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In 1971, Britain and Ireland "decimalised" their currencies, making one pound equal to 100 new pence instead of 240 pence.

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In 1982, 84 men were killed when a huge oil-drilling rig, the Ocean Ranger, sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a fierce storm.

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In 1989, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan, after more than nine years of military intervention.

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In 1995, the FBI arrested Kevin Mitnick, its "most wanted hacker," and charged him with cracking security for some of the nation's most protected computers. (Mitnick ended up serving five years behind bars.)

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In 2002, a private funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain's Princess Margaret, who had died six days earlier at age 71.

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Ten years ago: Defrocked priest Paul Shanley was sentenced in Boston to 12 to 15 years in prison on child rape charges. Christopher Pittman, a teen who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft had driven him to kill his grandparents at age 12, was found guilty in Charleston, South Carolina, of murder. (After winning a new trial, Pittman accepted a plea deal shortening his 30-year prison term for murder to 25 years for voluntary manslaughter.)

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Five years ago: Eighteen people were killed when two trains collided south of Brussels, Belgium. At the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Didier Defago of Switzerland won the gold in the Olympic downhill and American Bode Miller took the bronze. American Seth Wescott defended his Olympic title, overtaking Canada's Mike Robertson to win the gold medal in men's snowboardcross.

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One year ago: President Barack Obama signed measures lifting the federal debt limit and restoring benefits that had been cut for younger military retirees. Michael Dunn was convicted in Jacksonville, Florida, of attempted murder for shooting into a carful of teenagers after an argument over loud music, but jurors deadlocked on the charge of first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. (Dunn was found guilty of first-degree murder in a second trial and sentenced to life in prison without parole.) Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was caught on security video punching his then-fiancee (now wife) Janay Palmer inside a casino elevator in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Rice was charged with assault; he entered an intervention program to have the charges dropped.) At the Sochi Olympics, Zbigniew Brodka won the men's 1,500 meters, capturing Poland's first gold medal in speedskating. The U.S. hockey team won a shootout to defeat Russia 3-2 in the marquee game of the preliminary round.

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Today's Birthdays: Former Illinois Congressman John Anderson is 93. Actress Claire Bloom is 84. Author Susan Brownmiller is 80. Songwriter Brian Holland is 74. Rock musician Mick Avory (The Kinks) is 71. Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 71. Actress-model Marisa Berenson is 68. Actress Jane Seymour is 64. Singer Melissa Manchester is 64. Actress Lynn Whitfield is 62. "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening (GREE'-ning) is 61. Model Janice Dickinson is 60. Actor Christopher McDonald is 60. Reggae singer Ali Campbell is 56. Actor Joseph R. Gannascoli is 56. Musician Mikey Craig (Culture Club) is 55. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Darrell Green is 55. Country singer Michael Reynolds (Pinmonkey) is 51. Actor Michael Easton is 48. Rock musician Stevie Benton (Drowning Pool) is 44. Actress Renee O'Connor is 44. Actress Sarah Wynter is 42. Olympic gold medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen is 42. Actress-director Miranda July is 41. Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 39. Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 39. Singer-songwriter-musician Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) is 35. Actress Ashley Lyn Cafagna is 32. Blues-rock musician Gary Clark Jr. is 31. Actress Natalie Morales is 30. Actress Amber Riley is 29.

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Thought for Today: "Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination." — Alfred North Whitehead, English philosopher (born this date in 1861, died 1947).

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Painting
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This blonde decides one day that she is sick and tired of all
these blonde jokes and how all blondes are perceived as stupid,
so she decides to show her husband that blondes really are
smart. While her husband is off at work, she decides that she is
going to paint a couple of rooms in the house.

The next day, right after her husband leaves for work, she gets
down to the task at hand. Her husband arrives home at 5:30 and
smells the distinctive smell of paint. He walks into the living
room and finds his wife lying on the floor in a pool of sweat.
He notices that she is wearing a ski jacket and a fur coat at
the same time.

He goes over and asks her if she is OK. She replies yes. He asks
what she is doing. She replies that she wanted to prove to him
that not all blonde women are dumb and she wanted to do it by
painting the house. He then asks her why she has a ski jacket
over her fur coat. She replies that she was reading the
directions on the paint can and they said....


FOR BEST RESULTS, PUT ON TWO COATS.

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ID ten T error
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I received this from a CEO that I worked with a few years back. He doesn't want to admit it but I think this is his true experience.

I was having trouble with my computer so I called Richard, the 11 year
old next door whose bedroom looks like Mission Control, and asked him
to come over.

Richard clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.

As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong?'

He replied, 'It was an ID ten T error.'

I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, 'An ID ten T
error? What's that? In case I need to fix it again.'

Richard grinned. 'Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?'

'No,' I replied.

'Write it down,' he said, 'and I think you'll figure it out.’

So I wrote down: I D 1 0 T

I used to like the little sh*t

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Time to hit the road for work guys, enjoy your day.

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Time for a triple sheesh.

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Morning LSU. I am a Little lazy here this morning.