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___________________________________________________ History: on this day, February 12, in 1973, The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs. 1973 - The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award: Officer shot during off-duty car buy attempt succumbs to his injuries __________________________________________________ Q Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. --- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946) It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. --- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. --- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) ________________________________________________ On my first day of school my parents told me to go to the nursery. There I was...surrounded by trees and bushes, having a great time. It's too bad they got more specific about which nursery when there was no semester report card. __________________________________________________ According to George, home is where you can say anything you like 'cause nobody listens to you anyway. __________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Millie: What do you do at your Bible Studies meeting ? Susan: We try to figure out how much can we can get away with and still go to heaven. __________________________________________________ Woman cleaning fish at sink to angler husband: "Why can't you be like the rest of the men? They never catch anything." ____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ After the last child moves out of the house, Mom and Dad announce that they're getting a divorce. The kids are totally distraught and pay for a session with the world's most famous marriage counselor as a last effort at keeping their parents together. The counselor works for hours, tries all of his methods, but the couple still won't even talk to each other. Finally he goes over to a closet, brings out a beautiful violin and begins to play. After a minute, the couple start talking. The therapist keeps soloing on the violin and the couple discover that they're not actually that far apart and decide to give their marriage another try. The kids are amazed and ask the doctor how he managed to do it. He replies, "Well, I've never yet seen a couple that wouldn't talk through a violin solo." ___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Reported by Rock An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Randy Popper Jones, 38, New York City, New York, USA Officer shot during off-duty car buy attempt succumbs to his injuries A New York City police officer, who was shot in the head by a vicious thug when an off-duty attempt to purchase a car went terribly wrong, has died, the day after his killer was arrested using the now-deceased cops handcuffs. New York Citys finest along with other first responders turned out at Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn to pay tribute to their fallen brother, 26-year-old Officer Adeed Fayaz, a five-year veteran of the force who was lured into a dark alleyway and shot in the head by a career criminal during an attempted robbery after he and his brother-in-law arranged the purchase of the vehicle on Facebook Marketplace over the weekend. When they went to buy the Honda Pilot, the two were reportedly led into the alley by Randy Popper Jones, a 38-year-old miscreant with an extensive rap sheet dating back decades who almost immediately opened fire on them in an attempt to steal the $24,000 in cash that the pair had brought with them for what they had every reason to believe would be a routine business transaction, Daily Mail reported. Fayaz was struck in the temple by a bullet that exited through the back of his skull as his brother-in-law reportedly pulled the gun from his holster and returned fire at Jones who fled the scene in a black BMW SUV that was registered to his mother. Following the Saturday night incident, the gravely injured Fayaz was transported to the hospital where he would later perish from his wounds. Cops tracked Jones down, making the arrest on Monday after he was located at a hotel in Rockland County where he was holed up with his girlfriend and her two children, being perp-walked while wearing Officer Fayazs handcuffs. Included among Jones impressive criminal track record are 22 arrests for a variety of crimes, some violent, he has been booked for harassment, grand larceny, and strangulation according to media reports, and was wanted on a 2019 traffic and vehicle-related warrant when he was taken into custody. ____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ DearWebby's Tech Support Pits from: Edith re: Reminder service Dear Webby Once upon a time, long, long ago, you mentioned a free reminder service. At that time I still had a memory, and did not need it. NOW I need it. Where do I get it? Edith Dear Edith It is called: Mymemorizer and is at MyMemorizer The data is "on the cloud", not your computer. You can get to it from anybody's machine, even a hotel lobby computer. As long as you remember your email address and your password, you have full access. Have FUN! DearWebby _____________________________________________________ Bo was telling the little ones of how it was when he was a young boy in Brooklyn, in Manhattan's immigrant ghetto. "When I was a kid," he said, "we didn't even have a radio. So our dad bored a hole through the wall into the living room of the Irish couple in the next apartment, to hear all the great boxing fights. That's when we discovered that they didn't have a radio either, and the fights we heard through the wall were live." ____________________________________________________ Today, February 12 in 1541, The city of Santiago, Chile was founded. 1554, Lady Jane Grey was beheaded after being charged with treason. She had claimed the throne of England for only nine days. 1733, Savannah, GA, was founded by English colonist James Oglethorpe. 1870, In the Utah Territory, women gained the right to vote. 1878, Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catchers mask. 1879, The first artificial ice rink opened in North America. It was at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY. 1892, In the U.S., President Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a national holiday. 1907, A collision of the steamer Larchmont and a schooner resulted in the death of more than 300 people. The incident occurred off New England's Block Island. 1909, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded. 1912, China's boy emperor Hsuan T'ung announced that he was abdicating, ending the Manchu Ch'ing dynasty. Subsequently, the Republic of China was established. 1915, The cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, DC. 1918, All theatres in New York City were shut down in an effort to conserve coal. 1924, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential political speech on radio. 1924, "The Eveready Hour" became radios first sponsored network program. The National Carbon Company was the first sponsor of a network show. 1934, The Export-Import Bank was incorporated. 1940, Mutual Radio presented the first broadcast of the radio play "The Adventures of Superman." 1968, "Soul on Ice" by Eldridge Cleaver was published for the first time. 1971, James Cash (J.C.) Penney died at the age of 95. The company closed for business for one-half day as a memorial to the company's founder. 1973, The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs. 1973, American prisoners of war were released for the first time during the Vietnam conflict. 1993, In Liverpool, England, a 2-year-old boy, James Bulger, was lured away from his mother at a shopping mall and beaten to death. Two ten-year-old boys were responsible. 1998, A U.S. federal judge declared that the presidential line-item veto was unconstitutional. 1999, U.S. President Clinton was acquitted by the U.S. Senate on two impeachment articles. The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice. 2001, The space probe NEAR landed on the asteroid Eros. It was the first time that any craft had landed on a small space rock. 2002, Kenneth Lay, former Enron CEO, exercised his constitutional rights and refused to testify to the U.S. Congress about the collapse of Enron. 2002, The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic began at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. Milosevic was accused of war crimes during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. 2002, Pakistan charged three men in connection with the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi. 2002, Princess Stephanie of Monaco and Franco Knie won a defamation-of-character lawsuit against the Swiss magazine "Facts." The case involved a photomontage created by the magazine. 2003, The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties. The complaint was sent to the Security Council. 2004, Mattel announced that "Barbie" and "Ken" were breaking up. The dolls had met on the set of their first television commercial together in 1961. 2013, North Korea conducted its third underground nuclear test. 2022 Do smiled.
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