Good Morning, Do! Today is Friday, August 27 Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops!  ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________  Man dead, another injured in shooting near Phoenix hotel; suspect arrested  ___________________________________________________ Today, August 27 in 1859 The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA. ____________________________________________________ Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. --- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661) Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. --- Dandemis ____________________________________________________ You know you're old, ... if you can remember when bacon, eggs and sunshine were good for you. (They still are, but don't tell the loonies!) ____________________________________________________   Rasamee Dhitikiattipong Gymno ____________________________________________________ As Morris and his wife Sherry were planning a vacation. They ended up in an argument, "It's 'Hawaii', I'm telling you!" Sherry said. "I never KNEW someone so stubborn! 'Havaii' is how it's pronounced!" he replied. And so it went all the way to the vacation. As they got off the airplane, they passed a man. Morris abruptly stopped his wife and turned to the man to ask, "Now that we're on the island, you can settle an argument between my wife and me. Is this 'Hawaii' or 'Havaii?'" "This is Havaii," the man replied. "Ha!" the husband gloated to his wife. "See, didn't I tell you never to argue with me?" As they began to walk away, Morris turned back and gave the man a hearty "Thank you!" "You're Ferry Velcome!" the Hawaiian called back. ____________________________________________________ Reported by Rock An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Ebony_Willis, Phoenix, Arizona, USA  Man dead, another injured in shooting near Phoenix hotel; suspect arrested  Phoenix Police say a suspect has been arrested in connection to a shooting that left one man dead and another critically injured near 44th Street and Van Buren early Sunday morning. Officers received a 911 call about a shooting near the Radisson Hotel at 5 a.m. on Aug. 22. When police arrived at the scene, they found two men with apparent gunshot wounds. Twenty-seven-year-old Dallas Summers died at the scene. The other man was hospitalized in critical condition. Witnesses reportedly told officers they heard an argument and yelling before the shooting broke out. On Tuesday, police said Ebony Willis was arrested in connection to the shooting. She is accused of first-degree murder, armed robbery, and aggravated assault.  ____________________________________________________ If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! ______________________________________________________  From: Clyde Re: W10 slow down in the evening Dear Webby, I am running W10. Often, between 8 and 9 PM Pacific daylight time but sometimes at other times, the computer starts doing something with files. I assume it is downloading. Sometimes it is only a few minutes and at others it lasts over an hour. That is a time of day I am trying to work and this slows and sometimes stops me. I often cannot open new web sites and word processing is slowed. Is there some way I can find out what is going on and perhaps change the time? Clyde  Dear Clyde hit CTRL SHIFT ESC, PROCESSES MEMORY That MIGHT show you what the culprit is. With W10 it could be Windows Defender. Once you know what it is, you might be able to tell it to do it's thing at a differnt time. Have FUN! DearWebby ___________________________________________________ After much urging by his wife, Uncle Joe applied for work on a farm. The foreman decided to give him a try and told him to milk a cow, equipping him with a stool and a bucket. An hour later Uncle Joe returned dirty and sweaty, the bucket in one hand and the broken stool in the other. "Extracting the milk was easy," he explained. "The worst part was getting the cow to sit on the stool!" 
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 At Sunday school, the teacher asked Johnny, "Johnny, could you tell me what are we supposed to do to deserve the salvation?" "Yeah, of course" Little Johnny replied. "We're supposed to sin first so that we got something to be forgiven for!" ____________________________________________ Linda had gotten a new job as a reporter at her local newspaper and she was brought in to meet the crusty old editor on her first day on the job. "Names, names," the old editor insisted to the new reporter. "No story is complete without the names of everyone involved." Linda assured him she would make him proud of her reporting abilities, and her first assignment was to write an article on a local disaster. She came back a few hours later and filed this report: Three farms in our area were affected by severe lightning storms that struck Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Greene reported a fire in their barn. Michael Arlington said several trees were knocked down by the violence of the storm. And Fred Morse reported that three of his cows were struck by lightning. Their names were Bessie, Elsie and Bertha. ____________________________________________ I don't think I'll ever have a mother's intuition. A friend left me alone in a restaurant with her 16-month-old kid. I asked, "What do I do if he cries?" She said, "Give him some vegetables." It turns out that jalapenos are not his favorite vegetable and I will not be asked to babysit again. ______________________________________________ 
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 Today, August 27, in 1660 The books of John Milton were burned in London due to his attacks on King Charles II. 1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly. 1828 Uruguay was formally proclaimed to be independent during preliminary talks between Brazil and Argentina. 1858 The first cabled news dispatch was sent and was published by "The New York Sun" newspaper. The story was about the peace demands of England and France being met by China. 1859 The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA. 1889 Charles G. Conn received a patent for the metal clarinet. 1889 Boxer Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey was defeated for the first time of his career by George LaBlanche. 1892 The original Metropolitan Opera House in New York was seriously damaged by fire. 1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed by 15 countries in Paris. Later, 47 other nations would sign the pact. 1938 Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt a poetry recital by another poet, Archibald MacLeish. 1939 Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig. 1945 American troops landed in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government at the end of World War II. 1962 Mariner 2 was launched by the United States. In December of the same year the spacecraft flew past Venus. It was the first space probe to reach the vicinity of another planet. 1972 North Vietnam's major port at Haiphong saw the first bombings from U.S. warplanes. 1981 Work began on recovering a safe from the Andrea Doria. The Andrea Doria was a luxury liner that sank in 1956 in the waters off of Massachusetts. 1984 U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. The teacher that was eventually chosen was Christa McAuliffe. She died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. 1985 The Space Shuttle Discovery left for a seven-day mission in which three satellites were launched and another was repaired and redeployed. 1989 The first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched. A British communications satellite was onboard. 1990 The U.S. State Department ordered the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats. 1991 The Soviet republic of Moldavia declared its independence. 1996 California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to illegal immigrants. 1998 "Titanic" became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600 million. 1999 The final crew of the Russian space station Mir departed the station to return to Earth. Russia was forced to abandon Mir for financial reasons. 2001 The U.S. military announced that an Air Force RQ-1B "Predator" aircraft was lost over Iraq. It was reported that the unmanned aircraft "may have crashed or been shot down." 2001 Work began on the future site of a World War II memorial on the U.S. capital's historic national Mall. The site is between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. 2021 Do smiled. 
 
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