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Today is Thursday, February 21

Today's Bonehead Award: 
Mom wanted 15-year-old to sell marijuana at school

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Today, February 21 in
1965 Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39
by assassins identified as Black Muslims. 
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of 
national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
--- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character
attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 179.
--- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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Curious when I found two black-and-white negatives in a
drawer, I had them made into prints. I was pleasantly
surprised to see that they were of a younger, slimmer me,
taken on one of my first dates with my husband.

When I showed him the photos, his face lit up. "Wow, look at
that!" he said with appreciation. "It's my old Plymouth!"

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>Mark
A fussy eater, my nine-year old son asked me to 
please buy multigrain bread.Happy that he wanted 
to eat so healthily, I purchased a loaf. 
The next morning, while making his sandwich for 
school, I told him how happy I was that he liked 
multigrain bread. 

"I don't," he said. "But the kid who I trade sandwiches 
with does." 

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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD 
has been earned by

Ann Marie Ratliff, 36,
Nicholas Luke Bard, 27, 
Richmond,
Wisconsin

Mom wanted 15-year-old to 
sell marijuana at school

A New Richmond mother accused of involving a minor in a plot to
sell pot pleaded not guilty to all charges in St. Croix County
Circuit Court Tuesday, according to court records, which included
an additional felony possession of marijuana with intent to
distribute charge.

Ann Marie Ratliff, 36, of New Richmond, was charged along with
Nicholas Luke Bard, 27, of Ellsworth, with felony using a child
to manufacture, distribute or deliver drugs as party to a crime.
The two allegedly attempted to involve teenagers known to Ratliff
in the sale of marijuana after a mother discovered messages
between Ratliff and her 14-year-old son concerning the price of a
bag of weed, according to a criminal complaint.

Bard was charged Jan. 24 in in Pierce County with felony
possession of THC with intent to distribute and misdemeanor
possession of drug paraphernalia, court records show.

Ratliff is scheduled to make her next court appearance March 8.

According to the complaint:

After learning of the conversation between Ratliff and a 14-year-
old friend of her son, River Falls police went to Ratliff's home
and found about 20 grams of marijuana and a gold metal pipe.
Ratliff initially told police she didn't know the drugs were
there and said her son might have put them in her suitcase.

Conversations found on Ratliff's phone between her and Bard
suggest they wanted minors to sell drugs for them.




>From Lana
Re: Find the speed of a computer


Dear DearWebby,
I am considering buying a computer from an aquaintance.
How can I quickly tell what speed and type it is?
Lana

Dear Lana
Just hold down the Windows key and hit the Pause/Break key.
It may take a second or two, but then Windows will show you
all you need to know, even which version of Service Pack
patch has been installed.

Actual processor speed is not really relevant.
If the machine is polluted with tons of speeder-uppers and
similar utilities, it will perform much slower than a machine
with an older and slower processor, but no goofy utilities.

Open a word processor, see how fast it does that.
Copy a big document, like the Windows EULA small print,
paste it into a new document, and then do a Search/Replace.
For example search for "the" and replace it with "tip".
If you have done that with your old computer, then you know how
many seconds that should take.
Compare the time it takes on your friend's machine.

THAT will give you a realistic idea of how fast the machine
actually is during working conditions.

Have Fun!
DearWebby




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The father of a teenage daughter was concerned with the   
amount of time she spent on the telephone; not so much for   
the time she wasted (he had given up on that long ago),   
but because nobody else could use the phone.   

So, as a happy solution, he had a telephone installed for   
her with her own private number and directory listing.   

Two or three days after her telephone had been installed,   
he came home to find her stretched out on the floor with   
her feet on the living room couch and chatting away on the   
family telephone. Her own telephone was resting silently   
on her dresser. "Why are you using our telephone," he   
yelled. "Why aren't you talking on your own telephone?"   

"I can't," she said, "I'm expecting an important call on my   
phone."   



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A convicted felon was given ten years without parole for his   
latest crime. After 2 years in jail, he managed to escape.   
His escape was the lead item on the six o'clock news.   

Because he had to be careful, he worked his way home taking   
little traveled routes, running across deserted fields and   
taking every precaution he could think of.   

Eventually he arrived at his house and he rang the bell.   

His wife opened the door and bellowed at him, "You good-for-   
nothing bum! Where the hell have ya been? You escaped over   
12 hours ago."   

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Removing Tar From Your Car
Butter, creamy peanut butter, or vegetable oil applied to 
tar and left for 12 to 24 hours should soften to make it 
easier to remove. If that doesn't work, try WD-40, 
kerosene, or mineral spirits applied directly to the tar. 
This solution will mostly likely remove wax from your 
car as well. Removing Tar From Your Car
Butter, creamy peanut butter, or vegetable oil applied to 
tar and left for 12 to 24 hours should soften to make it 
easier to remove. If that doesn't work, try WD-40, 
kerosene, or mineral spirits applied directly to the tar. 
This solution will mostly likely remove wax from your 
car as well. 

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The amazing things this man makes out of old utensils and bits and pieces
of other metals. I love the birds!

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While Waiting For My Blind Date.
Paul got off the elevator on the 40th floor and nervously knocked
on his blind date's door. She opened it and was as beautiful and
charming as everyone had said.

"I'll be ready in a few minutes," she said. "Why don't you play
with Rollo while you're waiting?" He does wonderful tricks. He
rolls over, shakes hands, sits up and if you make a hoop with
your arms, he'll jump through."

The dog followed Paul onto the balcony and started rolling over.
Paul made a hoop with his arms and Rollo jumped through -- and
over the balcony railing. Just then Paul's date walked out.

"Isn't Rollo the cutest, happiest dog you've ever seen ?

"To tell the truth," he replied, "he seemed a little depressed to
me."

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A well worn dollar bill and a similarly distressed twenty
arrived at the bureau of Engraving and Printing to be retired. As
they moved along the conveyor belt to the shredder they struck
up a conversation. The twenty reminisced about its travels all
over the country. "I've had a pretty good life", the twenty
proclaimed.
"Why I've been to Las Vegas and Atlantic City, the finest
restaurants in New York, performances on Broadway, and
even a cruise from Miami."

"Wow!", said the single, "you really have gotten around."

"So tell me", says the twenty, "where have you been
throughout your lifetime?"

"Oh, I've been to the Methodist Church, the Baptist
Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Lutheran Church, the
Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, Assembly of God Church, the
Brethren Church, the United Church of Christ...."

And the twenty says, "What's a church?"

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At the trial, the steam locomotive engineer insisted that 
he had given the car driver ample warning by waving his lantern
back and forth for nearly a minute. He even stood and 
convincingly demonstrated how he'd done it. The 
court believed his story, and the suit was dismissed. 

"Congratulations," the lawyer said to the engineer 
when it was over. "You did superbly under 
cross-examination." 

"Thanks," he said, "but the plaintiff's lawyer sure 
had me worried." 

"How's that?" the lawyer asked. 

"I was afraid he was going to ask if the lantern 
was lit!" 

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Today February 21 in
1804 The first self-propelled locomotive on rails was
demonstrated in Wales. 

1842 John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine. 

1848 The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels. 

1858 The first electric burglar alarm was installed in Boston,
MA. 

1866 Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from a
dental school. The school was the Ohio College of Dental Surgery
in Cincinnati. 

1878 The first telephone directories issued in the U.S. were
distributed to residents in New Haven, CT. It was a single page
of only fifty names. 

1904 The National Ski Association was formed in Ishpeming, MI. 

1916 During World War I, the Battle of Verdun began in France.
The battle ended on December 18, 1916 with a French victory over
Germany. 

1932 William N. Goodwin patented the camera exposure meter. 

1947 Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the
Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first
camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper all in
about 60 seconds. The photos were black and white. The camera
went on sale the following year. 

1950 The first International Pancake Race was held in Liberal,
Kansas. 

1965 Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39
by assassins identified as Black Muslims. 

1968 An agreement between baseball players and club owners
increased the minimum salary for major league players to $10,000
a year. 

1973 Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan Airlines jet over
the Sinai Desert. More than 100 people were killed. 

1975 Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former
White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were
sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the
Watergate cover-up. 

1988 In Baton Rouge, LA, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed
to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin. He
announced that he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Swaggart
had been linked to an admitted prostitute. 

1989 U.S. President George H.W. Bush called Ayatollah Khomeini's
death warrant against "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie
"deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior." 

1995 Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett became the first person to
fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. He landed in
Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada. 

1999 India's Prime Minister Atal Bihair Vajpayee concluded two
days of meeting with Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Nowaz
Sharif. 

2000 David Letterman returned to his Late Night show about five
weeks after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass operation.


2003 David Hasselhoff and his wife Pamela were injured in a
motorcycle accident. The accident was caused by a strong gust of
wind. Hasselhoff fractured his lower back and broke several ribs.
His wife fractured her left ankle and right wrist. 

2019  smiled.

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