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 ___________________________________________________ History: on this day, November 10, in 1928, Michinomiya Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan. ____________________________________________________  Bonehead Award goes to Arizona man arrested for shooting and killing his mother  _____________________________________________________ Q There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. --- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918) Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. --- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910) ____________________________________________________ Black Diamond, AB Weather Updated on Wed, Nov 9, 9:05 a.m. -25 C FEELS LIKe -29 C Socialist climate! ____________________________________________________ When Do was little, Do was attending a first wedding. Afterwards, when asked if Do had understood it all, Do replied: "Yes, it's simple. The woman in the fancy white dress upgraded her man." I asked Do to explain that and this was the answer: "Well, she went down the aisle with an old man and came back with a new version." __________________________________________________ Reported by Rock: An International Bonehead Award has been earned by  Jonathan Hatmaker, 37, Pima County, Arizona, USA  Arizona man arrested for shooting and killing his mother  A man is accused of killing his mother in southern Arizona after she was found dead in her home, authorities said. Deputies with the Pima County Sheriff's Office responded to reports of a shooting around 11 a.m. on Nov. 6 near Linda Vista Boulevard and Hartman Lane. When they got there, they ran into a man at the front door with a gun. After they gave him commands to surrender, 37-year-old Jonathan Hatmaker complied and was taken into custody. "Deputies entered the residence and located a female victim with obvious signs of trauma. The female identified as 66- year-old Peggy Hatmaker, succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced deceased," the sheriff's office said. Through an investigation, Jonathan, Peggy's son, was named the suspect. He's accused of first-degree murder and was booked into jail. The events leading up to Peggy's death haven't been released. ___________________________________________________   Canadian Rounder If I find out where that one lives, I will feed it! ___________________________________________________ Ole and Lena lived on a lake in Northern Minnesota. It was beginning of winter and the lake had just frozen over. Ole asked Lena if she would walk across the frozen lake to the general store to pick him up some tobacco. She asked for some money, but he told her to put it on their tab. So she walked across, got the tobacco and walked back. Then she asked Ole why he didn't send her with any money. He said, "I vasn't goin' to send any money ven I vasn't sure how tick de ice vas." ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________   TravisSigman 11-07-2022 _________________________________________________ A professor was giving a lecture on company slogans in a college advertising and marketing class. "Joe," he asked, "which company has the slogan, 'Come fly the friendly skies'?" "United Airlines," Joe answered. "Brenda, can you tell me which company has the slogan, 'Don't leave home without it'?" Brenda easily answered correctly, "American Express." "Now, John, Tell me which company uses the slogan, 'Just do it'?" John answered, "Mom." ____________________________________________________ Used to being the center of attention, Robbie was a little more than jealous of his new baby sister. The parents sat him down and said that now that she was getting older, the house was too small and they'd have to move. "It's no use." Robbie said, "She's crawling pretty good now and she'd probably just follow us." ================================================= DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From:Buzzy Re: Old Tech Support Issue ===== from the 123clickit.Com tech support pits ====== caller: "when I boot up my computer, I get a netbios error. When is your server going to be back up?" Buzzy: "the servers are running just fine. You need to get the netbios refilled by whoever you bought the computer from. Then you will be able to use your modem to dial onto the internet again." ===== buzzy, from the tech support pits ======  Dear Buzzy Thanks! Have FUN DearWebby _____________________________________________________ A widower, who had not got along too well with his wife while she was alive now found himself missing her desperately. He went to a psychic to see if he could contact his late wife. The psychic went into a trance. A strange breeze wafted through the darkened room, and suddenly, the man heard the unmistakable voice of his dearly departed wife. "Honey!" he cried. "Is that you?" "Yes, my husband." "Are you happy?" "Yes, my husband." "Happier than you were with me?" "Yes, my husband." "Then Heaven must be an amazing place!" "I'm not in Heaven, dear." _____________________________________________________ Ophelia Dingbatter's News no sermon and not suitable for church, just jokes and fun for grownups. Read it on-line or subscribe. If you subscribe, look for the double opt- in confirmation request. ____________________________________________________ Today, November 10, in 1775, The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps. 1801, The U.S. state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling. 1871, Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingstone was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 1879, Western Union and the National Bell Telephone Company reached a settlement over various telephone patents. 1917, 41 suffragists were arrested in front of the White House. 1928, Michinomiya Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan. 1951, Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began when Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ, called his counterpart in Alameda, CA. 1954, The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA. 1970, The Great Wall of China opened for tourism. 1975, The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was repealed in December of 1991. 1975, The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior. 1976, The Utah Supreme Court gave approval for Gary Gilmore to be executed, according to his wishes. The convicted murderer was put to death the following January. 1977, The Major Indoor Soccer League was officially organized in New York City. (New York) 1980, CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare. 1982, Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died of a heart attack at age 75. He was suceeded by Yuri V. Andropov. 1982, In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors. 1988, The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Texas would be the home of the atom-smashing super-collider. The project was cancelled by a vote of the U.S. Congress in Oct. 1993. 1990, Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India's new prime minister. 1991, Robert Maxwell was buried in Israel, five days after his body was recovered off the Canary Islands. 1993, John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife who sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband. 1993, The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill, which called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases. 1994, U.S. officials announced that it planned to stop enforcing the arms embargo against the Bosnian government the following week. The U.N. Security Council was opposed to lifting the ban. 1994, Iraq recognized Kuwait's borders in the hope that the action would end trade sanctions. 1995, Nigeria's military rulers hanged playwright Ken Saro- Wiwa along with several other anti-government activists. 1995, In Katmandu, Nepal, searchers rescued 549 hikers after a massive avalanche struck the Himalayan foothills. The disaster left 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese dead. 1997, WorldCom Inc. acquired MCI Communication Corporation. It was the largest merger in U.S. history valued at $37 billion. 1997, A jury in Virginia convicted Mir Aimal Kasi of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993. 1997, A judge in Cambridge, MA, reduced Louise Woodward's murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to time served. She had served 279 days in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. 1998, At the White House, "The Virtual Wall" website (www.thevirtualwall.org) was unveiled. The site allows visitors to experience The Wall through the Internet. 2001, The World Trade Organization approved China's membership. 2004, Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) was awarded the "Man for Peace" prize in Rome at the opening of a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates. 2020, The Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S were released by Microsoft. 2022 Do smiled. 

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