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___________________________________________________ History: on this day, February 16, in 1937, Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon. Carothers was a research chemist for Du Pont. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award: Man crashes into newly open Chic Chef 77 in Tempe while drunk __________________________________________________ Q Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. --- Barbara Tober In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. --- Frank Wilczek (1951 - ) The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. --- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) ________________________________________________ Georgia: An EMT in southern Georgia was part of the unit that responded to a call from Coffee County late one night. They arrived on the scene and found a severely injured man lying at the edge of a field. His stomach had been completely torn open, and he was covered with lacerations and bruises. He also had a prominent tire tread across his chest. The injured man's companion showed up in a racing model ATV vehicle, clearly intoxicated, and gave the following account. Imagine this tale being recited in a deep Georgian accent. He and his injured friend had been drinkin' and ridin' around the field on the three-wheeled ATV, when they sighted a stand of deer in their headlights. The friend, riding the back as a passenger, was struck with a great idea. "Hey man," he said, "If you quarter off one a those deer, betcha I can bulldog 'im." The driver thought this was an entertaining idea, so he proceeded to isolate a buck and race him down. His intoxicated passenger proceeded to leap from the ATV, grab the buck by the antlers, and perform an excellent example of this rodeo sport. He pinned the animal's head to the ground, but that's when things went wrong. The buck, less docile than a steer, simply got up, threw his head back, and tore his assailant's belly open. The deer then proceeded to stomp, kick, and butt him for good measure. The EMTs noticed that this information accounted all of the injuries except one. When they asked the driver about the tire track across his injured friend's chest, he responded: "Well how else was I s'posed to git the deer off 'im?" __________________________________________________ Two senior citizens were bragging about their sex lives in the elderly homes, "Can you still do it? I have sex with my wife twice a week. How many can you do?" "Oh, I do it almost every night of the week!" "Almost every night!!?????" "Yup! Monday, almost. Tuesday, almost. Wednesday,........" __________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ A couple, age 67, went to the doctor's office. The doctor asked, "What can I do for you?" The man said, "Will you watch us have sexual intercourse?" The doctor looked puzzled but agreed. When the couple had finished, the doctor said, "There is nothing wrong with the way you have intercourse", and he charged them $32.00. This happened several weeks in a row. The couple would make an appointment, have intercourse, pay the doctor and leave. Finally the doctor asked, "Just exactly what are you trying to find out?" The man said, "We're not trying to find out anything. She has a gossipy sister on an extended visit in her apartment, so we can't go to there. I have too many noisy grandkids running around my place and so we can't go to my house. The Holiday Inn charges $160.00. The Hilton charges $178.00. We do it here for $32.00 and I get back $28.00 from Medicare for a visit to the doctor's office." ________________________________________________ The optimist owned a hunting dog that could walk on water. His plan? Take the pessimist and the dog out duck hunting in a boat. They got out into the middle of the lake, and the optimist brought down a duck. The dog immediately walked out across the water, retrieved the duck, and walked back to the boat. The optimist looked at his pessimistic friend and said, "What do you think about that?" The pessimist replied, "That dog can't swim, can he?" Luckily the pessimist was wearing a life jacket when he got tossed into the water. He had to swim back to shore. ____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ A guy goes to a doctor and says: "Doctor, my wife has lost her voice, a week ago...." "And you are afraid she'll find it again ?" ___________________________________________________ A patient had broken his leg and it was going to have to be set. To get him ready for this painful event, he was heavily sedated. While in this "state", he spoke rather freely with the hospital staff and with his wife. She apparently learned several things about her husband. When it was time to reverse the medication, the wife said "Wait! not yet. I have some more questions I want to ask". __________________________________________________ Reported by Rock An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Andrew Arenas, early 20s Phoenix, Arizona, USA Man crashes into newly open Chic Chef 77 in Tempe while drunk A new Tempe wine bar making history is getting ready to reopen after it was forced to close down when an alleged drunk driver crashed into the business. The wine bar, Chic Chef 77, had only been open for three days when the crash happened. Tire marks show the driver hit the median and then came in the direction of the bar and hit a rail, damaging the patio and breaking the window. "Early Saturday morning, we were awakened from phone calls from property management alerting us that there was an incident," said co-owner Dr. Rarkimm Fields. "My wife was immediately upset. We were concerned if anyone was hurt given that we weren't here. Kind of waken up to that news, you automatically think the worst." Fields and his wife came out to see damage to their new business. Luckily, nobody was injured. "It was very stressful because again, it was Super Bowl weekend. We were excited about the history made. We were the first African American wine bar in the state of Arizona, and we were on that high of celebrating, just being open and looking forward to sharing the experience with community," Fields said. It's an experience that will have to wait until repairs are made, and it's safe for the business to reopen. "To have this happen, it was devastating not only for us as owners but also our employees because they lost a lot of revenue as well. We're just hoping that repairs are made quickly where we can get back open," Fields said. Days after the hit-and-run, Tempe Police say Andrew Arenas, who is in his early 20s, was arrested for driving under the influence. "It saddens me. Number one, he put himself in harms way. If you are going to be out drinking, I do recommend you actually get a designated driver or get an Uber. Your life is valuable too," he said. Chic Chef 77 will reopen on Friday, Feb. 17. ____________________________________________________ A lonely wife brought a man she had just met at a bar home to her bedroom one evening when she thought her husband was out of town. They immediately tore each other's clothes off and started going at it. She sat up quickly in bed as she heard the key in the lock. "Quick!" she said to the man, "it's my husband! You've got to get out of here quick!" "Where's the back door?" the man asked as he grabbed his clothes. "There isn't one," she replied. "Where would you like one?" he asked. _____________________________________________________ One day a co-worker told my friend, Stan, that she was going home early because she didn't feel well. Since Stan was just getting over something himself, he wished her well and said he hoped it wasn't something he had given her. A fellow worker piped up, "I sure hope not. She has morning sickness." _________________________________________________ DearWebby's Tech Support Pits from: Bonnie re: Name of picture Dear Webby is there a way to identify a picture/photo that's on the computer screen? Like the lovely bird in today's newsletter? Bonnie Dear Bonnie Yes, sure! Right-click the picture, Select: Save As The computer will show the current name of the picture, and lets you choose where to save it to. I don't always use the full and long name, but enough, so that you can guess the rest. That bird, for example, I named Hyacynth- By it's beak you can probably tell that it is a Macaw. The full name is Hyacynth Macaw. Some people call it a Blue Macaw. When all else fails, write me and I will tell you what I know. You can also right-click the image, and select Seach Google for image Google calls it a Spix or Blue Macaw. Have FUN! DearWebby _____________________________________________________ Today, February 16 in 1741, Benjamin Franklin published Americas second magazine, "The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle". 1804, A raid was led by Lt. Stephen Decatur to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia. The ship had been taken by pirates. 1857, The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College. 1862, During the U.S. Civil War, about 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson, TN. 1868, The Jolly Corks organization in New York City, changed it name to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE). 1883, "Ladies Home Journal" began publication. 1914, The first airplane flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco took place. 1918, Lithuania proclaimed its independence. 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The next day he entered the chamber with several invited guests. He had originally found the tomb on November 4, 1922. 1932, The first fruit tree patent was issued to James E. Markham for a peach tree which ripens later than other varieties. 1937, Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon. Carothers was a research chemist for Du Pont. 1938, The U.S. Federal Crop Insurance program was authorized. 1945, During World War II, U.S. troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines. 1946, The first commercially designed helicopter was tested in Connecticut. 1948, NBC-TV began airing its first nightly newscast, "The Camel Newsreel Theatre", which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels. 1858, The first ironing board was patented by William Vandenburg and James Harvey. 1959, Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista. 1960, The U.S.S. Triton began the first circumnavigation of the globe under water. The trip ended on May 10. 1968, In the U.S., the first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL. 1970, Joe Frazier began his reign as the undefeated heavyweight world champion when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis in five rounds. He lost the title on January 22, 1973, when he lost for the first time in his professional career to George Foreman. 1985, "Kojak" returned to network television after an absence of seven years with the CBS-TV special, "Kojak: The Belarus File." 1987, John Demjanjuk went on trial in Jerusalem. He was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. He was convicted, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ruling. 1989, Investigators in Lockerbie, Scotland, announced that a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player was the reason that Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down the previous December. All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground were killed. 1999, A bomb exploded at the government headquarters in Uzbekistan. Gunfire followed the incident. The event apparently was an attempt on the life of President Islam Karimov. 1999, Kurds seized embassies and held hostages across Europe following Turkey's arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. 1999, Testimony began in the Jasper, TX, trial of John William King. He was charged with murder in the gruesome dragging death of James Byrd Jr. King was later convicted and sentenced to death. 2002, The operator of a crematory in Noble, GA, was arrested after dozens of corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered around in the surrounding woods. 2005, The Kyoto global warming pact went into effect in 140 nations. 2005, The NHL announced the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to a labor dispute. It was the first time a major sports league in North America lost an entire season to a labor dispute. 2022 Do smiled. https://www.cloudwards.net/how-to-uninstall-microsoft- edge/
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