Good Morning, Do, Today is Sunday, December 24 When I went for my walk the wind was getting gusty. There was still about a foot of powder snow on the trees, looking quite Christmassy. So I dug out my big Yukon scarf. It is still in very good shape after all these years. A block later the street lights down by the High School dimmed. Oh-Oh! A gust was blowing a snow drift as high as their lights. I watched it approach and turned my back to it. A second later I was flat in the snow, making a face print. I had expected a push, but not quite THAT much of a push. Well, it was a good warning. The rest of my walk I was ready for gusts. We have to expect some wicked snow drifts by morning! Have Fun! Dearwebby Todays Bonehead Award: Killer said he felt disrespected  Bonehead ______________________________________________________ Today, December 24 in 1818 Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, near Salzburg, Austria, composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr. Their church organ broke down during practise, so Franz Gruber, the village teacher, was asked to come up with something, that he could play on his guitar. He did. He and his students practised singing "Silent Night" on the afternoon of the 24th and performed it at Midnight Mass. It was a hit! Within 10 years it had swept the German speaking parts of Europe and some translations had been made.  See More of what happened on this day in history.
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 ______________________________________________________ The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ---Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983) ______________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ Three small boys were bragging about their fathers. The first boasted that his dad owned a farm. The second said his dad owned a factory. The third boy, a pastor's son, replied, "That's nothin'. My dad owns hell." "No way," another boy scoffed. "How can a man own hell?" "Sure he can," the preacher's son said. "My mom told my grandma that them elders of our church gave it to him last night." _____________________________________________________ Thanks to Bill for this story: Each Friday night I drove my wife to the train station so she could go visit her sister who was ill. Ten minutes later, my sister arrived by train so that she could manage our household over the weekend while my wife was gone. On Sundays this procedure worked in reverse with my sister departing by train ten minutes before my wife arrived. One evening after my sister left and while I awaited my wife's arrival, a porter sauntered over. "Mister," he said, "you are sure some man! But one of these days you are goin' to get caught!" _____________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________   ____________________________________ 
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 _____________________________________________________ Two sisters had been given parts in a play at their church. At dinner that night, they got into an argument as to who had the most important role. Finally the 12-year-old said to her 8-year-old younger sister, "Well, you just ask Mom. She'll tell you it's much harder to be a virgin than it is to be an angel!" _____________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Kervin Pierce, 25 Milwaukee, Wisconsin  Killer said he felt disrespected  25-year-old Kervin Pierce of Milwaukee now faces multiple charges in connection with the fatal shooting of his own mother and beating of his brother. It happened at an Oak Creek apartment complex on Tuesday, December 19th. Pierce faces the following criminal charges: First degree intentional homicide, use of a dangerous weapon Attempted first degree intentional homicide, use of a dangerous weapon Strangulation & suffocation Battery by prisoners According to the criminal complaint, police received a 911 call from a man (later identified as Pierce) who said "there was a female inside of the residence that had been shot to the face and an unconscious male that had been pistol whipped." When officers arrived on the scene, they found Bonita Pierce deceased -- lying on the floor in a bedroom. Pierce's brother was found with injuries to his head and "a large amount of blood on his face." When questioned by police about what happened, Pierce said "he has felt disrespected by both his mother and brother for 2 to 3 months and was very upset about that." On December 19th, Pierce said "he felt intense disrespect today and was overwhelmed" -- and that "his mother was nagging him about little things." The complaint indicates Pierce said he shot his mother because he was "just fed up." The complaint says Pierce "planned to shoot his brother next, however the gun jammed." He said he intended to shoot both his mother and brother and then call the police. Pierce was taken into custody when officers arrived on the scene. On December 20th, while Pierce was at the Milwaukee County Jail, the criminal complaint says a correctional officer noticed Pierce "pacing by the phone banks." The correctional officer completed a phone call from the medical unit and when she put the receiver down, "the defendant grabbed her throat, shook her with both hands, and threw her to the ground while continuing to strangle her." The officer's radio fell from her belt -- and she had no way to call for help. The complaint indicates the attack against the correctional officer lasted about 15 seconds and "ended when three inmates intervened by pulling the defendant off" the officer until security staff arrived.  _________________________________  Tech Support Pits From: Gary Re: AutoPlay Dear Webby, I have a question for you that I may have asked before.. I don't remember..but here it is. When I insert a cd into my cd player I have to manually go into wmp..it won't come up automaticly as it once did.. please help....thank you in advance. Gary  Dear Gary Enabling AutoPlay on a data and audio CD: Open My Computer or Explorer Highlight the CD-ROM drive, right click the CD-ROM drive and click properties. Click the AutoPlay tab. Within this section you will be able to specify all Windows AutoPlay features. Have FUN! DearWebby   
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Full Moon Fever http://www.space.com/fullmoonfever/ ____________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Sock Puppet Craft Turn a lonely sock into a sock puppet. You can use buttons for the eyes and nose or buy googly eyes at a craft store. Make a head of hair for you puppet out of yarn. Craft felt can be used for further embellishments. Tip provided by Thriftyfun.com font>  ____________________________________________________  We are now seeing a new, redesigned $20 bill. This is part of an anti-counterfeiting program to redesign all of our old currency, which has become too easy to duplicate with modern color photocopiers- a fact that was made all too clear when Xerox, in its 2017 annual report, reported profits of "$850 Billion, mostly in $20's".  
 
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 There was a beer party out in the woods and, all of a sudden there was a downpour of rain and thunder. Two young men ran for about 10 minutes in the pouring rain, and finally reached their car just as the rain let up. They jumped in the car, started it up and headed down the road, laughing and, of course, still drinking one beer after the other. All of a sudden an old man's face appeared outside the passenger window, and he tapped lightly on the window! The man on the passenger side screamed out, "Ahhhhhhh! Look at my window!!! There's an old guy's face there!" The old man kept knocking, so the driver said, "Well, open the window a little and ask him what he wants!" So, the passenger rolled his window down part way and, scared out of his wits, said, "What do you want?" The old man softly replied, "Do you have any cigarettes?" The passenger, terrified, looked at the driver and said, "He wants a cigarette." "Well, give him a cigarette! HURRY!!" the driver replies. So he fumbles around with the pack and hands the old man a cigarette and yells to the driver, "Step on it!!!", rolling up the window in terror. Now going about 80 miles an hour, they calm down, and they start laughing again, and the passenger says, "What do you think of that?" The driver replies, "I don't know. How could that be? I am going pretty fast." Then all of a sudden AGAIN there is a knock, and there is the old man again. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, there he is again!" the passenger yells. "Well, see what he wants now!" yells back the driver. He rolls down the window a little ways and shakily says, "Yes?" "Do you have a light?" the old man quietly asks. The driver throws a lighter out the window at him and rolls up the window and yells, "STEP ON IT!" They are now going about 100 miles an hour and still guzzling beer, trying to forget what they had just seen and heard, when all of a sudden again there is more knocking! "OH MY GOD! HE'S BACK!" The passenger rolls down the window and screams in stark fear, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" The old man replies, "You want some help getting out of the mud?" ___________________________________________________ 
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 Today, December 24, in 1814 The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium. 1818 Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Austria, composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr. 1828 William Burke who, with his partner William Hare, dug up the dead and murdered to sell the corpses for dissection, went on trial in Edinburgh. 1851 A fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, destroying about 35,000 volumes. 1865 Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan. 1906 Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, MA. 1914 In World War I, the first air raid on Britain was made when a German airplane dropped a bomb on the grounds of a rectory in Dover. 1928 The first broadcast of "The Voice of Firestone" was heard. 1943 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord. 1944 The Andrews Sisters starred in the debut of "The Andrews Sisters' Eight-To-The-Bar-Ranch" on ABC Radio. 1944 A German submarine torpedoed the Belgian transport ship S.S. Leopoldville with 2,235 soldiers aboard. About 800 American soldiers died. The soldiers were crossing the English Channel to be reinforcements at the battle that become known as the Battle of the Bulge. 1948 For the first time ever, a midnight Mass was broadcast on television. It was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. 1948 The first completely solar-heated house became occupied in Dover, MA. 1951 Libya achieved independence as the United Kingdom of Libya, under King Idris. 1965 A meteorite landed on Leicestershire. It weighed about 100lbs. 1966 Luna 13 landed on the moon. 1968 Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the moon. 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the country's Marxist government. 1981 In Eastern Kazakh/Semipalatinsk, the Soviet Union performed a nuclear test. 1985 Fidel Castro, the Cuban president, announced that he had become a non-smoker. 1989 Ousted Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega took refuge at the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City. 1990 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married. 1992 U.S. President George H.W. Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal. 1997 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal," was sentenced by a French court to life in prison for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national. 1998 At Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, a tourist was hit by a piece of flying metal while waiting to board a ride. The man's wife and a Disneyland employee were also injured. Luan Phi Dawson died December 26th from his injuries. 1999 Ivory Coast President Henri Konan Bdi was overthrown in a coup. 1999 An Indian Airlines plane was seized during a flight from Katmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi. In Afghanistan, the 150 hostages were freed on December 31 after India released three Kashmir militants from prison. 2000 36 minutes after the end of a game, both the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins were called back to the playing field. The teams had to play the final 3 seconds of the game which the Dolphins had won 27-24. The end result did not change. 2000 The "Texas 7," seven convicts that had escaped a Texas prison, robbed a sports store in Irving, TX. The suspects killed Officer Aubrey Hawkins, stole $70,000, 25 weapons and clothing. The men had escaped on December 13. 2017 Do smiled. 
 
 

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