November 25 2018: Things you would never know if you did not browse the
    tabloids  while  waiting  for your wife at the counter  in  the  supermarket –
    the week's headlines
:

Runway beauties, fashion show proves any woman can be a model (courtesy NationalExaminer): Stunner Mourning Moon shows off her tats, It's a costume-themed bash, Alyse & Lexi dreamed of modeling as kids, DreamWalk's Alyse & Lexi now, roller derby is Shereen's game, actress Asha is also a visual storyteller, Sofia advocates for the disabled
Runway beauties, fashion show proves any woman can be a model (courtesy NationalExaminer): Stunner Mourning Moon shows off her tats, It's a costume-themed bash, Alyse & Lexi dreamed of modeling as kids, DreamWalk's Alyse & Lexi now, roller derby is Shereen's game, actress Asha is also a visual storyteller, Sofia advocates for the disabled
hedemma.jpg Natalie Wood's body exhumed (Globe); Adam & Eve were alien agents (Sun); Marilyn Monroe killed Clark Gable (Examiner); Meghan meets Diana's secret daughter (Globe); Emma Stone caught in organ grinder corset (Enquirer)
hedemma.jpg Natalie Wood's body exhumed (Globe); Adam & Eve were alien agents (Sun); Marilyn Monroe killed Clark Gable (Examiner); Meghan meets Diana's secret daughter (Globe); Emma Stone caught in organ grinder corset (Enquirer)

Unisex name of the week:   Jan.
mrozinsk.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Scott Mrozinski, WM, 5'9", 135 lbs, theft; Casi Fye, WF, 5'5", 135 lbs, counterfeiting; Arthur Sudduth, UM, 6'0", 215 lbs, robbery; Shiesha Peterson, BF, 5'3", 180 lbs,, failure to register as a sex offender; Tevon Leonard, BM, 5'8", 140 lbs, battery by strangulation (Michiana Crime Stoppers)
mrozinsk.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Scott Mrozinski, WM, 5'9", 135 lbs, theft; Casi Fye, WF, 5'5", 135 lbs, counterfeiting; Arthur Sudduth, UM, 6'0", 215 lbs, robbery; Shiesha Peterson, BF, 5'3", 180 lbs,, failure to register as a sex offender; Tevon Leonard, BM, 5'8", 140 lbs, battery by strangulation (Michiana Crime Stoppers)
Dumb news from Kentucky:
The annual Turkey Day recipes by kids was published in
the Edmonson News, and there were entries from Alaina
Deweese, Alayna Roof, Aleigha Roof, Annslee (surname
not given), Beralis Chacon, Jace Mills, Jase McPeak, Joy-
anna Logsdon, Kaeonna Hodge, Katalenana Vincent, Ken-
lei Newton,  Killian Johnson,  Lilyin Saling,  and  Paisley
Tomes.  Here are a few of the 159 recipes:
Annslee wrote:  Get a turkey in the woods.  Take
the feathers off  and put salt on it.   Put  it  in  the
stove for a long time – at least 8 minutes.

Brandon wrote:   Get a turkey in the woods.  Bring
it home and put ketchup on it. Put it in the over for
10 hours.

Paisley Tomes wrote:  You get the turkey from the
woods and shoot it. . . .

Sadie Bolton wrote:   You  kill  and  cut  off  the
feathers. . . .

Gavin Creek  wrote:  I probably go kill it down by
the creek with a gun. Ya gotta skin it and cook 'em
up for 40 minutes.

Liam White wrote:  You go hunt for it and shoot
it.   My Poppy is a bow man;   so I'm a bow man.
You bring it home;  then you cook it.   You put it
in  the  oven  for  just  a  little  while.  I could use
ranch to dip it in.

Waylon Merryman  wrote:  Get a turkey from the
Dollar  Store  (but my mom already has a turkey).
Then you cook it in the oven for 20 minutes. You
know it is done when the timer goes off.

Zack  Trayer  wrote:  Get  a  turkey  from  a  farm.
Stuff it with a burger, French fries, bananas, chick-
en and cheese.   Rub ice cream on top of it.   Cook
it in the oven at 53 degrees for 17 months.  Serves
5 kids.
If  you  want  'em  all,  you might be able to get a copy of the
November  21  issue  for 50 cents plus postage by writing or
calling the News (a/k/a the "Gimlet"), P.O. Box 69, Browns-
ville KY 42210, 270-597-3115, ednews@windstream.net.

The Edmonson County Fairgrounds advertised "Christmas
Parade November 24."

A hunter took a "two-headed" deer in Ballard County (the
second head was not  the  deer's  own,  but that of another
that had tangled and locked antlers with the deer shot). . . .

The Bluegrass Greyhound Adoption association  was form-
ed in Lexington to give homes to 5,000 dogs that need new
homes since greyhound racing was prohibited in Florida.

                                                                   [courtesy LEX18]
janetcat.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Janet Cates, WF, 18, assault by bodily waste; Lisa Roland, WF, 46, Flinging bodily waste at Janet Cates; Steven Kanatzer, WM, 21, 165 lbs, consuming bodily waste; Alexis Reed, BF, 22, 5'3", 190 lbs, Yorkshire hog; Sasha Woolfolk, BF, 32, 5'5", 180 lbs, an'er'n' (dragged kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leadere)
janetcat.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Janet Cates, WF, 18, assault by bodily waste; Lisa Roland, WF, 46, Flinging bodily waste at Janet Cates; Steven Kanatzer, WM, 21, 165 lbs, consuming bodily waste; Alexis Reed, BF, 22, 5'3", 190 lbs, Yorkshire hog; Sasha Woolfolk, BF, 32, 5'5", 180 lbs, an'er'n' (dragged kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leader)

jessaman.jpg Perps 'n' porkers in Paducah: Amanda N. Powell, 28; Jessie A. Logan, 33; Pamela N. Bettencourt, 34
jessaman.jpg Perps 'n' porkers in Paducah: Amanda N. Powell, 28; Jessie A. Logan, 33; Pamela N. Bettencourt, 34
Quotations of the week:
                                            "If your car could go the speed of light, would your headlights work?"

                                                                                                                                – Boswell Rabbitsmith
Quotations repeated every week:
                                                          "That's exactly right. . . .
That is exactly right."
                                                                                                                                         Agriculture Secre-
                                                                                                                                            tary Sonny Perdue

Thanksgiving Day quotation:
                                                    "I just eat whatever I want and hope everything comes out
                                                                          all right."
                                                                                                
– Willie Mays
Quotations of the Wheat (Simon says):
"In that same trial, I noticed that four women on the jury
 could not take their eyes off me!"
– Leonard Simon
Birthdays:
                    November 19:  Ted Turner, 80
                                             Larry King, 85
                    November 20:  Judy Woodruff, 72
                                             Veronica Hamel, 75
                                             Joe Biden, 76
                    November 21: 
Björk Guðmundsdóttir, 53
                                             Marlo Thomas, 81
                    November 22:  Scarlett Johansson, 34
                                             Jamie Lee Curtis, 60
                                             Billie Jean King, 75
                    November 23:  Robin Roberts, 58 (this one, not that one)
                                             Bruce Vilanch, 70
                                             Alfonso the Wise (1221-1284)

                                             Otto the Great (912-973)
                    November 24:  Pete Best, 77
                                            Oscar Robertson, 80
                                            Ted Bundy (1946-1989)
                                            Charles Starkweather (1938-1959)
                    November 25:  Kathryn Grant Crosby, 85
Deaths:
                Eleanor Roosevelt, 134
                Jesse L. "Jess" Brinley, 91
                Rosalie "Rosie" Eskind, 94
                Floydus Lee Guin Jr., 66
                Michael C. "Mike" Langston, 46
                LaTonya LaMae Tyson Ogburn, 54
                Eupha Lee Philpot, 100
                                                                               [Louisville Courier-Journal]
ploplist.jpg Wanted in Wichita Falls (Texas, not Wichita, Kansas): Tyler Ploplis,, HM, 27, 5'8", 170 lbs, bond rev. (contr. subst.); Sabrina Marie Berreles, HF, 28, 5'3", 142 lbs, unauth. use of  m.v.; June Marie Denton, WF, 38, 5'6", 155 lbs, probation viol.; Michael Cargal, WM, 62, 6'0", 260 lbs, controlled substance manufacture, crashing neighbor children's slumber party (Texoma's most wanted fugitives of the week, Wichita Falls Crime Stoppers)
ploplist.jpg Wanted in Wichita Falls (Texas, not Wichita, Kansas): Tyler Ploplis,, HM, 27, 5'8", 170 lbs, bond rev. (contr. subst.); Sabrina Marie Berreles, HF, 28, 5'3", 142 lbs, unauth. use of  m.v.; June Marie Denton, WF, 38, 5'6", 155 lbs, probation viol.; Michael Cargal, WM, 62, 6'0", 260 lbs, controlled substance manufacture, crashing neighbor children's slumber party (Texoma's most wanted fugitives of the week, Wichita Falls Crime Stoppers)
Borf 's weekly BONUS:
A New Jersey woman was arrested after 44 dead dogs were found stuffed
in plastic bags and stored in freezers at her home,  and  another  130 dogs
were found inside and outside. .  .  . Joe Biden adopted a shelter dog.  . . .
Both the paternal and maternal grandmothers were charged in Pike Coun-
ty, Ohio, in connection with the murders of eight persons,  including chil-
dren, in a family. . . . A dead whale washed ashore in Indonesia with
115
plastic cups,  4 plastic bottles,  25 plastic bags,  2 flip-flops,  a nylon sack
and more than 1,000 other assorted pieces of plastic in its stomach. . . . A
man in Sudan sold his daughter as a bride on
Clutterbook Facebook for 3
cars, 500 cows and $10,000. . . .  A 3-year-old girl climbing a jungle gym
in Placentia, California, was attacked by a coyote. . . . A woman in Grand
Junction, Colorado, skimmed $1,400 from her daughter's Girl Scout cook-
ie sales.
                                                                                   [courtesy LEX18, AP]
Harper's index:
Percentage of white U.S. Congress persons that Amazon's facial recogni-
tion software incorrectly matched with mug shots:  4.  Of non-white mem-
bers of Congress:  10. . . . Percentage of UK teen-agers who say they woul-
dn't care if social media had never been invented:  62.

billyray.jpg Wanted in Waco: Billy Ray Thurman, WM, 58 , 6'1", 203 lbs, probation viol.(assault) (City of Waco); Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Taysia Elizabeth Moren-Rhoades, WF, 20, 5'3", 131 lbs, traffic in dope in a jail; Eugene Howard Chauncey, BM, a/k/a Michael L. Bifelow, 53, 6'0", 170 lbs, burglary, drug par. (Sedgwick County (Kans.) Sheriff)
billyray.jpg Wanted in Waco: Billy Ray Thurman, WM, 58 , 6'1", 203 lbs, probation viol.(assault) (City of Waco); Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Taysia Elizabeth Moren-Rhoades, WF, 20, 5'3", 131 lbs, traffic in dope in a jail; Eugene Howard Chauncey, BM, a/k/a Michael L. Bifelow, 53, 6'0", 170 lbs, burglary, drug par. (Sedgwick County (Kans.) Sheriff)

Dear Eleanor:
                            My brother and I were roommates with a dog (his)  and
                            a cat (mine) when he died unexpectedly eight months a-
                            go.  The care of his dog has fallen to me.  I like the dog,
                            an 11-year-old terrier named Willis;  but  I'm  not  a dog
                            person.   I  asked  around  to see if any friends or family
                            would take Willis.  One squirrely bunch said things like
                            "Oh, won't you miss him?"  and "You can’t separate the
                            dog and the cat."  (Pat,  the cat,  might miss him a little,
                            but not much.)

                            But I don’t like the walking in the cold,   and  the  poop,
                            and the whining.    My brother took care of all this,  and
                            the dog followed him around, not me. It makes me miss
                            him more. Now Willis has started making messes on the
                            floor, and the vet thinks it's a medical issue that may get
                            worse.  I'm waking up at night to take him out  and  ask-
                            ing a neighbor to do it  when I can’t get back from work
                            on my lunch break. I know what my brother would have
                            done.  When his last dog was incontinent for the last six
                            months of his life,  he kept the dog in diapers.   It would
                            be reprehensible to take Willis to the shelter because he
                            is  so  old,  and  I  couldn't do something like that to my
                            brother’s dog. What are my options?

                                                                                  Mary Jo the Cat Lady
Dear PatKeep:
                              I understand.  Our columnist the Wheat has often said
                              that he'd rather have the clap than a dog,  and that he's
                              had the clap.   Here's a suggestion:  Drop Willis off at
                              a Sunday session of Borf Books' Weekly World News
                              Round  Table.  It won't be the first time  someone  has
                              dropped an animal there,  and the moderator  takes  in
                              all  strays – your late grandmother's dog,  his  secreta-
                              ry's mother's unwanted cats, possums, skunks,  coons,
                              wayward sheep and stump-broke ponies.
keeneytr.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County (Texas) Sheriff): Christopher Keeney, 38, assault; Teresa Rhodes, 62, possession; Patricia Aguilar, 42; Misty Watt, 40, theft; Blair Trevino, 26, poss.; Tabatha Nielson, 38, marijuana; Cristina Sibolbora, 31, parole vi.; Rebecca Blevins, 21, credit card abuse
keeneytr.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County (Texas) Sheriff): Christopher Keeney, 38, assault; Teresa Rhodes, 62, possession; Patricia Aguilar, 42; Misty Watt, 40, theft; Blair Trevino, 26, poss.; Tabatha Nielson, 38, marijuana; Cristina Sibolbora, 31, parole vi.; Rebecca Blevins, 21, credit card abuse
The sports:
The National Football League's Cleveland Browns denied
rumors that 
Condoleezza  Rice  was being considered for
head coach.

lifeword.jpg Creating a password
lifeword.jpg Creating a password

Unopened e-mail last week included a message from "Indiana University
        Alumni Association <noreply@publishingconcepts.com>" titled "A-
        lumni Verification Now Due
" [by telephone] and another message
        from "Clutterbook" "Facebook" titled "See Stephen Yates's message
        and other notifications you've missed
."


DISCUSSION GROUP:

    Don't  forget!    Readers interested in intellectual dissection of
important current events are invited to attend the Weekly World
News Round Table at the offices of Borf Books outside Browns-
ville, Kentucky, just after church every Sunday.  Guest  speakers
lined up for meetings in the near
future include
Tessa Souter.


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November 18 2018: Things you would never know if you did not browse the
    tabloids  while  waiting  for your wife at the counter  in  the  supermarket –
    the week's headlines
:

Family of Bigfoot roaming Manhattan (Sun); Taylor Swift secretly engaged (Life & Style); Sex, lies & payoffs: NBC hides truth as Today collapses (Enquirer); Caroline Kennedy's bizarre secret life, growing pot, loveless marriage, family feud (Globe); Garth Brooks: 'How cheating saved my marriage' (Examiner)
Family of Bigfoot roaming Manhattan (Sun); Taylor Swift secretly engaged (Life & Style); Sex, lies & payoffs: NBC hides truth as Today collapses (Enquirer); Caroline Kennedy's bizarre secret life, growing pot, loveless marriage, family feud (Globe); Garth Brooks: 'How cheating saved my marriage' (Examiner)

LETTERS to the EDITOR
:

Ted Fiskevold (65? Do the math, please) wrote Sun 11/11/18 @11:11 CST:
I was born on the last Armistice Day ('53).  My first birthday was on
the first Veterans Day ('54).
So:  Did you have a birthday this year?   Veterans Day this year was No-
vember 12 because of
the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which became
law in 1971, as November 11 fell on Sunday
.  November 11 fell on Sun-
day  also  in 1979, 1984, 1990, 2001, 2007 and 2012,  pushing  Veterans
Day  to Monday. 
Before passage of the act,  in 1956 and 1962  Veterans
Day was observed on Monday, November 12,  and in 1961 and 1967 on
Friday,  November 10.  And in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and
1977,  Veterans Day was observed on the last Monday  in  October.  So
you may have lost 18 birthdays over the years, meaning that you are yet
only 47
now.

But, then, according to our late Aunt Janet, who was an English teacher,
you have had (and everyone else has had) only one "birthday" – the day
you were born.   The others are "birthday anniversaries."   So,  how  old
does that leave you?
                                                                                                       – Editor

Malcolm Y wrote Sun 11/11/18 @11:11 CST:
"Cuhadá wuhadá Shuhadá."
malcolmy.jpg "Goodbye, Malcolm. Goodbye forever"
malcolmy.jpg "Goodbye, Malcolm. Goodbye forever"

Unisex name of the week:  Francis.


Dumb news from Indiana:
An 8-year-old Taylorsville elementary school pupil was
suspended after showing  a  hit  list  to a classmate on a
school bus.

A Michigan woman was injured by  a  pumpkin  dropped
through her windshield from an overpass crossing the In-
diana Toll Road.
                                             [courtesy Columbus Republic]


edgardav.jpg Indianapolis' most wanted: Edgar Baxter, WM, 5'8", 165 lbs, probation viol. (robbery); Davonica Beasley, BM, 5'11", 170 lbs, burglary; José Riverea, HM, 5'5", 185 lbs, domestic battery; Early Atterbury, 6'2", 145 lbs, cocaine; Paris Duncan, BM, 6'2", 170 lbs, armed robbery; Joseph Klinge, WM, 5'8", 185 lbs, kidnapping, intimidation (Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana)
edgardav.jpg Indianapolis' most wanted: Edgar Baxter, WM, 5'8", 165 lbs, probation viol. (robbery); Davonica Beasley, BM, 5'11", 170 lbs, burglary; José Riverea, HM, 5'5", 185 lbs, domestic battery; Early Atterbury, 6'2", 145 lbs, cocaine; Paris Duncan, BM, 6'2", 170 lbs, armed robbery; Joseph Klinge, WM, 5'8", 185 lbs, kidnapping, intimidation (Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana)

Dumb news from Kentucky:
Governor Selfie told talk radio's Leland Conway that zom-
bie movies are more to blame for mass shootings than gun
availability.
                                 [courtesy Louisville Courier-Journal]

linciera.jpgLindseyBlair,WF,31, 5'7", 120 lbs, kissed and told; MelissaHaaney, WF, 40, 5'3", 165 lbs, kissed and ran; Ciera Arnold, WF, a/k/a Dolly Parton, 24, 5'4", 125 lbs, kissed off; Jamie Burch, WF, 29, 5'1", 160 lbs, apprentice; Lexington's most wanted
linciera.jpgLindseyBlair,WF,31, 5'7", 120 lbs, kissed and told; MelissaHaaney, WF, 40, 5'3", 165 lbs, kissed and ran; Ciera Arnold, WF, a/k/a Dolly Parton, 24, 5'4", 125 lbs, kissed off; Jamie Burch, WF, 29, 5'1", 160 lbs, apprentice; Lexington's most wanted
               leyaiang.jpg (pulled kicking & screaming from the Herald-Leader): Leyai Hart, BM, 44, 6'2", 160 lbs, wouldn't work for money; Angela Pettyjohn, WF, 30, 5'0", 145 lbs, sleeping around
leyaiang.jpg (pulled kicking & screaming from the Herald-Leader): Leyai Hart, BM, 44, 6'2", 160 lbs, wouldn't work for money; Angela Pettyjohn, WF, 30, 5'0", 145 lbs, sleeping around

padamber.jpg Perty perps in Paducah (McCracken County Sheriff) Amber M. Gilbert, 30, shoplifting; Karen M. Lewis, 38, wishin' she were Amber (sorry,  folks, this sher'ff don't give heights and weights)
padamber.jpg Perty perps in Paducah (McCracken County Sheriff) Amber M. Gilbert, 30, shoplifting; Karen M. Lewis, 38, wishin' she were Amber (sorry,  folks, this sher'ff don't give heights and weights)

A judge ruled that Laurel County schools  violated  federal
Title IX by providing a joint basketball team for all middle
school girls  but confining boys to the 6th, 7th or 8th grade
team (the school said there were not enough girl basketball
players to form a team for each grade.

                                     [courtesy Lexington Herald-Leader]
Quotation of the week:
                                                "Words mean things these days."
                                                                                                                – Broward County (Florida)
                                                                                                                   Circuit Judge Jack Tuter

     "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
                                                                                                                – Boswell Rabbitsmith

Quotations repeated every week:
                                                           "That's right."

                                                                                    –   Shankar Vedantam
Quotations of the Wheat (Simon says):
"In a recent jury trial, I was found not guilty, because I was innocent and
  my lawyer was beautiful!  Court's a great place to meet women!"
     – Leonard Simon
Birthdays:
                   November 12:  Tonya Harding, 48
                                             Sammy Sosa, 50
                                             Nadia Com
ăneci, 57
                                             Neil Young, 73
                                             Booker T. Jones, 74
                    November 13:  Caryn Elaine Johnson ("Whoopi Goldberg"), 63
                   
November 14:  Prince Charles, 70
                                             Ellis Marsalis, 84
                    November 15: 
Janet Lennon, 72
                                             Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad, 73
                                            
Petula Clark, 86
                    November 16: 
Oksana Baiul, 41
                                             Lisa Bonet, 51
                                            
Diana Krall, 64
                                            
Chi Coltrane, 70
                                             Garrett "Garnet" Mimms, 85
                                             Bob Gibson (this one; 1931-1996)
                    November 17:  RuPaul, 58
                                             Howard Dean, 70
                                            
Lorne Michaels, 74
                                             Martin Scorsese, 76
                                             Gordon Lightfoot, 80
                                            
Julian the Apostate (331-363)
                    November 18:  Megyn Kelly, 48
Deaths:
                Stan Lee, 95
                Douglas Rain ("Hal"), 90
                Roy Clark, 85  (shareholder,  New Year's Eve Inc.)
                David Pearson, 83
                Katrina Moller, 24
                chalaray.jpg Chase LaRay Haskins, Louisville, 21, born August 12, 1997, died November 4, 2018, preceded in death by brother Cameron Ja'Quai, survived by mother, TaKeisha Brents, sister Shontelle Haskins, Tiana and Tania Barbourt and TaKara Brents
                A. Andrew "Andy" Hicks, 79
                                            
                          [Courier-Journal]

trishsab.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Trisha M. Williams, WF, 35, 5'8", 220 lbs, trafficking in contraband in correctional facility; Willie Mae Robinson, BF, 48, 5'5", 205 lbs, probation violation (theft) (our Yorkshire hogs of the week courtesy Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sheriff); Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Sabra Ladonna Brazil, WF, 48, 5'2", 130 lbs, credit card abuse (elderly) (Abilene Crime Stoppers)
trishsab.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Trisha M. Williams, WF, 35, 5'8", 220 lbs, trafficking in contraband in correctional facility; Willie Mae Robinson, BF, 48, 5'5", 205 lbs, probation violation (theft) (our Yorkshire hogs of the week courtesy Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sheriff); Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Sabra Ladonna Brazil, WF, 48, 5'2", 130 lbs, credit card abuse (elderly) (Abilene Crime Stoppers)
The sports:
Floridians voted 69 to 31 per cent in a referendum to ban
greyhound racing
.



Borf 's weekly BONUS:
Hateful Eight Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone  called director
Quentin Tarantino a "cretin." . . . Identical twin sisters BaoKou Yang and
BaoNhia Yang went into labor within two ours of each other  and had ba-
by daughters the same day in Fresno, California. . . . A Kansas City, Mis-
souri, landlord evicting a tenant found a 6-foot, 150-pound alligator call-
ed "Catfish" in a hot tub plus two boa constrictors and a rabbit. . . . A ba-
by girl was born at 11:11 11/11/18 in St. Paul, Minnesota (but it was p.m.,
not a.m.). . . . CNN sued the President. . . . An English-speaking artificial
intelligence anchor
debuted on Chinese television. . . . A
rhesus macaque
monkey
broke into a house where a mother was feeding  her  12-day-old
baby  in  Agra,  India;  grabbed him and jumped away along several roof
tops, and left him on the top of a building as officials gave chase (the ba-
by boy was dead on arrival at a hospital).

                                                                  [courtesy Harper's,
LEX18, AP]


luvalari.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County Texas Sheriff) (a special prosecutor charged Hannah Turner with lying about her age to get in jail with her older sister): Luis Cordoba, Valarie Geuea, 19, ag. robbery; Jimetta Moore, 50, fugitive; Monique Cano Pruitt, 20; Shayla Woodward, 18, mj.; Lydia Barrera, 30, assault; Hannah Turner, 24 (she said); Misty Reid, 44, parole viol.
luvalari.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County Texas Sheriff) (a special prosecutor charged Hannah Turner with lying about her age to get in jail with her older sister): Luis Cordoba, Valarie Geuea, 19, ag. robbery; Jimetta Moore, 50, fugitive; Monique Cano Pruitt, 20; Shayla Woodward, 18, mj.; Lydia Barrera, 30, assault; Hannah Turner, 24 (she said); Misty Reid, 44, parole viol.

Dear Eleanor:
                            Twenty-five years ago, my husband and I
                            honeymooned in Kenya. While there,  we
                            both fell in love  with  elephants.  We dis-
                            covered that they are one of the most intel-
                            ligent and kindest animals around.  While
                            on safari we saw a  baby  elephant  crying,
                            and the entire family went over to comfort
                            her.


                            Recently, for our 25th anniversary, my hus-
                            band gave me a beautiful brooch shaped as
                            an elephant.  I took it to my jeweler to have
                            it appraised for insurance purposes,  and he
                            determined that it's made  of  18-karat gold,
                            diamonds,   and  –  ivory!    I  was  shocked.
                            How could my husband buy ivory in the U-
                            nited States?   Elephants are an endangered
                            species.  I thought ivory was banned.


                            I immediately called my husband and asked
                            him where he bought this.  He said the local
                            pawn shop. Is it still legal to buy ivory in A-
                            merica?

                                                                          Elephant Lover

Dear Ivy:

                    That's not the question.  The question is your hus-
                    band.  How can you stay with him now?


lifetaco.jpg TACOCAT is a PALINDROME Life Saver Dude: So be CATATAC and DOGOGOD
lifetaco.jpg TACOCAT is a PALINDROME Life Saver Dude: So be CATATAC and DOGOGOD

Unopened e-mail last week included a  message  from 
"Shalia  Skjong
        <marketing@skystem.com>" titled "Podcast: Perfecting the Close
        Part 1 (feat. on CFO University)
."


People who invited us to be their "friends" on Clutterbook Facebook
                  in the last week included
DJoko Sutrisno. 
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November 11, 2018: Things you would never know if you did not browse the
    tabloids  while  waiting for your wife at the counter  in  the  supermarket –
    the week's headlines
:

Paula Abdul falls off stage (Globe); Which is the evil twin? Were these celeb lookalikes separated at birth? Stevie Nicks, Tonya Harding; Girl Scout treasurer embezzles $90,000 in Santa Clarita, Calif.(Enquirer); Selena ruins Bieber's new marriage, he's tending to her in rebab, Hailey can't stand it (Enq); Plane grounds flying squirrel, Frontier Airlines nixes 'emotional support' animal at Orlando (Enq)
Paula Abdul falls off stage (Globe); Which is the evil twin? Were these celeb lookalikes separated at birth? Stevie Nicks, Tonya Harding; Girl Scout treasurer embezzles $90,000 in Santa Clarita, Calif.(Enquirer); Selena ruins Bieber's new marriage, he's tending to her in rebab, Hailey can't stand it (Enq); Plane grounds flying squirrel, Frontier Airlines nixes 'emotional support' animal at Orlando (Enq)


Quotation of the week:

                                         "Hard work pays off in the future, but lazy pays off now."
                                                                                                                                            – Boswell Rabbitsmith

LETTERS to the EDITOR
:

What are these people thinking? contest:
minnibus.jpg
Etta Jean Darrig wrote Mon 11/5/18 @09:25 CST:
"Wonder how they're gonna get that out?"
Steven Buck wrote Sun 11/4/18 @09:37 CST:
"Not to worry:  It was only niggers."
Argy Bargy wrote Sun 11/4/18 @09:52 CST:
"Too bad no one died:   My little brother
  was on board."
Leonard Simon wrote Mon 11/5/18 @11:02 CST:
"Well, who cares about it, anyway?"

Jan wrote Sun 11/4/18 @11:02 EST:
I'll enjoy talking with Hillary.  We can have a blast making
fun of Megyn, who really missed an opportunity by not be-
coming a gynecologist specializing  in  Neanderthals  –  so
she could introduce herself as "Me Gyn."
Fred Dean wrote Sun 11/4/18 @10:19 PST re the Greentown,
Indiana, woman's post "This is a white neighborhood":
This story verifies your alternate state motto  for  Indiana:
"The only Southern state north of the Mason-Dixon Line!"


"Back home again . . . ."
Publius Leget wrote Mon 11/5/18 @ 07:05 CST:
I found a new use for Daylight Stupid Time!  I did forget
to set my bedroom clock back Saturday night; but I reset
it Sunday.  That is, I thought I did;  but I failed.  It said 7
when I woke up Monday,  but it was only 6.  And then it
dawned on me.  By  not  resetting  your  clock,  you  can
sleep till 7 but still be up at 6!   I'm gonna leave mine on
Stupid Time the rest of the winter to  take  advantage  of
this. . . .

Dumb news from Indiana
:
The Republican Party canceled an appearance by National Ri-
fle Association president Oliver North at a rally for U.S. Sen-
ate nominee Mike Braun at Noblesville, where a 13-year-old
boy shot a girl and a teacher six months ago. . . .

Meanwhile the Democratic Party and its nominee, incumbent
Joe Donnelly,  were paying for Clutterbook Facebook ads for
the Libertarian nominee, Lucy Brenton, to draw away Repub-
licans. . . .

But Brenton got only 4 per cent of the vote, Donnelly got on-
ly 42 per cent, and Braun got 54 per cent (i.e., he won). . . .

A Greentown man was shot in the thigh by a bullet thrown in-
to a trash fire. . . .

A Mishawaka man got six months in jail  for  killing  his  girl
friend's  two  cats  when they broke up. . . .

A custodian who used a cell phone wrapped in a  garbage  bag
to record girl swimmers in a
Bloomington North High School
locker room was arrested for voyeurism  ( ?  Shouldn't  that-a-
been audioism?).
   
                                                  [courtesy Columbus Republic]
matthivy.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Matthew Ivy, BM, 5'11", 165 lbs, armed robbery; Alycia Mann, WF, 5'4", 115 lbs, possession of syringe, battery by bodily waste; Jasmine Duszinski, WF, 5'8", 240 lbs, theft, fail. to appear; Christopher Draper, WM, 5'9", 160 lbs, possesn. of syringe (Michiana Crime Stoppers)
matthivy.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Matthew Ivy, BM, 5'11", 165 lbs, armed robbery; Alycia Mann, WF, 5'4", 115 lbs, possession of syringe, battery by bodily waste; Jasmine Duszinski, WF, 5'8", 240 lbs, theft, fail. to appear; Christopher Draper, WM, 5'9", 160 lbs, possesn. of syringe (Michiana Crime Stoppers)
Dumb news from Kentucky:
A "traveling zoo," consisting of an SUV carrying a ba-
by kangaroo, a bearded dragon,  an armadillo,  a skink,a silky  chicken, a hedgehog and a tortoise  was  stolen
from a Bowling Green restaurant  parking  lot  but  re-
covered in Somerset, 120 miles to the east, with all on
board but the baby kangaroo.   But he came to dinner
later with a man walking into a restaurant in Somerset.
No arrests have been made, and the owner said thous-
ands of dollars' worth of equipment still is missing. . . .

haileydu.jpg
Hailey Duvall, 19, a University
of Kentucky student from Glas-
gow,  was arrested after posting
on Slapcrap Snapchat,  "White
Hall  is about to be white ashes
along with  every  fucking  stu-
dent in it,"  and "Thirsty Thurs-
days  are about to become tick-
ing time bomb Thursdays." . . .
A candidate for Kentucky secretary of state got permis-
sion to appear on the  Republican  primary  ballot  next
May  as  Carl  "Trump"  Nett. . . .

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis lost her job in the elec-
tion  (but  not  to a man she refused to issue a gay marri-
age license to).
                                                              [courtesy LEX18]
jeffbran.jpg Perps in Paducah: Jeffery T. Miller, 20, failure to return; Hallie M. Smith, 22; Taylor R. Kendall, 19; Brandon T. Derickson, 32, bail jumping (wanted by the McCracken County Sheriff)
jeffbran.jpg Perps in Paducah: Jeffery T. Miller, 20, failure to return; Hallie M. Smith, 22; Taylor R. Kendall, 19; Brandon T. Derickson, 32, bail jumping (wanted by the McCracken County Sheriff)
Quotations of the weak:
                                            "I'm so fucking proud of you guys."
                                                                                                            Beto O'Rourke

                                     "
I'm terribly sorry.  What I'm about to say is something so racist I never thought
                                       my soul could ever feel it.  But truly I never wanna spend time with white peo-
                                       ple again (if that's what non-Muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any
                                       reason.  They are disgusting."
                                                                                                  
Shuhadá Davitt  (née Sinéad O'Connor)

Classic Quotations of the Wheat (Simon said April 10, 2016):
"I'd just as soon have the clap as a dog, and I've had the clap."

                                                                              – Leonard Simon

Redundancies that need a nap:
                                                     "newly re-enfranchised"
                                                                                                 Nicole Lewis, reporter, the Marshall Project
           " . . . things could start to heat back up again . . . ."
                                                                                                 Philip Ewing, NPR National Security Editor

Unisex name of the week:  Cody (Codie).


Birthdays:
                    November 5:  Tatum O'Neal, 55
                                           Art Garfunkel, 77
                                           Elke Sommer, 78
                    November 6:  Emma Stone, 30
                                           Sally Field, 72
                                           Stonewall Jackson, 86
                   
November 7:  Roberta Anderson ("Joni Mitchell"), 75
                                           Johnny Rivers, 76
                    November 8:  Lynndie England, 36
                                           Bonnie Raitt, 69
                                           Bonnie Bramlett, 74
                    November 9:  Lou Ferrigno, 67
                                           Bob Gibson, 83 (not this Bob Gibson)
                                           Mary Travers (1936-2009)
                    November 10:  Donna Fargo, 73
                                             Moise Tshombe (1919-1969)
                    November 11:  Calista Flockhart, 54
                                             Armistice Day, 100
Deaths:
                Eleanor Roosevelt, 134
                James Edward "Jim Ed" McClellan, 73
                James B. "Jim" McMillan, 78
               
Mikhail Nepomnyashchiy, 81
               
Deontae D'Juan "Deedle" Seargent, 43
                                                                                   [Louisville Courier-Journal]


All Yo'[k]'m Roll Call:       Dwight Yoakam                  Yocum, Ky.
                                            Roy Yoakem            
           Rosefine Yokam
                                           
Yoakim Bridge                    Yokem Toyota
                                           
Riley Yoakom                     Scott Yokim
                                           
Yoakum, Tex.                      Annie Yokom
                                           
Yoakym Morokhovsky      
John Thomas Yokum Jr.
                                            Sharon Yocum                    Pappy, Mammy 'n' L'il Abner Yokum

nazariof.jpg Wanted in Waco: Feliz Nazario, HM, 26, 5'10", 180 lbs, violence against family; Kathy Jo Davis,WF,35, 6', 285 lbs, meth; Wanted in Wichita (Kansas,not Wichita Falls,Texas): Raquele Deann Laymon, WF, 20,5'7", 140 lbs, cont. subst.; Ambrosia Lee Beard, WF. 22, 5'7", 190 lbs, forg., ID theft (City of Waco, Sedgwick County (Kansas) Sheriff, Yorkshire Hog Protection Society)
nazariof.jpg Wanted in Waco: Feliz Nazario, HM, 26, 5'10", 180 lbs, violence against family; Kathy Jo Davis,WF,35, 6', 285 lbs, meth; Wanted in Wichita (Kansas,not Wichita Falls,Texas): Raquele Deann Laymon, WF, 20,5'7", 140 lbs, cont. subst.; Ambrosia Lee Beard, WF. 22, 5'7", 190 lbs, forg., ID theft (City of Waco, Sedgwick County (Kansas) Sheriff, Yorkshire Hog Protection Society)
Borf 's weekly BONUS:
A 16-year-old boy shot and killed a 16-year-old classmate who had been
bullying him at a school in Matthews, North Carolina. . . . A 30-year-old
Englishwoman who claimed to have had sex with 20 ghosts is now enga-
ged to one  (she says)  she brought back from Australia with her. . . . The
Girl Scouts sued the Boy Scouts. . . .A man wearing only underpants fell
into a Waffle House in a botched burglary in Tuscumbia, Alabama  (he'd
used his pants to tie shut the door to the bathroom,  from  which  he  had
climbed into the ceiling). .  .  . A 23-year-old man broke into an alligator
zoo
in St. Augustine, Florida, jumped into a Nile crocodile pond, and got
bitten
(and lost his shoes and shorts). .  .  . The Trumpian Nevada brothel
owner running for the state legislature was elected,  even though he died
nearly a month ago. .  .  . An 11-year-old suburban Cleveland, Ohio, boy
whose mother took his PlayStation away took her car and led police on a
90-mile-an-hour chase  (for the second time in 13 months). .  .  . Another
40 Sears and K-Mart stores went into bankruptcy,  along  with about 186
stores closed earlier this year  (there are about 500 left). .  .  .  A 69-year-
old man asked  a  court  in  the  Netherlands  to permit him to change his
birth date
to 20 years later. . . . A Waynesville, North Carolina, man was
bitten
by a black bear that surprised him his his driveway  after  he  pun-
ched  it 
in  the nose  (the man's wife then scared the bear off with a gun-
shot).
 
                                                                [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

djuannef.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Joe Smith, 21, drug paraph.; Duanne Franklin, 32, par. vio.; Pauline Ortegon, 28; Rainie Baldwin, 24, tres.; Kerry Frederick, 48, hit & run; Mandy Delrio, 46, theft; Stacey Thompson, 56, drugs; Brenda Regino, 37, tresp.
djuannef.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Joe Smith, 21, drug paraph.; Duanne Franklin, 32, par. vio.; Pauline Ortegon, 28; Rainie Baldwin, 24, tres.; Kerry Frederick, 48, hit & run; Mandy Delrio, 46, theft; Stacey Thompson, 56, drugs; Brenda Regino, 37, tresp.

Dear Eleanor:
                           
At what age is it inappropriate for an uncle  to  cuddle
                            his niece?  She's in fifth grade.  All I do is put my arm
                            around her while sitting on the couch. She still likes it,
                            but when should I stop this activity with her?

                                                                              Wondering in the South
Dear Uncle Bubba:
                                    If you're already wondering, it's time to quit.

 
trandude.jpg Life Saver Dude: How ya doin', Dude? . . . Er, . . . strike that - [Dude] ";  Trans Rights now
                                                                Trans Yoakym
trandude.jpg Life Saver Dude: How ya doin', Dude? . . . Er, . . . strike that - [Dude] ";  Trans Rights now
Unopened e-mail last week included a message from "Brian J. Stephens"
        titled "B.S. Lawsuits Suck. We're more than communicators, we're
       
influencers" and five more messages from "Clutterbook" "Facebook"
        titled "See Stephen Yates's message and other notifications you've missed
."


The sports:
Japan's all-star baseball team  beat  the  U.S.'  (plus  Kevin
Pilar
of the Toronto Blue Jays) 12 to 6 and leads the world
intercontinental? series 2 games to 0.

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November 4, 2018:  Things you would never know if you did not browse the
    tabloids   while  waiting for your wife at the counter  in  the  supermarket –
    the week's headlines
:

hed18111.jpg The Sun returns - now in the Examiner, 2 tabloids for the [$3.86] price of 1 (Examiner); Moonwalk was a hoax, NASA faked whole thing in Vegas movie studio (Sun): It's official: Kate named queen, dying Queen Elizabeth gives up throne, Camilla furious that Charles forced out on 70th birthday (In Touch Weekly); Meghan & Harry leaving the royals for their baby, Harry vows 'Won't let my child end up like Mama (OK); Duh constitution, Trump disqualifies immigrant children's citizenship, thereby nixing self & family (Onion)
hed18111.jpg The Sun returns - now in the Examiner, 2 tabloids for the [$3.86] price of 1 (Examiner); Moonwalk was a hoax, NASA faked whole thing in Vegas movie studio (Sun): It's official: Kate named queen, dying Queen Elizabeth gives up throne, Camilla furious that Charles forced out on 70th birthday (In Touch Weekly); Meghan & Harry leaving the royals for their baby, Harry vows 'Won't let my child end up like Mama (OK); Duh constitution, Trump disqualifies immigrant children's citizenship, thereby nixing self & family (Onion)
The sports:
This year's World Series was on TV, but none of the games was scheduled,
or played, as a day game (although game 3 lasted all night). . . .

Ugliest players:
turnpear.jpg Steve Pearce, Justin Turner, Craig Kimbrel, Julio Urias, Joe Kelly
turnpear.jpg Steve Pearce, Justin Turner, Craig Kimbrel, Julio Urias, Joe Kelly

Dumb news from Indiana
:
A 9-year-old girl and her 6-year-old twin brothers were killed
by a pickup truck as they crossed a road to board a school bus
near Rochester, and the truck's driver told the police, in so ma-
ny words, she "didn't know the bus was loading." . . .

An Evansville man won a struggle with a policeman over the
latter's stun gun and shot him in the face. . . .

A Hazelton man was held in lieu of $350,000 bond in the kill-
ing of his ex-girl friend's dogs in Pike County, in Southern In-
diana. . .

A Porter County jury, in northern Indiana, acquitted a man of
killing his former girl friend's dogs  ("It wasn't I" was the de-
fense). . . .

The "fall back" of the end of Daylight Stupid Time gave drink-
ers and bar owners an extra hour last night in Indiana and oth-
er DST states.
   
                                               [courtesy Columbus Republic]

heathrch.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Heather Rach, WF, 5'7", 130 lbs, blond hair, blue eyes, theft, failure to appear (Michiana Crime Stoppers)
heathrch.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Heather Rach, WF, 5'7", 130 lbs, blond hair, blue eyes, theft, failure to appear (Michiana Crime Stoppers)
Quotations of the week:
                                            "Half the people I know are below average."
                                                                                                                        –
Boswell Rabbitsmith
                                            "They all look alike."
                                                                                  Hillary Clinton

aaronmer.jpg
Dumb news from Kentucky:

         [caption in Edmonson
            News ("the Gimlet")]

          Uh . . .   er . . .  which
          one  is  Aaron  Mere-
          dith?  The guy in the
          saddle,  the  kid,   or
          the horse?  –  Editor,
          Tabloid
Headlines

          The Lexington police
          barn cats were named
          Smokey and Bandit. . . .
aaronmer.jpg
Two girls were suspended for their Hallowe'en observance at
Adair County High School as the Columbine killers. . . .

Towns and counties in the Bluegrass were having trouble de-
ciding when to go trick-or-treating.
                                                                      [courtesy LEX18]

Edmonson County celebrated Hallowe'en Tuesday night, Oc-
tober 30, on the square of the County Seat, Brownsville;  but
Brownsville celebrated it Wednesday night, October 31 (Hal-
lowe'en).
                                                       [courtesy Edmonson Voice]
jsessick.jpg James Kyle Essick Dahl, WM, 29, theft; Shamika Marie Gasper, BF, 35, 5'2", 165 lbs, controlled substance; George Hamilton, WM, 23, 6'1", 170 lbs, robbery, cocaine, mj, thrreatening; Da'Tonio Gillis, BM, 20, 5'9", 140 lbs, robbery; Brandon Hammons, WM, 32, 6'0", 175 lbs, robbery, assault
jsessick.jpg James Kyle Essick Dahl, WM, 29, theft; Shamika Marie Gasper, BF, 35, 5'2", 165 lbs, controlled substance; George Hamilton, WM, 23, 6'1", 170 lbs, robbery, cocaine, mj, thrreatening; Da'Tonio Gillis, BM, 20, 5'9", 140 lbs, robbery; Brandon Hammons, WM, 32, 6'0", 175 lbs, robbery, assault
     findkeep.jpg Purse thief needed only a few seconds, snatched purse from car at gasolin station, and, minutes later, tried to use owner's credit car bu was denied for lack of PIN, an attempt for cash a few days later failed on account of theft report; Finders does not mean keepers, A man who left his card at a Waffle House got memos from his bank that it was being used at a Victoria's Secret and a nail salon (LEX18)
findkeep.jpg Purse thief needed only a few seconds, snatched purse from car at gasolin station, and, minutes later, tried to use owner's credit car bu was denied for lack of PIN, an attempt for cash a few days later failed on account of theft report; Finders does not mean keepers, A man who left his card at a Waffle House got memos from his bank that it was being used at a Victoria's Secret and a nail salon (LEX18)
Quotations of the weak:
                                           "
Buccaneers bench Jameis Winston after throwing
                      4 interceptions against [TO] Bengals
"
                                                                                                                    Windstream.net headline
                         " . . . in the name of Jesus."
                                                                         – "Messianic Jewish" Rabbi Loren Jacobs at a Vice President
                                                                             Mikey rally in Detroit, Michigan, concluding a
prayer for
                                                                             those
slain at the synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
                  "This is a white neighborhood."
                                                                          – among racial slurs in a note left on the door of  a
                                                                            
black family's new home in Greentown, Indiana, by
                                                                            
neighbor Deborah Cantwell, who also TP'd the house

Unisex name of the week:  Cory.


Quotations of the Wheat (Simon says):
"If you'll take me home with you, I'll be your
  blow-up doll."

– Leonard Simon
Redundancies that need a nap:
"Bonnie Goad, Julie Hayes and Tierra Vincent  collaborated  together
 to do the event . . . ."
                                    [caption in the Edmonson News ("the Gimlet")]

"Jeff Sharp, Barren County County Attorney . . . ."


                                                                  [political ad in "the Gimlet"]

jckirbys.jpg J. C. Kirby & Son, Funeral Chapels and Crematory, 820 Lovers Lane and 832 Broadway Avenue, phone number 270-843-3111, www.jckirbyandson.com








Advertisement   in  the
Edmonson News ("the
Gimlet") but,  let's see:
That's J. C. himself,  on
the   left,   right?    And
that's  his  son,  on  the
right?

And,  by the way,  isn't
"Broadway Avenue" a
bit of a redundancy?
jckirbys.jpg J. C. Kirby & Son, Funeral Chapels and Crematory, 820 Lovers Lane and 832 Broadway Avenue, phone number 270-843-3111, www.jckirbyandson.com
Birthdays:
                    October 29:  Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 80
                    October 30:  Ivanka Trump, 37
                                         Grace Slick, 79
                    October 31: 
Tom Paxton, 81
                                        
Dan Rather, 87
                                         Ferdinand the Inconstant (1345-1383)
                    November 1: 
Coco Crisp, 39
                                          
Lyle Lovett, 61
                                          
Larry Flynt. 76
                                           Gary Player, 83
                                           Louis the Stammerer (846-879)
                    November 2:  K. D. Lang, 57
                                           Shere Hite, 76
                                           Pat Buchanan, 80
                    November 3:  Colin Kaepeernick, 31
                                           Rosanne, 66
                                           Lulu, 70
                                           Michael Dukakis, 85
                                           Bob Feller (1918-2010)
                    November 4: 
Tonicha Jeronimo, 41
                                          
Loretta Swit, 81
Deaths:
                Freddie Hart, 91
                James "Whitey" Bulger, 89
                Willie McCovey, 80
                Cuttie Bacon, 64
                Dr. Philip J. "Phil" Sorota, 73
                Jennifer "Jenny" Yager, 48
                                                                 Louisville Courier-Journal]
mikejohn.jpg Wanted in Tom Green County, Texas: Michael John Carter II, WM, 42, 5'7", 160 lbs, poss.; Sara Lee Gary, WF, 30, 5'9", 145 lbs, escape; Arrested in San Angelo by the Tom Green County Sheriff: Marcy Garcia, WF, 26, theft; Michael Pulscher, WF, 22, theft; Manuel Lopez, W (sic) M (sic), 29; Sierra Ramos, WF, 24, false ID, Joanna Moncado, WF, 34, theft; Bianca Rodriguez, WF, 27, theft; Haley Turn, WF, 22, poss.; Natasha Leenerts, WF, 22, poss.; Sherry Walker, WF, 58, theft; Rosalinda Hernandez, WF, 48, theft
mikejohn.jpg Wanted in Tom Green County, Texas: Michael John Carter II, WM, 42, 5'7", 160 lbs, poss.; Sara Lee Gary, WF, 30, 5'9", 145 lbs, escape; Arrested in San Angelo by the Tom Green County Sheriff: Marcy Garcia, WF, 26, theft; Michael Pulscher, WF, 22, theft; Manuel Lopez, W (sic) M (sic), 29; Sierra Ramos, WF, 24, false ID, Joanna Moncado, WF, 34, theft; Bianca Rodriguez, WF, 27, theft; Haley Turn, WF, 22, poss.; Natasha Leenerts, WF, 22, poss.; Sherry Walker, WF, 58, theft; Rosalinda Hernandez, WF, 48, theft
Borf 's weekly BONUS:
Pharell Williams' attorney sent the White House a "cease and desist" let-
ter over the President's using his "Happy" song at a rally the same day 11
Jewish worshipers were slain in Pittsburgh. . . . Harland Rose, a little girl
born September 28, won the KFC $11,000 scholarship for a baby named
Harland, after Colonel Harland Sanders,  founder of what was then Ken-
tucky Fried Chicken, who was born September 28, 1890 – KFC "twitted"
the announcement on "Tweeter," along with the tyke's height, weight and
photograph;   but none of the half-dozen news sources we checked,  inclu-
ding the Associated Press,  USA Today  and Fox,  seemed to know where
she was born – at least they didn't say (OK!  OK!  The Lexington Herald-
Leader, in Kentucky, found out that li'l' Harland, who will be called "Har-
ley,"  was born in Southern Pines,  North Carolina – and that Rose is  not
her surname, but her middle name; her parents are
Anna Pilson and Deck-
er Platt). . . . Jair Bolsonaro,  who once told a congresswoman she wasn't
attractive enough to rape,  called himself "pro-torture" and said he would
rather see his son die in a car accident than be gay, was elected president
of Brazil. . . . Asked for his last words before being juiced in Tennessee's
electric chair,
63-year-old Edmund Zagorski said, "Let's rock." . . . A 75-
year-old woman
in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota,  shot her grandson after
he repeatedly placed his hot cup of tea on her furniture. .  .  .  Robbers at
an e-cigarette store in the suburbs of Charleroi, Belgium, were told to re-
turn later when the clerk would have more money;  they did,  and police
were waiting. . . . A man
released from jail in Topeka,   Kansas,  was ar-
rested a few hours later for stealing a car from the jail parking lot. . . .
Disco balls  were installed in Buddhist temples in Japan to attract youth.
. . . The Vatican released a "Jesus
Christ Go"  "app"  modeled on "Poke-
mon Go."
                                                                 [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]
A Tabloid Headlines CONTEST!
Our Tom Green County,  Texas,  correspon-
dent,  Honkin  de  Spain,  wants   to   know,
"What are these people thinking?   Best an-
swer gets a free bookmark from my origin-
al collection  ('Who  cares?'  will not be the
winning answer)."

From Borf 's weekly BONUS September 30:
minnibus.jpg
Only minor injuries were reported  from  this
school bus that left the road
near Mars, Penn-
sylvania. . . .


Here are a couple from her collection:

     bookmark.jpg
Dear Eleanor:
                            I'm in middle school.  "Jill" has been my best friend for
                            11 years.  She has always been shy,  and I am outgoing.
                            Recently Jill has been hanging out with the  class  "ho,"
                            "Kelly";  and I'm being more and more  left  out.  Kelly
                            is turning Jill into a slut,  too.   Jill isn't excited to hang
                            with me any more and prefers  Kelly  and  her  friends,
                            smoking or drinking.

                            Jill still calls us best friends,  but I'm afraid she'll betray
                            me and tell Kelly everything we talk about. We used to
                            make fun of Kelly for being a slut. Now I feel I can't o-
                            pen up to my  best  friend.  It hurts to see them together
                            and not inviting me to things.  What do I do?
                                                                                                      Totally Left Out

Dear Lefty:
                        You can't be left out if you're outgoing.  Let the hos go.


Unopened e-mail last week included a message from
"leo@orensoft.com"
        titled "ATTENTION REQUIRED: innovative anti-erectile disfunction
        tabs for a special price!"
and seven more
messages from "Clutterbook"
        "Facebook" titled "See Stephen Yates's message and other notifications
        you've missed
."


lifemegy.jpg Life Saver Dude: So where does this leave Megyn Kelly?
lifemegy.jpg Life Saver Dude: So where does this leave Megyn Kelly?

DISCUSSION GROUP:

    Don't  forget!    Readers interested in intellectual dissection of
important current events are invited to attend the Weekly World
News Round Table at the offices of Borf Books outside Browns-
ville, Kentucky, just after church every Sunday.  Guest  speakers
lined up for meetings in the
near future include Megyn Kelly and
HillaryClinton (and maybe Jan, in blackface).


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