Good Morning, Do! Today is Sunday, December 29 Thank you, Frank!!! ____________________________________________________ Today, December 29 in  1945 Sheb Wooley recorded the first commercial record made in Nashville, TN.  ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award:  Oklahoma man arrested for kidnapping, human trafficking in Kansas  __________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. --- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964) I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. --- George Bush (1924 - ) God invented mothers because He couldn't be everywhere at once. God invented guilt so that mothers could be everywhere at once. _______________________________________________ Two cowboys were waiting in their fort for the Indians to attack. They listened to the distant pounding war drums. One cowboy muttered to the other, "I don't like the sound of them drums." Just then, a distant voice came over the hill, "He's not our usual drummer!" ________________________________________________`   Claudio Piccoli ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Gary Ballard, 29, Tulsa, Okalahoma  Oklahoma man arrested for kidnapping, human trafficking in Kansas  Authorities in southeast Kansas have arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly kidnapping an Oklahoma woman and forcing her to dance for money. The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office says investigators were made aware that a 23-year-old woman from Coweta, Oklahoma, who was reported missing on December 6 may be in the area. Detectives found the woman at an area gentlemen's club. She had reportedly been driven there by Gary Ballard, of Tulsa. Ballard is accused of beating the woman, forcing her to dance for money, "which he took," and preventing her from leaving or contacting her family. The man who is suspected of repeatedly and violently hurting this woman before transporting her across state lines for the purposes of making him money, has a violent past including a conviction of Shooting with Intent to Kill in Oklahoma, according to Cherokee County Sheriff David Groves. Ballard was booked into the Cherokee County Jail for aggravated human trafficking and aggravated kidnapping. I'm thankful our investigators were able to remove the woman from this situation, get her back to her family, and apprehend the suspect without incident, Sheriff Groves said. This case illustrates the importance for people to know there are resources available to help get them out of dangerous, violent or abusive relationships and situations. The National Human Trafficking Hotline is 1-888-373-7888 and the National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233. 
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 That reminds me... An anthropologist was assigned to Borneo, where he found a guide with a canoe to take him up the river to the remote site he where he would make his collections. At noon on the second day of travel up the river they began to hear drums. "What are those drums?" asked the anthropologist, knowing he was in cannibal country. The guide turned to him and said "No worry. Drums OK, but very bad when they stop." They both went ghostly pale when the drums suddenly stopped. The guide crouched in the belly of the canoe and covered his ears. "Do as I do! Very important!" hissed the guide with great urgency. "Why? What does this mean?" asked the panicked anthropologist. In a terrified whisper the native replied: "Drums stop! Next come violin solo!" 
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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." ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com Use Online Services To Avoid Using Phone Minutes To save cell phone minutes, do as much online as you can. You can pay bills, contact companies, and email. By Bethany from SC  Thriftyfun.com also has a newsletter. If you want more than just one tip per day, or if you want to share your tips, then you can subscribe to it here: ThriftyFun  ____________________________________________________  
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ Q: How can I avoid always being handed other peoples' drooling brats? A: Drop one or two. --------- I keep my hands in my pockets and turn away. They get the hint. ___________________________________________________ A reporter from New York was visiting an old colleague who now edited a newspaper in a tiny Vermont town. "I don't see how you do it," the NY reporter said. "How can you drum up interest in the news when everybody in town knows what everybody else is doing and with whom?" "Sure they know," the editor said, "but they read the paper to see who got caught at it." ___________________________________________________ "Guess what I heard today?" a man says to his wife. "What, hon?" she asks. "I heard the mailman has seduced every woman on our block but one!" "Huh," his wife says, "I bet it's that stuck-up Phyllis next-door." __________________________________________________ 
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 Today December 29 in 1170 St. Thomas Becket, the 40th archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered in his own cathedral by four knights acting on Henry II's orders. 1812 The USS Constitution won a battle with the British ship HMS Java about 30 miles off the coast of Brazil. Before Commodore William Bainbridge ordered the sinking of the Java he had her wheel removed to replace the one the Constitution had lost during the battle. 1813 The British burned Buffalo, NY, during the War of 1812. 1837 Canadian militiamen destroyed the Caroline, a U.S. steamboat docked at Buffalo, NY. 1845 U.S. President James Polk signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States. 1848 U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House. 1851 The first American Young Men's Christian Association was organized, in Boston, MA. 1860 The HMS Warrior, Britain's first seagoing iron-hulled warship, was launched. 1888 The first performance of Macbeth took place at the Lyceum Theatre. 1890 The U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred over 400 men, women and children at Wounded Knee Creek, SD. This was the last major conflict between Indians and U.S. troops. 1895 The Jameson Raid from Mafikeng into Transvaal, which attempted to overthrow Kruger's Boer government, started. 1911 Sun Yat-sen became the first president of a republican China. 1913 "The Unwelcome Throne" was released by Selig's Polyscope Company. This was a moving picture and the first serial motion picture. 1934 Japan renounced the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. 1940 During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London. 1945 The mystery voice of Mr. Hush was heard for the first time on the radio show, "Truth or Consequences", hosted by Ralph Edwards. 1945 Sheb Wooley recorded the first commercial record made in Nashville, TN. 1949 KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut became the first ultrahigh frequency (UHF) television station to begin operating on a regular daily schedule. 1952 The first transistorized hearing aid was offered for sale by Sonotone Corporation. 1975 A bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport. 11 people were killed. 1989 Following Hong Kong's decision to forcibly repatriate some Vietnamese refugees, thousands of Vietnamese 'boat people' battled with riot police. 1989 Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia by the country's Federal Assembly. He was the first non-Communist to hold the position in more than four decades. 1996 The Guatemalan government and leaders of the leftist Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union signed a peace accord in Guatemala City, ending a civil war that had lasted 36 years. 1997 Hong Kong began killing 1.25 million chickens, the entire population, for fear of the spread of 'bird flu.' 1998 Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed 1 million lives. 2019 Do smiled. 

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