Good Morning, Do! Today is Friday, November 15 Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!  Ice Age is Coming! ____________________________________________________ Today, November 15 in  1940 The first 75,000 men were called to Armed Forces duty under peacetime conscription to get ready for WWII. More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award: Bus rage woman, 23, who brutally bashed a 75-year-old pensioner begs for her identity to be kept SECRET so she's not named and shamed on Facebook  _______________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER. --- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. --- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) _______________________________________________ Arriving back at the dorm late one evening, my roommate explained that she had gotten lost in the school library. No one was surprised, since the library is large and has a confusing layout. When I asked her how long it took her to find an exit, she admitted she hadn't actually found the exit herself. She'd used an emergency phone to call for help. Puzzled, I asked, "How did your rescuers find you if you didn't know where you were?" "Easy," she said. "I started reading titles of books around me, and they located my position from the card catalogue." ________________________________________________`   Bullwinkle practising for the Christmas Lights clean-up ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Cori Glencross, 23, Geelong, Victoria, Australia  Bus rage woman, 23, who brutally bashed a 75-year-old pensioner begs for her identity to be kept SECRET so she's not named and shamed on Facebook  Bus stop attack A woman who bashed a pensioner at a bus stop has begged for her identity to be kept secret after being named and shamed on Facebook. Cori Glencross, 23, bashed the 75-year-old in Geelong in Victoria in April, and footage of the attack was posted online. Glencross argued her personal safety was at risk if her trial was published in the media, following social media backlash over the viral video. But a magistrate has ruled she should be identified in the interests of open justice, and said the woman would just have to put up with 'cruel, demeaning and humiliating' posts on social media. If Glencross got her way, the media wouldn't have been allowed to report any details on her case. Her lawyer Shelley Buchecker said there were multiple Facebook posts showing that Glencross could be in danger following the incident. But Magistrate Ann McGarvie rejected the suppression order under Australia's presumption of open justice, the Geelong Advertiser reported. Magistrate McGarvie said Glencross' was charged with shop theft and committing indictable offences while on bail between November 2018 and March this year. 'The most serious set of charges, however, relate to an affray and assault by kicking that occurred on April 16, 2019 against an elderly woman at a bus stop in Geelong. During the incident, Glencross' friend filmed the attack and uploaded it to social media, where it was viewed by many people and picked up by news organisations. Magistrate McGarvie acknowledged that Glencross had been named and shamed on social media and suffered heavy scrutiny. 'Whilst this post is cruel, demeaning and humiliating, there is no evidence within those comments of threats to her safety,' Ms McGarvie said. 
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 >From Alda My husband was telling colleagues about his involvement with our local YMCA Indian Guides and Indian Princesses programs. His Indian name was Walking Deer, he told them. Our daughter was Little Fawn, and our son, Running Deer. "What do you call your wife?" one co-worker asked. "Yes Deer," my husband replied. 
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 ___________________________________________________ A little old lady is sitting on a park bench in "The Villages," a Florida adult community. A man walks over and sits down on the other end of the bench. After a few moments, the woman asks, "Are you a stranger here?" He replies, "I lived here years ago." "So, where were you all these years?" "In prison," he says. "Why did they put you in prison?" He looks at her and very quietly says, "I killed my wife." "Oh!" says the woman. "So you're single?" ___________________________________________________ A man makes a suggestion to his wife, "Honey, what do you say that tonight we change positions?" His wife responds with, "yes, I would really like that. Tonight, you do the dishes and the laundry and stand by the ironing board for a couple of hours, and I'll lay on the couch and fart." ___________________________________________________ A minister, a priest and a rabbi were discussing when life begins. "Those of my faith," said the minister, "believe that life starts when the heart begins to beat." "We take a different view," said the priest. "We believe life starts at the moment of conception." "Well," said the rabbi, "it is our belief that life starts when the kids move out and the dog dies." __________________________________________________ 
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 Today, November 15 in 1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak. 1864 Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War. 1867 the first stock ticker was unveiled in New York City. 1889 Brazil's monarchy was overthrown. 1901 Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid. 1902 Anarchist Gennaro Rubin failed in his attempt to murder King Leopold II of Belgium. 1926 The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network radio broadcast was a four-hour "spectacular." 1939 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. 1940 The first 75,000 men were called to Armed Forces duty under peacetime conscription to get ready for WWII. 1965 The Soviet probe, Venera 3, was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. On March 1, 1966, it became the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet when it crashed on Venus. 1966 The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. 1969 In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War. 1985 Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland. 1986 A government tribunal in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in delivering arms to Contra rebels. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison and was pardoned a month later. 1986 Ivan F. Boesky, reputed to be the highest-paid person on Wall Street, faced penalties of $100 million for insider stock trading. It was the highest penalty ever imposed by the SEC. 1988 The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers. 1993 A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo. 1995 Texaco agreed to pay $176 million to settle a race- discrimination lawsuit. 1999 Representatives from China and the United States signed a major trade agreement that involved China's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). 2000 Three police officers from the Rampart division of the Los Angeles police department were convicted on several counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice. One other officer was acquitted. The case was the first major case against the anti- gang unit. 2005 In Amiens, France, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person to undergo a partial face transplant. She had been attacked by a dog earlier in the year. 2006 Andy Warhol's painting of Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong sold for $17.4 million. At the same auction "Orange Marilyn" sold for $16.2 million and "Sixteen Jackies" sold for $15.6 million. 2019 Do smiled.