Good Morning, Do, Today is Tuesday, February 28 Have FUN! DearWebby Todays Bonehead Award: Amarillo National Bank robbery suspect arrested Details at  Boneheads ______________________________________________________ Today, February 28 in 1849 Regular steamboat service to California via Cape Horn arrived in San Francisco for the first time. The SS California had left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.  See More of what happened on this day in history. ______________________________________________________ 
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 ______________________________________________________ The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. --- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. --- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. --- Robert Heinlein ______________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ >From Wendy The Oldest Computer The oldest computer can be traced back to Adam and Eve. Surprise, surprise !! It was an Apple. But with extremely limited memory. Just 1 byte. Then everything crashed! ______________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________ >From Wendy A union boss walks into a bar next door to the factory and is about to order a drink, when he sees a guy close by wearing a TRUMP for President button, and two beers in front of him. He does not have to be an Einstein, to know that this guy, is a Republican. So, he shouts over to the bartender so loudly that everyone can hear, 'Drinks for everyone in here, bartender, but not for the Republican.' Soon after the drinks have been handed out, the Republican gives him a big smile, waves at him then says, 'Thank you!' in an equally loud voice. This infuriates the union boss. The union boss once again loudly orders drinks for everyone except the Republican. As before, this does not seem to bother the Republican. He continues to smile, and again yells, 'Thank you!' The union boss once again, loudly orders drinks for, everyone except the Republican. As before, this doesn't seem to bother the Republican. He continues to smile, and again yells, 'Thank you!' The union boss asks the bartender, 'What the hell is the matter, with that Republican? I have ordered three rounds of drinks for everyone in the bar but him, and all the silly ass does, is smile and thanks me. Is he nuts?' 'Nope,' replies the bartender. 'He owns the place.' ______________________________________________________   From FB ______________________________________________________ 
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 ______________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Lashondra Deniece Sandoval-Martin, 31, Amarillo, Texas  Amarillo National Bank robbery suspect arrested  Police have identified the suspect who attempted to rob Amarillo National Bank's North Branch location. Lashondra Deniece Sandoval-Martin, 31, entered the bank, located at 712 North Taylor St., around 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 21, stating that she was going to commit a robbery. Immediately after that, a male bank employee entered the room. When the female suspect turned toward the male, her "weapon," a large water gun, made contact with him accidentally. He realized it was not a real gun and tried to detain or control the suspect. Sandoval-Martin resisted and broke away, letting the plastic water gun clattering to the floor as she fled back out the front door. She was detained as she tried to enter a pickup. When police arrived, officers saw a female matching the description of the robbery suspect approaching or getting into a white Dodge flatbed style pickup that was parked in front of the bank and took her into custody. Officers learned that the white Dodge pickup had just been stolen from a business on Amarillo Boulevard East a few minutes earlier. An employee of the company that owns the Dodge had left it running or left the keys in the vehicle, which allowed the suspect to take it and use it in this robbery. She was booked into the Potter County Detention Center for aggravated robbery and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. The driver of the Dodge has not been charged. I wonder who DeAunt was, who gave Lashondra DeNiece her middle name!  ______________________________________________________  Tech Support Pits From: Daniel Re: not receiving your daily site Dear Webby I am not receiving your site in my email.i have done everything you taught me.it,s not in the block sender list,I contacted my isp,I canceled and reinstalled.i can get it on the net but thats all.any clue? daniel  Dear Daniel You have not done any of that. Your ....@att.net address is still on the same spot in the list. If you had unsubscribed and subscribed again, your address would be at the bottom. However, even if Yahoo had allowed you to confirm a new subscription, it would not have made any difference. As I have told you over a dozen times, the problem is at Yahoo. ATT.net is just Yahoo for those, who are embarrassed by a Yahoo address. Behind the fake front, the email is still Yahoo. There is nothing I can do about Yahoo. I have told you at least a dozen times to get a respectable and reliable address on the side, like a Gmail address, and to subscribe with that. Have FUN! DearWebby    > From Dianne: When I was a child my family used to sometimes take our vacations in British Columbia. We had a favorite place to visit, mostly because of the fine fishing. It was at a Lake that was about 30 miles long and a 1/2 mile wide. While we were around our campfire in the evening the local Indians would go from camp to camp selling their wares. They would also tell of the legends of the area. This one legend always stuck in my mind. It seemed that on this particular Lake two Indian Tribes made their homes. They were, however, at war with one another from years before. There was an Indian maiden in one camp who was in love with a young brave in the other camp. They used to stand, on the shore, each on their respective side of the lake, and chant Indian love calls to each other... even though they were warned by their chiefs that nothing could ever come of it. One day they just could not stand being apart any longer. That evening, on a cold spring night, they each jumped into the lake and swam towards each other in the moonlight. When they reached each other in the center of the lake, they embraced and got a bit carried away. They lost track of time, got hypothermia and drowned. This act so impressed the brave's tribe that they named the lake after the young man. I will never forget those wonderful vacations that we spent at "Lake Stupid". 
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 Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Stovetop Potato Leek Soup By lalala... [795 Posts, 103 Comments] This easy to make potato leek soup is the perfect chilly weather meal! Prep Time: 25 min Cook Time: 1 hr 15 min Total Time: 1 hr 40 min Yield: 6 Source: Food Network (Alton Brown recipe) Ingredients: 1 lb leeks (approx. 4-5 medium or 2 large) 3 Tbsp unsalted butter 4-5 small Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and diced small 1 qt vegetable broth 1 cup heavy cream 1 cup buttermilk 1/2 tsp white pepper heavy pinch kosher salt fresh chives Steps: Clean the leeks and remove the dark green portion. Chop leeks into small pieces. Melt the butter in a heavy pot, over medium heat. Add a heavy pinch of salt. Add the leeks and sweat them for 5 minutes. Decrease the heat to medium-low and cook until the leeks are tender (approx. 25 minutes). Stirring occasionally. Wash, peel, and dice the potatoes into small cubes. Add the potatoes and the vegetable broth to the pot. Increase the heat to medium-high and bring to a boil. Then reduce the heat to low, cover, and gently simmer until the potatoes are soft (approx. 45 minutes). Turn off the heat and use an immersion blender to puree the mixture until smooth. Stir in the heavy cream, buttermilk, and white pepper. Add additional seasoning, if desired. Top soup with snipped chives. Enjoy!  
  
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 Today on February 28 1827 The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first railroad incorporated for commercial transportation of people and freight. 1844 Several people were killed aboard the USS Princeton when a 12-inch gun exploded. 1849 Regular steamboat service to California via Cape Horn arrived in San Francisco for the first time. The SS California had left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848. The trip took 4 months and 21 days. 1854 The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group. 1881 Thomas Edison hired Samuel Insull as his private secretary. 1883 The first vaudeville theater opened. 1885 AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) was incorporated. The company was capitalized on only $100,000 and provided long distance service for American Bell. 1893 Edward G. Acheson showed his patent for Carborundum. 1900 In South Africa, British troops relieved Ladysmith, which had been under siege since November 2, 1899. 1911 Thomas A. Edison, Inc. was organized. 1940 The first televised basketball game was shown. The game featured Fordham University and the University of Pittsburgh from Madison Square Gardens in New York. 1951 A Senate committee issued a report that stated that there were at least two major crime syndicates in the U.S., not counting the Senate. 1953 In a Cambridge University laboratory, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. 1954 In San Francisco "Birth of a Planet" was aired. It was the first American phase-contrast cinemicrography film to be presented on television. 1956 A patent was issued to Forrester for a computer memory core. 1962 The John Glenn for President club was formed by a group of Las Vegas republicans. 1974 The U.S. and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a break of seven years. 1979 Mr. Ed, the talking horse from the TV show "Mr. Ed", died. 1983 "M*A*S*H" became the most watched television program in history when the final episode aired. 1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palmer was assassinated in Stockholm. 1993 U.S. Federal agents raided the compound of an armed religious cult in Waco, TX. The ATF had planned to arrest the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, on federal firearms charges. Four agents and six Davidians were killed and a 51-day standoff followed. 1994 NATO made its first military strike when U.S. F-16 fighters shot down four Bosnian Serb warplanes in violation of a no-fly zone over central Bosnia. 1995 The Denver International Airport opened after a 16- month delay. 1998 Serbian police began a campaign to wipe out "terrorist gangs" in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. 2001 The Northwest region of the U.S., including the state of Washington, was hit by an earthquake that measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale. There were no deaths reported. 2002 In Ahmadabad, India, Hindus set fire to homes in a Muslim neighborhood. At least 55 people were killed in the attack. 2002 Sotheby's auction house announced that it had identified Peter Paul Reubens as the creator of the painting "The Massacre of the Innocents." The painting was previously thought to be by Jan van den Hoecke. 2007 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter to change the planned trajectory towards Pluto. 2013 Benedict XVI resigned as pope. He was the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415 and the first to resign voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294. 2017 Do smiled.
 
 

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