| Good Morning, Do! Today is Saturday, July 1 ____________________________________________________ History: today, July 1 in 1916, The massive Allied offensive known as the Battle of the Somme began in France. The battle was the first to use tanks. ___________________________________________ Bonehead ___________________________________________________ Q Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) ___________________________________________________ There is the story of a priest who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, the money is still out there in your pockets." ___________________________________________________ If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ A graduate in economics who completed his degree in the 1950's returned to his old university for a visit. He was amazed to see that the examination questions were identical to the ones asked in his day. When he pointed this out to a member of staff, he replied, "That's true, but, of course, the answers are completely different now." ________________________________________________ A Bonehead award has been reported by Rock Danny Tiner, 36, Phoenix, Arizona, USA TikToking trucker killed 5 A 36-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a deadly crash along the I-10 in Chandler that killed five people back in January. The deadly Jan. 12 incident happened on the eastbound lanes of the freeway near Chandler Boulevard. A commercial tractor- trailer hauling garbage rear-ended two cars after driving into stopped traffic, sandwiching them into the back of another semi, according to DPS. The Arizona Department of Public Safety announced in a news release that 36-year-old Danny G. Tiner was arrested at his home Thursday on multiple charges related to the January crash, including five counts of manslaughter. Danny Tiner, according to detectives, originally said he received a message on his electronic work tablet at the time of the crash and acknowledged the message. "Tiner said when he looked back up traffic was stopped, and he could not stop his vehicle in time to avoid a collision," read a portion of the statement. An investigation determined Tiner was driving 68 mph in a 55 mph construction zone and actively using TikTok on his cellphone right before the collision. Five people died as a result of the crash. Tiner, according to DPS, is accused of five counts of manslaughter, four counts of endangerment, and a count of tampering with physical evidence. ___________________________________________________ During exams at England's Cambridge University, a bright young student asks the proctor to bring him cakes and ale. "Sorry, no," says the proctor. "Sir, I really must insist," says the student, taking out a copy of the 400 year old Laws of Cambridge, written in Latin and still nominally in effect. He points to a section which reads (roughly translated): "Gentlemen sitting examinations may request and require cakes and ale." The proctor gives in, but since cakes and ale aren't readily available, he and the student agree that hamburgers and beer can be substituted, and the student sits there, writing his examination and happily slurping away. Three weeks later, the same student is fined five pounds for not wearing a sword to the examination. __________________________________________________ Here is an old favorite, requested again and again: Ode to the spellchecker Eye halve a spelling checker It came with my pea sea It plainly marks four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word and weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My checker tolled me sew. ___________________________________________________ Great Gray Owl, in the sunshine, proudly showing off a Vole she has captured. Water Valley area, northwest of Calgary Shirley Otway ___________________________________________________ Every Monday morning for years, at about 11:30 am, the tele- phone operator in a small Sierra-Nevada town received a call from a man asking the exact time. One day the operator summed-up the nerve to ask him why the regularity. "I'm foreman of the local sawmill," he explained. "Every day I have to blow the whistle at noon, so I call you to get the exact time." The operator giggled, "That's really funny," she said. "All this time we've been setting our clock by your whistle. ___________________________________________________ From: Brenda Re: Wireless Connectivity Dear Webby, I am used to using the wireless modem in my laptop to connect to hotels where I am staying, and am fairly comfortable with the procedure. However, now and then it happens that I connect to the hotel's router, and see good signal strength, but can't get anywhere. What do you recommend in those cases? Brenda Dear Brenda Get your money back and go to a better hotel. They gambled on a 4 station router being enough, and you were #5. They rarely admit that and that type of hotel usually tries to blame it on your computer. It is NOT your computer's fault, and NOT your settings. Do not let them talk you into changing your settings, and don't let them waste your time, while they hope that somebody will log off. Just demand your money back and go to a better hotel. Without messing with your settings, you can usually get better connectivity from the parking lot of a Holiday Inn, than from the lobby of, for example, a Baymont Inn. When enough people smarten up and demand their money back, they will eventually get proper equipment and stop trying to blame you. Have FUN! DearWebby ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! _____________________________________________________ Fifty-one years ago Herman James, a Tennessee Mountain Man, was drafted by the Army. On his first day in Basic, the Army issued him a comb. That afternoon the Army barber sheared off all his hair. On his second day, the Army issued Herman a toothbrush. That afternoon the Army dentist yanked seven of his teeth. On the third day, the Army issued him a jock strap. The Army has been looking for Herman for 51 years. __________________________________________________ If you can help with the cost of the humor letter, please donate what you can! If you like my work,please donate a dollar, or two, if you can afford it! Please, help me stay online! __________________________________________________ History Today July 1, in 0096, Vespasian, a Roman Army leader, was hailed as a Roman Emperor by the Egyptian legions. 1543, England and Scotland signed the peace of Greenwich. 1596, An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard of Effingham and Francis Vere captured and sacked Cadiz, Spain. 1690, The French defeated the forces of the Grand Alliance at Fleurus in the Netherlands. 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte took Alexandria, Egypt. 1845, Uniform postal rates went into effect throughout the United States. The Act of Congress was passed on March 3, 1845. 1847, In New York City, the U.S. Post Office issued its first adhesive stamps. The two stamps available were a 5-cent Benjamin Franklin and a 10-cent George Washington. 1862, The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue. 1863, During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began. 1867, Canada became an independent dominion. 1874, The Philadelphia Zoological Society zoo opened as the first zoo in the United States. 1876, Montenegro declared war on the Turks. 1893, The first bicycle race track in America to be made out of wood was opened in San Francisco, CA. 1898, During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba. 1905, The USDA Forest Service was created within the Department of Agriculture. The agency was given the mission to sustain healthy, diverse, and productive forests and grasslands for present and future generations. 1909, Thomas Edison began commercially manufacturing his new "A" type alkaline storage batteries. 1916, The massive Allied offensive known as the Battle of the Somme began in France. The battle was the first to use tanks. 1934, The Federal Communications Commission replaced the Federal Radio Commission as the regulator of broadcasting in the United States. 1940, In Washington, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was opened to traffic. The bridge collapsed during a wind storm on November 7, 1940. 1941, Bulova Watch Company sponsored the first TV commercial in New York City, NY. 1942, German troops captured Sevestpol, Crimea, in the Soviet Union. 1943, The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks. 1945, New York established the New York State Commission Against Discrimination to prevent discrimination in employment because of race, creed or natural origin. It was the first such agency in the U.S. 1946, U.S. President Harry Truman signed Public Law 476 that incorporated the Civil Air Patrol as a benevolent, nonprofit organization. The Civil Air Patrol was created on December 1, 1941. 1946, The U.S. exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 1948, The price of a subway ride in New York City was increased from 5 cents to 10. 1950, American ground troops arrived in South Korea to stem the tide of the advancing North Korean army. 1960, Somalia gained its independence from Britain through the unification of Somaliland with Italian Somalia. 1961, British troops landed in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats. 1961, The first community air-raid shelter was built. The shelter in Boise, ID had a capacity of 1,000 people and family memberships sold for $100. 1963, The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) code. 1966, The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect. 1968, The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was signed by 60 countries. It limited the spreading of nuclear material for military purposes. On May 11, 1995, the treaty was extended indefinitely. 1969, Britain's Prince Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales. 1974, Isavel Peron became the president of Argentina upon the death of her husband, Juan. 1979, Susan B. Anthony was commemorated on a U.S. coin, the Susan B. Anthony dollar. 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman. 1980, "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada. 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that provided for 2 acres of land near the Lincoln Memorial for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 1981, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that candidates for federal office had an "affirmative right" to go on national television. 1987, John Kevin Hill, at age 11, became the youngest to fly across the U.S. when he landed at National Airport in Washington, DC. 1989, The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty, went into effect. It limited the production of ozone-destroying chemicals. 1991, The Warsaw Pact dissolved. 1994, Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Organization visited the Gaza Strip. 1997, The sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from Great Britain to China. Britain had controlled Hong Kong as a colony for 156 years. 2003, In Hong Kong, thousands of protesters marched to show their opposition to anti-subversion legislation. 2023, Do smiled.
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