Dear Webby: Hotmail Problems Monday, September 24, 2007, 06:22 AM
Good Morning, !
Monday, Sept 24, 2007
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty
in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
--- Jean Kerr
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Guess I am not well-adjusted.
Now you're customizing the jokes????~~~~~~~~~~~~
Approaching the counter at a local post office, ninimom
said to the stern-faced woman on the other side,
"Are you the Postmistress?"
"No!" she replied testily. "I'm the Postmaster. Uncle Sam
doesn't pay me enough to be anyone's mistress."
Pretty funny.
Love your humor.
ninimom
Dear Ninimom
I have occasionally done that for the last 12 years, whenever
I came across a joke that was not offensive to the person
named in it.
I have now changed your First name to start with a capital "N".
And when "Ms Bernadette Gugelhopf-McGee III" tells me to
change her FIRST name to Bernie, I'll gladly do that. The same
goes for all those who didn't put a FIRST name or nickname
down when they subscribed, and are greeted with "Friend",
instead of by their first or favorite nickname.
Just hit REPLY and tell me by what name I should greet you!
Have FUN!
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 An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to James Ayers, 26, and Frederick Guilliee, 38,
of Antioch, CA
Bad timing
September 22, 2007 - Antioch, California - MSNBC
Two men who police said broke into a building to steal
copper wiring got more than they bargained for: a room full
of police officers. Police said 26-year-old James Ayers and
Frederick Guilliee, 38, broke into the 40,000-square-foot
building at about 6 p.m. Tuesday.
What they hadn't planned for is the Antioch police K-9 unit
who was holding a training session there.
At the time of the break-in, an officer was hiding inside
the building in a training exercise. Shortly thereafter, a
K-9 officer announced that a dog was about to be released
and that anyone inside should give themselves up or risk
being bitten.
Ayers surrendered immediately, police said, and the
K-9 officers found Guilliee hiding inside.
Police arrested the men on suspicion of commercial burglary.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20920022/
Thanks to Walter for sending this picture:
From the photograher, Dean Shaddock:
This was captured as I collected my things from airport security
(Detroit Metro Concourse A). I think of it as something like a
Rorschach test. Is an elderly Catholic nun being frisked by a
Muslim security agent the celebration of blind justice?
Or is it simply an admission of absurdity?
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From: Brian
Re: Hotmail problems
Webby
I regularly send emails to my friends; one of which has
Hotmail. She never receives any of my mails, yet none
are returned by the mail administrator. She has emailed
me ok. but cannot receive my reply. I am using the latest
Thunderbird & Firefox. Any suggestions?
Brian
Dear Brian
Ho'mail is not predictable enough to make any good
recommendations.
Tell her to pretend to be over 18 and to get a gmail account.
Then she will get email reliably and predictably.
If you need a referral to gmail, let me know and I'll generate
one instantly.
Have FUN!
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A Sunday School teacher of preschoolers was concerned that
his students might be a little confused about Jesus Christ
because of the Christmas season emphasis on His birth.
He wanted to make sure they understood that the birth of
Jesus occurred for real.
He asked his class, "Where is Jesus today?"
Steven raised his hand and said, "He's in heaven."
Mary was called on and answered, "He's in my heart."
, waving a hand furiously, blurted out,
"I know, I know! He's in our bathroom!!!"
The whole class got very quiet, looked at the teacher, and
waited for a response. The teacher was completely at a
loss for a few very long seconds.
Finally, he gathered his wits and asked
to explain.
said, "Well . . . every morning, my father
gets up, bangs on the bathroom door, and yells,
"Good Lord, are you still in there?!"
 Deeli's Kudos
September 21, 2007 - Madrid, Spain - Reuters
Spanish fashion chain Zara has withdrawn a handbag from its
stores after a customer in Britain complained swastikas were
embroidered on it.
Zara, owned by the world's second largest fashion retailer
Inditex, said it did not know the 39 pound ($78) handbag
had green swastikas on its corners.
The bags were made by a supplier in India and inspired
by commonly used Hindu symbols, which include the swastika.
The original design approved by Zara did not have swastikas
on it, Inditex said.
"After the return of one bag we decided to withdraw the whole
range," said a spokesman for Inditex, which has more than
3,330 stores in 66 countries.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0709 ... astikas_dc
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Father Murphy walked into a pub in Donegal, and said to the
first man he meets, "Do you want to go to heaven?"
The man said, "I do Father."
The priest said, "Then leave this pub right now!" and
approached a second man. "Do you want to got to heaven?"
"Certainly, Father," was the man's reply.
"Then leave this den of Satan," said the priest, as he walked
up to O'Toole. "Do you want to go to heaven?"
"No, I don't Father," O'Toole replied.
The priest looked him right in the eye, and said, "You mean to
tell me that when you die you don't want to go to heaven?"
O'Toole smiled, "Oh, when I die, yes, Father. I thought you
were getting a group together to go right now..."
A stately-looking matron was walking through the Bronx Zoo,
studying the animals. When she passed the porcupine enclosure
she beckoned to a nearby attendant.
"Young man," she began, "do the North American porcupines
have sharper pricks than those from Africa?"
The attendant thought a moment. "Well, ma'am," he answered,
"the African porcupine's quills are sharper... but I think their
pricks are about the same..."
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Sunday, September 23, 2007, 05:58 AM
Good Morning, !
Sunday, Sept 23, 2007
Always get married early in the morning.
That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
--- Mickey Rooney
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
--- Rita Mae Brown
The girl knelt in the confessional and said, "Bless me, Father, for
I have sinned."
"What is it, child?"
"Father, I have committed the sin of vanity. Twice a day I gaze at
myself in the mirror and tell myself how beautiful I am."
The priest turned, took a good look at the girl, and said, "My dear,
I have good news. That isn't a sin - it's only a mistake."
This guy was walking along the beach one day and ran across
a lamp. He picked it up a rubbed it and a genie popped out.
The genie told him he would grant the man three wishes.
"First," the guy began, "I'd like a million dollars."
POOF! A million dollars was suddenly showing on his
checkbook balance.
"Second," he continued, "I'd like a new Mercedes."
POOF! A Mercedes appeared right in front of him.
"Third," the guy smirked, "I'd like to be irresistible to
women."
POOF! He turned into a VISA card.
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From: Jaye
Re: Why Firefox
Dear Webby
Why would anyone need to use Firefox Webby, and what program is it?
Jaye
Dear Jaye
Nobody NEEDS to use the Firefox browser.
It's just another browser, and people who have religious reasons
to look for alternatives to Microsoft products, are free to use it.
However, you will still need to use IE to get the automatic
security updates and patches for Windows.
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A young woman was driving the speed limit in freeway
traffic. Car after car passed her, so she speeded up.
Still car after car passed her. Suddenly, in the rear view
mirror, she saw the flashing lights of a police cruiser
behind her. She pulled over and rolled down her window. The
patrol officer walked up and asked her,
"Do you know why I stopped you?"
And the young woman replied,
"Yes. I was the only slow enough for you to catch!"
Deeli's Kudos
September 17, 2007 - London, UK - AP
British hospitals are banning neckties, long sleeves and
jewelry for doctors and their traditional white coats in an
effort to stop the spread of deadly hospital-borne infections,
according to new rules published Monday.
Hospital dress codes typically urge doctors to look
professional, which, for male practitioners, has usually
meant wearing a tie. But as concern over hospital-born
infections has intensified, doctors are taking a closer
look at their clothing.
''Ties are rarely laundered but worn daily,'' the Department
of Health said in a statement. ''They perform no beneficial
function in patient care and have been shown to be
colonized by pathogens.''
The new regulations would mean an end to doctors'
traditional long-sleeved white coats, Health Secretary
Alan Johnson said. Fake nails, jewelry and watches,
which the department warned could harbor germs, are also out.
Johnson said the ''bare below the elbows'' dress code would
help prevent the spread of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus, or MRSA, the deadly bacteria resistant to nearly every
available antibiotic.
Popularly known as a ''superbug,'' MRSA accounts for more
than 40 percent of in-hospital blood infections in Britain.
Because the bacteria is so hard to kill, health care workers
have instead focused on containing its spread through
improvements to hospital hygiene.
http://www.happynews.com/news/9172007/n ... octors.htm
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Storing Seeds
Seeds that you didn't get around to planting this year should
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50 degrees F.
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"So, Mullany, how's it going with the ladies?"
"Women, to me, are nothing but sex objects."
"Really?"
"Yep," Mullany shook his head.
"Whenever I mention sex, they object."
An older friend, recently returned from her home town in
North Carolina, says they've spruced up the churchyard
cemetery since her last visit several years back.
"Lots of new greenery," she said. "And families are together
now."
"Together?" I asked, puzzled. "Well, years ago they never
much worried where they buried someone because everyone was
a neighbor anyhow. They'd just dig a grave wherever it
seemed to balance things. But they've redone it so people
are with their children and grandchildren, instead of
scattered all over."
"You mean they exhumed all those people and re-buried
them?"
"Oh no," she said. "They just moved the headstones.
Everyone agrees it looks ever so much nicer...."
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Saturday, September 22, 2007, 05:38 AM
Good Morning, !
Saturday, Sept 22, 2007
The future, according to some scientists,
will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
--- John Sladek
What is youth except a man or a woman
before it is ready or fit to be seen?
--- Evelyn Waugh
Thanks to Sandie for this story:
A very self-important liberal college freshman was attending
a recent football game. He took it upon himself to explain to
a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for
the older generation to understand his generation.
"You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive
one," the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby
to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television,
jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our
spaceships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy,
electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed
processing, and...," pausing to take another drink of beer.
The Senior took advantage of the break in the student's
litany and said, "You're right, son. We didn't have those things
when we were young....... .so we invented them.
Now, you arrogant little shithead, what are YOU doing for the
next generation?"
The applause was deafening.
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Personally, I doubt that the wimps of today could repeat
the moon walk.
Bob man says to his wife Judy, "Guess what I heard at the
pub today? They were saying the milkman is having sex with
every woman in our apartment building except one, but they
are not sure who that one is."
And right a way Judy jumps up and says, "I know who that
is! I bet it's that stuck-up Phyllis, in apartment 612."
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From: Ann
Re: Un-Install IE6
Dear Webby
It's Ann again!!!! I just wanted to know if I could uninstall
the internet Explorer 6 and just use Firefox????
Love your Humor Letter, makes my day for sure
Ann
Dear Ann
You can use both of them! No need to un-install either one.
They work fine together, even side by side.
Most webmasters have both open side by side to check if
their work looks OK on both of them.
Theoretically, Windows should work without IE on the computer,
but in real life you will find that Windows and also other
programs now and then use building blocks from IE instead
of trying to duplicate stuff that is already written and polished.
There are also some tasks that Firefox isn't very good at yet,
for example many tasks related to printing web pages. At
those times it's handy, when you can just open IE6 and get the
job done. You don't have to close Firefox to do that.
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Thnaks to Kevin for this story:
At the doctor's office, the Nurse was taking my
blood pressure. She caused me some concern
by rechecking it twice, then said, "Hmmmm.
That's odd -- it's normal."
I replied I had taken my high blood pressure
medicine less than an hour ago.
She said, "Thank goodness. I thought I was losing
it. Normally when I take the men's BP readings
they're always on the high side."
Deeli's Kudos
September 18, 2007 - Baltimore, Maryland - Gimundo
Eli Kahn, of Baltimore, Maryland, was diagnosed with leukemia
at the age of three. He whiled away years in bed with nothing
to do but watch soap operas, stare into the hospital parking
lot, or simply lie there and think – so mostly, he thought. And
when his leukemia finally went into remission, Eli had
already hatched a plan for how to spend his time now that
he was finally healthy again: He would raise money to
support the cure of childhood cancers like his.
His fundraising method? Recycling printer cartridges. For
the past three years, Eli has solicited donations of used
ink jet and laser printer cartridges from individuals,
businesses, schools, and nonprofit organizations through
a program he calls Cartridges for the Cure. That may seem
like small change, but it adds up fast: To date, Eli, now 15,
has earned more than $23,000 in donations to the pediatric
oncology department at Johns Hopkins. If you've got any
used cartridges yourself, don't toss them into the trash –
help Eli cure cancer instead. For more details about this
inspiring survivor's program, visit Catridges for a Cure.
http://www.gimundo.com/Articles/Daily/5 ... ually_Like
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Making Wood Blocks
You can make great wood blocks using scrap wood. Start with
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You can even let your kids paint pictures on the blocks before
you apply the polyurethane.
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The Ontario coed was anxious to see her parents
over the holidays. Access to their remote cabin
near Caribou Lake was limited, so she was
trying to talk a local bush pilot into flying her home.
"But there's no place to land." he protested. She
told him of a clearing she had used last year. The
pilot agreed.
Upon approaching the clearing, it looked too short,
with a rise at the end. Going in on a wing and a
prayer the lil' plane skidded along, hit the rise, then
flipped over.
Once safely out of the plane, the girl smiled and said,
"Yep. They had to land the same way last year too."
A client brought a litter of golden-retriever puppies to my
veterinary clinic for inoculations and worming. As the look-alike
pups squirmed over and under one another in their box, I realized
it would be difficult to tell the treated ones from the rest.
I turned on the water faucet, wet my fingers, and moistened each
dog's head when I had finished.
After the fourth puppy, I noticed my hitherto talkative client had
grown silent. As I sprinkled the last pup's head, the woman leaned
forward and whispered, "I didn't know they had to be baptized."
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Dear Webby: Reliability of DVDs Friday, September 21, 2007, 05:09 AM
Good Morning, !
Friday, Sept 21, 2007
Wear something red today to show your support of the troops!
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
--- Lynn Hall
An elderly parish priest was tending his garden near a
convent when a passerby stopped to inquire after the
priest's much-loved roses.
"Not bad," said the priest. "But they suffer from a disease
peculiar to this area known as the black death."
"What on earth is that?" asked the passerby, anxious to
increase his garden knowledge.
"Nuns with scissors."
Thanks to barry for this story:
Ted Nugent, rock star and avid bow hunter from Southern
Michigan, was being interviewed by a French journalist and
animal rights activist. The discussion came around to deer
hunting.
The journalist asked, 'What do you think is the last thought
in the head of a deer before you shoot him? Is it,
'Are you my friend?' or is it 'Are you the one who killed my
brother?'
Nugent replied, 'Deer aren't capable of that kind of thinking.
All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I
going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away.
They are very much like the French.'
The interview ended at that point.
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From: Dianne
Re: Durability of DVDs
Dear Webby
I think it's time to remind your readers again that DVDs
don't last forever. Some friends of mine lost irreplaceable
pictures of a family reunion, because they entrusted them
to a DVD. It was the last reunion for some of the people
there, and they can't go back to re-take the pictures.
It was heartbreak to find out that all those pictures are
gone.
Dianne
Dear Dianne
Yes, nobody ever claimed that DVDs or CDs would last forever.
If they are handled carefully and stored in a cool, dark place,
they last a long time, but if they are handled frequently or
shipped, their life span goes down accordingly.
The safest storage is a portable USB hard drive kept in a
safety deposit box far away from the computer.
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ACTUAL LETTERS SENT TO LANDLORDS
1. "The toilet is blocked and we cannot bathe the
children until it is cleared."
2. "Will you please send someone to mend our cracked
sidewalk. Yesterday my wife tripped on it and is now
pregnant."
3. "I want some repairs done to my stove as it has
backfired and burnt my nob off."
4. "This is to let you know that there is a smell
coming from the man next door."
5. "I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is running
away from the wall."
6. "I request your permission to remove my drawers in
the kitchen."
7. "Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in
three pieces."
8. "When the workmen were here they put their tools in
my wife's new drawers and made a mess. Please send men
with clean tools to finish the job and keep my wife
happy."
Deeli's Kudos
September 18, 2007 - Madison Township, Ohio - Gimundo
A Tri-state man is now safe after using a pocket knife to
literally dig himself out of a disaster.
The 83-year-old Madison Township man says he was on his
tractor outside his Keister Road home when the tractor flipped
and he was trapped.
He's says it's amazing how much strength you get when you're
in a life-and-death situation.
The tractor flipped as John Cockerham was trying to move a
post on his property.
He ended up with his leg pinned and his entire body stuck
under the tractor. So, for two hours he struggled to free his leg.
Then, he says he pulled his pocket knife out and spent another
two hours digging at the dirt under him to create room so he
could squeeze out.
"I hollered, 'Lord, don't let me die here. I don't want to die under
this tractor. help me to get out!,' and by the grace of God,
he had given me the strength to get out," said Cockerham.
Cockerham has eight children, 21 grandchildren, 28 great
grandchildren – plus one great-great grandchild.
So, a lot of people are grateful.
Cockerham spent one night at the hospital and has a lot of
bruises, but he's doing fine now.
http://www.gimundo.com/Articles/Daily/5 ... _To_Escape
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Trash Cans for Sorting Clothing
To make laundry sorting easier and faster I have a blue 10
gallon trash can for blue jeans, a white one for whites,
and a green one for everything else. It wasn't hard training
my children to use them either (even the 17 year old!) By Angie
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A farmer named Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside
with a pet dog he doted on. The dog finally died and Muldoon
went to the parish priest and asked, "Father, the dog is dead.
Could you be saying a mass for the creature?"
Father Patrick replied, "No, we cannot have services for an
animal in the church, but there's a new denomination down
the road, no telling what they believe, but maybe they'll do
something for the animal."
Muldoon said "I'll go right now. Do you think $50,000 is
enough to donate for the service?"
Father Patrick asked, "Why didn't you tell me the dog was
Catholic?"
A customer in a bakery was observed carefully examining all
the rich-looking pastries displayed on trays in the glass
cases.
When a clerk approached him and asked, "What would you like?"
he answered, "I'd like that chocolate-covered, cream-filled
doughnut, that jelly-filled doughnut and that cheese Danish."
Then with a sigh he added, "But I'll take an oat-bran muffin."
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Thursday, September 20, 2007, 04:57 AM
Good Morning, !
Thursday, Sept 20, 2007
Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once
in a while, but consistent achievement happens only
if you love what you are doing.
--- Bart Conner
Thanks to LLLiDO for this story:
Sally had three very active boys.
One summer evening she was playing cops
and robbers in the back yard after dinner.
One of the boys "shot" his mother and yelled,
"Bang! You're dead."
She slumped to the ground and when she didn't
get up right away, a neighbour ran over to see
if she had been hurt in the fall.
When the neighbour bent over, the overworked
mother opened one eye and said, "Shhh. Don't
give me away. It's the only chance I've had to
rest all day."
Thanks to Darlene for bringing back this Classic:
A group of kindergartners were trying very hard to become
accustomed to the first grade. The biggest hurdle they faced
was that the teacher insisted on NO baby talk!
"You need to use 'Big People' words," she was always
reminding them.
She asked Chris what he had done over the weekend.
"I went to visit my Nana."
"No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use Big People'
words!"
She then asked Mitchell what he had done.
"I took a ride on a choo choo."
She said "No, you took a ride on a TRAIN. You must
remember to use "Big People' words."
She then asked little Zach what he had done.
"I read a book," he replied.
"That's WONDERFUL!" the teacher said. "What book did you
read?"
Zach thought real hard about it, then puffed out his chest and with
as deep a voice he could muster and with great pride belted out:
"Winnie the SHIT
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From: Evi
Re: AOL
Dear Webby
Well- at least now I know this address is working right! I called AOL-
and of course I got a number that they said the "non AOL" member who
was sending had to call. They then referred me to another number for
AOL members, and they referred me to live chat..so will try that and
see if I can fix anything from my end! Am still reading your humor
letter on line daily...thank you for the link in the Hi card letter!
Evie Wohlers
Dear Evi
About a five hundred AOLers do receive the Humor Letter,
and about 200 or so, it seems, don't.
Since the many thousands, who have graduated from AOL,
get it without any hassle, it would seem the problem is on the
AOL side, and no matter what I change on my side, SOME
AOLers will still have problems..
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From LLLiDO:
It is hard to find a joke today without a dirty word
or two in it, but here is one:
Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing
in the woods.
A small tree begins to grow between them,
and the beech says to the birch,
"Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?"
The birch says he cannot tell.
Just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling.
The birch says,
"Woodpecker, you are a tree expert.
Can you tell if that is a son of a beech
or a son of a birch?"
The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree.
He replies, "It is neither a son of a beech
nor a son of a birch.
It is, however,
the best piece of ash I have ever put my pecker in."
---------------------------
Last time I featured this joke, two people bitterly complained
that it was not clean enough for church,
and about two hundred people forwarded it to their entire
Friends List, which apparently included my address too.
Deeli's Kudos
September 17, 2007 - Berwick, Pennsylvania - AP
You might say she was born to be wild — a century ago.
Evelyn Warburton rode to her 100th birthday party Saturday
in a motorcycle sidecar. She sported a black leather jacket,
a helmet and a pair of sunglasses for the 10-minute ride from
her home in Lightstreet to her granddaughter's house in
Berwick.
''It was fun today,'' said Warburton.
Her chauffeur on the green 2000 Herley-Davidson Ultra was
George Crawford, a friend who had been offering to take her
to church on his motorcycle for several years.
Warburton finally accepted Crawford's offer of a ride to her party.
She had actually turned 100 on Thursday.
Crawford said Warburton was nervous at first, but relaxed after
he assured her she wouldn't fly out of the sidecar. The duo hit a
top speed of 40 mph.
''She's willing to try new things,'' said Warburton's daughter, Nancy Hartzel.
http://www.happynews.com/news/9172007/w ... idecar.htm
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While waiting for my first appointment in the reception room
of a new dentist, I noticed his certificate, which bore his full
name.
Suddenly, I remembered that a tall, handsome boy with the
same name had been in my high school class almost 50
years ago.
Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such
thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined
face was too old to have been my classmate. After he had
examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended the local
high school.
"Yes," he replied.
"When did you graduate?" I asked.
He answered, "In 1953."
"Why, you were in my class!" I exclaimed.
He looked at me closely and then asked, "What did you
teach?"
A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach
about the sin of lying. To help you all understand my sermon,
I want you all to read Mark 17."
The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon,
the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how
many people had read Mark 17. Every hand went up.
The minister smiled and said, "Mark only has 16 chapters. I
will know proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying."
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Good Morning, !
Wednesday, Sept 19, 2007
God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how
much love we do it.
--- Mother Teresa
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents
in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
--- Socratex
Two fathers-to-be met in the maternity waiting room.
"Can you believe this? The first day of our vacation,
and she goes into labor!"
The second one looks at the first and says, "What do
you have to complain about? This is our honeymoon!"
Two youngsters were walking home from Sunday School,
each deep in his own thoughts. Finally one said, "What do
you think about all this devil business we studied today?"
The other boy replied thoughtfully, "Well, you know how
Santa Claus turned out. This is probably just your Dad, too."
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From: Jerome
Re: Verizon blocking subscriptions
Dear Webby
Unfortunately Verizon is blocking you too.
Just thought you might like to know as they are really dimwits.
Jerome
Dear Jerome
yes, Verizon has been trying to make AOL look good for some
time, and a lot of Verizon victims use gmail to get reliable mail.
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A young husband comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms
around his neck: "Darling, I have great news: I'm a month overdue. I
think we're going to have a baby! The doctor gave me a test today, but
we until we find out for sure, we can't tell anybody."
The next day, a guy from the electric company rings the doorbell,
because the young couple hasn't paid their last bill: "Are you Mrs.
Smith? You're a month overdue, you know!"
"How do YOU know?" stammers the young woman.
"Well, ma'am, it's in our files!" says the man from the electric
company.
"What are you saying? It's in your files?????"
"Absolutely."
"Well, let me talk to my husband about this tonight."
That night, she tells her husband about the visit, and he, mad as a
bull, rushes to the electric company offices the first thing the next
morning.
"What's going on here? You have it on file that my wife is a month
overdue? What business is that of yours?" the husband shouts.
"Just calm down," says the clerk, "it's nothing serious. All you have
to do is pay us."
"PAY you? and if I refuse?"
"Well, in that case, sir, we'd have no option but to cut you off."
"And what would my wife do then?" the husband asks.
"I don't know. I guess she'd have to use a candle."
Deeli's Kudos
September 15, 2007 - Dallas, Texas - AP
An emergency room might be the last place you'd think would
have do-it-yourself check-in. But Parkland Memorial Hospital
has three self-service computer kiosks, similar to those used
by airport passengers and hotel guests. And so do a handful
of other hospital ERs, where the long wait in line to register
and explain symptoms can be grueling.
True emergency cases _ gunshot or car crash victims with
serious injuries _ are still rushed in for treatment. But
patients like Rickey Washington, a diabetic concerned about
numbness in his hands and feet, find it fairly simple to
sign in by computer.
''Once you look and see, it's kind of easy,'' said Washington, 44.
Besides offering patients more privacy, the kiosks should help
nurses identify the most urgent cases.
Parkland's administrators say patients have been spared the
long check-in lines since the kiosks arrived. The hospital's
ER handles about 300 cases a day.
''It's helping us find the people that we need to see right now,''
said Jennifer Hay, unit manager for the ER department.
Patients spend about eight minutes at the kiosks, using
touchscreens to enter their name, age, and other personal
information. The computer shows the patient a list of ailments
to choose from, like ''pain'' or ''fever and/or chills'' and a list
of body parts to indicate where it hurts.
Previously, a nurse checked in patients and took their vital
signs as lines at the ER got longer and frustration mounted.
''If it's getting people to be able to sit down and not be
standing in a long line, then it's good,'' said Dr. Brian
Keaton, president of the American College of Emergency
Physicians.
http://www.happynews.com/news/9152007/e ... -lines.htm
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One of my first duties as an Air Force officer was to set
up a field medical-training program at our hospital. I
conducted a class in triage -- sorting out battlefield
casualties according to the likelihood of survival. We had
applied theatrical makeup to several airmen to simulate
different wounds. Pointing to one of the "casualties," I said
to the group, "This man has severe brain damage. What
would you do with him?"
Came this reply from the back of the class: "Make him an
officer!"
Charges of statutory sexual seduction face an El Cajon, CA science
teacher who trysted in a Vegas motel with one of her 15 year old
students. (LA Times)
Whose parents will administer disciplinary action as soon as they can
wipe the smile off his face.
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Good Morning, !
Tuesday, Sept 18, 2007
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
--- Edna Buchanan
A man went to the police station wishing
to speak with the burglar who had broken
into his house the night before.
"You'll get your chance in court," said
the desk sergeant.
"No, no, no!" said the man. "I want to
know how he got into the house without
waking my wife. I've been trying to
do that for years!"
My feisty 70-year-old neighbor Frances had to call a furnace
repairman. After a quick inspection the man put some oil
into the motor and handed her a $70 bill for labor. "Labor
charges!" Frances exclaimed. "It only took you five
minutes."
The repairman explained that his company had a minimum
one-hour charge on every house call. "Well, I want my
remaining 55 minutes of labor," my neighbor responded and
she handed him a rake. He spent the next 55 minutes in her
back yard bagging leaves.
Then he charged her an hour extra for traveling time.
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From: Ginger
Re: AOL problems
...@aol.com wrote:
it says I'm already subscribed but haven't been getting the
letter please check into it for me
Dear Ginger
That's just a routine AOL screw-up.
Once your subscription has entered the AOL server, there is
nothing more that I can do about it.
Once you graduate from AOL, you will never have that
problem again.
In the meantime, you can contact AOL "support", and ask
them to stop stealing your subscription.
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While talking with my semi-deaf uncle one evening, I noticed
that his "hearing aid" was actually an earphone from a
transistor radio. The wire had been cut and was sticking
out of his shirt.
"How does that help your hearing?" I asked.
"Don't help my hearing none," he replied.
"Makes people talk louder."
Deeli's Kudos
September 10, 2007 - Glenview, Illinois - Chicago, Tribune
Tom Foust saw the train lights in the distance and knew it
was time to stop arguing with the elderly driver, whose
white Lexus was stuck on railroad tracks. As his two friends
pounded on the car windows, yelling for her to leave the
car, Foust, 17, unclipped the seat belt and carried her to
safety with seconds to spare. He shielded her body from
flying debris as the Lexus was "eviscerated".
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/content/view/2545/29/
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Use the grass clippings to help feed your lawn. The
clippings will work as slow release fertilizer for your
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are in clumps, use a rake to spread them out. Clumps
of grass will create a thatch problem which will
smother the lawn.
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When I took my baby daughter to the supermarket for the
first time, I dressed her in pink from head to toe. At the
store, I placed her in the shopping cart, put my purchases
around her, and headed for the checkout line.
A small boy and his mother were ahead of me. The child
was crying and begging for some special treat. He wants
some candy or gum and his mother won't let him have
any, I thought.
Then I heard his mother's reply. "No!" she said, and,
looking in my direction. "You may not have a baby
sister today. That lady got the last one!"
A man rushed into a jewelry store, told the clerk he needed a pair of
diamond earrings for his wedding anniversary, and quickly made his
selection. When asked if he wanted them wrapped, he replied, "That would be
great, but hurry. My wife thinks I'm taking out the garbage!"
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Monday, September 17, 2007, 05:05 AM
Good Morning, !
Monday, Sept 17, 2007
I think it would be a good idea.
--- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of
Western civilization
Thanks to Amy for this report:
A store that sells new husbands has just opened in New York City ,
where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the
instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store
operates:
You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and
the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the
flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor,
or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back
down except to exit the building!
So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband.
On the first floor the sign on the door reads:
Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs.
She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the
sign reads:
Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.
"That's nice", she thinks, "but I want more."
So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:
Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely
Good Looking.
"Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.
She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead
Good Looking and Help With Housework.
"Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"
Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead
Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic
Streak.
She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where
the sign reads:
Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no
men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that
women are impossible to please.
Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.
PLEASE NOTE:
To avoid gender bias
charges, the store's owner opened a New Wives store just
across the street.
The first floor has wives that love sex.
The second floor has wives that love sex and have money.
The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited
Thanks to Dave for this story:
Grandpa was always going on about the good old days,
and the lower cost of living, in particular.
"When I was a kid, my mom could send me to the store,
and I'd get a salami, two pints of milk, 6 oranges, 2 loaves
o' bread, a magazine, and some new blue jeans...
all for a dollar!!"
Then Grandpa said sadly, "You can't DO that anymore.....
they got those video cameras everywhere you look."
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From: Ron
Re: Eudora not sold any more
Dear Webby,
I went to the Eudora page and saw that they had quit selling a version. I
noticed the latest version was 7.1 a sponsored version. Do you still
reccommend this? There is a button that say to stay in sponsored mode you
must update, would that be for people with older versions who wish to stay
with the program. What is open source Eudora? Thanks Webby, you are still
the number one ezine.
Ron
Dear Ron
Yes, it is Open Source (free) now.
You can still get the old versions, if you want.
The ad sponsored version has a little square ad in the left bottom corner.
No big deal. I think they stopped delivering ads anyway.
Older versions are at http://eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2350hq.html/
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A woman went to a computer dating service and said
she didn't care about looks, income or background.
All she wanted was a man of upright character.
Then a man came in and told them the only thing
he was seeking in a woman was intelligence.
The service matched them together at once because
they had one thing in common -- they were both
pathological liars.
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September 15, 2007 - Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - Sun Sentinel
A Florida man has been besieged with job offers - after he
was sacked for saving a woman from an armed robber.
Juan Canales, 42, lost his job as a waiter with a Thai
restaurant in Fort Lauderdale after his boss got sick
of the media attention.
But he quickly received new job offers once the twist
to the story was reported in the local press, reports
the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
"I just felt bad for him because here is a guy who does
the right thing and he gets fired for it," said Peggy
Talerico, of All Atlas Roofing.
Robert Garofalo, owner of an electrical repair business,
said he, too, wanted to help: "Come on, the guy fired
him for being a hero. Ridiculous."
Canales was fired after subduing a knife-wielding robber
who tried to steal a Honda car from a woman customer.
He disarmed the man then, with the help of three other
men, managed to hold the robber down until police arrived.
Mr. Canales then spent an hour talking to police and the
media. He returned to work but when the lunch shift
ended, his boss fired him.
"The owner got belligerent" about all the attention his
scuffle with the carjacker generated, he said.
Although he was "devastated," Mr. Canales said,
"I would do it again because it was the right thing to do."
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We had a great neighborhood watch going when I was a kid...
until she closed her curtains.
A woman was out shopping one day with her son. The boy spotted
a man who was bowlegged. The boy pulled on Mom's hand and said,
"Momma, look at the bowlegged man!"
Mom was mortified and told her son that it was not polite to point to a
person and make that sort of comment. For punishment, the boy had
to read a play by Shakespeare. He couldn't go shopping again until he
finished reading the play.
Finally he finished and his mom took him once again to the mall. Again
he spied a bowlegged man, but remembered what happened the last
time. So he pulled on his mother's hand and said, "Lo, what manner of
men are these, Who wear their balls in parentheses?"
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Sunday, September 16, 2007, 06:36 AM
Good Morning, !
Sunday, Sept 16, 2007
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."
--- Dave Barry
When our second child was on the way, my wife and I attended
a pre-birth class aimed at couples who had already had at
least one child. The instructor raised the issue of breaking
the news to the older child. It went like this:
"Some parents," she said, "tell the older child, 'We love
you so much we decided to bring another child into this
family.' But think about that. Ladies, what if your husband
came home one day and said, 'Honey, I love you so much I
decided to bring home another wife.'"
One of the women spoke up immediately. "Does she cook?"
Divorce : Future tense of marriage.
Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody
believes he got the biggest piece.
Tears : The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power
is defeated by feminine water power.
Dictionary : A place where success comes before work.
Classic : A book which people praise, but do not read.
Smile : A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
Yawn : The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
Etc. : A sign to make others believe that you know more than
you actually do.
Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.
Philosopher : A fool who torments himself during life,
to be spoken of when dead.
Diplomat : A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way
that you actually look forward to the trip.
Opportunist : A person who starts taking a bath if he
accidentally falls into a river.
Miser : A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
Father : A banker provided by nature.
Boss : Someone who is early when you are late and late
when you are early.
Politician : One who shakes your hand before elections
and your confidence after.
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From: Jay
Re: Zoomable fonts
Dear Webby!
I know you have used zoomable fonts for ages, but my webmaster
insists that is not necessary if a computer is set up right.
Well, my computer is set up the way I like it, and I can
hardly read the pages on my company site. How do you
make your fonts so that they can be zoomed? What do you
suggest.
Jay
Dear Jay
Some people claim to be webmasters, others ARE, and don't
care what title you use for them. Using a word Processor
and saving a WORD document as a web page is not the same
as creating it with HTML. The same goes for kids using
FrontPage. Basic stuff looks OK with it, but it's not quite
up to standard and will bite you sooner or later.
I would recommend that you get somebody who will do your
site the way YOU want it, instead of implying that your
computer is not set up right. That page you sent me to is
useless. When I see something that is too small to read
comfortably, and that can't be zoomed to a decent size,
I'm out of there and on my way to a competitor. I have a
hunch most people browse that way.
Have FUN!
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During taxi, the crew of a US Airways departure flight to Ft. Lauderdale
made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727. The irate
lady who had the ground controller's spot at that moment screamed,
"US Air 2771, where are you going? I told you to turn right on 'Charlie'
taxiway; you turned right on 'Delta.' Stop right there! I know it's
difficult to tell the difference between C's & D's, but get it right!"
Continuing her lashing to the embarrassed crew,
"You've screwed everything up; it'll take forever to sort this out. You
stay right there and don't move until I tell you to! Then, I want you to
go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You
got that, US Air 2771?"
The humbled crew responded,
"Yes, Ma'am."
The ground control frequency went terribly silent; no one wanted to
engage the irate ground controller in her current state. Tension in
every cockpit at La Guardia was running high.
Then an unknown male pilot broke the silence and asked,
"Wasn't I married to you once?"
Deeli's Kudos
September 15, 2007 - Wrexham, North Wales, UK - Ananova
A Welsh farmer who placed a lonely hearts advert on a milk
carton hopes to marry a US woman who answered his plea.
Geraint Evans, 28, hadn't had a girlfriend for almost five
years because his long days at work often ended at 11pm,
reports the North Wales Daily Post.
The dairy herdsman was one of a number of North Wales farmers
who persuaded a dairy company to put their photographs on
cartons with an email address.
Interior design student Laura Allison, 21, from Chicago, was
holidaying in the UK when she saw Geraint's face on a pint
of milk she bought near his Wrexham home.
She said: "I'd dropped by a supermarket to pick up some
provisions and when I got to the milk racks, all I could see
was this handsome guy's face staring out at me. I think I
fell in love a little right there and then."
But she decided to wait until she returned home before
getting in touch.
Since then the couple have exchanged hundreds of email
messages, phone calls and letters and have visited each
other.
Geraint said: "I've met the girl of my dreams and I want us
to marry as soon as she's finished her course in America.
"We get on so well. This is the real thing and the sooner
we can get wed the better, as far as I'm concerned. I'd
marry Laura tomorrow.
"We share the same sense of humour and we're both
adventurous. We must be or we'd never have met."
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Door Alarmed.
Handprinted sign nearby:
Window frightened.
A man walks out into the street and manages to get a taxi
just going by. He gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says,
"Perfect timing. You're just like Vince."
"Who?"
"Vince Sabio. There's a guy who did everything right. Like my
coming along when you needed a cab. It would have
happened like that to Vince every single time."
"There are always a few clouds over everybody."
"Not Vince. He was a terrific athlete. He could have gone on
the pro tour in tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang
like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star."
"He was something, huh?"
"He had a memory like a trap. Could remember everybody's
birthday. He knew all about wine, which fork to eat with. He
could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, and the
whole neighborhood blacks out."
"No wonder you remember him."
"Well, I never actually met Vince."
"Then how do you know so much about him?"
"I married his widow."
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Dear Webby: Alternatives to Outlook Saturday, September 15, 2007, 03:46 AM
Good Morning, !
Saturday, Sept 15, 2007
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
--- Margaret Lee Runbeck
Thanks to Rubye for this story:
A game warden was driving down the road when he came upon
a young boy carrying a wild turkey under his arm. He stopped
and asked the boy,
"Where did you get that turkey?"
The boy replied, "What turkey?"
The game warden said, "That turkey you're carrying under
your arm."
The boy look down and said, "Well, lookee here, a turkey
done roosted under my arm!"
The game warden said, "Now look, you know turkey season
is closed, so what ever you do to that turkey, I'm going to do
to you. If you break his leg, I'm gonna break your leg. If you
break his wing, I'll break your arm. Whatever you do to him,
I'll do to you. So, what are you gonna do with him?"
The little boy said, "I guess I'll just kiss his ass and
let him go!!
Leroy's wife went to the bank and applied for a loan.
"I want a loan, I'm going to divorce Leroy."
"Oh, we don't give loans for divorces" the manager says
"We make loans for appliances, automobiles, businesses,
home improvements...."
Leroy's wife interrupts and says "Well, this is certainly a
'Home Improvement.'
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From: Sig
Re: Alternative to Outlook
Dear Webby!
In several humour letter issues you mentioned "Outlook".
E.g.: "Dear Bonnie
I live a very sheltered life. Heroin, Outlook, Outlook Express,
Crack and other stuff like that, is not allowed onto the premises."
I too have many "fail to respond" problems. What alternative
to Outlook do you recomment?
Sig
Every day I'm looking forward to every issue of you humour letter
Dear Sig
The best mail program is still Eudora, from http://eudora.com
That's what Commerce, Industry and military uses.
Eudora is rock solid, and when you have to answer and file 250
or more mails per day, you really appreciate the hot-keys that let
you run Eudora without taking your hands off the keyboard for
tedious mousing around.
However, Eudora definitely is for a high production environment,
where cutesy stuff has low priority. It is there, somewhere, if you
need it, but it's strength is speed and reliability.
Second best is Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Thunderbird is less Industrial, but not as silly and mushy as
Incredimail. It is not as feature rich as Eudora, but there are
hundreds of small add-ins that you can download to get individual
features, like for example the Hot-keys. Thunderbird works OK
right off the basic installation, and unless you have been spoiled
by Eudora or Pegasus, you won't need any of the third party add-ons.
The add-ons are free, but need to be downloaded and installed
separately.
Pegasus is a hard core road warrior tool. It is very compact and
when I was a mobile troubleshooter, I used to carry it on a floppy.
Like Eudora, it is rock solid, but Pegasus is very basic. Absolutely
no cutesy frills. It is definitely a STRICTLY WORK email program.
You can get it at http://pmail.com/
To give you an idea of how basic Pegasus is, have a look at their
FAQ page: http://pmail.com/faqs/faqs_wq.htm
They definitely don't waste your time with unimportant stuff!
Have FUN!
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Four men went golfing one day.
Three of them headed to the first tee
and the fourth went into the clubhouse
to take care of the bill. The three men
started talking and bragging about
their sons.
The first man told the others, "My son
is a home builder, and he is so
successful that he gave a friend a new
home for free.
"The second man said, "My son was a car
salesman, and now he owns a multi-line
dealership. He's so successful that he gave a
friend a new Mercedes, fully loaded.
"The third man, not wanting to be outdone,
bragged, "My son is a stockbroker, and he's
doing so well that he gave his friend an entire
portfolio."
The fourth man joined them on the tee after
a few minutes of taking care of business.
The first man mentioned, "We are just talking
about our sons. How is yours doing?
The fourth man replied, "Well, my son is gay
and a dancer in a gay bar." The other three
men grew silent as he continued, "I'm not
totally thrilled about the dancing job, but he
must be doing well. His last three boyfriends
gave him a house, a brand new Mercedes,
and a stock portfolio..."
Deeli's Kudos
Garbage in, diamond rings out at rest stop
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) -- A New York trooper was a real trouper
recently, combing through bags of garbage to locate two
temporarily misplaced rings.
Trooper Leston Sheeley said a frantic Montreal man called
and told him his wife's engagement ring and wedding band
were in a yellow bag mistakenly tossed in the garbage at
the Schroon Lake rest area, The (Plattsburgh, N.Y.)
Press Republican reported Tuesday. His wife put them in
the bag while washing her hands for dinner.
Sheeley, figuring the trash hadn't been picked up, said he
and Trooper Gregory Brack booked it the rest stop and began
picking through the overflowing garbage bin. Because they
were looking for a yellow food bag, "we found the rings pretty
quickly," he said.
The couple was still awake when Sheeley called them back
with the good news.
"He was ecstatic," Sheeley said. "And at that point, I was excited
to call him back and tell him."
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Keep an eye out for short sleeve shirts, shorts, swim-wear and
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A man who had just undergone a very complicated operation kept
complaining about a bump on his head and a terrible headache.
Since his operation had been an intestinal one, there was no earthly
reason why he should be complaining of a headache. Finally his nurse,
fearing that the man might be suffering from some post-operative
shock, spoke to the doctor about it.
The doctor assured the nurse, "Don't worry about a thing. He really
does have a bump on his head. About halfway through the operation
we ran out of anesthetic."
Two rural church deacons were having a sociable beer in the local
tavern, when they saw their minister drive by and take a good long
look at their pickup trucks parked outside.
One deacon ducked down and said, "I hope the reverend didn't see
us or recognize my truck."
The other replied indifferently, "What difference does it make.
God knows we're in here . . . and he's the only one who counts."
The first deacon countered, "Yeah, but God won't tell my wife."
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Dear Webby: Weird circles in Outlook Friday, September 14, 2007, 03:49 AM
Good Morning, !
Thursday, Sept 14, 2007
Wear something red today, to show your support for the troops!
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade
of prejudices.
--- Laurence J. Peter
There are two ways to slide easily through life:
to believe everything or to doubt everything.
Both ways save us from thinking.
--- Alfred Korzybski
"You're in incredible shape," the doctor said. "How
old are you again?"
"I am 78." The man said. "78?" asked the doctor. "How
do you stay so healthy? You look like a 60 year old."
"Well, my wife and I made a pact when we got
married that whenever she got mad she would go into
the kitchen and cool off and I would go outside to
settle down." the man explained.
"What does that have to do with it?" asked the doctor.
"I've pretty much lived an outdoor life."
A marketing survey specialist is asking Dan, a southern college kid,
some questions about different products he uses.
MSS - Which shaving cream do you use?
Dan - Baba's
MSS - Which aftershave do you use?
Dan - Baba's
MSS - Which deodorant do you use?
Dan - Baba's
MSS - Which toothpaste do you use?
Dan - Baba's
MSS - Okay, tell me, what is this 'Baba'?
Is it an international company?
Dan - Heck no. He's my room-mate.
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From: Bonnie in NH
Re: Circles in Outlook and WORD
Dear Webby
hope you can help with my current problem. Just recently as
in the excerpt below from a “sent” email, and in replies back
to me, these little circles started to appear. They annoy me
like crazy and are also turning up in my Word documents even
if they’re not in email text, i.e., if someone sends me a quote
or story I want to save in Word, voila! there they are in a new
document I copy & paste into. Any ideas on how I can stop
them? No clue why they began.
Thank you bunches as always, even if you don’t have a solution.
Bonnie in NH
Dear Bonnie
I live a very sheltered life. Heroin, Outlook, Outlook Express,
Crack and other stuff like that, is not allowed onto the premises.
I really don't have a clue about what those things do to you,
or how to cope with them.
By the way, the excerpt you had there, did not produce any
dopey circles in Eudora.
Try writing to the Express Empress at 9empress@fire-cat.com.
Even though she doesn't use that stuff, she keeps up-to-date on
it so that she can answer questions on her blog.
Put her into your friends list, so that you don't accidentally slap
her reply back into her face. That really annoys her.
Have FUN!
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Early one morning, my husband, who works in a
funeral home, woke me, complaining of severe
abdominal pains. We rushed to the emergency room,
where tests were performed to determine the
source of the pain.
My husband decided not to have me call in sick
for him until we knew what was wrong. When the
results came back, the nurse informed us that,
true to our suspicions, he was suffering from
a kidney stone.
I turned to my husband and asked, "Would you
like me to call the funeral home now?"
With a scornful look, the nurse turned to me
and snapped, "Honey, he's not THAT sick!"
Deeli's Kudos
Gators gaze at passers-by from pond
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (UPI) -- Two alligators found in a pond
inside a Virginia community probably aren't dangerous to
humans, but officials are setting up traps -- just in case.
Police and animal control personnel in Hampton Roads say
they aren't quite sure how the 3-foot reptiles got into the
pond, The Virginian-Pilot in Hampton Roads reported.
"It's hard to say," said police spokeswoman Rene Ball said,
adding that residents in the area should be careful.
------------
Personally, I would be a lot more concerned with lightning
fast three footers than slow and lazy 20 footers.
I got within a few feet of this one and it made no hostile move.
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they come out awesome!
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Dentist to Patient: "Would you help me out? I'd like you to
give a few of your loudest screams?"
Patient: "Why, Doc? It isn't all that bad this time."
Dentist: "There are too many people in the waiting room right
now, and I don't want to miss the 5 o'clock football game."
While visiting a friend who was in the hospital, I noticed several
pretty nurses, each of whom was wearing a pin designed to look like an
apple.
I asked one nurse what the pin signified.
"Nothing," she said with a smile. "It's just to keep the doctors away."
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Thursday, September 13, 2007, 04:28 AM
Posted by Administrator
Good Morning, !
Thursday, Sept 13, 2007
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall
some day die, which is not so.
--- Stephen Leacock
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade
of prejudices.
--- Laurence J. Peter
Tom was so excited about his promotion to Vice President of
the company he worked for and kept bragging about it to his
wife for weeks on end.
Finally she couldn't take it any longer, and told him, "Listen, it
means nothing, they even have a vice president of prunes at the
grocery store!"
"Really?" he said. Not sure if this was true or not, Tom
decided to call the grocery store.
A clerk answers and Tom says, "Can I please talk to the Vice
President of prunes?"
The clerk replied, "Dried or canned?"
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 corn flakes 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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From: Sarah
Re: Refilling ink cartridges
Dear Webby
I thought I was getting a good deal when I bought a cheap
printer for $39, but now I am stuck with having to buy $59
cartridges or lose the warranty. Can they tell if I refill the
cartridges, and how difficult is it to refill them?
Thanks
Sarah
Dear Sarah
Get real! Who cares about the warranty on a disposable
$39 printer? It will die a few days after the warranty is up
anyway, and nobody will even diagnose the problems for
less than $50. If it dies during the warranty period, they
will replace it, but usually nobody will even look at an old
$39 printer.
Refilling is easy if you have a proper refill kit like the ones
sold by Atlantic inkjet .com.
Any kid can do it. The kit comes with everything you need
and easy to follow, illustrated instructions. We have used
kits from Atlantic inkjet .com
and their bulk bottles of ink for at least seven years and
never had a problem.
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A college senior took his new girlfriend to the Super Bowl. The
young couple found seats in the crowded stadium and were
watching the action.
A substitute was put into the game, and as he was running onto the
field to take his position, the boy said to his girlfriend, "Take a
good look at that fellow. I expect him to be our best man next year."
His girlfriend snuggled closer to him and said, "That's the strangest
way I ever heard of for a fellow to propose to a girl. Regardless of
how you said it, I accept....!"
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Mugger picks on blind judo champ
A German mugger who picked on a blind man had a shock when
his 'victim' turned out to be a world judo champ.
Michael Esser, 33, a world champion last year in martial
arts for the visually impaired, ended up pummelling his
17-year-old attacker into submission.
Mr Esser had just bought a packet of cigarettes outside the
railway station in Marburg when the skinheaded, jobless
attacker demanded them.
"Give me those, Stevie," he said in what police said was a
reference to blind singer Stevie Wonder.
He lunged for the cigarettes and hit the man in the face.
The blind man then seized his arm, shoved it behind his
back and kneed him in the back of his legs.
Then he twisted him around and flung him face-first on to
the pavement, pinning him to the ground with his body.
"The blind Judoka used some expert moves to wrestle
the robber to the ground and pinned him down while he
shouted for help," Marburg police said in a statement.
The champion had to be treated for a bloody nose following
the incident but he said: "I may be blind but I am fit. I hope
he thinks twice before he picks on blind people again."
"I didn't bother to go to the hospital because I was off to
meet some mates to listen to a football match. At least I
still had my smokes to enjoy!"
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So that I don't miss out on kids' shoe sales when I am out
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if I see shoes on sale I just measure up the soles.
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During her annual checkup, a well-built lady was asked to disrobe
and climb onto the examining table.
"Doctor," she replied shyly, "I just can't undress in front of you."
"That's all right," said the physician, "I'll flick off
the lights. You get undressed and tell me when you're through."
In a few moments, her voice rang out in the darkness,
"Doctor, I've undressed. What should I do with my clothes?"
"Your clothes?" answered the doctor.
"Put them over here, on top of mine!"
Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the opposing
lawyers. "So," he said, "I have been presented, by both
of you, with a bribe."
Both lawyers squirmed uncomfortably.
"You, attorney Leon, gave me $15,000. And you, attorney
Campos, gave me $10,000."
The judge reached into his pocket and pulled out a check.
He handed it to Leon.
"Now then, I'm returning $5,000, and we're going to decide
this case solely on its merits!"
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Dear Webby: Media Player to DVD Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 02:38 AM
Good Morning, !
Wednesday, Sept 12, 2007
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and
shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
--- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
A hillbilly dragged his protesting son to a new school which
had just opened in a nearby village . When they arrived, he
took his son to see the teacher. "Howdy," said the
hillbilly. "This here's my son, Arthur. Now what kind of
learnin' are you teachin'?"
"Oh, all the usual subjects," said the teacher, nodding at
the boy. "Reading, writing, arithmetic."
"What's this ?" interrupted the father. "Arith....arith...
what did you say?"
"'Arithmetic, Sir," said the teacher, "instruction in
geometry, algebra and trigonometry."
"Trigonometry!" cried the delighted hillbilly. "That's what my boy needs.
He's the worst darn shot in the family."
On their wedding night, the young bride went up to her new husband.
"Since we're married now, we can arrange our sex life like this: In the
evening, if my hair is done, that means I don't want sex at all. If my
hair is somewhat undone, that means I may or may not have sex.
And if my hair is completely undone, that means I want sex."
"Okay sweetheart," the groom replied. "Just make sure, when
I come home, I usually have a drink.
If I have only one drink, that means I don't want sex.
If I have two drinks, I may or may not want sex.
But if I have three drinks, your hair doesn't matter."
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Re: Burn movies from mediaPlayer to DVD
Dear Webby
Can I use Windows Media Player to burn DVDs?
Ann
Dear Ann
Unfortunately, no. At this time, according to Microsoft,
Windows Media Player can only be used to burn CDs and
copy files to portable devices. If you have a DVD burner,
and you want to burn DVDs, you must use the software that
came with the DVD burner.
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One day a bachelor who was a poor tipper walked into his favorite
restaurant and ordered lunch.
A new waitress served his meal and received a three cent tip.
When he came in the next day, she thanked him for his
"generosity" and she said she could tell the character of a diner
by the way he tipped.
"Well, what could you tell about me?" he asked.
"You put three pennies in a neat row," said the waitress, "and
that shows you are a very tidy person. The first penny tells me
you are a frugal, and the second tells me that you are a
bachelor."
"That's true," he agreed. "But what does the third penny tell
you?"
"The third penny tells me your Father was a bachelor, too."
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Vegan teacher suspended
A vegan middle school teacher says he's not going back to
class until the school stops serving milk and meat.
He doesn't really have any choice about that, since he has
been told to leave the school.
Dave Warwak has been a teacher at Fox River Grove Middle
School for eight years. The 44-year-old became a vegan in
January and believes the school is "feeding poison" to students.
He also believes the school's posters featuring milk are wrong.
Warwak says he won't return until the posters are removed. He's
looked into filing child-endangerment charges because he claims
it's wrong to promote animal products as part of healthy diet.
Warwak says he was asked to leave the school last week
because he talked about animal-cruelty issues like milking
innocent cows.
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Buying Books
Discount bookstores and used books stores usually sell
books for half off cover price and online retailers can be
even cheaper. The cheapest place to find books, by far,
is garage sales and rummage sales. Books are usually
only .25 to .50.
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A truck driver brought before the judge for an assault
charge. The Judge asked the man why he beat the victim
up so bad and the truck driver answered:
"Well sir Judge that man called me a stupid
son-of-a-bitch."
The judge replied, "Well you didn't need to beat him up
that bad".
The truck driver answered "I know that Judge, but what
would you do if he called you a stupid son-of-a bitch".
The Judge answered: "But I'm not a stupid son-of-a-bitch"
The truck driver answered: "I know that judge, but what
would you do if he called you
the kind of a son-of-a-bitch, you are".
CONGRESS EMBRACES INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Priceline.com's stock soared and Ebay created an entire new
section on their online auction site to accommodate the US
Congress' overhaul of campaign financial law.
Senator John McCain, in a speech from Capitol Hill, praised
his fellow Senators's choice to "name your own price" for
Congressional influence. "This is significant legislation that
will turn around a stagnant economy by pouring millions into
politicians' pockets."
In the new law, private citizens will be able to log onto
Priceline.com and "name their own price" to influence a
member of the House.
Citizens wishing to purchase a Senator still need to log on
to Ebay, but need to be aware that Senators don't stay bought.
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Dear Webby: Two versions of PSP on one computer Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 03:23 AM
Good Morning, !
Tuesday, Sept 11, 2007
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
--- Benjamin Disraeli
Over the massive front doors of a church, these words were
inscribed: "The Gate of Heaven."
Below that was a small cardboard sign which read:
"Please use other entrance."
Cassie was a really good mom. When her children were
growing up, her one son gave her more "Don't kill! Stop and
count to 10" moments than all the others together..
Once, after he fell, or jumped, into the pond and came home
with his good school clothes dripping wet, the exasperated
Cassie sent him to his room while she washed and dried his
clothes.
A little later, Cassie heard a commotion in the back yard.
She called out "Are you out there wetting your pants again!?"
There was dead silence for a moment. Then a deep, masculine
voice answered meekly, "No, ma'am, I'm just reading the meter."
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From: Ginny
Re: Paint Shop Pro
Dear Webby
On my new computer I got Paint Shop Pro version 11 included.
It works OK, but I found it to be very klutzy compared to
version 7A on my old computer. What little quality improvements
there might theoretically be in the new version, though I have
not noticed any, are more than wiped out by the weird way of
doing stuff. To me, it seems, all they did was make the user
interface klutzy and slow everything down. My new computer
is four times faster than my old one, but PSP 11 is four times
slower on the new computer than version 7 is on the old one!
Can I run both versions on the new computer?
Ginny
Dear Ginny
Yes, Version 7 was still made by JASC, from before they got
taken over by Corel. It runs just fine on a machine that has
Corel PSP on it. They don't interfere and they don't interact.
Just install it and make it the default program for jpg and gif
and any graphics you work on.
By the way, I feel the same way about version 11 and don't
use it.
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The woman seated herself in the psychiatrists office.
"What seems to be the problem?" the doctor asked.
"Well, I, uh," she stammered. "I think I, uh, might be
a nymphomaniac."
"I see," he said. "I can help you, but I must advise you
that my fee is $80 an hour."
"That's not bad," she replied. "How much for all night?"
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Man gave dog kiss-of-life
A prison officer saved his dying sniffer dog by giving him
the kiss of life.
Handler Steve Tugwell, 42, leapt into action when he saw
Welsh springer spaniel Frodo lying unconscious, reports
The Sun.
Frodo had been play-fighting with fellow sniffer dog Patch
when Patch's jaws got entangled in Frodo's collar and
choked him.
Frodo appeared lifeless when Steve hacked off the collar
with a knife. Steve, who works at Long Lartin prison in
Worcester, said: "He looked a goner. I pulled the tongue to
one side, made a cone with my hands, and used the little
finger of one of them to place across Frodo's nostrils.
"I blew three times down the cone and to my amazement I
saw Frodo's rib cage started to move."
"It wasn't pleasant - Frodo's mouth was horribly smelly -
but it saved his life and I wouldn't hesitate to do it again."
The two-year-old was rushed to a vet, made a full recovery
and was back on duty two weeks later.
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Removing Wallpaper
An easy way to strip wallpaper is to score it first, and
then using a spritzer bottle filled with fabric softener,
spray the wall. After removing as much vinyl or paper
as possible, re-spray and the layer of glue/adhesive will
strip right off.
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This man walked into a Fifth Avenue bank and said to the guard,
"Pardon me. I'd like to talk with the fella that arranges loans.
The guard replied, "I'm sorry but the loan arranger is out to lunch."
"In that case," the man said, "I'd like to talk to Tonto!"
A man phones a mental hospital and asks
the receptionist if there is anybody in Room 27.
She goes and checks, and comes back to
the phone, telling him No, the room is empty.
"Good," says the man. "That means I must
have really escaped."
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Dear Webby:Outlook Express Stationery Monday, September 10, 2007, 03:42 AM
Good Morning, !
Monday, Sept 10, 2007
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a
weird religious cult.
--- Rita Rudner
"ABC News says Americans spend $300 billion every year on
games of chance, and that doesn't even include weddings and
elections."
--- Argus Hamilton
An old guy went to his doctor and said,
"Doc, I think I'm getting senile. Several times lately,
I have forgotten to zip up."
"That's not senility," replied the doctor.
"Senility is when you forget to zip down...."
A priest, a pastor, and a rabbi are walking down the street on
a hot day and are quite thirsty. They pass a busy bar and want
to go in and get a drink but have no money. But the priest comes
up with an idea that he thinks might work, so he goes in alone,
telling to others that if his idea works they can all get free
drinks. He orders his drink, and when he's finished with it, the
bartender gives him his tab.
The priest says, "But son,... I already paid for the drink!"
The bartender says, "I'm terribly sorry father but it's really
busy in here and I must have forgotten."
The priest goes out and tells the pastor and the rabbi what happened,
so the pastor goes in next. The pastor orders his drink and then
informs the bartender that he already had paid when the bartender
asks him for the money. Again the bartender apologizes.
Finally the rabbi goes in and orders his drink. Again the bartender
gives him the tab and the rabbi tells him, "Son, I paid you when I
ordered the drink."
"I'm terribly sorry rabbi," says the bartender, "I don't know what's
wrong with me, but your the third man of the cloth that I've done this
to."
"I'm sorry son," says the rabbi, "but I'm in a terrible hurry,...
Just give me my change for the $20 I gave you, and I'll be on my way...!"
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From: Cyndi
Re: Outlook Depressed stationery
Dear Webby,
I have Outlook Express 6 and Windows XP. When I download
and try to use EML stationeries, and click to use one, the to: and
subject lines do not appear to use the stationery. I know it is not
an Microsoft Update, because I really watch the ones that I update.
Could it be in my Outlook Express settings somewhere. This
happened once before and I knew how to fix it, seemed like it was
very simple. I hope you can help me.
Cyndi
Dear Cyndi
As I have mentioned many times before,
I do not allow Outlook Depressed within 10 feet of any Webby computer,
and I don't know how to fix Outlook Depressed problems.
For help with Outlook Depressed problems you have to write to the
Express Empress at 9empress@fire-cat.com.
If you are blocking her reply, check her blog at http://fire-cat.com/blog
Your question and her reply will show up there too.
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The following was overheard at a recent high society party...
"My ancestry goes all the way back to Alexander the Great,"
said one lady. She then turned to a second woman and asked,
"How far does your family go back?"
"I don't know," was the reply. "All of our records were lost
in the flood."
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Foiled burglar loses clothes in tussle
The Associated Press | Sunday, Sep 9 2007 2:01 PM
Last Updated: Sunday, Sep 9 2007 2:06 PM
A man who allegedly tried to burglarize a home lost his
clothes in a scuffle with the 69-year-old homeowner and
then tried to streak away before he was arrested.
Wayne and Kathie Boniface returned home from dinner
Thursday night at a neighbor's to find the man in their house.
Wayne Boniface said the man made the mistake of grabbing
his wife.
"As soon as he grabbed my wife, I had him in the kitchen
wrestling him to the ground in a headlock and arm-lock,"
Boniface said.
First, Boniface said, he ripped the man's shirt off. Then,
"his head was down over the railing, and in today's world,
pants are worn fairly loose. I pulled his pants, and his pants
and underpants and shoes came completely off. He was
completely nude."
When police asked Boniface if he could identify the suspect,
he said: "Oh, yeah. I believe he's the only guy running nude
in Duluth."
The 20-year-old man was apprehended about 20 minutes later.
He has been charged with two counts of first-degree burglary.
The man's name was not released.
Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Keep Socks Together
Attach pairs of socks with a safety pin before putting them
in the washer. Even better, pin them together when you take
them off and toss them in the dirty clothes hamper. The best
safety pins are diaper safety pins which are less likely to
damage other clothing.
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A Statistician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in
a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the
house on the other side of the street. First they see two
people going into the house. Time passes. After a while they
notice three persons coming out of the house.
The Physicist says: "The measurement wasn't accurate." The
Biologist concludes: "They have reproduced."
The Statistician says: "Now if another person enters the house,
it'll be empty
again."
A mother may hope that her daughter will get
a better husband than she did, but she knows her
son will never get as good a wife as his father did.
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Dear Webby: Convert French XP to English Sunday, September 9, 2007, 03:08 AM
Good Morning, !
Sunday, Sept 9, 2007
There are two types of people--
those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!'
and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
--- Frederick L Collins
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
--- Benjamin Franklin
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
--- Milton Berle
A man passed out in a dead faint as he came out of his front
door onto the porch. Someone called 911. When the paramedics
arrived, they helped him regain consciousness and asked if he
knew what caused him to faint.
"It was enough to make anybody faint," he said. "My son asked
me for the keys to the garage, and instead of driving the car out,
he came out with the lawn mower."
During a Law school lecture, the 'Audi alteramparten' rule
was explained. Translated it means, "To hear the other party".
After discussing the subject at great length, the lecturer
asked if anyone didn't understand the rule.
A man in the back of the class said, "Yes, my wife."
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Re: XP French to English
Dear Webby
How does one change Windows XP from a French set-up to an
English one?
Dianne
Dear Dianne
If you have a legitimate XP set-up CD, you can contact Microsoft
and ask to trade it for an English one. Sometimes you can change
the keyboard and browser skin from English to French, but if you
have the European French version, then apparently you are stuck.
If you are in a hurry, visit some garage sales. There are bound to be
aome old klunkers for sale in your neighborhood, that have legitimate
XP set-up CDs, just burned out hard drives or motherboards, or too
slow speed. Use the CD, and turn the klunker into a planter or
barbecue. For slightly more money you can buy an English XP at any
on-line computer store.
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The poor country pastor was livid when he confronted
his wife with the receipt for a $250 dress she had
bought. "How could you do this!" he exclaimed.
"I don't know," she wailed, "I was standing in the
store looking at the dress. Then I found myself
trying it on. It was like the Devil was whispering
to me, 'Gee, you look great in that dress. You
should buy it.'"
"Well," the pastor persisted, "You know how to deal
with him! Just tell him, "Get behind me, Satan!"
"I did," replied his wife, "but then he said "It
looks great from back here, too"
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Flashy B&B set to open
A lighthouse is set to be turned into a bed and breakfast.
Belle Tout lighthouse at Beachy Head, East Sussex, has already
been made into a six-bedroom home after it was sold by the
council for just £900 six years ago, reports the Daily Mirror.
Now the Belle Tout Lighthouse Preservation Fund wants to raise
£850,000 to buy the 175-year-old landmark from owner Louise
Roberts after getting planning permission for a B&B.
The lighthouse was moved 60ft inland in 1999 to stop it falling
into the sea due to coastal erosion.
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How Many Meals
When buying meat, calculate how many meals you think you
can get out of the package and divide that by how much it
costs. Try to get as many meals out of each meat purchase
as possible.
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A widow recently married a widower. Soon after the marriage
she was accosted by a friend who laughingly remarked -
"I suppose, like all men who have been married before, your
husband sometimes talks about his first wife?"
"Oh, not any more, he doesn't," the other replied.
"What stopped him?"
"I started talking about my next husband."
A scientist found, to his great surprise, that he was lactose
intolerant (unable to digest milk sugar). At dinner that night with
his two young daughters (age 9 and 4 years), he mentioned that he had
found out that he was lactose intolerant and tried to explain to them
what that meant.
A couple of months later, he took the kids to a local restaurant for a
quick breakfast before shopping. The place was very busy, but the
quality of the food and service were obviously not up to par. When
they finally got their breakfast, his youngest daughter took a look at
her father's omelet and burnt toast and declared very loudly to the
waitress "My Daddy can't eat that toast, he is charcoal intolerant."
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Dear Webby: Computer vision fatigue Saturday, September 8, 2007, 04:45 AM
Good Morning, !
Saturday, Sept 8, 2007
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.
There are no exceptions to this rule.
--- Stephen King
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to
be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."
--- Mark Caine
Thanks to Sandie for this story:
A good piece of chocolate has about 200 calories.
As I enjoy two servings per night and a few more on weekends,
I consume 3,500 calories of chocolate in a week, which equals
to one pound of weight per week.
Therefore, in the last three and a half years, I have had a chocolate
caloric intake of about 180 pounds. I only weigh 165 pounds,
so without chocolate, I would have wasted away to nothing about
three months ago.
I owe my life to chocolate!
From Doc
A mother looked out a window and saw Johnny playing church
with their three kittens.
He had them lined up and was preaching to them. The mother
turned around to do some work.
A while later she heard meowing and scratching on the door.
She went to the window and saw Johnny baptizing the kittens.
She opened the window and said, "Johnny, stop that! You'll
drown those kittens."
Johnny looked at her and said with much conviction in his voice:
"They should had thought of that before they joined my church."
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From: Lucy
Re: Eye strain
Dear Webby
I am working on a large but very important project, but lately
after half a day or so, my eyes get tired and sandy. When that
happens, I can't concentrate and all I want to do is go for a
nap. Is there a solution for that?
Lucy
Dear Lucy
First check the air currents in the room. If necessary, get a
smoker to assist you. Especially in a darkened room a
flashlight and some smoke will quickly tell you if air from
anywhere is bouncing off the monitor or keyboard into your
face and drying your eyes. If it is, deflect the air somehwre
else.
Secondly, raise the monitor or lower the chair so that you
sit in the sexy positioning like the typists before the
computer age, chest out, back and neck straight, head
slightly raised so that a ruler placed under your chin and
pointing forward, points slightly upward, not level or down.
Your neck and head circulation will improve instantly, and
your eyes will feel a lot better.
As a fringe benefit, especially if you combine that body
posture with a silly grin about it, works as an anti-depressant
and mood optimizer.
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"Here's something that will really make you feel grown up,"
said a father to his teenage daughter, "Your very own phone bill."
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The Ontario government has
unveiled "Highway of Heroes"
signs along a stretch of
Highway 401, formally
dedicating the
route to Canada's fallen soldiers.
The 172-kilometre stretch,
officially designated as the
MacDonald-Cartier Freeway,
extends from Toronto to Trenton.
It is the route taken to transport the bodies of fallen soldiers to
the coroner's office in Toronto once they return to Canada.
Large crowds -- including veterans and emergency service
personnel -- have routinely gathered on the highway's
overpasses to wave flags in support of the troops.
Premier Dalton McGuinty said Friday that the signs will serve
as a commemoration of the bravery and sacrifice of Canadian
soldiers.
"The road that links Ontario and Quebec is named in honour
of the two leaders who gave life to our young nation more than
140 years ago," said McGuinty. "It is enormously fitting, then,
that we dedicate a portion of this very road in honour of those
who gave their lives for our nation."
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Stocking Staples and Cooking From Scratch
The key to cooking from scratch is making sure that you
have staples on hand. Potatoes are cheap, can be stored
for a long time and can be used in a variety of dishes. Other
staples to keep on hand are rice, beans, cooking oil and flour.
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While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized
his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him
clinging to the overturned craft. Spotting an old beachcomber
standing on the shore, the tourist shouted, "are there any
gators around here?!"
"Naw," the man hollered back, "Ain't been any for years!"
Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming toward the shore.
As he got closer to shore he shouted to the guy again "What
did you do to get rid of the gators?"
"We didn't do nothin'," the beachcomber said. "The sharks got
'em all."
A woman passed out and her husband,Bubba, called 911.
The operator said they would send someone out right away
and asked, "Where do you live?"
Bubba replied, "At the end of Eucalyptus Drive."
The operator asked, "Can you spell that for me?"
There was a long pause and finally, Bubba said, "How about
I drag her over to Oak Street and you can meet us there?"
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Dear Webby: Outlook Express problems Friday, September 7, 2007, 03:47 AM
Good Morning, !
Friday, Sept 7, 2007
Wear something red today to show your support for the troops!
Humor is everywhere,
in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
--- Bill Nye
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thanks to Sandie for this story:
Woman comes home and tells her husband:
"Remember those headaches I've been having all these years? Well, they're
gone."
"No more headaches?" the husband asks, "What happened?"
His wife replies: "Margie referred me to a hypnotist.
He told me to stand in front of a mirror, stare at myself and repeat
'I do not have a headache; I do not have a headache, I do not have a
headache.' It worked! The headaches are all gone."
Well, that is wonderful" Said the husband.
His wife then says,
"You know, you haven't been exactly a ball of fire in the bedroom
these last few years. Why don't you go see the hypnotist and
see if he can do anything for that?"
The husband agrees to try it.
Following his appointment, the husband comes home, rips off his
clothes, picks up his wife and carries her into the bedroom.
He puts her on the bed and says, "Don't move, I'll be right back."
He goes into the bathroom and comes back a few minutes later
and jumps into bed and makes passionate love to his wife like
never before.
His wife says, "Boy, that was wonderful!"
The husband says, "Don't move! I will be right back."
He goes back into the bathroom, comes back and round two
was even better than the first time.
The wife sits up and her head is spinning.
Her husband again says, "Don't move, I'll be right back."
With that, he goes back in the bathroom.
This time, his wife quietly follows him and there, in the bathroom,
she Sees him standing at the mirror and saying,
"She's not my wife.
She's not my wife.
She's not my wife!"
His funeral service will be held on Saturday.
Can you find the names of 16 books from the Bible in the paragraph
below without the aid of your bible? (One minister found 15 of the
books in 20 minutes, but it took him weeks to find the last one.)
I once made the remark about the hidden books of the Bible. It was
a lulu; kept people looking so hard for facts... and for others it
was a revelation. Some were in a jam, especially since the names
of the books were not capitalized. But the truth finally struck home
to numbers of our readers. To others it was a real job. We want it
to be a most fascinating few moments for you. Yes, there will be some
really easy ones to spot. Others may require judges to help them. I
will quickly admit it usually takes a minister to find one of them,
and there will be loud lamentations when it is found. A little lady
says she brews a cup of tea so she can concentrate better. See how
well you can compete. Relax now, for there really are sixteen names
of books of the Bible in this paragraph.
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Re: Outlook Express Problems
Hi Webby:
I am hoping you get this e mail, this is the third try. Can
you tell me how to repair outlook express???? Most of
my e mails do not reach their destination, and I don't
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I love your newsletter!!!!
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A father noticed that his son was spending way too much time
playing computer games. In an effort to motivate the boy into
focusing more attention on his schoolwork, the father said to
his son,
"When Abe Lincoln was your age, he was studying books by
the light of the fireplace."
The son replied, "When Lincoln was your age, he was
The President of The United States."
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August 12, 2007 - Athens, Greece - AFP
A middle-aged Greek shepherd unable to walk over long
distances now drives to work after training his flock of
sheep to follow his car, state television Net reported on
Sunday.
George Zokos from Tyrnavos in central Greece devised
the system after his health deteriorated, and has been
'driving' his sheep to pasture for the past three years,
the station said.
Zokos' neighbours have dubbed him "the euro-shepherd"
for his advanced sheep-herding method.
"We would sometimes hear honking, or the car door slamming,
and then we realised that it was George training his sheep,"
a neighbour told the station.
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The preacher was having a heart-to-heart talk with a
backslider of his flock, whose drinking of moonshine invariably
led to quarreling with his neighbors, and occasional shotgun
blasts at some of them.
"Can't you see, Ben," intoned the parson, "that not one good
thing comes out of this drinking?"
"Well, I sort of disagree there," replied the backslider.
"It makes me miss the folks I shoot at."
Stormy had to suddenly fly up North to Beaverlodge
because of news that her father is dying. She will
send in her columns again as soon as she finds a
Cybercafe up there.
Seems that she still hasn't found one yet.
Here is one from Glenn
A little something for your "Stormy" section.
I had a Siamese tomcat and a miniture Dachsund. I built
the dog a doghouse with plexiglass, lined the floor and
walls with carpet, installed a heat lamp and a thermostat
to keep the dog warm without cooking it, because the
winters were quite cold.
The cat had been quite snobbish with the dog until it saw
the doghouse, then it became quite friendly! When it finally
did turn cold, it was not unusual to see the cat and dog
curled up together in the toasty warm doghouse. It was
easy to see in, since the roof was plexiglass, and the
U-turn hallway inside the doghouse kept out the cold wind.
The roof was hinged so I could put food and water into the
doghouse to keep the water from freezing.
(Oh, my wife didn't let the dog in the house, so he needed
a warm house of his own.)
Some years later, we moved, and the cat made friends with
the neighbor's bulldog, which was in a privacy-fenced back
yard. When the neighborhood tomcats wanted to establish
their dominance, the cat ran - straight over the privacy fence
and into the neighbor's back yard, the aggresive tom or toms
hot on his tail. Funny, one loud bark from that bulldog, and
the aggressive tom would come out of that yard even faster
than he went into it!
Hope you like the story.
Glenn
My Dad and I were talking the other night about love and
marriage. He told me that he knew as early as their wedding
what marriage to my Mom would be like. It seems the minister
asked my Mom, "Do you take this man to be your husband."
And she said, "I do."
Then the minister asked my Dad, "Do you take this woman to
be your wife," and my Mom said, "He better,....."
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Dear Webby: How to export Favorites Thursday, September 6, 2007, 03:33 AM
Good Morning, !
Thursday, Sept 6, 2007
My goal is to become the person my dog thinks I am.
--- Socratex
Thanks to Sandie for this:
When I went to the doctor for my yearly physical, my blood
pressure was high, my cholesterol was high, I'd gained
some weight and I didn't feel so hot.
My doctor said that eating right doesn't have to be
complicated and it would solve my physical problems.
He said, "Just think in colors. Fill your plate with bright
colors of greens, yellows, reds, etc."
So, I went right home and emptied an entire bag of M&Ms
onto a plate, ate them and sure enough, I felt better!
The reporter met the plane that brought back soldiers
from their year in Iraq. He wanted to write a human
interest story, and asked one soldier,
"What's the first thing you'll do when you get home?"
The soldier immediately replied, "Spend an hour in
bed with my wife."
The reporter realized he'd never get that printed, and
asked, "Oh. Well, and what will you do after that ?"
"Take off these stupid combat boots!"
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From: Olga
Re: How do I "export" favorites
Dear Webby
How do I "export" favorites from MSIE?
Olga
Dear Olga
Open the browser,
hold down ALT and hit F
I
N
E
Enter, Enter, Enter.
Just remember ALT Fine
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A mother wanted to teach her daughter a moral lesson.
She gave the little girl a quarter and a dollar for
church.
"Put whichever one you want in the collection plate
and keep the other for yourself," she told the girl.
When they were coming out of the church, the mother
asked her daughter which amount she had given.
"Well," said the little girl, "I was going to give
the dollar, but just before the collection the man
in the pulpit said that we should all be cheerful
givers. I knew I'd be a lot more cheerful if I gave
the quarter, so I did."
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August 12, 2007 - Glenville, New York - AP
An 83-year-old New York skydiver, who's been jumping out
of airplanes for less than ten years, has reached the 100
jump mark. Leo Dean of Albany now has his sights set on
200 jumps.
Dean took up skydiving after he was widowed in 1998.
He says he wondered if he had "the nerve to step out the door"
and was pleased to find out he did. Dean is a veteran of the
Second World War and still works as vice president of a
financial services company.
He made his 100th skydive Saturday and says he won't give
it up till he has to.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0708 ... d_skydiver
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In California's Sonoma Valley, where vineyards cater to wine
snobbery, a woman phoned the classified ad department of a
newspaper. She offered for sale what sounded like "well-aged
Caumeneur."
The ad-taker was unfamiliar with that particular, wine, but was used
to the infusion of French words into the local vocabulary.
"Could you please spell that?" she asked.
"You know," said the woman impatiently, "C-o-w M-a-n-u-r-e
Stormy had to suddenly fly up North to Beaverlodge
because of news that her father is dying. She will
send in her columns again as soon as she finds a
Cybercafe up there.
Seems that she still hasn't found one yet, so I'll throw in a
dog story of my own.
One time a summer storm got a bit carried away and tree
branches and pine cones and squirrels and pieces of bark
and who knows what were flying along horizontally. Luckily
my workshop was sheltered bythe garage on the windy side
and all the windows were on the safe sides.
I watched how the dogs were coping with it. Most were lying
down in their favorite naptime configurations, except Dora.
She stood there, facing the wind, snapping at pine cones
and whatever flew by. Then she actually caught a squirrel!
Either she or the squirrel must have made a certain noise,
because instantly all the other dogs were on their feet and
playing the same game, catching wind-blown stuff, and having
a great time.
It only lasted about a few minutes, then the wind slowed down.
The dogs all turned to look down to the workshop and giving
short barks, as if they were trying to coax me to turn the wind
on again.
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On the first day of college, the Dean addressed the students,
pointing out some of the rules.
"The female dormitory will be out-of-bounds for all male
students, and the male dormitory to the female students. Anybody
caught breaking this rule will be fined $20 the first time."
He continued, "Anybody caught breaking this rule the second time
will be fined $60. Being caught a third time will incur a hefty
fine of $180. Are there any questions?"
At this point, a male student in the crowd inquired:
"How much for a season pass?"
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Dear Webby: Organize favorites Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 03:06 AM
Good Morning, !
Wednesday, Sept 5, 2007
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom
and democracy - but that could change.
--- Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
--- Dick Cavett
I took a part time job as an opinion poll sampler. On my
very first call, I introduced myself, "Hello, this is a
telephone poll."
The man replied, "Yeeeah, and this is a street lamp!"
Joe was sitting at the bar, sunk in misery. The bartender
said, "You look awful, pal. What's your problem."
Joe stared into his drink and said, "I'm tired of being a
social outcast. I'm with the circus, you see, and clean up
the animal cages. Well, it's not the most wonderful smell
in the world and because of it people avoid me. It's not
fair!"
"I see what you mean," the bartender sniffed. "But I've got
an idea. There are openings down at the factory. They are
regular hours and it probably pays better than the circus.
Why don't you apply?"
"What!" asked Joe, a bit offended,
"And leave show business?"
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From: Olga
Re: Alternative to Favorites
Dear Webby
Is there a way to tag your favorites (bookmarks) so that
the regularly used ones stay on top and don't get shuffled
in with new ones?
Thanks
Olga
Dear Olga
There are various programs that try to do that, but so far
I have not found one that is good enough to recommend.
You can EXPORT the pookmarks to an HTML page, just
like you do when you back them up.
That HTML page is just like a web page menu and you can
move entries up and down according to your priorities,
and insert new ones wherever you want.
You don't need any special editor or skills for that. Any
text editor like NotePad or NoteMaid will do fine.
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Two poets, who had been bitter rivals, met each other on a
street corner. Naturally the old rivalry resumed itself.
"You know, " said the first poet,
"since we last met, my readership has increased!"
"Oh congratulations!" the second poet replied.
"I didn't know you got married!"
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Couples join the 'Love Revolution'
NEARLY 7,000 couples smooched on Saturday in the Bosnian
town of Tuzla in an attempt to break the world simultaneous
kissing record. Organisers of the "Love Revolution" hope to
win the title from Hungary, where 6,400 couples set the record
in June.
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The Matchmaker goes to see Mr Cohen, a confirmed
bachelor for many years.
"Mr Cohen, don't leave it too late. I have exactly the
one you need. You only have to say the word and you'll
meet and be married in no time!" says the Matchmaker.
"Don't bother," replies Mr Cohen, "I've two sisters at
home, who look after all my needs."
"That's all well and good, but all the sisters in the
world cannot fill the role of a wife."
"I said 'two sisters'. I didn't say they were MY sisters!"
Stormy had to suddenly fly up North to Beaverlodge
because of news that her father is dying. She will
send in her columns again as soon as she finds a
Cybercafe up there.
Seems that she still hasn't found one yet, so I'll throw in a
dog story of my own.
One time a visitor asked if there was a trail from my house
up the mountain behind the little lake, where my house was.
I told her, sure, just animal trails trampled out a bit by me
and my dogs. Since I was fairly busy, I told her she could
take a dog along to guide her.
Well, she had seen a picture of me running up a mountain
being towed by a dog, and wanted to try the same. Since she
was a tad overweight, she figured she would need a very
strong dog, so she picked Dora, a very muscular and low to
the ground heavy puller.
I offered her my running belt, which was basically just an
oversize web belt with 5" clips to clip into my jeans belt hoops,
so that it hung 5 inches below the regular belt. She declined
and insisted on clipping Dora's chain to her belt buckle.
Three minutes later she was back with a bloody nose and her
front decorated with bits of moss and pine needles. Dora had
wanted to go faster than she could run on rough terrain,
causing her to lose her balance and do a nose dive, just like
most beginners.
Now she accepted the low belt, and I told her to lean back
just like on a T-Bar ski lift. And I offered her a light-weight
moto-cross helmet with steel face guard. No, she wanted
her head free and her har blow in the wind.
Five minutes later she was back with most of her make-up
scratched off her face by branches along the trail. She had
been flailing with her arms to keep her balance instead of
guarding against low tree branches or high bushes.
This time she accepted the helmet and also a less powerful
tow dog.
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Thanks to Vickey for this GROANER:
A MECHANIC AND HIS DOG
A mechanic who worked out of his home had
a dog named Mace. Mace had a bad habit of
eating all the grass in the mechanic's lawn, so
the mechanic had to keep Mace inside. The
grass eventually became overgrown.
One day the mechanic was working on a car in
his backyard and dropped his wrench losing it in
the tall grass. He couldn't find it for the life of him
so he decided to call it a day.
That night, Mace escaped from the house and ate
all the grass in the backyard. The next morning,
the mechanic went outside and saw his wrench
glinting in the sunlight. Realizing what had happened,
he looked up to the heavens and sang out loudly,
proclaiming...
(Are you ready for this?)
"A grazing Mace, how sweet the hound that saved
a wrench for me!"
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Dear Webby: AOL Address Book Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 03:10 AM
Good Morning, !
Tuesday, Sept 4, 2007
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
--- G. K. Chesterton
The social studies teacher had just finished a unit on war
and peace. "How many of you," he asked, "would say
you're opposed to war?"
Not surprisingly, all hands went up. The teacher asked,
"Who'll give us the reason for being opposed to war?"
A large, bored-looking boy in the back of the room raised
his hand.
"Johnny?" the teacher said.
"I hate war," Johnny said, "because wars make history,
and I hate History!"
In August 1975 three men were on their way in to rob the Royal Bank
of Scotland at Rothesay, when they got stuck in the revolving doors.
They had to be helped free by the staff and, after thanking everyone,
sheepishly left the building.
A few minutes later they returned and announced their intention of
robbing the bank, but none of the staff believed them. When they
demanded 5,000 pounds in cash, the head cashier laughed at them,
convinced that it was a practical joke.
Then one of the men jumped over the counter, but fell to the floor
clutching his ankle. The other two tried to make their getaway, but
got trapped in the revolving doors again.
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Re: Still Not getting subscription
Okay- I went online to your letter, and did read it; so obviously
the problem is AOL....but I can't find the "white-list" you talk
about in AOL to add your name to it.....................
I have searched everything I can find in AOL-- and it just
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but I can't find the white-list you speak of in AOL to add you
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Two women were paired together as partners in a club tournament
and met on the putting green for the first time.
After introductions, the first golfer asked, "What's your handicap?"
"Oh, I'm a scratch golfer," the other replied.
"Really!" exclaimed the first woman, suitably impressed that she
was paired up with her.
"Yes, I write down all my good scores and scratch out the bad ones!
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August 10, 2007 - Winnepeg - CP
She likes to nap and nosh on her favourite foods, but at her
age the grande dame can be forgiven her indulgences.
Debby, who lives in a rocky enclosure at Winnipeg's Assiniboine
Park Zoo, was recently named the world's oldest polar bear by
Guinness World Records.
At 40, Debby has doubled the life expectancy of most polar
bears. In the wild, the massive Arctic bears usually live about
20 years.
Zoo officials believe Debby was born in December 1966 and
arrived in Winnipeg from Russia the following spring.
For years, she shared an enclosure with her mate Skipper, who
died six years ago at age 34.
When they were younger, the bears would cuddle together outside
through the night, even in -40 C. temperatures. In the morning,
they'd wake up completely covered in snow drifts. Their long
relationship was unusual for the usually solitary animals.
As for the secret to Debby's longevity, zookeepers can only guess.
If Debby stays healthy for the next few years, she could break
another record. As it stands, she is almost the oldest bear in
recorded history, second only to a 43-year-old bruin from a zoo in
Detroit, Wrigley said.
At a celebration of her Guinness record later this month, zookeepers
plan to feed Debby some of her favourite treats - smoked goldeye,
veggie dogs and a fish frozen inside a block of ice.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0708 ... polar_bear
.
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Thanks to Billy for this story:
I was the last to leave the office one Friday
evening and managed to lock myself out without
my overcoat and wallet.
Kneeling in a deserted hallway to try picking
an electronic lock with a paper clip, I heard
the seam of my suit trousers rip apart.
About then I realized I needed a screwdriver
to remove the lock plate, and said so, aloud.
Seconds later the elevator doors next to my
office opened, revealing a screwdriver in the
middle of the floor.
There was a crackle from the wall speaker next
to the elevator. "This is security," said a voice.
"There's your screwdriver. Sorry, but I don't
have a needle or thread for your pants!"
Stormy had to suddenly fly up North to Beaverlodge
because of news that her father is dying. She will
send in her columns again as soon as she finds a
Cybercafe up there.
Seems that she hasn't found one yet, so I'll throw in a dog
story of my own.
On hot days dogs need a lot of water, and I would hate to
see them go thirsty if they knock over their dish. So I
used 55 gallon drums cut in half for water dishes.
One time my girlfriend came running into the workshop
where I was making some parts for the windmill and yelled
that Dora's pups were in her water dish and couldn't get out,
and that Dora wouldn't let her go near them.
The pups were about 3 months old and were getting their
water at the lake about 30 feet away, so they were probably
just goofing around, or Dora tossed them in there so that
they would leave her alone.
I suggested that she go to the dogfood barrel, take the lid off
and start filling the pail. The moment she touched the lid,
all the dogs started their usual dinner howl, making sure
that they were not forgotten.
The pups jumped and clambered over the edge of the sawed
off barrel and were milling around her feet before she had
finished filling the pail.
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My grandfather worked in a blacksmith shop when he was a boy, and he
used to tell me, when I was a little boy myself, how he had toughened
himself up so he could stand the rigors of blacksmithing.
One story was how he had developed his arm and shoulder muscles. He
said he would stand outside behind the house and, with a 5 pound
potato sack in each hand, extend his arms straight out to his sides
and hold them there as long as he could.
After a while he tried 10 pound potato sacks, then 50 pound potato
sacks and finally he got to where he could lift a 100 pound potato
sack in each hand and hold his arms straight out for more than a full
minute!
Next, he started putting potatoes in the sacks.
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Dear Webby: Not getting subscriptions Monday, September 3, 2007, 04:31 AM
Good Morning, !
Monday, Sept 3, 2007
Happy Labor Day!
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint.
However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.
--- Richter
A reporter was interviewing Jack Nicklaus. He said, "Jack,
you are spectacular, your name is synonymous with the game
of golf. You really know your way around the course. What
is your secret?"
To which Jack replied, "The holes are numbered!"
A truck driver was having lunch at a truck stop when 8
motorcyclists came in.
They ate his crackers, drank his water, etc., and he made
no move to object.
After he left one of the group laughed and said,
"He wasn't much of a man, was he?"
The waitress behind the counter, looking out the window
said, "He's not much of a truck driver, either. He just ran
over 8 motorcycles!"
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Thanks to Deeli's Bonehead reports:
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Sherri Ferns, 35 of Concord, NH
Not sporty!
August 4, 2007 - Concord, New Hampshire - AP
A New Hampshire woman has been charged with assault for
allegedly throwing pizza at an umpire at a Little League
game in Concord last month.
Police say 35-year-old Sherri Ferns was working in a
concession stand. Her son is on the Concord All-Star team,
which lost a close game on July 11. A league investigation
said Concord parents and Little League volunteers taunted
the umps and tried to provoke them.
Police say Ferns tossed pizza that hit one ump and a parent.
She's charged with two counts of simple assault.
The league disciplined nine parents, board members and
volunteers, asking some to resign from the board.
Ferns was one of the nine.
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From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Evi
Re: Not getting subscription
For some unknown reason I haven't received your most
enjoyed news letter for several weeks, although your web
page does show I am still subscribed to it.
I admit I am NOT a computer expert but I can't find anything
in my mail controls that indicates that any of my mail is
being blocked, so am wondering what's going on that I'm
not receiving a copy every day.
Am hoping you can figure it out better than I've been able to!
Evie
Dear Evi
That seems to be normal with ao'ell.
You would be surprised to find out how many letters like
yours I get every day.
Apparentlty they got no sense of humor down there, and
the sniveling ninnies like to steal subscriptions.
Got to make room for spam, ya know.
Have you tried putting
humor@webby.com
into your white-list?
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August 10, 2007 - Trenton, New Jersey - AP
Divorce lawyers say electronic toll collection systems are
proving to be a valuable tool in exposing cheating spouses.
An Associated Press survey found that highway agencies
in seven states will release E-ZPass toll records in response
to court orders in both criminal and civil cases, including
divorces.
New York divorce lawyer Jacalyn Barnet called E-ZPass
"an easy way to show you took the off-ramp to adultery."
She said she's used the records on a number of occasions.
Another divorce lawyer, Lynne Gold-Bikin, said she was
able to prove her client's husband went to New Jersey on
a night he claimed to have been attending a business
meeting in Pennsylvania.
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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."
Stormy had to suddenly fly up North to Beaverlodge
because of news that her father is dying. She will
send in her columns again as soon as she finds a
Cybercafe up there.
Seems that she hasn't found one yet, so I'll throw in a dog
story of my own.
One time my summer neighbor, a chef from Switzerland,
wanted to borrow one of my dogs to take along, because
he heard that there were grizzlies near his favorite fishing
spot. Adam was ideal for that. He was tall and had very
visible reddish-brown and white markings. He was quite
conscientious, but not as obnoxious about it as some of the
other dogs.
When Jacques brought Adam back, he was quite dissappointed.
He said Adam took off as soon as he started fishing, and did
not return until he packed up his stuff.
I had to explain to him that for every grizzly HE sees, there
are a hundred that see him. Adam was just busy spiralling
out from his fishing spot ad slowly herding the bears away.
They are basically peaceful and especially on hot summer
days, rather saunter away than get into any strenuous fight.
And since he had not seen a single grizzly all day, obviously
Adam had been doing a good job, even though he was not
underfoot waiting to be petted, like some of the dogs would
have been.
They became good friends that season and from that day
on, Jaques always asked for Adam.
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Customer: "You've got to fix my computer. I urgently
need to print a document, but the computer won't boot properly."
DearWebby: "What does it say?"
Customer: "Something about an error and non-system disk."
DearWebby: "Look at your machine. Is there a floppy inside?"
Customer: "No, but there's a sticker saying there's
an intel inside. How do I get that one out? "
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Dear Webby: Connection failing Sunday, September 2, 2007, 03:33 AM
Good Morning, !
Sunday, Sept 2, 2007
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
--- Frank Zappa
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
--- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A friend was lecturing in Latin America. He was going to use a
translator, but to identify with his audience, he wanted to begin his
talk by saying in Spanish, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen."
He arrived at the auditorium a little early and realized he did not
know the Spanish words for "ladies and gentlemen." Being rather
resourceful, he went to the part of the building where the restrooms
were, looked at the signs on the two doors, and memorized those two
words.
When the audience arrived and he was introduced, he stood up and said
in Spanish, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen." The audience was
shocked. The people seemed stunned.
He didn't know whether he had offended them or perhaps they hadn't
heard him or understood him. So he decided to repeat it. Again in
Spanish he said, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen."
One person in the audience began to snicker. Pretty soon the entire
audience was laughing. Finally, someone told him that he had said,
"Good evening, bathrooms and broom closets!"
It has been determined that having sex before participating in athletic
activity, such as a marathon race, does not impair the athlete's abilities.
In fact, men have known and displayed this for centuries. After sex,
they glance at their watches and say, "Oops, gotta run!"
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Thanks to Deeli's Bonehead reports:
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Howard Shelley, 42, Buckinghamshire, UK
Trying for a Darwin Award?
August 9, 2007 - Buckinghamshire, UK - Ananova
Building boss Howard Shelley carried out the ultimate DIY
conversion by castrating himself.
The 42-year-old dad of two decided on the drastic move after
being told he would have to wait at least two years for a sex
change on the NHS, reports The Sun.
He found a website which gave a step-by-step guide to the
eye-watering home surgery, then waited till wife Janet went
out before setting to work with a kitchen knife in the loo.
With the job done, he wrapped his severed appendages in
a cloth and dropped them in the bin.
Then he drove five miles to his local GP, explained what he'd
done, and was packed off for treatment at the Stoke Mandeville
Hospital, near Aylesbury.
Amazingly, three days later he was back at his desk.
Howard, who wants to be known as Holli, said: "It was very
painful, but the moment I cut them off I felt all woman.
"I'm the sort of guy who, when I make up my mind to do something,
wants it done there and then. I didn't want to be a man any
more so I decided to do it myself.
"The worst bit was steeling myself for the first cut. The whole
thing took six minutes. It was agony, but I knew I couldn't stop."
He is saving up £5,000 for a full sex-change operation in
Thailand. He said: "I want breasts and hips - then I can be a
real woman."
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The owner of a business was confused about paying a bill,
so he asked his secretary for some mathematical help...
"If I were to give you $200, minus 14%, how much would
you take off?" he asked her.
The secretary replied, "Everything but my earrings!"
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From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Susan
Re: Get knocked off-line and modem makes weird noise
Good Morning, We have been having a lot of trouble of
falling off line once we are connected to Inet. We have a
new provider so apparantly that was not the problem. When
trying to connect, I sometimes notice strange noise...I have
to shut down and restart. If the strange noise has stopped,
it will then connect. We still may get dropped and have to
reconnect. I think this is a modem problem. Do you think the
modem needs to be replaced? It has been replaced once.
Does heat have anything to do with this? (we have dial up)
Read your humor letter and vote every time I am online. I do
not trust just anyone's 'tech help' but I have never gone wrong
with yours. Thank you for any help you can give me this time.
Susan
Dear Susan
that would be either the modem re-dialing after your connection
had broken,
or
some malicious program knocking you off and then dialing a
long distance number.
Is the sound similar to when you are normally connecting?
if it sounds like a normal connecting, then reboot to get a
clean slate, then
click on START,
RUN,
then type cmd and hit Enter.
You will get a black and white DOS screen.
In there type
tracert hotmail.com
Click on EDIT, MARK, COPY, then paste that into a text file or email.
Just save that.
Then, next time you get knocked off and the modem dials you
up with a weird noise,
do that again. If it shows a different trace route, then you know some
malicious program is connecting you to some expensive long distance.
If it shows the same route as right after rebooting, then you can relax.
Then it's just something interrupting your connection.
That could be anything.
When I was in the Yukon, my security system did a self-test at 01:00
and called in an "OK" to the monitoring station. That of course knocked
me off-line.
In Okotoks it was the gas meter, that phoned in the day's results at 02:00.
Same thing. I got knocked off the net.
If it happens more than once a day, ask the phone company to check the
line and find out what interrupts the connection.
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August 13, 2007 - Woolton, Liverpool, UK - Ananova
A baby was born in Liverpool at 8.08am on the eighth day of
the eighth month weighing 8lbs after her mum endured eight
hours of labour.
Mel Byrne, 31, gave birth to Lulu with help from Chinese-born
midwife Bea Fung, who helped deliver eight babies that day,
reports the Daily Mirror.
Mrs Fung said: "In Chinese culture the number eight is
considered very lucky. I was watching the clock as the birth
approached and was counting the minutes and she arrived
at just the right time.
"Straight away I told Mel and Pete their daughter was very
lucky indeed."
Mrs Fung, who has been at Liverpool Women's Hospital for
33 years, added: "The number of eights linked to Lulu is
incredible. I consider myself very lucky to have been there."
The couple, from Woolton, Liverpool, already have a two-year-
old daughter, Maisy.
Photographer Peter, 30, said: "Bea was very excited and kept
telling us how lucky we were and how lucky Lulu is.
"I think I will be letting Lulu choose the lottery numbers as soon
as she is old enough."
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tissue box and slip it over the top of the roll. It's both
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When a physician remarked on a new patient's extraordinarily
ruddy complexion, he said, "High blood pressure, Doc.
It comes from my family."
"Your mother's side or your father's?" Doc asked.
"Neither," he replied. "It's from my wife's family."
"Oh, come now," Doc said. "How could your wife's family give
you high blood pressure?"
He sighed. "You oughta meet 'em sometime!"
Stormy had to suddenly fly up North to Beaverlodge
because of news that her father is dying. She will
send in her columns again as soon as she finds a
Cybercafe up there.
Seems that she hasn't found one yet, so I'll throw in a dog
story of my own.
Dora was a wheel dog. That's the title given to the last dog
in the team. The wheel dog needs weight, raw power, and
a fanatic obsession to stay on the trail. Without a strong
wheel dog the team tends to straighten out on a winding trail
and the last one or two dogs get drug through the deep snow
beside the trail. If the trail is winding, there is usually a
reason for that, for example rocks or stumps. If the team
straightens, the sled will hit those hidden obstacles, often
with disastrous results.
Dora had that talent and strength. For example, one time
winter I had clipped her chain to a 100 Gallon propane "pig"
while I was cleaning up around her tree.
While I was putting the rake and the shovel away, she pulled
the propane pig over on it's side and drug it to her spot.
It was still full and not hooked up yet, so it was not a big deal,
but I made her tow it back all by herself too.
Dora was very possessive and a great guard dog for my
truck and the tool boxes in the back. One hot September day
it was her turn to come along to a job site. As usual, on hot
days, she jumped off the truck and laid down in the shade
under it. Towards evening, as the sun shone under the truck,
she moved over under the next truck and continued her snooze
there.
Then another worker came running up to me, quite upset and
claiming that my dog had just about killed him and would not
let him near his truck.
I realized what had happened and went out there and yelled:
"Dora, UP!"
As usual, she zipped out from under the truck and jumped.
In mid air she realized that there was no welder and toolbox
on the truck, but a mess of pipes.
Dora tried her best to turn around in mid-air, but just managed
to crash sideways into all those pipes and causing quite a
clatter and racket. She stood up, gave the pipes a disgusted
look, and then gave me a dirty look, for having switched the
trucks on her, while she was napping.
Then she finally jumped from the wrong truck onto mine,
went to her traveling spot between the welder and the cab,
turned around a couple of times, and flopped down to resume
her nap.
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"What happened?" asked the hospital visitor to the heavily bandaged
man sitting up in bed.
"Well, I went down to Busch Gardens on vacation and decided to take a
ride on the Loch Ness Monster... As we came up to the top of the
highest loop, I noticed a little sign by the side of the track.
I tried to read it but it was very small and I couldn't make it out. I
was so curious that I decided to go round again, but we went by so
quickly that I couldn't see what the sign said.
By now, I was determined to read that sign so I went round a third
time. As we reached the top, I stood up in the car to get a better
view."
"And did you manage to see what the sign said this time?" asked the visitor.
"Yes," he said sheepishly, "Remain seated at all times....!"
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Dear Webby's Road Warrior Kit for 2007 Saturday, September 1, 2007, 02:26 AM
Good Morning, !
Saturday, Sept 1, 2007
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
--- Rudyard Kipling
She left him on the sofa when the phone rang, and
was back in a few seconds. "Who was it?" he asked.
"My husband," she replied.
"I better get going," he said. "Where was he?"
"Relax," she said, "He's downtown playing poker with you."
TO: Medical Personnel
FROM: Human Resources
It has come to our attention from several emergency rooms
that many EMS narratives have taken a decidedly creative
direction lately. Effective immediately, all members are
to refrain from using slang and abbreviations to describe
patients, such as the following.
Cardiac patients should not be referred to with MUH
(messed up heart), PBS (pretty bad shape), PCL
(pre-code looking) or HIBGIA (had it before, got it again).
Stroke patients are NOT "Charlie Carrots." Nor are rescuers
to use CCFCCP (Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs) to describe their
mental state.
Trauma patients are not FDGB (fall down, go boom), TBC
(total body crunch) or "hamburger helper".
Similarly, descriptions of a car crash do not have to
include phrases like "negative vehicle to vehicle interface"
or "terminal deceleration syndrome."
HAZMAT teams are highly trained professionals, not
"glow worms."
Persons with altered mental states as a result of drug use
are not considered "pharmaceutically gifted" or "UFO-rejects".
Persons who are hysterical or sufering from Post Traumatic
Stress Syndrome are not to be called "LOV" (Low On Valium)
Gunshot wounds to the head are not "trans-occipital implants."
The homeless are not "urban campers".
Endotracheal intubation is not to be referred to as a "PVC Challenge".
And finally, do not refer to recently deceased persons as being
"paws up," ART (assuming room temperature), or CTD (circling
the drain).
I know you will all join me in respecting the cultural diversity
of our patients to include their medical orientations in
creating proper, narratives and log entries.
Sincerely,
Director of Human Resources
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to loose British prisons
From the frying pn into the fire
August 7, 2007 - Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK - Ananova
An immigrant who broke out of a detention centre was caught
after he knocked on the door of a prison officer.
The Bangladeshi fugitive asked for help and shelter at the
home of Bill Smith, 50.
He told wife Sheila to call police but the runaway made
another break for it over the garden fence. Bill restrained
him and six officers arrived to take him back, reports The Sun.
The prison guard said the shoeless fugitive appeared at
his house at 9am yesterday.
He said: "I sat him in a garden chair and gave him a drink
of water and he calmed down.
"He was frightened and didn't want to go back. But as a
prison officer you're never off duty."
Police are still hunting 14 immigrants after 26 broke out of
Campsfield House detention centre, Oxfordshire, on Sunday.
Bill, who works at Bullingdon Prison nearby, found the man's
mobile and an ID confirming he was from Campsfield.
He said: "A mobile may have helped him escape. The mind
boggles that they are issued to them."
He revealed it was the third time he has found escaped
detainees in his garden in 23 years living in Bicester,
Oxfordshire.
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At a dinner party, one of the guests, an obnoxiously loud young
man, tried to make clever remarks about everyone and
everything.
When he was served a piece of meat, he picked it up with his
fork, held it up and smirked: 'Is this pig?'
Another guest, sitting opposite, asked quietly: 'Which end of
the fork are you referring to?'
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From: Sheila
Re: Laptop Blues
Dear Webby,
I know you have answered this before, but I need help. I purchased
a laptop and will be traveling. You had lots of good info about
traveling such as the fiberglass used in hotels, but I can't
remember the details because I didn't expect to buy a laptop.
I really enjoy your news letter. Lots of info that's so helpful.
Thanks for taking your time to help us!
Sheila
Dear Sheila
Here is what's in the Dear Webby Road Warrior kit:
4mm or thicker Plexiglass cut to just fit into the lid of the
wheeled carry-on, corners rounded for a snug fit and
edges sanded. Leave the protective paper on. Some
mice don't work well on bare Plexiglass, plus it's handy
to write phone numbers, etc. on. The Plexiglass is to jam
into a dresser or night-table drawer to provide a comfortable
laptop desk, so that you don't have to sit on a tower of pillows.
A proper keyboard that is short enough to fit into your
wheeled carry-on.
A decent 5-button mouse: Microsoft Laser Mouse is much
cheaper and a bit smaller than the Intellimouse Explorer,
though not as comfortable if you have large hands.
15' - 20' phone extension cable
15' - 20' light weight extension cord (5 Amp, lamp grade)
15' - 20' network cable
Outlet multiplier cube
27 Watt folded spiral light bulb. They produce about the
same amount of light as a regular 75 Watt bulb and turn a
dingy, romatic hotel room into a brightly lit office instantly.
Carefully slice the edges of the tough protective display box
it comes in, so that you can re-use that for storing it in.
PowerStat cigarette lighter plug in 110 Volt inverter
Nowadays most laptops have the below listed items built in,
but if yours doesn't, you need to get them:
Wireless network adapter
Plug in network card for wired networks
Modem for dial-up
Print-out of Earthlink local dial-up numbers for each state
or country that you travel through, in case you get stuck in
between planned destinations.
AAA card and phone number.
Put all of those items into a strong zip-lock bag and put
it into the wheeled carry-on, NOT into the laptop case.
With the size restrictions in effect now, you might as well
check in the carry-on, and just carry the laptop in a
comfortable pack-sack style laptop case. Some airports
require a lot of walking, so don't put anything into the laptop
case that you don't absolutely need on the plane.
Decorate the carry-on and suitcase with bright and obvious
colors to easily spot them from a distance. Brightly colored
tape works fine, but try to use the same color combinations
on all of your pieces.
Get some self-seal cold lamination luggage tags, for example
at Staples (#45383 in Canada, # 889545 in the US) and
glue them to every piece of luggage. I use business cards
with my picture on them, and any argument is instantly
finished when I point at the tag. I have of course also epoxied
them to the camera and the laptop.
And that's all there is to my road warrior kit.
Have FUN!
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August 6, 2007 - Pembroke, West Wales - Ananova
Great gran still feeling chipper
Hard-working Connie Brown will celebrate her 100th birthday
today by frying up fish and chips in her shop as usual.
Connie, who has been working at the chippie since she and
late husband Sidney opened it in 1928, is refusing to mark
the milestone by taking a day off, reports the Daily Mirror.
She said "I love my work. Why should I slacken because it's
my 100th? I love the feel of the cod in my hands as I skin it
and I still enjoy frying."
Great gran Connie runs Brown's in Pembroke, West Wales,
with help from son Hilton, 72, and grandson Steve, 44. And
today she'll be in as usual at 9am to start skinning fish.
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Organizing With Lists
When you have a lot of things to do and feel unorganized
make a list. Sit down in the morning and write down 5 or 6
things that you could get done during the day. Then I
prioritize by numbering the items in the order that will
serve you best. By Ardis
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Overheard at a hotel in Tel Aviv:
"My wife's two hours late....
...She's probably been kidnapped, or in a terrible auto accident,
.....or she's shopping.
OY! I hope she's not shopping!"
Stormy had to suddenly fly up North to Beaverlodge
because of news that her father is dying. She will
send in her columns again as soon as she finds a
Cybercafe up there.
So I'll throw in a dog story of my own.
One time I was leading a string of pack-horses from Tincup
to Burwash. On the map that's about 30-35 miles, so it's
just barely doable in a day, if you leave at the first grey of
dawn and don't mind arriving in the dark. I was riding one
horse and leading four, and I had Erik, my lead dog with me.
One of the pack horses had the extremely annoying habit of
going around the wrong side of a tree, instead of following
the horse in front of her, at least four times per mile.
There was no trail, I was just cutting across dense bush
and forest, using sections of animal trails, when they went
in the right direction, but mostly just forging a new trail.
After a while it got really annoying when that horse went
around the wrong side of a tree, because each time it nearly
pulled my left arm out of it's socket. You can't tie a pack
horse to the saddle in dense forest, things break if you do.
As my annoyance grew, my language got more colorful and
Erik realized that pack horses are just under-educated sled
dogs, and set about correcting that. He knew how to keep a
team of dogs in line.
With a nip here and a nip there, within a couple of miles the
horse decided to stop her silly games, and followed the horse
ahead of her.
We made good time after that, and swam across the White
River by moonlight at about 10:30 pm, and reached the
highway shortly afterward. The truck that was supposed to be
waiting for us, of course wasn't. So I drank the last of the
lukewarm coffee in the thermos and led the horses down the
highway to Burwash. By that time Erik and the naughty horse
had become good buddies and were walking peacefully side
by side.
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GROAN Alert
Yeah, I know you are going to groan,
and then forward it.
Recently a guy in Paris nearly got away with stealing
several paintings from the Louvre. However, after planning
the crime, getting in and out past security, he was
captured only 2 blocks away when his Ford Econoline ran out
of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a daring and
otherwise brilliant crime and then make such an obvious
error...
... He replied: "I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van
Gogh."
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Der Webby: Monitor Interference Friday, August 31, 2007, 05:57 AM
Good Morning, !
Friday, Aug 31, 2007
Wear something red today to show your support for the troops!
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
--- Edward R. Murrow,
ACTUAL CAR ACCIDENT STATEMENTS
Man Driver: I had been driving my car for forty years when I fell
asleep at the wheel and had the accident.
Woman Driver: The accident occurred when I was attempting to bring my
car out of skid by steering it into the other vehicle.
Woman Driver: I saw the slow moving, sad face, old gentleman as he
bounced off the hood of my car.
Man Driver: The other car attempted to cut in front of me, so I, with
my right front bumper, removed his left rear tail light.
Woman Driver: I had been learning to drive with power steering. I
turned the wheel to what I thought was enough and found myself in a
different direction going the opposite way.
Woman Driver: I was taking my canary to the hospital. It got loose in
the car and flew out the window. The next thing I saw was his rear end
and there was a crash.
Man Driver: As I approached the intersection, a stop sign suddenly
appeared in a place where a stop sign had never appeared before. I was
unable to stop in time to avoid the accident.
Woman Driver: My car was legally parked as it backed into the other
vehicle.
Woman Driver: An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle
and vanished.
Man Driver: I told the police that I was not injured, but on removing
my hat, I found that I had a fractured skull.
Woman Driver: I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the
other side of the roadway when I struck him.
Woman Driver: When I saw I could not avoid a collision I stepped on
the gas and crashed into the other car.
Man Driver: The indirect cause of this accident was a little guy in a
small car with a big mouth.
Man Driver: My girlfriend kissed me. I lost control and woke up in the
hospital.
Resume Bloopers
These are taken from real resumes and cover letters and
were printed in Fortune Magazine:
1) I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive
experience.
2) I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and
spreadsheet progroms.
3) Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.
4) Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave.
5) Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial
institutions.
6) Its best for employers that I not work with people.
7) Lets meet, so you can ooh and aah over my
experience.
8) You will want me to be Head Honcho in no time.
9) Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget
details.
10) I was working for my mom until she decided to move.
11) Failed bar exam with relatively high grades.
12) Marital status: single. Unmarried. Unengaged.
Uninvolved. No Commitments.
13) I have an excellent track record, although I am not
a horse.
14) I am loyal to my employer at all costs... Please
feel free to respond to my resume on my office voice
mail.
15) I have become completely paranoid, trusting
completely no one and absolutely nothing.
16) I have six kids but other than that I am often quite
rational.
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Thanks to Deeli's Bonehead reports:
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to town council in Lodz, Poland
Dctatorship
August 9, 2007 - Lodz, Poland - Ananova
A Polish woman came back from holiday to find the local
council had built a traffic island and a new road in her back
garden.
But when Alicja Ziemowit, 48, complained she was told a
change in the law meant local council officials could use
private land for road building without consent and without
paying compensation.
A spokesman for the local council in Lodz said: "I don't know
why she is complaining, it is not a busy road, and she can still
get to the back of her garden quite easily."
He said the road was expanded to improve access to a new
computer factory and that the law change in December meant
that they did not need permission.
He added: "She still owns the land, it just has a road on it now."
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2453611.html?menu=
Thanks to Lisa for this story:
For our 20th anniversary my husband and I vacationed
in Hawaii, where we went snorkeling. After an hour in
the water, everyone got back on the boat, except for
me and one handsome young man. As I continued my
underwater exploring, I noticed that everywhere I swam,
he swam. I snorkeled for another 40 minutes. So did he.
I felt very flattered and, as I took off my fins, asked him
coyly why he had stayed in the water for so long.
"I'm the lifeguard," he replied matter-of-factly. "I couldn't
get out until you did."
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From: Elsa
Re: Monitor interference
Dear Webby,
While we are renovating, we are using a door laying flat
on four short file cabinets as a desk. I sit on the handle side
and my hubby sits on the hinge side. The monitors sit side
by side in the middle, one facing east, one facing west.
Net solution, right? NOT! When both monitors are on, they
flicker like crazy and the colors are weird. Obviouly they are
interfering with each other. Moving them apart makes the
seating awkward and is not a solution. So, what IS the
solution?
Elsa
Dear Elsa
Take the side cover off one of the computers and stick it
between the two monitors. The side covers are made from
cheap sheet metal that blocks magnetic radiation. Don't use
stainless steel or aluminum, it HAS to be cheap iron sheet
metal.
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August 13, 2007 - Portland, Maine - Gimundo
At the hospital, relatives crowd around to see the newborn baby,
Stephen John Sutherland II. Everyone agrees: He has his father's
smile.
Sadly, the infant's father will never have the chance to meet him.
The first Stephen John Sutherland, a soldier, died more than a
year ago in battle in Iraq.
However, before Sutherland left the U.S., he froze some of his
sperm to make sure that, even if he did not return safely from
the war zone, a part of him would remain in the world.
"I think that Stephen had, I don't know, a sixth sense telling him
he needed to do this because he didn't think he was coming
back, " Steven's wife, Maria, told WCHS6 News in Portland,
Maine.
Shortly after learning of her husband's death, Maria was
impregnated with Stephen's sperm. Despite her tragic loss,
she knew there was hope for the future – thanks to Stephen's
remarkable foresight, she could honor his memory by raising
their child.
http://www.gimundo.com/Articles/Daily/4 ... _His_Death
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Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com
Ice Cube Tray for Earrings
I bought 4 plastic ice cube trays. In each of the cube
spaces I put a single pair of earrings. They stack easily
and you can see 12 at once and find the pair you are
looking for in a jiffy. This takes up very little room on
my bathroom shelf also. By Connie
Why not use a compact fold-out fly-fishing 96 compartment
tacklebox? When the hinged lid is opened, all the drawers
get moved out to display all of them for a quick overview.
Many models can even be locked, and all of them have a
safety latch so that it doesn't accidentally open while traveling
through rough bush. When going on vacation, you can just
take your little tackle box. After all, they ARE lures '-)
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Little Johnny was laying about on a hillock in the middle of a
meadow on a warm spring day. Puffy white clouds rolled by
and he pondered their shape.
Soon, he began to think about God. "God? Are you really
there?" Johnny said out loud.
To his astonishment a voice came from the clouds.
"Yes, Johnny? What can I do for you?"
Seizing the opportunity, Johnny asked, "God?
What is a million years like to you?"
Knowing that Johnny could not understand the concept
of infinity, God responded in a manner to which Johnny
could relate, "A million years to me, Johnny, is like a minute."
"Oh," said Johnny. "Well, then, what's a million dollars
like to you?"
"A million dollars to me, Johnny, is like a penny."
"Wow!" remarked Johnny, getting an idea.
"You're so generous...can I have one of your pennies?"
God replied, "Sure thing, Johnny! Just a minute."
Stormy had to suddenly fly up North to Beaverlodge
because of news that her father is dying. She will
send in her columns again as soon as she finds a
Cybercafe up there.
So I'll throw in a dog story of my own.
On the last August weekend a few years ago I invited
a lady friend to come along on a canoe trip up the
McClintock River. As you can probably imagine, my canoe
was slightly modified and improved. Instead of the silly
high slat seats, I had put in low bucket seats, and because
steering a canoe from the rear is not only hard on your
back, but you don't see rocks or submerged trees until
you hit them, I had put a steering wheel and motor controls
up front.
Even though the motor was raised up high so that the prop
was just barely under water, thanks to the low bucket seats
the canoe was not tippy at all, as long as everybody was
sitting down.
We were quitely cruising up the river, enjoying the senery
and occasional wildlife on the shores. Because the bears
were still out and about, I had two of my sled dogs with me.
They knew that whatever was on the shore, was taboo and
not to be chased.
Then suddenly a beaver surfaced, saw us, slapped the water
with his tail like a gunshot, and dove away. Naturally the
dogs instantly went after it. Sled dogs are not light weight
dogs, and when the two of them simultaneously pushed off
with full force from the left gunnel, the canoe flipped quite
instantly and we were sitting in the icy water.
The water was only about waist deep there and it was no big
deal uprighting the canoe and pushing it to the shore.
The Yamaha outboard had stopped instantly when it hit the
water, but had suffered no damage. I turned the prop a few
times to pump the water out, then gave it a pull and it started
as if nothing had happened.
While the lady hung our clothes over bushes to dry, I motored
on down the river to retrieve the coolers, which had gracefully
drifted out of sight around the bend in the river. When I caught them,
I decided to just tow them rather than risk tipping the canoe
again by lifting them over the side.
Must have been a hilarious sight with me sitting in the canoe
bare naked, holding on to a cooler on each side, steering with
my left knee and controlling the throttle with my right foot.
Neither the food cooler nor the one with the camping gear and
clothes had taken on any water, so we decided to camp right
there and wait for the clothes to dry.
The dogs had given up on the beaver and had chased and/or
eaten anything that moved for a mile around, and went to
sleep before we finished eating. As usual, they laid down
right in front of the tent, not so much to guard against chaseable
"killer" squirrels, but to make sure that they got triped over and
petted whenever somebody entered or left the tent.
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There's a little fellow named Junior who hangs out at Tim
Alley's Grocery Store. The owner Tim doesn't know what
Junior's problem is, but the boys like to tease him. They
say he is two bricks shy of a load, or two pickles shy of a
barrel. To prove it, sometimes they offer Junior his choice
between a nickel and a dime.
He always takes the nickel, they say, because it's bigger.
One day after Junior grabbed the nickel, Tim got him off to
one side and said, "Junior, those boys are making fun of
you. They think you don't know the dime is worth more than
the nickel. Are you grabbing the nickel because it's bigger,
or what?"
Junior said, "Well, if I took the dime, they'd quit giving me
free nickles!"
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Dear Webby: Too many search engines Thursday, August 30, 2007, 03:27 AM
Good Morning, !
Thursday, Aug 30, 2007
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
--- Gabriel Meurier
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand,
just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
-- Diane Frolov
Thanks to Ross for this story:
Tom was in his early 50’s retired and started a second career.
However, he just couldn't seem to get to work on time.
Everyday, 5, 10, 15 minutes late.
But he was a good worker, real sharp, so the Boss was in a
quandary about how to deal with it.
Finally, one day he called him into the office for a talk.
"Tom, I have to tell you. I like your work ethic.
You do a bang-up job, but you're being late so often is
quite bothersome."
"Yes, I know Boss, and I am working on it."
"Well, good, you are a team player. That's what I like to
hear. It's odd though, you're coming in late.
I know you're retired from the Air Force. What did they
say if you came in late there?"
They said, "Good morning, General."
A teen-aged boy with spiked hair, nose ring, and baggy
clothes was overheard telling a friend,
"I don't really like to dress like this, but it keeps my parents
from dragging me everywhere with them."
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Thanks to Deeli's Bonehead reports:
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to police in Belfast, Ireland
Vigilante
Justice, Belfast-style, for drug dealer
ALAN ERWIN
STREET vigilantes tarred and feathered an alleged drug dealer
because police refused to take action against him, it was
claimed yesterday.
The victim, in his thirties, was subjected to the humiliating punishment
in a loyalist stronghold in south Belfast.
But despite the heavy influence of Ulster Defence Association men within
the Taughmonagh estate, the paramilitary organisation's advisers insisted
they were not involved.
Frankie Gallagher, of the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), claimed:
"The UDA told the local community to go to the police about this.
"The community responded in the way it did because it had no confidence
in the police."
Mr Gallagher claimed that frustration over inaction by the authorities had been
building for weeks. Police were given information but failed to intervene, he said.
The degrading punishment, reminiscent of IRA-style retribution on those
accused of crimes against their communities, provoked a horrified reaction.
The victim was tied to a lamppost, then masked men poured tar over him and
covered him in feathers as women and children looked on.
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid ... 1370592007
Rumors have it that next they will tie some cops to lamp posts, "tar" them
with molasses and decorate them with donuts, if they don't get some action
beyond blaming things on political organizations.
Having been married ten years and still living in an apartment,
the wife would often complain about anything, as she was tired
of saving every penny to buy a "dream home".
Trying to placate her, the husband found a new apartment,
within their budget. However, after the first week, she began
complaining again.
"Joel," she said, "I don't like this place at all. There are no
curtains in the bathroom. The neighbors can see me every
time I take a bath."
"Don't worry." replied her husband. "If the neighbors do see
you, they'll buy curtains...."
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From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Irene
Re: 65,000 Search Engines
Dear Webby,
I got an ad from a seemingly respectable company about submitting
my site to 65,000 different search engines for $129. Is that a good
deal?
Irene
Dear Irene
How many different search engines do you use? One? Two?
How many different search engines do your clients use?
Search for example for recognize a spoof on
Google, MSN, Yahoo.
They all will show you relevant and useful answers, and there is
no need to check any other search engines.
In addition to that, the better search engines totally ignore
submissions, especially from paid submission services.
If you know of any search engine that specializes on your topic
and is used by your clients, you can try submitting your site to
that one.
Have FUN!
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August 13, 2007 - US - Gimundo
It sounds like the plot of a movie: After a brutal blow to the head,
a man lies in bed in a near-vegetative state, unable to speak or
move. Six years later, he regains consciousness. Suddenly, he's
able to move his arms and legs, eat, and speak again. Within
days, he's reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
But this story is fact, not fiction — and it's one of the most exciting
medical developments in years, as far as many doctors are concerned.
A physical assault six years ago left the unidentified man in a
"minimally conscious state " — not quite comatose, but close
enough. He wasn't able to move his limbs, and showed only the
barest signs of consciousness, with occasional movements of
his eyes or thumbs. Now, thanks to an innovative medical
procedure, he's finally returned to the land of the living.
In a study reported in Nature, researchers implanted a set of
electrodes in the man's brain. Over a six-month period, they
tested the effectiveness of sending electric shocks to the brain,
exploring whether the electric signals would impact his level of
functioning.
Obviously, the shock treatment worked in a big way: The man
can now speak, chew food, and move his limbs. Although he'll
never fully recover from the brutal trauma to his head, he finally
has a chance to engage with the world again. Despite what he
may have lost, he still has much to live for.
"Now, my son can eat, express himself and let us know if he is i
n pain. He enjoys a quality of life we never thought possible, "
said the man's mother.
The experiment also provides hope for the estimated 100,000 to
300,000 other head-trauma patients in the United States, who may
also respond to electrotherapy treatment.
"We do think there will be other patients who can respond to this. I
t's a first step to building a science to do this, " said lead study
author, Dr. Nicolas Schiff.
http://www.gimundo.com/Articles/Daily/4 ... _Six_Years
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Organize Your Sandwich Fixings
Try keeping most of your sandwich making items in a plastic
basket in your refrigerator. Not only does this save multiple trips
to and from opening the door each time but your kids won't require
much help at snack time! By Melody
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Once there was a golfer whose drive landed on an anthill.
Rather than move the ball, he decided to hit it where it lay. He
gave a mighty swing. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants exploded from
the spot. Everything but the golfball. It sat in the same spot.
So he lined up and tried another shot. Clouds of dirt and sand and
ants went flying again. The golf ball didn't even wiggle.
Two ants survived. One dazed ant said to the other, "Whoa! What are
we going to do?"
Said the other ant: "I don't know about you, but I'm going to get on
the ball."
RALPH GOES A DIGGING
Family day at the beach. Complete with kids, picnic and
the family dog Ralph. Dad was exhausted from long days
at work. Mom was mad at dad as he wasn't much fun. He
lay face down on a towel, dropped into a deep sleep, and
that's where the fun began.
The kids got small pails, and covered their overworked
father completely up, except for his head. Mom, thinking
she was really being funny, dug a tiny hole just above
his bottom, and placed a doggie cookie there. Then
she called Ralph.
The kids hauled her away to swim. Ralph sniffed until
he found that a treat was buried. He dug, and pulled,
sand flying until he got what he wanted.
An hour later, mom and the kids came back to see
a crowd around dad. Oh boy, Ralph had pulled dad's
swimming shorts down, his "cheeks" were sunburned
a bright red. They glowed!
It was a fast ride home. All dad wanted was a pan
of ice to sit in. Mom didn't want to own up to the
nasty stunt, the kids were in giggles, and Ralph?
Best picnic he'd ever been on.
What the family didn't know was that he went to every
pile of sand and dug, uncovering a wide assortment
of human parts that will go unmentioned.
News on the television that night commented on
an unusual amount of sunburn cases reported
that day. Ralph lay asleep, his paws twitching,
no doubt dreaming about finding cookies put out
just for him, in the sand.
Stormy O'
The happy couple were being interviewed on their Golden Wedding
Anniversary. The society reporter asked, "In all that time, did you
ever consider a divorce?"
"Oh, no, not divorce, we're too old fashioned for that," the husband
replied.
"Murder occasionally," the wife offered "but never divorce."
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Dear Webby: Is Google-Earth limited to the C: drive? Wednesday, August 29, 2007, 04:11 AM
Good Morning, !
Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid
the labor of thinking.
--- Thomas A. Edison
A man can be happy with any woman
as long as he does not love her.
--- Oscar Wilde
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Thanks to Ross for bringing back this classic:
A man wonders if having sex on the Sabbath is a sin because
he is not sure if sex is work or play. So he goes to a Priest
and asks for his opinion on this question.
After consulting the Bible, the Priest says, “My son, after an
exhaustive search, I am positive that sex is work and is
therefore not permitted on Sundays."
The man thinks: “What does a priest know about sex?”
So he goes to a Minister, who after all is a married man
and experienced in this matter.
He queries the Minister and receives the same reply.
Sex is work and therefore not for the Sabbath!
Not pleased with the reply, he seeks out the ultimate
authority: a man of thousands of year’s tradition and
knowledge. In other words, he goes to a Rabbi.
The Rabbi ponders the question, then states,
“My son, sex is definitely play."
The man replies, "Rabbi, how can you be so sure when
so many others tell me sex is work?"
The Rabbi softly speaks, "If sex were work,
my wife would have the maid do it ..."
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The ninety-five year old woman at the nursing home received
a visit from one of her fellow church members.
"How are you feeling?" the visitor asked.
"Oh," said the lady, "I'm just worried sick!"
"What are you worried about, dear?" her friend asked.
"You look like you're in good health. They are taking care
of you, aren't they?"
"Yes, they are taking very good care of me."
"Are you in any pain?" she asked.
"No, I have never had a pain in my life."
"Well, what are you worried about?" her friend asked again.
The lady leaned back in her rocking chair and slowly
explained her major worry. "Every close friend I ever had has
already died and gone on to heaven. I'm afraid they're all
wondering where I went."
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A woman went down to the Welfare Office to get aid. The office
worker asked her, "How many children do you have?"
"Ten," she replied.
"What are their names?" he asked.
"LeRoy, LeRoy, LeRoy, LeRoy, LeRoy, LeRoy, LeRoy, LeRoy, LeRoy,
and LeRoy," she answered.
"They're all named LeRoy?" he asked "What if you want them to
come in from playing outside?"
"Oh, that's easy," she said. "I just call 'LeRoy,' and they all
come running in."
"And, if you want them to come to the table for dinner?"
"I just say, 'LeRoy, come eat your dinner'," she answered.
"But what if you just want ONE of them to do something?" he asked.
"Oh, that's easy," she said. "I just use their last name!"
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Back in those days, it was required that in order for a student to
receive credit for a particular course, a card (listing of his/her
courses) had to be signed by the instructor/lecturer. It was, at
the time, policy that students attend their courses. But
depending on the size of the class, it was often quite possible
to receive credit, even after not attending the class regularly.
Not so, with this physics professor...if he didn't recognize you,
you would have to repeat the course (& attend!). On one
occasion, a student handed his card to be signed. The
professor looked at the name, then at the student, and said,
"I've never seen you in my class," and handed back the card.
Now being a science student, he naturally thought quickly, and
proceeded to the end of the line. When he was at the front
again, he handed his card to the prof. The prof looked at the
name, then at the student, and said, "You look familiar.
OK," and signed the card.
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Thanks to Deeli's Bonehead reports:
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
and a Darwin Award goes to German Sarabia, 24, of Arvin, California
Suicidal gunslinger
Eleven officers fired on a suspect who refused to drop his
weapon, killing him at about midnight Sunday in east
Bakersfield, the Kern County sheriff’s deputies reported.
German Sarabia, 24, of Arvin, died of multiple gunshot
wounds, a coroner’s office news release said.
Two other men, Antonio Villa Rivera, 23, and Gerardo
Chavez Valencia, 22, both of Bakersfield, were arrested
for their involvement in shots being fired from a brown Honda.
Sarabia, Rivera and Valencia were chased by lawmen
in connection with shots fired late Sunday night from a
brown Honda at two locations near Barlow Street, the
news release said. The car stopped in the 2600 block
of Monterey Street and the three men ran from it.
Officers found Sarabia in the backyard of 2602 Lake St.,
the news release said. He refused to drop his gun and
surrender after numerous commands by officers to do
so and was shot while resisting arrest.
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Car-pooling in Bangla Desh
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A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to
swallow a human because even though they were a very large
mammal, their throat was very small. The little girl stated
Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
The teacher reiterated a whale could not swallow a human;
it was impossible.
The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah."
The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"
The little girl replied, "Then you ask him."
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Re: Google Earth onto second drive
Dear Webby:
I trid to install Google-Earth onto my second hard drive,
but it insists on going to my C: drive, where I don't have
enough space. Is there a way around that bug?
Erin
Dear Erin
Unfortunately, there isn't.
The blithering moron who wrote the Google-Pack installer
seems to be ignorant of the fact that 32% of computer
uers have more than one hard drive.
It seems that Google-Earth has been designated as a program
for small children, and the install program has been simplified
accordingly.
Grown-ups and advanced users have to get a second computer
with enough space on the C: drive to install Google-Earth
there.
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August 10, 2007 - Virginia Beach, Virginia - Gimundo
Good Samaritans come in all shapes and sizes. But you probably
won't find too many that are barely out of diapers.
Meet 3-year-old Willy Whitley from Virginia Beach, Va. — a
pint-sized do-gooder whose generous deeds are helping to
keep a sick 2-year old girl alive.
After Willy saw a television news story about Zoe Walenius,
who suffers from a rare disease called Opsiclonus Myoclonus
Syndrome, he "kept talking about Zoe, and really wouldn't stop
talking about her for several days, " his father, Rob, told
Channel 13 News in Virginia Beach.
So Willy and his father worked out a plan to raise money to help
Zoe's family pay her exorbitant medical bills: They planted corn.
When the ears were ripe, they picked and sold it, with all profits
going to a foundation dedicated to helping Zoe and other children
with the same disease.
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To get the most money for your clothing items, makes sure
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I attended Palm Beach Atlantic College in Florida. It's only
about a mile from the ocean, so students frequently go to
the beach, even between classes. One day I was meeting with
our dean, when he stopped me in the middle of our conversation
and asked if I was an "A" student.
Puzzled, I replied, "Mostly, why do you ask?"
"You don't have a tan," he explained. "Around here, the darker
the tan, the lower the grade."
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BRIDE GOES SPLASH
What a beautiful wedding! Everything had been perfect.
The wedding had taken place on a white sandy beach
with a lake as the backdrop. It was time to take photo's
The groom was a shy man who had arrived from
overseas a few months ago. He had courted his bride
until she finally said yes to his pleas of marriage. His
family was a bit reserved as he didn't know the girl
that well. However, today all was well.
The bride decided she wanted to have her and her
new husbands photo taken on the dock, leading out
into the lake. They were posed, the groom leaned in
for a kiss, over tumbled the bride, splat, into the lake.
My Irishwolfhound jumped right in after her. The groom
was screaming in his own language. My dog was
having a horrid time trying to find the bride in the
ballooning poufs of her white gown. He got to her
head, grabbed on to her veil to swim to shore.
Dead silence. My dog had taken her veil all right,
along with a long blonde wig she wore. Her new
husband along with all his relatives got a good
look at what he had married. Short, stubby grey
hair. It was bedlam, it was hilarious.
My dog brought his prize to me, he was praised
well. Someone else had jumped in and brought
the sobbing bride to shore. It didn't end well.
There wasn't going to be a honeymoon.
The foolish groom had fallen in love, not so much
with the lady, but her pretty blonde hair. Someone
tied the wig and the veil to my dog's head. The poor
groom was led away crying. All for blonde curls.
Stormy O'
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Jill: I just don't understand the attraction golf holds for men.
Mary: TELL me about it! I went golfing with my ex one time, and
he told me I asked too many questions!
Jill: Well, I'm sure you were just trying to understand the game.
What questions did you ask?
Mary: I thought I asked legitimate questions..like, "Why did you
hit the ball into that lake?"
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Dear Webby: Registry Optimizer Tuesday, August 28, 2007, 03:13 AM
Good Morning, !
Tuesday, Aug 28, 2007
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Health food makes me sick.
--- Calvin Trillin
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from
blind belief in another.
--- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Thanks to Dianne for this story:
As the lone female in our household, I find that certain
male habits have really begun to get on my nerves.
One day, I emerged from my teenage son's bathroom
completely exasperated when I bumped into my husband.
"What is it with guys that they won't replace the toiler paper!"
I raged.
"I know." he said, nodding in agreement. "I noticed that
when I was just in there."
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At a country-club party a young man was introduced to an
attractive girl. Immediately she began flirting at him and
and flattering him outrageously. He liked the young lady,
but she was taken a bit aback by her fast and ardent
pitch. Hhe was really amazed when after 30 minutes she
seriously proposed marriage.
"Look," he said. "We only met a half hour ago. How can
you be so sure? We know nothing about each other."
"You're wrong," the young lady declared. "For the past 5
years I've been working in the back office at the bank where
you have your account. I know all I ned to know about you."
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A man was standing on a train platform seeing the train off
and he observed someone near him shouting at one of the
departing passengers, "Goodbye. Your wife was a great lay!
Your wife was a great lay!"
He was stunned. After the train pulled away, he walked over
to the man who'd done the shouting, and asked, "Did I hear
you correctly? Did you tell that man his wife was a good
lay?"
The other man shrugged his shoulders. "It isn't really
true," he said, "but I didn't want to hurt his feelings."
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon,
but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
--- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A father is someone who carries pictures where his money
used to be.
--- Socratex
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Thanks to Deeli's Bonehead reports:
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to Surf City, NJ officials
Whose Ammo Dump?
August 5, 2007 - Surf City New Jersey - AP
The Army Corps of Engineers, which accidentally dumped sand
filled with old military ordnance on Surf City's beach, now wants
the town to help pay to remove it.
Local officials are angered by the suggestion that they
should help foot the bill for a federal goof that already has
cost the town an unknown amount of tourism business.
"If they're talking about getting any money out of Surf City
to pay for their mistakes, they can forget about it," Mayor
Leonard T. Connors told The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Army Corps spokesman Khaalid Walls said local governments
are routinely asked to help pay for projects.
"That's protocol. All our projects are cost-shared," Walls said.
The town had to close its beach in March after World War I-era
ordnance, including fuses and other military hardware, started
surfacing in sand pumped ashore during a $71 million beach
replenishment project.
According to Walls, the Army Corps unwittingly took sand from an
offshore site where the military had dumped explosives decades
ago.
More than 1,100 explosives, each about 4 inches in diameter
and 8 inches long, were removed from Surf City's beach.
Surf City reopened its beach over Memorial Day weekend with
new rules: Don't use metal detectors, don't dig more than a foot
into the sand, and report anything suspicious to lifeguards.
Even so, visitors since then have found about a dozen more
munitions, the Army Corps says. The Army has an ordnance
specialist at the beach full time to take charge of discovered
explosives.
It's unlikely that one of the explosives would ever detonate, but it
would be extremely dangerous if it did, said Keith Watson, the
Army Corps' project manager.
The Army Corps, along with state and local officials, are considering
a possible closure of the beach during the winter to clear out more
ordnance. The Army Corps might sieve the entire beach with
machinery, or it might bring back the ground-penetrating metal-
detection equipment used in the spring.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/ ... ource=mypi
None of the locals had told the Army that WWI ammo had been
dumped there. They just wanted the Army to pump the sand from
there up onto their beach, for free.
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Tourists in Las Vegas desperately trying to lure somebody
with an air conditioned or cool pad.
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A bright young Scottish lad named Shamus had the opportunity
to go to university in London. So he packed his bags and
said good-bye to his mother and left the highlands for the
big city.
After the first week his mother called to see how her boy
was holding up.
"I love it here Mother," Shamus told her, "but these English
students are the oddest people ever! Why the boy who lives
in the dormitory room next to me bangs his head against the
wall until midnight every night. And the boy in the room
above me stomps around until midnight every night. And the
boy right below me blasts his stereo until midnight every
night."
"Why don't you complain to the Dean of students?" asks his
mother.
"Well, it doesn't bother me much," answers Shamus. "I'm
usually up until that time quietly practicing my bagpipes
anyway."
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From: Roland
Re: Registry Optimizer
Dear Webby:
Advance Registry Optimizer: Is this something one should have, or not:
Roland:
Dear Roland
Our computers work just fine without it. Advance Registry Optimizer seems
to be about as necessary as having a mother-in-law in the back seat.
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August 22, 2007 - Elk Grove, California - Gimundo
In general, 5-year-olds aren't renowned for their help in
crisis situations. If you have a scrape on your knee,
a kindergartener may be able to give you a Band-Aid
to cover it up – but that's about the extent of it. Except
if that kindergartener is John John Bandieros of Elk Grove,
California.
Last week, John John was alone with his pregnant mother,
Christina, went she went into labor. Though Christina called
an ambulance to take her to the hospital, she knew the baby
wasn't going to wait that long. It was up to John John to help
deliver his own sister.
Luckily, the precocious child came through for his mom. He
followed his mother's instructions perfectly, bringing her a
stack of blankets to lie on while he guided the baby out.
When his sister was born, he tied a shoelace around her
umbilical cord so that she could breathe on her own. When
the ambulance finally arrived, John John led the EMT officials
up to the bedroom, where his mother was holding the healthy
newborn in her arms.
"I wasn't scared," John John told KCRA/NBC News in California.
"I think that she was beautiful."
And she'll make a pretty cool story for show-and-tell, too.
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If you are selling electronics at a garage sale clean or
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the item looks, the more likely it is to sell. It also helps
to write on the price tag that it works, you can even have
an extension cord handy for people to test for themselves.
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we
come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -
chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest
hunters on earth!
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WEIRD THINGS HAPPEN
I love going to the theatre. The huge screen, loud sound,
popcorn, it all has a huge attraction for me. I don't like
going with my husband, as he is an arm hog. Then he
slides down in his seat until I can barely see his head.
So, I usually rest one arm on the other side of my chair.
Unless there's another arm hog on that side as well.
Popcorn. Fattening and delicious, pooling with nice
butter. A huge bucket is the only way to go.
The show had begun, when a man with a fair sized
tummy squeezed his way into the row I was in, then
sat next to me. "What'd I miss?" he whispered. To
me that is a no no. I don't want to talk. Leave me alone
to enjoy the show, and savour my calories.
He fussed around a lot! Finally, he settled in to watch
the movie. I dug into my popcorn, and something wet
slid over my hand.
Yuk. What sort of a man was I sitting next to! Not my
husband, he was asleep. I put my hand into the tub again
and this time I touched something hairy. With big ears,
munching MY popcorn. I almost leaped out of my jeans.
The man next to me whispered, "I have to bring my
Chihuahua with me, he's deaf and barks all the time
if I leave him alone." Well now, this I could handle. A tiny
dog smuggled into the show? What harm in that!
What harm indeed. The show was over when I
smelled dog urine. The man had placed his pet on the
floor, where it peed on my husbands leg. I thought it
was funny as hell, until I found out he had piddled on
me as well. Damn, I even shared my popcorn with
that little devil. That, I could not forgive.
Stormy O'
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A Chicago salesman on a business trip to Boston had a few
hours to kill before catching a plane home. Remembering an
old friend's advice to try some broiled scrod, a favorite fish in
Boston, he hopped into a cab and asked the driver,
"Say, do you know where I could get scrod around here?"
The driver replied, "Pal, I've heard that question a thousand
times, but this is the first time, ever,
in the passive pluperfect subjunctive."
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Dear Webby: Youtube spoof Monday, August 27, 2007, 01:11 AM
Good Morning, !
Monday, Aug 27, 2007
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Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
--- Louise Beal
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
--- Jack London
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Thanks to Sandie for this update from Florida
IT'S SO HOT and DRY IN FLORIDA. (1967 Version)
.... the birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground
.....the trees are whistling for the dogs.
.....the best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance.
.... hot water now comes out of both taps.
.....you can make sun tea instantly.
.....you learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.
.....the temperature drops below 95 F (35 C) and you feel the breeze.
.....you discover that in July it only takes 2 fingers to steer your car.
.....you discover that you can get sunburned through your car window.
.....you actually burn your hand opening the car door.
.....you break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 a.m.
.....your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out and
end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?"
.....you realize that asphalt has a liquid state.
.....the potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is
pull one out and add butter. (in the garden)
.....the cows are giving evaporated milk.
.....people are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from
laying boiled eggs. (in the country)
.....you can't fry eggs on the tank of your bike, if they got hard boiled
in the carton on the way across the parking lot.
Addendum for 2007
.....the hot air from the Algorian provides a welcome cooling breeze.
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A little girl asked her mother for a dollar to give
to an old lady in the park. Her mother was
touched by the child's kindness and gave her
the required sum.
"There you are, my dear," said the mother.
"But, tell me, isn't the lady able to work any more?"
"Oh yes," came the reply. "She sells candy."
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Velma asked her lover, "Darling, if we get engaged
will you give me a ring?"
"Sure," replied Jim "What's your phone number?"
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I was flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles. By the
time we took off, there had been a 45-minute delay and
everybody on board was ticked.
Unexpectedly, we stopped in Sacramento on the way. The
flight attendant explained that there would be another
45-minute delay, and if we wanted to get off the
aircraft, we would reboard in 30 minutes.
Everybody got off the plane except one gentleman who
was blind. I noticed him as I walked by and could tell
he had flown before because his seeing eye dog lay
quietly underneath the seats in front of him throughout
the entire flight. I could also tell he had flown this
very flight before because the pilot approached him
and, calling him by name, said, "Keith, we're in
Sacramento for almost an hour. Would you like to get
off and stretch your legs?" Keith replied, "No thanks,
but maybe my dog would like to stretch his legs."
Picture this. All the people in the gate area came to a
completely quiet standstill when they looked up and saw
the pilot walk off the plane with the seeing eye dog!
The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. People
scattered. They not only tried to change planes, they
also were trying to change airlines!
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Thanks to Deeli's Bonehead reports:
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to British Motorists
What's a map?
August 7, 2007 - London, UK - Reuters
As many as 11 million British motorists are unable to read
a basic road map, according to a survey released Monday.
The poll revealed over three quarters of British drivers were
unable to identify the motorway map symbol, while only one
percent of motorists would pass the Cub Scout Map Reader
badge test.
"It's pretty embarrassing the majority of Cub Scouts have
better map-reading skills than the majority of the adult
population," said Colin Batabyal, head of underwriting and
business development at eSure, which carried out the survey.
Sixteen percent of British drivers have become so heavily
reliant on satellite navigation systems that they have given
up keeping a map in their car.
"It's time for motorists to take a refresher in map-reading
skills," said Scott Sinclair of national mapping agency
Ordnance Survey. "Technology is great but the batteries
won't run out on a paper map.
"No serious hill walker would rely totally on a GPS device in
case the power goes or the signal is lost, so it should be
the same for the motorist," added Sinclair.
The survey -- based on a poll of 1,000 UK drivers --
estimated Britons' poor map-reading skills resulted in 36
billion wasted miles being driven each year.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0708 ... aps_odd_dc
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Tim was on his deathbed and gasped pitifully.
"Give me one last request, Dear," he said.
"Of course, Tim," his wife said softly.
"Six months after I die, he said, "I want
you to marry Lawrence."
"But I thought you hated Lawrence," she said.
With his last breath, Tim said, "I do!"
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From: Dani
Re: Filter for U-Tube spoofs
Dear Webby:
How do I filter out crap like this?
I KNOW I am not on any video, and since the barbecue blew up
this spring, I am not even on any photo! I am actually
contemplating becoming a muslim until my hair grows back. :(
In addition to that, MailWasher tells me that it is linking
to somewhere else.
Here is a typical example:
===
this i not good. If this video gets to her husband your
both dead. see for yourself...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQrTPGpMziX
[links to 74.132.117.201/]
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I am sure you get them too. How do you filter them?
Dani
Dear Dani
I had to root around the restore bin to find an example.
The same 7BIT filter that I described yesterday, also gets
this type of virus generated spam.
IF the entire header contains 7BIT, then delete, without warning.
They fly right by, straight to hell, unseen by anybody,
except when you send me to check the restore bin.
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August 8, 2007 - Elmira, New York - Happy News
A large ceramic turtle containing a woman's ashes has been
recovered after it was accidentally sold for 50 cents at a
rummage sale.
When Anita Lewis of Elmira sold the turtle Saturday to a woman
with plans to use it as a cookie jar, she didn't know it held the
ashes of her husband's late wife.
Terrence Lewis' previous wife had collected turtles and the
couple's home was full of them, Anita Lewis said.
She realized her mistake and began a frantic search that led to
the Salvation Army Thrift Shop in Horseheads after an anonymous
caller's tip to the Star-Gazette of Elmira.
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If you are in the habit of purchasing beverages or snacks
from vending machines at work or school, consider buying
cases of drinks and snacks so you can bring your own.
Vending machines usually charge double what grocery
stores do.
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Maggie has a particularly outrageous rapport with her son.
He argues and fights with her all the time.
Finally having had enough, she takes her son to a psychologist.
After two sessions, the doctor speaks with the mother.
"Madam, your son suffers from an Oedipus Complex."
"Oedipus, Schmoedipus," replies Maggie, "It's all the same
to me. The important thing is that he loves his mother!"
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DOG SAVES MAMA GOOSE
I've heard it said that one animal can't understand when
another animal is in distress, then help. I disagree. This is
a true story.
I was in my truck, watching and not realizing it at the time
that a big Canadian Goose was in trouble, caught in a
heavy shrub. All I could see was her head snaking in and
out of the bush, while she honked.
A dog walked by, stopped to look at the bird, then stuck
his head into the shrub. At this point I started to walk over
to the bird, thinking the dog would harm it. As I got closer,
I could see where one of the goose's legs was tangled in
a rope, that threaded through the branches.
At first the goose hissed, beat her wings, but the dog
carried on. He squeezed his way into the shrub, lay
down behind the bird, and chewed on the rope until
she was free. The goose was calm at this point.
She honked, and her goslings came out of hiding. She
gathered her brood, then started to cross the highway.
Again before I could help, the dog walked out, and traffic
stopped. He looked at the goose, she hurried across
with her family, her head up, honking loudly. Once she
reached the other side of the road, the dog went on its way.
Several other people were watching as well. We all
wore huge grins, it really was a great thing to witness.
I went into the shrub, and yanked out as much of the
rope as I could. The next goose to get caught might
not have a hero dog to help her to safety.
Stormy O'
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Two buddies, Tony and Billy, are getting very
drunk at a bar when suddenly Billy throws up all over himself. "Oh, no.
Now Jane will kill me!"
Tony says, "Don't worry, pal. Just tuck a twenty
in your breast pocket, tell Jane that someone
threw up on you and gave you twenty dollars for the dry cleaning bill."
So they stay for another couple of hours and get even drunker.
Eventually, Billy rolls into home and his Jane starts to give him a bad time.
"You reek of alcohol and you've puked all over
yourself! My God, you're disgusting!"
Speaking very carefully so as not to slur, he says:
"Nowainaminit,I can e'splain everything!
Itsh not what you think. I only had a couple drinks. But this other guy
got sick on me... he'd had one too many and he just couldn't hold his
liquor. He said he was very sorry an' gave me $20 bucks for the
cleaning bill!"
Jane looks in the breast pocket and says:
"But this is forty bucks."
"Oh, yeah... I almos' forgot" says Billy,
"he crapped in my pants, too....!!"
He never saw the frying pan, but vaguely remembers hearing
a gong.
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Dear Webby: Filter out multiple forwards Sunday, August 26, 2007, 03:10 AM
Good Morning, !
Sunday, Aug 26, 2007
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Nothing will work unless you do.
--- John Wooden
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In the lounge car during a cross-country train trip, 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 20 to that of 40 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 jail for?"
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Q. How can you identify the Italian at the Cockfight?
A. He's the one who bets on the duck.
Q. How can you tell if the Mafia is involved in the Cock fight?
A. If the duck wins, they're involved.
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Waiting in a long, slow-moving line for security clearance
at the Calgary International Airport in Canada, I was
annoyed to hear a loud male voice behind me. "Excuse me,
excuse me," said the man as he pushed his way to the front.
"I want to make sure I get a good seat."
Since I had my boarding pass with my usual seat assignment,
3F, I didn't really care, but turned to give the line jumper a
raised eyebrow anyway,
-- and found myself face to face with a smiling pilot.
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A man comes home from work and finds his wife admiring her
breasts in the mirror.
He asks, "What are you doing?"
She replies, "I went to the doctor today, and he told me I have the
breasts of a 25 year old."
The husband retorts, "Well, what did he say about your 50
year old ass?"
She replied, "Frankly dear, your name never came up."
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Thanks to Deeli's Bonehead reports:
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to the Education Bureau in Liaoshen, China
Flushed Out
August 9, 2007 - Fuxin City, China - Ananova
Five students in China have been dismissed from school for
not flushing the toilet.
The students are based at the Ethnic Mongolian Experimental
Middle School in Fuxin city.
The headmaster, Mr. Shi, explained: "Every year we sign a
commitment paper with each parent and child, to make sure
students behave properly at school.
"The punishments for breaking the rules aren't negotiable, he added.
The Commitment Paper has 27 rules and flushing the toilet
is one of them.
The move has angered parents.
"We have complained to the school and the local education bureau
many times, but the school insists on its decision," said one.
The education bureau says that the school has overreacted,
reports Liaoshen Evening News.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2454998.html?menu=
Sounds like the sniveling dogooders have invaded China and
started to backstab the schools.
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Thanks to Sandie for this picture:
Jury Selection
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Two Yuppettes were shopping. When they started
to discuss their home lives, one said, "Seems like
all Alfred and I do anymore is fight. I've been so
upset, I've lost 20 pounds."
"Why don't you just leave him then?" asked her
friend.
"Oh! Not yet." the first replied, "I'd like to lose at
least another fifteen pounds first."
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From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Nigle
Re: Filter AOL flags
Dear Webby:
I took your advice and installed Mailwasher.
You were right (as usual), it is great. Would you please
tell me how to write a filter to block/delete e-mail that has
more than 2 Fwd: Fw: etc. in the subject line. I need to be
able to receive mail with 2 forwards, but not any more
than that. I also need to get this mail from people who are
on my friends list. Is it possible to have filter for this?
Thanks for all your good work.
Nigle
Dear Nigle
Hit CTRL T
ALT F
A
to add a new filter
(Or do the equivalent mousing around)
Filter name: AOL-Flag
Priority: no checkmark on "This filter takes precedence
over the Friends List.
Status Description: AOL-Flag, and select a crappy color.
(Use colors that you like for filters that mark mails as good)
Put a checkmark on "Mark this email for deletion
In the Rules
Select: Subject Field
Select Contains
type fwd: fwd: fwd: into the value field
Hit OK
The result will be:
If the Subject field contains "fwd: fwd: fwd:"
then mark the message as mail to be deleted.
Now you can shuffle that filter up the list of filters.
That requires some strategic thinking. When a mail has been
cleared or dumped by a filter, filters farther down won't affect it.
It is no longer in the queue. For example, if you want to mark mails
as legitimate if they contain the word "forms" in the subject line,
but want to dump it if it also contains an AOL flag (>>>) ,
then you would move this filter up above the "forms" filter.
Hit OK, and it is done.
You can try the filter with just two fwd's in the subject line. Then it
will mark mails with two or more of them, and you can manually
"rescue" some of those.
If you get mails that contain foreign equivlents of "Fwd:" in the
subject line, then filter for the AOL flag ">>>" in the body.
Have FUN!
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Deeli's Kudos
August 9, 2007 - Nouakchott, Mauritania - AP
Mauritania passed a law promising prison time for people who
keep slaves — a monumental step in the northwest African nation's
push to eliminate the long-standing practice.
The law, adopted unanimously late Wednesday by Mauritania's
legislature, calls for prison sentences of up to 10 years for people
found keeping slaves, and reparations for those who have been
enslaved.
Slavery has existed for hundreds of years in Mauritania — a poor
nation of Muslim nomads and traders on the Sahara Desert's.
Yet it has been hard to know how persistent the practice is
because owners and slaves often have lived together for
decades and consider one another to be family.
The government officially abolished slavery in 1981, but no one
has ever been prosecuted for it and no law created a punishment.
http://www.happynews.com/news/892007/ma ... ry-law.htm
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A couple trying to break into society hosted a dinner
party. As the guests were enjoying their dinner salad,
the maid called the hostess from the table. The maid
informed her that the cat had climbed on the kitchen
table and eaten a large portion of the salmon's mid-
section.
The hostess decided to drive to the corner store to get
some canned salmon to fill the eaten portion and quickly
got back with appropriate fillers. As the guests
were enjoying the fish, the maid called the hostess into
the kitchen and announced while wringing her hands,
"Madam, the cat is dead."
The hostess and her husband informed the guests
and suggested it might be best if everyone went to
the hospital and had their stomachs pumped.
Returning home, the couple asked the maid where
she had put the cat. "It is still out on the road where
you ran over it on the way to the store."
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EXTRA CHARGES
Jasper, my Maltese had a thorn in his paw that I was
unable to pull out. I took him to the veterinarian's clinic.
It was closed for lunch. I joined several other people
waiting for the door to open.
One women was in a temper. Although she had
driven up in a luxurious car, wore lovely clothes
and very fat diamond ring, all she wanted to hash
over was how expensive it was to take her pet
to the vet's.
On and on, how everyone knew a vet overcharged,
had more money than the Queen herself, didn't give
a damn about "poor" people struggling to just keep
up, plus this vet at this clinic was a cold sort of toad.
Finally the door opened. Jasper was second in line.
The vet came out to call in the first patient, the
grumbling woman. We all looked at him in shock,
then I started to giggle.
No one had noticed the quiet man sitting on the
steps waiting for the clinic to open. He was the
vet, who had forgotten his keys to get in. From
the gleam in his eyes, he had heard every nasty
word she had uttered.
This vet drove an old beat up truck, half of his time
was spent caring for animals in shelters, plus he
often cut "poor" peoples bills in half so they would
be able to afford animal medical care. Along with
every one else in that room, I hope he put a few
extra charges on her bill. He certainly deserved it!
Stormy O'
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A dietician was once addressing a large audience in Chicago. "The
material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of
us sitting here, years ago.
"Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining. Chinese
food is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can be disastrous, and none of
us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking
water.
"But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all
have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that
causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?"
An old man in the front row stood up and said, "Wedding cake!"
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