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Vol.26 No.45
May 5, 2009
Notice for the meeting at Davidsons Restaurant, Fenwick St. Geelong, Tuesday 12th May, 6.00 for 6.30
Bookings must be made with Heather Wallace, 5255 3467 or 0407 346 369. On the night, bring $30 per person for the dinner, plus cash for drinks at bar prices. This is a purely social evening, no reports, thongs, shorts or t-shirts. Chairman Heather Wallace Cashiers Ian Downing & Bob Smith
Birthdays & Anniversaries 12th Geoff and Jan Brentnall. 13th Jan Fox.
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Red blood cells are made inside your bones. Each cell travels around the body about 250,000 times before it returns to the bone marrow to die.
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 19th May, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Anna Hunter Subject Road Trauma Unit Chairman Trevor McArdle
Attendance Officer Ian Bent Assistant Cashier & Thanker John Paton
Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Coral Barker
Birthdays & Anniversaries 22nd Joan Steains, Phil Edwards 24th Anne Geerings
Apologies and advice of guests attending
Don’t forget to record your apologies or guests in the book before you leave the week before, or otherwise phone Hans no later than noon Monday before the meeting. Death, hospitalization, [unexpected] or the outbreak of swine flu in your household in the intervening 4.25 days will constitute reasonable excuse for non-apology, but at the next available meeting you attend, the ‘penalty meal’ will be a lamb shank, with a risotto chaser.
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Dead bodies are stored in a morgue at a temperature of 2-4 degrees Celsius [35-39 degrees Fahrenheit]
Body Statistics
It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 3kg.
The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Women blink twice as often as men.
The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
Women reading this will be finished now.
Men who read this are probably busy checking out their thumbs. Contributed by my proof reader’s mate Bev Morgan.
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Hungarian firefighters get a PASS
The city fire department in Sopron, Hungary, received 28 personal alert safety system [PASS] units and a monitoring module recently thanks to a $US29,000 project initiated by the Rotary club of Jefferson Township, New Jersey, one of their members being a volunteer firefighter. The first of their kind in Hungary, the PASS units sound an alarm if a firefighter is unconscious or in distress.
The Rotary clubs of Sopron and Indian Rocks Beach, Florida along with their respective Rotary districts, contributed to this matching grant project.
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Join the Hernia Society. It needs your support
Pluviously Speaking
29 Ocean Throughway recorded 62mm of rain on 9 days in April, thereby lifting this year’s progressive total to 91mm on 16 days. 2008’s total was 646mm! Forecasters will need to find an average of more than 73mm per month in the remainder of 2009 for us to reach last year’s total. The average for the first four months was 22.75mm. ***************
Australia’s answer to the “Sarah Awards”
Your editor is indebted to PP Gerry Spencer for submitting the ‘Australian Idiot Awards for 2008’. 1 per week, for the next 9 weeks. Names cannot be mentioned for legal reasons, but if you recognize anyone, tell me!
Number One Idiot
“I am a medical student currently doing a course in toxicology at the poison control centre.
Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her daughter eating ants. I quickly assured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation, happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison in order to kill the ants.
I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency ward right away…..”
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High Noon [at least, for us] was never going to be a success on Fridays
The requirement for absenteeism to be advised to Hans Franken by 12 midday on the Friday before a meeting, had a short and undistinguished life. You are all officially informed that the tried and proven rule of apologies advised by noon Monday, is hereby re-instated. But, ladies and gentlemen, Rigidly inflexible and enforced!
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Correct me if I am wrong, but Caron Zillwood became our eighth lady member out of 52, tonightCaron was inducted into our club by President John at the beginning of tonight’s meeting, and since she will shortly be called on to tell us her life story, I won’t try to steal her limelight; but personally, I thought her acceptance speech was as good as I have heard. WELCOME
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A sneak preview
JC reminded us of the Davidsons outing next Tuesday evening [6.00 for 6.30] - $30 per person, drinks at bar prices. We can squeeze in a further four bums on seats to bring the total to 70. Contact Heather Wallace.
Notice Board
Six or seven of our mob are off to the Dist. Assembly on 17th May. Pres. Elect Rod will welcome more’
PP Henry Hudson has invited us to meet the State Governor on this Thursday or Friday at Deakin Uni.
Next Tuesday at Davidsons, 19th at Collendina, 26th at Club Grove, 2nd June back at Collendina.
We voted to confirm $10,000 to the local surf club by 30/6/09, then $5000 PA for the next four years.
RYLA awardee Sarah Gotti proved to be an enthusiastic ambassador for the annual RYLA camp, stressing her personal enjoyment in a varied and rewarding week, for which she thanked Rotary warmly.
Our ‘new look’ Meal tonight featured the two PPs – Pork and Pav. A vast improvement on last weeks RS meal [Risotto and Shank]
Noel Emselle seeks manpower in the Sheepwash area of the Barwon river banks on Tuesday, 12th or 19th. Give him your support, as there is not much else requiring muscle in May or June.
President Elect Rod Greer reported on a recent meeting with a COGG councilor who advised that Council had voted $10,000 to the development, by our club, of the proposed ‘Pioneer Park’ at the site of the lookout reserve. Other ‘second tier’ projects for future attention were also given a sympathetic hearing.
