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Todays Bonehead Award:
English secondary school makes boys wear skirts 
to make transgender students feel more at home.
Bonehead
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Today, June 24 in
1675 King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists 
at Swansee, Plymouth colony. 

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I always judge of them by their actions.
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Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the opposing
lawyers.
"So," he said, "I have been presented, by both of you, with a
bribe."

Both lawyers squirmed uncomfortably. "You, attorney Morris, gave me
$15,000. And you, attorney Campos, gave me $10,000. In all
honesty I cannot fairly accept two bribes."

The judge reached into his pocket and pulled out a check. He handed
it to Morris saying, "Now then, I'm returning $5,000, and we're
going to decide this case solely on its merits!"

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Two confirmed bachelors are talking and their conversation
drifts from politics to cooking.
"I got a cookbook last Christmas," says the first, "but I
could never do anything with it."

"Too much fancy cooking in it, eh?" asks the second.

"You said it. Every one of the recipes began the same way,
'Take a clean dish and ...'"

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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD 
has been earned by

Secondary school
Oxfordshire, England

English secondary school makes boys wear skirts 
to make transgender students feel more at home.

A private secondary school in Oxfordshire, England is banning its
male students from wearing shorts during the summer months, and is
instead requesting that they wear a more "gender neutral" ensemble
that includes that staple of men's athletic wear: The skirt.

According to the Daily Mail, Chiltern Edge Secondary School's rule
change comes after an unfavorable ruling by a government agency
tasked with overseeing educational standards.

School leaders said the skirts were a "more formal" alternative to
shorts, regardless of how uncomfortable they might make male
students at the school.

Unsurprisingly, parents are complaining about the bizarre school
dress code, which is part of a larger trend of schools adopting
"gender neutral" uniforms to make transgender students feel more at
home,
and alienate the straight ones.



Tech Support Pits
From: SueEllea
Re: Coping with hotels

Dear Webby
In my new positon, I have to do a fair bit of traveling, and
so far I don't like the computer part of it one bit. My 
daughter told me that you travel a lot and have written
about that before. Well, you haven't, since I signed up.
Hopefully the other subscribers won't be bored if you write
an update on your travel tips.
Thanks
SueElla

Dear SueElla
The biggest nuisance with traveling is that most hotels use
high tables and low chairs. Nobody knows why, but even 
hotels that claim to be business oriented and have office 
type swivel chairs, use ridiculously high tables. Most 
hotel tables come from China and just like un-hemmed 
bargain pants, the legs are way too long and need to be trimmed
for the actually needed length. Unfortunately, that is
too challenging for hotel staff.

I cope with that problem by carrying a 5/16" thick piece of
plexiglass trimmed to precisely fit into the lid of my big 
wheeled carryon. Well, nowadays I can't take it on board 
a plane any more and I have to check it through, but that
piece of plexiglass has travelled with me for about 20 years.

When I get to a hotel, I jam it into a partly opened dresser
or night table drawer, and set my laptop on that. Then the 
separate keyboard, that I also take along, is at the perfect
height for maximum typing speed while sitting in a low hotel
chair.

Yes, I take a regular keyboard along, with proper numeric 
keypad. I also take along a 5 button mouse. I am used to using the
side buttons for copying and pasting.

I also take along the following:
Wireless DSL modem card
15 foot network cable
20 foot telephone cable
Female-Female telephone cable connector
Telephone line one-to-two splitter
20 foot light weight extension cord (Lamp Cord)
Two 5 watt LED lightbulbs
Print-out of Earthlink access numbers for the areas
that I travel to.

Naturally, I try to go to hotels that have wireless high-
speed connections, but sometimes the room is too far 
away from the transmitter or the max number of people
are already logged on by the time I get set up. Then old
fashioned dial-up is better than nothing. 

I have to say that Earthlink has never let me down, even
overseas, however, since their support was moved to Asia, 
it has deteriorated. Instead of joking with a valley girl, you are
now arguing with somebody, who does not speak Engrish very well.
That is why you need that print-out of all the local access
numbers.

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his beat, he meets an old friend who asks him how he
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and the hours aren't bad. But what I like best is that the
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A scout for one of the leading colleges went to the office of
the athletic director and announced, "Have I got an athlete
for you! This guy can play every sport and excels at every
position. He is absolutely the finest athlete I have ever
seen play."

The athletic director was very impressed but had to ask the
question, "But how is he scholastically?"

The scout replied, "He makes straight "A"s in every subject.
However, I must tell you his "B"s are a little crooked."
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Hanging Tools
If you enough wall space, hang shovels and other garden
tools upside down on your walls. For smaller tools, you can
get a peg board that you can mount on your wall and fit
with a variety of pegs and hooks and store tools that you
need to have handy.

You can also get mop closet organizers that grip the handles
properly with soft cushion grips. That way wet tools don't
drool down the handle and leave a blister causing crust,
and it helps to keep the lower end of the handle from drying
out and getting sloppy. A tight fitting tool tires you out a
lot less.

A mop handle rack with six spring loaded cusion grips is
usually around $4.95 and holds anything except heavy sledge
hammers.
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Tiny, perfect staircases made by a secret society of French woodworkers.

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As an instructor in driver education at the local
area High School, I've learned that even the
brightest students can become flustered behind
the wheel.

One day I had three beginners in the car, each
scheduled to drive for 30 minutes.

When the first student had completed his time, I
asked him to change places with one of the others.

Gripping the wheel tightly and staring straight
ahead, he asked in a shaky voice, "Should I
stop the car first?"
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Thanks to Linda for this story:
My wife and I are teachers, and our jobs often spill over
into our family life. One morning, as our eight-year-old
Maggie was getting ready for school, I peeked into her
room just to be sure she had tidied it up.
"You call THAT a made bed?" I asked.

"No, Dad," Maggie replied. "It's just a rough draft."
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Today, June 24 in
1314 Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of
England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland. 

1340 The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the
Flemish coast. 

1497 Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of
England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland. 

1509 Henry VIII was crowned King of England. 

1664 New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded. 

1675 King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at
Swansee, Plymouth colony. 

1717 The Freemasons were founded in London. 

1793 The first republican constitution in France was adopted. 

1812 Napoleon crossed the Nieman River and invaded Russia. 

1844 Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized
rubber. 

1859 At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the
Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon III defeated the
Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy. 

1861 Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias
Point, Virginia. 

1862 U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu
forts in China. 

1869 Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen
in San Francisco, CA. 

1910 The Japanese army invaded Korea. 

1913 Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria
following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace. 

1931 The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of
neutrality. 

1940 France signed an armistice with Italy. 

1940 TV cameras were used for the first time in a political
convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA. 

1941 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support
to the Soviet Union. 

1947 Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt.
Rainier, Washington. 

1948 The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade. 

1955 Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering
Strait. 

1964 The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965,
cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on
their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking. 

1968 "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the
Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by
authorities. 

1970 The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution. 

1982 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no president could be
sued for damages connected with actions taken while serving as
President of the United States. 

1985 Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen. 

1986 The Empire State Building was designated a National Historic
Landmark. 

1997 The U.S. Air Force released a report titled "The Roswell
Report, Case Closed" that dismissed the claims that an alien
spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947. 

1998 AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-
Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion. 

1998 Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest. 

2002 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must
make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty. 

2002 A painting from Monet's Waterlilies series sold for $20.2
million. 

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