headed straight back to the same shop and robbed it again.
In 1999, 25-year-old Christopher Miller was arrested after
he forced employees into the back room of the Stride Rite
shoe store on Hooper Avenue in Toms River, tied them up
and fled with cash.
After a 15-year sentence, Miller was released on Friday
from South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton.
Police say Miller, now 40, took a bus from Atlantic City
to Toms River on Saturday, and went to the same shoe store.
Employees tell police that he entered the store and demanded
cash, telling the workers -- a teenage boy and 43-year-old
woman -- to go to the back room. They refused.
He became agitated, according to police, and took the cash
register drawer, which had $389.
He then took the workers' cell phones and fled on foot.Police
say he was found a few blocks away, with the cash stashed in
a gutter and the phones in a garbage can.
Toms River Police Chief Mitchell Little says he has to
wonder whether Miller considers prison life home.
"Maybe that's the only life he knows, and the only thing
he could think of was going back to the same store and
doing the same crime again -- getting caught and going
back where he was taken care of and told what to do and
getting meals and shelter and everything else," he said.
Police say Miller lists Tulsa, Okla. as his last address.
His connection to Toms River is not clear.
He is charged with robbery and is being held on
$100,000 bail.
Tech Support Pits
From: Noella
Re: HP printer won't stay installed
Dear Webby,
Hey, I've got another question.
I've had Microsoft Office 2003 in the past, registered to
me. When my computer crashed several months ago, I didn't
have the cd to reinstall. So I used Open Office. However,
I received a job that really needed MS Office, so I
contacted the guy who installed, got a cd from him and
reinstalled it. I'm sure there's some add-ons that I've
missed and he hasn't responded to my questions just yet.
However, I've noticed that since I re-installed MS Office,
the computer keeps losing my printer, an HP2410. I never
had this problem before. I bet I've reinstalled that printer
3-4 times in the last month.
Any suggestions?
Again, I thank you for your technical omniscience.
Noella
Dear Noella
Open Office doesn't really have anything to do with that.
Printers are installed a few layers deeper down, from the
Control Panel.
UNinstalling all printers and then re-installing that HP
MIGHT cure the problem. If that doesn't fix it, you'll
have to call HP or Microsoft.
Unless there have been drastic changes at HP, I doubt that
their Taliban would be useful.
You might get some reasonable help from Microsoft's 1-800.
Just use Skype on speakers or a speaker-phone, not anything
you have to hold up to your head.
Considering it is an XP, I would not waste time and call
Microsoft as soon as possible. They have mentoned often
enough, that they will stop supporting XP this month.
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A man says to a friend, "I've got a riddle for you. If there
were three crows on a fence post and I shot one, how many
would be left?"
Without hesitating, the friend says, "Two left."
"You don't get the point," the man says. "Listen to the
riddle. There were three crows on a fence post. Then I
shot one. How many would be left?"
"Two left," the friend says again.
"No," the man says in a superior tone of voice.
"None would be left, because if I shot one then the
other two would fly away."
"Isn't that what I've been saying?" the friend says.
"Two left."
A political pollster knocked on the door and a sour-faced
lady answered.
"What party does your husband belong to?" he asked.
The lady responded curtly, "I sir,
am the party he belongs to."
Today in
1199 English King Richard I was killed by an arrow at the
siege of the castle of Chaluz in France.
1652 Jan van Riebeeck established a settlement at Cape Town
1789 The first U.S. Congress began regular sessions at the
Federal Hall in New York City.
1814 Granted sovereignty in the island of Elba and a pension
from the French government, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates at
Fountainebleau. He was allowed to keep the title of emperor.
1830 Joseph Smith and five others organized the Mormon Church
in western New York.
1830 Relations between the Texans and Mexico reached a new
low when Mexico would not allow further emigration into Texas
by settlers from the U.S.
1862 The American Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee.
1865 At the Battle of Sayler's Creek, a third of Lee's army
was cut off by Union troops pursuing him to Appomattox.
1875 Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the
multiple telegraph, which sent two signals at the same time.
1896 The first modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece.
1903 French Army Nationalists were revealed for forging
documents to guarantee a conviction for Alfred Dryfus.
1909 Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson claimed to
be the first men to reach the North Pole.
1916 Charlie Chaplin became the highest-paid film star
in the world when he signed a contract with Mutual Film
Corporation for $675,000 a year. He was 26 years old.
1917 The U.S. Congress approved a declaration of war on
Germany and entered World War I on the Allied side.
1924 Four planes left Seattle on the first successful
flight around the world.
1938 The United States recognized the German conquest of
Austria.
1941 German forces invaded Greece and Yugoslavia.
1953 Iranian Premier Mossadegh demanded that the shah's
power be reduced.
1957 Trolley cars in New York City completed final runs.
1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the use of
ground troops in combat operations in Vietnam.
1967 In South Vietnam, 1,500 Viet Cong attacked Quangtri
and freed 200 prisoners.
1981 A Yugoslav Communist Party official confirmed reports of
intense ethnic riots in Kosovo.
1983 The U.S. Veteran's Administration announced it would
give free medical care for conditions traceable to radiation
exposure to more than 220,000 veterans who participated in
nuclear tests from 1945 to 1962.
1985 William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart
recipient to be discharged from the hospital.
1998 Federal researchers in the U.S. announced that daily
tamoxifen pills could cut breast cancer risk among
high-risk women.
1998 Pakistan successfully tested medium-range missiles
capable of attacking neighboring India.
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Saturday, April 5, 2014, 01:11 PM
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Today is Saturday, April 5.
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Bimbo bragged on Facebook about using "Buzz Killer"
to beat probation mandated alcohol test.
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1998 The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan opened becoming the
largest suspension bridge in the world. It links Shikoku
and Honshu. The bridge cost about $3.8 billion.
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There's a little fellow named Junior who hangs out at the
local grocery store. The manager doesn't know what Junior's
problem is, but the boys like to tease him. The boys say he
is two bricks short of a load, or two pickles shy of a barrel.
To prove it, sometimes the boys offer Junior his choice
between a nickel and a dime. He always takes the nickel,
they say, because it's bigger.
One day after Junior grabbed the nickel, the store manager
got him off to one side and said, "Junior, those boys are
making fun of you. They think you don't know the dime is
worth more than the nickel. Are you grabbing the nickel
because it's bigger, or what?"
Junior said, "No sir, you see, if I took the dime, they'd quit
doing it and giving me free nickels!"
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Bush and Powell are sitting in a bar. A guy walks in
and asks the barman, "Isn't that Bush and Powell?"
The barman says "Yep, thats them."
So the guy walks over and says, "Hello, what are
you guys doing?"
Bush answers, "We're planning World War III."
The guy says, "Really? What's going to happen?"
Then Powell replies, "Well, we're going to kill 22 million
Iranians this time and one big busted bicycle repair lady
in Seattle."
And the guy exclaimed, "Why a bicycle repair lady?!!!"
So Powell turns to Bush and says, " See, I told you
no-one would worry about the 22 million Iranians!"
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Colleen Cudney, 22, Michigan
Michigan woman bragged online about
breaching her DUI probation
A Michigan woman could be heading to jail this week after
allegedly bragging on Facebook about beating a random
breathalyzer test.
Colleen Cudney, 22, is not allowed to drink as a condition
of her probation for a 2012 drunken driving conviction, and
was called in for the test after St. Patrick's Day,
according to Local 4 News.
She passed the test, then boasted on Facebook about
her "achievement."
"Buzz killer for me, I had to breathalyze this morning and
I drank yesterday but I passed thank god lol," she allegedly
posted in a status update that eventually got the attention
of law enforcement.
Cudney was called in for another test -- a urine test,
which could detect the consumption of alcohol from up to
80 hours previously -- but reportedly hung up,
another probation violation.
She's due in court on Tuesday and is facing 93 days in jail.
Tech Support Pits
From: Rosemary
Re: Inkjet or laser printer
Dear Webby,
At what point should one buy a laser printer instead of an
inkjet printer?
Rosemary
Dear Rosemary
When you can afford a Laser printer.
The cheapest Laser is better than the most expensive inkjet.
Lasers have really come down in price, especially Black and
White ones.
Sure, you get free some inkjets for subscribing to kitchen
or make-up magazines, but they really get you with the ink
and the automatic renewal on those magazines.
Resist the temptation and get a laser printer.
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A big executive boarded a New York to Chicago train. He
explained to the porter, "I'm a heavy sleeper, but I want you
to be sure and wake me up at 3:00 am for the stop in Buffalo.
I don't care what I say, you just make sure I get off in Buffalo."
The next morning the executive woke up in Chicago. He was
furious. He found the porter and really gave him an earful before
hustling off to purchase a return ticket.
After he left, a co-worker said to the porter, "How can you
stand there and let that passenger abuse you like that?"
"That's nothing," said the porter. "You should have heard
the guy whom I chucked out into the rain in Buffalo!"
Abe is a new arrival at a retirement community, and is
passing the morning sunning himself on a bench near the
garden. Becky is out for her morning constitutional, spies
Abe, and says "Do you mind?"
"Not at all" Abe says, so Becky sits down on the opposite
end of his bench.
"So, you're new here" says Becky.
"Yes" Abe nods.
"So, where are you from?" asks Becky.
"Washington" Abe answers.
"The state or the capitol?" asks Becky.
"The state" replies Abe.
"So how old are you ? asks Becky.
"I'll be 62 in October.". Abe replies
"What did you do in Washington?" asks Becky.
"I was in prison" Abe says.
"Really!" says Becky, "what did you do?"
"My wife was always asking stupid questions, so I chopped
her up and put her down the garbage disposal" he says.
"Sooo," purrs Becky, "you're single?"
Today in
1242 Russian troops repelled an invasion attempt by the
Teutonic Knights.
1614 American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist
John Rolfe in Virginia.
1621 The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, MA, on a return
trip to England.
1806 Isaac Quintard patented the cider mill.
1843 Queen Victoria proclaimed Hong Kong to be a British
crown colony.
1908 The Japanese Army reached the Yalu River as the
Russians retreated.
1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company began the first
regular production of balloon tires.
1930 Mahatma Ghandi defied British law by making salt in India.
1941 German commandos secured docks along the Danube River in
preparation for Germany’s invasion of the Balkans.
1951 Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death
for committing espionage for the Soviet Union.
1955 Winston Churchill resigned as British prime minister.
1986 A discotheque in Berlin was bombed by Libyan terrorists.
The U.S. attacked Libya with warplanes in retaliation on
April 15, 1986.
1998 The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan opened becoming the
largest suspension bridge in the world. It links Shikoku
and Honshu. The bridge cost about $3.8 billion.
1999 Two Libyans suspected of bombing a Pan Am jet in 1988
were handed over so they could be flown to the Netherlands
for trial. 270 people were killed in the bombing.
2004 Near Mexico City's international airport, lightning
struck the jet Mexican President Vicente Fox was on.
2009 North Korea launched the Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket,
prompting an emergency meeting of the United Nations
Security Council.
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Friday, April 4, 2014, 09:31 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, April 4.
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Las Vegas masseuse, who stole client's $35G
Rolex by hiding in it inside her vagina
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1910 Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in
North America was climbed.
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A man went on a ski trip, and was knocked unconscious by
the chair lift.
He called his insurance company from the hospital, but it
refused to cover his injury.
"Why is the injury not covered?" he asked.
"You got hit in the head by a chair lift," the insurance
rep said. "That makes you an idiot, and we consider that
a pre-existing condition."
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Christina Lafave, 25, Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas masseuse, who stole client's $35G
Rolex by hiding in it inside her vagina
A Las Vegas masseuse stole a client's $35,000 Rolex and
hid it inside her vagina, police said.
Christina Lafave, 25, allegedly pinched the valuable watch
whilst giving a relaxing $300 rubdown to Kenneth Herold, 66,
at the Wynn Hotel.
The pair reportedly met in the hotel's bar in the early hours
of the morning, and headed up to his private room soon after.
Herold claims that he undressed and got onto a massage table
in his suite. Some 30 minutes into the session, he says
Lafave asked him to remove his watch so she could work on
his arms.
Putting the watch on the floor where he could see it, he
realized around five minutes later that it had gone.
Herold accused Lafave - who has Metro-issued work cards
allowing her to dance at Cheetahs, Cover Girls and Babes
strip clubs - of stealing the watch and called hotel security.
Cops arrived and searched the room, but could not find the
ticker.
Lafave got combative and tried to get away, but hotel
security handcuffed and restrained her. Eventually she
admitted to stealing the watch, and to stashing it
inside her vagina.
Officers got a search warrant and took her to University
Medical Center, where the watch was removed.
"Prior to medical staff assisting Lafave with the removal
of the watch she admitted to them that she had stolen a
watch and concealed the item in her vagina," a police
report said.
Lafave was arrested and faces felony charges grand larceny
and possession of stolen property. She was released on
$40,000 bail.
Her lawyer, Chris Rasmussen, told the Review Journal that
she plans on fighting the case, claiming illegal
search-and-seizure.
"We intend to file a motion to suppress the medical
intrusion," he said. "The search is an unreasonable search
when medical providers have to use equipment to conduct an
invasive procedure to remove what police believe is
evidence," he added.
Lafave will appear before in court on May 15.
She faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
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Re: Copyright Character
Dear Webby,
about once or twice a year somebody asks you how to make
the Copyright character. When you tell them, I nod and
think that is easy to remember.
Well, I fergot.
Can you tell us again, please?
Eddie
Dear Eddie
Turn on your numeric keypad, so that you can type numbers
with it, then hold down the ALT key, and type,
on the numeric keypad, 169
and let go of the ALT key.
If you are on a laptop with embedded numeric keypad
instead of a real one on the side, borrow a real
keyboard and plug it into a USB port, and use that.
If you can't borrow a real keyboard, copy it from here:
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When my granddaughter, Ann, was 9-years-old, she was given
an assignment by her teacher to write a story on "Where
my family came from." The purpose was to understand your
genealogy.
I was not aware of her assignment when she asked me at the
dining room table one night,
"Grandma, where did I come from?"
I responded quite nervously because my son and daughter-in-
law were out of town and I was stalling until they returned
home, "Well, honey, the stork brought you."
"Where did Mom come from then?"
"The stork brought her, too."
"OK, then.... where did you come from?"
"The stork brought me too, dear."
"Okay, thanks, Grandma."
I did not think anything more about it until two days later
when I was cleaning Ann's room and read the first sentence
of her paper... "For three generations there have been no
natural births in our family. We all got dumped by some
stork, and he's not talking."
FIVE THINGS TO SAY IF YOU GET CAUGHT SLEEPING AT YOUR DESK:
5. "They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen."
4. "This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in
the Time management course you sent me to."
3. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the Whiteout. You probably
got here just in time."
2. "Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards
when you put your ear down real close?"
AND THE NUMBER ONE THING TO SAY IF YOU GET CAUGHT SLEEPING
AT YOUR DESK:
1. Raise your head slowly and say, "...in Jesus' name, Amen."
Today in
0896 - Formosus ended his reign as pope.
1541 - Ignatius of Loyola became the first superior-general
of the Jesuits.
1581 - Francis Drake completed the circumnavigation of the world.
1687 - King James II ordered that his declaration of indulgence
be read in church.
1812 - The territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state and
became known as Louisiana.
1818 - The U.S. flag was declared to have 13 red and white stripes
and 20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each
new state.
1850 - The city of Los Angeles was incorporated.
1902 - British Financier Cecil Rhodes left $10 million in
his will that would provide scholarships for Americans to
Oxford University in England.
1905 - In Kangra, India, an earthquake killed 370,000 people.
1914 - The first known serialized moving picture opened in
New York City, NY. It was "The Perils of Pauline".
1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I
on the Allied side.
1932 - After five years of research, professor C.G. King,
of the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C.
1945 - Hungary was liberated from Nazi occupation.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi
death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.
1949 - Twelve nations signed a treaty to create The
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1967 - The U.S. lost its 500th plane over Vietnam.
1967 - Johnny Carson quit "The Tonight Show." He returned
three weeks later after getting a raise of $30,000 a week.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.
1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first temporary
artificial heart.
1971 - Veterans stadium in Philadelphia, PA, was dedicated
this day.
1975 - More than 130 people, most of them children, were
killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating
Vietnamese orphans crashed just after takeoff from Saigon.
1979 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the president of Pakistan, was
executed. He had been convicted of conspiring to murder
a political opponent.
1981 - Henry Cisneros became the first Mexican-American
elected mayor of a major U.S. city, which was
San Antonio, TX.
1984 - U.S. President Reagan proposed an international
ban on chemical weapons.
1986 - Wayne Gretzky set an NHL record with his 213th
point of the season.
1987 - The U.S. charged the Soviet Union with wiretapping
a U.S. Embassy.
1988 - Arizona Governor Evan Mecham was voted out of office
by the Arizona Senate. Mecham was found guilty of diverting
state funds to his auto business and of trying to impede an
investigation into a death threat to a grand jury witness.
1994 - Netscape Communications (Mosaic Communications)
was founded.
1999 - The Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres played
the first major league season opener to be held in Mexico.
The Rockies beat the Padres 8-2.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Thursday, April 3.
Snow has gone from the roofs and all the busier streets,
that have been salted. You can almost smell spring
in the air!
Have FUN!
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to an
Illinois man jailed for ignoring child's broken leg to
play Grand Theft Auto
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1910 Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in
North America was climbed.
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Everybody on earth dies and goes to heaven. God comes and
says, "I want the men to make two lines. One line for the
men that dominated their women on earth and the other line
for the men that were dominated by their women.
Also, I want all the women to go with St. Peter."
With that said and done, the next time God looked, the women
are gone and there are two lines. The line of the men that
were dominated by their women was 100 miles long, and in the
line of men that dominated their women, there was only
one man.
God got mad and said, "You men should be ashamed of
yourselves. I created, you in my image and you were all
whipped by your mates. Look at the only, one of my sons
that stood up and made me proud. Learn from him! Tell
them my son, how did you manage to be the only one in
this line?"
And the man replied, "I don't know, my wife told me to
stand here."
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Thanks to Dave for this confession:
The first prayer I ever learned was
"God is great, God is good,
let us thank him for this food".
Unfortunately, I had also just learned the patty-cake poem.
Picture it! A quiet Sunday dinner -- The family asks the
youngest child to say grace.
He is nervous -- but manages to pray:
"God is great, God is good,
roll him roll him, throw him in the pan".
Oops!
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Snow on my garage roof has melted and built an icicle on
the fence. During summer it waters my neighbor's
choke-cherry bush.
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to
Luis Matienzo, 19, Chicago, Illinois
Illinois man jailed for ignoring child's
broken leg to play Grand Theft Auto
From the Weekly Vice
Luis Matienzo, a 19-year-old Illinois man, was jailed Sunday
after he allegedly played a video game for hours while his
2-year-old stepson cried out in pain from a broken leg.
According to police, Matienzo was watching his 2-year-old
stepson when the child suffered a broken right femur while
playing inside a playpen at the home.
Matienzo allegedly played the video game "Grand Theft Auto V"
for two and a half hours "while knowing that the child was
injured with a leg injury, later found to be a broken right
leg," according to the arrest affidavit.
Investigators say Matienzo later admitted to knowing that
the child was injured, but left the boy in his play pen
crying because he didn't want to stop playing the video
game.
He eventually stopped playing when it was time to pick
up his wife. That's when the child was brought to a local
hospital for medical care.
Matienzo was booked into jail and charged with misdemeanor
child endangerment.
The report did not state how the kid's femur was broken.
Tech Support Pits
From: Yana
Re: Windows Logo key
Dear Webby,
You told us about Logo + D, and I got that to work.
What other logo key combos ar there? Are they any good?
Yana
Dear Yana
There are quite a few more, but they seem to have been made
when junior programmers were ordered to come up with some
sort of equivalent of the Apple key on Mac keyboards, to
give SOME excuse for that extra key.
Manufacturers had refused to leave out a key for Windows
keyboards, but were quite willing to print a Windows logo
on it instead of an apple.
Here are the few combos, that are worth remembering:
Just the logo: Open the start menu
Logo and PAUSE: System Properties
Logo and D: Minimize all open windows
Logo and D again: Restore windows
Logo and M: Minimize open Windows
Logo key + Shift + M: Restore windows
Logo key and F: search for a file or folder
There are more, but I doubt that you will even bother
to try them out.
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Sand And Vinegar For the Inside of Bottles
I have used a couple of different methods for cleaning
bottles or other hard to reach items. The first one is
filling the object with straight, plain vinegar and
letting it sit for a day or two. If this does not work
then add a bit of sand to the vinegar and shake it
really well, repeatedly.
If this does not work, I have used denture cleaning
tablets. I break one into small enough pieces to drop
them into the object being cleaned. Then add warm
water and let sit. If it does not get cleaned on the
first try then I repeat the process. Both of these
methods have worked successfully for me on many
different items, such as narrow necked bottles, salt
and pepper shakers, vases, etc.
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A neighbor who is always borrowing tools approaches the
house next door one Saturday morning.
"He won't get away with it this time," the homeowner tells
wife. "Watch this," he says, as he opens the door to greet
the neighbor.
"Er, I wonder if you'd be using your power saw this morning?"
the neighbor asks.
"Gee, I'm awfully sorry," the man says, with a smug look,
"but the fact of the matter is, I'll be using it all day."
"In that case," says the neighbor, "you won't be using your
golf clubs. Mind if I borrow them?"
Consider the case of Frederick II, an 18th-century king of
Prussia. Frederick fancied himself an enlightened monarch,
and in some respects he was. On one occasion, he is
supposed to have interested himself in the conditions of a
Berlin prison. He was escorted through it so that he might
speak to the prisoners.
One after the other, the prisoners fell to their knees before
him, bewailing their lot and, predictably, protesting their
utter innocence of all charges that had been brought against
them.
Only one prisoner remained silent, and finally Frederick's
curiosity was aroused.
"You," he called. "You, there!"
The prisoner looked up. "Yes, Your Majesty?"
"Why are you here?"
"Armed robbery, Your Majesty."
"And are you guilty?"
"Entirely guilty, Your Majesty. I richly deserve my punishment."
At this Frederick rapped his cane sharply on the ground and
said, "Warden, release this guilty wretch at once. I will not have
him here in jail where by example he will corrupt all the splendid
innocent people who occupy it."
Today in
1776 George Washington received an honorary Doctor of Laws
degree from Harvard College .
1829 James Carrington patented the coffee mill.
1860 The first Pony Express riders left St. Joseph, MO and
Sacramento, CA. The trip across country took about 10 days.
The Pony Express only lasted about a year and a half.
1882 The American outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back
and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward. There was
later controversy over whether it was actually Jesse James
that had been killed.
1910 Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in
North America was climbed.
1936 Richard Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping
and death of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
1942 The Japanese began their all-out assault on the U.S.
and Filipino troops at Bataan.
1948 U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan
to revive war-torn Europe. It was $5 billion in aid for
16 countries.
1967 The U.S. State Department said that Hanoi might be
brainwashing American prisoners.
1985 The U.S. charged that Israel violated the Geneva
Convention by deporting Shiite prisoners.
1986 The U.S. national debt hit $2 trillion.
1996 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski was arrested.
He pled guilty in January 1998 to five Unabomber
attacks in exchange for a life sentence without
chance for parole.
2010 The Wi-Fi version of the Apple iPad went on sale.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 09:24 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Wednesday, April 2.
Nice sunshine today! Walked downtown to the pharmacy and
back. No puddles, but the sunshine and the wind are
evaporating the snow quite nicely. The wind is hauling
it to the East. The roofs are bare now, and some of
the roads too.
Have FUN!
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Drunk CT woman jailed for driving car into store
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Today, in
2002 Israeli troops surrounded the Church of the Nativity.
More than 200 Palestinians had taken refuge at the church
when Israel invaded Bethlehem.
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Donna came into her doctor's office and
confessed to an embarrassing problem.
"I fart all the time, Doctor Johnson, but they're
soundless, and they have no odor. In fact, since
I've been here, I've farted no less than twenty
times. What can I do?"
"Here's a prescription, Donna. Take these
pills three times a day for seven days and come
back and see me in a week."
Next week an upset Donna marched into
Dr. Johnson's office.
"Doctor, I don't know what was in those pills,
but the problem is worse! I'm farting just as
much, but now they smell terrible! What do
you have to say for yourself?"
"Calm down, Donna," said the doctor
soothingly. "Now that we've fixed
your sinuses, we'll work on your hearing!!!"
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A professor was giving a lecture on company slogans in a
college advertising and marketing class.
"Joe," he asked, "which company has the slogan, 'Come fly
the friendly skies'?"
"United." Joe answered.
"Brenda, can you tell me which company has the slogan,
"Don't leave home without it?"
Brenda answered the correct credit card company with no
difficulty.
"Now John, Tell me which company uses the slogan, 'Just
do it'?"
John answered, "Mom."
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Rosa Blanca Chavarria-Medina, 31, of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Drunk CT woman jailed for driving car into store
From the Huffington Post
A Connecticut woman accused of plowing her car into a
convenience store at a speed of up to 70 mph and injuring
four people has been charged with drunken driving and
other crimes.
Thirty-one-year-old Rosa Blanca Chavarria-Medina of
Bridgeport was charged Monday with driving under the
influence and reckless driving, among other things.
Police say Chavarria-Medina was exiting Interstate 95
in Fairfield on March 24 when her car smashed into five
vehicles outside a Cumberland Farms store and crashed
into the storefront. Four people were hospitalized. Police
say it's lucky none of the injuries was life-threatening.
Authorities say Chavarria-Medina's blood-alcohol level was
more than three times the legal limit of .08.
Chavarria-Medina posted $5,000 bail.
Tech Support Pits
From: Anna
Re: Hide all open programs
Dear Webby,
You mentioned a trick once for hiding, not closing,
all open programs to see the icons on the desktop,
or to hide what you really are doing, and then unhide
them all, when the coast is clear.
What is that trick?
Anna
Dear Anna
Hold down the Windos key, and hit the D (for Desktop),
It will only bring back all your open stuff, if you
don't open anything else before you hhit the same key
combo again.
It is just a very primitive "Boss" key. If you open some
other program once you see your forest of icons, then that
key combo will just hide that one too, not unhide what it
hid before.
Usually it is not a big deal to pull the minimized stuff
up from the task bar again.
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Use a Hair Dryer to Clean Wax Off Brass
Heat the hard wax on the candelabra with a hair dryer.
Then keep mopping up the wax as it melts.
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A reporter from New York was visiting an old colleague
who now edited a newspaper in a tiny Vermont town.
I don't see how you do it," the NY reporter said. "How can
you drum up interest in the news when everybody in town
knows what everybody else is doing?"
Sure they know," the editor said, "but they read the paper
to see who got caught at it."
The tall, handsome, confident gentleman walked over
to the girl and made a disparaging remark about the
men who had been chatting her up. She laughed gaily,
"When I don't want a man's attentions," she confided,
"and he asks where I live, I just say, 'I'm visiting here'."
"Ha-ha," he laughed, relishing her humor.
"Where do you really live?"
"I'm just visiting here."
Today in
1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida.
The next day he went ashore.
1792 The U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act
1801 During the Napoleonic Wars, the Danish fleet was
destroyed by the British at the Battle of Copenhagen.
1860 The first Italian Parliament met in Turin.
1865 Confederate President Davis and most of his Cabinet
fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA.
1872 G.B. Brayton received a patent for the gas-powered
streetcar.
1877 The first Egg Roll was held on the grounds of the
White House in Washington, DC.
1889 Charles Hall patented aluminum.
1905 The Simplon rail tunnel officially opened. The
tunnel went under the Alps and linked Switzerland
and Italy.
1910 Karl Harris perfected the process for the
artificial synthesis of rubber.
1917 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration
of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress.
1935 Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.
1944 The Soviet Union announced that its troops had
crossed the Prut River and entered Romania.
1947 The U.N. Security Council voted to appoint the
U.S. as trustee for former Japanese-held
Pacific Islands.
1960 France signed an agreement with Madagascar that
proclaimed the country an independent state within
the French community.
1966 South Vietnamese troops joined in demonstrations
at Hue and Da Nang for an end to military rule.
1967 In Peking, hundreds of thousands demonstrated
against Mao foe Liu Shao-chi.
1972 Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine.
1982 Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands.
The following June Britain took the islands back.
1984 In Jerusalem, three Arab gunmen wounded 48 people
when they opened fire into a crowd of shoppers.
1986 On a TWA airliner flying from Rome to Athens a bomb
exploded under a seat killing four Americans.
1987 The speed limit on U.S. interstate highways was
increased to 65 miles per hour in limited areas.
1992 Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York
of murder and racketeering.
1996 Russia and Belarus signed a treaty that created a
political and economic alliance.
1996 Lech Walesa resumed his old job as an electrician
at the Gdansk shipyard. He was the former Solidarity
union leader who became Poland's first post-war
democratic president.
2002 Israeli troops surrounded the Church of the Nativity.
More than 200 Palestinians had taken refuge at the church
when Israel invaded Bethlehem.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 11:03 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, April 1.
Had 10 inches of fresh snow in the morning
Still snowing lightly out of the orange fog now.
If we get a warm April rain, there will be flooding!
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Christopher Reeves, Wearing A Superman
T-Shirt, Is Arrested For DUI, Meth
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Today, in
2010 The U.S. Congress cut Medicare reimbursements to
physicians by 21%.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
--- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering -
and it's all over much too soon.
--- Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Let's start with a Classic:
A prisoner in jail receives a letter from his wife: "I have
decided to plant some vegetables in the back garden. When is
the best time to plant them?"
The prisoner, knowing that the prison guards read all mail,
replied in a letter, "Dear wife, whatever you do, do not
touch the back garden. That is where the dope dealer next
door buries all his dope and money. He might get upset!"
A week or so later, he received another letter from his wife:
"You won't believe what happened, some men came with shovels
to the house, and dug up all the back garden."
The prisoner wrote another letter: "Dear wife, now is the best
time to plant the vegetables."
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"Dear," said the wife. "What would you do if I died?"
"Why, dear, I would be extremely upset," said the husband.
"Why do you ask such a question?"
"Would you remarry?" persevered the wife.
"No, of course not, dear" said the husband.
"Don't you like being married?" said the wife.
"Of course I do, dear" he said.
"Then why wouldn't you remarry?"
"All right," said the husband, "I'd remarry."
"You would?" said the wife, looking vaguely hurt.
"Yes" said the husband.
"Would you sleep with her in our bed?" asked the wife
after a long pause.
"Well, yes, I suppose I would." replied the husband.
"I see," said the wife indignantly. "And would you let
her wear my old clothes?"
"I suppose, if she wanted to" said the ! husband.
"Really," said the wife icily. "And would you take down
the pictures of me and replace them with pictures of her?"
"Yes. I think that would be the correct thing to do."
"Is that so?" said the wife, leaping to her feet.
"And I suppose you'd let her play with my golf clubs, too."
"Of course not, dear," said the husband.
"She's left-handed."
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All those mysterious little buds are turning into flowers!
Lillemor
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Christopher Reeves, 33, Davis County, Utah
Christopher Reeves, Wearing A Superman
T-Shirt, Is Arrested For DUI, Meth
From the Smoking Gun
A Utah man named Christopher Reeves was wearing a Superman
t-shirt when arrested early today for methamphetamine
possession and driving under the influence.
The 33-year-old Reeves (seen in the above mug shot) was
allegedly speeding and driving erratically around 3 AM
when Davis County sheriff's deputies pulled over his vehicle.
Reeves, who appeared impaired, was arrested after failing a
field sobriety test. A subsequent search of his car turned
up a large bag of meth, drug paraphernalia, and the synthetic
drug Spice.
Charged with narcotics possession, DUI, and other counts,
Reeves was booked into the county jail, where he remains
locked up in lieu of $15,000 bail.
Investigators felt the need to point out that Reeves is not
related to Christopher Reeve, the late actor who portrayed
Superman in four movies. Reeves also presumably is not
related to George Reeves, who played Superman in the 1950s
TV series “Adventures of Superman.”
He is just a dopey wanna-be.
Tech Support Pits
From: Lisa
Re: 32 bit or 64 bit?
Dear Webby,
How do I tell if my Windoze is 32 bit or 64 bit?
Does it make any difference except when installing
programs?
Lisa
Dear Lisa
Hold down the Windows key, and hit the PAUSE/BREAK key.
After a while you get a Pop-Up that has that information.
Unfortunately, you can't copy the text on it. Some moron
at Microsoft wanted to be cutesy and deliberately blocked
copying.
You CAN hit ALT plus PRINT SCREEN to copy it as a picture,
and with CTRL V paste it as a new picture in a graphics
program. Yes, I know it is klutzy. Tell Microsoft.
If you have a laptop and can't find PAUSE/BREAK, go to my
Tool Box at http://webby.com/tools and grab the
Belarc Advisor. Just hit CTRL F and type Belarc to find it.
The Belarc Advisor produces a total inventory, including
that information. It is probably way more than you need,
but you can copy / paste the info.
The only time you print it out is for insurance inventory
or prior to bringing the machine to a shop for repair.
The difference between 32 bit and 64 bit shows mostly with
games. For browsing, email, word processing and spreadsheet
work you probably won't be able to tell the difference.
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Machine Oil for Squeaky Hinges
A small bottle of machine oil or sewing machine oil is a
must for your home tool box. The small pointed spout makes
it perfect for putting a drop or two of oil in tight places.
Use this to oil hinges. I know there are many home remedies
for this but why not be organized and buy the little bottle
of oil? Mayonnaise, salad oil, etc. are not really designed
for squeaky hinges, even if they work.
By Lilac from Springfield, MA
Look for a little boottle called "Zoom Spout" at your
hardware store. It has a long, thin, flexible pipe for
a spout, and can even reach around obstructions. The oil
in it's bottle is a bit thicker than sewing machine oil
and will last a bit longer on hinges.
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A young man was visiting his brother and sister-in-law
for Sunday dinner. As he arrived at their house he found
his young nephew, Mikey, helping them bake some cupcakes.
After they were done, his sister-in-law allowed Mikey to
put the icing on. When the boy had finished, he brought
them to the table.
The cupcakes look delicious, Mike's uncle
said. He took a bite and said, Mikey these are so
good!
As he finished a cupcake and took another, he again complimented
his little nephew.
"The cupcakes look beautiful, Mikey," his uncle said.
"How did you get the icing so neat?"
His nephew replied, "It was easy. I just licked them."
The uncle turned pale. He pointed to the plate of cupcakes.
"You licked all of these?"
Mikey replied, "Well no. After a while my tongue got
tired, so I got the dog to help."
Today in
0527 Justinianus became the emperor of Byzantium.
1572 The Sea Beggars under Guillaume de la Marck landed in
Holland and captured the small town of Briel.
1578 William Harvey of England discovered blood circulation.
1621 The Plymouth, MA, colonists created the first treaty
with Native Americans.
1748 The ruins of Pompeii were found.
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman,
created the "$" symbol.
1793 In Japan, the volcano Unsen erupted killing 53,000.
1826 Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine.
1853 Cincinnati became the first U.S. city to pay fire
fighters a regular salary.
1867 Blacks voted in the municipal election in Tuscumbia, AL.
1867 Singapore, Penang & Malakka became British crown colonies.
1873 The British White Star steamship Atlantic sank off
Nova Scotia killing 547.
1881 Anti-Jewish riots took place in Jerusalem.
1889 The first dishwashing machine was marketed in Chicago
1905 Paris and Berlin were linked by telephone.
1924 Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison
for high treason in relation to the "Beer Hall Putsch."
1924 Imperial Airways was formed in Britain.
1927 The first automatic record changer was introduced
by His Master's Voice.
1928 China's Chiang Kai-shek began attacking communists.
1929 Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.
1930 Leo Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs broke the altitude
record for a catch by catching a baseball dropped from
the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, CA.
1933 Nazi Germany began the persecution of Jews by
boycotting Jewish businesses.
1934 Bonnie & Clyde killed 2 police officers.
1935 The first radio tube to be made of metal
was announced.
1938 The first commercially successful fluorescent
lamps were introduced.
1939 The U.S. recognized the Franco government in Spain
at end of Spanish civil war.
1945 U.S. forces invaded Okinawa during World War II.
It was the last campaign of World War II.
1948 The Berlin Airlift began.
1952 The Big Bang theory was proposed in "Physical Review"
by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow.
1960 France exploded 2 atom bombs in the Sahara Desert.
1960 The U.S. launched TIROS-1, the first weather satellite.
1970 The U.S. Army charged Captain Ernest Medina in the
My Lai massacre.
1971 The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on
gold ownership.
1972 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops renewed their
offensive in South Vietnam.
1973 Japan allowed its citizens to own gold.
1976 Apple Computer began operations.
1979 Iran was proclaimed to be an Islamic Republic by
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the fall of the Shah.
1982 The U.S. transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.
1985 World oil prices dropped below $10 a barrel.
1986 The U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green ran aground
in the Irish Sea.
1987 Steve Newman became the first man to walk around the
world. The walk was 22,000 miles and took 4 years.
1991 Iran released British hostage Roger Cooper after 5yrs
1991 The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved.
1992 Players began the first strike in the 75-year history
of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1998 A federal judge dismissed the Paula Jones' sexual
harassment lawsuit against U.S. President Clinton saying
that the claims fell "far short" of being worthy of a trial.
1999 In Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Anatoliy Onoprienko was sentenced
to death for the deaths of 52 men, women and children.
43 of the killings occurred in a 6-month period.
1999 The Canadian territory of Nunavut was created. It was
carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories
and covers about 772,000 square miles.
2001 China began holding 24 crewmembers of a U.S.
surveillance plane. The EP-3E U.S. Navy crew had made an
emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a
Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and
presumed dead. The U.S. crew was released on April 11, 2001.
2001 Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested
on corruption charges after a 26-hour standoff with the police
at his Belgrade villa.
2003 North Korea test-fired an anti-ship missile off its
west coast.
2004 U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Unborn Victims
of Violence Act. The bill made it a crime to harm a fetus
during an assault on a pregnant woman.
2009 Albania and Croatia joined the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO).
2010 The U.S. Congress cut Medicare reimbursements to
physicians by 21%.
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Monday, March 31, 2014, 10:39 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, March 31.
Still snowing.
Have FUN!
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Florida man who unleashed road rage,
prompting the universe to respond appropriately
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Today, in
1966 The Soviet Union launched Luna 10, which became the
first spacecraft to enter a lunar orbit.
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We were listening to a lecture on psychic phenomena in our
Comparative Religions course. Our instructor told us about a
woman who contacted police working on a missing-persons
case. "She gave eerily detailed instructions on where to
find the body," the teacher said.
"In fact, the detectives did find the body just as she had
described. Now what would you call that kind of person?"
While the rest of us pondered the question, a sheriff's
officer taking the course raised his hand and replied,
"A suspect."
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His wife had just bought a new line of expensive cosmetics
absolutely guaranteed to make her looks years longer.
She sat in front of the mirror for what had to be hours
applying the "miracle" products. Finally, when she was
done, she turned to her husband and said, "Hon, honestly
now, what age would you say I am?"
He nodded his head in assessment, and carefully said,
"Well, hon, judging from your skin, twenty. Your hair,
mmmm, eighteen. Your figure, twenty-five."
"Oh, you're so sweet!"
"Well, hang on, I'm not done adding it up yet."
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Florida Man Unleashes Road Rage,
Universe Responds Appropriately
From the Huff Post
After a minute of nonstop tailgating by a huge truck, the
woman in this video, identified only as "Florida Driver,"
is passed by the vehicle, whose driver flips her the bird
and yells an unintelligible insult.
"I couldn't move over because there were trucks in the right
lane," Florida Driver writes in the video description,
"and I sure as heck wasn't going to speed on a rainy day with
the roads being as slick as they were."
The videographer, who says she was driving in Tampa, writes
that she never mouthed off at the guy, didn't brake check him,
and -- except for holding up her phone -- was paying attention
to the road.
Shortly after flipping the bird, the driver of the truck loses
control of his vehicle, spins across a median and through
oncoming traffic (though no one was hit). He comes to a rest
only after taking out a light pole.
According to Florida Driver, "He initially fled the scene of
the accident, but thanks to this video he has been caught
and charged."
In a release obtained by The Huffington Post, Florida Highway
Patrol confirmed the driver, identified as
Jeffrey Travis White,
was later charged with leaving the scene of a traffic crash.
"Using information contained in the video provided by the
witness, State Troopers located White at his Tampa residence
and arrested him for Leaving the Scene of a Traffic Crash,
Careless Driving and failing to wear his seatbelt," the FHP
release notes.
Looks like the only injury was to the light pole, his truck
and wallet. And probably his insurance premium.
The video is at Instant Karma
Tech Support Pits
From: Roland
Re: Hibernate Laptop
Dear Webby,
Recall you saying not to shut down lap tops. To put them
in Hibernate. Question is will one get the updates.
When I was shutting down every now and then I was advised
to not shut down or unplug the computer
I put my Desk on Hibernate.
Roland
Der Roland
Nothing happens while the computer is in "Hibernate" mode.
Just set the update mode to "Ask, but don't install"
Then you get prompted to download the installs,
and can pick and choose which ones you want.
If the update requires a reboot, it will tell you, but
you can stall that to a more convenient time.
The reason not to completely shut down is to keep the
modem warm and your connection alive. If you have a static
(permanent) IP number, that is not really critical, but
if you have a dynamic one, it can make quite a difference.
You can configure hibernation to shut down the hard drive
and monitor, and require a password when you wake it up.
It is ALMOST shut down that way, but starts up a LOT faster
than if you had shut it off. It cuts down on the cussing.
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Use Silica Packets in Bathroom
I like to keep silica packets in the bathroom. There is
more moisture there than anywhere in your house. You know
how sometimes the drawers in your vanity or under the sink
storage area gets kind of musty smelling? Keep a few of
the little packets in there to control dampness and odor.
By golfgranny58 [2]
Keep in mind that those cute little Silica packets are made
to keep ONE camera or phone dry, ONCE, during initial shipping,
not a drawer or vanity in a steamy bathroom, day after day.
If you can't arrange for adequate ventilation, use some kitty
litter or cake pans filled with sawdust. You can dry those
out in the oven and re-use them.
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>From Ed
My wife and I were dining out at a nice restaurant. I
overheard the couple at the next table discussing
their bill.
"Well Mary," said the man, "Near as I can figure, based of
the price of the ham dinner you just ate, we got a hog back
on the farm that's worth at least $137,000."
Today in
1492 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued the
Alhambra edict expelling Jews who were unwilling to convert
to Christianity.
1779 Russia and Turkey signed a treaty concerning military
action in Crimea.
1831 Quebec and Montreal were incorporated as cities.
1854 The U.S. government signed the Treaty of Kanagawa with
Japan. The act opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakotade
to American trade.
1880 Wabash, IN, became the first town to be completely
illuminated with electric light.
1889 In Paris, the Eiffel Tower officially opened.
1900 In France, the National Assembly passed a law reducing
the workday for women and children to 11 hours.
1901 In Russia, the Czar lashed out at Socialist-Revolutionaries
with the arrests of 72 people and the seizing of two
printing presses.
1904 In India, hundreds of Tibetans were slaughtered by
the British.
1905 Kaiser Wilhelm arrived in Tangier proclaiming to support
for an independent state of Morocco.
1908 250,000 coal miners in Indianapolis, IN, went on strike
to await a wage adjustment.
1909 Serbia accepted Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1917 The U.S. purchased and took possession of the Virgin
Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
1918 For the first time in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time
went into effect.
1921 Great Britain declared a state of emergency because of
the thousands of coal miners on strike.
1932 The Ford Motor Co. debuted its V-8 engine.
1933 The U.S. Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation
Corps to relieve rampant unemployment.
1939 Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany
threatened invasion.
1941 Germany began a counter offensive in North Africa.
1946 Monarchists won the elections in Greece.
1948 The Soviets in Germany began controlling the Western
trains headed toward Berlin.
1949 Winston Churchill declared that the A-bomb was the
only thing that kept the U.S.S.R. from taking over Europe.
1949 Newfoundland entered the Canadian confederation as
its 10th province.
1958 The U.S. Navy formed the atomic submarine division.
1966 An estimated 200,000 anti-war demonstrators march
in New York City.
1966 The Soviet Union launched Luna 10, which became the
first spacecraft to enter a lunar orbit.
1980 U.S. President Carter deregulated the banking industry.
1981 In Bangkok, Thailand, four of five Indonesian terrorists
were killed after hijacking an airplane on March 28.
1986 167 people died when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727
crashed in Los Angeles.
1989 Canada and France signed a fishing rights pact.
1991 Iraqi forces recaptured the northern city of Kirkuk
from Kurdish guerillas.
1994 "Nature" magazine announced that a complete skull of
Australppithecus afarensis had been found in Ethiopia. The
finding is of humankind's earliest ancestor.
1998 U.N. Security Council imposed arms embargo on Yugoslavia.
2000 In Uganda, officials set the number of deaths linked to
a doomsday religious cult, the Movement for the Restoration
of the Ten Commandments, at more than 900.
2004 Google Inc. announced that it would be introducing a
free e-mail service called Gmail.
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What to do when computer stalls on Facebook
Sunday, March 30, 2014, 01:33 PM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Sunday, March 30.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Jersey man who dumped in police car
then ate own finger.
Details at International Bonehead Awards
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1998 Rolls-Royce was purchased by BMW in a $570 million deal.
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One day, a little girl is sitting and watching her mother do the
dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly notices that her
mother has several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast
to her brunette hair. She looks at her mother and inquisitively
asks, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?"
Her mother replied, "Well, every time that a little girl
does something wrong and makes her mommy cry or makes her
unhappy, one of her hairs turns white."
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while
and said:
"You muft have really piffed off Grandma a lot!"
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>From Donna
Upon retiring from the service, my husband, Don, needed a
new ID card showing he had gone from active duty to retire-
ment status. But the photo taken of him was not particularly
good. And he wasn't at all quiet about it.
"If I have to carry that ID around with me for the rest of
my life," he complained to the photographer, "I want a better
picture."
"Want a better picture?" asked the photographer defiantly.
"Then bring us a better face!"
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Jersey man who dumped in police car
then ate own finger.
Reported by Nikki
From the Huff Post
Jaggert Washington, pictured in a prior booking photo,
allegedly swallowed his own finger after defecating in
the back of a police cruiser.
Authorities say they found Jargget Washington, 29, nude
and belligerent at a Jersey City intersection around 8:00 p.m.
on Sunday night. He allegedly "tried pulling a driver out
of a car," but the driver managed to fight back, according
to the New York Daily News.
Police restrained Washington and transferred him to Jersey
City Medical Center, where he became increasingly
uncontrollable. Washington reportedly spat at officers and
chewed on his own wrists, devouring his medical bracelet.
Following the evaluation, Washington -- still dressed in a
hospital gown -- reportedly defecated in the back seat of
a police car as authorities transported him to the Hudson
County Jail, the Jersey Journal reports.
Once at the jail, Washington chewed off his own finger and
swallowed it, according to CBS New York.
Washington's questionable snack prompted authorities to
return him to the Jersey City Medical Center for re-evaluation.
Police suspect that Washington may have taken PCP.
New Jersey records show that police arrested Washington twice
between 2007 and 2009 on charges surrounding conspiracy to
distribute drugs on school property.
Washington is charged with carjacking, throwing bodily
fluids at law enforcement officers and being under the
influence of a controlled dangerous substance.
Tech Support Pits
From: Jim
Re: Computer locks up on Facebook
Dear Webby,
just got on face book and am having troubles, it causes my computer to lock up and I get not responding notice. I am using XP and IE, I plan on getting a new computer later this year after the fiber-optic line and system is up and running here along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Two Harbors,MN. I was told I could change to Google Chrome and that could help, my question will it help and if I do change will I lose everything in my favorites file and can I switch that and other files over ??
Thanks for any help, read your letter every morning and have learned a lot from it. Jim
Dear Jim
It is probably just IE choking on some animation.
Use CrapCleaner from my ToolBox at http://webby.com/tools.
If that does not help use FixCleaner.
I doubt that you would be happy with Chrome, but Firefox
works very well. That is why more people use FireFox than
all other browsers together.
Don't be in any rush getting rid of your XP.
You will NOT like Windows 8. Guaranteed!
The switch from XP to W8 is too bog.
XP was a "Get your work done and enjoy it" type OS,
while W8 is apparently focused on being weird and
forcing you to read instructions. You have to hunt down tips
on forums. Forget about getting any work done in the first
three months on W8.
At least keep the good ol XP on the side.
I have heard from a number of people that if you want to
get some work done, switch to Linux, just like industry
and commerce has done.
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Toothpick as Temporary Eyeglass Screw
Did you lose the screw from your eyeglasses? Here is a
temporary solution to give you time to get to the optical
store. Use a toothpick to hold the arm of your glasses on,
so you can still wear them. Just poke the pick in the hole
and break of ends of pick showing. It works great.
In fact, I used it on my sunglasses and forgot for a while
that it was there. :)
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>From Inez
Just after Christmas I received a rather general thank-you
note from my sister for the present I had sent her. However,
her next letter in mid-March explained that upon receiving
my gift, a well taped box of chocolates, she had immediately
put it in the freezer because she had already gained about
six pounds that Christmas and wanted to avoid temptation.
One day in March, having lost the excess weight and craving
a chocolate, she went to the freezer, mouth watering in
anticipation, opened the box, and discovered the frozen black
sequined evening purse I had given her.
Today in
1533 Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
1814 The allied European nations against Napoleon marched
into Paris.
1822 Florida became a U.S. territory.
1842 Dr. Crawford W. Long performed the first operation while
his patient was anesthetized by ether.
1855 About 5,000 "Border Ruffians" from western Missouri
invaded the territory of Kansas and forced the election of
a pro-slavery legislature. It was the first election in
Kansas.
1858 Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patented the pencil.
1867 The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
1870 Texas was readmitted to the Union.
1903 Revolutionary activity in the Dominican Republic
brought U.S. troops to Santo Domingo to protect
American interests.
1905 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was chosen to mediate
in the Russo-Japanese peace talks.
1909 The Queensboro bridge in New York opened linking
Manhattan and Queens. First double decker bridge.
1909 In Oklahoma, Seminole Indians revolted against
meager pay for government jobs.
1916 Pancho Villa killed 172 at the Guerrero garrison
in Mexico.
1936 Britain announced a naval construction program of
38 warships.
1940 The Japanese set up a puppet government called
Manchuko in Nanking, China.
1941 The German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel
began its first offensive against British forces in Libya.
1944 The U.S. fleet attacked Palau, near the Philippines.
1945 The U.S.S.R. invaded Austria after World War II.
1946 The Allies seized 1,000 Nazis attempting to revive
the Nazi party in Frankfurt.
1950 The invention of the phototransistor was announced.
1972 The British government assumed direct rule over
Northern Ireland.
1972 The Eastertide Offensive began when North Vietnamese
troops crossed into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the
northern portion of South Vietnam.
1975 As the North Vietnamese forces moved toward Saigon
South Vietnamese soldiers mob rescue jets in desperation.
1981 U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded
in Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr. Two police
officers and Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded.
1987 Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" was bought for
$39.85 million.
1998 Rolls-Royce was purchased by BMW in a $570 million deal.
2002 An unmanned U.S. spy plane crashed at sea in the
Southern Philippines.
2002 Suspected Islamic militants set off several grenades
at a temple in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Four civilians,
four policemen and two attackers were killed and 20
people were injured.
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Good Morning, !
Today is Saturday, March 29.
Thank you Farren!
>From Dorothy at AKwildlife.com
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I, too, have been having trouble finding the cursor.
I read your latest Humor newsletter, made the adjustment,
and WOW!!!! LOVE IT!
Thanks so much for solving an annoying little problem!!!
=D>
You're the BEST!
Dorothy
You are most welcome, Dorothy!
I got a stainless steel thermos travel cup with a picture
of a wolf on it from Dorothy about 15 years ago and my dad
used it every year on our cactus safaris. He is getting too
old to put up with the airport hassles, but the cup is still
in great shape. If you need a pretty, but useful and lasting
gift, go check out Dorothy's sites.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
Today's International Bonehead Award goes to an
Drunk Motorist Was Wearing Pants As
Shirt When Found Passed Out At Wheel
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Today, in
1973 The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam.
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It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways
to do something.
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A golfer is playing a round of golf with his buddies. On the
sixth hole he proceeds to splash five balls in a row into the
water.
Frustrated over his poor golfing ability, and about ready to
hit somebody, he heaves his golf clubs into the water, and
begins to walk off the course.
Then all of a sudden he turns around and jumps back in the
lake, his buddies apparently thinking he is going to retrieve
his clubs.
When he comes out of the water he doesn't have his clubs and
begins to walk off the course.
One of his buddies asks, "Why did you jump into the lake?"
He responds, "I left my car keys in the bag."
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Dave went on a business trip for a few days. When he
returned, his wife reported that the dog really missed him.
"She spent every night at the front door, waiting for you
to come home," she said.
"What an example of devotion," Dave replied. "I wonder if
you'd be that concerned about me?"
"Honey," she answered, caressing her marble rolling pin,
"if you were gone overnight, and I didn't know where you
were, you can be sure I'd be waiting for you at the front
door."
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Drunk Motorist Was Wearing Pants As
Shirt When Found Passed Out At Wheel
An intoxicated Indiana man found passed out in the driver’s
seat of his car was in his underwear, had on one sock, and
was wearing his pants like a shirt, cops report.
Bryan Hill, 24, was behind the wheel of a 2013 Honda yesterday
when police found the vehicle blocking traffic, according to an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department report.
As detailed by a cop, Hill, seen in the adjacent mug shot, was
“wearing only a t-shirt, underwear and one sock.” The officer
added that Hill “did have pants on, but they were on his arms.
Both arms were inserted into the legs of his jeans.”
Hill was arrested around 4 AM Sunday for public intoxication and obstructing traffic.
Hill is locked up without bond in the Marion County jail due to
a hold from another county. He is scheduled to appear in court
tomorrow morning.
Tech Support Pits
From: Chris
Re: Computer power cords
Dear Webby,
Are powercords interchangeable? My friend gave his computer
to check out, but forgot to give me his power cord. Could I
use my power cord instead? I have a cord for a 350V power
supply and the power supply for his computer is 250V. Would
be okay to switch out power cords?
Thanks,
Chris
Dear Chris
yes, sure!
Power cords are standard.
If you can stuff it into the socket, it will work.
Since your household voltage is 110 Volt,
it's nice that the cord doesn't start leaking and
drooling electrons onto the carpet until 250V or 350V,
but any rating from 110V and up is fine.
Power cords that have a female plug
that looks like this one, and have a male plug
that fits the wall socket, can be safely used
anywhere in the world. The power supply
often has a little red slide switch, sometimes
covered with tape, that lets you select the voltage
of your country. But if the cord fits, use it.
HOWEVER!
Keep in mind, that I am only talking about power cords,
not Laptop of Notebook powersupplies or chargers.
Except in Europe, those are not interchangeable, and using
the wrong one can cause very expensive damage, especially
on Toshibas. Always make 100% sure that chargers are not
mixed up and not left behind in any hotel.
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Determining if Spices are Still Good
If you find yourself debating on whether to use a spice that
doesn't have an expiration date, try these methods to see if
they are still good:
Look to see if the color is still vibrant. If the spice
appears faded, there is a good chance the flavor has
faded too.
Put a little of the spice in your hand and crush or rub it.
If the aroma is no longer strong and the flavor is weak, it
is time to buy a new one.
Here are a few tips to help keep your spices fresh and
usable:
Always store herbs and spices in a tightly sealed
container. Keep them away from heat, moisture, and
direct sunlight.
Remember to reseal the container immediately after use.
Use a dry measuring spoon and don't sprinkle spices over
a steaming pot. This will help prevent caking, which is
caused by moisture.
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An elderly gentlemen went in for his annual physical
exam. The doctor said, "You're in incredible shape. How
old are you again?" The man replied, "I am 78."
The doctor exclaimed, "Wow, 78. How do you stay so
healthy? You look like a 60 year old." The man
explained, "Well, my wife and I made a pact when we got
married that whenever she got mad she would go into the
kitchen and cool off and I would go outside to settle
down."
"What does that have to do with it?" asked the doctor.
The man sighed, "I've pretty much lived an outdoor
life."
Today in
1461 Edward IV secured his claim to the English throne by
defeating Henry VI’s Lancastrians at the battle of Towdon.
1638 First permanent European settlement in Delaware was
established.
1847 U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott took
possession of the Mexican stronghold at Vera Cruz.
1848 Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an
ice jam.
1867 The British Parliament passed the North America Act
to create the Dominion of Canada.
1901 The first federal elections were held in Australia.
1903 A regular news service began between New York and
London on Marconi's wireless.
1906 In the U.S., 500,000 coal miners walked off the job
seeking higher wages.
1936 Italy firebombed the Ethiopian city of Harar.
1941 The British sank five Italian warships off the
Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean.
1943 In the U.S. rationing of meat, butter and cheese
began during World War II.
1951 The Chinese reject MacArthur's offer for a truce
in Korea.
1951 In the United States, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
They were executed in June 19, 1953.
1962 Cuba opened the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders.
1967 France launched its first nuclear submarine.
1971 Lt. William Calley Jr., of the U.S. Army, was found
guilty of the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese
civilians. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial
was the result of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March
16, 1968.
1971 A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty
for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969
Tate-La Bianca murders. The death sentences were later
commuted to live in prison.
1973 The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam.
1974 Mariner 10, the U.S. space probe became the first
spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury. It had been
launched on November 3, 1973.
1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declared that he
would reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975.
1987 Hulk Hogan took 11 minutes, 43 seconds to pin Andre
the Giant in front of 93,136 Wrestlemania III fans at the
Silverdome in Pontiac, MI.
1992 Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton said
"I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again" in reference
to when he had experimented with marijuana. Nobody believed
him and voted for him anyway.
1993 The South Korean government agreed to pay financial
support to women who had been forced to have sex with
Japanese troops during World War II.
2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania,
Slovakia and Slovenia became members of NATO.
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Friday, March 28, 2014, 08:26 AM
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Good Morning, !
Today is Friday, March 28.
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!
It is snowing. Really christmassy outside.
Have FUN!
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Arizona woman posing as a teen and
infecting a teen with STD.
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2010 China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. signed a deal
to buy Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo car unit.
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>From Roland
I returned to my parents' home to attend a funeral. At the
temple, my mother led me to a man who looked vaguely
familiar. "Barbara, remember Rabbi Green?" she asked as
she left me in his company.
I frantically tried to place him, and suddenly it came
to me. He was the kind man who, five years earlier, had
officiated at my grandmother's funeral. "It's good to
see you again, Rabbi," I said, "though I wish it weren't
always under such tragic circumstances."
The rabbi looked perplexed but uttered some words of
consolation before he was called away. A few minutes later,
I rejoined my mother.
"Imagine," she whispered, "after all this time, to run into
the rabbi who performed your wedding!"
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A little boy was afraid of the dark. One night his
mother told him to go out to the back porch and bring
her the broom. The little boy turned to his mother and
said, "Mama, I don't want to go out there. It's dark."
The mother smiled reassuringly at her son. "You don't
have to be afraid of the dark," she explained. "Jesus
is out there. He'll look after you and protect you."
The little boy looked at his mother real hard and
asked, "Are you sure he's out there?"
"Yes, I'm sure. He is everywhere, and he is always
ready to help you when you need him," she said. The
little boy thought about that for a minute and then
went to the back door and cracked it a little. Peering
out into the darkness, he called,
"Jesus? If you're really out there, would you please
hand me the broom?"
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Anna Areola-Hernandez, 23, Phoenix, AZ
AZ woman lures child into sex,
infects him with STD
Reported by the Huff Post
An Arizona woman accused of convincing a boy she was a
teenager and giving him a sexually transmitted disease
may have had sex with other minors, police said.
Anna Areola-Hernandez, 23, was arrested Thursday and faces
charges including sexual conduct with a minor, child molestation,
unlawful age misrepresentation, and an adult posing as a minor
for sexual conduct, according to AZ Family.
Court documents show that Areola-Hernandez had a six-month
relationship with a 13-year-old boy she first met at a
Phoenix mall. She allegedly told the teen that she was
15-years-old, and had sex with the child several times.
In February, the child's mother contacted the police after
finding out Areola-Hernandez has lied about her age, and
had allegedly given her son an STD.
In a call set up by officers, Areola-Hernandez allegedly
told the boy's mother that she was pregnant, though police
have yet to confirm if this is true.
Areola-Hernandez allegedly communicated with the boy through
texts, Facebook, and other social media sites under the
names "Tiny Hernandez" or "Ana Hernandez," according to AZ Central.
Police said the suspect admitted that she had "friended" at
least 20 kids online while posing as a teenager, and confessed
to having sex with two children.
Court documents said Areola-Hernandez showed no remorse when
talking about the allegations, and admitted to preferring
younger boys, according to My Fox Phoenix.
Investigators are now calling on parents whose children may
have contacted the woman.
"She looks very young, so it would be very easy for her to
pass as a teenager," Tracey Breeden of the Glendale Police
Department told the station. Areola-Hernandez is being held
without bail.
All dolled up and on the prowl.
Tech Support Pits
From: Elaine
Re: Hard to see cursor
Dear Webby,
the only reason my dad has not fired his new laptop out
throuh a window is because he has just replaced all windows
and know how expensive they are. His problem is that the
cursor jumps to weird places and is hard to find. How can
that be fixed?
Elaine
Dear Elaine
1) Give your dad a real mouse, and glue some stiff cardboard,
plastic or tin over the silly thumb pad between the keyboard
and the near edge of the computer.
His thumb hovering too close to the thumb pad sends the cursor
to weird places.
2) Go through the control panel to Mouse and pointing devices.
In there you can select a more visible cursor. There are also
all kinds of third party cursors available, even rainbow
colored cursor.
3) While in there, go to POINTER OPTIONS, and put checkmarks
onto DISPLAY POINTER TRAILS and onto
SHOW LOCATION OF POINTER WHEN I PRESS CTRL KEY
The last one produces a target animation wherever the curso is,
when CTRL is pressed. The moving circles really help finding
the cursor.
Naturally, doing all that will be a LOT easier with a real
mouse than with the silly thumb pad, that was probably
designed by window repair companies.
Have FUN!
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Here is a famous Classic:
A minister dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates.
Ahead of him is a guy who's dressed in sunglasses, a loud
shirt, leather jacket, and jeans. Saint Peter addresses
this guy, "Who are you, so that I may know whether or not
o admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven?"
The guy replies, "I'm Joe Cohen, taxi-driver, of Noo Yawk
City."
Saint Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the
taxi-driver, "Take this silken robe and golden staff and
Enter the Kingdom."
The taxi-driver goes into Heaven with his robe and staff.
Next it's the minister's turn.
He stands erect and booms out, "I am Joseph Snowden,
pastor of Saint Mary's for the last 43 years."
Saint Peter consults his list. He says to the minister,
"Take this cotton robe and wooden staff and enter the
Kingdom."
"Just a minute," says the minister. "That man was a taxi
driver and he gets a silken robe and golden staff.
How can this be?"
"Up here, we work by results," says Saint Peter.
"While you preached, people slept;
while he drove, people prayed."
Today in
1774 Britain passed the Coercive Act against Massachusetts.
1797 Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine.
1834 The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for
the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the US.
1854 The Crimean War began with Britain and France declaring
war on Russia.
1898 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the
U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant
that they could not be deported under the Chinese
Exclusion Act.
1905 The U.S. took full control over Dominican revenues.
1908 Automobile owners lobbied the U.S. Congress, supporting
a bill that called for vehicle licensing and federal
registration.
1910 The first seaplane took off from water at Martinques,
France. The pilot was Henri Fabre.
1917 During World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
(WAAC) was founded.
1922 Bradley A. Fiske patented a microfilm reading device.
1930 Constantinople and Angora changed their names to
Istanbul and Ankara respectively.
1933 In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in
businesses, professions and schools.
1938 In Italy, psychiatrists demonstrated the use of
electric-shock therapy for treatment of certain mental
illnesses.
1939 The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to Francisco
Franco.
1941 The Italian fleet was defeated by the British at the
Battle of Matapan.
1942 British naval forces raided the Nazi occupied French
port of St. Nazaire.
1945 Germany launched the last of the V-2 rockets against
England.
1947 The American Helicopter Society revealed a flying
device that could be strapped to a person's body.
1962 The U.S. Air Force announced research into the use of
lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.
1968 The U.S. lost its first F-111 aircraft in Vietnam when
it vanished while on a combat mission. North Vietnam
claimed that they had shot it down.
1979 A major accident occurred at Pennsylvania's Three Mile
Island nuclear power plant. A nuclear power reactor
overheated and suffered a partial meltdown.
1981 In Bangkok, Thailand, Indonesian terrorists hijacked an
airplane. Four of the five terrorists were killed on
March 31.
1986 The U.S. Senate passed $100 million aid package for the
Nicaraguan contras.
1986 More than 6,000 radio stations of all format varieties
played "We are the World" simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. EST.
1991 The U.S. embassy in Moscow was severely damaged by fire.
1994 Violence between Zulus and African National Congress
supporters took the lives of 18 in Johannesburg.
2010 China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. signed a deal
to buy Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo car unit.
2014 smiled.
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