GMT 8-8-2018 Hump Day

Today in History August 8

1844 Brigham Young is chosen to head the Mormon Church, succeeding Joseph Smith.

1899The first household refrigerating machine is patented.

1945 The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.

1974 President Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal.

1990Iraq annexes the state of Kuwait as its 19th province, six days after Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait.

2000 The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to surface, 136 years after it sank following its successful attack on USS Housatonic in the outer harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.


Born on August 8

1937 Dustin Hoffman, American actor.



JOTD
Three couples are trying to get married.

Three couples are trying to get married at the same church. There is a young couple, a middle-aged couple, and an elderly couple. The three couples meet with the priest and discuss when they can get married.

"If you wish to get married in my church, you must all go one month without having sex," says the priest.

One month later the three couples return to the church and talk to the priest. He then asks the elderly couple, "Have you completed the month with sex?"

"Yes we have, it was easy," replies the elderly couple.

"How about you?" He asks the middle-aged couple.

"It was hard, but we didn't have sex for the whole month," they respond.

"And how about you two?" He asks the young couple.

"No we couldn't do it," responds the boyfriend.

"Tell me why," says the priest.

"Well my girlfriend had a can of corn in her hand and she accidentally dropped it. She bent over to pick it up and that's when it happened."

The priest then tells them, "You're not welcome in my church."

"We're not welcome in the supermarket either," says the boyfriend.