Good Morning, Do! Today is Saturday, December 11 Thank you, Norm!! Thank you Laurence!! ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________  Today's Bonehead Award: Florida student arrested for plotting school shooting ____________________________________________________ Today, December 11, in 1882 Boston's Bijou Theater had its first performance. It was the first American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity. ____________________________________________________ The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. --- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930) Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right. --- Kurt Herbert Alder Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. --- Mark Twain ____________________________________________________ A man started to snore in his seat at the opera. "Please stop snoring," the usher pleaded. "You are disturbing the others." "Look, buddy," the man said angrily, "I paid for this seat and I'll do whatever I want." "Yes Sir," said the usher. "But you are keeping everybody awake." ____________________________________________________   ____________________________________________________ During a friendly argument, my husband asked me why I married him in the first place. "I was just stupid," I teased. When he said he was happy to hear that, I requested an explanation. "People get divorced all the time because they fall out of love," he said. "But I've never heard of anybody falling out of stupid." ____________________________________________________ Reported by Rock An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  John Hagins, 19, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA  Florida student arrested for plotting school shooting  A 19-year-old student has been arrested after police say he plotted to shoot up a Florida university. Daytona Beach Police said John Hagins, of North Miami, plotted to shoot fellow students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach on the final day before winter break. They say he didn't have a criminal record but was on academic probation and struggling in school. At a news conference, Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young opened a backpack Hagins was reportedly prepared to bring to campus on Thursday morning. Inside was a rifle, six full magazines of bullets, a scope, ear protection, and boxes with 200 more rounds of 9mm ammunition. Hagins has been charged with written threats to injure or kill, terrorism, and attempted first-degree homicide. His arrest came following a tip from other students, Young explained. "We could have had a tragedy unfold today," Chief Young said. "Instead, these students reported it to the school and that allowed us to get to work right away and bring Hagins into custody before he could carry out his plans. We thank them all for seeing something and saying something." Chief Young said officers arrested the teenager at an off- campus apartment, as he headed with the bag to a firing range. "He said once he was done at that firing range, he was going to campus to enact a 'Columbine.'" Chief Young said. "Columbine" is a reference to a 1999 school shooting in Colorado, where two students gunned-down 13 classmates and faculty at Columbine High School, then killed themselves. Chief Young said fellow Embry-Riddle students contacted campus police, warning them about frightening comments Hagins was making on social media. Security was reportedly dispatched to the scene at 4:10 a.m. Investigators quickly discovered the social media messages from Hagins. Police said that Hagins had written where he laid out his plans to bring a folding gun to the campus tucked inside a backpack along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition. "It appears Hagins sold his vehicle to purchase that gun and ammunition," he said. Hagins was taken into custody at his residence in the Andros Isles apartments. Detectives are said to still be trying to piece together the exact motive. Chief Young said Hagins confessed to posting the social media messages but now says it was all a joke. "But we don't find anything funny about discussing a mass shooting on a campus. If he was looking for attention, he's got it." Hagins is being held at the Volusia County Jail on a no-bond status.  ____________________________________________________ If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can! ______________________________________________________  From: Larry Re: Gmail Select All on Chrome only Dear Webby On a hunch, I pulled up my gmail on Chrome. I have always used Explorer. The box does show on Chrome and I was able to get rid of several thousand emails from trash and spam. Thank you for your help. Larry  From Dr Moe Dear Webby the Spam and Trash folders are a great start to cleanup process - i thinkthat my basicisp server removes the Trash stuff after 24 hours. old school?but when i get a gmail warning about the size of mail folders, i usually go tothe Inbox and sort on size - and end up deleting the old movies or picturesthat have already been downloaded to my pc.i do the same with the other email systems at basicisp and twc... et al. moe Have FUN! DearWebby 
 Thanks to the Folks from Erie for this one: A young preacher was once contacted by the local funeral director to fill in last-minute and hold a graveside committal service at a small local cemetery, for someone who had died with no family or friends. The preacher started early and set out on the rural route, but quickly ended up lost after making several wrong turns on poorly-mapped country roads. He finally arrived a half-hour late, and saw that the hearse was nowhere in sight, and the workmen were eating lunch in the field. The pastor walked to to the open grave and found the vault lid already closed and in place. Taking out his book, he proceeded to read the service to commit the soul to eternity. As he was returning to his car, one of the workmen turned to the other and said, "Do you think maybe we should tell him that was the septic tank...?" 
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 _____________________________________________  A woman goes to the police station to report that her husband is missing. "Can you give me a description of him?" the officer asks. "He's short, bald, skinny, has a wooden leg and wears dentures," the woman answers. Then she pauses. "Come to think of it, most of him was missing before he was." ______________________________________________ Former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo on his view of the cause of crime: "The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe." ______________________________________________ 
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 A minister, having served the same church for many years, decided to leave and take a similar position in another church. Without telling anyone he had made this decision or writing a letter to the congregation, he waited until Sunday morning to announce his resignation in church. When he spoke to the congregation he said, "The same Jesus that called me to this church many years ago has now called upon me to leave and serve another church." The choir all stood and sang, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." ___________________________________________________  
 Today, December 11, in 1282 Llywelyn (Llewelyn ap Gruffydd) was killed in Cilmeri, central Wales. 1719 The first recorded sighting of the aurora borealis took place in New England. 1769 Edward Beran of London patented venetian blinds. 1792 France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention, which had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of treason. He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the following January. 1844 Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic. 1872 Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became America's first black governor when he took office as acting governor of Louisiana. 1882 Boston's Bijou Theater had its first performance. It was the first American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity. 1894 The world's first motor show opened in Paris with nine exhibitors. 1928 In Buenos Aires, police thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover. 1930 The Bank of the United States in New York failed. 1936 Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson. He became the Duke of Windsor. 1937 The Fascist Council in Rome, withdrew Italy from the League of Nations. 1941 Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S in turn declared war on the two countries. 1961 The first direct American military support for South Vietnam occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon. 1967 The prototype of the Concorde was shown for the first time in Toulouse, France. 1973 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Czech Prime Minister Lubomir Strougal formally nullified the 1938 Munich pact when they signed a treaty sanctioning Hitler's seizure of Czechoslovakia's German speaking Sudetenland. 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed into law legislation creating a $1.6 billion environmental "superfund" that would be used to pay for cleaning up chemical spills and toxic waste dumps. 1981 Muhammad Ali fought his last fight. He lost his 61st fight to Trevor Berbick. 1985 General Electric Company agreed to buy RCA Corporation for $6.3 billion. Also included in the deal was NBC Radio and Television. 1986 The government of South Africa expanded its media restrictions by imposing prior censorship and banning coverage of a wide range of peaceful anti-apartheid protests. 1987 Charlie Chaplin's trademark cane and bowler hat were sold at Christie's for $82,500. 1988 62 people were killed in a Mexico City marketplace when tons of illegal fireworks exploded. 1990 Ivana Trump was divorced from Donald Trump after 12 years of marriage. 1991 Salman Rushdie, under an Islamic death sentence for blasphemy, made his first public appearance since 1989 in New York, at a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of speech in the U.S.). 1994 Thousands of Russian troops, armored columns and jets entered Chechnya. The move by Moscow was an effort to restore control of the breakaway republic. 1994 The world's largest free trade zone was created when leaders of 34 Western Hemisphere nations signed a free-trade declaration known as "The Miami Process." 1996 In Crystal City, VA, "The Art of the Toy" opened. The exhibit was at the Patent and Trademark Office Museum. 1997 Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams became the first political ally of the IRA to meet a British leader in 76 years. He conferred with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London. 1997 More than 270 Tutsi refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo were killed by Juto guerillas in Mudende, Rwanda. 1997 More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse gases." 1998 Scientists announced that they had deciphered the entire genetic blueprint of a tiny worm. 1998 The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values. 1998 Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton. 2000 Mario Lemeiux, owner of Pittsburgh Penquins, announced that he would end his three-plus year retirement and become an active National Hockey League (NHL) player again. When Lemieux returned officially he became the first owner/player in NHL history. 2001 U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft announced the first federal indictment directly related to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Zacarias Moussaoui was charged with six conspiracy charges. Moussaoui was in custody at the time of the attacks. 2001 Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in Nebraska for Bison ranches. 2001 It was announced that U.S. President George W. Bush would withdraw the U.S. from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia. 2001 Federal agents seized computers in 27 U.S. cities as part of "Operation Buccaneer." The raids were used to gain evidence against an international software piracy ring. 2009 The game Angry Birds was released. 2013 Standard & Poors announced that Facebook would join its S&P 500 index "after the close of trading on December 20." 2021 Do smiled. 

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