Good Morning, Do! Today is Saturday, February 8 _____________________________________ The flower in Lillimar's picture is called Kniphofia, and it's a plant that was native to South Africa but brought over here almost 50 years ago. I was fortunate enough to be able to identify the flower, thanks to a wonderful friend. Love your newsletter! It starts my day right. Janice ___________________________________________________ Today, February 8 in  1985 "The Dukes of Hazzard" ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television.  ______________________________________________________ Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250 --- Harper's Index, October 1989 About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. --- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964) ______________________________________________________ 
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Today's Bonehead Award: Police make arrest in hit-and-run crash that killed man in wheelchair  __________________________________________ A chief and an admiral were sitting in the barber shop. They were both just getting finished with their shaves-- the barbers were reaching for some aftershave to slap on their faces. The admiral shouted, "Hey, don't put that stuff on me! My wife will think I've been in a whorehouse!" The chief turned to his barber and said, "Go ahead and put it on. My wife doesn't know what the inside of a horehouse smells like." __________________________________________ Thanks to Barb for sending me this picture:   Smog Over Almaty, Kazakhstan __________________________________________ My boss wanted a "Clean Desk" policy, so he sent a memo saying that any paperwork left on desks would be removed at night and we would have to fill out a form to get it back. So we left all our trash paper on our desks every night. In a week, the boss had an office full of trash, nobody filled out a retrieval form, and we never heard about the policy again. ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Raul Morales, 39, Fresno, California 
 Police make arrest in hit-and-run crash that killed man in wheelchair 
 Fresno police Wednesday reported the arrest of Raul Morales, 38, in connection with a fatal hit-and-run Friday in which a Fresno man in a wheelchair was killed. The arrest took place shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday night, according to Lt. Mark Hudson. Morales faces charges of felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Ronnie Rodriguez, 53, was killed about 6:15 p.m. Friday when he was struck by a four-wheel drive pickup truck on North Brawley Avenue, south of West Weldon Avenue. Acting on a tip, police found the suspect vehicle, a white, extended cab Chevrolet, in the 2000 block of North Hanover Avenue. Detectives observed that Morales was making repairs on the vehicle and took him into custody. 
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Hermon Re: W7 support mayhem  Dear Webby My computer when crazy after I received the notice that Win7 would no longer be supported. Did all win 7 machines do this. My computer became much slower hunting for a program after I clicked on an icon. Chrome completely quit. I don’t like windows 10, so don’t tell me to get a new machine. What’s going on? Hermon in Kentucky  Dear Hermon They did screw aound and did do some sabotage, but not the same for everybody. My W7 machine still works fine. Re "no longer supported hoax": They did did not support it before either. Did you ever get any usable and useful support from them? Didn't think so. Nobody else did either. Be careful, though, with all kinds of wacky stuff pretending to be from Microsoft, but actually just a virus from a scammer. Run a good anti-virus program like MallwareBytes or McAfee, and most definitely refuse any "alert" that asks you to download anything. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 An anthropologist was assigned to Borneo, where he found a guide with a canoe to take him up the river to the remote site he where he would make his collections. At noon on the second day of travel up the river they began to hear drums. "What are those drums?" asked the anthropologist, knowing he was in cannibal country. The guide turned to him and said "No worry. Drums OK, but very bad when they stop. "They both went ghostly pale when the drums suddenly stopped. The guide crouched in the belly of the canoe and covered his ears. "Do as I do! Very important!" intoned the guide with great urgency. "Why? What does this mean?" asked the panicked anthropologist. "Drums stop! Next come violin solo!" 
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 ___________________________________________________ A company was encountering so many errors, they were thinking of buying a computer to blame them on. ___________________________________________________ Mrs. Culpepper was almost in tears. "Oh Marie," she said to her maid, "I have reason to suspect that my husband is having an affair with his secretary." "I don't believe it for one minute." Marie snapped. "You're just saying that to make me jealous." ____________________________________________ =======from Millie F.======Dear Webby, you are going to get a chuckle outa this: We have always had your Humor Letter on the bulletin board, probably long before I started here 3 years ago. The last two years it was my duty and pleasure to print it and put it up every morning. Because nobody had read the boss's announcements re the long weekend, I was told today that in future all of his announcements be put "right beside the DearWebby Humor Letter, which seems to be the only part of the bulletin board anybody reads". ========= Millie F.======= ____________________________________________ 
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 Today February 8 in 1802 Simon Willard patented the banjo clock. 1861 The Confederate States of America was formed. 1861 A Cheyenne delegation and some Arapaho leaders accepted a new settlement (Treaty of Fort Wise) with the U.S. Federal government. The deal ceded most of their land but secured a 600-square mile reservation and annuity payments. 1900 In South Africa, British troops under Gen. Buller were beaten at Ladysmith. The British fled over the Tugela River. 1904 The Russo-Japanese War began with Japan attacking Russian forces in Manchuria. 1918 During World War I, "The Stars and Stripes" was published under orders from General John J. Pershing for the United States Army forces in France. It was published from February 8, 1918 to June 13, 1919. 1952 Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the British throne. Her father, George VI, had died on February 6. 1963 The Kennedy administration prohibited travel to Cuba and made financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens. 1963 Lamar Hunt, owner of the American Football League franchise in Dallas, TX, moved the operation to Kansas City. The new team was named the Chiefs. 1973 U.S. Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal. 1974 The three-man crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth after 84 days. 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a plan to re- introduce draft registration. 1985 "The Dukes of Hazzard" ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television. 1993 General Motors sued NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that some GM pickups were prone to fires after certain types of crashes. The suit was settled the following day by NBC. 2020 Do smiled. 

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