Good Morning, Do! Today is Tuesday, June 12 Have FUN! Dearwebby Todays Bonehead Award: Couple involved in major drug bust in Johnstown Bonehead ______________________________________________________ Today, June 12 in 1979 Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.  More of today in history at HIstory ______________________________________________________ 
 If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can!
 
  
 ______________________________________________________ In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. --- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. --- Socratex ______________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ Judge: "Was the child born out of wedlock?" Mother: "No, sir, just outside of Louisville." _____________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________ 
 If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  Thanks for your votes!
 _____________________________________________________ Food for thought... You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night. You pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus: 1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die. 2. An old friend who once saved your life. 3. The perfect man (or) woman you have been dreaming about. Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car. Think before you continue reading. This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application. You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first; or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back. However, you may never be able to find your perfect dream lover again. The candidate who was hired! (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble coming up with his answer. I love this, I may actually use it sometime for an interview situation. WHAT DID HE SAY? He simply answered: "I would give the car keys to my old friend, and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the woman of my dreams." ____________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Scott Miller, Kathy Miller, Johnstown, Florida  Couple involved in major drug bust in Johnstown  Johnstown police have identified two people they say were involved in a major drug bust Saturday night. The police chief, Robert Johnson, said Scott and Kathy Miller were arrested and are now facing felony charges. JOHNSTOWN- Johnstown police have identified two people they say were involved in a major drug bust Saturday night. The police chief, Robert Johnson, said Scott and Kathy Miller were arrested and are now facing felony charges. Johnstown said officers were tipped off about suspicious drug activity happening at a home on Bedford Street. He said they got a search warrant and served it at the home Saturday night. Inside, police said they seized 45 pounds of marijuana, a gun and $3,000 in cash. "As I'm told, these people just moved into the neighborhood within the last week or so. So, this is a really nice bit of police work in a very quick time period for what these people have been here for," said Johnson. Johnson said the street value of the drugs seized is about $325,000. According to online documents, the Millers are facing felony charges including, manufacturing or possession with intent to deliver. Bail is set at $500,000 each. 
 Tech Support Pits From: Nina Re: Camera comparison  Dear webby, What should I look for when comparing different cameras? Nina  Dear Nina Look for a large lens to reach further into twilight, darkness and indoor shots without flash, and also higher picture quality. Look for a long optical zoom and anti-shake. Totally ignore digital zoom. That's a gimmick that doesn't work. Look for a real optical view finder that shows the correct zoom. I do like having the fold-out swivel monitor for indoor shots, but outside I find a camera quite useless, if it has no optical viewfinder. Don't worry about how many MegaPixels are claimed in the ads. That number is as phony as a Sears vacuum cleaner horsepower rating. About all that number is good for is for comparing cameras of the same brand. Different manufacturers use different size pixels and different ways to use them. Have FUN DearWebby  
 Automatically move ALL your settings and programs. No need to re-install them. The only mover recommended by Intel and Microsoft. 
 There was this city doctor who started a practice in the countryside. He once had to go to a farm to attend to a sick farmer who lived there. After a few housecalls he stopped coming to the farm. The puzzled farmer finally phoned him to ask whats the matter, didn't he like him or somethin'. The doctor said, "No, its your ducks at the entrance... Every time I enter the farm, they call me a quack!" 
If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can!
 
  
 A Catholic boy was bragging to his Jewish friend. "My priest knows more than your rabbi." "Of course he does," said the Jewish boy. "You tell him everything." ____________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Cheap Cleaner For large cleaning projects, try TSP (TriSodiumPhospahte) TSP used to be the main active ingredient in most detergents, but got a bad name because it promoted underwater weed growth in canals, rivers and lakes, into which improperly treated sewage was dumped into. What was bad was not the TSP, but Millions of people using a lot of it all year long. It was simply too much of a good thing. TSP is still a powerful phospate fertilizer, and your tomatoes will love it, when you dump the used cleaning water near them. You won't find TSP at the supermarket, where all the overpriced and nicely packaged retail cleaners are. You can find it at building and industrial paint suppliers, in the PAINT section. Painters use it, after thinning it down with a lot of water, to clean dirty walls before painting. TSP is dirt cheap. At Canadian Tire for example, a gallon jug of concentrate is CDN $4.95. For cleaning previously painted stuff, use 40 parts of water to one part TSP. For a really greasy stove vent hoods or car engines, use one part water and one part TSP.  Tip provided by Thriftyfun.com  ____________________________________________________   
 Meet some women firefighters. 
 ___________________________________________________ A father is asked by his friend, "Has your son decided what he wants to be when he grows up?" "Yes, he wants to be a garbage collector," replied the boy's father. His friend thought for a moment and responded, "That's a rather strange ambition to have for a career." "Well," said the boy's father, "he thinks that garbage collectors only work on Tuesdays!" ___________________________________________________ 
 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. 
 One woman was bragging to her next-door neighbor about her son, a college student at the University of Illinois. "Why, our son is so brilliant, every time we get a letter from him we have to go to the dictionary." "You're lucky," the neighbor said. "Every time we get a letter from our son in college, we have to go to the bank!" ____________________________________________________  
 Today, June 12 in 1099 Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem. 1442 Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples. 1665 England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia began. 1839 Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend. 1849 Lewis Haslett patented a gas mask. (Patent US6529 A) 1897 Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife. 1898 Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain. 1900 The Reichstag approved a second law that would allow the expansion of the German navy. 1901 Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment. 1918 The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France. 1921 U.S. President Warren Harding urged every young man to attend military training camp. 1923 Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket. 1926 Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany. 1935 U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words. 1935 The Chaco War was ended with a truce. Bolivia and Paraguay had been fighting since 1932. 1937 The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin. 1941 In London, the Inter-Allied Declaration was signed. It was the first step towards the establishment of the United Nations. 1944 Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan. 1963 "Cleopatra" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. 1967 State laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. 1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt election practices in 1971. 1979 Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel. 1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" opened in the U.S. 1982 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance. 1985 Wayne "The Great One" Gretsky was named winner of the NHL's Hart Trophy. The award is given to the the league Most Valuable Player. 1985 The U.S. House of Representatives approved $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras. 1986 South Africa declared a national state of emergency. Virtually unlimited power was given to security forces and restrictions were put on news coverage of the unrest. 1987 U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 1990 The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty. 1991 Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic. 1992 In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated that in the early 1950's the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes and held 12 American survivors. 1996 In Philadelphia a panel of federal judges blocked a law against indecency on the internet. The panel said that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults. 1998 Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corp. in largest high-tech acquisition. 1999 NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia. 2003 In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident. 2009 In the U.S., The switch from analog TV trasmission to digital was completed. 2018 Do smiled. 
 

If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can!

If you like the Dear Webby Daily Humor Letter,
please vote for it at the Ezine Finder:
Thanks for your votes!

ARCHIVE: If you missed previous issues, you can see them
in the Humor Letter Blog at http://webby.com/humor/blog