Good Morning, Do! Today is Monday, November 25 ____________________________________________________ Today, November 25 in  1867 Alfred Nobel patented dynamite. More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award: Nearly 6 years after cyclist was decapitated by speeding 91 mph driver, police make arrest  _______________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. --- H. Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980) _______________________________________________ On a curvy mountain highway late one night, Bob was complaining about the car behind us. "That guy must be drunk!" he said. "Every time I move over to let him pass, he slows down. When I get back on the road, he gets closer and stays on my tail." Thirty minutes later, the car turned on a set of flashing blue lights. Coming up to his window, the officer said, "Sir, I'd like you to take an alcohol test. You've been swerving on and off the road for half an hour." --------------------- That happened to me too once. However, I knew the road and decided to outrun the "drunk". His buddies were waiting for me in the next town in the morning, when I stopped for coffee.  ________________________________________________`   Great Spotted Woodpecker by Alphons Borst in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Terry Derilus, 27, Boynton Beach, Florida  Nearly 6 years after cyclist was decapitated by speeding 91 mph driver, police make arrest  Police knew who the driver was, spoke to him at the scene and wrote their arrest report in 2015. But for reasons that were not completely clear by Friday's deadline, Boynton Beach police did not arrest Terry Derilus, 27, until Thursday nearly six years after the violent crash that decapitated a homeless veteran riding a bicycle. That's a question for the PBC State Attorney's Office, a police spokeswoman said. They are the ones who make the ultimate decisions on if and when someone is charged. A spokesman for the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office said it was a matter of additional fact finding, scrutiny and examination. These cases often involve lengthy investigations and this particular case required additional supplemental investigative work, he said. Derilus and his passenger seemed in a state of shock on Jan. 31, 2015 when police spoke to them at the intersection of West Boynton Beach Boulevard and Knuth Road, west of Congress Ave, a police report said. It was nearly 9 p.m. on a Friday when William Tebbetts, 58, pedaled into the path of Derilus' rental car, a 2013 Ford Taurus, while crossing Knuth Road from north to south at the intersection, police said. The veteran was likely on his way to a homeless encampment where he was known to stay on the southeast side of the intersection, authorities said. Traffic homicide investigators estimated that Derilus was going 91 mph at the time of impact with Tebbetts. They were in a 45 mph zone that was clearly posted, police reported. The crash hurled Tebbetts onto the hood of the car. His head smashed through the windshield on the passenger's side and it was severed from his body, police said. Derilus' 21-year-old passenger, LaShanna Scott's face and shirt were smeared with blood and spattered with glass fragments. She initially, and spontaneously, told police she had been the driver. The physical evidence did not support that possibility, an officer at the scene told Scott and Derilus. Derilus confessed to being the driver, estimated that he was going about 55 mph and said he never saw the person before hitting him, a probable cause report said. The 2015 probable cause report concluded with a finding that Derilus had operated a vehicle in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of Tebbetts and caused his death. And that's where the court and legal trail documenting the case ends until Derilus' arrest on Thursday. At a first-appearance hearing Friday morning on a charge of vehicular homicide, a Palm Beach County judge set Derilus' bond at $2,000. His arraignment hearing is scheduled for Dec. 19. 
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Bill Re: VPN for travel  Dear Webby, We plan to do a little travelling and I am concerned about privacy using hotel wi-fi. I worry about on-line banking while away. I am considering purchasing a VPN service and would like to hear your thoughts. Do you have a recommendation for a VPN that would work in Europe? Thanks. Bill  Dear Bill I have not used any VPN for probably a dozen or more years. Yes, I know there is a lot of hype about them, but personally I don't really see an actual need. No VPN needed. When in Europe, your WiFi connections are just as secure as from your own house. Anything of importance you might view is through a secure connection (https) anyway (YouTube cat videos included). Your bank uses a secure connection for everything including your initial log on. Just don't shop on any site, where the cart is not on https pages. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 Two gas company servicemen, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee, were out checking meters in a suburban neighborhood. They parked their truck the end of the alley and worked their way to the other end. At the last house, a woman looking out her kitchen window watched the two men as they checked her gas meter. Finishing the meter check, the senior supervisor challenged his younger co-worker to a foot race down the alley back to the truck to prove that an older guy could outrun a younger one. As they came running up to the truck, they realized the lady from that last house was huffing and puffing right behind them. They stopped and asked her what was wrong. Gasping for breath, she replied, "When I saw two men from the gas company running as hard as you two were, I figured I'd better run too!" 
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 At a dinner party, several of the guests were arguing whether men or women were more trustworthy. "No woman," said one man, scornfully, "can keep a secret." "I don't know about that," answered a woman guest. "I have kept my age a secret since I was twenty-one." "You'll let it out some day," the man insisted. "I hardly think so!" responded the lady. "When a woman has kept a secret for twenty-seven years, she can keep it forever." ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com  Thriftyfun.com Cheap Carpet Deodorizer Instead of using carpet deodorizer when you vacuum, use baking soda. It works just as well and is cheaper. By Claudia  Thriftyfun.com also has a newsletter. If you want more than just one tip per day, or if you want to share your tips, then you can subscribe to it here: ThriftyFun http://www.thriftyfun.com/subscribe.ldml ____________________________________________________  
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ Break was over and the teacher was asking the class about their vacations. She turned to little Johnny and asked what he did over the break. "We visited my grandmother in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania," he replied. "That sounds like an excellent vocabulary word," the teacher said. "Can you tell the class how you spell 'Punxsutawney'?" Little Johnny thought about it and said, "You know, come to think of it, we went to Ohio." ___________________________________________________ SMALL TYPOS THAT CAN CHANGE THE MEANING (and ruin a beautiful resume): --Education: College, August 1880-May 1984. --Work Experience: Dealing with customers' conflicts that arouse. --Develop and recommend an annual operating expense fudget. --I'm a rabid typist. --Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain operation. ___________________________________________________ Thanks to Cindy for reminding me of this one: An old woman is riding in an elevator in a very lavish New York City building. A young and beautiful woman gets into the elevator, smelling of Expensive perfume. She turns to the old woman and says arrogantly, "Romance" by Ralph Lauren, $150 an ounce!" Then another young and beautiful woman gets on the elevator, and also very arrogantly turns to the old woman saying, "Channel No. 5, $200 an ounce!" About three floors later, the old woman has reached her destination and is about to get off the elevator. Before she leaves, she looks both beautiful women in the eye, then bends over and trumpets a fart like the finale of an opera. Just before the elevator doors close behind her, she turns and whispers into the eyewatering fumes: "Broccoli, 49 cents a pound." __________________________________________________ 
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 Today, November 25 in 1715 Sybilla Thomas Masters became the first American to be granted an English patent for cleaning and curing Indian corn. 1758 During the French and Indian War, the British captured Fort Duquesne at what is now known as Pittsburgh. 1783 During the Revolutionary War, the British evacuated New York. New York was their last military position in the U.S. 1837 William Crompton patented the silk power loom. 1850 Texas relinquished one-third of its territory in exchange for $10 million from the U.S. to pay its public debts and settle border disputes. 1867 Alfred Nobel patented dynamite. 1884 J.B. Meyenberg received the patent for evaporated milk. 1936 The Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement between Japan and Germany, was signed. 1947 Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood 10," who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress when they failed to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. 1955 In the U.S., the Interstate Commerce Commission banned racial segregation on interstate trains and buses. 1970 Japanese author Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide after giving a speech attacking Japan's post-war constitution. 1973 Greek President George Papadapoulos was ousted in military coup. 1976 O.J. Simpson (Buffalo Bills) ran for 273 yards against the Detroit Lions. 1983 Mediators from Syria and Saudi Arabia announced a cease- fire in the PLO civil war in Tripoli, Lebanon. 1985 Ronald W. Pelton was arrested on espionage charges. Pelton was a former employee of the National Security Agency. He was later convicted of 'selling secrets' to Soviet agents. 1986 U.S. President Reagan and Attorney Gen. Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to rebels in Nicaragua. National Security Advisor John Poindexter resigned and Oliver North was fired. 1990 Poland held its first popular presidential election. 1992 The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993. 1993 Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki escaped an attempt on his life when a bomb was detonated by Islamic militants near his motorcade. 1995 Serbs protested in the streets of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo The protest was against a peace plan. 1998 Britain's highest court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition was being sought by Spain, could not claim immunity from prosecution for the crimes he committed during his rule. 1998 President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since World War II. 1998 The IMF (International Monetary Fund) approved a $5.5 billion bailout for Pakistan. 2019 Do smiled. 
 

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