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___________________________________________________ History: on this day, February 24, in 1925. A thermit was used for the first time. It was used to break up a 250,000-ton ice jam that had clogged the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, NY. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award: Eric Holder, Nipsey Hussle's killer sentenced to 60 years __________________________________________________ Q The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. --- Herb Caen ________________________________________________ A mother was driving a little girl to her friend's house for a play date. "Mommy?" the little girl asked. "How old are you?" "Honey, you are not supposed to ask a lady her age," the mother replied. "It's not polite.." "Okay", the little girl said. "How much do you weigh?" "Now really!" the mother said. "Those are personal questions and are none of your business." Undaunted, the little girl asked, "Why did you and daddy get a divorce?" "That's enough questions, young lady. Honestly!" The exasperated mother walked away as the two friends began to play. "My mom won't tell me anything about herself," the little girl said to her friend. "Well," said the friend, "all you need to do is look at her driver's license. It's like a report card, it has everything on it." Later that night the little girl said to her mother, "I know how old you are. You're 32." The mother was surprised and asked, "How did you find that out?" "I also know that you weigh 140 pounds." The mother was past surprised. She was shocked. "How in heaven's name did you find that out?" "And," the little girl said triumphantly, "I know why you and daddy got a divorce!" "Really?" the mother asked. "Why?" "Because you got an F in sex." __________________________________________________ A young woman, a military dependant, came into the dental clinic with a problem tooth. She had several children and appeared to be quite ready to give birth to another one at almost any moment. It was necessary to use X-rays to locate the source of her problem, so she was conducted to the dental unit with an X-ray machine, and her husband followed. The X-ray technician was lining up the cone of the machine preparatory to making the first exposure, when he noticed that the young woman's husband was standing beyond her, but in a position where he would receive some radiation after it passed through her teeth. Being well trained, the technician stopped and asked the fellow to move to a safer position. "Sir, please step over there. Too much of this radiation will make you sterile." A broad smile appeared on the young woman's face, he eyes grew wide with excitement, and she clapped her hands while saying, "Joe, come here, hold my hand!" __________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ One evening a preschooler, Krystal, and her parents were sitting on the couch chatting. Krystal asked, " Daddy, are you the boss of the house?" Her father proudly replied, "Yes, I am the boss of the house." But Krystal quickly burst his bubble when she added, "Did Mommy tell you that you can play boss tonight, Daddy?" ________________________________________________ The night before her wedding, Wendy talked with her mother. "Mom," she said, "I want you to teach me how to make my new husband happy." The mother took a deep breath and began, "When two people love, honor, and respect each other, love can be a very beautiful thing..." "I know all about sex, mother," Wendy interrupted. "I want you to teach me how to make a decent lasagna." ____________________________________________________ Steve Ellis Indigo Bunting ___________________________________________________ On the last day of forestry school they issued the last item of survival gear, that they give him. It is a recipe for matzo balls. When he asks why he's receiving a matzo ball recipe, he is told, "Sometime, a few years down the road, when the solitude *really* starts to get to you, you'll pull out this matzo ball recipe and start to mix it together. "Within five minutes you'll have half a dozen Jewish women hovering over you telling you six conflicting reasons about what you're doing wrong!" ___________________________________________________ >From Martin: The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had covertly funded a project with the U.S. auto makers for the past five years, whereby the auto makers were installing black box voice recorders in four-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV's in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash. They were surprised to find in 49 of the 50 states the recorded last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh Sh*t!" In the state of Texas the words were different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were: "Hold mah beer! Y'all watch this!" __________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Eric Holder, Los Angeles, California, USA Eric Holder, Nipsey Hussle's killer sentenced to 60 years Eric Holder Jr., the man convicted of murdering Grammy- winning rapper Nipsey Hussle in a 2019 shooting in South Los Angeles, was sentenced Wednesday to 60 years to life in prison with credit for the 1,423 days already served. Holder's sentencing hearing had been postponed several times since last September. In December, Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jacke rejected a defense motion to reduce Holder's conviction to second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter and turned down the defense's bid for a new trial. In July, a Los Angeles County jury convicted Holder Jr. of first-degree murder in the killing of Hussle outside his clothing store in March 2019. Holder was also convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter for injuring two bystanders in the incident, along with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. Jurors also found true allegations that he personally and intentionally discharged a handgun and that he personally inflicted great bodily injury on one of the victims. A jury of nine women and three men deliberated for about six hours over two days before reaching the verdict. The shooting followed a conversation the two men had about rumors that Holder had been acting as an informant for authorities. Jansen argued that being publicly accused of being a "snitch" by a person as prominent as Hussle brought on a "heat of passion" in Holder that made him not guilty of first-degree murder. Hussle, whose real name was Ermias Joseph Asghedom, and Holder had known each other for years growing up as members of the Rollin 60s in South Los Angeles when a chance meeting outside the clothing store the rapper opened in his neighborhood led to the shooting, and his death. Deputy District Attorney John McKinney called the killing "cold-blooded" and "calculated," saying that Holder had "quite a bit of time for premeditation and deliberation" before returning to the parking lot near Slauson Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard where the rapper was shot 10 to 11 times. ____________________________________________________ Bob is sitting at the bar staring morosely into his beer. Tom walks in and sits down. After trying to start a conversation several times and getting only distracted grunts he asks Bob what the problem is. "Well," said Bob, "I ran afoul of one of those women's questions my wife asks. Now I'm in deep trouble." "What kind of question?, asked Tom. "My wife asked me in her longwinded and complicated and confusing way, if I would still love her if she was old and fat." "That's easy," said Tom. "You just say 'Of course I will'". "Yeah", said Bob, "That's what I did, except I was confused by the longwinded question and mixed up the tenses and said 'Of course I do.'" _____________________________________________________ A woman was delighted when her fairy-god mother said her breasts would increase in size each time a man says, "Pardon" to her. She walked down the sidewalk, accidentally bumped into a man and he said,"Pardon me." Her breasts instantly grew an inch and she was ecstatic. The next day, she bumped into a man in the grocery store. He begged her pardon and another inch was added to her breasts. She was really pleased about that and grinning from ear to ear and walked into a Chinese restaurant nearby to celebrate. In there she collided with a waiter. The waiter bowed and said, "A tousand pardons foh my crumsy behaviol." _________________________________________________ DearWebby's Tech Support Pits from: Neil Re: Placeholder Dear Webby How to Create a Bookmark That Jumps to Specific Text on a Website https://lifehacker.com/how-to-create-a-bookmark-that-jumps- to-specific-text-on-1844113624 Yes the instructions are a little screwy but it only took me a few minutes to work it out and it does work in chrome and edge. Will not work in firefox of course. For PDF I would go to https://www.ilovepdf.com/ and convert the file to word and use the xxx placeholder. I lovepdf.com is free and works well beautifully. Neil Dear Neil Thank you for that link! Hopefully Dani can use that. Have FUN! DearWebby _________________________________________________ Today, February 24 in 1803. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled itself to be the final interpreter of all constitutional issues. 1835. "Siwinowe Kesibwi" (The Shawnee Sun) was issued as the first Indian language monthly publication in the U.S. 1839. William S. Otis received a patent for the steam shovel. 1863. Arizona was organized as a territory. 1866. In Washington, DC, an American flag made entirely of American bunting was displayed for the first time. 1868. The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson due to his attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The U.S. Senate later acquitted Johnson. 1886. Thomas Edison and Mina Miller were married. 1900. New York City Mayor Van Wyck signed the contract to begin work on New York's first rapid transit tunnel. The tunnel would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. The ground breaking ceremony was on March 24, 1900. 1903. In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an area was leased to the U.S. for a naval base. 1925. A thermit was used for the first time. It was used to break up a 250,000-ton ice jam that had clogged the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, NY. 1938. The first nylon bristle toothbrush was made. It was the first time that nylon yarn had been used commercially. 1942. The U.S. Government stopped shipments of all 12-gauge shotguns for sporting use for the wartime effort. 1942. The Voice of America (VOA) aired for the first time. 1945. During World War II, the Philippine capital of Manilla, was liberated by U.S. soldiers. 1946. Juan Peron was elected president of Argentina. 1956. The city of Cleveland invoked a 1931 law that barred people under the age of 18 from dancing in public without an adult guardian. 1980. NBC premiered the TV movie "Harper Valley P.T.A." 1983. A U.S.congressional commission released a report that condemned the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. 1987. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, of the Los Angeles Lakers, got his first three-point shot in the NBA. 1987. An exploding supernova was discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. 1988. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a $200,000 award to Rev. Jerry Falwell that had been won against "Hustler" magazine. The ruling expanded legal protections for parody and satire. 1989. Irans Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced Salman Rushdie to death for his novel "The Satanic Verses". A bounty of one to three-million-dollars was also put on Rushidie's head. 1989. A United Airlines 747 jet rips open in flight killing 9 people. The flight was from Honolulu to New Zealand. 1994. In Los Angeles, Garrett Morris was shot during a robbery attempt. He eventually recovered from his injury. 1997. The U.S. The Food and Drug Administration named six brands of birth control as safe and effective "morning- after" pills for preventing pregnancy. 1999. In southeast China, a domestic airliner crashed killing all 64 passengers. 2007. The Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution expressing "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery. 2008. Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president. His brother Fidel had ruled for nearly 50 years. 2022 Do smiled.
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