Good Morning,  !

Today is Sunday, July 20.

Have FUN!
DearWebby


Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Florida teen who abused a minor and
got tenderized by the father.
Details at Boneheads

From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and 
 Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.  became the first men to 
 walk on the moon.




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It is easier to forgive an enemy 
than to forgive a friend.
--- William Blake (1757 - 1827) 



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A little boy walked up to the librarian to check out a book   
entitled "COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR MOTHERS."   

When the librarian asked him if it was for his mother, he   
answered 'no.'   

"Then why are you checking it out?"   

"Because," said the little boy confidently, "I just started   
collecting moths last month!"  


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A boy was watching his father, a pastor, write a sermon. "How
do you know what to  say?" he asked.

"God tells me."

"Oh, then why do you keep crossing things out?"


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Raymond Frolander, 18, Daytona Beach, Florida

Dad's 911 call: I've beaten up 
my son's assailant 

A father in Daytona Beach, Florida, called 911 early Friday 
morning to report that when he found someone sexually 
abusing his 11-year-old son, he beat the assailant 
until he was "nice and knocked out" for police to 
apprehend.

So far, the father is not facing any charges.
CNN affiliate CFN 13 asked Daytona Beach Police Chief 
Michael Chitwood whether he had any issue with the 
father's reaction Friday.
Chitwood responded, "Not as a police chief and not 
as a father."

The father's identity and that of his son were not 
released to protect the identity of the minor as an 
alleged sexual abuse victim.

The father, who sounds collected but enraged during the 
911 call, told Volusia County emergency dispatch that 
18-year-old Raymond Frolander was close to the family 
and was in the apartment while the father was out.

The father says that when he got home, the look on 
Frolander's face made him think something was wrong. 
The father says Frolander's pants fell down to his ankles 
"and nothing else needed to be said" when he saw 
exposed genitals.

According to the charging affivadit, the 11-year-old 
victim told authorities that Frolander had performed 
oral sex on him and instructed the boy to fondle him. 
The document says the boy told authorities that Frolander 
began abusing him a few years ago. It also says Frolander 
told police, "I'm guilty."

When the 911 dispatcher asked the father whether he used 
weapons to knock out Frolander, the father told the 
dispatcher, "my fist and my foot."

The father explained that Frolander was breathing, but not 
speaking, "in a puddle of blood" on the floor "and I loved 
him up until 15 minutes ago."

At times, the dad is heard talking to the suspect, at one 
point saying, "You are damn lucky, boy, that I love my God."

When Daytona Beach police officers arrived, according to 
the charging affidavit, they saw Frolander "laying motionless 
on the living room floor with several knots on his face and 
bleeding from his mouth." He was treated and released from 
a hospital before he was questioned.

Frolander faces a charge of sexual battery of a child and 
was in the Volusia County Jail late Friday. He had no bond.

Chitwood said that the 18-year-old was like a family member 
to the boy, "and the father acted as a father should act."
Chitwood told CFN 13 that it's not unusual for young 
victims to be afraid to report sexual abuse because they 
feel threatened or fear that they will get in trouble.

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From: Patti
Re: Alternating Highspeed accounts

Dear Webby
My computer is for fun and a bit of research and after 5 years
I've decided it's time to get off dial up. My problem: 6 months
in Michigan, 6 months in Arizona. I've looked and looked at
high speed providers and can't find one that will work between
the two areas and also while I'm on the road. My present provider,
Corecomm, works in all three areas but wow, it's getting slower
and slower.

You have to realize this "olde" gal is slowly coming into the next
century, but good grief, there is so much technology to learn and
small town living doesn't offer much help Can you offer any advice??

Having a lot of fun,
Patti

Dear Patti
Call Corecom 1-877-267-3266 Customer Service
or Tech support 1-800-715-7873 and complain about the 
lack of speed. Most ISPs gradually reduce your 
connection and give your bandwidth to those, who complain. 

You have to wait until Monday. 
They have nobody there on the weekend. 

You can, at the same time inquire how much their DSL would be.

While on the road, you'll just have to go to hotels and motels
that have high speed. As a rule of thumb, 3-star have wired 
Internet or free local dial-out, 
4 star and up have wireless high speed Internet.

Most McDonalds have wireless Internet, and once you have 
the password and the connection, you can usually take a
not quite closed laptop out into the parking lot. 

Regarding the migration, you can also call Earthlink and ask 
them if they still have a Snowbird Special.

Get the phone numbers for both locations ready before you call.
They do have a fairly straightforward method for relocating, but best
is if you talk to them.

Have FUN!
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Bag Balm for Chapped Skin Relief
Buy Bag Balm, in the green tin. It was made for farm 
animals and has an antiseptic in it for healing cracks and 
dry skin. Do not use on lips or get into private parts 
or eyes. 

Take a bath,dry off, scrub off dry skin, and rub small 
amount into skin. If using on feet, put on socks. I have 
given the 1 oz. tins for Christmas for years and have 
converted all my friends to loyal users.

Go online or to your vet or feed and seed store, some 
drug stores also carry it. Have beautiful feet, elbows, 
and no flaking - thanks to Bag Balm. 

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In the admitting office of our hospital, some patients were 
filling out forms, others were being interviewed and still 
others were being escorted to their rooms.

An elderly woman hesitatnly entered my cubicle.  She had 
completed her admitting forms and, upon my request, handed 
me her insurance cards.  I typed the neccessary information 
and then asked her the reason for her coming to the hospital.

"Just to visit a friend," she said, "but this had taken 
so long, I'm not sure if she is still alive."


You're driving a bus that is leaving from Pennsylvania and
ending in New York.  To start off with,
there were 32 passengers on the bus.
At the next bus stop, 11 people get off and 9 people get on.
At the next bus stop, 2 people got off and 2 people got on.
At the next bus stop, 12 people got on and 16 people got off.
At the next bus stop, 5 people got on and 3 people got off.
How old is the bus driver?
---------------
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Today in 
1801 A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of 
 Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on 
 a horse-pulled wagon and presented to U.S. President 
 Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain.
1868 Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed 
 on all cigarette packs was passed.
1871 British Columbia joined Confederation as a Canadian 
 province.
1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the 
 Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal 
 troops. (Montana)
1908 In the United States, the Sullivan Ordinance bars women 
 from smoking in public facilities.
1917 The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
1942 The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, 
 (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
1944 An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate 
 Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg 
 headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
1944 U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an 
 unprecedented fourth term of office at the 
 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and 
 Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk 
 on the moon.
1974 Turkish forces invaded Cyprus.
1976 America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful 
 landing on Mars.
1982 U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of 
 comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.
1985 Treasure hunters began raising $400 million in coins and 
 silver from the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de Atocha." 
 The ship sank in 1622 40 miles of the coast of Key West, FL.
1992 Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet 
 Revolution against communism, stepped down as president 
 of Czechoslovakia.
1998 Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International 
 Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
2003 In India, elephants used for commercial work began 
 wearing reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during 
 night work.
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Good Morning,  !

Today is Saturday, July 19.

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DearWebby


Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Cleveland Woman Poses For 
Kissable Duck Face Mug Shot
Details at Boneheads

From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1848 The Women's Rights Convention took place in 
 Seneca Fall, NY. Bloomers were introduced at the 
 convention.




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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. 
And when you get them, get them right, 
or they will get you wrong.
--- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash 
register open and the toilets locked. They must think 
toilet paper is worth more than money.
--- Joey Bishop (1918 - ) 

"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 
'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' 
He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, 
let them come and get you.'"
--- Jerry Lewis 



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A clergyman walking down a country lane and sees a young 
farmer struggling to load hay back onto a cart after it 
had fallen off.

"You look hot, my son," said the cleric. "why don't you 
rest a moment, and I'll give you a hand."

"No thanks," said the young man.
"My father wouldn't like it."

"Don't be silly," the minister said.
"Everyone is entitled to a break. Come and have a 
drink of water."

Again the young man protested that his father 
would be upset. Losing his patience, the clergyman said, 
"Your father must be a real slave driver. Tell me where 
I can find him and I'll give him a piece of my mind!"

"Well," replied the young farmer, 
"he's under the load of hay."


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When my three-year-old son opened the birthday gift from
his grandmother, he discovered a water pistol. He squealed
with delight and headed for the nearest sink.

I was not so pleased. I turned to mom and said,
"I'm surprised at you. Don't you remember how we used to
drive you crazy with water guns?"
Mom smiled and then replied, "I remember!!"


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Angela Green, 

Cleveland Woman Poses For 
Kissable Duck Face Mug Shot

The duck-faced Cleveland woman was arrested Saturday and 
charged with obstructing official business after refusing 
to vacate a Quality Inn hotel room she and a male 
companion had rented the previous evening.

When officers from the Wickliffe Police Department told 
her and her friend they needed to leave or pay for 
another day, Green, 34, allegedly became “loud and 
uncooperative and refused to identify herself” to cops.

After a brief struggle, Green was arrested and 
transported to jail where she posed for the above mug shot 
before being released on $354 bond. She is scheduled for 
arraignment in Willoughby Municipal Court on July 24.

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Re: Pictures have a weird tint

Dear Webby
The last 15 pictures that I took, all have a weird tint and
less light than I expected. What could be the cause of that?
Ollie

Dear Ollie
Most likely you or somebody turned the main selector wheel
on the camera from Auto to Macro or some other unsuitable
setting. Put it back to Auto, and the camera will be 
fine again. 
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Pill Bottles for Transporting Salad Dressing
I take lunch to work daily. I use the empty and cleared 
pill bottles to carry my salad dressing. Then, no 
soggy salad and the size is perfect for the correct 
amount of dressing without drowning the salad

By karendewillers [1] 

Sporting goods and camping supply stores have
"toothpaste tube" style refillable plastic tubes.
Like mayonaise, salad dressing has a really low
PH to kill bacteria on contact. You can fill a 
few tubes with your different dressings and not worry
about the dressing going bad. Just mark each tube
with a different color Mark-All. The type of plastic
used for those tubes sheds the paint with use, but
the screw-on caps take regular paint.

The tubes are opened at the bottom for refilling and
closed with a sliding clamp.
They work fine for jam too, or mustard or relish or
anything wet or gooey, and are a lot easier for 
dispensing precise amounts than anything else. 

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It was very crowded at the supermarket, and the customer in
front of me had a large order. As the harried-looking clerk
lifted the final bag for her, its bottom gave way, sending
the contents crashing to the floor. "They just don't make
these bags like they used to," the clerk blurted to the
customer. "That was supposed to happen in your driveway!"


>From Hilda
As my five-year-old son and I were headed to McDonald's one   
day, we passed a car accident. Usually when we see something   
terrible like that, we say a prayer for those who might be   
hurt, so I pointed and said to my son, "We should pray."   

From the back seat I heard his earnest request: "Please,   
God, don't let those cars block the entrance to McDonald's."   




» H2O




Today in 
1525 The Catholic princes of Germany formed the Dessau 
 League to fight against the Reformation.
1553 Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as 
 Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. 
 Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed Queen.
1788 Prices plunged on the Paris stock market.
1799 The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic 
 translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
1848 The Women's Rights Convention took place in 
 Seneca Fall, NY. Bloomers were introduced at the 
 convention.
1870 France declared war on Prussia.
1939 Dr. Roy P. Scholz became the first surgeon to 
 use fiberglass sutures.
1942 German U-boats were withdrawn from positions 
off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to effective American 
 anti-submarine countermeasures.
1943 During World War II, more than 150 B-17 and 
 112 B-24 bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
1946 Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test.
1975 The Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts separated after 
 being linked in orbit for two days.
1979 In Nicaragua, the dictatorship of the Somozas 
 was overthrown by the Sandinista National Liberation 
 Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional or FSLN).
1982 The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14% of the 
 population had an income below the official poverty 
 level in 1981.
1984 Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic 
 Party to become the first woman from a major political 
 party to run for the office of U.S. Vice-President.
1985 Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be 
 the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. 
 She died with six others when the Challenger exploded 
 the following year. 
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Today is Friday, July 18.
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 Kentucky jail inmate, who ordered pizza for the cops
Details at Boneheads

From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1942 The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to 
 fly in combat, made its first flight.




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Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
--- Janet Long  



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The math teacher saw that little Johnny wasn't paying
attention in class.
She called on him and said,
"Johnny! What are 2 and 4 and 28 and 44?"

Little Johnny quickly! replied, "NBC, CBS, HBO and the
Cartoon Network!"


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I was in my car one day listening to a guy on the radio   
help callers with their home problems. One woman called up   
hysterical after finding a skunk in her basement.   

"Leave a trail of breadcrumbs or cat food from your basement   
to your backyard," suggested the show's host. 
"That'll get rid of it."   

An hour later the woman called back, even more upset. 
"Now I have THREE skunks in my basement!"   


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Michael Harp, 29, Corbin, Kentucky

Pizza Prank Pulled From Kentucky Jail Cell

JULY 17--Already in police custody, a Kentucky man decided 
it was the perfect time to prank the police officer who 
had arrested him for shoplifting and public intoxication, 
investigators allege.
Michael Harp, 29, was collared Tuesday afternoon and locked 
up at the police station in Corbin, a city in the state’s 
southeastern corner. While behind bars, Harp asked for 
permission to use his cell phone, a request that was 
granted.

Shortly after Harp made a call, a Domino’s delivery worker 
arrived at the precinct with five pepperoni pizzas that 
had been purportedly ordered by Captain Coy Wilson, the 
cop who had earlier arrested Harp.

Since Wilson was on the phone when the order arrived, 
patrolman Jeff Hill--unaware that a prank had been played--
went ahead and paid $40 for the pizzas, according to a 
criminal citation.

Not amused by the pizza prank, officers launched an 
investigation and quickly linked the pizza order to 
Harp’s phone. A Domino’s worker told cops that, after 
receiving the order, they placed a confirmation call 
to the number. Police allege that Harp “answered as 
Captain Wilson” when he spoke to the Domino’s employee.

The Kentuckian, who had originally faced only 
misdemeanor counts, was hit with three additional charges, 
including felony identity theft and impersonating a police 
officer counts. Harp, who denies the pizza prank, has 
bonded out of the Whitley County Detention Center.

The police citation does not reveal if the five pepperoni 
pizzas were booked into evidence or subsequently 
disposed of by officers on duty.

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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. 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 last name, then make the sender name slightly
different, for example by adding a middle initial. If the 
incoming mail does not have that initial, it gets dumped.

To make filters, that use Boolean logic like IF, BUT NOT, 
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Butterfly Net As Bug Catcher
No photo, but a great tip. Use a dollar store 
butterfly net to cover the bug, then use your shoe. 
No bug spray needed.

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The two most important things to the American female 
are man’s prevention of nuclear war and man’s putting 
the toilet seat down.


Mothers who have experience in the trenches of family warfare 
are sometimes even driven to what I call anticipatory parenting. 
They ask a child a question, he tries to answer, and they say, 
“You shut up! When I ask you a question, you keep your mouth shut! 
You think I'm talking to hear myself talk? Answer me!”




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Today in 
0064 The Great Fire of Rome began.
1536 The authority of the pope was declared void in England.
1789 Robespierre, a deputy from Arras, France, decided to 
 back the French Revolution.
1812 Great Britain signed the Treaty of Orebro, making peace 
 with Russia and Sweden.
1830 Uruguay adopted a liberal constitution.
1872 The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing 
 for secret election ballots.
1914 Six planes of the U.S. Army helped to form an aviation 
 division called the Signal Corps.
1932 The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the 
 St. Lawrence Seaway.
1935 Ethiopian King Haile Selassie urged his countrymen to 
 fight to the last man against the invading Italian army.
1936 The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of 
 General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
1936 The Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco 
 led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
1942 The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to 
 fly in combat, made its first flight.
1944 U.S. troops captured Saint-Lo, France, ending the 
 battle of the hedgerows.
1944 Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war 
 minister due to setbacks suffered by his country in WW II.
1971 New Zealand and Australia announced they would pull 
 their troops out of Vietnam.
2001 A train derailed, involving 60 cars, in a Baltimore 
 train tunnel. The fire that resulted lasted for six days 
 and virtually closed down downtown Baltimore for several 
 days. (Maryland) 
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Today is Thursday, July 17

Thanks Cathi!

Have FUN!
DearWebby


Today's International Bonehead Award goes to
A Florida husband who battered wife on Jet Ski 
Details at Boneheads

From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1997 After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its 
 last 400 stores.




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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
--- Wilde (1854 - 1900) 

Treat people as they are, and they will remain that way.
Treat them as they can be and you help them become what
they are capable of becoming.
--- Goethe




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A couple had two little boys ages 8 and 10, who were
excessively mischievous. They were always getting into
trouble and their parents knew that if any mischief
occurred in their town, their sons were probably involved.

The boys' mother heard that a clergyman in town had been
successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would
speak with her boys. The clergyman agreed but asked to see
them individually. So the mother sent her 8-year-old first,
in the morning, with the older boy to see the clergyman in
the afternoon.

The clergyman, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the
younger boy down and asked him sternly, "Where is God?"

They boy's mouth dropped open, but he made no response,
sitting there with his mouth hanging open, wide-eyed. So the
clergyman repeated the question in an even sterner tone,
"Where is God!!?"
Again the boy made no attempt to answer. So the clergyman
raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's
face and bellowed, "WHERE IS GOD!?"

The boy screamed and bolted from the room, ran directly home
and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him. When his
older brother found him in the closet, he asked, "What happened?

The younger brother, gasping for breath, replied, "We are in BIG
trouble this time, dude. God is missing - and they think WE did
it!"


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My next-door neighbor and I frequently borrow things from   
each other. Not long ago, when I requested his ladder, he   
told me he had lent it to his son. Recalling a saying my   
grandmother used to repeat, I recited, "You should never   
lend anything to your kids, because you will never get it   
back."   

With that, he responded, "Tell you the truth, it's not even   
my ladder. It's my dad's."   


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Michael Doster, 49

A Florida husband who battered 
wife on Jet Ski 

JULY 15--While out jet skiing Sunday afternoon, a married 
couple got into an argument that turned violent because 
the woman saw her husband and another male “involved in 
a sex act together,” according to investigators.

The confrontation between Michael Doster, 49, and his 
spouse of two years resulted in Doster’s arrest for 
domestic battery. He was released from a Florida jail 
today after posting $5000 bond on the felony count.

As detailed in a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report, 
Doster and his wife Pamela were on a Sea-Doo jet ski 
near the Passage Key sandbar at the mouth of Tampa Bay 
when they began quarreling. Pamela, a deputy noted, 
brought up the fact that she “saw the defendant and 
another unknown male involved in a sex act together.”

While not specifying when or where this alleged sex 
act occurred, the cop noted that Pamela reported it 
involved “giving each other a blow job.”

Doster, who was driving the Sea-Doo, allegedly yanked 
his wife off the jet ski several times, according to 
the report. “During the last time she was pulled off 
she hit her head against the side of the jet ski” 
and refused to get back on the watercraft. Instead, 
she repaired to the sandbar “and refused to answer 
his call outs.”

When Doster could not locate his wife, he called 911. 
Pamela, naked except for a life jacket, was subsequently 
found on the sandbar and transported to safety by 
rescue workers. A deputy noted that she had a “bruise/bump” 
on her head, a bruise on her biceps, and a “large swollen 
area to her left hip area.” She was transported to a local 
hospital for treatment.

Both Doster and his wife were intoxicated, a deputy 
reported. 

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From: Daniel
Re: Javascript

Dear Webby,
do i need javascript if i have sun java installed already?
thanks,
daniel

Dear Daniel
You don't install Javascript.
Javascript is on web pages, using the SUN Java that you
already have installed.

You can allow or disallow the use of javascript in your
browser's Internet Options. If you don't allow it, a lot of
pages won't work right.

Javascript has been around for a long time. I used to build
shopping carts with it a dozen years ago. Even today,
most banking and shopping pages won't work right if you
don't allow scripting.
 
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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
A woman joined a health spa and on her first day, she
eagerly joined in on an exercise class.

However, when it ended, she went to the front desk and
requested cancellation of her membership.

When asked why, she replied, "Your floors are so low,
I cannot touch my toes!"


Classic!
A simple lesson illustrating the difference between the two
parties. Fred Thompson and Hillary were walking down the
street when they came to a homeless person.

The Republican, Fred Thompson, gave the homeless person
his business card and told him to come to his office for a job.
He then took $20 out of his pocket and gave it to the homeless
person.

Hillary was very impressed, so when they came to another
homeless person, she decided to help. She walked over to
the homeless person and gave him directions to the welfare
office.

She then reached into Thompson's pocket and got out $20.
She kept $19 for her administrative fees and gave the
homeless person $1.




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Today in 
1212 The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.
1453 France defeated England at Castillon, France, which 
 ended the 100 Years' War.
1785 France limited the importation of goods from Britain.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the British at 
 Rochefort, France.
1821 Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.
1866 Authorization was given to build a tunnel beneath the 
Chicago River. The three-year project cost $512,709.
1898 U.S. troops under General William R. Shafter took 
 Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1917 The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.
1941 Brigadier General Soervell directed Architect G. Edwin 
 Bergstrom to have basic plans and architectural perspectives 
 for an office building that could house 40,000 War Department 
 employees on his desk by the following Monday morning. The 
 building became known as the Pentagon.
1946 Chinese communists opened a drive against the Nationalist 
 army on the Yangtze River.
1955 Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.
1960 Francis Gary Powers pled guilty to spying charges in a 
 Moscow court after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over 
 the Soviet Union.
1966 Ho Chi Minh ordered a partial mobilization of North 
 Vietnam forces to defend against American air strikes.
1975 An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft 
 in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and 
 Soviet Union.
1979 Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and 
 fled to Miami in exile. (Florida)
1986 The largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history took 
 place when LTV Corporation asked for court protection 
 from more than 20,000 creditors. LTV Corp. had debts 
 in excess of $4 billion.
1997 After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its 
 last 400 stores.
1998 Biologists reported that they had deciphered the 
genome (genetic map) of the syphilis bacterium.
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Married Teachers Accused Of Sexually 
Abusing 15-year-old Girl
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Today, in 
2005 J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood 
 Prince" was released. It was the sixth in the Harry Potter 
 series. The book sold 6.9 million copies on its first day 
 of release.




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Letter from camp
Dear Mom,

Our Scoutmaster told us all to write to our parents in case you
saw the flood on TV and worried.  We are OK.  Only one of our
tents and two sleeping bags got washed away.  Luckily, none of us
got drowned because we were all up on the mountain looking for
Chad when it happened.

Oh yes, please call Chad's mother and tell her that he's OK.  He
can't write because of the cast. I got to ride on one of the
search and rescue jeeps. It was neat. We never would have found
him in the dark if it hadn't been for the lightning.

Scoutmaster Webb got mad at Chad for going on a hike alone
without telling anyone.  Chad said he did tell him, but it was
during the fire so he probably didn't hear him.

Did you know that if you put a gas can on a fire, the gas can
will blow up?  Billy is going to look weird until his hair grows
back.

We will be home on Saturday if Scoutmaster Webb gets the car
fixed. It wasn't his fault about the wreck.  The brakes worked OK
when we left. Scoutmaster Webb said that with a car that old you
to have to expect something to break down; that's probably why he
can't get insurance on it. We think it's a neat car.  He doesn't
care if we get it dirty, and if it's hot, sometimes he lets us
ride in the tailgate. It gets pretty hot with ten people in a
car.

Scoutmaster Webb is a neat guy. Don't worry, he is a good driver.
  In fact, he is teaching Terry how to drive. But he only lets him
drive on the mountain roads where there isn't any traffic. All we
ever see up there are logging trucks.

Guess what?  We have all passed our first aid merit badges. When
Dave dove in the lake and cut his arm, we got to see how a
tourniquet works.

Also, Wade and I threw up.  Scoutmaster Webb said it probably was
just food poisoning from  the leftover chicken. He said they got
sick that way with the food they ate in prison.

I'm so glad he got out and became our scoutmaster. He said he
sure figured out how to get things done better while he was doing
his time.

I have to go now. We are going into town to mail our letters and
buy more bullets and dynamite.

Don't worry about anything.  We are fine.

Love,
Johnny


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Since there was no electricity, the doctor handed the
father-to-be a lantern and said, "Here, you hold this high
so I can see what I'm doing."

Soon, a baby boy was brought into the world.

"Whoa there," said the doctor.  "Don't be in a rush to put
the lantern down ... I think there's yet another one to come."

Sure enough, within minutes he had delivered a baby girl.

"No, no, don't be in a great hurry to be putting down that
lantern ...
It seems there's yet another one coming!" cried the doctor.

The Goober scratched his head in bewilderment, and
asked the doctor,

"Do you think it's the light that's attractin' 'em?"


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Lots of good memories of the canyon! I am glad I went there
as often as I did, when I could still afford it.

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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Michael Porter, 27, and, his wife, Blair Porter
 of Brandon, Mississippi

Married Teachers Accused Of Sexually 
Abusing 15-year-old Girl

Two high school softball coaches who are married to each 
other are accused of having illegal sexual contact with 
a 15-year-old student on at least two occasions -- 
including once on school grounds.

Michael Porter, 27, and, his wife, Blair Porter, of 
Brandon, Mississippi, were arrested Friday and each 
charged with one count of sexual battery.

The alleged victim played on the Ridgeland High School 
softball team, which was coached by Michael Porter. 
His wife was an assistant coach who also taught at 
Old Towne Middle School.

The case came to light when the student's mother reported 
her daughter was being contacted by the couple after school 
hours. The mother believed that it "went well beyond that 
of a teacher student relationship," Mississippi News Now 
reports.

After obtaining a search warrant, police said they found 
a large number of texts between the Porters and the 
student that included sexually explicit language and 
naked pictures.

The teen allegedly told investigators she had two sexual 
encounters with the Porters, one at their home and one 
inside a press box at Ridgefield High School, 
WAPT TV reports.
The indictment says the suspects engaged in oral sex with 
the minor, according to WJTV TV.

The girl's mother told investigators she believes the 
inappropriate behavior may have begun when her daughter 
was a student at Old Towne Middle School, where Blair 
Porter was a teacher. Language in the indictment suggests 
Blair Porter may have arranged the sexual encounters, 
WDAM TV reports.

Bond was set at $25,000 for Michael Porter and $5,000 for 
Blair Porter, court officials said. Both were released 
after posting bail, according to WAPT TV.

Trial is set for February. If convicted, they each face 
up to 30 years in prison.

Both suspects have been terminated from their jobs, 
according to the New York Daily News.

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thanks
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When my aunt's youngest child was 3, he wanted a curse
word that he could use.  To appease the kid she told him
that he could say,
"Dag nabbit."

Well, the problem was that when he said it, it came out as,
"Damm Wabbit."


Little Johnny went to the store with his grandmother.
On the way home, he looked through her bags to see
what she had purchased.

In one package, Little Johnny found some panty hose
and he began to sound out the words "Queen Size."

He then turned to his grandmother and exclaimed, "WOW!
Look Gramma!  You're as wide as Mom's bed!"




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Today in 
1774 Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed the treaty of 
 Kuchuk-Kainardji, ending their six-year war.
1779 American troops under General Anthony Wayne 
 captured Stony Point, NY.
1790 The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, 
 was established as the permanent seat of the 
 United States Government.
1791 Louis XVI was suspended from office until he agreed 
 to ratify the constitution.
1875 The new French constitution was finalized.
1912 Bradley A. Fiske patented the airplane torpedo.
1926 The first underwater color photographs appeared 
 in "National Geographic" magazine. The pictures had 
 been taken near the Florida Keys.
1935 Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. 
 to install parking meters.
1942 French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and 
 held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part 
 00of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. 
 Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France 
 arrested foreign Jews.
1944 Soviet troops occupied Vilna, Lithuania, in their 
 drive toward Germany.
1945 The United States detonated the first atomic bomb 
 in a test at Alamogordo, NM.
1950 The largest crowd in sporting history was 199,854. 
 They watched the Uruguay defeat Brazil in the World Cup 
 soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1951 J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was 
 first published.
1957 Marine Major John Glenn set a transcontinental speed 
 record when he flew a jet from California to New York in 
 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds.
1969 Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began 
 the first manned mission to land on the moon.
1979 Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing 
 Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
1981 After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of 
 Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.
2005 J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood 
 Prince" was released. It was the sixth in the Harry Potter 
 series. The book sold 6.9 million copies on its first day 
 of release.
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Texas couple who kept son locked away for years
Details at Boneheads

From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1965 The spacecraft Mariner IV sent back the first close-up 
 pictures of the planet Mars.




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In the United States there is more space where nobody is 
than where anybody is. 
That is what makes America what it is.
--- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

"Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds."
--- Albert Einstein



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Father Norton woke up Sunday morning and realizing it was
an exceptionally beautiful and sunny early spring day,
decided he just had to play golf. So... he told the Associate
Pastor that he was feeling sick and persuaded him to say
Mass for him that day.

As soon as the Associate Pastor left the room, Father Norton
headed out of town to a golf course about forty miles away.
This way he knew he wouldn't accidentally meet anyone he
knew from his parish. Setting up on the first tee, he was
alone. After all, it was Sunday morning and everyone else
was in church!

At about this time, Saint Peter leaned over to the Lord
while looking down from the heavens and exclaimed,
"You're not going to let him get away with this, are you?"

The Lord sighed, and said, "No, I guess not."

Just then Father Norton hit the ball and it shot straight
towards the pin, dropping just short of it, rolled up and
fell into the hole. It WAS A 420 YARD HOLE IN ONE!

St. Peter was astonished. He looked at the Lord and asked,
"Why did you let him do that?"

The Lord smiled and replied, "Who's he going to brag to?"


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Thanks to Dave for this story:
A fellow computer programmer for a consulting group had
designed some software for one of our largest accounts.
He asked my help in putting it into operation.

At first, he handled most of the work. Eventually, though,
he asked me to help with the last phase of the training.
When I sat down with one woman and told her I would be
showing her how to make changes to the files, she sighed
with relief. "I'm so glad you're teaching me instead of him."

Surprised, I said that my colleague was far more
experienced than I was.

"Yes," she said, "but I feel much more comfortable with you.
I get nervous around smart people."




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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Jenifer Elise Thyssen, 40, and Dane Andrew Thyssen, 39
DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas

Texas couple kept son locked away for years

A man arrested for burglary in a Central Texas town told 
police he had been held captive for at least four years 
by his adoptive parents in a garage apartment locked on 
the outside, authorities said.

Jenifer Elise Thyssen, 40, and Dane Andrew Thyssen, 39, 
were being held Friday at the Hays County jail. They were 
arrested Wednesday on kidnapping charges.

Hays County sheriff's deputies say the couple told them 
they confined 22-year-old Koystya Thyssen in an apartment 
at their home in Dripping Springs "for the safety" of 
their other children, according to the arrest affidavit.

Court documents don't indicate how many children were in 
the couple's care.

Authorities began to investigate the case after Koystya 
Thyssen was arrested for burglarizing a neighbor's home 
after using a screwdriver to escape the apartment.

Sheriff's deputies said the apartment had a toilet, sink 
and microwave, and that Koystya Thyssen told them his 
adoptive parents gave him a box of dry and frozen foods 
once a week. He said he was allowed to leave once a week 
to see a counselor, but was otherwise confined to the 
apartment.

"Koystya stated he believes it's wrong how he is treated 
but doesn't say anything," the affidavit says. "Koystya 
advised he had no friends nor any family in the United 
States." The affidavit does not indicate where he is 
originally from.

Dripping Springs, a town of around 1,900 residents, is 
about 20 miles west of Austin.
Jenifer and Dane Thyssen each were being held on $350,000 bond.
Koystya Thyssen was being held at the county jail Friday 
on a burglary of a habitation charge. His bond was set at 
$10,000. No attorney was listed for him.

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thanks
Tam

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At the banquet of their 25th wedding anniversary, Tom was
asked to give his friends a brief account of the benefits
of a marriage of such a long duration.

"Tell us Tom, just what is it you have learned from all those
wonderful years with your wife"?

Tom responded, "Well, I've learned that marriage is the
best teacher of all. It teaches you loyalty, forbearance,
meekness, self-restraint, forgiveness and a great many
other qualities you wouldn't have needed if you'd
stayed single!"


A flight attendant on a cross-country flight nervously
announced about 30 minutes outbound from LA,
"I don't know how this happened, but we have 103
passengers aboard and only 40 dinners."

When the passengers' muttering had died down, she
continued, "Anyone who is kind enough to give up his
meal so someone else can eat, will receive free drinks
for the length of the flight."

Her next announcement came an hour later.
"If anyone wants to change his mind, we still have 29
dinners available!"




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Today in 
1099 Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders.
1410 Poles and Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic knights 
 at Tannenburg, Prussia.
1789 The electors of Paris set up a "Commune" to live without 
 the authority of the government.
1806 Lieutenant Zebulon Pike began his western expedition from 
 Fort Belle Fountaine, near St. Louis, MO.
1813 Napoleon Bonaparte's representatives met with the Allies 
 in Prague to discuss peace terms.
1834 Lord Napier of England arrived in Macao, China as the first 
 chief superintendent of trade.
1885 In New York, the Niagara Reservation State Park opened.
1888 "Printers’ Ink" was first sold.
1901 Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers went on strike.
1904 The first Buddhist temple in the U.S. was established in 
 Los Angeles, CA.
1916 In Seattle, WA, Pacific Aero Products was incorporated 
 by William Boeing. The company was later renamed Boeing Co.
1918 The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1922 The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from 
 Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
1942 The first supply flight from India to China over the 'Hump' 
 was carried to help China's war effort.
1958 Five thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to 
 protect the pro-Western government. The troops withdrew 
 October 25, 1958.
1965 The spacecraft Mariner IV sent back the first close-up 
 pictures of the planet Mars.
1968 Commercial air travel began between the U.S. and the 
 U.S.S.R., when the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, 
 landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York.
1987 Taiwan ended thirty-seven years of martial law.
2009 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was released 
 in theaters in the U.S. It was the sixth movie in the series. 
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because he got tired of her.
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Today, in 
1946 Dr. Benjamin Spock’s "The Common Sense Book of 
 Baby and Child Care" was first published.




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A man once counseled his son that if he wanted to live a
long life, the secret was to sprinkle a little gunpowder
on his porridge every morning.

The son did this religiously, and he lived to the age of 93.

When he died, he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, 35
great-grandchildren, and a 15 foot hole in the wall of
the crematorium.


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Thanks to Corrine for this story:
When my sister Andrea got married, she asked to wear my
mother's wedding dress. The day she tried it on for the
first time I was sitting with Mother in the living room as

Andrea descended the stairs. The gown was a perfect fit on
her petite frame. Mother's eyes welled with tears. I put my
arm around her.

"You're not losing a daughter," I reminded her in time-
honored fashion. "You're gaining a son."

"Oh, forget about that BS!" she wailed with a sob.
"I used to fit into that dress!"




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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Bobby Leonard, 59, Naylor, Missouri.

Missouri man shot wife because he was 'tired of her'.

When Bobby Leonard was questioned about shooting his wife, 
Carolyn, in the shoulder on Saturday, he didn't mince words.
Leonard, 59, allegedly confessed to the crime and said he 
did it because he was "tired of her," according to the 
Southeast Missourian newspaper.

The shooting occurred Saturday morning after the couple 
started arguing in their trailer home in Naylor, Missouri.

Ripley County Cpl. Earl Wheetley responded a call about 
a "female being shot by her husband" and found Carolyn 
Leonard "laying on the front porch covered in blood," 
according to his probable-cause affidavit.

The victim told officers that her husband shot her. When 
Leonard exited the trailer, he was arrested, according 
to the Associated Press.

After Wheetley handcuffed Leonard, the officer asked the 
suspect if he had any weapons him. He said Leonard replied, 
"No, the gun is in the house on the counter."

Wheetley said after Leonard was read his Miranda rights, 
the suspect asked if his wife had died. When Wheetley asked 
what happened, Leonard allegedly told him, "I got tired 
of her, and shot her."

Ripley County Sheriff Ron Barnett said the victim was flown 
to a Memphis, Tennessee hospital for treatment and is 
reportedly in stable condition.

Leonard was charged with first-degree domestic assault and 
armed criminal action or first-degree domestic assault. He 
was being held at the Doniphan City Jail in lieu of $150,000 
cash bond, according to RawStory.com.

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I need to find my IP number each time I log on from a 
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What is the easiest way to find that IP number?
Thanks
Brook

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That page will tell you, and you can just highlight
and copy the IP number from there.

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A Yuppie was sent a ransom note saying that he was to
bring $50,000 to the 17th hole of the country club at
10 o'clock the next day if he ever wanted to see his
wife alive again.

He didn't arrive until almost 12:30. A masked man stepped
out from behind some bushes and growled,
"What took ya so long? You're over two hours late."

"Hey ! Give me a break." whined the Yuppie.
"I have a 27 handicap."


The graduate with a Science degree asks,
"Why does it work?"

The graduate with an Engineering degree asks,
"How does it work?"

The graduate with an Accounting degree asks,
"How much will it cost?"

The graduate with an Arts degree asks,
"Do you want fries with that?"




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Today in 
1223 In France, Louis VIII succeeded his father, Philip Augustus.
1430 Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, 
 was handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
1456 Hungarians defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Belgrade.
1536 France and Portugal signed the naval treaty of Lyons, which 
 aligned them against Spain.
1789 French Revolution began when Parisians stormed the Bastille 
 prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
1798 The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act. The act made it 
 a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious 
 statements about the U.S. government.
1868 Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure.
1900 European Allies retook Tientsin, China, from the 
 rebelling Boxers.
1911 Harry N. Atwood landed an airplane on the lawn of the 
 White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft.
1914 Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel.
1933 All German political parties except the Nazi Party 
 were outlawed.
1940 A force of German Ju-88 bombers attacked Suez, Egypt, 
 from bases in Crete.
1941 Vichy French Foreign Legionaries signed an armistice 
 in Damascus, which allowed them to join the Free French 
 Foreign Legion.
1945 American battleships and cruisers bombarded the 
 Japanese home islands for the first time.
1946 Dr. Benjamin Spock’s "The Common Sense Book of 
 Baby and Child Care" was first published.
1951 The first sports event to be shown in color, on 
 CBS-TV, was the Molly Pitcher Handicap at Oceanport, NJ.
1958 The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy.
1965 The American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, and 
sent back photographs of the planet.
1998 Los Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for $2.5 billion 
 over the dangers of secondhand smoke.
2008 The iTunes Music Store reached 10 million applications 
 downloaded.
2009 The iTunes Music Store reached 1.5 billion applications 
downloaded. 
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Today is Sunday, July 13

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Have FUN!
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Pennsylvania teacher for having sex with two gossipy
students too close to the end of school year
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Today, in 
1978 Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by 
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative 
without changing a single idea.
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Smith emailed his supervisor in the front office.  "Boss,"
he wrote, "my mother-in-law is doing some heavy house-cleaning
tomorrow, and my wife wants me to go help with the attic
and the garage, moving and hauling stuff."

"We're short-handed, Smith," the boss replied. "I can't give
you the day off."

"Thanks, boss," Smith wrote back, "I knew I could count on
you!"


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Judge: Did you or did you not see the gun being fired?

Witness: I did not see it being fired. I only heard it.

Judge: Well, that's hearsay. It's inadmissible as evidence.

As the witness left the stand and walked back to his seat,
his back was turned to the judge, at which point he laughed
out loud.

Immediately the judge recalled him to the bench and was
about to hold him in contempt of court.

Witness: Did you actually see me laugh?

Judge No, but I heard you.

Witness: Isn't that the same kind of inadmissible
hearsay, Judge?




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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Tiffany Leiseth, 26, New Brighton, Pennsylvania 

Pennsylvania teacher for having sex with two 
gossipy students too close to end of school year

A Pennsylvania teacher has been charged with felony 
institutional sexual assault following allegations that she 
had sex with two 18-year-old students at her home.

Tiffany Leiseth, 26, worked as a substitute English teacher 
in the New Brighton School District, northwest of Pittsburgh. 
The victims in the case were both taught by Leiseth, although 
the alleged sex acts occurred after classes had 
ended for the year.

Police launched an investigation in late May after they 
received tips that the teacher had sent nude photos to each 
of the young men.

“[Investigators] followed up on that rumor and they found 
those students, and they found the nude photographs, and 
they identified the teacher,” Moon Township Police Chief 
Leo McCarthy told CBS Pittsburgh.

In interviews with police, each victim described how he 
had been invited to Leiseth's house, was offered beer, 
and then engaged in sexual activity with the teacher. 
The first student came over on the last day of school, 
in the hours following the end of classes. The second 
student said he visited Leiseth's home the next day, 
according to police.

She reportedly told the students not to tell anyone, 
according to WPXI.

Leiseth lost her job in the wake of the allegations, but 
her attorney argued that since classes were over when the 
alleged acts occurred, she wasn't their teacher anymore.

“I'm not going to get in a war at this point with the 
alleged victims’ families,” Michael DeRiso, Leiseth’s attorney, 
told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “The reality is you had 
three consenting adults once school let out.”

McCarthy disagrees.
“Regardless of your age, whether you’re an adult or not, 
if you’re a high school student, a teacher cannot have 
sexual relations with you,” McCarthy told WPXI.

However, because the young men were 18 years old, police 
could not charge Leiseth with a crime for sending them nude 
photos, CBS Pittsburgh reports.

Leiseth's preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 22.

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Re: How to open a PayPal account

Dear Webby,
I have The Black Screen of Death of my laptop after doing 
what I was under the impression was a restart after a 
MSFT upgrade.  I suppose there is nothing for it but 
to take it to Geek Squad, right?  
Carol T​

Dear Carol
I have no idea what MSFT is.
However, if you have a black screen and can't see what is 
going on, then yes, you'll have to bring it to the 
Geek Squad.
Most likely they will start it up with Linux from a 
Live CD or USB thumb drive, and look what is going on. 

Once they have access to the screen, they should be 
able to fix the problem, or at least copy all your 
data onto DVDs and then format and re-install Windows. 

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I sit with a wet facecloth and wipe their faces whenever 
they come near me. Now I can chat without them being 
right in my space.

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On the first day of creation, God created the dog.

On the second day, God created man to serve the dog.

On the third day, God created all the animals of the earth
(especially the horse) to serve as potential food for the dog.

On the fourth day, God created honest toil so that man could
labor for the good of the dog.

On the fifth day, God created the tennis ball so that the dog
might or might not retrieve it.

On the sixth day, God created veterinary science to keep
the dog healthy and the man broke.

On the seventh day, God tried to rest, but He had to walk the dog.


Thanks to Richard for this story:
My mom Molly, a difficult independent 75 year old,
likes sitting by the park feeding the pigeons.

One day she brought with her a whole bun of
fresh bread just to feed her daily company.
Little by little, pinch by pinch, she fed each pigeon
with joy.  She sat there without being noticed by
anyone in our rich suburban neighborhood.

Then suddenly a man in his early 40's rained on my
mom's parade by telling her that she shouldn't
throw away good food on a bunch of pigeons
that can find food anywhere... when there are a
lot of people starving in Africa , says the stranger.

Then my mother said in crazed anger and without hesitation,
"Well, I can't throw that far!" She handed him the half 
bun and stated "You bring it to them!"




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Today in 
1099 The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims 
 in Jerusalem.
1534 The Ottoman armies captured Tabriz in northwestern Persia.
1558 Led by the court of Egmont, the Spanish army defeated the 
 French at Gravelines, France.
1585 A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard 
 Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.
1643 In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, 
 were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the 
 Battle of Roundway Down.
1754 At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George 
 Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity 
 in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.
1812 The first pawnbroking ordinance was passed in New York City.
1832 Henry Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi 
 River in Minnesota.
1835 John Ruggles received patent #1 from the U.S. Patent Office 
 for a traction wheel used in locomotive steam engines. All 9,957 
 previous patents were not numbered.
1863 Opponents of the Civil War draft began three days of rioting 
in New York City, which resulted in more than 1,000 casualties.
1875 David Brown patented the first cash-carrier system.
1878 The Congress of Berlin divided the Balkans among 
 European powers.
1931 A major German financial institution, Danabank, failed. This 
 led to the closing of all banks in Germany until August 5.
1941 Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, that 
 provided the means for Britain to send war material to the 
 Soviet Union.
1954 In Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached 
 an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, 
 North and South, along the 17th parallel.
1978 Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by 
 chairman Henry Ford II.
1984 In Arkansas, Terry Wallis was injured in a car accident and 
 was left comatose. He came out of the coma in June of 2003.
1998 "Image of an Assassination" went on sale. The video 
 documentary is of Abraham Zapruder's home video of U.S. 
 President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.
2000 Sprint Corp. and WorldCom canceled their planned merger 
 due to opposition by regulators in the United States and Europe.
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Florida woman busted for doing dopey, 
naked yoga in the middle of the road
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Today, in 
1982 "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" broke all box-office records 
 by surpassing the $100-million mark of ticket sales in the 
 first 31 days of its opening.




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I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by
a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.
--- Charles Maurice

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task 
since it consists principally in dealing with men.
--- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)   

When people are free to do as they please, 
they usually imitate each other.
--- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)



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>From Willie
My wife cannot ride in a car without telling whoever is   
driving what to do, when to do it, etc. She is, bar none,   
the worst back seat driver in the world. I have long   
thought this, though she would deny it. She claimed she   
seldom, if ever made comments about my driving. I, of   
course, claimed the opposite. Now I have proof.   

The other day we were headed for the mall and my daughter   
piped up, "Daddy, before you married Mommy, who told you   
how to drive?"   


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Tom's barn burned down and his wife, Matilda Jane, called
her insurance agent to file a claim...
Matilda Jane told the insurance company, "We had that barn
insured for fifty thousand and I want my money, right quick!"

The agent replied, "Just a minute, there, Matilda Jane.
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 Matilda Jane replied, "Then I'd
like to cancel the policy on my husband... Right NOW!"




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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Michele Cernak, 51, Ocala, Floriduh

Florida woman busted for doing dopey, 
naked yoga in the middle of the road

JULY 10--A nearly naked woman who was doing yoga exercises 
in the middle of a Florida roadway was arrested yesterday 
afternoon by cops who found heroin and drug paraphernalia 
in her running pickup truck.

Michele Cernak, 51, was collared on a variety of drug counts 
after police responded to a 911 call about an intoxicated 
woman stripping off her clothes on an Ocala street.

When officers confronted the Ocala resident, her pants were 
at her ankles. Witnesses told officers that Cernak had been 
doing yoga poses.

Cernak was exercising about ten feet from her truck, which 
had its driver’s door open. A search of the vehicle turned 
up heroin and drug paraphernalia, according to an Ocala 
Police Department report. During questioning, Cernak, who 
had a bleeding wound on her left ankle, reportedly admitted 
that she had been shooting heroin.

Charged with three felonies and two misdemeanors, Cernak is 
locked up in the Marion County jail in lieu of $5000 bond. 

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From: Carol
Re: How to open a PayPal account

Dear Webby,
how do you set up a paypal account? I have wanted to know
but kept forgetting to ask you. I look forward to your
humor letter every day. my hubby & I have learned lots of
things from you.
THANKS
Carol

Dear Dear Carol
Just go to http://paypal.com
and click on the "Sign Up" link in the top right corner.

It will ask you the usual stuff, but not as much as when
you sign up for a bank account downtown. Just fill that
out, and you'll get your account.

You can run it like a debit card account, so that you can
only use whatever money you got in it, or you can back
it up with a debit or credit card, so that it can fall back 
onto that, if you are a bit short on a purchase or for 
example are buying more Skype Out minutes in the middle 
of a long phone call.

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Use Vinegar for Rust and Wood Treatment
Vinegar is really great stuff with many cool uses. 
Here are the the 2 best ones I know of.
1) Remove rust from metal. Just let the metal (pliers, 
blade etc.) soak overnight in the vinegar. Rub off with 
old cloth, rinse with water and dry or place in sun. 
Bye-bye rust.

2)Paint the undiluted vinegar on wood to keep nasty 
woodborers and other insects away. It's better if you 
can submerge the wood for an hour but not necessary. 
Considering the prices nowadays of rust remover and wood 
treatment, this tip can save you many, many $$!
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A visitor from Holland was chatting with his American friend
and was jokingly explaining about the red, white and blue
in the Netherlands flag.
"Our flag symbolizes our taxes," he said.
"We get red when we talk about them, white when we get our
tax bill, and blue after we pay them."

"That's the same with us," the American said, "only we see
stars, too."


Two women came before wise King Solomon, dragging between
them a young man.  "This young man agreed to marry my
daughter," said one.

"No! He agreed to marry MY daughter," said the other.
And so they haggled before the King, until he called
for silence.

"Bring me my biggest sword," said Solomon, " and I shall
hew the young man in half. Each of you shall receive a
half."  

"Sounds good to me,"said the first lady. But
the other woman said, 

"Oh Sire, do not spill innocent
blood. Let the other woman's daughter marry him."  The
wise king did not hesitate a moment. "He must marry the 
first lady's daughter," he proclaimed.

"But she was willing to hew him in two!" exclaimed the
king's court.  

"Indeed," said wise King Solomon. "That
shows she is the TRUE mother-in-law."




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Today in 
1096 Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reached Sofia, Bulgaria. 
 There they met their Byzantine escort, which brought them 
 safely the rest of the way to Constantinople by August 1.
1543 England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, 
 Catherine Parr.
1690 Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the 
 Roman Catholic army of James II.
1691 William III defeated the allied Irish and French armies 
 at the Battle of Aughrim, Ireland.
1790 The French Assembly approved a Civil Constitution 
 providing for the election of priests and bishops.
1864 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed the battle where 
 Union forces repelled Jubal Early's army on the outskirts of 
 Washington, DC.
1941 Moscow was bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
1946 "The Adventures of Sam Spade" was heard on ABC radio 
 for the first time.
1957 The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that 
 there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
1960 Manufacturing began for the Etch A Sketch®.
1982 "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" broke all box-office records 
 by surpassing the $100-million mark of ticket sales in the 
 first 31 days of its opening.
1982 The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled 
 off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.
1990 Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin announced his 
 resignation from the the Soviet Communist Party.
1998 1.7 billion people watched soccer's World Cup finals 
 between France and Brazil. France won 3-0.
1999 Walt Disney Co. announced that it was merging all of its 
 Internet operations together with Infoseek into Go.com.
2000 Russia launched the Zvezda after two years of delays. 
 The module was built to be the living quarters for the 
 International Space Station (ISS.) 
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Floriduh woman for carrying crack in her vagina
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Today, in 
1962 The first transatlantic TV transmission was sent through the 
 Telstar I satellite.




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An old fellow was snoozing away contentedly when he was
startled awake by the doorbell. He staggered off the couch to
make his way to the door. There stood a gorgeous young woman.

"Oh my goodness," the pretty young thing exclaimed, "I'm at
the wrong house."

"Sweetheart, you're at the right house," the old guy
assured her. "But you're seventy years too late."


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I was listening to a lady who called a radio pastor.

The pastor was a wise, grandfatherly gentleman who
has that calm reassuring voice that can melt all fear.
The lady, who was obviously crying, said, "Pastor, I
was born blind, and I've been blind all my life. I don't
mind being blind but I have some well meaning friends
who tell me that if I had more faith I could be healed."

The pastor asked her, "Tell me, do you carry one of
those white tipped canes?"

"Yes I do," she replied.

"Then the next time someone says that, whack them over
the head with the cane," He said. "Then tell them 'If
they had more faith that wouldn't hurt!'"




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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Jennifer Crosby, 42, Indian River County, Floriduh

Hiding Crack Cocaine In Her Vagina

A Florida woman accused of hiding crack cocaine in her 
vagina had her plans foiled by the foil allegedly used 
to wrap the drugs.

Jennifer Renee Crosby, 42, was arrested June 24 in Indian 
River County after authorities pulled over her companion, 
Robert William King, because it appeared that their green 
Chrysler had a window tint violation.

Things escalated quickly.
When investigators asked King, 47, for his license, 
registration and proof of insurance, King allegedly replied, 
"I don’t have a license! I’m habitual!” according to 
TCPalm.com.

Officers noticed Crosby was nervously shaking and asked her 
if she was carrying drugs.

At first she said no, but when the investigator called for 
a female deputy to come to the scene, she allegedly said, 
"I have drugs up my vagina," according to an arrest report 
obtained by The Smoking Gun.

Crosby was given a latex glove to wear while she removed the 
alleged crack cocaine. During her retrieval efforts, she 
told police, "Ouch! The foil is hurting the inside of my 
vagina," UPI.com reports.

A field test of the substance confirmed that it was crack 
cocaine. The narcotic and $3,743 in cash were booked as 
evidence.

Crosby was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine 
and drug paraphernalia and King was arrested on a habitual 
traffic offender charge.

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From: Jim
Re: Can not watch flash movies

I tried to watch your Bonus Movie but it had the Adobe Player 
screen where you have to accept or deny.....It wouldn't do 
either and wouldn't play.  Sorry bout that!  
Have a GREAT day...
Jim

Dear Jim
Yeah, I know Adobe is a pain in the nuisance.
Right-Click on the movie, select Global Settings,
and let it take 10 Mb of temporary storage.

After that it should work OK.
Ophelia

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Using Any Vacuum Cleaner Bag
A pack of 3 vacuum cleaner bags costs $10.00 & tax. 
That's over $3.50 for one bag! I never buy the original 
bags anymore. Instead, I buy any bags that are roughly 
the same size at yard sales and Thrift Stores. Salvation 
Army has baskets full of those bags in all sizes, for 
25 cents a bag!

Before I discard a full bag, I remove the cardboard piece 
that fits my model of vacuum. I remove the cardboard piece 
of the Thrift store bags, heat up my glue gun, and glue 
the original piece from the used bag in place. I have 
reused the same pieces about 30 times each. This is saving 
me more than $150 a year! 

If the bags were not exactly the same size as the originals, 
it has not made any difference. The important piece is the 
cardboard fitting. This is way more hygienic than opening 
a full bag, cleaning it out and resealing it, as some people 
do. 

Just remove that cardboard piece shortly before you throw 
the full bag in the dumpster. No mess, no dust.
It takes only seconds to make, after the glue gun is heated up.

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perfectly. Doing this since 8 years now. 

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Taxiing down the tarmac, the jetliner abruptly stopped, turned
around and returned to the gate. After an hour long wait, it
finally took off.

A concerned passenger asked the flight attendant, "What was the
problem?"

"The pilot was bothered by a noise he heard in the engine," she
explained.

"Oh, and it took a while to fix it," said the passenger.

"Not exactly." replied the stewardess, "It just took us a bit to
find a deaf pilot."


Old Granny went to her doctor to see what could be
done about her constipation.

"It's terrible," she said, "I haven't moved my
bowels in a week."

"I see. Have you done anything about it?" asked the
doctor.

"Naturally," she replied, "I sit in the bathroom for
a half-hour in the morning and again at night."

"No," the doctor said, "I mean do you take
anything?"

"Naturally," she answered, "I take a book."




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Today in 
1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor 
 in Germany.
1533 Henry VIII, who divorced his wife and became head of the 
 church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church 
 by Pope Clement VII.
1786 Morocco agreed to stop attacking American ships in the 
 Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000.
1804 The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, 
 was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.
1864 In the U.S., Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early began an 
 invasion of Washington, DC. They turned back the next day.
1918 Enrico Caruso recorded "Over There" written by George M. Cohan.
1934 U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first American 
 chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal while in office.
1962 The first transatlantic TV transmission was sent through the 
 Telstar I satellite.
1972 U.S. forces broke the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam.
1979 The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab returned to Earth. It burned 
up in the atmosphere and showered debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1985 Dr. H. Harlan Stone announced that he had used zippers for stitches 
 on 28 patients. The zippers were used when he thought he may have to 
 re-operate.
1995 Full diplomatic relations were established between the United States 
 and Vietnam.
1999 A U.S. Air Force jet flew over the Antarctic and dropped off 
 emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nelson after she had discovered 
 a lump in her breast. Nelson was at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole 
 Research Center.
2000 The video "Jaws," the Anniversary Collector's Edition, was released.
2000 Liam Neeson broke his pelvis after hitting a deer with his Harley 
Davidson motorcycle. 
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Delaware dope, who stashed heroin in his baby's diaper
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Today, in 
1962 The Telstar Communications satellite was launched. The 
 satellite relayed TV and telephone signals between 
 Europe and the U.S.




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An authority on African animals was giving a lecture.
When he finished, he asked for questions.
One man stood up and asked,
"Is it true that the wild animals in Africa won't bother you
if you carry a lighted torch?"

The speaker replied, "That depends on how fast you carry it."


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Thanks to Phil for this story:
My two-year-old daughter, Paige, was with her mother while
her older sister was being examined by a dentist.  Paige
kept herself busy playing with toys in the waiting room until
she noticed that her mom was resting, her eyes closed.

With about six other patients waiting, Paige marched up to
her mother, looked her straight in the face and shook her
shoulder.

"Mommy," she yelled, "wake up!  This is not church!"

My wife, Lani, woke from her doze to the sound of the other
patients laughing hysterically.




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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Michael Penn, 25, Newcastle, Delaware

Dad Hid Heroin In His Baby's Diaper

A Delaware man wanted on a theft charge stashed 16 packets 
of heroin down his eight-month-old baby boy’s diaper when 
police spotted him walking yesterday on a New Castle street, 
investigators allege.

According to cops, Michael Penn recently swiped items from 
a Verizon store, prompting the issuance of an arrest warrant 
for shoplifting.

Police officers approached the 25-year-old Penn while he 
was walking Tuesday with his three children. Seen in the 
adjacent mug shot, Penn was carrying the baby and his 
five-year-old daughter.

Directed by officers to put the children down, Penn 
initially refused, cops reported. At one point, Penn 
was seen placing something in the baby’s diaper, 
according to the New Castle City Police Department.

Penn was eventually detained and a search of the child’s 
diaper turned up the heroin stash, which can be seen in 
a police evidence photo. The heroin packets were stamped 
with brand names like “Bioshock” and “Death.”

In addition to the shoplifting count, Penn was booked 
into jail yesterday on narcotics, resisting arrest, 
and child endangerment charges. He was later released 
on $4500 bond. Penn’s children were turned over to 
the custody of his grandmother, and cops reported the 
incident to child welfare officials.

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Re: Can temp files be deleted?

Dear Webby,
My machine has an awful lot of temp files. 
Can they be deleted safely? What is the best way to do that?
John

Dear John
Yes, sure you can get rid of them. Your browser will be a bit
slower for a while, because it now has to download all the 
stuff again, that it had cached. Especially on slow dial-up, 
deleting temp files will NOT speed up your machine.

Most programs are well behaved and clean up when they close.
Internet Explorer does not clean up

The easiest way to dump temp files is with Crap Cleaner.
It will also dump the recycle bin, and if you don't take 
the checkmark off the cookies, it will dump those too.
Crap Cleaner is free. Just go to my Tool Box and download 
it.

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The house I am at doesn't have the disposal stopper. I like to do dishes with a full sink of water so this posed a problem. Then, I realized that a tall glass works wonders.

Someone posted here once that certain jar lids worked so this is just another clever solution to those pesky problems that plague our lives. Easy Peasy!
Hope this helps. 

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At the Dollar Store you can get "universal" drain stoppers.
They look like a 3/16" thick, 4" x 4" flexible rubber square. 
You just lay them over a sink or tub drain. 

Some have a hole punched in a corner to attach a ball chain 
or string, so that you can pull the flap in a hurry, if the 
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Knowing that the minister was very fond of cherry brandy,
one of the church elders offered to present him with a bottle
on one consideration - that the pastor acknowledge receipt
of the gift in the church paper.

"Gladly," responded the good man.

When the church magazine came out a few days later, the elder
turned at once to the "appreciation" column.  There he read:
"The minister extends his thanks to Elder Brown for his gift
of fruit and for the spirit in which it was given."


My Parents had not been out together in quite some time.
One Saturday, as Mom was finishing the dinner dishes,
my father stepped up behind her.
"Would you like to go out, girl?" he asked.

Not even turning around, my mother quickly replied,
"Oh, yes, I'd love  to!"

They had a wonderful evening, and it wasn't until the end
of it that  Dad confessed. His question had actually been
directed to the family dog, lying near Mom's feet on the
kitchen floor.


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Today in 
1609 The Catholic states in Germany set up a league under the 
 leadership of Maximillian of Bavaria.
1679 The British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.
1776 The statue of King George III was pulled down in 
 New York City.
1778 In support of the American Revolution, Louis XVI declared 
 war on England.
1821 U.S. troops took possession of Florida. The territory was 
 sold by Spain.
1866 Edison P. Clark patented his indelible pencil.
1900 ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. 
 Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, 
 and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking 
 into the horn of a gramophone machine.
1910 W.R. Brookins became the first to fly an airplane 
 at an altitude of one mile.
1913 The highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. 
 was 134 degrees in Death Valley, CA.
1928 George Eastman first demonstrated color motion pictures.
1929 The U.S. government began issuing paper money in the 
 small size.
1938 Howard Hughes completed a 91 hour flight around the world.
1940 The 114-day Battle of Britain began during World War II.
1949 The first practical rectangular television was presented. 
 The picture tube measured 12 by 16 and sold for $12.
1951 Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time 
 in 133 fights as Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown.
1953 American forces withdraw from Pork Chop Hill in Korea 
 after heavy fighting.
1962 The Telstar Communications satellite was launched. The 
 satellite relayed TV and telephone signals between 
 Europe and the U.S.
1973 Britain granted the Bahamas their independence after 
 three centuries of British colonial rule.
1985 Coca-Cola resumed selling the old formula of Coke, 
 it was renamed "Coca-Cola Classic." It was also announced 
 that they would continue to sell "New" Coke.
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev won re-election as the leader of 
 the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first 
 elected president of the Russian republic.
1991 U.S. President Bush lifted economic sanctions 
 against South Africa, citing its "profound transformation" 
 toward racial equality.
1997 Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton 
 supported a theory that all humanity descended from an 
 "African Eve" 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1998 The World Bank approved a $700 million loan to Thailand.
1999 The heads of six African nations that had troops in the 
 Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a cease-fire 
 agreement that would end the civil war in that nation.
2002 Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the 
 Innocents" sold for $76.2 million at Sotheby's.
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Good Morning,  !

Today is Wednesday, July 9.

Windows 9 will be released this fall.
Apparently Microsoft has realized that Windows 8 
belongs on the same shelf as Vista and DOS 4.

According to NetMarketShare, the combined market share of 
Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 is just 12.54 percent, more than 
Apple’s Mac OS share, but far less than the 25.31 percent 
held by Windows XP, or the 50.55 percent share held by 
Windows 7. Those are actual user numbers, not claimed "sales"
which include donations to foreign countries by the 
Bill&Melinda foundation.

What I find significant is the 25.31% XP. Considering the
difficulty in getting XP CDs, that is a really solid
one finger salute to Microsoft.

Those figures don't include Linux. "That's industrial, 
commercial and professional users."
If all the made-for-XP and newer machines, that are 
running Linux were included, then the Windows 8/8.1 
share would be way less than 1%.
For these stats they just use home users.

Is Microsoft taking a hint, that people would rather have 
something funtional like XP, instead of hysterical changes 
of the user interface and different ways of getting the 
same old work done? 
Currently the only "sales" of Windows 8/8.1 are pre-installed 
in new machines, without giving the buyer a choice. 

So, what is Microsoft doing about that? 
Is Windows 9 getting back towards XP ?
No.

It seems that they are going to drive even more people 
to Linux and Mac. They are going to have their computer
building companies in China pre-install Windows 9, 
but require the victims to visit the Microsoft online 
store to buy a license. 
I have a hunch, many will stop on the way and get a 
free Linux instead.

Currently, the only real problem with Linux is that there 
are so many different "flavors", and the fans of each getting
rather religious about THEIR chosen flavor.

In the industry we just laugh about that and use CentOS, the
free version of RedHat Linux. CentOS is the same as RedHat,
just without tech support. If you have seen pictures of big
server "farms", with a Million or more computers, that are 
just blades on racks, those all use CentOS Linux, 
not any kind of Windows.

Microsoft instead is frantically chasing the cloud. They 
want you to "lease" Microsoft Office, with the program sitting
on THEIR servers, "the cloud", instead of in your computer.
You simply pay your monthly lease for Microsoft Office, and 
your corner of a cloud to store your files. 
While that is handy if you just one-finger-poke at a thin 
phone, it is not what big-screen computer users want.

If you managed to hang on to an XP, treat it gently and
vacuum out the dust bunnies, It's that time of the year, 
when they tend to overheat. 
The same of course goes for W7 machines. Vacuum them out!
Maybe Windows 10 will be better, or maybe by then you will 
be ready for Linux or Mac?

Have FUN!
DearWebby


Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Drunk Alabama woman rode stolen horse 
to rob a store
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From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1878 The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe.




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The young secretary was describing her evening's exploits to
a friend. "After dinner," she said, "he wanted to come back
to my apartment, but I refused. I told him my mother would
worry if I did anything like that."

"That was smart," her friend said, approvingly, "Then what
happened?"

"He kept insisting, and I kept refusing," the secretary said.

"You didn't weaken your resolve did you?" asked the friend.

"Not one bit. In the end, we went to his apartment. I figured,
let HIS mother worry."


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>From Edna
Let's just walk up the hill to the terminal, rather than 
wait for the bus," I suggested to my two young sons. 
Much to their displeasure, we began our walk. 
After a while, my seven-year-old son asked: "Mom, why do 
you always make the decisions?" 

"Because I'm an adult," I said. "When you become an adult, 
you'll make the decisions." 

He thought for a few seconds, then said: "No, I won't. 
Then I'll have a wife."


Thanks to Janina for this picture:
a visiting deer - stops to "chat" with me :>))


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Thanks for your great, humor letters each day.  I'm so 
impressed you find the energy to send it.  Wishing you 
good health and continued fun every day!	
Janina from New Jersey, USA

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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Christine Saunders, 45, DeKalb County, Alabama

Drunk Alabama woman rode stolen horse 
to rob a store

An Alabama woman was arrested on Friday after police say
she drunkenly stole a horse and rode it to a store to 
steal some merchandise.

Christine Saunders, 45, was initially only hit with 
alcohol-related charges, but police say more charges 
could be on the way, according to AL.com.

Authorities responded after receiving a call about an 
intoxicated woman causing a disturbance at a store in 
DeKalb County on Saturday evening.
According to Sheriff Jimmy Harris, Saunders had a horse, 
that she was believed to be riding, tied up outside of the 
store. Officers recovered three cans of Keystone Light in 
a Walmart bag that was tied to the saddle horn.

The horse was returned to its owner, who did not press 
charges.

Saunders was charged with public intoxication and illegal 
possession of a prohibited beverage.

Apparently, in Alabama, unopened cans of beer are not allowed 
in a shopping bag tied to a saddle horn. 

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From: Mary
Re: Mysterious Windows Shut-downs

Dear Webby,
How are you feeling after all the eye injections? I hope 
this finds you feeling much better.

I am having a big problem and windows seem to be ignorant 
of why their product doesn't work right.
I have a window 7 and it just closes for no apparent reason.
Do you have any suggestion on how I might be able to fix it?

Thank you so much for all your wonderful emails.

Mary

Dear Mary
The next injections are due July 30.
The left eye cataract operation is on July 15.

Yes, Microsoft is rather clueless about that sort of thing.

However, in your case, it might be simply overheating.
Some computers give you a warning and reduce processor speed, 
others just "pull the plug", which is rather stupid, since 
that shuts down the fans, while heat is still migrating from 
the inside of components.

If the mystery shut-downs happen during afternoon or evening, 
but not during cool mornings, then I would recommend opening 
the case, vacuuming the dust bunnies out and cleaning the 
heat sinks. The heat sinks are those high-tech looking 
aluminum fins. Clean those and the fans with a Q-tip dipped 
in window cleaner.

Please let me know if that solves the problem.

Have FUN!
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thought you could use a mattress for 20 years, but they 
are telling us 7-8. But then, I turn my mattress in the 
old-fashioned way - upside down and top to bottom - to 
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"The answer to this last question will determine whether you
are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or dog?"

"Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a
toaster oven."


Here is a seven year old report, 
timely again with the US Govt considering getting 
involved in Iraq again.

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U. S.
involvement in Iraq, here's a sobering statistic:
There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq
theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of
2,112 deaths. That gives a violent death rate of 60 per 100,000
soldiers. The violent death rate in Washington D. C. is 80.6 per
100,000 persons for the same period. That means that you are
about 25% more likely to be shot or knifed and killed in the U. S.
Capital than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U. S. should pull out of Washington.




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Today in 
0118 Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city.
0455 Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, became Emperor 
 of the West.
1540 England's King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to 
 his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.
1609 In a letter to the crown, the emperor Rudolf II granted 
 Bohemia freedom of worship.
1790 The Swedish navy captured one third of the Russian fleet 
 at the naval battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea.
1808 The leather-splitting machine was patented by Samuel Parker.
1816 Argentina declared independence from Spain.
1847 A 10-hour work day was established for workers in the 
 state of New Hampshire.
1872 The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel.
1877 Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas 
 Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company.
1878 The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe.
1900 The Commonwealth of Australia was established by an act 
 of the British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies 
 under a federal government.
1943 American and British forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily.
1947 The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip 
 Mountbatten was announced.
1951 U.S. President Truman asked Congress to formally end the 
state of war between the United States and Germany.
1953 New York Airways began the first commuter passenger service 
 by helicopter.
1971 The United States turned over complete responsibility 
 of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units.
1997 Mike Tyson was banned from the boxing ring and fined 
 $3 million for biting the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield.
2005 Danny Way, a daredevil skateboarder, rolled down a 
 large ramp and jumped across the Great Wall of China. He 
 was the first person to clear the wall without motorized aid.
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Today is Tuesday, July 8.

Have FUN!
DearWebby


Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Wannabe Model Charged With Obscenity After She 
"Exposed Her Genital Area" To Louisiana Jailer
Details at Boneheads

From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1889 John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last 
 championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.




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Some guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of   
his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign   
on it saying "Free to good home, You want it you take it."   

For three days the fridge sat there without even one person   
looking twice at it. He eventually decided that people were   
too un-trusting of this deal, looks to good to be true, so   
he changed the sign to read "Fridge for sale $5o". The next   
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It was the first day of school. The previous principal 
had just retired and a new principal just started. As 
the principal made his rounds, he heard a terrible 
commotion coming from one of the classrooms.

He rushed in and spotted one boy, taller than the others, 
who seemed to be making the most noise. He seized the lad, 
dragged him to the hall, and told him to wait there until 
he was excused.

Returning to the classroom, the principal restored order 
and lectured the class for half an hour about the 
importance of good behavior.

"Now," he said, "are there any questions?"

One girl stood up timidly. "Please sir," she asked, 
"May we have our teacher back?"




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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Devon Serpa, 29, Morgan City, Louisiana

Wannabe Model Charged With Obscenity After She 
"Exposed Her Genital Area" To Louisiana Jailer

After being arrested for her role in a Louisiana shooting, 
the aspiring model added an obscenity charge to her docket 
sheet after allegedly exposing herself to a male jailer, 
police report.

Serpa was collared Thursday afternoon in connection with a 
shooting last month in Morgan City, where the 29-year-old 
resides. No injuries were reported as a result of the June 
27 incident, though two vehicles were damaged by gunshots.

Upon Serpa’s incarceration, she “exposed her genital area 
to a male correctional officer during booking procedures 
and was additionally charged with Obscenity,” according 
to the Morgan City Police Department. She previously was 
charged with aggravated criminal damage to property and 
illegal use of a weapon.

Serpa, remains locked up.

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From: Tammy
Re: Making screen Savers

Dear Webby,
As I have told you many times, I love your Dad's pictures of
his cacti. I would like to make them in to screen savers,
but my senior mind has forgot how. Can you help me?
I have learned many things from your computer tips and
enjoy the letter immensely. I like the links you have on left
side as they remind me to click on them & feed the poor,
animals, and the breast cancer sight. You do lots of good
for so many.
Many thanks,
Tammy

Dear Tammy
The easiest way to make a screensaver is this:
Use the Windows File Explorer to find your "My Pictures" 
folder.
Make a new folder inside that and call it Archive
Switch the File Explorer to Thumbnail view,
Click on Folders, so that it shows the folders on the left side.
(This works much better in Classical mode)
Drag all pictures that you don't want included in your
     screen saver into the "Archive" folder.
Save any new pictures, that you want included, into the
    "My Pictures" folder.
Right-click on the desktop, Properties, Appearance, Screensaver
Select "My Pictures"
Set the delay time, and hit OK a bunch of times.
From then on you will have a slide show of the pictures in
"My Pictures" as a screen saver.

The reason to move all the old pictures into the Archive 
folder is because some of them might not be appropriate
for a screensaver.
Have FUN!
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A man is struck by a bus on a busy street in New York City.
He lies dying on the sidewalk as a crowd of spectators 
gathers around.

"A priest! Somebody get me a priest!" the man gasps. 
A policeman checks the crowd but finds no priest, no 
minister, no man of God of any kind.

"A PRIEST, PLEASE!" the dying man says again. Then out 
of the crowd steps a little old Jewish man of at least 
eighty years of age."Mr. Policeman," says the man, 
"I'm not a priest. I'm not even a Catholic. But for 
fifty years now I'm living behind St. Mary's Catholic 
Church on Third Avenue, and every night I'm listening 
to the Catholic litany. Maybe I can be of some comfort 
to this man."

The policeman agrees and brings the octogenarian over 
to the dying man. He kneels down, leans over the injured
and says in a solemn voice:

"Under the B - 4. 
Under the I - 19. 
Under the N - 38. 
Under the G - 54. 
Under the O - 72." 
BINGO!


It was Saturday morning as Jake, an avid hunter, woke up ready
to go bag the first deer of the season. He walks down to the
 kitchen to get a cup of coffee, and to his surprise he finds his
 wife, Alice, sitting there, fully dressed in camouflage.

Jake asks her: "What are you up to?"
Alice smiles: "I'm going hunting with you!"

Jake, though he had many reservations about this, reluctantly
decides to take her along. Later they arrive at the hunting site.
Jake sets his wife safely up in the tree stand and tells her:
"If you see a deer, take careful aim on it and I'll come running back
as soon as I hear the shot".

Jake walks away with a smile on his face knowing that Alice couldn't
bag an elephant--much less a deer. Not 10 minutes
pass when he is startled as he hears an array of gunshots.

Quickly, Jake starts running back. As Jake gets closer to her
stand, he hears Alice screaming: "Get away from my deer!"
Confused, Jake races faster towards his screaming wife. And again he
hears her yell: "Get away from my deer!" followed by another volley of
gunfire.

Now within sight of where he had left his wife, Jake is surprised to see a
cowboy, with his hands high in the air.
The cowboy, obviously distraught, says: "Okay, lady, okay!!!!
You can have your deer!!! Just let me get my saddle off it!"




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Today in 
1099 Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march trhough
 Jerusalem.
1608 The first French settlement at Quebec was established 
 by Samuel de Champlain.
1663 King Charles II of England granted a charter to 
 Rhode Island.
1693 Uniforms for police in New York City were authorized.
1709 Peter the Great defeated Charles XII at Poltava, in 
 the Ukraine, The Swedish empire was effectively ended.
1755 Britain broke off diplomatic relations with France as 
 their disputes in the New World intensified.
1794 French troops captured Brussels, Belgium.
1815 Louis XVIII returned to Paris after the defeat 
 of Napoleon.
1865 C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
1879 The first ship to use electric lights departed from 
 San Francisco, CA.
1881 Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured 
 chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time 
 chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
1889 John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last 
 championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.
1950 General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of 
 United Nations forces in Korea.
1960 The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was 
 shot down in a U-2 spy plane.
1963 All Cuban-owned assets in the United States were frozen.
1981 The Solar Challenger became the frist solar-powered airplane 
 to cross the English Channel.
1986 Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria 
 despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.
1997 NATO invited Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to 
 join the alliance in 1999.
2010 The Solar Impulse completed the first 24-hour flight by 
a solar powered plane. 
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Today is Monday, July 7.

Have FUN!
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Meth Smoker Arrested For Carpet Munching
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Today, in 
1846 U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey 
 after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.




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People with courage and character always
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If I knew I was going to live this long, 
I'd have taken better care of myself.
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Fred had been a faithful Christian and was in the hospital, near
death.  The family called their pastor to stand with them. As the
pastor stood next to the bed, Fred's condition appeared to
deteriorate and he motioned frantically for something to write
on. The pastor lovingly handed him a pen and a piece of paper,
and Fred used his last bit of energy to scribble a note, then he
died.  The pastor thought it best not to look at the note at that
time, so he placed it in his jacket pocket.

Several days later, at the funeral, as the pastor was finishing
the eulogy, he realized that he was wearing the same jacket that
he was wearing when Fred had died. He said, "you know, ol' Fred
handed me a note just before he died.  I haven't looked at it,
but knowing Fred, I'm sure there's a word of inspiration there
for us all. I will let his wife read the note to us!"

She opened the note, and read aloud,
"Get lost you blathering idiot. 
You're standing on my oxygen tube!"


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Just as John got in the door, after staying at the bar a bit
too long, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and
cuckooed 3 times. He realized his wife would probably wake
up, so he cuckooed another 9 times. He was really proud of
himself, having a quick witty solution, even when smashed, 
to escape a possible conflict.

Next morning the wife asked him what time he got in and he
told her 12 o'clock. She didn't seem disturbed at all. Whew!

Got away with that one!

She then told him that they needed a new cuckoo clock. When
he asked her why, she said "Well, it cuckooed 3 times, said
'Oh, f@#%,' cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat,
cuckooed another 3 times, snickered, and finally cuckooed
twice more, and then it farted."




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Jeffrey Wagner, 50, Louisville, Ky.

Meth Smoker Arrested For Carpet Munching

Police in Louisville, Ky. say that 50-year-old Jeffrey Wagner 
admitted to smoking crystal meth before going into a 
Burlington Coat Factory store and having a veritable feast, 
WLKY reported.

Store employees told police they found Wagner in the shoe 
section chowing down on carpet lint.

He allegedly said he was "eating sparkles," WHAS 11 reported.

Police arrived at the scene, and say Wagner was carrying 
Lortabs, a bag of crystal meth, a bag of mysterious white 
powder and a bag of unidentified pills. He was charged with 
possession of a controlled substance and public intoxication.

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Dear Webby,
Whenever someone sends me a picture attachment, the
Windows picture viewer pops up with the attachment. How
can I change it so that my Picasa shows the picture instead
of the Windows picture viewer? Is it even possible to change
it to something other than that?
Thanks and have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Joyce


Dear Joyce
Go to MyComputer
Tools
Folder Options
DON'T do what Microsoft says. They are a bit confused 
about it. Instead click on
File Types
After a while, it will fill it's window with all the file 
types and shows what programs are associated with them.
Find JPG, and change it's file association to Picasa
then do the same for GIF and PNG.

When done, hit OK until you are out of all that.

Picasa may be going out of fashion, however, the same trick
also works for PaintShopPro, Photoshop, GIMP,and many other
graphics programs.

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The company next door was encountering so many errors,
they are now seriously considering buying a computer to
blame them on.


A woman was looking for a used car to buy and saw an ad in the
classifieds.  It read: Brand new 2014 Mercedes Benz, slate blue,
loaded, etc.  Sell for $150.00.

She was astonished and decided to call the seller and check it
out. The woman selling the car was glad to show it to her and, to
her surprise, the car was in perfect condition.

She asked the woman, "What's the catch? Why are you selling this
car so cheaply?"

"Well," she said, "it's my husband's car actually, and he
recently ran off with his young secretary. I got a telegram from
him last week that read: 'In Miami. Need bail money. Sell car'."




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Today in 
1754 Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed 
 Columbia College 30 years later.
1846 U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey 
 after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.
1862 The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal 
 and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri.
1885 G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine.
1920 A device known as the radio compass was used for the 
 first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, VA.
1930 Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, 
 on the Colorado River.
1937 Japanese forces invaded China.
1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the 
 first American saint.
1950 The U.N. Security Council authorized military aid 
 for South Korea.
1969 Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a 
 measure that made the French language equal to English 
 throughout the national government.
1981 U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating 
 Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first 
 female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1983 Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, 
 left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal 
 invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.
1998 A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev 
 of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a 
 roadside robbery.
2000 Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it would buy Netiverse 
 Inc. for $210 million in stock. It was the 13th time Cisco 
 had purchased a company in 2000.
2000 Amazon.com announced that they had sold almost 400,000 
 copies of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire," making it 
 the biggest selling book in e-tailing history.
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Florida man charged with hit-and-run 
that killed 3 women
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From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1923 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established.




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Tom had proposed to young Maureen and was being
interviewed by his prospective father-in-law.
"Do you think you are earning enough to
support a family?" the older man asked the suitor.

"Yes, sir", replied Tom, "I'm sure I am."

"Think carefully now," said Maureen's father warningly.
"There are twelve of us."


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Ancient Classic:
Stevie Wonder is playing his first gig in Tokyo and the 
place is absolutely packed to the rafters. In a bid to 
break the ice with his new audience He asks if anyone 
would like him to play a request. 
A little old Japanese man jumps out of his seat in the 
first row and shouts at the top of his voice 
"Play a Jazz chord! Play a jazz chord!"

Amazed that this guy knows about the jazz influences 
in Stevie's varied career, the blind impresario starts 
to play an E minor scale and then goes into a difficult 
jazz melody for about 10 minutes. When he finishes the 
whole place goes wild. The little old man jumps up again 
and shouts "No, no, play a Jazz chord, play a Jazz chord".

A bit peeved by this, Stevie, being the professional that 
he is, dives straight into a jazz improvisation with his 
band around the B-flat minor chord and really tears the 
place apart. The crowd goes wild with this impromptu show 
of his technical expertise. 

The little old man jumps up again. "No, no. Play a Jazz chord, 
play a jazz chord".

Well and truly peeved that this little guy doesn't seem to 
appreciate his playing ability. Stevie says to him from the 
stage "OK smart alek, You get up here and do it!"

The little old man climbs up onto the stage, takes hold of 
the mike and starts to sing:
"A jazz chord to say I ruv you..."


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Marquice Lamonz Anderson, 27, St. Petersburg, Florida

Florida man charged with hit-and-run 
that killed 3 women

Police in Florida are searching for a man suspected of 
driving a vehicle involved in a fiery hit-and-run crash 
that killed three Tampa Bay-area women.

St. Petersburg Police spokesman Mike Puetz said Saturday 
that 27-year-old Marquice Lamonz Anderson is being sought on 
warrants that include charges of vehicular homicide, leaving 
the scene of an accident involving death, driving on a 
suspended license and violation of probation.

Authorities say Anderson was driving a four-door Chrysler 200 
the wrong way down a street early Thursday morning when it 
crashed into a Saturn vehicle with three female occupants.
Two of the women — 23-year-old Briana Lequinda Campbell and 
21-year-old Jamesia Chera Santoria Lang — remained in the 
burning car and were pronounced dead at the scene. A third, 
25-year-old Grace Lashawn Collie, died at a Tampa hospital 
Friday.

Anderson has numerous past arrests on drug-related charges 
and was on probation at the time of the accident.

they believe he is hiding and knows officers are looking 
for him.

A cash reward is being offered for information that leads 
to his arrest.

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From: C.B.
Re: Malwarebytes Kudos

Dear Webby:
 Thank you so much for your help with my problem concerning 
the Fake McAfee Trojan and the Iyogi Group that tried to 
swindle me out of $199.00...I have deleted all their 
programs that they installed on my computer and then called 
my credit card company to ask them to remove the disputed 
charges (the credit card company will conduct their own 
investigation).
 
I purchased the MalwareBytes Anti-malware and it seems to 
be doing its job....no more "fake Trojan" warnings, etc. 
Thank you so much for advising me about this great program 
and any computer I have in the future will always have 
this program. 
 
I hope you had a Happy and safe 4th of July!  now.......
on with the rest of the year!!
 
C. B.

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Dryer Lint Firestarter
I use dryer lint in a cardboard egg carton and drizzle old 
candle wax from scented candles that have lost their 
fragrance. It works best from the jar candles on a candle 
warmer. Once it has cooled, I cut the sections of egg 
cradles to separate and put in a ziplock to keep dry. Just 
light the corner of the cardboard when placed under your 
tinder. Works great for charcoal BBQ's too!

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Thanks to Connie for this:

Q: How many women with PMS does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: One. ONE!! And do you know WHY it only takes ONE? Because no one
else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb. They don't even
know the bulb is BURNED OUT. They would sit in this house in the
dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it OUT. And once they figured
it out they wouldn't be able to find the light bulbs despite the fact
that they've been in the SAME CUPBOARD for the past SEVENTEEN YEARS.
But if they did, by some miracle, actually find the light bulbs, TWO
DAYS LATER the chair that they dragged from two rooms over to stand
on to change the STUPID light bulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!!
AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE CRUMPLED WRAPPER THE STUPID @*!#$%
LIGHT BULBS CAME IN! WHY?! BECAUSE NO ONE IN THIS HOUSE EVER CARRIES
OUT THE GARBAGE!! IT'S A WONDER WE HAVEN'T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE
PILES OF GARBAGE THAT ARE 12 FEET DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE.
THE HOUSE!! IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS . . .

I'm sorry. . .what did you ask me?


A young and arrogant pilot wanted to "show off" on the
aviation frequencies as he was approaching an airfield
during the night.  So, he disregarded policy and, instead
of making an official request to the tower, he said,
"Guess who?"

The air traffic controller switched the field lights off
and replied, "Guess where?"




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Today in 
1483 King Richard III of England was crowned.
1699 Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in 
 Boston, MA, and deported back to England.
1777 British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the 
 American Revolution.
1858 Lyman Blake patented the shoe manufacturing machine.
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tested his anti-rabies 
 vaccine. The child used in the test later became the 
 director of the Pasteur Institute.
1905 Fingerprints were exchanged for the first time between 
 officials in Europe and the U.S. The person in question 
 was John Walker.
1917 During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence 
 captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.
1919 A British dirigible landed in New York at Roosevelt 
 Field. It completed the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean 
 by an airship.
1923 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established.
1942 Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the 
 Nazis in Amsterdam.
1967 The Biafran War erupted. The war lasted two-and-a-half 
 years. About 600,000 people died.
1981 Former President of Argentina Isabel Peron was freed 
 after five years of house arrest by a federal court.
1981 The Dupont Company announced an agreement to purchase 
 Conoco, Inc. (Continental Oil Co.) for $7 billion. At the 
 time it was the largest merger in corporate history.
1988 Several popular beaches were closed in New York City 
 due to medical waste and other debris began washing up on 
 the seashores.
1989 The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles 
 at an ammunition plant in Karnack, TX. The dismantling was 
 under the terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear 
 Forces Treaty.
1997 The Mars Pathfinder released Sojourner, a robot rover on 
 the surface of Mars. The spacecraft landed on the red planet 
 on July 4th.
1998 Protestants rioted in many parts of Northern Ireland 
 after British authorities blocked an Orange Order march 
 in Portadown.
2000 A jury awarded former NHL player Tony Twist $24 million 
 for the unauthorized use of his name in the comic book 
 Spawn and the HBO cartoon series. Co-defendant HBO settled 
 with Twist out of court for an undisclosed amount. 
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Florida man charged with making meth on beach
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Today, in 
1946 The bikini bathing suit, created by Louis Reard, made 
 its debut during a fashion show at the Molitor Pool in 
 Paris. Micheline Bernardini wore the two-piece outfit.




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>From Roland
A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with 
four young mothers and their small children.

"You all have obsessions," he observed. To the first mother, 
Mary, he said, "You are obsessed with eating. You've even 
named your daughter Candy."

He turned to the 2nd mom, Ann and said, "Your obsession is 
with money.  Again, it manifests itself in your child's 
name, Penny."

He turned to the 3rd mom, Joyce. "Your obsession is alcohol. 
This too shows itself in your child's name, Brandy."

At this point, the 4th mother, Mrs Smith, quietly got up, 
took her little boy by the hand, and whispered,
"Come on, Dick, this guy has no idea what he's talking about. 
Let's pick up Peter and Willy from school and go get dinner
for Rolly."


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The stockbroker's secretary answered his phone one morning.
"I'm sorry," she said, "Mr. Bradford's on another line."

"This is Mr. Ingram's office," the caller said.  "We'd like
to know if he's bullish or bearish right now."

"He's talking to his wife," the secretary replied.
"Right now I'd say he's sheepish."


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Charles Tapp, 24, 

Florida man charged with making meth on beach

Charles J. Tapp is accused of making methamphetamine in his 
car at a Florida beach.

The beach is a place for surf, sun and sand -- not meth 
making. However, a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, is 
facing drug charges after allegedly cooking up 
methamphetamine in his truck at Gandy Beach.

Charles J. Tapp, 24, was arrested June 14 after deputies 
in Pinellas County noticed a dark colored Chevy Silverado 
parked along the beach's tree line.

Tapp was in the truck as were several needles. 
An investigation of the vehicle turned up other items that 
indicated the suspect was making meth in it, WTSP TV reports.
Tapp was arrested on charges of possessing methamphetamine 
and unlawful possession of pseudoephedrine and hydrochloric 
gas, chemicals used to make methamphetamine.

Police said that Tapp admitted to manufacturing meth during 
questioning, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

He was taken to the Pinellas County jail, and later released 
on $10,000 bail, according to the jail's website.

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From: Len
Re: Make FF restore old sessions

Good morning Webby
Yesterday, you mentioned that any good browser will open up 
with all 127 tabs that were open when it was last closed. 
Firefox used to do that on my computer but stopped doing 
so several months ago, before the big upgrade.
Is there something I can do to change that back?
Thanks for all you do
Len

Dear Len
The only real reason to turn that off is when many people
use the same machine, and you don't want to let any of the
others restore YOUR sessions. Any other time, it is best
to leave Sessionrestore turned on.

In the address bar, type in:
about:config 
and hit Enter. You'll get a warning, ignore that.
Now, find "browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash" in the list. 
Double-click that entry, and turn it to true
OK out of there and it is done.
There may be some weird exception, where some Windows setting
will interfere with Sessionrestore, but so far I have not
found anything about that setting.

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Removing Dry Erase Marker from Clothes
I let my little grandson scribble with a dry erase marker 
and he got it all over his shirt. I was really surprised 
that it would be so difficult to get out. I tried all the 
tips listed, except for the ink remover. Alcohol did 
nothing, Goof-off did nothing. Murphy's Oil Soap finally 
began to budge the color. Then I remembered my Spot Shot 
carpet cleaner. That took it right out. 

Now, was it a combination of everything that went before 
or just the Spot Shot I am not sure. I am so grateful 
something works. 

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A newspaper reporter for the Los Angeles Times had received
instructions from his senior editor to get photographs of a brush fire
in the foothills of northern California. The instructions included
hurrying to the Santa Monica Airport to board a small plane, taking
some photos of the fire, and hurrying back by noon with the story.

The reporter dressed quickly, rushed to the airport, saw the small
plane waiting on the runway, drove his car to the end of the runway,
parked, and climbed on board. Off they flew into the clear blue skies.

At about 5,000 feet, the reporter took out his camera and said to the
man flying the plane, "Bank right and I'll take some pictures of this
fire."

Then he heard the most frightening questions of his life, "Bank right?
How do I do that? You ARE the instructor, aren't you?"


A circus owner walked into a bar to see everyone crowded about
a table watching a little show. On the table was an upside-down
pot and a duck tap dancing on it. The circus owner was so
impressed that he offered to buy the duck from its owner.
After some wheeling and dealing they settled for $10,000 for
the duck and the pot.

Three days later the circus owner runs back to the bar in
anger, "Your duck is a rip-off! I put him on the pot before a
whole audience and he didn't dance a single step!"

"So?" asked the ducks former owner, "did you remember to light
the candle under the pot?"




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Today in 
1806 A Spanish army repelled the British during their 
 attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1811 Venezuela became the first South American country 
 to declare independence from Spain.
1814 U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeated a superior 
 British force at Chippewa, Canada.
1830 France occupied the North African city of Algiers.
1832 The German government began curtailing freedom of 
 the press after German Democrats advocated a revolt 
 against Austrian rule.
1839 British naval forces bombarded Dingai on Zhoushan 
 Island in China and then occupied it.
1863 U.S. Federal troops occupied Vicksburg, MS, and 
 distributed supplies to the citizens.
1892 Andrew Beard was issued a patent for the rotary engine.
1935 U.S. President Roosevelt signed the National Labor 
 Relations Act into law. The act authorized labor to organize 
 for the purpose of collective bargaining.
1940 During World War II, Britain and the Vichy government 
 in France broke diplomatic relations.
1941 German troops reached the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.
1943 The battle of Kursk began as German tanks attacked 
 the Soviet salient. It was the largest tank battle in history.
1946 The bikini bathing suit, created by Louis Reard, made 
 its debut during a fashion show at the Molitor Pool in 
 Paris. Micheline Bernardini wore the two-piece outfit.
1948 Britain's National Health Service Act went into effect, 
 providing government-financed medical and dental care.
1950 U.S. forces engaged the North Koreans for the first 
 time at Osan, South Korea.
1951 Dr. William Shockley announced that he had invented 
 the junction transistor.
1962 Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1984 The U.S. Supreme Court weakened the 70-year-old 
 "exclusionary rule," deciding that evidence seized with 
 defective court warrants could be used against defendants 
 in criminal trials.
1989 Former U.S. National Security Council aide Oliver North 
 received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for 
 his part in the Iran-Contra affair. The convictions were 
 later overturned.
1991 Regulators shut down the Pakistani-managed Bank of 
 Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in eight 
 countries. The charge was fraud, drug money laundering 
 and illegal infiltration into the U.S. banking system.
1998 Japan joined U.S. and Russia in space exploration 
 with the launching of the Planet-B probe to Mars.
2000 Jordanian security agents shot and killed a Syrian 
 hijacker after he threw a grenade that exploded and 
 wounded 15 passengers aboard a Royal Jordanian airliner.
2000 Euan Blair, the oldest son of British prime minister 
Tony Blair, was arrested after police found him drunk 
 and lying on the ground in London's Leicester Square. 
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Today is Friday, July 4.
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Utah woman, who tried to buy meth from cop 
as a birthday gift for her sister
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Today, in 
2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopened to visitors. 
 It had been closed to the public since 2001.




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Out canvassing for a charity, my friend Irene and I knocked
at a door. It was opened by a huge bear of a man, who was
wearing a large black bra, over his shirt.

Irene, being a devout  Catholic, crossed herself, backed up
ready to make a fast retreat.  I asked politely for a donation,
trying to keep my eyes from wandering to his protruding
undergarment.
He grinned evilly at me, "Wanna feel em?"

Horrified, I turned to leave, when one side of his bra came
alive with motion. Irene was now crossing herself with a
flurry, muttering, "Jaysus,  Mary and Murphy."

She was begging the saints to protect  her, when a tiny
tail flipped out of his bra.
"Oh my sweet Lord," she squealed, "He's got rats in his
boobs," bolted for the car, offering up 'Hail Mary's.' as
she tore off the porch.

An old lady came out of the house, glared at the man, who
just grinned back. He put his hands up to cradle both cups,
which were now writhing with movement.

She turned to me asking, "Did he ask you to play with them?"
"Yes", I gulped.

"Well," she said, patting my hand,  " He's not too bright,
but it's not what you think."

She ordered him to pull his bra out so I could peek inside.
Hesitantly I watched, while he pulled the garment down.
When I got a good look I burst out laughing.
Tiny muzzles with whiskers, long sinuous bodies, small
heads with  bright beady eyes, stared back at me.

"Their mama died," he explained, " This bra is the perfect
place to keep them warm."
Both cups were filled to the brim with tiny baby ferrets.


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An instructor was sitting in his office one afternoon when an attractive,
sexy-looking lady knocked on his door.

"Yes?", he replied, "how may I help you?"

The lady said, "I need to talk to you about my grade in your class."

"Come in and have a seat," said the instructor.

"Is there anything I can do to get an "A" in your class?"

"What do you mean by *anything*?" he replied.

She said, "Anything!"

"Anything??"

She said, in her best sultry voice, "I mean ANYTHING."

The instructor got up from behind his desk, sat down beside
her and whispered in her ear, "Would you
...
....


study?"


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Heather Rodriguez, 46, Provo, Utah

Woman tried to buy meth from cop as
birthday gift for her sister

Police in Provo, Utah, have arrested a 46-year-old woman 
accused of attempting to buy methamphetamine from an 
off-duty police officer and claiming the purchase was a 
birthday gift for her sister.

A police report shows Heather Rodriguez was arrested 
Monday evening after she approached the off-duty officer 
and displayed a glass pipe.

Authorities say she then told police she was trying to 
buy methamphetamine for her sister's birthday.

Records say she also told police the pipe was not hers 
and she was holding it for a friend.

The Daily Herald reports Rodriguez was arrested and 
booked into the Utah County Jail on several drug charges.  
They did not state wheter she always looks like she had 
been left on the back of a pick-up too long, or if she 
tried that hairdo on purpose.


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From: CB
Re: Fake McAfee virus

Dear Webby:
I have had a lot of computer issues lately which started 
with a popup message from McAfee that said I had a Trojan 
on my computer..  I could not get the pop up window to 
go away so I googled a help number for McAfee Anti-Virus 
plus and found an 800 number.  I called it and "assumed" 
I was talking to McAfee Technical support...to make a 
long story short, I was actually connected with a company 
named IYOGI and they told me they could fix all my problems 
with their program- IYOGI Support Dock- $169.99 and a 
program called Total Defense- $29.99.  Our of sheer 
frustration I agreed to this and they immediately charged 
my credit card.  They did however, that evening, after 
4 hours on the phone with them, and they had remote 
control of my computer, seem to fix the problem.
 
The next day more troubles....................temp files, 
many of them, all over my desktop.  I restarted the 
computer hoping that this would get rid of all the temp 
file but when I did, all I got was a blue screen saying 
Windows was configuring my computer..Do Not Turn your 
computer OFF.  It froze at 35% and nothing else happened.
I called the IYOGI people back because they had promised 
for the money I paid them, they would be available anytime 
I had computer problems. After another lengthy session on 
the phone with them, and they again had remote control of 
my computer, they advised I URGENTLY need to upgrade to 
Windows 8 instead of the Windows 7 Home Premium that I 
have and they tried to sell me Windows 8 for $170.00.  
I told them no thanks and they said that my Windows 7 
Home Premium is what is causing all the problems and 
that the program is obsolete. 
I guess I have been duped by these people and I am 
embarrassed with myself that I didn't have the good 
sense to tell them no thanks, when I found out they 
were not McAfee.  When you Google "McAfee Anti-Virus Plus" 
support help, their 800 number comes up.  
Is that even legal?
 
I don't know what the future is for my computer...
is there any truth to what they said...that I should 
get Windows 8 installed on my computer?
 
Webby, thanks so much for any insight you can give me 
regarding this.  I so appreciate your newsletter, and you!!
C. B.

Dear CB
Sounds like you have been conned.
Call your credit card company, report the crooks and 
cancel the charges.

Those pop-ups are not from McAfee, but from the crooks.
The same with the redirection of your browser to the 
fake McAfee site. 

As I have mentioned on this topic before,
you need Malwarebytes to get rid of that 
Fake Mcafee Trojan.

Both the fake and the REAL McAfee are scared of Malwarebytes.
That is like both crooks and victims pissing themselves, 
when they see ROBO-COP.
 
Ignore their hysterical warnings abut Malwarebytes interfering 
with their stuff.

Go ahead and let Malwarebytes clean up the mess.

IYOGI may have  damaged your Windows7, but you or a local 
computer fixer can safely re-install Windows7 with a minimum 
of fuss or cost, 
AFTER you have made it safe with Malwarebytes.

You do NOT need W8. It is even worse than W7 for you anyway.

The REAL McAfee has nothing to do with your problem, and calling 
them is a waste of time. 

Proof, that the real Mcafee DOES need Malwarebytes on the side, 
to protect it from the fake one, is that the real McAfee was 
NOT able to stop the fake McAfee from infecting your machine.
Mosquito mesh keeps out the bugs, but bears walk right 
through it.

McAfee is OK for simple, every-day nuisances, but you do 
need Malwarebytes to protect  the real Mcafee from the 
fake Mcafee and similar really dangerous stuff.

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Glowsticks Instead Of Fireworks 
For The Fourth Of July 
We camp on the 4th of July in an area where fireworks are 
not allowed so we came up with this idea. Buy red, white 
and blue, (or whatever colors you choose) glowsticks, 
necklaces, etc. at your local 99 cent store. On the 4th, 
snap your glow sticks and play games of throwing them back 
and forth, or have contests to see how high someone can 
throw them in the air. We get creative every year we play 
with glowsticks on the 4th. It's so fun.

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Usually the secretary at my son's school answers when I call,   
but on this occasion I spoke to an unfamiliar voice. I men-   
tioned this to my 11-year-old son and asked if he knew who it   
was.   

"It could have been Mrs. Campbell," he answered after thinking   
it over. "Did it sound like she was a stuffed shirt wearing a 
blue jacket?"  


When the wise company president learned that his employees   
were tanking up on no-trace vodka martinis during their   
lunch hours, he issued the following memo:   

To all employees; If you must drink during your lunch hour,   
please drink whiskey.  It is better for our customers to   
know you're drunk than to think you're stupid.   




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Today in 
1776 The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by 
 Thomas Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, 
 the President of the Continental Congress in America.
1802 The U.S. Military Academy officially opened at West 
 Point, NY.
1803 The Louisiana Purchase was announced in newspapers. The 
 property was purchased, by the U.S. from France, was for 
 $15 million (or 3 cents an acre). The "Corps of Discovery," 
 led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, began the 
 exploration of the territory on May 14, 1804.
1817 Construction began on the Erie Canal, to connect Lake 
 Erie and the Hudson River.
1845 American writer Henry David Thoreau began his two-year 
 experiment in simple living at Walden Pond, near Concord, MA.
1884 Bullfighting was introduced in the U.S. in Dodge City, KS.
1886 The first rodeo in USA was held at Prescott, AZ.
1892 The first double-decked street car service was inaugurated 
 in San Diego, CA.
1894 After seizing power, Judge Stanford B. Dole declared Hawaii 
 a republic.
1901 William H. Taft became the American governor of the 
 Philippines.
1910 Race riots broke out all over the United States after 
 African-American Jack Johnson knocked out Jim Jeffries in 
 a heavyweight boxing match.
1934 Boxer Joe Louis won his first professional fight.
1934 At Mount Rushmore, George Washington's face was dedicated.
1946 The Philippines achieved full independence for the first 
 time in over four hundred years.
1955 The first king cobra snakes born in captivity in the 
 U.S. hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
1960 The 50-star U.S. flag made its debut in Philadelphia, PA.
1966 U.S. President Johnson signed the Freedom of Information 
 Act, which went into effect the following year.
1976 The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.
1987 Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the 
 "Butcher of Lyon," was convicted by a French court of 
 crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison.
1997 The Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft, landed 
 on Mars. A rover named Sojourner was deployed to gather 
 data about the surface of the planet.
1997 Ferry service between Manhattan and Staten Island was 
 made free of charge. Previously, the charge had ranged 
 from 5 cents to 50 cents.
2004 In New York, the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower was 
 laid on the former World Trade Center site.
2005 NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft took pictures as a space 
 probe smashed into the Tempel 1 comet. The mission was 
 aimed at learning more about comets that formed from the 
 leftover buidling blocks of the solar system. The Deep 
 Impact mission launched on January 12, 2005.
2009 North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles into 
 waters off its east coast that defied U.N. resolutions.
2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopened to visitors. 
 It had been closed to the public since 2001.
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1981 The Associated Press ran its first story about two rare 
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>From Donny
We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of 
a few lunatics, but we are told to judge ALL gun owners 
by the actions of a few lunatics. 
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>From Mary
My 20th high school class reunion was held at a hotel on the   
same night that another school's 10th-year reunion was taking   
place.   

While my girl friends and I were in the rest room talking,   
some unfamiliar women entered. After their stares became   
uncomfortable, we turned toward them. One of the women said,   
"Don't mind us. We just wanted to see how we'd look in   
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Elizabeth Highley,56, Floriduh

 Spurned Woman Pulled Knife On Man

A 56-year-old Florida woman is facing an assault rap after 
allegedly threatening a 25-year-old man with a knife after 
he “rejected her sexual advances,” police report.

Elizabeth Highley (seen above) is scheduled to be arraigned 
July 11 on the felony charge, for which she is free on 
$3500 bail.

According to an arrest affidavit, Elizabeth Highley was 
entertaining victim Crue Finley in her Jensen Beach home 
when trouble began around midnight on June 16. Finley 
told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office deputies that he 
and Highley “are not a couple.”

Finley, investigators reported, said that Elizabeth Highley 
“wanted to have sex,“ but he “rejected her sexual advances 
causing her to become angry and violent.” Elizabeth Highley
allegedly grabbed a knife and sliced Finley’s left thumb as 
he fled her Windmill Village home.

Cops subsequently encountered Elizabeth Highley as she ran 
after Finley, who is pictured below in an unrelated mug shot. 
Elizabeth Highley, carrying a large knife and a broken 
wooden cane, complied with Officer Paul Hutchinson’s order 
to drop the weapons and lie down on the ground.

Elizabeth Highley, the cop noted, was “angry, crying and 
appeared to be intogschiggated” when taken into custody. 
She was released later in the day after posting bail on 
the aggravated assault count.




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From: Donny
Re: Shut down W7

Dear Webby
Thank You !
Webpages have been freezing a lot lately and I 
Never shut down completely.
 
Guess I should (once a week ?) 
Donny

Dear Donny
Hit CTRL SHIFT ESC

That will bring up the task manager.
Sort by the MEMOry column.
If your browser is at the top, and shows a high number, 
highlight it, and hit END PROCESS in the bottom right 
corner.

It will ask you if that is the program you want to 
shut down.
Hit OK, and your browser is off.
Just restart the browser after that. The good browsers 
will let you return to the 127 open tabs, 
which you had open in order to bung it up.

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Getting Rid of Ants Without Poison 
I have had great success this year with using cinnamon on 
my kitchen counter and windowsill to keep the sugar ants 
at bay. So when I found ants congregating near my garage 
wall, I knew just what to do.

We had recently moved a fridge and there was some leftover 
gunk underneath that the ants found. There were hundreds of 
them feasting. I went and grabbed my Costco sized spice 
bottle and then covered them with a heavy coating of cinnamon. 
Immediately, the ants scatter. They do not like the cinnamon 
at all. Within a few minutes, they were gone. I'll reapply 
cinnamon if I see any places where the ants are still getting 
through. It is non-toxic and frugal.

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Thanks to Sandie for this story:
A husband and wife are on the 9th green when suddenly she
collapses from a heart attack!

'Help me dear,' she groans to her husband.

The husband dials 911 on his cell phone, talks for a few
minutes, picks up his putter, and lines up his putt.

His wife raises her head off the gr! een and stares at him.
'I'm dying over here and you're putting?'

'Don't worry dear', says the husband calmly. 'they found a
doctor on the second hole and he's coming to help you'.

'Well how long will it take for him to get here', 
she asks feebly?!

'No time at all', says her husband, practicing his putting
stroke.  Everybody's already agreed to let him play through'!


KNOW YOUR STATE MOTTO..

Alabama
Hell Yeah, We Have Electricity.

Alaska
11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!

Arizona
Yeah, But It's A Dry Heat.

Arkansas
Lituracy Ain't Everythang.

California
By 30, Our Women Have More
Plastic Than Your Honda.

Colorado
If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother.

Connecticut
Like Massachusetts , only smaller

Delaware
We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water.

Florida
Ask Us About Our Grandkids
And Our Voting Skills.

Georgia
We Put The Fun In Fundamentalist Extremism.

Hawaii
Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru
(Death To Mainland Scum, Leave Your Money)

Idaho
More Than Just Potatoes...
Well, Okay, We're Not, But The
Potatoes Sure Are Real Good

Illinois
Please, Don't Pronounce the "S"

Indiana
2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free

Iowa
We Do Amazing Things With Corn

Kansas
First Of The Rectangle States

Kentucky
Five Million People;
Fifteen Last Names

Louisiana
We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos,
But That's Our Tourism Campaign.

Maine
We're Really Cold, But We
Have Cheap Lobster

Maryland
If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It

Massachusetts
Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden 's And Our
Senators Are More Corrupt!

Michigan
First Line Of Defense Against The Canadians

Minnesota
10,000 Lakes... And 10 Zillion Mosquitoes

Mississippi
Come visit And Feel Better About Your Own State

Missouri
Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work

Montana
Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-wing
Crazies, and Honest Elections!

Nebraska
Ask About Our State Motto Contest

Nevada
Hookers and Poker!

New Hampshire
Go Away And Leave Us Alone

New Jersey
You Want A ##$%##! Motto?
I Got Your ##$%##! Motto Right here!

New Mexico
Lizards Make Excellent Pets

New York
You Have The Right To Remain Silent,
You Have The Right To An Attorney...
And No Right To Self Defense!

North Carolina
Tobacco Is A Vegetable

North Dakota
We Really Are One Of The 50 States!

Ohio
At Least We're Not Michigan

Oklahoma
Like The Play, But No Singing

Oregon
Spotted Owl.. It's What's For Dinner

Pennsylvania
Cook With Coal

Rhode Island
We're Not REALLY An Island

South Carolina
Remember The Civil War?
Well, We Didn't Actually Surrender Yet

South Dakota
Closer Than North Dakota

Tennessee
Home of the Al Gore Invention Museum

Texas
Se Hable Ingles

Utah
Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus

Vermont
Too liberal for the Kennedy's

Virginia
Who Says Government Stiffs And
Slackjawed Yokels Don't Mix?

Washington
Our Governor can out-fraud your Governor!

West Virginia
One Big Happy Family...Really!

Wisconsin
Come Cut the Cheese!

Wyoming
Where Men Are Men... And The Sheep Are Scared
Home of Brokeback Mtn.

The District of Columbia
The Work-Free Drug Place !




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Today in 
1608 The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1775 U.S. Gen. George Washington took command of the 
 Continental Army at Cambridge, MA.
1790 In Paris, the marquis of Condorcet proposed granting 
 civil rights to women.
1844 Ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiated a 
 commercial treaty with China that opened five Chinese ports 
 to U.S. merchants and protected the rights of American 
 citizens in China.
1863 The U.S. Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, PA, ended 
 after three days. It was a major victory for the North 
 as Confederate troops retreated.
1871 The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company 
 introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was 
 called the "Montezuma."
1878 John Wise flew the first American dirigible in 
 Lancaster, PA.
1898 During the Spanish American War, a fleet of Spanish 
 ships in Cuba's Santiago Harbor attempted to run a 
 blockade of U.S. naval forces. Nearly all of the Spanish 
 ships were destroyed in the battle that followed.
1903 The first cable across the Pacific Ocean was spliced 
 between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.
1939 Chic Young’s comic strip character, "Blondie" was first 
 heard on CBS radio.
1940 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted on NBC radio.
1944 The U.S. First Army opened a general offensive to 
 break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.
1944 During World War II, Soviet forces recaptured Minsk.
1945 U.S. troops landed at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan 
 airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.
1945 The first civilian passenger car built since February 
 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor 
 Company plant in Detroit, MI. Production had been diverted 
 due to World War II.
1950 U.S. carrier-based planes attacked airfields in the 
 Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first 
 air-strike of the Korean War.
1954 Food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years 
 after the end of World War II.
1974 The Threshold Test Ban Treaty was signed, prohibiting 
 underground nuclear weapons tests with yields greater than 
 150 kilotons.
1981 The Associated Press ran its first story about two rare 
 illnesses afflicting homosexual men. One of the diseases 
 was later named AIDS.
1986 U.S. President Reagan presided over a ceremony in 
 New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated 
 Statue of Liberty.
1991 U.S. President George H.W. Bush formally inaugurated 
 the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. 
 National Memorial in South Dakota. 
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Today, in 
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration for 
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HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?
You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be
yelling at the same kids.
-- Derrick, age 8

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?
Both don't want any more kids.
-- Lori, age 8

WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?
When they're rich.
-- Pam, age 7

IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?
It's better for girls to be single but not for boys.
Boys need someone to clean up after them.
-- Anita, age 9

HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET
MARRIED?
There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there?
-- Kelvin, age 8


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Style and fashion intrude into all walks of our lives. Two fellows
who had been rivals all their lives followed different career
paths. One eventually became an Admiral in the Navy, the
other went into the Catholic Church and became a Bishop.

As fate would have it, they happened to meet at the Airport.
The Bishop spied the Admiral first and said loudly,
"Oh Porter, from what gate is the flight to Dallas leaving?"
The Admiral approached, bowed, and said
"Gate 7 Madame, but should you be traveling in your condition ?"


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Tavish Smith, 

Giggling woman busted for crashing truck, 
twice, and eating her pot in cop car

cops say a Florida woman with a case of the giggles crashed 
her car and then tried to eat her stash of pot in the back 
of a squad car.

Tavish Smith, 45, was pulled over June 13 on suspicion of 
DUI along U.S. 1 in Brevard County, Florida, after she 
allegedly crashed her truck, drove the wrong way on U.S. 1, 
then crashed again.

The arresting officer put her in the back of his cruiser while 
he searched her truck.

He allegedly found a small sandwich bag of marijuana in the 
vehicle, according to the New York Daily News.

A surveillance video taken inside the squad car shows a woman 
identified as Smith denying the marijuana is hers.

The suspect appears to wiggle out of her handcuffs, reach into 
the front seat of the cop car, and grab the pot-filled sandwich 
bag, according to police.

Then she allegedly started to eat the cannabis, Local10.com 
reports.

It was when she tried to slip back into her handcuffs that 
she was busted.

"Do you have your handcuffs in front already?" The trooper 
asked in the video. "Did you slip out?"

Smith said no.

"I could have sworn I just saw you scratch your nose," the 
trooper said.

"Oh yeah I did," Smith said.

"Stay in your handcuffs please," the trooper said. 
"I hope that's not why this marijuana bag was open over here. 
Bags of weed just don't go missing inside a police car."

Smith's alleged marijuana munching bumped what were 
misdemeanor charges up to a felony, according to WTSP TV.

Smith has been released on bail, but she has been suspended 
from her job as an employee for a Brevard County judge, 
HLN TV reports.

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Re: How often should I shut down W7

Dear Webby
W7 is such a tedious klutz about starting up, and some people
tell me to just leave it running, sooner or later it will
crash on it's own.
What is YOUR opinion on that?
Marilee

Dear Marilee
I fondly remember a Marilee from the days before computers.

Leave the modem running, but shut windows down, if you are 
not going to use it for two or more hours.

Yes, I know, unlike UNIX or Linux, Windows is not starting
very gracefully, and takes a lot of time. However, you will 
notice that it runs a bit faster with a daily shut-down
than with a monthly one.

Just go make a fresh pot of coffee while it starts up.

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Getting Library Books Back On Time
>From Brent
My boss wanted a "Clean Desk" policy, so he sent a memo saying
that any paperwork left on desks would be removed at night and we
would have to fill out a form to get it back.

So we left all our trash paper on our desks every night.

In a week, the boss had an office full of trash, nobody filled
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One day, while driving with my then 5 year old daughter
Melanie, I beeped the horn by mistake. She turned and
looked at me as if she was demanding an explanation.

I said, "I did that by accident..."

She replied, "I know that....'cause you didn't scream
'A********!' after beeping!"


From a passenger ship, everyone can see a bearded
man on a small island, shouting and desperately waving
his hands.

"Who is it?" a passenger asks the captain.

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Today in 
1298 An army under Albert of Austria defeated and killed 
 Adolf of Nassua near Worms, Germany.
1625 The Spanish army took Breda, Spain, after nearly a 
 year of siege.
1644 Lord Cromwell crushed the Royalists at the Battle of 
 Marston Moor near York, England.
1776 Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American colonies 
 "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" 
 was adopted by the Continental Congress.
1850 Prussia agreed to pull out of Schlewig and Holstein, Germany.
1850 B.J. Lane patented the gas mask.
1857 New York City’s first elevated railroad officially opened 
 for business.
1858 Czar Alexander II freed the serfs working on imperial lands.
1881 Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounded U.S. President James A. 
 Garfield in Washington, DC.
1890 The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1926 The U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps.
1937 American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in the 
 Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at 
 the equator.
1939 At Mount Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt's face was dedicated.
1944 American bombers, as part of Operation Gardening, dropped 
 land mines, leaflets and bombs on German-occupied Budapest.
1947 An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air 
 Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness 
 accounts led to speculation that it might have been an 
 alien spacecraft. 9 months later Pelosi was born.
1964 U.S. President Johnson signed the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" 
 into law. The act made it illegal in the U.S. to discriminate 
 against others because of their race.
1967 The U.S. Marine Corps launched Operation Buffalo in response 
 to the North Vietnamese Army's efforts to seize the Marine 
 base at Con Thien.
1976 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not 
 inherently cruel or unusual.
1976 North Vietnam and South Vietnam were reunited.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration for 
 males 18 years of age.
1981 Soyuz T-6 returned to Earth.
1985 General Motors announced that it was installing electronic 
 road maps as an option in some of its higher-priced cars.
1995 "Forbes" magazine reported that Microsoft's chairman, 
 Bill Gates, was worth $12.9 billion, making him the world's 
 richest man. In 1999, he was worth about $77 billion.
1998 Cable News Network (CNN) retracted a story that alleged that 
 U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American 
 defectors during the Vietnam War.
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by as my husband and his friend stopped to stare.
"Wow," sighed Rick. "Nice."

"Yeah," agreed his buddy, transfixed.

"What color was the car?" I asked.

They answered simultaneously, "Blonde."


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The CIA loses track of one of its operatives, and so calls in
one of their top spy hunters.

The CIA boss says, "All I can tell you is that his name is
Murphy and that he's somewhere in Ireland.  If you think
you've located him, tell him the code words, 'The weather
forecast calls for mist in the morning.' If it's really him, he'll
answer, 'Yes, and for mist at noon as well.'"

So the spy hunter goes to Ireland and stops in a bar in one of
the small towns.  He says to the bartender, "Maybe you can
help me. I'm looking for a guy named Murphy."

The bartender replies, "You're going to have to be more
specific because, around here, there are lots of guys named
Murphy. There's Murphy the Baker, who runs the pastry shop
on the next block. There's Murphy the Banker, who's president
of our local savings bank.  There's Murphy the Blacksmith, who
works at the stables.  And, as a matter of fact, my name is
Murphy, too."

Hearing this, the spy hunter figures he might as well try the
code words on the bartender, so he says, "The weather forecast
calls for mist in the morning."

The bartender replies, "Oh, you're looking for Murphy the Spy.
He lives next door, up on the second floor."


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Derrick Price, 43, Orange County, Florida

Running a strip club out of barber shop

Get your ears lowered and your pants raised.
That may have been the business model of a strip bar 
that was allegedly run out of a barber shop in Orange County, 
Florida.

Undercover agents working for the Metropolitan Bureau of 
Investigation conducted a many months long investigation of 
Super Fades barber shop before finally raiding the place 
early Sunday morning.

MBI investigator Lt. Mike Gibson said the agents visited the 
barbershop by day and saw it turn into an illegal strip bar 
every Saturday night.

“On each and every occasion they were serving alcohol and 
they had strippers. And, not strippers following local law, 
but strippers that went completely nude,” Gibson told WFTV TV.

Along with the barber pole in front of Super Fades, there was 
a stripper pole installed inside the establishment.

"That would have been a piece of equipment that was there 
even when they operated during the day while they acted as a 
barbershop," Gibson said, according to UPI.com

Agents purchased $20 worth of illegal vodka at Super Fades 
early Sunday morning before discovering one of the dancers 
was a 17-year-old female.

"As we were conducting the investigation, we were able to 
identify one of the dancers being a juvenile, and that led 
to the need to speed the investigation up," Gibson told WESH TV.

Derrick Price, 43, the owner of Super Fades, was arrested and 
charged with allowing a worker to engage in nudity, allowing a 
person under 18 in an adult entertainment establishment, 
operation of an establishment without a valid license and 
possession of alcohol without a license with intent to sell.

He was released after posting bond and is due in court on Monday.

The 17-year-old who was allegedly stripping was also arrested.

Gibson said the stripping pole has since been removed.

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From: Steve
Re: Kasperski vs McAfee vs Malwarebytes

Dear Webby
 your efforts in your newsletter continue to be greatly 
appreciated, as they have for a few years now. 

How does the kaspersky internet security malware detection 
compare to malwarebytes anti-malware you now tout ?

Are malware programs similar to anti-virus programs in the 
respect of you do not want to run two programs concurrently ?

How does spy-bot fit into the malware picture, it does cookies 
not malware ?

Again thank you for your time & sharing your wisdom.

steve j.

Dear Steve
Kasperski is the equivalent of McAfee. Some months McAfee is 
a nose ahead, some months it's Kasperski. Both are huge 
companies and not really known for good personal support.
However, they generally run fine and very rarely require 
contacting their support.

You can consider those two, and Vipre as well, as heavy bombers. 
Slow, and reasonably reliable.

They try to be a total solution for everything, including
blocking spam. However, they are rather klutzy about that. 
It is best to disable their email section.
The same goes for Vipre.

MalwareBytes by comparison is a fighter plane. It can take 
care of really nasty trojans, which disable McAfee and 
Kasperski.
Malwarebytes also goes after "agreed to" nuisance stuff, 
like pop up ads, browser redirection, search engine 
redirection, etc. MalwareBytes does not care who agreed 
to that kind of crap. It recognizes crap and flushes it.

Both Kasperski and McAfee try to uninstall Malwarebytes. 
They seem to be really jealous and envious and start a 
silly pissing contest.

Most recommendations are that you stick with McAfee or 
Kasperski or Vipre for continuous routine protection, 
and use MalwareBytes just for extreme problems or 
"agreed to" crap.

I have run machines with just MalwareBytes, and found 
it to be sufficient.

Spybot-Search&Destroy is free and will get some 
light-weight stuff. Because it is free, it is a good 
idea to try that first, before spending money.

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Getting Library Books Back On Time
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due on that date. Easy-peasy! I haven't had a fine yet. 

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These ads could have benefitted from a bit of proof-reading!

Dinner Special -- Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25;
Children $2.00.

Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children.

We do not tear your clothing with machinery.
We do it carefully by hand.

For Rent: 6-room hated apartment.

Auto Repair Service. Free pick-up and delivery.
Try us once, and you'll never go anywhere again.

Illiterate? Write today for free help.

Great Dames for sale.

Mt. Kilimanjaro, the breathtaking backdrop for the Serena
Lodge. Swim in the lovely pool while you drink it all in.

Get rid of aunts: Zap does the job in 24 hours.

Stock up and save. Limit: one.

Save regularly in our bank. You'll never reget it.

Used Cars: Why go elsewhere to be cheated?
Come here first!

Wanted. Man to take care of cow that does not smoke or drink.

3-year-old teacher needed for pre-school.
Experience preferred.

Our experienced Mom will care for your child. Fenced yard,
meals, and smacks included.

Mother's helper--peasant working conditions.

Semi-Annual after-Christmas Sale.

And now, the Superstore--unequaled in size, unmatched in
variety, unrivaled inconvenience.

We will oil your sewing machine and adjust tension in your
home for $1.00.


An excerpt from brilliant Kentucky state legislation. 

"No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway 
within this state unless she be escorted by at least two 
officers or unless she be armed with a club." 

The following important amendment however is to be considered 
here: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to 
females weighing less than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds, 
nor shall it apply to male horses."




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Today in 
0096 Vespasian, a Roman Army leader, was hailed as a Roman 
 Emperor by the Egyptian legions.
1543 England and Scotland signed the peace of Greenwich.
1596 An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard 
 of Effingham and Francis Vere captured and sacked Cadiz, 
 Spain.
1690 The French defeated the forces of the Grand Alliance 
 at Fleurus in the Netherlands.
1798 Napoleon Bonaparte took Alexandria, Egypt.
1847 The U.S. Post Office issued its first adhesive stamps.
1863 During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting 
 at Gettysburg began.
font color=red>1867 Canada became an independent dominion.
1876 Montenegro declared war on the Turks.
1893 The first bicycle race track in America to be made out 
of wood was opened in San Francisco, CA.
1898 During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his 
 "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on 
 San Juan Hill in Cuba.
1909 Thomas Edison began commercially manufacturing his new "A" 
 type alkaline storage batteries.
1916 The massive Allied offensive known as the Battle of 
 the Somme began in France. The battle was the first to 
 use tanks.
1940 In Washington, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was opened to 
 traffic. The bridge collapsed during a wind storm on 
 November 7, 1940.
1941 Bulova Watch Company sponsored the first TV commercial 
 in New York City, NY.
1942 German troops captured Sevestopol, Crimea, in the 
 Soviet Union.
1943 The U.S. Government began automatically withholding 
 federal income tax from paychecks.
1946 The U.S. exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini 
 Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1950 American ground troops arrived in South Korea to stem 
 the tide of the advancing North Korean army.
1960 Somalia gained its independence from Britain through 
 the unification of Somaliland with Italian Somalia.
1961 British troops landed in Kuwait to aid against 
 Iraqi threats.
1961 The first community air-raid shelter was built. The 
 shelter in Boise, ID had a capacity of 1,000 people and 
 family memberships sold for $100.
1963 The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP 
 (Zoning Improvement Plan) code.
1968 The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was signed by 60 
 countries. It limited the spreading of nuclear material 
 for military purposes. On May 11, 1995, the treaty was 
 extended indefinitely.
1969 Britain's Prince Charles was invested as the Prince of 
 Wales.
1974 Isavel Peron became the president of Argentina upon 
 the death of her husband, Juan.
1979 Sony introduced the Walkman.
1980 "O Canada" was proclaimed national anthem of Canada.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that 
 provided for 2 acres of land near the Lincoln Memorial 
 for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1987 John Kevin Hill, at age 11, became the youngest to 
 fly across the U.S. when he landed at National Airport 
 in Washington, DC.
1989 The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty, went 
 into effect. It limited the production of ozone-
 destroying chemicals.
1991 The Warsaw Pact dissolved.
1994 Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Organization 
 visited the Gaza Strip.
1997 The sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from 
 Great Britain to China. Britain had controlled Hong Kong 
 as a colony for 156 years.
2003 In Hong Kong, thousands of protesters marched to show 
their opposition to anti-subversion legislation.
2014  smiled.

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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Georgia driver, who repeatedly ran over woman at 
traffic light
Details at Boneheads

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Today, in 
2004 The international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit. 
The craft had been on a nearly seven-year journey. 




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It was no wonder that people were so horrible 
when they started life as children.
--- Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)



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>From Roland
A passenger on a Southwest flight says that he once faced 
a flight delay just before they boarded.
A flight attendant picked up the microphone and announced:
"We're sorry for the delay. The machine that normally rips 
the handles off your luggage is broken, so we're having 
to do it by hand. We should be finished and on our way 
shortly."


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The little boy greeted his grandmother with a hug and said,
"I'm  so happy to see you grandma. Now maybe daddy will
do the trick he  has been promising us."

The grandmother was curious.

"What trick is that my dear," she asked.

 The little boy replied, "I heard daddy tell mommy that he
would climb the walls if you came to visit us again."


Thanks to dad for this one


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This one bloomed today

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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Dewey Green, 23, Douglasville, Georgia

Georgia driver, repeatedly ran over woman 
at traffic light

A Georgia man is charged with murder after running over a 
woman with his car.

Dewey Green, 23, drove up behind an SUV sitting at a traffic 
light in Douglasville on Wednesday afternoon. Green allegedly 
rammed the vehicle with his own car multiple times, according 
to WSBTV.

The victim, 53-year-old Janice Pitts, got out to see how 
badly the SUV was damaged, and Green allegedly slammed into 
her, pinning the woman up against the vehicle.

Pitts' adult daughter, Iesha Davis, tried to save her mother, 
jumping on Green's car and begging him to stop crushing the 
woman.

Police say that after Green backed up and Pitt fell to the 
ground, he ran her over. He then allegedly backed up over her 
body again, according to AL.com

“I'll never ever get the image of my mom lifeless body lying 
on the pavement and the man ran her over like she was nothing," 
Davis told WSBTV.

Davis' 4-year-old son was also in the vehicle at the time.

"Imagine your mother minding her own business and being 
killed brutally,'' Nakeeta Davis, Pitts' other daughter who 
was not at the scene of the crime, told AL.com. "This man 
was out to kill. He didn't stop until he got what he was 
after."

Pitts, who died at the scene, was studying for a master's 
degree in psychology and was planning to open a non-profit 
for abused women and children.

Acting District Attorney Brian Fortner told the Atlanta 
Journal-Constitution that it does not appear Pitt and Green 
knew each other, and that there is no indication Green 
suffered from mental illness. Police say Green seemed 
dazed and confused and reeked of alcohol.

“No doubt there's alcohol involved,” said Stan Copeland 
with Douglas County police. Officials are trying to 
determine if he was additionally under the influence 
of drugs.

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From: Kathy
Re: Deleting files

Hi Webby,a question please!
My puter has been acting up lately,slow ,irratic,etc..
I defragged and when I went to do a Disc clean up,in the 
list shown were Temp Files,(not temp internet files) 
which are taking up 1.39 GB of space! Are these files 
that I can delete? Also shown in System error memory dump 
files,were 194 MB of files.Please advise!!!!! 
Thanks for being there for us!!! Don't give up on us,we will 
be more tech savvy with your help,one day!!! 
Stay well,
Kathy

Dear Kathy
Download CrapCleaner from my ToolBox.
It is free
It will get rid of most of that crap.
Caution! Go into the settings and take the checkmark off the 
Cookies. 
Otherwise it will blithely delete all your cookies, and 
you'll have trouble signing in to your bank.

That should help noticeably.
Additional help is at http://webby.com/fixclean

Re temp files, I just dump them when I come across them, 
same as when I see files with wacky characters in the file 
name.

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Monsters Be Gone Kit
Made about a thousand of these, LOL!
Supplies:
Spray Bottle
Lavender Oil
Steps:
Mix ten to twelve drops of lavender with water. 
Put the spray top on and label the bottle.
Get a box and decorate it. Write on the side: 
"Monsters Beware Kit". 
On the other side, write "(Child's Name), 
Go Away I Say Kit!" 
Put spray, a tiny flashlight, and a small bell in the 
box. Tell the child to ring the bell, because monsters 
do not like bells (but really to wake up the parent) 
and take the flashlight and turn it on because they hate 
light. Then, spray the bed and under it to make them leave!
Source: Me, tired of Grand-kids nightmares!

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>From Em
While standing in line at airport security this morning, the
ahead of me poked her index finger at an article in the
newspaper she was reading and made a rather unflattering
comment about the author.

I read: "12 ideas to help you keep that resolution to lose
weight."  After a couple of paragraphs, the article lists 
things to  do. The second of these hints reads:  
"When cooking yourself,
substitute lower-fat ingredients whenever possible...."

"HUH?" she then asked,  "Am I supposed to hunt down and
cook a low-fat jogger instead of myself?"


A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day
of work.  The manager greeted him with a warm handshake
and a smile, gave him a broom and said, "Your first job
will be to sweep the entire store."

"But I'm a college graduate," the young man replied
indignantly.

"Oh, I'm sorry.  I didn't know that," said the manager.
"Here, give me the broom - Let me show you how."




» Christian Andersen




Today in 
1097 The Crusaders defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum.
1841 The Erie Railroad rolled out its first passenger train.
1859 Charles Blondin became the first person to cross 
 Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1894 Korea declared independence from China and asked for 
 Japanese aid.
1908 A meteor explosion in Siberia knocked down trees in a 
 40-mile radius and struck people unconscious some 40 
 miles away.
1912 Belgian workers went on strike to demand universal 
 suffrage.
1913 Fighting broke out between Bulgaria and Greece and 
 Spain. It was the beginning of the Second Balkan War.
1915 During World War I, the Second Battle Artois ended 
 when the French failed to take Vimy Ridge.
1922 Irish rebels in London assassinate Sir Henry Wilson, 
 the British deputy for Northern Ireland.
1930 France pulled its troops out of Germany’s Rhineland.
1934 Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the 
 SA and bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the 
 Long Knives."
1935 Fascists caused an uproar at the League of Nations when 
 Haile Selassie of Ethiopia speaks.
1936 Margaret Mitchell’s book, "Gone with the Wind,"
1950 U.S. President Harry Truman ordered U.S. troops into Korea 
 and authorizes the draft.
1951 On orders from Washington, General Matthew Ridgeway broadcasts 
 that the United Nations was willing to discuss an armistice with 
 North Korea.
1953 The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in 
 Flint, MI. It sold for $3,250.
1955 The U.S. began funding West Germany’s rearmament.
1957 The American occupation headquarters in Japan was dissolved.
1958 The U.S. Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of 
 Alaska as the 49th state in the Union.
1960 The Katanga province seceded from Congo (upon Congo's 
 independence from Belgium).
1964 The last of U.N. troops left Congo after a four-year 
 effort to bring stability to the country.
1971 The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth. The three 
 cosmonauts were found dead inside.
1977 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his opposition to 
 the B-1 bomber.
1985 Yul Brynner left his role as the King of Siam after 4,600 
 performances in "The King and I."
1994 The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding 
 of the 1994 national championship and banned her from the 
 organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
1998 Officials confirmed that the remains of a Vietnam War 
 serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington 
 National Cemetery were identified as those of Air Force pilot 
 Michael J. Blassie.
2000 U.S. President Clinton signed the E-Signature bill to give 
 the same legal validity to an electronic signature as a 
 signature in pen and ink.
2004 The international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit. 
The craft had been on a nearly seven-year journey. 
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Woman, who deliberately sprayed weedkiller
into a 7 year old girl's face.
Details at Boneheads

From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1995 The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir 
 docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to 
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What you do speaks so loud that I 
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Thanks to Linda for this story:
As the owner of a clunker, I was used to dealing with a 
variety of car breakdowns. One day at the supermarket, 
just after I had filled my trunk with groceries, I noticed 
a stream of fluid pouring out of the bottom of the car. 
I knew I had to get home before the car was once again out 
of action.

When I arrived I asked my husband to take a look at the 
problem.

Expecting the worst, I braced myself for his diagnosis. 
When he came back in, he was smiling. "It's apple juice," 
he said.


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Since this is their first party and the wife hasn't done much
cooking, the husband suggests they order out for Chinese
food and she could bake a cake for dessert. She agrees,
but on Friday afternoon, the wife calls her husband in tears.
"The only recipe I can find is for a cake that will feed four,"
she says.

"Why don't you just double the recipe?" her husband asks.
Just before quitting time the husband gets another call
from her, and this time she is frantic.

"I just can't do it," she says. "It's impossible."

"Now, now, what's the matter?"

"Well, I doubled everything, just like you said," she tells
him, "and it's ready to go in the oven."

"Then what's the problem?" he asks.
The wife sobs. "The book says that the cake must be
baked at 350 degrees. I've checked the oven and it doesn't
go up to 700 degrees!"

"That's probably metric, just bake it at 350,
but don't double the time!"


>From Dianne


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Wilhelmina Rodenhuis, 60, Grover Beach, California

Woman, who deliberately sprayed weedkiller
into a 7 year old girl's face.

Grover Beach police arrested a woman Wednesday evening for 
spraying a child in the face with a weed killer.

Detectives have not yet determined a motive, but police say 
that 60-year-old Julie Wilhelmina Rodenhuis approached a 
seven-year-old and sprayed pesticide in the child’s eyes. 
The incident occurred around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in a 
condominium complex at 676 North 12th Street in Grover Beach.

Family members immediately treated the child until medical 
responders arrived. The child received further treatment 
at a local hospital and was released.

Officers charged Rodenhuis with child endangerment, assault 
with a deadly weapon and battery with serious child 
endangerment. Rodenhuis could receive addition charges.

She is currently in San Luis Obispo County Jail on a 
$100,000 bond.

No site lists a motive, just that Rodenhuis has been 
involved in many neighborhood disputes, that some 
have permanent restraining orders against her, and pretty
well all local commenters agree that she is crazy.

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From: Lynn
Re: Google Chrome infection?

Dear Webby:
It seems my Google chrome has an infected file because my 
McAfee (I don't believe it is really McAfee that keeps 
popping this window up)keeps popping up a window that says 
a Trojan has been found and if I restart my computer, it 
will be fixed.  I restarted 4 times and the pop up that 
says it is from McAfee still says it has found and 
infected file and to restart my computer.  
 
I did a complete scan with my McAfee and it says: no 
issues found.
 
I closed Google Chrome and am now using Firefox and the 
issue is gone.  It only happens when I am using Google 
Chrome.  Should I uninstall Chrome and re-install it as 
I like it better than Firefox?
 
Any help you can give me will be appreciated. 
Many thanks
C.

Dear C
Whatever you do, do NOT restart! That is a common ploy of
many infections for installing a new super-user above you.

Quite possibly your McAfee has been compromised, just like 
your Google Chrome. Now you need stronger medicine.
See that big link at the top of the side menu?
MalwareBytes
That should clean the crap out of your machine.
After that, uninstall McAfee and Chrome.
Run Malwarebyts again to make sure the machine is clean.
Then you can re-install a fresh McAfee, if you want it, 
and Chrome.

Quite likely the infection started, when you agreed to 
something or other. That causes mcAfee to bow out and 
list that as something you want and agreed to,

Malwarebytes is not that polite with crooked shit.
No matter who agreed to it, out it goes.

When Microsoft stopped allowing the round clock "gadet",
I searched for an alternative and eventually found a 
site with hundreds of clocks. I picked one, and during 
the installation of it, hit Enter without reading the 
small print one time too often. And got infected.
McAfee allowed that crap, since I had agreed to it.
GRRRRR!
So I installed MalwareBytes
It cleaned out not only THAT infection, but a few more, 
that I suspected, but never had the time to hunt dwon.

THAT is why MalwareBytes got the spot of honor on top of
the recommended resources in the side menu.

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Exchange Keys With A Neighbor
My neighbor and I exchanged house keys so that we could 
enter each other's homes in case of an emergency or to feed 
pets while one of us is on vacation, etc. I bought two 
magnetic key holders and gave one to my neighbor to hide 
(I know where) on her porch for my house key and I put the 
other one under my metal mailbox with my neighbor's key 
in it.

If someone happened to find the key holder, the key wouldn't 
work in the lock where the key is hidden and I doubt they 
would go around trying the neighbor's doors. Also, her kids 
often forget their keys and can get their spare after school 
to get into their own house even if I'm not home.

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>From Ray
I'm also a counselor who helps coordinate support groups for
visually-impaired adults.  Many participants have a
condition known as macular degeneration, which makes it
difficult for them to distinguish facial features.

I had just been assigned to a new group and was
introducing myself.

Knowing that many in the group would not be able to see
me well, I jokingly said, "For those of you who can't
see me, I've been told that I look like a cross between
Paul Newman and Robert Redford."

Immediately, one woman called out, "We're not THAT blind!"


A Swiss guy, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus
stop where two Americans are waiting.

"Entschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?" he asks.
The two Americans just stare at him.

"Excusez-moi, parlez vous Francais?" he tries. The two
continue to stare. "Parlare Italiano?" No response.

"Hablan ustedes Espanol?" Still nothing.

The Swiss guy drives off, extremely disgusted. The first
American turns to the second and says, "Y'know, maybe we
should learn a foreign language."

"Why?" says the other. "That guy knew four languages, and
it didn't do him any good."
+



» Small Shacks




Today in 
1236 Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon took Cordoba 
 in Spain.
1652 Massachusetts declared itself an independent 
 commonwealth.
1776 The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick 
 Henry was made governor.
1860 The first iron-pile lighthouse was completed at 
 Minot’s Ledge, MA.
1880 France annexed Tahiti.
1888 Professor Frederick Treves performed the first 
 appendectomy in England.
1903 The British government officially protested 
 Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
1905 Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in 
 ports all over the country. Many ships were looted.
1917 The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.
1925 Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted 
 electric light bulb.
1926 Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day 
 in an economic efficiency measure.
1932 Siam’s army seized Bangkok and announced an end 
 to the absolute monarchy.
1946 British authorities arrested more than 2,700 
 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to end alleged 
 terrorism.
1950 U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea 
 blockade of Korea.
1951 The United States invited the Soviet Union to the 
 Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.
1953 The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction 
 of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast.
1954 The Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating 
 Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified 
 information.
1955 The Soviet Union sent tanks to Poznan, Poland, to put 
 down anti-Communist demonstrations.
1966 The U.S. bombed fuel storage facilities near the North 
 Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.
1967 Israel removed barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.
1972 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty 
 could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." The 
 ruling prompted states to revise their capital punishment 
 laws.
1982 Israel invaded Lebanon.
1995 The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir 
 docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to 
 orbit the Earth.
2007 The Apple iPhone went on sale.
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Two men were sitting in a doctors office.
"What are you here for?" asked one.
"Circumcision," came the reply.
"That's rouh! I had one of those the day after I was born,"
"Afterward, I couldn't walk for a year."


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A customer was continually bothering the waiter in a restaurant;
first, he'd asked that the air conditioning be turned up because
he was too hot, then he asked it be turned down, because he was too
cold, and so on for about half an hour.

Surprisingly, the waiter was very patient, walking back and
forth and never once getting angry. So finally, a second
customer asked why didn't they just throw out the pest.

"Oh I don't care." the waiter said with a smile. 
"We don't have an air conditioner."


>From Nanarina


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Latia Harris

Woman Charged For Brutal Beating Caught On Tape

JUNE 26--Police today charged a female McDonald’s employee 
for the vicious beating of a New Jersey woman whose 
two-year-old small son tried to stop the attack, a video 
of which went viral this week.  

Latia Harris, 25, has been named in a criminal complaint 
accusing her of aggravated assault and two counts of making 
terroristic threats, according to a court filing. The brutal 
attack occurred Tuesday evening in an open field behind a 
McDonald’s in Salem, a southwestern New Jersey city.

Harris, pictured in the above driver’s license photo, was 
wearing her McDonald’s uniform as she punched, kicked, and 
spat on the 27-year-old victim, who was “covered in blood” 
when emergency service workers arrived at the scene 
(she was subsequently transported to a local hospital for 
treatment).

A video of the attack was posted to Facebook, where it was 
copied by Salem police. Investigators reported that the 
victim told them that “Tia who works at McDonalds” assaulted 
her and accused her of spreading rumors about her and her 
McDonald’s manager.

As seen on the video, during the assault Harris threatened 
to kick the victim’s son in the face. As his mother was 
being beaten, the boy kicked Harris several times in the leg. 
At the conclusion of the assault, Harris “spat on the victim 
and walked away asking those recording the incident not to 
post it on social media,” according to a police statement.

The complaint alleges that Harris also threatened to shoot 
the victim “while punching her about the face.”

Harris, who remains at large, has not reported to work since 
the June 24 incident. When she is apprehended, Harris will be 
booked into jail on the three felony counts, the bail for 
which has already been set at $35,000. 

Interesting to note, none of the half dozen or so dark skinned 
spectators lending moral support and apparently initial help 
holding the victim and kocking her down, helped the white victim 
in any way whatsoever.

Video of attack

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From: Lynn
Re: Any other FF30 cautions?

Dear Webby
What is Fire Fox bleeding.  I just downloaded Fire Fox and 
I am in a steep learning curve. 

Are there any other problems that I should be watching for? 

I did have a problem with my roboform tool bar missing and 
Firefox that I was finally able to resolve. 
Thanks,
Lynne

Dear Lynne
The bleeding is not a serious problem, just an embarrassing
glitch, like spaghetti sauce stain on your nice white blouse.
You can cope with it, until we find a solution.

For the RoboForm bar, you already found it, and for anybody
else, just right-click on an empty spot on the top bar, and 
put a checkmark on RoboForm.

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Our priest suddenly became ill and asked his twin brother, also
a priest, to fill in for him and conduct a funeral Mass
scheduled for that day. His brother, of course, agreed. It was
not until the brother was accompanying the casket down the
aisle, however, that he realized that he had neglected to ask
the sex of the deceased. This was information that he would need
for his remarks during the service.

As he approached the first pew where the deceased's relatives
were seated he nodded toward the casket and whispered to one
woman, "Brother or sister?"

"Cousin," she replied.


An airline captain was breaking in a very pretty new
stewardess. The route they were flying had a stay-over in
another city. Upon their arrival, the captain showed the
stewardess the best place for airline personnel to eat,
shop and stay overnight.

The next morning as the pilot was preparing the crew for the
days route, he noticed the new stewardess was missing. He knew
which room she was in at the hotel and called her up wondering
what happened to her. She answered the phone, sobbing, and said
she couldn't get out of her room.

"You can't get out of your room?" the captain asked,
"Why not?"

The stewardess replied, "There are only three doors in here,
"she cried," one is the bathroom, one is the closet, and one has
a sign on it that says "Do Not Disturb!"




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Today in 
1635 The French colony of Guadeloupe was established in the 
 Caribbean.
1675 Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes.
1709 The Russians defeated the Swedes and Cossacks at the 
 Battle of Poltava.
1776 American Colonists repulsed a British sea attack on 
 Charleston, SC.
1778 Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American 
 artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle 
 of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his 
 gun after he was overcome with heat.
1894 The U.S. Congress made Labor Day a U.S. national holiday.
1902 The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner bill, it authorized 
 a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the 
 Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along 
 with his wife, Duchess Sophie. This was the start of WWI.
1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed ending World War I 
 exactly five years after it began. The treaty also established 
 the League of Nations.
1921 A coal strike in Great Britain was settled after three months.
1930 More than 1,000 communists were routed during an assault on 
 the British consulate in London.
1939 Pan American Airways began the first transatlantic 
 passenger service.
1942 German troops launched an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields 
 in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad.
1945 U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced the end of 
 Japanese resistance in the Philippines.
1949 The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, 
 leaving only 500 advisers.
1950 North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
1954 French troops began to pull out of Vietnam’s 
 Tonkin Province.
1960 In Cuba, Fidel Castro confiscated American-owned oil 
 refineries without compensation.
1965 The first commercial satellite began communications 
 service. It was Early Bird (Intelsat I).
1967 Israel formally declared Jerusalem reunified under its 
 sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the 
 June 1967 war.
1971 The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the draft evasion 
 conviction of Muhammad Ali.
1972 U.S. President Nixon announced that no new draftees would 
 be sent to Vietnam.
1978 The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the 
 University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke. Bakke, 
 a white man, argued he had been a victim of reverse racial 
 discrimination.
1997 Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield's 
 ear after three rounds of their WBA heavyweight title fight 
 in Las Vegas, NV.
1998 Poland, due to shortage of funds, is allowed to lease, 
 U.S. aircraft to bring military force up to NATO standards.
1998 The Cincinnati Enquirer apologized to Chiquita banana 
 company and retracted their stories that questioned company's 
 business practices. They also agreed to pay more than 
 $10 million to settle legal claims.
2000 The European Commission announced that they had blocked 
 the planned merger between the U.S. companies WorldCom Inc. 
 and Sprint due to competition concerns.
2000 Six-year-old Elián González returned to Cuba from the U.S. 
 with his father. The child had been the center of an 
 international custody dispute.
2001 Slobodan Milosevic was taken into custody and was handed 
 over to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. 
 The indictment charged Milosevic and four other senior officials, 
 with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and 
 customs of war in Kosovo.
2001 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia 
 Circuit set aside an order that would break up Microsoft for 
 antitrust violations. However, the judges did agree that the 
 company was in violation of antitrust laws.
2004 The U.S. turned over official sovereignty to Iraq's 
 interim leadership. The event took place two days earlier 
 than previously announced to thwart insurgents' attempts 
 at undermining the transfer.
2004 The U.S. resumed diplomatic ties with Libya after a 
 24-year break.
2007 The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered 
 species list. It is still a carrion, though, and as such
 protected from hunting.
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Good Morning,  !

Today is Friday, June 27.
Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!


Yes, I know that the Ezinefinder is still down.
Mañana. Maybe.


And the fan goes wild!
Well, not really.
The home coming welcome for the 
English team was not very noisy.
One lonely Gramma and one reporter
on a distant parkade roof.
Englad got sent home ater two
games, in hopes, that they learn 
more by watching the World Cup
on TV.


Have FUN!
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Minnesota burglar, who robs a home, 
and leaves HIS Facebook profile open.
Details at Boneheads

From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
2005 In Alaska's Denali National Park, a roughly 70-million year 
 old dinosaur track was discovered. The track was form a three-toed 
 Cretaceous period dinosaur.




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"An individual applied for a customer-service job, and when 
asked what he might not like about the job, he said, 
'Dealing with people.'"


>From Nanarina


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Reported by Walter, the StoneCarver

An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Nicholas Wig, 26, South St. Paul, Minnesota

Minnesota burglar robs home, 
leaves HIS Facebook profile open

A Minnesota man came home to find his house unlocked, cash 
and other items missing, and the accused burglar's Facebook 
profile open on his computer, authorities said.

Nicholas Wig, 26, who has been charged with second degree 
burglary, also left his wet jeans, shoes and a belt lying 
on the floor by the computer in the South St. Paul house, 
according to a criminal complaint.

"This is the first case in Dakota County in which a suspected 
burglar left his Facebook account open," Monica Jensen, 
spokeswoman for the Dakota County Attorney's Office, said 
on Tuesday.

According to the criminal complaint, a resident called 
police on Thursday and told them he found his house in 
disarray, the front door unlocked and a screen removed 
from a side window.

He also saw that "Nick Dub's" Facebook profile was open 
on his computer, the complaint said. Items missing included 
cash, a checkbook, credit cards, keys and a watch, it said.

That same day, the resident recognized Wig on the street 
from his Facebook picture and told police, who found him 
wearing a watch like one taken in the burglary, the 
complaint said.

When police checked Wig for weapons, they found car keys 
and an iPod shuffle, which the resident identified along 
with the watch, the complaint said.

Wig admitted entering the house, swapping his rain-soaked 
clothes for some from the house, logging on to Facebook and 
taking the items reported stolen, the complaint said.

The felony charge calls for up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine,
but he wil undoubtedly get a lot less than that.
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From: Andy
Re: FireFox 30 bleeding

Dear Webby
Have you found a way yet to get around the Bleeding
in FireFox 30?
Andy

Dear Andy
Not yet.

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outside. Place a heavy duty piece of foil on the shelf 
of the oven and turn thermostat to 350 degrees F. 
Place cast iron top side down and season for 1 hour. 
This will allow the excess oil to drain off the cast 
iron. Allow to cool and wash with warm water. No soap. 

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"Candidate specified that his availability was limited because 
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday was 'drinking time.'"


After driving all night, a man arrived in a small town where
he decided to stop in the local park and catch some sleep.
Just as he dozed off, there was a knock on the window.
Outside the car, was a jogger.
"Excuse me, can you give me the time?" the jogger inquired.
"Groggily, the man replied, "It's 6:27."
The man closed his eyes and just as he dozed off there was
another knock on the window. There stood another jogger
who said, "I'm sorry to disturb you. Do you have the time?",
Struggling to keep up his spirits he replied, "It's 6:34."
The man rolled up the window but realizing that this could
go on indefinitely, he took paper and pen and created a
sign which read:
"I DO NOT KNOW THE TIME."

He stuck the sign in the window, closed his eyes, and was
barely asleep when there came yet another tap on the window.
The man looked and sure enough, there was another jogger.
He disgustedly rolled down the window and said, "Yeah, what is it?"
The jogger replied, "It's 6:42."




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Today in 
0363 The death of Roman Emperor Julian brought an end to the 
 Pagan Revival.
1693 "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London. 
 It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and 
 answer" column that became known as a "problem page."
1743 King George II of England defeated the French at Dettingen, 
 Bavaria, in the War of the Austrian Succession.
1787 Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the 
 Roman Empire." 
 It was published the following May.
1801 British forces defeated the French and took control of 
 Cairo, Egypt.
1847 New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
1871 The yen became the new form of currency in Japan.
1885 Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a 
 patent for the gramophone. It was granted on May 4, 1886.
1893 The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the 
 year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1905 The battleship Potemkin succumbed to a mutiny on the 
 Black Sea.
1918 Two German pilots were saved by parachutes for the 
 first time.
1923 Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch was wounded by Serb 
 attackers in Belgrade.
1927 The U.S. Marines adopted the English bulldog as their 
 mascot.
1929 Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York revealed a 
 system for transmitting television pictures.
1931 Igor Sikorsky filed U.S. Patent 1,994,488, which marked 
 the breakthrough in helicopter technology.
1940 Robert Pershing Wadlow was measured by Dr. Cyril MacBryde 
 and Dr. C. M. Charles. They recorded his height at 8' 11.1." 
 He was only 22 at the time of his death on July 15, 1940.
1942 The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who 
 had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.

1944 During World War II, American forces completed their capture 
 of the French port of Cherbourg from the German army.
1950 Two days after North Korea invaded South Korea, U.S. President 
 Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict. 
 The United Nations Security Council had asked for member 
 nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
1954 The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, 
 near Moscow.
1955 The state of Illinois enacted the first automobile seat 
 belt legislation.
1964 Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It only 
 lasted 38 days.
1966 "Dark Shadows" began running on ABC-TV.
1967 The world's first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays 
 Bank in Enfield, England. The device was invented by John 
 Sheppard-Barron. The machine operated on a voucher system and 
 the maximum withdrawal was $28.
1967 Two hundred people were arrested during a race riot in 
 Buffalo, NY.
1969 Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's 
 Greenwich Village, clashed with police. This incident is considered 
 to be the birth of the homosexual rights movement.
1972 Bobby Hull signed a 10-year hockey contract for $2,500,000. He 
 became a player and coach of the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey 
 Association.
1973 Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate 
 Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" that was kept by the 
 Nixon White House.
1973 Nixon vetoed a Senate ban on bombing Cambodia.
1980 U.S. President Carter signed legislation reviving draft 
 registration.
1985 Route 66 was officially removed from the United States 
 Highway System.
1985 The U.S. House of Representatives voted to limit the 
 use of combat troops in Nicaragua.
1986 The World Court ruled that the U.S. had broken 
international law by aiding Nicaraguan rebels.
1995 Qatar's Crown Prince Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani ousted 
his father in a bloodless palace coup.
1998 An English woman was impregnated with her dead husband's
 sperm after two-year legal battle over her right to the sperm.
2002 In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission required 
 companies with annual sales of more than $1.2 billion to submit 
 sworn statements backing up the accuracy of their financial 
 reports.
2005 In Alaska's Denali National Park, a roughly 70-million year 
 old dinosaur track was discovered. The track was form a three-toed 
 Cretaceous period dinosaur.
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FireFox 30 is OK, except for bleeding top bar 

Thursday, June 26, 2014, 12:33 PM
Posted by Administrator

Good Morning,  !
Today is Thursday, June 26.

Yes, I know that the Ezinefinder is still down.
Mañana. Maybe.
The good news is that it looks like they are finally 
moving up to a Linux server. Right now they are still
stumped and apparently don't realize how much simpler
it actually is. I am sure they will get the hng of it soon.

I got strep throat or something nasty like that. 
You would not believe how tempting it would be to crawl
into bed and skip a day or two!

Have FUN!
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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Birdhouse size "Little Library" ordered torn down in Kansas
Details at Boneheads

From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always 
 potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward 
 an employee.




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Three guys were standing around talking about dying when
one asked, "What would you like people to say about you as
they come to pay their last respects?"
The second man said, "I hope they say I was a respected
doctor in my field, a good family man, and had lots of friends."

The third man said, "I hope they say I was a well spoken
attorney, helped my fellow man, good citizen, and played a
mean round of golf."

The first man said, "That's probably what will be said of the
two of you. My hope is that when they look down in my coffin,
they say, "Look...he's moving"!


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Reported by Walter, the StoneCarver

An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Richard Coleman, City of Leawood, Kansas

Kansas boy forced to remove little 
free library from his yard 


Spenser Collins, 9, loves to read. The idea of sharing his 
love of books with his neighbors thrills him. So with the 
help of his parents, he set up a Little Free Library in 
their yard in Leawood, Kansas.

But the town of Leawood decided the birdhouse-sized 
library was an illegal structure and the family was ordered 
to remove it.

The family moved the Little Free Library into their garage. 
But they are looking to take the issue with City Hall, 
reported ABC affiliate KMBC.

The little library, which was made by the boy’s grandfather, 
was capable of holding a few books. Like the Little Free 
Libraries across the country, it had a “take a book, leave 
a book” note taped on its door. The bookshelf sat next to 
a bench on the family's front yard, which was intended to 
provide a spot for readers to enjoy their books.

"When we got home from vacation, there was a letter from the 
city of Leawood saying that it was in code violation and it 
needed to be torn down by the 19th or we would receive a 
citation," Spencer's mother, Sarah Collins told KMBC.

The City of Leawood bans buildings that aren't attached to 
homes. Since the library was a free standing structure in 
the family's front yard, it was considered illegal. The 
city claims that they have received two complaints regarding 
the library, according to Richard Coleman, Leawood's director 
of community development.

"First, there was just a library. Then, a bench was place next 
to it. I think people were concerned there would be more and 
more stuff at their front yard," Coleman told ABC News.

“I find it rather humorous that the city [of Leawood] thinks 
it is illegal," said Todd Bol, who helped create the Little 
Free Library movement in 2009. 
"It is a sweet thing that brings the community together."

Bol said the Little Free Library has worked well in some of 
the toughest communities across the country. There are more 
than 16,000 Little Free Libraries in 72 countries, 
according to Bol.

Collins family has set up a Facebook page to inform supporters 
of their progress. The page has received over 17,000 "likes."

"Our city law has been around for over a decade. This is the 
first time that we have had a problem with this," Coleman said. 
"We think that it is a great program. It's just that the 
current ordinance doesn't allow it." 

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Dear Webby
I notice you mention FireFox 30. Is it safe, and  what kind 
of bugs do we have to expect?
Bree

Dear Bree
Yes, FireFox 30 is safe and works well.
The only bug I have an issue with is that the top Windows 
bar bleeds down into the tabs.

I have used a light green fading to dark green top bar 
for active windows since Windows 3.1, and red fading to 
dark red for inactive windows. You were probably still 
jail-bait in those days, but that has become my standard
set-up.

There is no logical reason for the Windows top bar to bleed
down onto the tab colors. Yes, I use Colorful Tabs 24.3.
Highly recommended Add-on! 

I am sure somebody will craft a fix for that in the near future.
In the meantime, that is the only FireFox 30 specific bug, 
that I have come across.

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While digging a shaft into the German homeland, German
scientists discovered small pieces of copper at 50 meters.
After studying these pieces for a long time, Germany
announced that the ancient Germans 25,000 years ago had a
nationwide telephone network.

Naturally, the British government was not that easily impressed.
The British ordered their own scientists to dig even deeper.
At a depth of 100 meters, they discovered small pieces of glass.
Soon the British announced that the ancient Brits 35,000 years
ago already had a nationwide fiber net.

Israeli scientists were outraged. They dug 50, 100, and 200
meters underground, but found absolutely nothing. The Israelis
concluded that the ancient Hebrews 55,000 years ago had
cellular telephones.


A man and his wife went to a psychiatrist to see if they
could gain some relief for the man's belief that he was a
refrigerator. After meeting with the husband, the psychiatrist
assured the wife that there was nothing about which to be
concerned. A bit perturbed the wife stated,
"But doc at night when he sleeps with his mouth open the
light keeps me awake!"




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Today in 
1096 Peter the Hermit's crusaders forced their way across 
 Sava, Hungary.
1243 The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out 
 by the Mongols.
1483 Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.
1794 The French defeated an Austrian army at the Battle 
 of Fleurus.
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth 
 of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of 
 nearly 400 river miles.
1819 The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
1870 The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, 
 NJ, was opened to the public.
1894 The American Railway Union called a general strike in 
 sympathy with Pullman workers.
1900 The United States announced that it would send troops 
 to fight against the Boxer rebellion in China.
1900 A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the 
 fight against the deadly disease yellow fever.
1907 Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be 
 taken against revolutionaries.
1908 Shah Muhammad Ali's forces squelched the reform 
 elements of Parliament in Persia.
1917 General John "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France 
 with the American Expeditionary Force.
1925 Charlie Chaplin's comedy, "The Gold Rush," premiered 
 in Hollywood.
THAT was the only movie about Canada, that I had seen, 
before I arrived here!
1926 A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France was 
unveiled at St. Nazaire.
1924 After eight years of occupation, American troops left 
 the Dominican Republic.
1942 The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the 
 first time.
1945 The U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San 
 Francisco, CA.
1948 The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and 
 France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western 
 sector of Berlin.
1951 The Soviet Union proposed a cease-fire in the Korean War.
1959 U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II 
 in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1961 A Kuwaiti vote opposed Iraq's annexation plans.
1963 U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" 
 (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.
1971 The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel 
 Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of 
 emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy."
1976 The CN (Canadian National) Tower in Toronto, Canada, opened.
1979 Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was 
 retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion.
1981 In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons 
 and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 
 67 cents after all the discounts.
1985 Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing "Three Blind Mice" 
 during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by 
 umpire Keith O'Connor.
1987 The movie "Dragnet" opened in the U.S.
1996 The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military 
 Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications 
 Decency Act of 1996 that made it illegal to distribute 
 indecent material on the Internet.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that allow for 
 a ban on doctor-assisted suicides.
1998 The U.S. and Peru open school to train commandos to patrol 
 Peru's rivers for drug traffickers.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always 
 potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward 
 an employee.
2002 WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Today is Wednesday, June 25.

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Manyana. Maybe.

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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Christian radio personality John Balyo 
admitted guilt in child-sex assault probe
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Today, in 
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby 
 striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in 
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>From Cookie
Satnav

I have a little Satnav, It sits there in my car
A Satnav is a driver's friend, it tells you where you are. 

I have a little Satnav, I've had it most of my life
It's better than the normal ones, My Satnav is my wife. 
  
It gives me full instructions, Especially how to drive
"It's sixty miles an hour", it says, "You're doing sixty five". 

It tells me when to stop and start, And when to use the brake
And tells me that it's never ever, Safe to overtake. 
  
It tells me when a light is red, And when it goes to green
It seems to know instinctively, Just when to intervene. 

It lists the vehicles just in front, And all those to the rear
And taking this into account, It specifies my gear. 
  
I'm sure no other driver, Has so helpful a device
For when we leave and lock the car, It still gives its advice.

It fills me up with counseling, Each journey's pretty fraught
So why don't I exchange it, And get a quieter sort? 
  
Ah well, you see, it cleans the house, 
Makes sure I'm properly fed

It washes all my shirts and things, And keeps me warm in bed!
Despite all these advantages, And my tendency to scoff,

I only wish that now and then, I could turn the bugger off!!


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"You are all part of our team now," said the Human Resources 
rep during the welcoming briefing. "You get all the usual 
benefits and you can go to the cafeteria for something 
to eat, but please don't eat any employees."

The cannibals promised they would not.  Four weeks later 
their boss remarked, "You're all working very hard and 
I'm satisfied with your work. We have noticed a marked 
increase in the whole company's performance.
However, one of our secretaries has disappeared.  
Do any of you know what happened to her?"  

The cannibals all shook their heads, "No"

After the boss had left, the leader of the cannibals said 
to the others, "Which one of you idiots ate the secretary?"  

A hand rose hesitantly.

"You fool!" the leader continued. "For four weeks we've been 
eating managers and no one noticed anything.  But NOOOooo, 
you had to go and eat someone who actually does something."


>From Nanarina


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

John Balyo, 

Christian radio personality John Balyo 
admitted guilt in child-sex assault probe

Authorities in Michigan say Christian radio personality 
John Balyo paid to have sexual encounters with minors.

Homeland Security agents and officers from the Michigan 
State Police and Battle Creek Police Department arrested 
Balyo, 35, Friday at a Christian music festival in Gaylord, 
Michigan.

Balyo is facing charges of first-degree (penetration) 
criminal sexual conduct, and has admitted guilt in ONE case,
according to a press release by U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement.

"Baylo paid a defendant, who is the subject of a separate 
child-exploitation investigation, to arrange sexual encounters 
with minor victims," investigators said in the press release.

The man Balyo allegedly paid to arrange the encounters has been 
identified by police as Ronald Lee Moser. The 42-year-old was 
indicted earlier this month in federal court on child 
exploitation and child pornography charges.

"They would meet in hotels in areas around Grand Rapids and 
Balyo would have sex with the children," a Homeland Security 
agent told Woodtv.com.

Balyo's $500,000 bail has been revoked after his admission to
one count, and more to be expected.

Balyo was instantly fired from his radio host job.

No comment is available from his wife, whom he married 
two months ago.

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Re: FireFox 30 Forward and backward icons

Dear Webby
Version 30 of FireFox seems to work reasonably well, but
of course the thilly brats had to change the user interface,
so that we would notice that they are still on the loose.

Now the Forward and Backward icons are gone. Restoring Default 
and laboriously getting all the prferences and stuff back the
way it should be, does not help.
However, at some random times those icons do appear!
What is the story?
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Dear Dana
What we had wanted was the wastefully huge padding between
icons removed. Unfortunately, whoever had put in the extra
wide padding seems to have grown up and got a job somewhere.
So, since they could not fix the padding, they made the 
NEXT and PREVIOUS icons "magic".

If you open a tab from an email link, then there is no 
previous page to go to, so they don't show the PREVIOUS icon.
The same for the NEXT. If you have not gone to a PREVIOUS
page, then there is no NEXT page to return to, so they don't
show the NEXT icon.

It makes the top bar a bit spastic, but it does work, and
now that you know what is going on, you will soon get 
comfortable with it.

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Cleaning a Very Burnt Saucepan
Cleaning a Very Burnt Saucepan
I took a telephone call and completely forgot my saucepan 
boiling my Udon noodles. I didn't think anything would shift 
the burnt-on food. How wrong I was. 

I soaked the pot for two days with cheap cola (17p for 2 
litres in my supermarket) and a dash of bicarbonate of soda 
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I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside
her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. 

She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to
this remote door un-locker. Now I can't get into my car. 
Do you think they (pointing to a distant Home Hardware 
store) would have a battery to fit this?"

"Hmmm, I Dunno. Do you have an alarm too?" I asked.

"No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing
it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and
manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you
drive over there and check about the batteries?
Or do you want to ride down there with me?"


The skydiving instructor was going through the question and
answer period with his new students when one of them asked
the usual question always asked:
"If our chute doesn't open; and the reserve doesn't open,
how long would we have till we hit the ground?"

The jump master looked at him and in perfect deadpan
answered:
"The whole rest of your life."




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Today in 
0841 Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated 
 Lothar at Fontenay.
1080 At Brixen, a council of bishops declared Pope Gregory 
 to be deposed and Archbishop Guibert as antipope Clement III.
1580 The Book of Concord was first published. The book is a 
 collection of doctrinal standards of the Lutheran Church.
1658 Aurangzeb proclaimed himself emperor of the Moghuls 
 in India.
1767 Mexican Indians rioted as Jesuit priests were 
 ordered home.
1864 Union troops surrounding Petersburg, VA, began building 
 a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
1867 Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire.
1868 The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an 
 eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government.
1870 In Spain, Queen Isabella abdicated in favor of Alfonso XII.
1876 Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were 
 killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in 
 Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."
1877 In Philadelphia, PA, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated 
 the telephone for Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and 
 Emperor Pedro II of Brazil at the Centennial Exhibition.
1910 The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings 
 stamps.
1917 The first American fighting troops landed in France.
1920 The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.
1941 Finland, after asking germany for help, declared war on 
 the Soviet Union.
1946 Ho Chi Minh traveled to France for talks on Vietnamese 
 independence.
1948 The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by 
 intercepting river barges heading for the city.
1950 North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
1959 The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a 
 new agrarian reform law.
1959 Eamon De Valera became president of Ireland at the age of 76.
1962 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial 
 non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1964 U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel 
 to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
1970 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a 
 ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put 
 telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person 
 being called.
1973 White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President 
 Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1975 Mozambique became independent. Samora Machel was sworn in 
 as president after 477 years of Portuguese rule.
1981 The U.S. Supreme Court decided that male-only draft 
 registration was constitutional.
1986 The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the 
 Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
1987 Austrian President Kurt Waldheim visited Pope John Paul II 
 at the Vatican. The meeting was controversial due to 
 allegations that Waldheim had hidden his Nazi past.
1990 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, 
 whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining 
 medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made 
 in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
1991 The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years 
 after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
1991 The Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia 
 declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 Kim Campbell took office as Canada's first woman 
 prime minister. She assumed power upon the resignation 
 of Brian Mulroney.
1997 The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned 
 cargo vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and 
 the station's Spektr module was severely damaged.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby 
 striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in 
 tax and spending legislation.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV 
 are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
1998 Microsoft's "Windows 98" was released to the public.
1999 Germany's parliament approved a national Holocaust 
 memorial to be built in Berlin.
2000 U.S. and British researchers announced that they had 
 completed a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup 
 of human beings. The project was 10 years old at the time 
 of the announcement.
2000 A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be 
 filed against American Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly 
 subscribers who were forced to view "pop-up" advertisements. 
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Today is Tuesday, June 24.

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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
Florida Wanna-be Goldilocks breaks into house, 
steals wine, pajamas
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From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1497 Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service 
 of England, landed in North America on what is now 
 Newfoundland.




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Each evening bird lover Tom stood in his backyard, hooting like
an owl - and one night, an owl finally called back to him.
For a year, the man and his feathered friend hooted back and
forth. He even kept a log of the "conversation".

Just as he thought he was on the verge of a breakthrough in
interspecies communication, his wife had a chat with her next
door neighbor.
"My husband spends his nights ... calling out to owls," she said.

"That's odd," the neighbor replied. "So does my husband!"


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Thanks to Kati for bringing back this classic:
She spent the first day packing her belongings into boxes,
crates and suitcases.
On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her
things.

On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their
beautiful dining room table by candle-light, put on some soft
background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar
of caviar, and a bottle of beer.

When she had finished, she went into each and every room
and deposited a few half-eaten shrimp shells dipped in caviar
into the hollow of the curtain rods.

She then cleaned up the kitchen and left. When the husband
returned with his new girlfriend, all was bliss for the first few days.

Then slowly, the house began to smell.

They tried everything; cleaning, mopping and airing the
place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents and carpets
were steam cleaned.

Air fresheners were hung everywhere.  Exterminators were
brought in to set off gas canisters, during which they had to
move out for a few days and in the end they even paid to
replace the expensive wool carpeting. Nothing worked.

People stopped coming over to visit.
 Repairmen refused to work in the house.
 The maid quit.

Finally, they could not take the stench any longer and
decided to move.

A month later, even though they had cut their price in half,
they could  not find a buyer for their stinky house.

Word got out and eventually even the local realtors refused
to return  their calls.

Finally, they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the
bank to purchase a new place.

The ex-wife called the man and asked how things were going.

He told her the saga of the rotting house. She listened politely
and said that she missed her old  home terribly and would be
willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for getting
the house back.

Knowing his ex-wife had no idea how bad the smell was, he
agreed on a price that was about 1/10th of what the house
had been worth, but only if she were to sign the papers that
very day.

She agreed and within the hour his lawyers delivered the
paperwork.

A week later the man and his girlfriend stood smiling as they
watched the moving company pack everything to take to their
new home.

And to spite the ex-wife, they even took the curtain rods!


>From Nanarina


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Chancy Layton, 19, St. Augustine, Floriduh

Wanna-be Goldilocks breaks into house, 
steals wine, pajamas

Chancy Layton claims a friend broke into the house where she 
drank wine and wore pajamas belonging to the owners, who found 
her asleep when they came home.

The only things missing were the three bears.

A real-life Goldilocks is accused of breaking, entering and 
making herself at home in a Florida house Friday night.
But while a shower and a soft couch in an empty St. Augustine 
Beach home might have seemed just right to 19-year old 
Chancy Layton, her trespass was an unpleasant surprise for 
the homeowners.

The owners returned home early Saturday and told a local 
news station that they were stunned to find Layton asleep 
on their couch, wearing their pajamas and surrounded by 
bottles of their wine.

"Not what I expected to see when I walked into my house. 
We just stood there a bit, looking at each other, like, 
'What do we do?'" homeowner Cheryl Petocz told News 4 Jax. 
"I told her I was calling police. As soon as I said that, 
she grabbed a few things and ran out the house, out the 
back door."

The nursery rhyme scenario ended with charges of burglary, 
theft and criminal mischief for the blonde suspect, who 
left her purse and passport behind when she fled the scene, 
according to the arrest report.

Police caught up with Layton a block away from the house, 
where she expressed remorse and wanted to return the 
pajamas she had stolen.

Layton told police that a male friend had broken into the 
house earlier and told her it was empty. Her friend, whom 
she knew only as "Jeremy," left the balcony door open for 
Layton to enter, she told police.

Layton was later booked into the St. Johns County jail, where 
she reportedly posted $8,000 bail and was released.

Police are still trying to find "Jeremy."

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When having a salad, put the dressing on only the portion served. 
The remaining salad can kept fresh by wrapping soda crackers in a 
paper towel and placing them in the bowl. Cling wrap the container 
to seal out the moisture. This trick will extend the life of the 
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Swampy Marsh, the young Australian father-to-be, is waiting
anxiously outside the maternity ward where his wife is having
their first baby. He is pacing the floor when the nurse comes out
and says, "You have a little boy, Mr. Marsh, but you had better
go out and have a cup of coffee, because there may be another
one."

Swampy turns a little pale and leaves.
Some time later he phones the hospital and is told that he the
father of twins, but the nurse cautions, "There is another on the
way, so call back later."

At that Swampy decides that coffee is not strong enough, so he
goes to a bar and has some beer. When he phones the hospital
again he is told that the third baby has arrived and a fourth is on
the way. White-faced, he stumbles to the bar and orders a
double scotch.

Twenty minutes later, he tries to phone again, but he is so
drunk that he dials the wrong number and gets the recorded
cricket game score. When they pick him up off the floor the
recording is still going strong:
"The score is ninety-six all out," says the voice, "and the last
one was a duck."


Bob took his 4 year old  Josh, out to McDonald's for
dinner one evening for a "guy night".
As they were eating hamburgers, Josh asked
"Daddy, what are these little things on the
hamburger buns?"

He responded that they were tiny seeds and
were ok to eat.

Josh was quiet for a couple of minutes
and obviously in deep thought.
Finally, Josh looked up and said,
"Dad, if we go home and plant these seeds in our
backyard, we will have enough hamburgers to
last forever."




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Today in 
1314 Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over 
 Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn 
 in Scotland.
1340 The English fleet defeated the French fleet at 
 Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1497 Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service 
 of England, landed in North America on what is now 
 Newfoundland.
1509 Henry VIII was crowned King of England.
1664 New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1675 King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists 
 at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1717 The Freemasons were founded in London.
1793 The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1812 Napoleon crossed the Nieman River and invaded Russia.
1844 Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for 
 vulcanized rubber.
1859 At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle 
 of the Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon 
 III defeated the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in 
 northern Italy.
1861 Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at 
 Mathias Point, Virginia.
1862 U.S. intervention saved the British and French at 
 the Dagu forts in China.
1910 The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1913 Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria 
 following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1931 The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
1940 France signed an armistice with Italy.
1941 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support 
 to the Soviet Union.
1948 The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1955 Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1968 "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor 
 People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970 The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the 
 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1997 The U.S. Air Force released a report on the "Roswell Incident," 
 suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were 
 actually life-sized dummies.
1998 AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-
 Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
2002 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, 
 must make the decision to give a convicted killer the 
 death penalty.
2002 A painting from Monet's Waterlilies series sold for 
 $20.2 million.
2010 Apple released the iPhone 4. 
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Today is Monday, June 23.

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Today's International Bonehead Award goes to a
California man jailed for running a meth lab 
in a retirement home
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From the History section at the bottom:
Today, in 
1966 Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed 
 by tear gas.




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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea 
that life is serious.
--- Brendan Gill  

'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
--- Malaclypse the Younger

A wise man gets more use from his enemies 
than a fool from his friends.
--- Baltasar Gracian  

The conventional view serves to protect us 
from the painful job of thinking.
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Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be 
made safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes 
large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.

Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.

Q: How can you delay milk turning sour? 
A: Keep it in the cow.

Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.

Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get 
 intercontinental.

Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to 
 his adultery.

Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes
A: Premature death.

Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? e.g.abdomen.)
A: The body is consisted into three parts - the brainium, the 
Borax and the abominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; 
the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominal cavity
contains the five bowels, A, E, I, O, and U.

Q: What is the fibula?
A: A small lie.

Q: What does "varicose" mean?
A: Nearby.

Q: Give the meaning of the term "Caesarean Section"
A: The Caesarean Section is the red light district in the Vatican

Q: What does the word "benign" mean?'
A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.


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>From Missy
Planning a weekend of entertaining guests, I made a list of
things I needed to do, including taking food out of the
freezer and  grocery shopping.

As it happened, a friend whom I had been promising to take
to lunch asked if we could make it that Friday.

So, hopping into the car, I taped my "to do" list to the
dashboard and went and picked her up.

As she settled into the car, her face dropped.

"Thanks a lot!" she sulked.

Then I glanced at my list and saw the first item:
"Take out the Turkey."


>From Nanarina


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Robert Short, 64, Fresno, California

Jailed for running a meth lab in a retirement home

A 64-year-old man in Fresno, California, has been arrested 
for running a meth lab out of a retirement home.

Fresno Police made the discovery Saturday after pulling over 
Robert Short, who was on parole on charges connected to 
selling methamphetamine.

When officers checked his car, they say they found four ounces 
of crystal meth, along with small plastic bags and electronic 
scales, KMPH-TV reports.

Officers then searched the suspect's home in a retirement 
village and found more meth, heroin and a small meth lab. 
All in all, the officers recovered a half pound of crystal 
meth with an estimated street value of $1,700, according 
to the Fresno Bee.

Short's neighbors were shocked to find out they may have been 
living next door to a real-life episode of "Breaking Bad."
"It's shocking, I would never guess that anything like that would 
go on at a senior citizen village," neighbor Robin Schramek 
told ABC30.com.

Neighbors said that Short moved in about three or four months 
ago, but didn't get involved in the tight-knit community. ABC30.com 
reports that there were signs all over his front door demanding 
privacy and no visitors.

Short was booked into the Fresno County Jail for charges including 
transportation of narcotics, possession for sale of narcotics and 
processing methamphetamine near a school campus.


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Re: How to blur

Dear Webby
With my old camera I used to be able to have the prime object
nice and sharp and everything else a bit blurred by precisely
setting the distance. With my new camera everything is auto-
matic and I can't set the distance. Is there a way to fake the
same results?
Billie

Dear Billie
With some digital cameras you can half depress the shutter
button and force it to take a reading. Then you can move the
camera and it will use that setting, when you fully depress
the shutter. However, that does not always blur what is not
in precise focus, especially with a small lens type camera
and bright lighting.

In the old days photographers smeared vaseline onto the lens
and cleaned the portion they wanted sharp with an alcohol
soaked swab. With a large lens camera you can still do that,
but I would not really advise it. The alcohol can affect the
coating on the lens.

It is a lot more precise and predictable to do the blurring
after you got the picture onto the computer. Any graphics
program like PaintShopPro or GIMP or Photoshop will do it 
nicely.

Use the retouching tool, set it to a round shape and a
hardness of about 50%. Select it to SOFTEN. Then wipe
it from the edges in towards the area that you want to
leave sharp and crisp.

You can also use the irregular shape election tool, lassoo
the sharp area, invert the selection, and then blur or soften
the entire selected area in one shot.

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An agriculture student said to a farmer: "Your methods are too old
fashioned. I won't be surprised if this tree will give you less than
twenty pounds of apples."

"I won't be surprised either," said the farmer, "From orange trees
like this, I expect about 220 pounds of oranges".


Soon after our last child left home for college, my husband
was resting next to me on the couch with his head in my lap.
I carefully removed his glasses. "You know, honey," I said
sweetly, "Without your glasses you look like the same
handsome young man I married."

"Honey," he replied with a grin, "Without my glasses, you
still look pretty good, too!"




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Today in 
1683 William Penn signed a friendship treaty with 
 Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1700 Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce 
 with the Ottoman Empire.
1758 British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at 
 Krefeld in Germany.
1760 The Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.
1757 Robert Clive defeated the Indians at Plassey and won 
 control of Bengal.
1836 The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained 
 a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.
1848 A bloody insurrection of workers in Paris erupted.
1860 The U.S. Secret Service was created to arrest counterfeiters.
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention 
 that he called a "Type-Writer."
1884 A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina.
1902 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance 
 for a 12 year duration.
1904 The first American motorboat race got underway on the 
 Hudson River in New York.
1926 The first lip reading tournament in America was held in 
 Philadelphia, PA.
1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the 
 first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1934 Italy gained the right to colonize Albania after defeating 
 the country.
1951 Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire 
 discussions in the Korean War.
1952 The U.S. Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1966 Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by 
 tear gas.
1972 U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff 
 H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct 
 the FBI's Watergate investigation.
2003 Apple Computer Inc. unveiled the new Power Mac desktop computer.
2013 In Arizona, aerialist Nik Wallenda completed a quarter mile 
 tightrope walk over the Little Colorado River Gorge. 
-------
I lost my cap down into that gorge about ten years ago, 
and decided not to climb down after it.
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Today, in 
1980 The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces 
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A woman with 14 children, ranging in age from one to
fourteen, went to court to sue her husband for divorce on
grounds of desertion.
"When did he leave you?" the judge asked.
"Thirteen years ago," the tired mother replied.
The judge was confused. "If he left thirteen
years ago, where did all these children come from?"

"Well," said the woman, "he kept coming back to
say he was sorry."


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While on a car trip, an elderly couple stopped at a roadside restaurant
for lunch. After finishing their meal, the elderly woman left her glasses
on the table, but she didn't miss them until they were back on the highway.
By then, they had to travel quite a distance before they could find a place
to turn around.

The elderly man fussed and complained all the way back to the restaurant.
He called his wife every bad name he could think of.

When they finally arrived at the restaurant, and the woman got out of the
car to retrieve her glasses, the man yelled to her, "And while you're in
there, you might as well get my hat, too."


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Kisha Young, 38, Crowley, Texas

Texas mom jailed after kids tumble from 
atop car during high speed turn

Worried that her car’s interior would get soaked, a Texas 
woman directed six children fresh from a community pool to 
sit atop her vehicle’s trunk for the one-mile drive home 
Tuesday evening.

That decision resulted in Kisha Young’s arrest when the 
children fell from the Chevrolet Malibu around 8:30 PM when 
the 38-year-old--who was allegedly intoxicated--made a 
sharp turn on a residential street in Crowley, a city 
15 miles south of Fort Worth.

Four of the six children flung from the car were injured, 
with a 12-year-old girl requiring hospitalization for a 
severe head injury. According to the Crowley Police 
Department, the six children range in age from 8 to 14.

According to cops, Young and another woman in the car were 
the mothers of the children, who were “allowed” to ride 
atop the Chevy “because their clothes were wet.” 

Young, seen in the above mug shot, was initially arrested 
for intoxication assault with a vehicle and booked into 
custody. She has subsequently been hit with two other 
felony charges, injury to child and driving while intoxicated 
with a child under the age of 15.

During an arraignment this morning at the Crowley Jail, Young’s 
bond was set at $110,000. 

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From: Helga
Re: MS Office or Open Office

Dear Webby
What is the difference between MS Office and Open Office?
I have to get one of them. Which one do you recommend?
Helga

Dear Helga
The biggest differnce that I can see is that you can install
Open Office on a shirt pocket USB hard drive and run it
from there when you plug it into any computer's USB port.
And it is free.

With MS Office you would need to buy a license for
each machine. With the free Open Office you got everything,
from settings and preferences to your documents, spreadsheets
and pictures on your portable hard drive, and basically just
"borrow" the keybaord and the printer and hardware of the
computer that you plug it into.

The included features are about the same as far as common 
stuff is concerned. With rarely or never used stuff, that 
only magazine writers, who never ever paid for anything, use,
MS-Office tends to come out slightly ahead. That seems to be
due to the huge Microsoft ads in those magazines.

Down here in reality, Open Office seems to be a better choice.

One permanent bone of contention is the "Microslop" caused by
MS-Office programs. Their cutesy fancy left and right leaning 
quotes and similar stuff, that is not in the standard ASCII
set of characters, cause weird characters to appear when sent.
I am sure you have seen Greek or Scandinavian characters in
mails from people, who use Microsoft office.

Apparently that thilly nonsense can be turned off, but none
of the MS-Office users seem to know how. If all you do is
send beautiful memos in a circle inside a company, where 
every machine has MS-Office, then those memos are indeed 
more beautiful with MS-Office. 
However, sent over the net they stink.

With Open Office you don't have to worry about that, and
everybody anywhere receives them looking exactly the way 
you wrote them.

The future is definitely with Open Office. Even if the cost 
of MS-Office is dropped to 1/10 of what it is now, with 
companies, that have hundreds or thousands of machines, 
the choice is pretty clear. 

By the way, Open Office reads MS-Office documents and can
even save them in MS-Office format. MS-Office can now do 
much of the same.

You can download Open Office free at 
http://www.openoffice.org/

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>From Erin
A few years ago we were desperately trying to sell our house,   
which was situated on a busy thoroughfare. Our real estate   
agent decided to have open-house inspection nearly every day   
to promote the sale. We instructed the children not to talk   
to anyone about the house.   

One evening a man took our seven-year-old daughter aside and   
asked if our house had any secrets he should know. Her first   
reaction was to smile and ignore his question. But he became   
more persistent and, finally, she confessed there was one   
secret but she could not tell it to him.   

"Now we're getting somewhere," he said. "Tell me the secret.   
I promise I won't tell anyone."   

She looked him straight in the eye and whispered, "We have   
monsters in the sewer."


In his Sunday sermon, the minister used "Forgive Your Enemies" 
as his subject. After the sermon, he asked how many were willing 
to forgive their enemies. About half held up their hands. 

Not satisfied, he harangued the congregation for another twenty 
minutes and repeated his question. This received a response of 
eighty percent. Still unsatisfied, he lectured for fifteen more 
minutes and repeated his question. All responded except one 
elderly gentleman in the rear. 

"Mr. Jones, are you not willing to forgive your enemies?" 

"I don't have any." 

"Mr. Jones, that is very unusual. How old are you?" 

"One hundred and one." 

"Mr. Jones, please come down in front and tell the congregation 
how a man can live to be one hundred and one and not have an 
enemy in the world." 

The old man teetered down the aisle, slowly turned to face the 
congregation, smiled and said, 
"I outlived every one of them SOBs!" 




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Today in 
1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several 
 other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay 
 by mutineers.
1772 Slavery was outlawed in England.
1807 British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation 
 leading to the War of 1812.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
1832 J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.
1870 The U.S. Congress created the Department of Justice.
1874 Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice 
 of osteopathy.
1909 The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.
1911 King George V of England was crowned.
1915 Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front 
 as the Russians retreat.
1925 France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim 
 in Morocco.
1933 Germany became a one political party country when Hitler 
 banned parties other than the Nazis.
1939 The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, 
 on Long Island, New York.
1940 France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on 
 terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941 Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the 
 Soviet Union.
1942 A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the 
 Columbia River.
1942 In France, Pierre Laval declared "I wish for a German victory".
1942 V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time.
1944 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" 
 to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1945 During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended 
 after 81 days.
1946 Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.
1956 The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah 
 were blown up.
1973 Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a 
 record 28 days in space.
1978 James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only 
 known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.
1980 The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces 
 from Afghanistan.
1992 The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that 
 ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated 
 free-speech rights.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained 
 by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted 
 criminal's parole.
1999 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps 
 cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with 
 Disability Act.
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Florida inmates who smuggled gun into prison and shot
themselves to attempt blackmail of the jail
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Today, in 
2004 SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Mike Melvill, 
 reached 328,491 feet above Earth in a 90 minute flight. The height 
 is about 400 feet above the distance scientists consider to be the 
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used 
till they are seasoned.
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In matters of style, swim with the current; 
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
--- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)



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In the subway train the conversation turned to the merits and demerits of
various ways of preserving health.


One stout, florid man held forth with great eloquence on the subject.
"Look at me!" he said.  "Never a day's sickness in my life, and all due to
simple food.  Why, gentlemen," he continued, "from the age of twenty to
that of forty I lived an absolutely simple regular life --- no effeminate
delicacies, no late hours, no extravagances.  Every day, in fact, summer
and winter, I was in bed regularly at nine o'clock and up again at five in
the morning.  I worked from eight to one, then had dinner--a plain dinner,
mark my words: after that, an hour's exercise; then.."

"Excuse me, sir," interrupted the facetious stranger in the corner, "but
what were you in prison for???"


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The newly wed wife said to her husband when he returned from
work: "I have great news for you. Pretty soon we're going to
be three in this house instead of two."

The husband started glowing with happiness and kissing his
wife said: "Oh darling, I'm the happiest man in the world."

But then she said: "I'm glad that you feel that way because
tomorrow morning my mother moves in with us."


>From Nanarina


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Deshandre Billups, 26, and Kirk Cartwright, 33 in 
jail in Lake City, Floriduh

Florida Inmates Smuggle Gun Into Prison and shoot
themselves to attempt blackmail of the jail

. The two Florida inmates, along with five others, were 
arrested Tuesday in what authorities describe as a plot to 
sue the Florida Department of Corrections, according to 
My Fox Orlando.

The department began its investigation in March after 
Billups and Cartwright were shot with a .25-caliber Beretta 
inside the Columbia Correction Institution in Lake City. 

Cartwright, 33, and Billups, 26, told guards that they were 
shot by an unknown assailant while they were praying in 
their cell.

Nobody, of course, believed that.

With the help of friends, family members and a third inmate, 
the suspects allegedly smuggled the semi-automatic pistol 
into the prison through the mail, according to The Florida 
Times-Union. They allegedly had plans to shoot themselves 
and sue the prison system in an effort to settle for 
reduced sentences.

Authorities say they regularly snuck cellphones and drugs 
into the prison. They face five new felony charges, including 
firearm possession by a felon and several counts of contraband 
possession for the cellphones. Cartwright was already serving 
a life sentence for murder and Billups was serving 20 years 
for armed robbery and burglary, WTAQ reports.

The third inmate who allegedly helped them, 21-year-old Tony 
Underwood, is charged with introducing contraband into the 
prison. He's serving a six-year sentence for burglary and 
grand theft. Cartwright's girlfriend and Billups' mother 
were arrested Tuesday on charges stemming from the 
investigation. Arrest warrants have also been issued for 
Cartwright's sister and Underwood's girlfriend.

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>Shared by Ophelia
Ophelia,
  Actually I’m using outlook to read my mail. 
In case anyone else has the same problem, Animations not 
showing, you can tell them.

After clicking on the newsletter go up to actions and then 
click on view in browser.

Thanks for the smiles and great selections to view.

DD 

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Joe, the Governor's most trusted assistant, died in his
sleep one night. The Governor had depended on Joe for
advice on every subject, from pending bills to wardrobe
decisions. In addition, Joe had been his closest friend.

So, it was understandable that the Governor didn't take
kindly to the droves of ambitious office seekers who
wanted Joe's job. "They don't even have the decency to
wait until the man is buried," the Governor muttered.

At the funeral, one eager beaver made his way to the
Governor's side. "Governor," the man said, "is there
a chance that I could take Joe's place?"

"Certainly," the governor replied. "But you'd better
hurry. I think the undertaker is almost finished."






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Today in 
1404 Owain Glyndwr established a Welsh Parliament at Machynlleth 
 and was crowned Prince of Wales.
1834 Cyrus McCormick patented the first practical mechanical 
 reaper for farming. His invention allowed farmers to more 
 than double their crop size.
1859 Andrew Lanergan received the first rocket patent.
1937 In Paris, Leon Blum's Popular Front Cabinet resigned.
1938 In Washington, U.S. President Roosevelt signed the $3.75 
 billion Emergency Relief Appropriation Act.
1941 German troops entered Russia on a front from the Arctic 
 to Black Sea.
1945 Pan Am announced an 88-hour round-the-world flight at a 
 cost of $700.
1958 In Arkansas, a federal judge let Little Rock delay 
 school integration.
1963 France announced that they were withdrawing from the 
 NATO fleet.
1973 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials 
 found to be obscene according to local standards.
1974 The U.S. Supreme Court decided that pregnant teachers could 
 no longer be forced to take long leaves of absence.
1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil 
 were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as 
 a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.
2004 SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Mike Melvill, 
 reached 328,491 feet above Earth in a 90 minute flight. The height 
 is about 400 feet above the distance scientists consider to be the 
 boundary of space.
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Naked Georgia woman, who vandalized, flooded stranger's home
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Today, in 
1977 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline began operation,
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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and 
damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 
with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, 
patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
--- Shelley Winters (1922 - 2006)  

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two
percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
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There are these two statues in a park; one of a nude man and one
 of a nude woman. They had been facing each other across a pathway
 for a hundred years, when one day an angel comes down from the
 sky and, with a single gesture, brings the two to life.

 The angel tells them, "As a reward for being so patient through a
 hundred blazing summers and dismal winters, you have been given
 life for thirty minutes to do what you've wished to do the most."

 He looks at her, she looks at him, and they go running behind the
 shrubbery. The angel waits patiently as the bushes rustle and
 giggling ensues. After fifteen minutes, the two return, out of
 breath and laughing.

 The angel tells them, "Um, you have fifteen minutes left. Would
 you care to do it again?" He asks her, "Shall we?" She eagerly
 replies, "Oh, yes, let's! But let's change positions. This time I
 hold the pigeon down and you crap on its head!"


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Thanks to Ron for this story:
My wife and I are teachers, and our jobs often spill over
into our family life. One morning, as our eight-year-old
Maggie was getting ready for school, I peeked into her
room just to be sure she had tidied it up.
"You call THAT a made bed?" I asked.

"No, Dad," Maggie replied. "It's just a rough draft."


>From Dianne


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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to 

Suzanne Hussain,34, Calhoun, Georgia

Naked Woman Vandalized, Flooded Stranger's Home

A woman in Calhoun, Georgia, came home to a big surprise: 
Her home was looted and filled with water.

The woman called deputies and when they investigated the 
house, they allegedly found an even bigger surprise: 
A naked woman hiding in one of the closets.

The naked woman in question was Suzanne Hussain, 34, who 
lives about seven miles away and didn’t know the homeowner, 
according to Sheriff Mitch Ralston of the Gordon County 
Sheriffs Office.

“Ms. Hussain was in fact nude, and was acting abnormally, 
but was taken into custody without further incident,” 
Ralston posted on the sheriff’s office website.

An estimate of the destruction's cost has not been released, 
but Ralston described the house as "extensively damaged."

Investigators have not determined any motive.

Hussain was taken to a local hospital to be evaluated. After 
her release, she was arrested and charged with burglary and 
criminal damage to property, WSB TV reports.

Hussain is still in jail awaiting a bond amount. She is also 
being held on a probation violation for a prior charge of 
possession of methamphetamine.

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Re: Computer for Europe

I have to go to Europe for six month. Can my computer be
adapted to work over there, or would it be better to buy one
there? I also have an Iomega remote hard drive. Does that
one work there?
Thanks
Richard

Dear Richard
Yes, they all work just fine in Europe. Take along the power
bar that you use now, but cut the plug off. When you get there,
go to the nearest hardware store or supermarket and buy a
regular plug. Each country there has a different plug, and
some countries have different ones in different regions.
All that talk about a united and standardized Europe is just
BS. The only thing they all have in common is a dislike for
Americans.

Get the local plug and attach it to the power bar cord.
Then look at the back of your computer for a tiny, red slide
switch. Sometimes it is covered by tape to keep kids from
playing with it. Use a pen or small screwdriver to slide that
switch to the 220 setting. The same with the monitor,
unless it already has a 100 - 240 Volt rating printed on
the back.

The Iomega remote hard drive doesn't care what voltage
you power it with. It adapts automatically for anything
between 100 and 240.

You COULD get an adapter for the area that you go to,
but they cost 8 - 10 times more than an ordinary power
plug, plus shipping.

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something fancy from a gift set. I have not paid full 
price for years.

When my soap bars get small, I save them in a paper cup. 
When I have a good amount of these scraps, I grate them 
and add just enough water to make the crumbs stick together 
in a clay-like consistency then I form it into bars by hand. 
I let it dry a bit, for a week or so, before using. It lasts 
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Final Exams
One night Jack Evans, along with his 3 university friends 
went out drinkinig till late night, as many college students 
are prone to do, and didn't study for their test, which, of 
course, was scheduled for the next day.

In the morning they thought of a plan. They made themselves 
look as dirty and weird as they could with grease and dirt.

They went up to the dean and explained that they had gone 
out to a wedding last night and on their return the tire 
of their car burst. They continued to explain how they had 
to push the car all the way back and that they were in no 
condition to appear for the test.

The dean, being a compassionate human being said that they 
could rtake the test after 3 days. The students garaciously 
replied that they'd be ready by that time. 

On the third day, they appeared before the dean. The dean 
explained that since this was a special test all four were 
required to sit in separate classrooms for the duraction 
of the exam. 

They all agreed as they had prepared well in the last 
three days. The test consisted of 5 questions with total 
of 100 points:

FINAL COURSEWORK EXAMINATION

INSTRUCTIONS :
All questions are required. Any inconsistencies on any of 
the questions among the four students will result in all 
the candidates getting a zero mark.

Q.1. Write down your name. ----- (2 POINTS)
Q.2. Write the name of the bride and bridegroom at the wedding 
you attended. ----- (30 POINTS)
Q.3. What type of a car were you driving? ------(20 POINTS)
Q.4. Which tire burst? ------- (28 POINTS)
Q.5. Who was driving? ------ (20 POINTS)


A professor was giving a big test one day to his students. He
handed out all of the tests and went back to his desk to wait.

Once the test was over the students all handed the tests back
in. The professor noticed that one of the students had attached
a $100 bill to his test with a note saying "A dollar per point."

The next class the professor handed the tests back out. This
student got back his test and $64 change.




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Today in 
0451 Roman and Barbarian warriors brought Attila's army to 
 a halt at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.
1397 The Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway 
 under one monarch.
1756 In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell 
 that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta."
1791 King Louis XVI of France was captured while attempting 
 to flee the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes.
1793 Eli Whitney applied for a cotton gin patent. He received 
 the patent on March 14. The cotton gin initiated the American 
 mass-production concept.
1837 Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following 
 the death of her uncle, King William IV.
1898 The U.S. Navy seized the island of Guam enroute to the 
 Phillipines to fight the Spanish.
1910 Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaimed martial law 
and arrested hundreds.
1923 France announced it would seize the Rhineland to assist 
 Germany in paying its war debts. That did not go over well.
1943 Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit. Federal troops 
were sent in two days later to end the violence that left 
more than 30 dead.
1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was murdered in Beverly Hills, 
 CA, at the order of mob associates angered over the soaring 
 costs of his project, the Flamingo resort in Las Vegas, NV.
1967 Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating 
 Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The U.S. 
 Supreme Court later overturned the conviction.
1977 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline began operation.
1983 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers must treat 
 male and female workers equally in providing health benefits 
 for their spouses.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement 
 in exchange for major relief from mounting lawsuits and 
 legal bills.
2002 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution of 
 mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel. 
 The vote was 6 in favor and 3 against. 
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