Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Inc.
Joint winner of the Lange trophy for best membership growth.
Sole solver of the mystery of the white glove.
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Volume 26 No 34
March 4th 2008
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday, 11th March, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject Polio Plus Speaker Helen Trigg Chairman Geoff Brentnall
Assistant Cashier & Thanker John Wynn Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Heather Wallace
Birthday
16th March – Alison George. [also, Matthew Flinders 1774, Leo McKern 1920, and Jerry Lewis 1926]
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The end of the extraneous matter
I have received another request from a member for his name to be removed from the e-mailing list for those pictures, images, long funnies and other stuff which I send out as extras to the bulletin. There have been previous complaints, which I can no longer ignore. True, I am engaged to be the club’s bulletin editor, nothing more. In future, the recipients of my bulletin will get nothing more than the two printed pages. Writing two pages every week is hard enough without taking on unwanted extras.
I have no doubt that I will still receive the extra stuff, but it will only go out to those who want it. If you want to continue to receive what, in my sole judgment, I think is deserving of distribution, e-mail me your specific request. After all, you can always hit the ‘delete’ key if you get something objectionable. If there are more than 10 such requests, I will create a separate ‘group’. I am not the slightest bit upset with this move by some of my readers. You can please some of the recipients some of the time, but never, all! All requests to continue receiving the ‘extras’, must be by e-mail!
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Notice for the meeting at the Queenscliff Bowling Club, MONDAY, 17th March 6.00 for dinner at 7.00
We will be hosted by our daughter club Queenscliffe and will be offered dinner after the bowls social. For which you will be required to pay.
This has been designated a ‘make-up’, but you are assumed to attend unless you de-register with Hans. Non-apologies will be beheaded, [or bowled out!]
Birthdays & Anniversaries
24th March - David & Anne Tyrrell. On this day in 1989, the oil tanker “Exxon Valdez’, was carelessly steered onto a reef off Alaska, rupturing eight of the eleven tanks and spilling 42 million litres of crude oil into the pristine environment of Prince William sound off the south coast of Alaska.
The oil slick affected 2,900 kms of coastline. It has been estimated that 250,000 seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 seals and untold numbers of fish were killed in the immediate aftermath. Fifteen years after the accident, the region was still suffering. In February 1994, Exxon was ordered to pay US$5 billion in punitive damages.
24th March – Anne Geerings. [also Harry Houdini 1874, Malcolm Muggeridge 1903 and George Harrison 1943.
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An insult with class
Back just a few years ago, Lady Astor scornfully rebuked Churchill, “Winston, you are drunk!” “Yes”, he responded, “ And you are ugly, but tomorrow morning, I will be sober.”
Answers to the quizz
1 116 years 2 Ecuador 3 Sheep & horses 4 November 5 Squirrel fur 6 Dogs 7 Albert 8 Crimson
9 New Zealand 10 Orange.
14 words just about cover the answers. Tim Kemp used 76, but I have to admit that he scored 9/10 and therefore won tonight’s handsome prize. Youse other dumb bastards didn’t even try.
To Q8, Tim said “Brown wings and tail. Red head, breast, back and rump.” I suppose that’s close enough to ‘crimson’, but no-one gets 10/10 in my quizzes. Thank you Tim for being the only respondee!
Does this qualify me to claim ‘Royal Patronage?’
I was relieved as ‘first session’ raffle ticket salesman at last Sunday’s market, [there were slightly more patrons than Rotarians] by returning world traveler, John Dodgshun, who informed me that he downloaded my bulletin each week, whilst at sea. He and Shirley sailed on Cunard liner QE2 during its last world voyage, so said bullies had to first be received by a ‘Queen’.!! By appointment, bully editor for the Queen, no less!
The QE2 has been sold to the Dubaians for $100,000,000, - or is it Pounds? And said Arabs plan to spend another $300,000,000 to ‘do her up!’ That lovely old liner will be permanently moored next to that 7X hotel, the roof from which the elderly Asiatic girl gets to ride in a chopper for the first time. If the Arabs decide to sell or scrap the old girl [the QE2, not the Asian lady], they have to first send back to the Auld Country, sundry photos and other memorabilia of the Royals – Liz, Phil etc. Fair dinkum.
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Conference report from PresAl
The notable achievement with the white glove emblazoned at the head of this edition, is due to the research by Margaret Campbell, for which your President graciously presented her with a bottle of wine! The other 13 delegates got to share a dozen, presumably for contributing buggerall. Non-attendees can obtain a copy of the official history of the WG business by sending in a stamped addressed envelope wrapped in a 13th century haggis, to which should be tied a $20 donation to the Rotary Foundation.
Early bird registrants for the Swan Hill conference got to enjoy a one hour cruise on the PS Pyap, on what is left of the Murray river. The Pyap would just about fit in the Dodgshun’s cabin on the QE2.
Feature speakers included Pat Naughton, ‘Does Rotary measure up?’, and Norm Scott, with ‘Quarantine and the lucky country’. The conference dinner on Saturday night carried the theme, ‘Pioneering’, which our artistic PP Coral Barker tagged with an illustration of a human ear, mounted by a meat pie. Your editor got one, and frankly, it just had to be a corn pie! The disgusting image was easily excelled by the artistic endeavour.
Always out to score a few extra $ for our charities fund, some of our mob manned the RDU stall for 15% of the gross. PresAl voted the conference a success, and advised that next year’s will be at Ballarat on 13-15 March, 2009.
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Bits ‘n Pieces
* Fordies team restores bikes at the DIK HQ, at the rate of about 8 goodies out of every 30 wrecks.
At last Sunday’s market, despite strawberries and other diversions, we scored 320 cars, 44 stalls and 3 crays.
Guest Speaker and professional veterinarian, raconteur and part-time Irishman Jack Ayerbe spoke entertainingly of cows bums, horses testes, Irish characters and Guinness. Anne Brown made the interesting observation during question time, that doctors of traditional medicine have it easy because they deal with the same bodies and their organs, compared with the variables of cows ‘n snakes ‘n parrots etc. Ed. Comment: At least cows generally have the identical shape to other cows. No bull!
