Good Morning, Do! Today is Wednesday, August 15 Have FUN! Dearwebby Todays Bonehead Award: Man accused of filling water cup with soda sees $2 cost supersized to $50,000 Bonehead ______________________________________________________ Today, August 15 in 1947 India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British rule about 200 years. More of today in history at HIstory ______________________________________________________ 
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 Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. --- Ronald Reagan (1911 2004) ____________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. --- Cathy Ladman I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. --- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) _____________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________ Tech Support: "How much free space do you have on your hard drive?" Customer: "Well, my wife likes to get up there on that Internet, and she downloaded ten hours of free space. Is that enough?" ______________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________ 
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 _____________________________________________________ Miss Jones had given her second-grade students a lesson on science. She had explained about magnets and showed how they would pick up nails and other bits of iron. Now it was question time, and she asked, "My name begins with the letter 'M' and I pick up things. What am I?" Little Johnny in the front row proudly said, "You're a mother!" ___________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Daniel Stine, Missoula, Montana  Man accused of filling water cup with soda sees $2 cost supersized to $50,000  A $2.00 charge for a soda has been super-sized to $50,000, which is how much bail a Montana suspect now faces. Daniel Stine entered a Missoula Arbys fast food restaurant and requested a water cup that he then tried to full with soda, Newstalk KGVO reported. When confronted by an employee, Stine allegedly started a fight, Missoula Police Public Information Officer Travis Welsh said, according to KGVO. When confronted by an employee who informed him that he had to pay for the cup of soda he refused and left out one of the entrances, Welsh explained. The employee followed him, told him that he was not welcome back then he turned and came back towards the employee and tried to kick that person before walking away again. When police responded, Stine was seen entering a nearby Dennys. Cops followed him into a bathroom there and thats when the suspect became aggressive. The officers were able to make entry to the bathroom, however, when they did and confronted the man, rather than comply with their instructions he approached them in what appeared to be an aggressive manner, Welsh explained. The officers attempted to take control of him physically and thats when he began to resist and fight with the officers and had to be tased to comply to the officers instructions. Stine now faces four misdemeanor charges of criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, obstructing a peace officer and resisting arrest, according to KGVO in addition to a felony robbery charge. 
  From: Guinn Re: Can't restore  Dear Webby, You seem to know (or can find out) a lot of answers to our problems, out here in CyberLand. So here is MY problem: Sometime in the past few weeks I must have clicked a wrong key because now I cannot Restore. When I try to Restore, the only day shown in bold numbers is the current date and the current time. How do I get my Restore back? Thanks for any help you can give me, Guinn   Dear Guinn You, or some "speeder-upper" utility, must have turned off Restore and wiped out all the old restore data. Running out of disk space also deactivates the Restore. Once you clear out enough space, System Restore will reactivate automatically, but in the meantime you will have lost all your previous restore points. Restore also gets a bit flaky when it gets close to the limit of the space that you allotted for it. It will start dropping old restore points. Theoretically it is supposed to stop dumping when 50% of the allocated space is free. Sometimes it doesn't. If the restore point that you see is not the one made when Restore got turned back on, go to Control Panel, System System-Restore and manage it from there. Have FUN DearWebby  
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 A group of Q-Tips (senior citizens) in TheVillages were exchanging notes about their ailments. "My arm is so weak I can hardly hold this coffee cup." "Yes, I know. My cataracts are so bad I can't see to pour the coffee." "I can't turn my head because of the arthritis in my neck." "My blood pressure pills make my dizzy." "I guess that's the price we pay for getting old." "Well, it's not all bad. We should be thankful that we can still drive!" 
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 An older friend, recently returned from her home town in North Carolina, says they've spruced up the churchyard cemetery since her last visit several years back. "Lots of new greenery," she said. "And families are together now." "Together?" I asked, puzzled. "Well, years ago they never much worried where they buried someone because everyone was a neighbor anyhow. They'd just dig a grave wherever it seemed to balance things. But they've redone it so people are with their children and grandchildren, instead of scattered all over." "You mean they exhumed all those people and re-buried them?" "Oh no," she said. "They just moved the headstones. Everyone agrees it looks ever so much nicer." ____________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Cleaning Out The Fridge After cleaning out your refrigerator, dampen a cloth or clean sponge with white vinegar and wipe down the walls and shelves in the fridge. It will both cut down odors and help prevent mildew. A box of baking soda also helps odors.  Tip provided by Thriftyfun.com  ____________________________________________________   
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ Woman to marriage counselor: "The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we got married the same year." ___________________________________________________ 
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 Schalk burst into Van's room to find Van standing on a chair with a rope around his waist and the end of the rope around the ceiling beam. "Hey Van, what do you think you're doing?" said Schalk. "I'm committing suicide," replied Van. "Well you're going about it all wrong," said Schalk. "You're supposed to tie the rope around your neck, not our waist." "Man, but I tried that yesterday and I dang near choked." ____________________________________________________  
 Today, August 15 in 1057 Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was killed by the son of King Duncan. 1848 The dental chair was patented by M. Waldo Hanchett. 1877 Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone. 1911 The product Crisco was introduced by Procter & Gamble Company. 1914 The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The first vessel to pass through the canal was the American cargo and passenger ship SS Ancon. 1918 Diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Russia were severed. 1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in an airplane crash in near Point Barrow, AK. 1939 "The Wizard of Oz" premiered in Hollywood, CA. Judy Garland became famous for the movie's song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." 1943 Because of his special talent to use food scraps in both unusual and appetizing recipes, the U.S. War Department awarded Sgt. Edward Dzuba the Legion of Merit. 1944 The Allied forces of World War II landed in southern France. 1947 India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British rule about 200 years. 1948 The Republic of Korea was proclaimed. 1949 In San Francisco, a stunt leap off the Golden Gate Bridge was performed for the first time. 1961 East German workers began construction of the Berlin Wall. 1971 U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents and prices. 1986 The U.S. Senate approved a package of economic sanctions against South Africa. The ban included the importing of steel, uranium, textiles, coal, and produce from South Africa. 1992 Vietnam blamed Hollywood for creating the "myth" concerning the issue of U.S. servicemen still being held prisoner in Indochina. 1997 The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up. 2000 A group of 100 people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century. Also, a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North. 2001 Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own. They had discovered two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper. 2011 Google announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. 2015 North Korea began using UTC+08:30 (official name Pyongyang Time) as a rejection of Japanese imperialism. 2018 Do smiled. 
 

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