Good Morning, Do! Today is Saturday, August 31 _____________________________________________________ Today, August 31 in  1964 California officially became the most populated state in America. More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award: Ethiopian stabs unarmed dog walker to death in Washington, DC.  _______________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. --- Lucille S. Harper _______________________________________________ >From Linda A small town Doctor was famous in the area for always catching large and heavy fish. One day while he was on one of his frequent fishing trips he got a call that a woman at a neighboring farm was giving birth. He rushed to her aid and delivered a healthy baby boy. The farmer had nothing to weigh the baby with, so the Doctor used his fishing scales. The baby weighed 22 lbs 10 oz. ________________________________________________`   Eastern Bluebird _____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________ Reported by the Bausell Sailor:  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Eliyas Aregahegne, 18, Ethiopian, in jail in Washington, DC  Ethiopian stabs unarmed dog walker to death in Washington, DC.  A University of California, Davis graduate was stabbed to death Tuesday evening in what appeared to be random attack while walking a dog in Washington, D.C. She screamed for help while being stabbed, but nobody approached the scene while the killer was still there. Eventually, the killer left and hid in a nearby house, where he was eventually arrested. Margery Magill, 27, was found on a sidewalk in the northeast part of the city with multiple stab wounds. She worked part time for Rover, an online dog walking company, and was walking a dog for a family in the area, according to WRC-TV. Eliyas Aregahegne, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder Wednesday. The attack was not an attempted robbery or sexually motivated, police told the news outlet, and the suspect did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.  
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Liz Re: Difference between line break and paragraph in HTML  Dear Webby, What's the difference between line breaks and paragraphs? I keep getting yelled at for using the wrong one, but nobody seems to be able to properly explain the difference. Hope you can! Liz  Dear Liz You can define a paragraph break to be, for example, one and a half times the space of a line break, or two times the space, or whatever you want. That will then apply to the entire site, that uses that style sheet. If somebody decided that the site should have paragraph breaks that are the equivalent of 1 3/4 line breaks, then your text with double line breaks for paragraph spacing will look odd. There is one seeming oddity to watch out for: Paragraph ends ususally turn off any font settings that you made inside that paragraph, even if you don't have a font end tag. That can cause a lot of frustration, if you don't know the cause of that mysterious font end. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 In a Phoenix airport boarding area they announced that the flight was overbooked. The airline was looking for volunteers to give up their seats. In exchange, they'd give you a $100 voucher for your next flight and a first class seat in the plane leaving an hour later. About eight people ran up to the counter to take advantage of the offer. About 15 seconds later all eight of those people sat down grumpily as the lady behind the ticket counter announced: "If there is anyone else OTHER than the flight crew who'd like to volunteer, please step forward." 
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 The four stages of life: 1) You believe in Santa Claus. 2) You don't believe in Santa Claus. 3) You are Santa Claus. 4) You look like Santa Claus. ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com Perfume or Cologne and Clothing Put perfume or cologne on your skin instead of your clothing. The perfume may stain or damage some types of fabric. thriftyfun.Com  ____________________________________________________    
 
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 ___________________________________________________ At a clearance sale, the wife of a federal district court judge found a green tie that was a perfect match for one of her husband's sports jackets. Soon after, while the couple was vacationing at a resort complex to get his mind off a rather complicated cocaine conspiracy case, he noticed a small, round disc sewn into the design of the tie. The judge showed it to a local FBI agent, who was equally suspicious that it might be a 'bug' planted by the conspiracy defendants. The agent sent the device to FBI headquarters In Washington, DC for analysis. Two weeks later, the judge phoned the Washington office to learn the results of their tests. "We're not sure where the disc came from," the FBI told him, "but we discovered that when you press it, it plays 'Jingle Bells.'" ___________________________________________________ Two daughters had been given parts in a Christmas pageant at their Church. At dinner that night, they got into an argument as to who had the most important role. Finally the 10 year old said to her younger sister, "Well you just ask Mom. She'll tell you it's much harder to be a virgin than it is to be an angel." ___________________________________________________ The budding young Yuppette had been dating a successful stockbroker for several months. Just before Christmas she asked her Mother, "Whatever can you give a man who has everything for Christmas?" Her Mother smiled knowingly and replied, "Encouragement dear, encouragement." __________________________________________________ 
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 Today, August 31 in 1823 Ferdinand VII was restored to the throne of Spain when invited French forces entered Cadiz. The event is known as the Battle of Trocadero. 1852 The first pre-stamped envelopes were created with legislation of the U.S. Congress. 1887 The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures. 1920 The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI. 1920 John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for "Toy-Cabin Construction," which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086) 1935 The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1946 Superman returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System after being dropped earlier in the year. 1950 Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit four home runs in a single game off of four different pitchers. 1962 The Caribbean nations Tobago and Trinidad became independent within the British Commonwealth. 1964 California officially became the most populated state in America. 1980 Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike. 1989 Great Britain's Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old. 1990 U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to try and negotiate a solution to the crisis in the Persian Gulf. No deal. 1990 East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems. 1991 Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their independence from the Soviet Union. They were the 9th and 10th republics to announce their plans to secede. 1991 In a "Solidarity Day" protest hundreds of thousands of union members marched in Washington, DC. 1993 Russia withdrew its last soldiers from Lithuania. 1994 A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland. 1994 Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after a half-century. 1998 A ballistic missile was fired over Japan by North Korea. The missile landed in stages in the waters around Japan. There was no known target. 2019 Do smiled.