Good Morning, Do! Today is Monday, December 12  Thank you, Clyde!!!! Thank you, Norm!!! Thank you, James!! Thank you, Nancy!!  Where is the Gaevle Goat?  Gaevle Goat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut1JvGTdG5g The Gvle Goat is 13 metres (42.6 feet) high, seven metres long and weighs 3.6 tonnes. It takes a whole truck full of straw from the local village of Mackmyra to create the goat. 1,600 meters of rope is used. 12,000 knots are tied. 56 five metre (15 foot) straw mats form the straw coat. 1,200 metres of Swedish pine create the wooden skeleton. 1,000 man-hours of work are needed to build the Gvle Goat. The Gvle Goat is inaugurated on the first Sunday of Advent every year, in conjunction with the skyltsndagen. In Northern Sweden the Christmas goat brings gifts to the kids. 
 
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 ___________________________________________________ History: on this day, December 12, in 1991, At the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, the first web server outside of Europe was installed. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award:  Forty years in prison for shooter of Montgomery mother  _____________________________________________________ Q Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. --- Peter De Vries The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. --- Rita Mae Brown Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. --- J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984) ____________________________________________________ An American tourist refused to be too greatly impressed with the masterpieces at the Louvre. "We've got plenty of priceless canvasses in the United States too, he declared. "I know," said the guide. "Rembrandt painted seven hundred pictures in his lifetime, and America has at least ten thousand of each." __________________________________________________ A couple of women were playing golf one sunny Saturday morning. The first of the twosome teed off and watched in horror as her ball headed directly toward a foursome of men playing the next hole. The ball hit one of the men and he immediately clasped his hands together at his crotch, fell to the ground and proceeded to roll around in obvious agony. The woman rushed down to the man and immediately began to apologize. "Please allow me to help. I'm a physical therapist and I know I could relieve your pain if you'd allow me," she told him earnestly. "Ummph, oooh, noooo... I'll be fine in a few minutes", he replied breathlessly as he remained in the fetal position, still clasping his hands together at his crotch. But she persisted, and he finally allowed her to help him. She gently took his hands away and laid them to the side, she loosened his pants, and put her hands inside and began to massage him. She then asked him, "How does that feel?" He replied still in agony, "That feels great, but it doesn't do a thing for my thumb. The thumb still hurts like it was smashed!" __________________________________________________ An International Bonehead Award has been earned by  Ismail Gonzales, 17, Aurora, Illinois, USA  Forty years in prison for shooter of Montgomery mother  Recently a 17-year-old boy, who was 15 at the time of the crime, Ismail Gonzales, the alleged shooter, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for his involvement in the shooting and carjacking of Kimberly Weibring. He was tried as an adult. While sitting in the restaurant's parking lot and eating, the passenger door of Weibring's car opened and a gun was placed at her head. Despite pleading and complying with the request to get out of the car, she was shot. Weibring was paralyzed from the incident, unable to move her legs. Before the Aurora crime, the four from the Lansing-Harvey area had stolen a Ford Escape vehicle at gunpoint an hour earlier in DeKalb County at East County Line and Barber Greene Road in rural Maple Park following a two-car crash. That car was nearly out of gas by the time they arrived on Auroras west side. Twenty-six year old Edward James McGee pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 35 years. He was with three boys ages 15, 16, and 18. Aurora Police and the FBI found Webrings vehicle in Lansing, Illinois, four days later, where the 16-year-old was shot and killed during another carjacking. Three months after the crime, an Aurora Crime Stoppers tip line call proved to be the break in the case of catching the suspects. ___________________________________________________   ___________________________________________________ Customer: I'm trying to connect to the Internet with your CD, but it just doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Tech sup: OK, you've got the CD in the CD drive, right? Customer: Yeah.... Tech sup: And what sort of computer are you using? Customer: Computer? Oh no, I haven't got a computer. It's in the CD player and all I get is weird noises. Listen..... Tech sup: Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!! ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ The fireman had rushed into a burning building and rescued a beautiful young lady who was clad only in the top half of her baby-doll nightgown. He carried her in his arms down three flights of stairs and four blocks all the way to his car behind the fire hall. As they arrived there, she looked at him with great admiration and said, "Oh, you are wonderful. It must have taken great strength and courage to rescue me the way you did." "Yes it did," the fireman admitted. "I had to fight off three other firemen who were trying to get to you before me." ___________________________________________________   _________________________________________________ Blue-haired old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next!" They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals. _______________________________________________ There was a major sale at Victoria's Secret and Thorn wanted to get his wife some really sexy lingerie. The store was packed with women for this big sale and before he knew it, Thorn was pushed and shoved by frantic women all trying to get at the merchandise. Thorn remained calm for as long as he could, then bowed his head and pushed hard and effectively, and plowed through the crowd of women. I can just see him. When I worked with Thorn, he was a model of patience, up to a point. After that it was a lot safer to be out of tool throwing range. "Hey you!", an angry female voice yelled out at him, "Try acting like a gentleman!". "That's what I HAVE BEEN doing," Thorn retorted, "But since that doesn't work in this zoo, I'm gonna try to act like you wimin!" __________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ A teenaged boy with spiked hair, nose ring, and baggy clothes says to his friend,"I don't really like to dress like this, but it keeps my parents from making me go visit aunt Helen with them." ________________________________________________________ DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Moe Re: Ad blocker Dear Webby but if it is like cookies that upset some sites, i just go find another source for same article. one that has no anti ad blocker software. usually works. Moe  Dear Moe Right. There is a revolution brewing with the ads. Some people noticed that an ad brings in some money, so they got greedy and plastered too many ads on their site, and slowed it down to an unacceptable lack of speed. That is why more and more people, including me, installed ad blockers. Ideally, I would find an ad blocker that only activates if there is more than one ad on a page or if the ads take more than 2 seconds to load. I will gladly tolerate one ad, but not a herd of them. Have FUN DearWebby _____________________________________________________ There was a man and a woman in a parked car at a drive in movie. They were getting quite cozy in the back-seat of a small sports car when the man suddenly slipped a disk in his back. He was stuck and couldn't move at all, and neither could she. She was pinned beneath her 250 pound lover. They were desperate to get out so she managed to reach over the front seat with her leg and honk the horn. A big crowd gathered, all enjoying the free show. Some women volunteers served them coffee through the window while others worked to free them. Finally firemen cut away the top of the car. The 250 pound man was lifted out and the woman, sobbing was helped out of the car, too. The ambulance driver tried to calm her down telling her the man would be fine, but she was so upset. She said she was worried about how she was going to explain to her husband what happened to his company car! ____________________________________________________ Today, December 12 in 1787, Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1791, The Bank of the United States, also known as the First Bank, opened for business in Philadelphia, PA. 1792, In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven received one of his first lessons in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn. 1800, Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States. 1870, Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker to be sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives. 1896, Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London. 1897, The comic strip"The Katzenjammer Kids" (Hans and Fritz), by Rudolph Dirks, appeared in the New York Journal for the first time. 1899, George Grant patented the wooden golf tee. 1900, Charles M. Schwab formed the United States Steel Corporation. 1901, The first radio signal to cross the Atlantic was picked up near St. John's Newfoundland, by inventor Guglielmo Marconi. 1912, The Mother's Day International Association was incorporated with the purpose of furthering meaningful observations of Mother's Day. 1915, The first all-metal aircraft, the German Junkers J1, made its first flight. 1917, Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town in Nebraska. The farm village was for wayward boys. In 1979 it was opened to girls. 1925, The "Motel Inn," the first motel in the world, opened in San Luis Obispo, CA. 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay" on China's Yangtze River. Japan apologized for the attack, and paid $2.2 million in reparations. 1946, A United Nations committee voted to accept a six- block tract of Manhattan real estate to be the site of the UN's headquarters. The land was offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1947, The United Mine Workers union withdrew from the American Federation of Labor. 1951, The U.S. Navy Department announced that the world's first nuclear powered submarine would become the sixth ship to bear the name Nautilus. 1955, It was announced that the Ford Foundation gave $500,000,000 to private hospitals, colleges and medical schools. 1955, British engineer Christopher Cockerell patented the first hovercraft. 1963, Kenya gained its independence from Britain. 1966, The film "A Man for All Seasons" premiered in New York City. 1975, Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to a charge of trying to kill U.S. President Ford in San Francisco the previous September. 1982, 20,000 women encircled Greenham Common air base in Britain in protest against proposed site of U.S. Cruise missiles there. 1983, Car bombs were set off in front of the French and U.S. embassies in Kuwait City. Shiite extremists were responsible for the five deaths and 86 wounded. Total of five bombs went off in different locations. 1984, In a telephone conversation with U.S. President Reagan, William J. Schroeder complained of a delay in his Social Security benefits. Schroeder received a check the following day. 1985, 248 American soldiers and eight crewmembers were killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed in Gander, Newfoundland after takeoff. 1989, Britain forcibly removed 51 Vietnamese from Hong Kong and returned them to their homeland. 1989, Leona Helmsley was fined $7 million and sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion. 1991, At the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, the first web server outside of Europe was installed. 1994, The Brazilian Supreme Court acquitted former President Fernando Collor de Mello of corruption charges that had forced him to resign in 1992. 1994, IBM stopped shipments of personal computers with Intel's flawed Pentium chip. 1995, The U.S. Senate stopped a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against the American flag. 1995, Two French airmen shot down over Bosnia arrived home after almost four months of being held captive by the Bosnian Serbs. 1997, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. 1997, The U.S. Justice Department ordered Microsoft to sell its Internet browser separately from its Windows operating system to prevent it from building a monopoly of Web access programs. 1998, The House Judiciary Committee rejected censure, and approved the final article of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton. The case was submitted to the full House for a verdict. 2000, The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day. 2000, Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers, abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, that killed 168 and injured 500. 2000, The Texas Rangers signed Alex Rodriguez to a record breaking 10-year, $252 million contract. The contract amount broke all major league baseball records and all professional sports records. 2001, The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would implement minimum federal election standards and provide funding to help states modernize their voting systems. 2001, Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for being the leader of a Cuban spy ring. His conviction was based on his role in the infiltration of U.S. military bases and in the deaths of four Cuban-Americans whose planes were shot down five years before. 2001, In Beverly Hills, CA, actress Winona Ryder was arrested at Saks Fifth Avenue for shoplifting and possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. The numerous items of clothing and hair accessories were valued at $4,760. 2002, North Korea announced that it would reactivate a nuclear power plant that U.S. officials believed was being used to develop weapons. 2022 Do smiled. 

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