Good Morning, Do! Today is Monday, October 7 ____________________________________________________ Today, October 7 in 2003 In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis. More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ | If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! | |
Today's Bonehead Award: NC mom Charged With trading Baby For car _______________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote! _______________________________________________ Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. --- Marilyn Manson (1969 - ) People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. --- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962) _______________________________________________ A number of new Air-Force recruits were being taken on their first training flight. The plane had just leveled out after taking off when one of the engines seized up, and another began smoking badly. Adjusting his parachute, the instructor strove for nonchalance as he made his way to the hatch door. "Now I want you men to keep perfectly calm," he said, "while I go for help." ________________________________________________` ____________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote! Thanks for your votes! ___________________________________________________ Reported by Linda An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Alice Todd, 45, Thomasville, North Carolina NC mom Charged With trading Baby For car A North Carolina mother sold her baby daughter for a 1992 Plymouth Laser, according to police and felony indictments filed against her and two codefendants. Alice Todd, 45, is accused of swapping her child last year for a vehicle provided by Tina Chavis, 47, and her husband Vicenio Romero, 53. All three defendants have been charged with the unlawful sale, surrender, or purchase of a minor. At the time of the baby/vehicle barter, the child was less than a year old, according to court records. A police investigation was launched in late-July when Chavis brought the child to a hospital for treatment. Since the girl was presented to medical staff with bruising, hospital personnel contacted cops and child protective service workers. During subsequent questioning, Chavis initially said she was the child's birth mother. She subsequently changed her story, saying that she had adopted the girl. But Chavis was unable to provide documentation to support that claim. Police in Thomasville, a city 20 miles south of Winston-Salem, eventually identified Todd as the child's biological mother. Superior Court indictments allege that Chavis and Romero transferred possession of a vehicle to Alice Todd for physical custody of the minor. The swap, the indictment adds, was not ordered by a court, authorized by statute, or otherwise lawful. Police said that Todd accepted a 27-year-old Plymouth in return for her child. The girl, now two-years-old, is currently in the custody of a relative. Todd, seen above, and her codefendants are each being held in the Davidson County jail in lieu of $50,000 bond. They are scheduled for an October 21 court appearance. DearWebby's Tech Support Pits From: Roselyn Re: What is "War Driving"? I hope you have recovered from your eye injections! My father has to have to get them and he can't drive for a week afterwards. You mentioned "War Driving". Dad said: "Yep, we used to do that before the Internet." but would not tell me details. What's the story? Roselyn Dear Roselyn Once upon a time, long, long ago, before the Internet, when we had BIG, powerful cars. that could haul 8 or more skinny teens, they used to gather as mny garage door openers as they could, set them all to different combinations and start cruising Hamburger Hill and all the affluent neighborhoods, where people had garages and electric garage doors. Then they click all their remote controls and see how many garage doors they could open. The game was not to burglar or steal anything, just to open the garage doors. If they did that at -40, quite likely pipes or goods in the garage froze solid by the time the owner came home. All the "War Drivers" did was open the garage doors, laugh and cruise to the next house. As you can probably imagine, the owners sometimes got very upset. I installed quite a few security systems with one element just watching the garage door. With X-10 systems you can set them to call 3 different phone numbers instead of the SWAT team, because at that time it cost $80 if they had to respond and there was nobody to arrest and haul to jail. Calling the owner with a pre- recorded message was a good solution. Once we got the internet the "war drivers" cruised around with laptops and tried to hack into people's connections and use them to download huge amounts of music, which they usually never listned to. They just bragged how many Gigabytes of music they had downloaded. The same with porno. Not for looking at, just for bragging. Don't use an easy password, that they can guess. "Incorrect" may sound hilarious, but Millions of people use it and it is one off the most popular passwords. You can easily pick or generate a complicated password and write it onto a Post-It note and stick that somewhere, where you can see it. Have FUN! DearWebby Automatically move ALL your settings and programs. The sheriff of a small town was also the town's veterinarian. One night the phone rang, and his wife answered. An agitated voice inquired, "Is your husband there?" "Do you require his services as a sheriff or as a vet?" the wife asked. "Both!" was the reply. "We can't get our dog's mouth open, and there's a burglar in it." | If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! | |
>From Bob The company I work for sometimes holds "Lunch and Learn" seminars for employees during lunchtime. These deal with a variety of physical and mental health issues. If the seminar lasts beyond the normal lunch hour, we're supposed to get managerial approval to attend. So, last week, this flyer came around: LUNCH AND LEARN SEMINAR: WHO'S CONTROLLING YOUR LIFE? (Get your manager's permission before attending) Looks like that question has been answered. ___________________________________________________ Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com font color="#009990"> Keeping Cool on Hot Days When it's really hot and you don't have air conditioning, try putting together this frugal "swamp cooler". Fill a bowl up with cool water and set it in front of a fan so the fan blows air over the top of the water. Toss some ice cubes in the water occasionally to help keep it cool. thriftyfun.Com Actually, the cooling is done by extracting calories from the air to evaporate the water. Cooling the water is counterproductive. It takes one calorie to increase the temperature by 1 degree, but 650 to evaporate it. If you want to cool down a room fast when you get back from town, hang some wet mesh cloth in front of a fan. Occasionally spray it with a water filled Windex sprayer. You will be very surprised how fast that cools down a room! Have FUN! DearWebby ____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ A friend and his wife were considering traveling to Alaska for a trip that the husband had long dreamed of taking. He kept talking about how great it would be to stay in a log cabin without electricity, to hunt moose, and drive a dog team instead of a car. "If we decided to live there permanently, away from civilization, what would you miss the most?" he asked his wife. She replied, "You." ___________________________________________________ How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. ___________________________________________________ Wanting to lose weight, a woman placed a picture of a shapely, pinup model in her refrigerator to remind her of her goal. The reminder worked like a charm as the woman discovered that she had lost ten pounds in the first month of using this method. The downside to this was that her husband spent so much time going into the fridge to look at the picture that he ended up gaining fifteen pounds! __________________________________________________ | Ophelia Dingbatter's NewsNo 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, October 7 1765 Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances." 1777 During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began. 1913 For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis was added to the process. 1918 The Georgia Tech football team defeated Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech carried the ball 978 yards and never threw a pass. 1949 The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed. 1950 The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea. 1951 The Western Hills Hotel in Fort Worth, TX, became the first hotel to feature all foam-rubber mattresses and pillows. 1956 A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows. 1963 U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union. 1968 The Motion Picture Association of America adopted the film- rating system that ranged for "G" to "X." 1981 The Egyptian parliament, after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, named Vice President Hosni Mubarak the next president of Egypt. 1982 A record was set when 147,000,000 shares were exchanged on the New York Stock Exchange. 1985 The United States announced that it would no longer automatically comply with World Court decisions. 1989 In Budapest, Hungary's Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism. 1993 U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval firepower to Somalia. 1994 U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert. 1998 The U.S. government filed an antitrust suit that alleged Visa and MasterCard inhibit competition by preventing banks from offering other cards. 1999 American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug caused dangerous problems with heart valves. 2000 Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president. 2001 The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. 2003 In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis. 2019 Do smiled. |
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