Good Morning, Do! Today is Wednesday, April 17  ______________________________________________________ Today, April 17 in 1964 The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model. More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award: Indiana nurse charged with prescription fraud  ________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise. --- Takayuki Ikkaku No man ever listened himself out of a job. --- Calvin Coolidge _____________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________ An eighty year-old lady wins the lottery. Not wanting her to die of shock upon learning this, her children consult her priest on how to break the news. The priest comes over to the lady's house. "What would you do if you won ten million dollars?" he asks her. The lady replies, "Why, since you've been such a good priest, I would give half of it to you." The priest immediately died of shock. ______________________________________________________`   Snowing ! _____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________    An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Melinda Duncan, 35, Muncie, Indiana  Indiana nurse charged with prescription fraud  A nurse in Muncie is facing a slew of charges after police say she got dozens of bottles of painkillers by using fake prescriptions for a full year. Police arrested Melinda Duncan, 35, late last week on felony prescription fraud charges in Muncie. She's still being held without bond at the Delaware County Jail because investigators say she committed the same crime in Madison County. Detectives say she started the fraud at a place she should have been trusted - at her job as a nurse at Urology Associates. They say she has since been fired. Investigators say Duncan would give blank prescription forms to the nurse practitioner to sign, claiming they were for lab orders. They weren't. Investigators say Duncan filled out those bogus prescriptions for painkillers in her name, in her husband's name, and in her daughters' names and took them to various pharmacies and got the drugs. Prosecutors say she had at least 28 fake prescriptions filled in Muncie over a year, plus more than 40 prescriptions filled in Anderson and Pendleton over that same time. Duncan told police she was giving the pills to a Muncie drug dealer as a payoff so he wouldn't hurt her. But they say she also admitted to self-medicating, taking pills herself, saying she "would fail a drug test." Police say a pharmacist in Muncie, suspicious about Duncan's repeated prescriptions, was key to this case. She called Urology Associates, questioning the multiple prescriptions. That's when they realized what was going on and called police.  
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 In July, the Indians asked their Chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or not. Not really knowing the answer, the chief replied that the winter will be cold and that the members of the village should collect wood to be prepared.Being a good leader, he then went to a phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?" The man on the phone responded, "This winter is indeed going to be very cold." So the Chief went back to encourage his people to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again, and asked again, "Is it going to be a very cold winter?" "Yes," the man replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter." The Chief went back to his people and ordered them to go out and bring back every scrap of wood they could find. Two weeks later he called the National Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that this winter is going to be very cold?" "Absolutely" the man replies, "the Indians are collecting wood like crazy!" 
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 One day a man called the church office and said, "Can I speak to the head hog at the trough?" The secretary thought she heard what he said, but to be sure, she asked, "I'm sorry, who?" The man said, "Can I speak to the head hog at the trough?" She said, "Well, if you mean the pastor, then you may refer to him as 'Pastor,' or 'Brother,' but you may certainly not refer to him as the 'head hog at the trough'!" The man on the phone said, "Well, I was planning to donate ten thousand dollars to the church's building fund . . ." The secretary quickly responded, "Hang on, I think the old pig just waddled in!" ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com The Sun and Antique Furniture Sunlight makes dark wood lighter and light wood darker. Prevent uneven discoloration of antique furniture by keeping it away from windows that receive direct sunlight. Once a piece of furniture has changed color, you may need to completely refinish the piece to restore it. Thriftyfun.com   ____________________________________________________   
  
Did an ancient Roman glass maker invent unbreakable glass? 
 ___________________________________________________ A customer in a bakery was observed carefully examining all the rich-looking pastries displayed on trays in the glass cases. 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. And your sexy helper over there." Then with a sigh he added, "But I'll take an oat-bran muffin." ___________________________________________________ An applicant was being interviewed for admission to a prominent medical school. "Tell me," inquired the interviewer. "where do you expect to be ten years from now?" "Well, let's see," replied the student. "It's Wednesday afternoon. I guess I'll be on the golf course by now." ___________________________________________________ 
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 My friend hates to exercise, which means the treadmill in her bedroom barely gets used. Nevertheless, she swears by it. "It really works," she told me. I throw my jeans over it and they get smaller. ___________________________________________________  
 Today April 17 in 1492 Christopher Columbus signed a contract with Spain to find a passage to Asia and the Indies. 1521 Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. 1524 New York Harbor was discovered by Giovanni Verrazano. 1535 Antonio Mendoza was appointed first viceroy of New Spain. 1629 Horses were first imported into the colonies by the American Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1704 John Campbell published what would eventually become the first successful American newspaper. It was known as the Boston "News-Letter." 1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France ordered the seizure of U.S. ships. 1810 Pineapple cheese was patented by Lewis M. Norton. 1824 Russia abandoned all North American claims south of 54' 40'. 1860 New Yorkers learned of a new law that required fire escapes to be provided for tenement houses. 1864 U.S. Civil War General Grant banned the trading of prisoners. 1865 Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination. 1875 The game "snooker" was invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain. 1895 China and Japan signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki. It was the end of the first Sino-Japanese War. In the treaty China ceded Taiwan to Japan. 1917 A bill in Congress to establish Daylight Saving Time was defeated. It was passed a couple of months later. 1941 Igor Sikorsky accomplished the first successful helicopter lift-off from water near Stratford, CT. 1946 The last French troops left Syria. 1961 About 1,400 U.S.-supported Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was an unsuccessful attack. 1964 Jerrie Mock became first woman to fly an airplane solo around the world. 1964 The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model. 1967 The U.S. Supreme Court barred Muhammad Ali's request to be blocked from induction into the U.S. Army. 1969 In Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. 1969 Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek was deposed. 1970 Apollo 13 returned to Earth safely after an on-board accident with an oxygen tank. 1975 Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. It was the end of the five-year war. 1983 In Warsaw, police routed 1,000 Solidarity supporters. 1984 In London, demonstrators outside the Libyan Embassy were fired upon from someone inside. Eleven people were injured and an English Police woman was killed. 1985 In Lebanon, the cabinet resigned as Shiites took W. Beirut. 1987 In Sri Lanka, Tamil guerrillas killed 122 people in a road ambush. 1989 In Poland, courts gave Solidarity legal status. 1993 A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King. Two other officers were acquitted. 1996 Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing their parents. 1999 In India, the government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee collapsed after losing a vote of confidence. 2019 Do smiled. 
 

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