Good Morning, Do! Today is Thursday, October 24 ____________________________________________________ Today, October 24 in  1901 Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old. 2001 The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that gave police the power to secretly search homes, tap all of a person's telephone conversation and track people's use of the Internet. More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award: Seven people including five children died in a horrific arson started due to a playground dispute over 85 pence.  _______________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. --- Bill Cosby (1937 - ) Every crowd has a silver lining. --- Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891) _______________________________________________ A friend of mine was having a bit of marital tension in his household and was trying to figure out just what to do about it. In the course of our conversation, I happened to mention to him, "You know, quite often God speaks to us through our wives." My friend looked at me kind of funny and said, "Wow! I didn't know God used that kind of language!" ________________________________________________`   ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________     An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Alexander Komarov Rostov Veliky, Russia  Alexander Komarov started a fire in an apartment block in Rostov Veliky, Russia  Seven people including five children died in a horrific arson started due to a playground dispute over 85 pence. The victims were burned alive in the fire, which was deliberately set on a part-timber apartment block in Rostov Veliky town in Russia. Alexander Komarov, 37, used a lighter to start the nighttime blaze after his son claimed a boy who lived in this block had stolen 70 roubles (85 pence) from him, say law enforcement. The boy, who strongly denied the theft, and his family jumped out of ground floor windows to escape the inferno. But two other families living in upstairs flats were trapped, according to local media reports. Anastasia Kurkina, 23, and her three children Milana, six, Alina, three, and Evgenia, 18 months, all perished. A mother who lived in another upstairs flat Anastasia Lendinyova was saved but her two children Polina, four, and Sergey, two, died. Kurkina had told her husband Igor Vanyushev, 35, to jump and she would throw the children from him to catch. 'But she lost consciousness and she and her daughters suffocated,' said her step-daughter Olga. A local man Oleg Kovalev fought through the blaze and grabbed two of the girls who were still alive, but they died soon afterwards from carbon monoxide poisoning. Local resident Alexandra Vasilyeva said: 'He cried because he pulled the girls too late, so there was no time to save them. He was so upset, he threw a wild tantrum. 'He pulled out the girls, and they were still breathing, thinking that they could be saved, but when the ambulance arrived, they said that it was too late. 'They say the girls were dying in his arms.' Vanyushev's uncle Vladimir Urbakh also died in the fire. A total of 25 people including three children, were evacuated from the building. State prosecutor's official Dmitry Dyachkov said Komarov had confessed to an 'extremely dangerous crime' and showed 'an indifferent attitude to human life'. He is seen on a police video confessing to arson, saying: 'I took the lighter... And went there. I was drunk.' He has been detained and faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. 
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 "I'm so worried," the nervous patient said as the nurse plumped up his pillows. "Last week, I read about a man who was in the hospital because of heart trouble and he died of malaria." "Relax" the nurse said, smiling. "This is a first-rate hospital. When we treat someone for heart trouble, he dies of heart trouble." 
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 An Irishman's wife calls the doctor, stating that her husband has taken ill. The doctor asks if she had taken his temperature; she replied that she hadn't but would and then call back. When she hadn't called within a half hour, the doctor called and asked her what had happened. She said, "Well, I didn't have a thermometer, so I put a barometer on his chest and it said dry, so I gave him a pint of beer and he went off to work!" ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com font color="#009990"> Yard Sales for Garden Supplies When I moved into my first house, I didn't have any garden supplies at all. Since we had just closed, and money was tight. I went to yard sales looking for anything I could come across. I found lots of items, including a shovel, a pick, a pole saw, an axe and more. The pole saw was $10 (I got it at a flea market). The other items were $1 or $2. I also saw spreaders (the kind you use to fertilize the lawn) for around $5. By Tony  ____________________________________________________  
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ Tax day was looming when an elderly woman showed up at the IRS. She said she required a thick stack of tax forms. "Why so many?" the clerk asked. "My son is stationed overseas," she said. "He asked me to pick up forms for the Marines on the base." "You shouldn't have to do this," the clerk told her. "It's the base commander's job to make sure that his troops have access to the forms they need." "I know," said the woman. "I'm the base commander's mother." ___________________________________________________ "You seem to have more than average intelligence for a man of your background," sneered the lawyer at a witness on the stand. "If I wasn't under oath to speak the truth, I'd return the compliment," replied the witness. ___________________________________________________ Patient: Doctor, if I give up wine, women, and song, will I live longer? Doctor: Not really. It will just seem longer. __________________________________________________ 
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 Today, October 24 in 1648 The Holy Roman Empire was effectively destroyed by the Peace of Westphalia that brought an end to the Thirty Years War. 1795 The country of Poland was divided up between Austria, Prussia, and Russia. 1836 Alonzo D. Phillips received a patent for the phosphorous friction safety match. 1861 The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent when Justice Stephen J. Field of California transmitted a telegram to U.S. President Lincoln. 1901 Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old. 1929 In the U.S., investors dumped more than 13 million shares on the stock market. The day is known as "Black Tuesday." 1931 The upper level of the George Washington Bridge opened for traffic between New York and New Jersey. 1939 Nylon stockings were sold to the public for the first time in Wilmington, DE. 1940 In the U.S., the 40-hour workweek went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. 1945 The United Nations (UN) was formally established less than a month after the end of World War II. The Charter was ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories. 1948 The term "cold war" was used for the first time. It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee. 1960 All remaining American-owned property in Cuba was nationalized. The process of nationalizing all U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuba had begun on August 6, 1960. 1962 During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. military forces went on the highest alert in the postwar era in preparation for a possible full-scale war with the Soviet Union. The U.S. blockade of Cuba officially began on this day. 1969 Richard Burton bought his wife Elizabeth Taylor a 69-carat Cartier diamond ring for $1.5 million. Burton presented the ring to Taylor several days later. 1986 Britain broke off relations with Syria after a Jordanian was convicted in an attempted bombing. The evidence in the trial led to the belief that Syria was involved in the attack on the Israeli jetliner. 1992 The Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-U.S. team to win the World Series. 2001 The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that gave police the power to secretly search homes, tap all of a person's telephone conversation and track people's use of the Internet. 2001 NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Mars. 2002 Microsoft Corp. and Walt Disney Co. announced the release of an upgraded MSN Internet service with Disney content. 2003 In London, the last commercial supersonic Concorde flight landed. 2019 Do smiled.