| Good Morning, Do! Today is Tuesday, April 18 ___________________________________________________ History: Today, April 18 in 1999, Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) played his final game in the NHL. He retired as the NHL's all-time leading scorer and holder of 61 individual records. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award: Drug Dealer arrested for Having Sex With Underage Boca Raton Boy _____________________________________________________ Q When ideas fail, words come in very handy. --- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) ______________________________________________________ She looked like such a sweet little old lady, driving the cute Toyota with a bumper sticker that said: "Grow your own dope." How sweet, I thought, must be a medical marijuana patient. Then I noticed the rest of her message... "Plant a man." ___________________________________________________ Mountain Blue Bird, male ____________________________________________________ >From a passenger ship one can see a bearded man on a small island who is shouting and desperately waving his hands. "Who is it?" a passenger asks the captain. "I've no idea. Every year when we pass, he goes nuts." ____________________________________________________ Mountain Blue Bird, Female _______________________________________________ She looked like such a sweet little old lady, driving the cute Toyota with a bumper sticker that said: "Grow your own dope." How sweet, I thought, must be a medical marijuana patient. Then I noticed the rest of her message... "Plant a man." _______________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Roger Cooke, 40, BOCA RATON, Florida, USA Drug Dealer arrested for Having Sex With Underage Boca Raton Boy PBSO arrested 40-year-old Roger Cooke of Hollywood for having a sexual relationship with a young man less than 16 years old. Its not uncommon for drug dealers to smoke marijuana with their customers. What to so common is for the customer to then perform oral sex on the dealer after the transaction. According to an arrest affidavit submitted by the Palm Beach Sheriffs Office, that is what occurred between a teenage boy in Boca Raton who purchased drugs from Roger Cooke. The report goes into detail about how the teenage boy met up with Cooke to purchase marijuana; however, ended up performing sexual acts on him in the parking lot of a Dunkin Donuts in West Boca Raton. Similar events allegedly happened a total of four times starting in November of 2021. The teen reported the activity to PBSO in May of 2022. Cooke was arrested and charged on March 9th, 2023. Cooke was charged with Lewd & Lascivious Battery and Contributing to the delinquency of a minor. _______________________________________________ DeaWebby's Tech Support Pits From: MaryAnne Re: Copyright symbol Dear Webby, How many times have you answered this qustion? How do I make the copyright symbol? Thanks MaryAnne Dear MaryAnne If you have a laptop without a numeric keypad, then find a page, where you see a copyright symbol, and copy it, then paste it where you need it. You can even drag the circled i from the left of a browser URL onto the remaining free spot on the desktop, then lean onto the description and paste the onto it for the description.. That way you always have it ready for copying it. You can of course also just rename the description of a known program. If you do have a numeric keypad on the side of the keyboard, then just hold down the ALT key and type, on the numericv keypad: 0169 When you let go of the ALT key, appears where the cursor is. Have FUN! DearWebby _____________________________________________________ Today, April 18 in 1521, Martin Luther confronted the emperor Charles V in the Diet of Worms and refused to retract his views that led to his excommunication. 1676, Sudbury, Massachusetts, was attacked by Indians. 1775, American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that the Regulars were coming out. Later, the phrase "the British are coming" was attributed to Revere even though it is unlikely he used that wording. 1791, National Guardsmen prevented Louis XVI and his family from leaving Paris. 1818, A regiment of Indians and black people were defeated at the Battle of Suwann, in Florida, ending the first Seminole War. 1846, The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House 1847, U.S. troops defeated almost 17,000 Mexican soldiers commanded by Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo. 1853, The first train in Asia began running from Bombay to Tanna. 1861, Colonel Robert E. Lee turned down an offer to command the Union armies during the U.S. Civil War. 1877, Charles Cros wrote a paper that described the process of recording and reproducing sound. In France, Cros is regarded as the inventor of the phonograph. In the U.S., Thomas Edison gets the credit. 1895, New York State passed an act that established free public baths. 1906, San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The original death toll was cited at about 700. Later information indicated that the death toll may have been 3 to 4 times the original estimate. 1910, Walter R. Brookins made the first airplane flight at night. 1923, Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY. The Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1. John Phillip Sousa's band played the National Anthem. 1924, Simon and Schuster, Inc. published the first "Crossword Puzzle Book." 1934, The first Laundromat opened in Fort Worth, TX. 1937, Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. 1938, Superman made his debut when he appeared in the first issue of Action Comics. 1942, James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the USS Hornet, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities. 1942, The Vichy government capitulated to Adolf Hitler and invited Pierre Laval to form a new government in France. 1943, Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1945, American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old. 1946, The League of Nations was dissolved. 1949, The Republic of Ireland was established. 1950, The first transatlantic jet passenger trip was completed. 1954, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power in Egypt. 1956, Actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco were married. The religious ceremony took place April 19. 1960, The Mutual Broadcasting System was sold to the 3M Company of Minnesota for $1.25 million. 1978, The U.S. Senate approved the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999. 1980, Rhodesia became the independent nation of Zimbabwe. 1983, The U.S. Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a suicide car-bomber. 63 people were killed including 17 Americans. 1984, Daredevils Mike MacCarthy and Amanda Tucker made a sky dive from the Eiffel Tower. The jump ended safely. 1985, Ted Turner filed for a hostile takeover of CBS. 1985, Tulane University abolished its 72-year-old basketball program. The reason was charges of fixed games, drug abuse, and payments to players. 1989, Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing. 1999, Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) played his final game in the NHL. He retired as the NHL's all-time leading scorer and holder of 61 individual records. 2000, The Nasdaq had the biggest one-day point gain in its history. 2002, Actor Robert Blake and his bodyguard were arrested in connection with the shooting death of Blake's wife about a year before. 2002, The Amtrack Auto Train derailed in a remote area of north Florida. Four people were killed and 133 were injured. 2002, The city legislature of Berlin decided to make Marlene Dietrich an honorary citizen. Dietrich had gone to the United States in 1930. She refused to return to Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power. 2023, Do smiled.
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