Good Morning, Do! Today is Friday, June 8 Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!  Have FUN! Dearwebby Todays Bonehead Award: Villager who drank '14 to 15' beers arrested after passenger knocked from golf cart Bonehead ______________________________________________________ Today, June 8 in 1869 Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.  More of today in history at HIstory ______________________________________________________ 
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 ______________________________________________________ Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. [info][add][mail][note]Louis L'Amour (1908 1988) Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. --- George Burns (1896 1996) Or yapping on TV and papers. ______________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. "Big breaths," I instructed. "Yeth, they uthed to be," remorsed the patient. _____________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________   _____________________________________________________ 
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 _____________________________________________________ Teacher: If you had $1.00 and you asked your father for another, how many dollars would you have. Do: "I would have $1.00!" Teacher: "You don't know your arithmetic." Do: "You don't know my father!" ____________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Suzette Ruth Martin, 50, The Villages, Florida  Villager who drank '14 to 15' beers arrested after passenger knocked from golf cart  A Villager who admitted to drinking 14 to 15 beers was arrested after a passenger was knocked from a golf cart. Lady Lake police were called at 8 p.m. Sunday to 1753 Lauren Lane on the Historic Side of The Villages to investigate the accident. Suzette Ruth Martin, 50, had been driving a golf cart out of a garage when it slammed into nearby landscaping, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. Martin then tried to move the golf cart forward and her passenger was thrown out. Lake EMS transported the passenger from the scene by ambulance. Martin said she had consumed 14 to 15 beers and admitted she was drunk, the report indicated. She declined to take part in field sobriety exercises, indicating she was certain she would fail them. She was unable to provide a breath sample and told police she has emphysema and lung cancer. Martin was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence and booked at the Lake County Jail. She was released after posting $1,000 bond. Even though there are no cars allowed in most parts of The Villages, residents know that impaired driving with golf carts and lawn mowers is the same crime there as anywhere else. 
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 Thanks to Simone for this confession: My sex life is so bad ... that when I called one of those phone sex lines, a voice came on and said, "Not tonight. I have an earache." 
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 One evening while I was preparing dinner, my daughter came into the kitchen asking for homework help on her vocabulary words. "Mom," she asked, "what's a quarter horse?" As I thought of a simple explanation, my five-year-old son piped up, "I know! It's the one they have in front of the grocery store." ____________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Opening Jars Having trouble opening a jar? A latex dishwashing glove will help you grip the lid. If it is still stubborn, tap the lid lightly with the back of a butter knife. This will break the seal, but be careful not to break the glass jar.  Tip provided by Thriftyfun.com  ____________________________________________________   
The Library and Opera House that stands on two countries. 
 ___________________________________________________ A ninety-five year old woman at the nursing home received a visit from one of her fellow church members. "How are you feeling?" the visitor asked. The lady said, "Oh, I'm just worried sick!" "What are you worried about, dear?" her friend asked. "You look like you're in good health. They are taking care of you, aren't they?" "Yes, they are taking very good care of me," said the old lady. "Are you in any pain?" her friend asked. "No, I have never had a pain in my life." "Well, what are you worried about?" her friend asked again. The lady leaned back in her rocking chair and slowly explained her major worry. "Every close friend I ever had has already died and gone on to heaven. I'm afraid they're all wondering where I went." ___________________________________________________ 
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 *Rules for Writers* 1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. 2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. 3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. 4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. 5. Avoid clichs like the plague. (They're old hat.) 6. Be more or less specific. 8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary. 9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies. 10. No sentence fragments. 11. Don't never use no double negatives. 12. Proffer carefully to see if you any words out. ____________________________________________________  
 Today, June 8 in 0452 Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun. 0793 The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England. 1786 In New York City, commercially manufactured ice cream was advertised for the first time. 1790 The first loan for the U.S. was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton. 1866 Prussia annexed the region of Holstein. 1869 Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner. 1904 U.S. Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens and to stop piracy. 1953 The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in Washington, DC. 1965 U.S. troops in South Vietnam were given orders to begin fighting offensively. 1967 Israeli airplanes attacked the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean during the 6-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. 34 U.S. Navy crewmen were killed. Israel later called the incident a tragic mistake due to the mis-identification of the ship. The U.S. has never publicly investigated the incident. 1969 U.S. President Richard Nixon met with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops would pull out by August. 1978 A jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled that the "Mormon will," was a forgery. The work was supposedly written by Howard Hughes. 1982 U.S. President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament. 1986 The Boston Celtics won their 16th NBA championship. 1991 A victory parade was held in Washington, DC, to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War. 1994 The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease- fire. 1995 U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down on June 2. 1996 China set off an underground nuclear test blast. 1998 The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president. 1998 In the U.S., the FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips. 1998 Honda agreed to pay $17.1 million for disconnecting anti- pollution devices in 1.6 million cars. 1998 The space shuttle Discovery pulled away from Mir, ending America's three-year partnership with Russia. 2000 The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the NHL's longest scoreless game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game ended with a goal by Mike Madano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas. 2001 Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace. 2004 Nate Olive and Sarah Jones began the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They completed the trek at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 28. 2018 Do smiled. 
 

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