February 25 2024:  Things you would never know if you did not browse the
   
tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter in the supermarket –
    this week's headlines
:




Dumb news from Indiana
:

The legislature passed a bill to restore happy hours
to bars and restaurants.
                                      [courtesy Indianapolis Star]


orlivera.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Anthony Perry, WM, 5'8", 225 lbs, theft; Dwayne Jackson, BM, 6'2", 230 lbs,
intimidation; Terrance Singleton, BM, 5/6", 190 lbss, coke; Ricardo Olvera, HM, 5'6", 180 lbs, coke, meth; Jessse Ortiz,
HM, 5'3", 190 lbs, coke; Matthew Dean, WM, 5'8", 160 lbs, meth; David Ryan,Jr., WM, 5'11", 190 lbs, theft, meth;
Tacole Hart, 5'5", 200 lbs (Yorkshire hog), meth; Marquis Duncan, 5'6", 145 lbs, murder; Lorraine Jackson, BF, 5'3",
180 lbs, coke; Joseph Miltenberger, WM, 5'10", 240 lbs, theft, meth; Dawnette Reagan, WF, 5'6", 190 lbs (YH), meth;
Jackson Donaldson, BM, 5'7", 170 lbs, perjury; Dawanda Vaughns, BF, 5'4", 200 lbs (Yorkshire hog), theft
Dumb news from Kentucky:

kordvnn.jpg Lexington's most wanted Korde Vann, BM, 6', 175 lbs, theft; Justina Boggs, BF, 32, 5' 3", 140 lbs, theft by deception; Mark Banks, WM, 5'7", 170 lbs, burglary; Devin Lovett, BM, 33, 5'8", 160 lbs, burglary
Birthdays:
                    February 15:  Ron Cey, 76
                                          Susan Brownmiller, 89
                    February 16:  LeVar Burton, 67
                                          
Salvatore "Sonny" Bono (1935-1998)
                    February 17:  Paris Hilton, 43
                                          Tuesday Knight, 55
                                          Michael Jordan, 61
                                          Huey Newton (1942-1989)
                                          Jim Brown (1936-2023)
                                          Hal Holbrook (1925-2021)
                    February 18:  Molly Ringwald, 56
                                          Vanna White, 67
                                          John Travolta, 70
                                          Judy 
"Juice" Newton, 72
                                          Cybill Shepherd, 74
                                          Yoko Ono, 91
                    February 19:  Eric Yates, 57
                                          Hana Mandlikova, 6
2
                    February 20:  Patty Hearst, 70
                                          Mitch McConneell, 82
                                           Phil Esposito, 82
                                           Nancy Wilson (1937-2018)
                                           Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
                                          
John Daly (1914-1991)
                     February 21:  Mary Chapin Carpenter, 66
                                           Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)
                     February 22:  Julius Erving, 74
                                           Dick and Tom Van Arsdale, 81
                                           George Washington (1732-1799)
                     February 23:  Dakota Fanning, 30
                                           Naruhito, 64
                                           Victor Ysuchenk, 70
                                          
Ed "Too Tall" Jones, 73
                                          
Fred Biletnikoff, 81
                                           George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
                     February 24: 
Eddie Murray, 69
                                           President Lieberman, 82
                                           David "Fathead" Newman (1933-2009)
                                           Honus Wagner (1874-1955)
                                           Abe Vigoda (1921-2016)
Tabloid deadlines:
                                Don Gullett, 73

Crossword puzzle clue of the week:

                       "13A  Intersection of 'dogshit' and 'bullshit' in a punk's grid?"

        Answer:  CROSSINGSWORDS                                                 [l.A. Times 1/19/24]



Quotation of the week:
                                              "In the future the State of Israel has to control the entire area from
                                                the river to the sea."
                                                                                    – Benjamin Netanyahu


bradbyrd.jpg Wanted in Wiohita Falls (Texas, not Wichita, Kansas) (Texoma's most wanted): Bradley Byrd, WM, 23, 6', 275 lbs,
assault of pregnant person; Vanessa Denise Williams, BF(!), 59, 5'6", 194 lbs (Yorkshire hog); Samantha Grace Fowler, 19, 5'4",
120 lbs, false ID; Dawnise [sic] Antionette [sic] Carey, BF, 29, 5'5", 210 lbs (Y. hog), probation viol. (forg.); Jarvis Mitchell, BM,
31, 5'9", 130 lbs, ctrld. substs.; Kevin Dennis Donnelly Jr., WM, 23, 5'9", 150 lbs, pro. viol. (criminal mischief)
Borf 's weekly BONUS:     
In Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old self-published author of dystopian science fic-
tion who recently sued the United States over his student-loan debt used a ma-
chete to behead his father, who had been a federal employe for 20 years,  and
then posted a video of himself holding the head  in a clear plastic grocery bag
as he called for the execution of all government workers. . . . A
Missouri state
senator proposed a resolution  allowing legislators to challenge one another to
duels to “gain satisfaction”  if one’s "honor  is  impugned." . . .
A 38-year-old
Melaka mother was sentenced to 3 years in prison for dumping boiling  water
on her son as punishment for using her phone data to watch porn.  .  .  .  I
ndia
released a pigeon it had held for 8 months on suspicion of spying for China . . .
An ocean exploration company claimed to have discovered Amelia Earhart’s
1937 Lockheed Electra at the bottom of the Pacific. . . . "Taylor Drift" won a
snow plow contest in Minnesota. . . . The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that
fertilized embryos are children.
                                                           [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]


martinzi.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wich. Falls, Tex. (Sedgwick County Sheriff): (Escaped
before we could identify him); Jennifer Marie Taylor, American Indian, 47, 5', 150 lbs, blackmail; Steven
Keith Martinez, WM, 35, tattoos: "Enzo" above left eye; teardrop below right eye; probation violation (weapons)
Dear Eleanor:
                            I am from Europe and have lived in Los Angeles, California,
                            for more than 55 years.  Naturally,  I consider LA. my home.
                            A woman recently responded in a group setting to this by say-
                            ing, "
You don’t have an LA accent." Just as it is rude to com-
                            ment on someone’s weight, I'd think it's inappropriate to com-
                            ment on someone's accent.  Wha'?
                                                                                                                       Dan

Dear Dan:
                      Depends on how you talk.  What's your weight?



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February 14 2024:   Things you would never know if you did not browse
    the
tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter in the supermar-
    ket – this week's headlines
:




hed24013.jpg  Trumps living a lie at Mar-a-Lago! Melania's sexless marriage, no intimacy for six years, separate bedrooms, whyshe stays (Globe); Florida designates penis official state genital (Onion); Taylor, Travis at was over $1 billion pre-nup (Enquirer)

Patty Clark wrote Sunday 1/14/24 @13.22 CDT:
Here are some headlines you seem to have missed:

               

                

                    

                                                  
                    
mistab01.jpg, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13: Tonight: cloudy . . ., Tomorrow: partly . . .; The Northwest: Scientists; A Strong Winter Storm;  I like cooking my family; Man arrested for everything; How would you like to enter Miss Southhampton?; Sun Man kills himself and runs away; Suspicious cirsumstances; Congratulatiions to Tammy King; Tonight: Cloudy; Tomorrow: partly; Man's 74-mph sneeze blows wife's hair off; Road unsafe when under water; Abraham Lincoln was a woman!
Quotations of the week:
"If God had intended us to fly, he would not have given us railways."
                                                                                                                  – Michael Flanders
"Early spring."
                           – Punxsutawney Phil

Dumb news from Indiana:
An 18-year-old Kokomo woman,
Kateylyn  Catlett,   was  arrested
for  a  triple  stabbing  of  family
members in a trailer,  with a box
cutter.

               [courtesy Fox59 News]


South Bend's most wanted (Michiiana Crime Stoppers Inc.) Idris Tidwell, BM, 5'9", 180 lbs, domestic
battery; René Vela, HM, 5'9"; 175 lbs, parole violtn. (domestic bat.); Roxxie Williamson, WF, 5', 115
lbs, narcotics; John Murphy, WM, 5'11", 160 lbs, theft; Earl Green, BM, 5'10", 190 lbs, domestic battery
Dumb news from Kentucky:

        A state representative backed down on a bill that  would
        have  removed  first cousins  as victims of incest.

                                                            [courtesy U.S.A. Today]

Lexington's most wanted, Yorbis Noboa-Alcantara, HM, 23, 6'1", 185 lbs, theft of mail [Bluegrass Crime Stoppers]
Birthdays:
                     January 15   Maria Baeza ("Charo"), 73? (she says; actually 83 on March 13)
                                         
Margaret O'Brien, 87
                                         Martin Luther King Jr. (really, not Jan. 17; 1929-1968)
                                         Joan of Arc (1412-1431)

                    January 16:  Jim Stafford, 80
                                        A. J. Foyt, 89
                                        Norman Podhoretz, 94
                    
January 17:  Michelle Obama, 60
                                        Steve Earle, 69
                                        Ezekiel Montanez ("Chris Montez"), 81
                                        Betty White (1922-2021)
                    January 18:  Bobby Goldsboro, 83
                    January 19:  Pete Butttigieg, 42
                                        Dolly Parton, 78
                                        Janis Joplin (1943-1970)
                    January 20:  Bill Maher, 68
                                        Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., 9
4
                    January 21:  Emma Lee "Baby Spice" Bunton, 48
                                        Placido Domingo, 83
                                        Jack Nicklaus, 84
                    January 22:  Jim Jarmusch, 71
                                        Piper Laurie (1932-2023)
                  January 23:  Hakeem Olajuwon, 61
                                      Chita Rivera (1933-2024)
                  January 24:  Neil Diamond, 83

                                      Ray Stevens, 85
                                      Doug Kershaw, 88
                                      Sharon Tate (1943-1969)
                  January 25:  Alicia Keys, 43
                                         Jamesetta Hawkins ("Etta James," 1938-2002)
                    January 26:  Wayne Gretzky, 63
                                         Ellen DeGeneres, 66
                                         Angela Davis, 80
                                         Bob Uecker, 90
                                         Huey "Piano" Smith (1934-2023)
                    January 27:  
Margo Timmins, 63
                                        Bobby "Blue" Bland (1930-2013)
                  
January 28:  Sarah McLachlan, 56
                                         Alan Alda, 88
                                         Mr. Acker Bilk (1929-2014)
                    January 29:  Oprah Winfrey, 70
                                         Tom Selleck, 79
                                         Germaine Greer, 85
                     January 30:  Dick Cheney, 83
                                          Vanessa Redgrave, 87
                                          Gene Hackman, 94
                                          Mary Kay Letourneau (1962-2020)
                   
January 31:  Justin Timberlake, 43

                                        Nolan Ryan, 77
                                        Philip Glass, 87
                     February 1:  Ronda Rousey, 37
                                         Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson Cage Lockwood (1968-2023)
                                           Don Everly (1937-2021)
                                           Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007)
                      February 2:  Graham Nash, 82
                                           Fran Tarkenton, 84
                                           Tom Smothers (1937-2023)
                                           Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009)
                       February 3:  Retief Goosen, 55
                                            Morgan Fairchild, 74

                       February 4:  Lawrence Taylor, 65
                                            Vincent Furnier ("Alice Cooper"), 76
                                           
Dan Quayle, 77
                       February 5:  Roger Staubach, 82
                                           Hank Aaron (1934-2021)
                      February 6:  Axl Rose, 62
                                          
Fabian Forte, 81
                                           Tom Brokaw, 84
                                          
Joan Lucille Olander ("Mamie Van Doren"), 93
                                           Natalie Cole (1950-2015)
                                           Bob Marley (1945-1981)
                                           Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (1931-2019)
                                          
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1916-2016)
                    February 7:  Garth Brooks, 62

                                         Burt Hooton, 74
                                         Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

                       February 8:  Flo, 54
                                            Mary Steenburgen, 71
                                            Nick Nolte, 83
                                            Ted Koppel, 84
                                            "England Dan" Seals (1948-2009)
                                             James Dean (1931-1955)
                                             Jack Lemmon (1925-2001)
                                             Lana Turner (1921-1995)
                        February 9:  Joe Ely, 77
                                             Maria "Mia" Farrow, 79
                                             Carole King, 82
                                             Roger Mudd (1928-2021)
                                             Ernest Tubb (1914-1984)
                                             Bill Veeck (1914-1986)
                      February 10:  Roberta Flack, 87
                                             Robert Wagner, 94
                                             Leontyne Price, 97
                       February 11:  Sarah Palin, 60
                                             Sheryl Crow, 62
                                             John Ellis "JEB" Bush, 71
                                             Sergio Mendes, 83
                                             Gene Vincent (1935-1971)
                                             King Farouk (1920-1965)
                                             George Washington (1732-1799)
                      February 12:  Moe Bandy, 80
                                             Ehud Barak, 82
                                             Bill Russell (1934-2022)
                                             Charles Van Doren (1926-2019)
                                             Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
                                             Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
                      February 13:  Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak, 91
                                            
Jerry Springer (1944-2023)                                            
                                             Carol Lynley (1942-2019)
                                             Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
                     
February 14:  Carl Bernstein, 80
                                          Michael Bloomberg, 82
                                          Edzard I Cirksena, the Great (1462-1528)

Tabloid deadlines:
                                Norman Jewison, 97
                                Chita Rivera, 91
                                Peter Schickele ("P.  D. Q. Bach"), 88
                                Norm Snead, 84
                                Bob Edwards, 76
                                Melanie, 76
                                Dexter Scott King, 62
                                Toby Keith, 62

      
montanoy.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas) (by the Sedgwick County Sheriff): Justin Eugene Winter, WM, 38, 6'2", 205 lbs, burglary; Barbara Jean Cole, BF,
36, 5'8", 170 lbs, child abuse; Yila Lee Montano, WF, 31, 5'7", 150 lbs, child abuse; Patrick Fitagerald Garner, BM, 53, 6', 190 lbs, probation violation (ag. domestic assauld)
Crossword puzzle clue of the week:

                        "13A  Geographic feature that defines the Indiana-Kentucky border"

        Answer:  OHIORIVER                                                     [New Yorker 12/27/23]

Acronym of the week:  APOBA – Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America


Borf 's weekly BONUS:     
The Escambia County,  Florida, schools took down 1,600 titles, inclu-
ding dictionaries and encyclopedias,  to ensure compliance with a law
prohibiting availability of sexual content to students. . . .  Lindsey Lo-
han
got  half  a  million  dollars for a half-day cameo appearance in a
new episode of "Mean Girls." . . . Rhesus macaque monkeys at Silver
Springs State Park in Florida tested positive for herpes.  .  .  .  Arnold
Schwarzenegger
was arrested in Munich for tax evasion. . . . Per cent
of Americans who said after the attack  that we cooperate with Israel:
65. . . . Who said we protect Palestinians:  15. . . . Per cent of U..S. vo-
ters who think Joe Biden is too old: 68. . . .Who think Donald Trump
is:  34. . . .  Portion of Americans who think they are smarter than the
average person: 2/3. . . .    Per cent of American households that have
more dogs than children: 12.5.
                                                            courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

Dear Eleanor:
                            I' m pregnant, and my husband is forcing me
                            to let his parents into the delivery room;  but
                            I don't want to.  What should I do?
                        
                                                                       Julie
Dear Coolie:
                          Demand that he stand naked and shit in front
                          of your parents.

DISCUSSION GROUP:

    Don't  forget!  Readers interested in intellectual
dissection of important current events are invited
to attend the WeeklyWorld News Round Table at
the offices of  Borf  Books  outside  Brownsville,
Kentucky,   just  
after   services   at  the  Boiling
Springs  General  Baptist  Church 
every Sunday.
Guest speakers  lined up for meetings in the near
future include Kamala Harris.



melanier.jpg Locked up in San Angelo, Melanie Rodrigutz, 45, marijuana; Mary Gerdes, 52, marijuana; Cheyenne Ponce, 23, c.s., tresp.;
Alexandria San Augustin, 23, NOL; Yolanda Sanchez, 54, deadly assault; Mary Velez, 54, marijuana; Michael Panguso, 62, c.s.
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      But  remember  also,  you  have  to  spell and punctuate the message
exactly as it appears above €“ without quotation marks,  and  without  that
redundant  "Re: "  that  appears in so many subject lines  or  you'll  keep
getting  this  shit!  ("Cut and paste"  won't  work,  either.  We have a spe-
cial filter to detect that.)


stevbern.jpg Life Saver Dude: Looks sorta like Steve Yates & Bernie Sanders tuh me! Why are they tuhgether?


"Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment" – Karen Crockett


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