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Golden News
Volume 16, Number 45 - Monday 5 May
2003
The official bulletin of the Rotary Club of Kowloon
Golden Mile is published
most Mondays and is distributed to all club members, District officials and other "friends of KGM". Winner "Best English Language Bulletin" in District 3450, 2001/2002 This Week's Meeting:
OK, here's the thing: Yes,
we have a meeting this week but, no, I'm not certain if we
have a guest speaker.
As you can probably imagine, our speaker program was severely disrupted after we cancelled a series of meetings in response to concerns about SARS, and I know that Program Director Carola "Cha Cha" Chard and her team are frantically trying to reorganise everything. Bottom line: Be patient, otherwise Carola might spank you (and I don't mean in a fun way!). Milestones: 1) There are no members celebrating birthdays this week. 2) Congratulations to Kishu "Choo Choo" Chotrani, who this week celebrates the 10th anniversary of his induction into KGM on 5 May 1993. 3) Congratulations to former KGM member Dayal Aswani on the birth of his grand-daughter Tanya on 28 April. Fellowship News:
If anybody knows the whereabouts of Fellowship Director Miranda "King" Kong please contact the Missing Persons Bureau of the Golden Mile Police Station on 1-800-NAY-HI-BINDO-A. Walkathon:
Send money. Now! If you haven't already done so, please send a cheque payable to Rotary Club of Kowloon Golden Mile to "KGM Walkathon", P.O. Box 98129, Tsimshatsui as soon as possible, in respect of all the money you raised. And remember to
write your name on the rear of your cheque so that Her Royal Frivolity can
identify you.
Fund-Raising KGM Polio Plus
Cookbook: About 40% of our stocks of our "Dining In with Great Chefs of Hong Kong" cookbook are still available for only HK$188 (US$25) per copy. This is excellent value and an image of the cover has been uploaded to the KGM website. To purchase your copies, contact President-Elect Patricia "Iron Lady" Blair on telephone 9312 3606 or by email or you can order copies online by major credit card through PayPal. District 3450 News:
1) More Rotary Clubs in District 3450 are
resuming meetings this week,
and notices are published on the District website.
While this list is not exhaustive, KGM members intending to visit other
Rotary Clubs are advised to check the list before proceeding, in order to
avoid possible disappointment.
2) The District Basketball Tournament originally scheduled for 25 May has been postponed. 3) Our thanks to Friends of KGM PDG "Uncle" Peter Hall and PP Herbert Lau for both taking the trouble to contact me to advise that the 43rd Annual District Assembly at the Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel, Tsimshatsui East, has been rescheduled again to the new date Sunday 15 June, 2003. Further details will be advised in due course. 4) The District Installation has been scheduled for Friday 4 July at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Wanchai. Further details will be announced as and when they become available. Rotary
International News:
1) Our District 3450 colleagues at the RC Shanghai, recently completed a World Community Service project in North Korea. Details are available on the RI website. 2) Looking to do a make-up while travelling overseas? Use this link to help you find a suitable location. Rotary Information: Some Rotary "firsts":
Rotary became bilingual in 1916 when the first club was organized in a non-English-speaking country- Havana, Cuba. Rotary established the
"Endowment Fund" in 1917, which became the forerunner of The Rotary
Foundation.
Rotary first adopted the name
"Rotary International" in 1922 when the name was changed from the
International Association of Rotary Clubs.
Rotary first established the
Paul Harris Fellows recognition in 1957 for contributors of $1,000 to The
Rotary Foundation.
The Rotary club which first
held meetings on a weekly basis was Oakland, California, the Number 3
club.
The Rotary emblem was printed
on a commemorative stamp for the first time in 1931 at the time of the
Vienna Convention.
The first Rotary club banner
(from the Houston Space Center) to orbit the moon was carried by astronaut
Frank Borman, a member of that club.
The first Rotary
International convention held outside the United States was in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in 1921.
The first head of state to
address a Rotary convention was U.S. President Warren G. Harding in 1923
at St. Louis.
Ask The
Geek:
Dear Geek, Sometimes my friends and
business associates who send me emails receive a "mailbox full" message
and I don't receive their email. Why does this happen and how can I fix
it? Yours truly, Frank N.
Earnest.
Dear Frank, Most Internet Service Providers (e.g. Netvigator, Pacific Net etc.), usually give you a 6 megabyte (6Mb) storage capacity for each email account you use. This is generally large enough for personal use, however these days it's insufficient for business users, because many emails include spreadsheets and other larger files as attachments. The Geek regularly receives pricelists, catalogues and/or images from his suppliers by email, and often these can be 8Mb or larger, hence a 6Mb mailbox would automatically reject such large files. To make matters worse, some of my friends send me saucy movie files, and these are also quite large. If you use your email
address for business purposes, ask your ISP to upgrade your account to at
least 20Mb storage, so that larger files can be accepted without filling
your mailbox. The fees to upgrade your mailbox are very cheap these days,
due to the competitiveness of email services. Yours, The Geek.
Who Am
I?
What is the more common name
of sexy actress Stefania Zofia
Federkeiwicz? Clue: She was once married to actor William
Holden and she once had (still has?) a home in Hong Kong.
The answer appears at the bottom of this issue. Golden Smile: One-liners from American comedian Rodney
Dangerfield:
1. I was so poor growing up, if I wasn't a boy I'd have had nothing to play with. 2. A girl phoned me the
other day and said, "Come on over, nobody's home." So I went over. Nobody
was home.
3. During sex, my
girlfriend often wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me
from a hotel.
4. One day I came home
early from work and I saw a guy jogging naked. I asked him "Hey buddy, why
are you doing that?" He said "Because you came home
early."
5. It's been a rough
day. I got up this morning, put a shirt on and a button fell off. I picked
up my briefcase, and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go to the
bathroom.
6. I was such an ugly
kid. When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me
up.
7. I could tell my
parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and
radio.
8. I was such an ugly
baby. My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as
a friend.
9. I'm so ugly. My father carried around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet. 10. When I was born,
the doctor came into the waiting room and said to my father, "I'm sorry.
We did everything we could, but he pulled through."
11. I'm so ugly. My
mother had morning sickness after I was born.
12. I remember the time
that I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He
said he wanted more proof.
13. Once when I was
lost, I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said
to him, "Do you think we'll ever find them?" He said,"I don't know
kid. There's so many places they can hide."
14. My wife made me
join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.
15. I'm so ugly. I
worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd
get.
16. I went to see my
doctor and I told him "Every morning when I get up and look in the mirror,
I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me?" He said "I don't
know but your eyesight is perfect."
17. I went to the
doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. He
told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.
18. I call my dog Egypt
because in every room he visits, he leaves a pyramid. His favorite bone is
in my arm. Last night he went on the paper four times but three of
those times I was still reading it.
19. One year they
wanted to make me poster boy for birth control.
20. My uncle's dying
wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric
chair.
Quotable Quotes:
Sir Winston
Churchill
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