Good Morning, Do! Today is Wednesday, October 9 It snowed again, 15 cm (6"). The icycle has melted in the meantime, but is now growing again. ____________________________________________________ Today, October 9 in  1936 The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam. More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award: NC teen posted threat to shoot up movie theater on his own Instagram Page  _______________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ "I''m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president!" --- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. --- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002) Advice is probably the only free thing which people won't take. --- Lothar Kaul "Hell begins the day God grants you the vision to see all you could have done, should have done and would have done -- but did not." --- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe _______________________________________________ A six-year-old ran up and down the supermarket aisles shouting frantically, "Marian, Marian!" Finally reunited with his mother, he was chided by her, "You shouldn't call me 'Marian.' I'm your mother, you know." "I know," said the child, "but the store is full of mothers." ________________________________________________` >From Linda   ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________     An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Nikolai James Dixon Jr., 16, Wilmington, North Carolina  NC teen posted threat to shoot up movie theater on his own Instagram Page  A North Carolina teenager who posted a threat on his Instagram page to shoot up a movie theater has been arrested on a felony cyberstalking charge, police report. Nikolai James Dixon Jr., 16, was arrested Friday after local citizens and the media apprised cops of the post, which warned of an October 8 shooting at an AMC theater in Wilmington (where Joker is playing on four screens). The author of the post, which appeared on the cheezeclazone Instagram page, wrote My name is Nikolai Dixon and included the name of the Wilmington high school Dixon attends. In announcing Dixon's arrest, police noted that the teenager did not have the means to carry out any threat. After being booked into the New Hanover County jail, Dixon was released on a $2500 unsecured bond. Along with a redacted copy of the posted threat, cops also released a photo of Dixon from his 144-follower Instagram page (which is now private). Seen above, the image shows Dixon wearing an Infinity Gauntlet and a box of Flavor Blasted Xtra Cheddar Goldfish crackers. 
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Eric Re: Nigerian Scams  Dear Webby, I can't believe that people are still falling for these Nigerian Scams. Do you recommend forwarding them to the FTC as well as getting them over to Spam Cop? Eric  Dear Eric They still fall for Hillary too, and Petunia, and Mad Max, and Pocahuntas, and Bidet. FTC is a total waste of time. They pick one or two celebrity cases a year, and with all the other complaints they just make pretty graphs. SpamCop is effective, in that they complain to the ISP of the sender. Some ISPs stomp on them. Some spammers use fake IP numbers and can't be easily punished. Best is to just use Mailwasher and filter the spam into hell, without even showing it in the list. At the end of the week you can look in the stats and see on the pie chart which one of your filters and the built in defaults have killed the most spam. Personally, I don't need to see the spam listed. A nice slice in the pie chart cheers me a lot more. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 One evening a man was very impressed with the meat entree his wife had served. "What did you marinate this in?" he asked. His wife immediately went into a long explanation about how much she loves him and how life wouldn't be the same without him, etc. Eventually, his puzzled expression made her interrupt her answer with a question of her own, "What did you ask me?" She chuckled at his answer and explained, "I thought you asked me if I would marry you again!" As she left the room, he called out, "Well, would you marry me again?" Without hesitation, she said, "Vinegar and barbecue sauce." 
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 Our phone rang late one night, and my wife Nancy picked it up. She said, "No," and slammed it down. "Who was that?" "Some boy for Carolyn," she said, referring to our daughter. Then it rang again. Nancy listened, said, "KitKat," and hung up. "What now?" I asked. "A boy plans to ask Carolyn to the prom and wanted to know what her favorite candy is. He's going to put the invitation into a candy basket." The next morning a basket of candy was on our porch. "But, Mom," our daughter protested when she heard the story, "KitKat isn't my favorite candy." "I know," Nancy said. "It's mine." ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com font color="#009990"> Coring Iceberg Lettuce Using a knife to cut lettuce causes the lettuce to brown more quickly. To remove the core from a head of iceberg lettuce, hit the core end against the counter sharply and twist the core out. thriftyfun.Com  ____________________________________________________  
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ A Sunday school teacher asked her class, "What was Jesus' Mother's name?" One child answered, "Mary." The teacher then asked, "Who knows what Jesus' Father's name was?" Another child said, "The Verge." Confused, the teacher asked, "Where did you get that?" The little one said, "Well, you know they are always talking about The Verge 'n' Mary." ___________________________________________________ If you set up a tent to be sheltered from the wind while ice-fishing, do NOT sleep in THAT tent. Somebody will get up at night and step into the hole. Extracting a foot with a sprained ankle firmly wedged into the hole in the ice tends to cause foul language. That scares the fish away. ___________________________________________________ There is this American tourist on a trip around Ireland. When the tour arrives at Belfast he decides to go for a stroll with the aim of taking in this new culture. After he's been walking for a while someone rushes up behind him and sticks a gun in his back. The person says to the tourist, "What are you, Catholic or Protestant?" The American thinks to himself "Great -- if I say I'm Catholic, this guy is sure to be Protestant. If I say I'm Protestant, he's sure to be Catholic. Either way I'm dead." Then he has a brain wave and says to the guy, "Actually I'm Jewish." This, he thinks to himself, will surely keep him safe. The guy behind him then replies, "Gee, I must be the luckiest Arab in Ireland." __________________________________________________ 
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 Today, October 9 1635 Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom. 1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale. 1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, Mexifornia. 1781 The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis. 1812 During the War of 1812 American forces captured two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia. 1855 Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor. 1855 Joshua C. Stoddard received a patent for his calliope. 1858 Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began. 1872 Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles. 1888 The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time. 1914 During World War I, German forces captured Antwerp, Belgium. 1930 Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale, CA, to complete the first solo transcontinental flight across the U.S. by a woman. 1936 The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam. 1940 St. Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed by the Nazis. The dome was unharmed in the bombing. 1946 "The Iceman Cometh" opened in New York City, NY. 1946 The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA. 1975 Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb." 1983 Helen Moss joined the Brownies at the age of 83. She became the oldest person to become a member. 1986 U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne became the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. The U.S. Senate convicted Claiborne of "high crimes and misdemeanors." 1986 The musical "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London. 1989 The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report included a trio of tall aliens that had visited the city of Voronzh. 1994 The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border. 1995 Saboteurs tinkered with a stretch of railroad track in Arizona. An Amtrak train derailed killing one and injuring a hundred. 2003 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II knighted Roger Moore and made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire). 2009 NASA launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). On November 13, it was announced that water had been discovered in the planned impact plume on the moon. 2019 Do smiled.