Good Morning, Do! Today is Tuesday, August 24 ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ Man arrested for sexually abusing young teen in car ___________________________________________________ Today, August 23 in 1572 The Catholics began their slaughter of the French Protestants in Paris. The killings claimed about 70,000 people. ____________________________________________________ I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. --- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD) "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." --- General George S. Patton ____________________________________________________ A car was involved in an accident. As one might expect, a large crowd gathered. A newspaper reporter, anxious to get his story, pushed and struggled to get near the car. Being a clever sort, he started shouting loudly, "Let me through! Let me through please! I am the son of the victim." The crowd made way for him. Lying in front of the car was a donkey. ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Abe's son arrived home from school puffing and panting, sweat rolling down his face. "Dad, you'll be so proud of me," he said, "I saved a dollar by running behind the bus all the way home!" "Oy Vey!" said Abe, "You could have run behind a taxi and saved $20.00!" ____________________________________________________ Reported by Rock An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Gregory Guthrie, 44, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Man arrested for sexually abusing young teen in car A man has been arrested after an 8-year-old girl reported seeing him sexually abuse her older sister, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Detectives were told that 44-year-old Gregory Guthrie had abused a 14-year-old girl inside of his car while outside of the girl's home. "The abuse was witnessed by the victims 8-year-old sister who reported the incident," officials said. Guthrie later admitted to MCSO detectives that he abused her and that he knew she was only 14 years old. The 44-year-old was booked into jail and faces a charge of sexual conduct with a minor. ____________________________________________________ If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! ______________________________________________________ From: Gwen Re: Fonts in Gmail, lost icons Dear Webby, Here I come asking questions that I asked a while back but didn't print them for myself or save your answer Here goes: you told me how to increase the font on my gmail inbox. Can you just tell me again? Please !! Also how to increase the font on my Microsoft Edge page? I've also lost all my programs on the left side of my home page. When I turn on my laptop they are all gone? Windows does an update voila - everything is either changed or gone Thinking it might be time to visit a computer service place and pay the piper to have them clean it up. So any ideas would be very helpful Really look forward to your newsletter every day!! Thanks, Gwen! Dear Gwen Gmail fonts: Change your default text style On your computer, open Gmail. In the top right, click Settings. See all settings. Scroll down to the "Default text style" section. Change the text in the box to be the style you want for your emails. At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes. Increase default text size in Microsoft Edge Select Settings and more > Settings > Appearance. Under Fonts, choose a font size. With programs on the left,... Are you a left wing fanatic? Just teasing you. Steps to fix missing or disappeared desktop icons on W10 (76.7 MILLION people had that problem) Right-click on an empty space on your desktop. Click on the View option from the context menu to expand the options. Make sure that Show desktop icons is ticked. You should immediately see your icons reappear. Quite easy compared to my problem! I need a maid to tame and clean the chaos here and to make me eat the prescribed number of times per day. And to try to cut my work down to 20 hours a day. Have FUN! DearWebby ___________________________________________________ Two die-hard golfers saw some kids fishing at the lake. One said to the other, "Look at those idiots fishing in the rain!" | If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! | If you like my work,
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_____________________________________________ Golfer: "Well caddy, do you like my game?" Caddy: "Very good, sir! But personally I prefer golf." ____________________________________________ A guy complains to his doctor that his sex life is deteriorating rapidly. The doctor tells him he needs to reintroduce excitement, guilt, and spontaneity into the process. The guy ponders this for a few days and hatches a plan. "Well" he says to the doctor on his follow- up visit, "I did everything you suggested. The boss let me leave work an hour early.For excitement I drove home at twice the speed limit, charged into the house through the closed screen door, and jumped on Sheila in the living room. "And did you ENJOY it!?" asked the doctor enthusiastically. "Well..." says the guy slowly and thoughtfully, "Her Bible group thought it was pretty neat, and it was kinda fun ... until all the cop cars arrived with 16 speeding tickets and a SWAT team". ____________________________________________ If a man is standing in the middle of the forest, and only whispering, and there is no woman around to interrupt him, is he still wrong? ______________________________________________ | 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. |
___________________________________________________ | Today, August 24, in 0079 Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash. 0410 The Visigoths overran Rome. This event symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire. 1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed. 1572 The Catholics began their slaughter of the French Protestants in Paris. The killings claimed about 70,000 people. 1814 Washington, DC, was invaded by Canadian forces that set fire to the White House and Capitol. 1869 A patent for the waffle iron was received by Cornelius Swarthout. 1891 Thomas Edison applied patents for the kinetoscope and kinetograph (U.S. Pats. 493,426 and 589,168). 1912 A four-pound limit was set for parcels sent through the U.S. Post Office mail system. 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the U.S. non-stop. The trip from Los Angeles, CA to Newark, NJ, took about 19 hours. 1949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) went into effect. The agreement was that an attack against on one of the parties would be considered "an attack against them all." 1954 The Communist Party was virtually outlawed in the U.S. when the Communist Control Act went into effect. 1959 Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in as the first Chinese-American U.S. senator while Daniel K. Inouye was sworn in as the first Japanese-American U.S. representative. 1963 John Pennel pole-vaulted 17 feet and 3/4 inches becoming the first to break the 17-foot barrier. 1968 France became the 5th thermonuclear power when they exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific. 1985 27 anti-apartheid leaders were arrested in South Africa as racial violence rocked the country. 1986 Frontier Airlines shut down. Thousands of people were left stranded. 1989 "Total war" was declared by Columbian drug lords on their government. 1989 The U.S. space probe, Voyager 2, sent back photographs of Neptune. 1990 Iraqi troops surrounded foreign missions in Kuwait. 1991 Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the head of the Communist Party. 1992 China and South Korea established diplomatic relations. 1998 U.S. officials cited a soil sample as part of the evidence that a Sudan plant was producing precursors to the VX nerve gas. And, therefore made it a target for U.S. missiles on August 20, 1998. 1998 A donation of 24 beads was made, from three parties, to the Indian Museum of North America at the Crazy Horse Memorial. The beads are said to be those that were used in 1626 to buy Manhattan from the Indians. 2001 In McAllen, TX, Bridgestone/Firestone agreed to settle out of court and pay a reported $7.5 million to a family in a rollover accident in their Ford Explorer. 2001 The remains of nine American servicemen killed in the Korean War were returned to the U.S. The bodies were found about 60 miles north of Pyongyang. It was estimated that it would be a year before the identies of the soldiers would be known. 2001 U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was randomly picked to take over the Microsoft monopoly case. The judge was to decide how Microsoft should be punished for illegally trying to squelch its competitors. 2001 NASA announced that operation of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite would end by September 30th due to budget restrictions. Though the satellite is best known for monitoring a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, it was designed to provide information about the upper atmosphere by measuring its winds, temperatures, chemistry and energy received from the sun. 2006 The planet Pluto was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Pluto's status was changed due to the IAU's new rules for an object qualifying as a planet. Pluto met two of the three rules because it orbits the sun and is large enough to assume a nearly round shape. However, since Pluto has an oblong orbit and overlaps the orbit of Neptune it disqualified Pluto as a planet. 2021 Do smiled. |
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