Good Morning, Do, Today is Thursday, February 15 Have FUN! Dearwebby Todays Bonehead Award: California killers identified by 19-year-old victim's last words   Bonehead ______________________________________________________ Today, February 15 in 2002 U.S. President George W. Bush approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a site for long-term disposal of radioactive nuclear waste. Obama stopped that project, so that the US does not have any long term storage facility. See More of what happened on this day in history.
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 ______________________________________________________ A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. --- Robertson Davies Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. --- Rebecca West ______________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ BENEFITS OF BEING A WOMAN Taxis stop for us. We'll never regret piercing our ears. We have the ability to dress ourselves. If we forget to shave, no one has to know. New lipstick gives us a whole new lease on life. We can be groupies. Male groupies are stalkers. We don't look like a frog in a blender when dancing. Free drinks, Free dinners, Free movies (you get the point). We can fully assess a person just by looking at their shoes. There are times when chocolate really can solve all your problems. ______________________________________________________ With the divorce rate so high in America, a new organization has been formed called, "Marriage Anonymous." Whenever a man feels like getting married, they send over a woman wearing a torn housecoat, with curlers in her hair and cream on her face, and she nags at him for a day. _____________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________ 
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 _____________________________________________________ A sailor, while bringing flowers to a cemetery, noticed an old Chinese man placing a bowl of rice on a nearby grave. The sailor walked up to the man and asked, "When do you expect your friend to come up and eat the rice?" The old Chinese man replied with a smile, "Same time your friend comes up to smell the flowers." _____________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Daniel Gross, Age 19, Modesto, CA Melissa Leonardo, Age 25, Modesto, CA Both suspects are in custody at Santa Rita Jail.  California killers identified by 19-year-old victim's last words  Officials have identified two people that were arrested Monday in the brutal stabbing death of 19-year-old Lizette Cuesta in Livermore, California. Daniel Gross and Melissa Leonardo, both of Modesto, are suspected of stabbing Cuesta several times and leaving her body on Tesla Road in Livermore. Cuesta was flown to a nearby hospital, where she died. Investigators say Cuesta used her final words to identify her killers. This victim really tried to survive, and she fought and she fought, said Sgt. Ray Kelly with the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. The last thing, we believe, that she was able to do was to point us in the direction of the people that killed her. And that's pretty remarkable. Richard Loadholt was carpooling to work with three other friends for an early shift at UPS when they found Cuesta. He told KTXL the young woman was in such bad shape he couldn't make out the color of her hair. She laid down for almost three minutes at one period, and we told her to get up. She knew she had to get up and I commend that, he said. Friend Alex Yanez tells KTXL that Cuesta was a very positive woman and a determined skateboarder. Guys would fall just as hard and not get back up the rest of the day. She would fall and get right back up and try it, Yanez said. If she wanted that trick bad enough she would get it.  _________________________________  Tech Support Pits From: David Re: gmail  Dear Webby, I writing to ask if you could send me a full version of today's picture. I want to set that as my desktop. I also want to tell your subscribers about gmail. I've had gmail since June of 2005 and I haven't missed a single issue of the Humor Letter, or any other correspondence, with gmail. They have plenty of features including tons of storage. The gmail notifier lets me know when I get a new message and their spam blocker sends the spam to another folder so I can decide what I do and do not want to read. It also has an easy way for you to set it up with Eudora or Outlook Express or any other email reader. I've had hotmail and yahoo email accounts but gmail is the best I've used. David  Dear David The big picture is at http://webby.com/humor/i/BeMyValentine-L.jpg You can usually get the big picture by clicking on it. And I will gladly feature your comment about gmail. I had the same good experience with it. I mainly use it to test HOW the Humor Letter looks on gmail, and gmail has worked fine every day. Have FUN! DearWebby   
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 Groan Alert! While handing a 25 cent-off coupon to the supermarket clerk at the checkout counter, a woman inadvertently missed her hand, and the coupon slipped beneath the scale and was gone. The checker looked distressed, so the woman said, "That's Okay, it's in coupon heaven now." "Coupon heaven?", the checker said. "Yes", the woman said, "That's where coupons go when they die." "Only the redeemed ones!", said the checker. 
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 An automobile salesman was pleasantly bewildered when he sold a new car to a little old lady, some 75 years of age, who had previously resisted his sales pitch. Elated over his success, he asked her, as he was filling out the necessary papers, what had finally made her choose his car. "Well," she said, "I visited four dealers and mentioned your car to all of them. They all agreed on one thing - that your car has the fastest depreciation of all the cars on the market. That was good enough for me." ____________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Sawdust Floor Sweeping Compound Use this recipe to help keep dust down when sweeping your basement garage or workshop. Mix 6 cups sawdust, 2 cups rock salt, and 1 1/2 cups mineral oil and put it in a jar with a lid for storage. To use, sprinkle it on your floor before sweeping.  Tip provided by Thriftyfun.com  ____________________________________________________  Although he was a qualified meteorologist, a local broadcaster ran up a terrible record of forecasting for the TV news program. He became something of a local joke when a newspaper began keeping a record of his predictions and showed that he'd been wrong almost three hundred times in a single year. That kind of notoriety was enough to get him fired. He moved to another part of the country and applied for a similar job. One blank on the job application called for the reason for leaving his previous position. In the blank he wrote quite honestly, "The climate didn't agree with me."  
 
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 The Pope is visiting Washington, DC and President Trump takes him out for an afternoon on the Potomac sailing on the Presidential yacht. They're admiring the sights when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water. Secret service guys start to launch a boat, but President Trump waves them off, saying, "Wait, wait. I'll take care of this. Don't worry." Trump then steps off the yacht onto the surface of the water and walks out to the Holy Father's little hat, bends over and picks it up, then walks back to the yacht and climbs aboard. He hands the hat to the Pope amid stunned silence. The next morning the headlines on CNN and in the AOL/New York Times, Boston Globe, Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Denver Post, Albuquerque Journal, Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle proclaim: "Trump Can't Swim", followed by numerous pages of what every Democratic politician has to say about that. ___________________________________________________ 
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 Today, February 15, in 1758 Mustard was advertised for the first time in America. 1764 The city of St. Louis was established. 1799 Printed ballots were authorized for use in elections in the state of Pennsylvania. 1842 Adhesive postage stamps were used for the first time by the City Dispatch Post (Office) in New York City. 1879 U.S. President Hayes signed a bill that allowed female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. 1898 The USS Maine sank when it exploded in Havana Harbor for unknown reasons. More than 260 crew members were killed. 1900 The British threaten to use natives in their war with the Boers. 1903 Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian immigrants, introduced the first teddy bear in America. 1933 U.S. President-elect Franklin Roosevelt escaped an assination attempt in Miami. Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in the attack. 1942 During World War II, Singapore surrendered to the Japanese. 1961 A Boeing 707 crashed in Belgium killing 73 people. 1962 CBS-TV bought the exclusive rights to college football games from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for a figure of $10,200,000. 1965 Canada displayed its new red and white maple leaf flag. The flag was to replace the old Red Ensign standard. 1982 During a storm, the Ocean Ranger, a drilling rig, sank off the coast of Newfoundland. 84 men were killed. 1985 The Center for Disease Control reported that more than half of all nine-year-olds in the U.S. showed no sign of tooth decay. 1989 After nine years of intervention, the Soviet Union announced that the remainder of its troops had left Afghanistan. 1991 The leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland signed the Visegard agreement, in which they pledged to cooperate in transforming thier countties to free-market economies. 1995 The FBI arrested Kevin Mitnick and charged him with cracking security in some of the nation's most protected computers. He served five years in jail. 2002 U.S. President George W. Bush approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a site for long-term disposal of radioactive nuclear waste. Obama stopped that project, so that the US does not have any long term storage facility. 2018 Do smiled. 
 
 

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