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Maryland woman set home on fire
with person inside, then sat in
lawn chair to watch

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Today, May 7 in
1998 Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40
billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people
vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
--- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to
make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
--- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984)

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself,
hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
---Johann Wolfgang  Goethe
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"My wooden leg was hurting me something fierce last night,"
complained Art. That's impossible," said his neighbour, "How
can a wooden leg hurt you?"

The vet replied, "My old lady hit me over the head with it when
I came home drunk."

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A salesman was trying to talk a farmer into buying a bicycle,
but was meeting with considerable sales resistance.
"Shucks, I'd sooner spend my money on a cow," said the farmer.

"Ah," replied the salesman, "but think how silly you'd look
riding around on a cow."

"Humph!" retorted the farmer. "Not near as silly as you would
look trying to milk a bicycle!"

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right before the storm last nite
© Wendy
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An annoyingly self-righteous man went to the doctor for a
check-up. He said, "I feel terrible. Please examine me and tell
me what's wrong with me."

"Let's begin with a few questions," said the doctor, "Do you
drink much?"

"Alcohol?" said the man. "I'm a teetotaler. Never touch a
drop."

"How about smoking?" asked the doctor.

"Never," replied the man. "Tobacco is bad, and I have strong
principles against it."

"Well, uh." asked the doctor, "do you have much sex life?"

"Oh, no," said the man. "Sex is sin. I'm in bed by 9:30 every
night and I always have been."

The doctor paused, looked at the man hard, and asked,
"Do you have pains in your head?"

"Yes," said the man. "I have terrible pains in my head."

"O.K.," said the doctor. "That's your trouble. Your halo is on
too tight!!

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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
has been earned by

Gail Metwally,
47,
Elkton,
Maryland,
USA
Maryland woman set home on fire
with person inside, then sat in
lawn chair to watch

A Maryland woman set her home on fire with a person inside it
and then sat outside in a lawn chair to watch, according to law
enforcement.

The Deputy State Fire Marshals say 47-year-old Gail Metwally
set several fires inside the home on Cherry Lane in Elkton.

When firefighters arrived, they say the house was engulfed in
flame, and Metwally had been sitting in a lawn chair watching
the scene. She later walked away.

Witnesses said another person could be heard crying for help in
the basement, and they helped her up through a window.

Cecil County sheriff’s deputies caught Metwally in the area and
transported her to a State Police barrack.

After the fire marshals’ investigation, Metwally was sharged
with first and second-degree attempted murder, first-degree
arson, first-degree assault, two counts of first-degree
malicious burning, two counts of malicious destruction of
property and two counts of reckless endangerment.

Metwally shared the house with three other people. Two of the
residents were not home.

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FROM: Robert
RE: Fake FB friend requests

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Lately I have received 3-4 friend requests from FB, they are
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and have just one picture, that appears to be stolen from some
porno site.

Needless to say, my wife gets quite annoyed about it all, and
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What can I do to stop that, without blocking legitimate frined
requests, that my wife gets?
Robert

Dear Robert
You can't stop that. Keep in mind that FB is a Stalinist
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They make Billions from ads on the phony friend requests, and
blocking the ads does not seem to stop them.

Just use Skype or ZOOM with real friends. Nobody listens to you
on FB anyway.

Have FUN!
DearWebby

In the dorm, one of the favorite intramural sports was water
fights. Dousing and bombarding one another with water from
squirt guns, glasses, balloons, even wastebaskets. Since each
room had a sink, there was endless ammunition.

The most frequent target was the resident assistant.
Approaching his room one afternoon, he noticed his door was
ajar. Looking up, he saw a pail of
water balanced on the door's edge, ready to fall on him. As he
took down
the pail and emptied it into his sink, he thought, 'Those crazy
guys actually thought they could fool me with that old gag!'

It was then he realized that "those crazy guys" had removed the
drainpipe beneath the sink and turned the "U" shaped part of it
to point just below his waistline.

 




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A girl phoned George the other day and said, "Come on over,
there's nobody home."

He went over. Nobody was home.
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A tourist parked his car in downtown Washington, D.C. He said
to a man standing near the curb, "Listen, I'm going to be only
a couple of minutes. Would you watch my car while I run into
this store?"

"What?" the man huffed. "Do you realize that I am a member of
the United States Senate?"

"Well no," the tourist said, "I didn't realize that. Guess I
better find somebody a bit more trustworthy!""

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The drill sergeant making his morning announcements to a group
of newcomers in a training camp, stated:
"Today, gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news.
First, the good. Private Brandy will be setting the pace on our
morning run.'

With this the platoon was overjoyed, as Private Brandy  was
overweight and terribly slow. But then the drill sergeant
finished his statement:

"Now for the bad news. Private Brandy will be driving the
ambulance, that we might need for those who don't manage to
stay ahead of me."
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Today, May 7 in
0558 The dome of the church of St. Sophia in Constantinople
collapsed. It was immediately rebuilt as ordered by Justinian.

1429 The English siege of Orleans was broken by Joan of Arc.

1525 The German peasants' revolt was crushed by the ruling
class and church.

1763 Indian chief Pontiac began all out war on the British in
New York.

1789 The first U.S. Presidential Inaugural Ball was held in New
York City.

1800 The U.S. Congress divided the Northwest Territory into two
parts. The western part became the Indiana Territory and the
eastern section remained the Northwest Territory.

1847 The AMA (American Medical Association) was organized in
Philadelphia, PA.

1912 The first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over
College Park, MD.

1915 The Lusitania, a civilian ship, was sunk by a German
submarine. 1,201 people were killed.

1926 A U.S. report showed that one-third of the nation's
exports were motors.

1937 The German Condor Legion arrived in Spain to assist
Franco’s forces.

1939 Germany and Italy announced a military and political
alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.

1940 Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.

1942 In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American
navies attacked each other with carrier planes. It was the
first time in the history of naval warfare where two enemy
fleets fought without seeing each other.

1943 The last major German strongholds in North Africa, Tunis
and Bizerte, fell to Allied forces.

1945 Germany signed unconditional surrender ending World War
II. It would take effect the next day.

1946 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. was founded.
The company was later renamed Sony.

1951 Russia was admitted to participate in the 1952 Olympic
Games by the International Olympic Committee.

1954 French Colonial Forces surrendered to the Vietminh at Dien
Bien Phu after 55 days of fighting.

1958 Howard Johnson set an aircraft altitude record in F-104.

1960 Leonid Brezhnev became president of the Soviet Union.

1975 U.S. President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam War.

1977 Rookie Janet Guthrie set the fastest time on opening day
of practice for the Indianapolis 500. Her speed was 185.607.

1984 A $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in
the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans
who claimed they had suffered injury from exposure to the
defoliant while serving in the armed forces.

1992 A 203-year-old proposed constitutional amendment barring
the U.S. Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise was
ratified as the 27th Amendment.

1994 The Edvard Munch painting "The Scream" was recovered after
being stolen 3 months earlier from an Oslo Museum. This version
of "The Scream", one of four different versions, was painted on
paper.

1996 The trial of Serbian police officer Dusan Tadic opened in
the Netherlands. He was later convicted on murder-torture
charges and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

1997 A report released by the U.S. government said that
Switzerland provided Nazi Germany with equipment and credit
during World War II. Germany exchanged for gold what had been
plundered or stolen. Switzerland did not comply with postwar
agreements to return the gold.

1998 Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40
billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record.

1998 Residents of London voted to elect their own mayor for the
first time in history. The vote would take place in May 2000.

1999 A jury ruled that "The Jenny Jones Show" and Warner Bros.
were liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure. He was
killed by another guest on the show. The jury's award was $25
million.

1999 In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens were
killed and 20 were wounded when a NATO plane mistakenly bombed
the Chinese embassy.

1999 In Guinea-Bissau, the government of President João
Bernardo Vieira was ousted in a military coup.

2000 Russian President Vladimir V. Putin named First Deputy
Premier Mikhail Kasyanov as premier.

2003 In Washington, DC, General Motors Corp. delivered six fuel
cell vehicles to Capitol Hill for lawmakers and others to test
drive during the next two years.

2021  smiled.

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