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| Good Morning, Do! Today is Tuesday, September 6 ___________________________________________________ History on this day, September 6, in 1978, James Wickwire and Louis Reichardt reached the top of the world's second highest mountain, Pakistan's K-2. They were the first Americans to reach that summit. The most famous climber to reach that summit was Austrian Reinhold Messner about two dozen years earlier. He wrote the book "Mountain of Mountains", that made the K2 famous. ____________________________________________________ International Bonehead Award Suspect arrested after 40 hour standoff in northeast Fresno ____________________________________________________ I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. --- Eddie Izzard A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --- Leonard Louis Levinson "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." --- Dorothy Parker ____________________________________________________ >From Elaine While walking through a parking lot, I tripped and fell flat on my face. As I was lying there, quietly bleeding onto the pavement, a woman stopped her car and called out, "Are you hurt?" "No, I'm fine," I said. "Oh, good," she continued. "Will you be vacating your parking space soon?" So I told her: "As soon as the ambulance hauls me away!" She left in a huff. ____________________________________________________ At the exclusive restaurant where I work, a party of diners was exhausting the waiter with relentless demands. Through it all, he remained professional. Finally, one of the patrons asked the waiter to take the group's picture. He did -- from the neck down. __________________________________________________ Reported by Rock An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Pheng Vang, 28, Fresno, California, USA Suspect arrested after 40 hour standoff in northeast Fresno Fresno police have identified the subject of a day-long standoff at a northeast Fresno Save Mart supermarket that ended with law enforcement officials unable to locate him. Pheng Vang, 28, is on parole for burglary according to a release from the Fresno Police Department. Pheng Vang, who hid for over a day in the ceiling of a NE Fresno Save Mart, will have to stand trial on all charges against him. Burglars found what they thought was an a easy mark in the Caruthers area when the homeowner went on vacation in May. Vicki Day came home to quite a mess. "The wallboard in my hallway was torn off the wall and piled in the middle of the hallway," said the burglary victim. The crooks had rummaged through her entire house - stealing jewelry, guns, and lots more. Detectives say surveillance video showed someone manipulate the camera to stay hidden, but deputies saw just enough to identify a car from the video when they saw it a couple days later. They say Pheng Vang owned the car and they saw him get in it at the River Park Macy's A deputy fired at least one shot, but the suspect slipped away and led them on about a mile-long chase to a dirt lot at First and Nees. "It's all loose gravel," said Detective Kyle Konze of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office. "They do carnivals there. It was a large cloud of dust and I could see the vehicle just doing donuts out there." Deputies say they saw Vang get out of his car and run towards the Save Mart grocery store across the street. They evacuated the entire shopping center and eventually called for help from Fresno police officers. The long standoff ended only after police gave up on catching Vang there. But detectives found plenty of evidence in the car he left behind. "A majority of the stolen property was located in his vehicle," said Det. Konze. About 40 hours after ditching deputies at Macy's, Vang fell out of the ceiling of the reopened store. An Action News employee spotted him and helped lead police to the suspect. "He eventually gave up and allowed us to take him into custody," said Fresno police officer Brian Meza, who chase Vang to a nearby apartment complex and made the arrest. A judge decided Tuesday there's enough evidence for Vang to stand trial on four felonies. If he's convicted on all the charges, Vang could face a sentence of 45 years to life in prison because he has four prior strikes. _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Andy came to work one day, limping something awful. One of his co-workers noticed and asked what happened. Andy replied, "Oh, nothing. It's just an old hockey injury that acts up once in a while." "I never knew you played hockey." "I don't." said Andy. "I hurt it last year when I lost $1,000 on the Stanley Cup play-offs and put my foot through the television." _____________________________________________________ >From Marion I took my young son to the doctor for a routine physical. All the way I had to reassure him that he would not be getting a shot. He went through his eye exam, hearing test, etc. The nurse came into the exam room and started to ask me routine questions. When she got to "Is he allergic to anything" my four year old son stood up and yelled: "YES, I'm allergic to shots!" _____________________________________________________ Axiana Yuan White-breasted Nuthatch, St Albert, AB ___________________________________________________ Judi had never been fishing in her entire life, but she wasn't about to tell her new, rich boyfriend that. "What? And look like an idiot?" she said to her girlfriend Carly. After about an hour aboard his yacht, she turned to her new boyfriend and said, "Umm, those little red and white thingees? How much do they cost?" Amanpreet looked at her a little funny, shrugged, and said, "The float? I guess they're about a dollar. Why do you ask?" "I owe you a dollar then. Mine just sank." _________________________________________________ DearWebby's Tech Support Pits From: Bill RE: Outluck Dear Webby, ...... Please accept my apology. Along with the curse of W10, I was having difficulty with Eudora. My son, the guru, set me up with Outlook. Outlook decided that your emails were junk, even though I receive all your newsletters. Thank you for your responses. All the best, Bill Dear Bill! I used W10 for a couple of weeks, then I decided that life was too short to put up with that c..., and bought a W7 refurb for $300. Happy days are here again! However, when I was on W10, I did use Eudora. W10 is not capable of linking to it like W7 is, but you can run Eudora on it. In your case, though, I would highly recommend that you upgrade to Gmail. It is rather klutzy compared to 1993 Eudora, but it has great archiving, and you can filter the Humor Letter into a Humor category, so that it does not clutter up the INbox. Outaluck is deadly. Sooner or later it will collapse and take all your mail with it. Addresses too. Dump it as quickly as you can! Even Microsoft recommends that you dump it, fast. A good alternative is to set up a Gmail, for example [email protected], tell me when you got that, so that I can adjust your subscriptions. Then you set your Outaluck to forward anything that still comes to the Outluck address to your new Gmail address, just in case some aunt is slow in updating. Nobody, absolutely NOBODY, ever goes back to Outaluck from Gmail. Gmail also does very good spam filtering, and you can make filters almost as well as in MailWasher. HaveFUN! DearWebby ___________________________________________________ >From Bob I had moved to South Carolina from New York, and at that time a vehicle inspection was required to register my car. I was nervous; my car was in rough shape. I thought of New York's rigorous inspections. Any number of problems might turn up that would be expensive to fix. I drove down a country road and found a garage that had an inspection sign. When I told the mechanic what I needed, he circled the car, turned on the lights and honked the horn. Then he attached a new sticker and asked me for the three-dollar fee. I was shocked. "Is that all you have to do?" I asked. He answered, "Well, you drove it here, didn't you?" _____________________________________________________ A husband and wife were involved in a petty argument, both of them unwilling to admit they might be in error. "I'll admit I'm wrong," the wife told her husband in a con- ciliatory attempt, "if you'll admit I'm right." He agreed and, like a gentleman, insisted she go first. "I'm wrong," she said. With a twinkle in his eye, he responded, "You're right!" _____________________________________________ Ophelia Dingbatter's News No sermon and not suitable for church, just jokes and fun for grownups. Read it on-line or subscribe. If you subscribe, look for the double opt- in confirmation request. ____________________________________________________ Today, September 6, in 1620, The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World. 1819, Thomas Blanchard patented a machine called the lathe. It had been used for centuries, but never patented. 1837, The Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio went co- educational. 1876, The Southern Pacific rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco was completed. 1899, Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk. 1901, U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an American anarchist, who was executed the following October. 1909, Robert Peary, American explorer, sent word that he had reached the North Pole. He had reached his goal five months earlier. 1939, South Africa declared war on Germany. 1941, Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6. 1944, During World War II, the British government relaxed blackout restrictions and suspended compulsory training for the Home Guard. 1948, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was crowned. 1952, In Montreal, Canadian television began broadcasting. 1972, Rick DeMont lost the gold medal he received in a 400- meter swimming event because a banned drug was found in his system during routine drug testing. 1975, Martina Navratilova requested political asylum while in New York for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament. 1978, James Wickwire and Louis Reichardt reached the top of the world's second highest mountain, Pakistan's K-2. They were the first Americans to reach that summit. The most famous climber to reach that summit was Austrian Reinhold Messner about two dozen years earlier. He wrote the book "Mountain of Mountains", that made the K2 famous. 1990, Iraq warned that anyone trying to flee the country without permission would be put in prison for life. 1991, The State Council of the Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states. 1991, The name St. Petersburg was restored to Russia's second largest city. The city was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great. The name had been changed to Petrograd (1914) and to Leningrad (1924). 1992, A 35-year old man died ten weeks after receiving a transplanted baboon liver. 1993, Renault of France and Volvo of Sweden announced they were merging. Volvo eventually canceled the deal the following December. 1995, U.S. Senator Bob Packwood was expelled by the Senate Ethics Committee. 2000, The U.N. Millennium Summit began in New York. It was the largest gathering of world leaders in history with more than 150 present. 2001, The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was seeking a lesser antitrust penalty and would not attempt to break up Microsoft. 2001, Ebay Inc. was found not liable for copyright infringement because bootleg copies of a Charles Manson documentary had been sold on their site. 2002, In New York, the U.S. Congress convened at Federal Hall for a rare special session. The session was held in New York to express the nation's mourning for the loss on September 11, 2001 and unity in the war against terrorism. 2008, The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) would be placed in government conservatorship. 2022 Do! smiled. |
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