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Golden News
Volume 17, Number 14 - Monday 29 September
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:
Due to the National Day holiday on 1 October, there will not be a regular meeting of KGM this week. Milestones: Birthday greetings to the following KGM members: PP Robin "Da Hood" Ching who, on 1 October, shares his birthday with veteran American actor Walter Matthau. Diana "Maverick" Chou who, on 2 October, shares her birthday with former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi. This week there are no members celebrating
the anniversary of their induction into KGM.
Fellowship News:
Our old mate and KGM Fellowship Director PP "Butch" Cassidy Lam (a.k.a. Body Beautiful), reminds us that the next KGM fellowship will be a Poolside BBQ Night to be held from 7:00 p.m. on Saturday 1 November, at the Panda Hotel, Tsuen Wan. The cost is once again a very reasonable $200 per head,
and this includes a delicious selection of BBQ items, washed down
by an unlimited supply of beer and soft drinks.
Membership News - Reminder: KGM's lovely and talented Membership Director
Sonya "Good on ya" Wu has
launched a "Member-Get-Member"
campaign to encourage members to introduce new blood into KGM.
Check out the promotional
poster then download a referral
form then go find some new members, OK?
District 3450 News:
The District Governor's latest newsletter is now
available for download from the District
website.
District Karaoke
Competition - Saturday, 18 October 2003 -
details
Rotary
International News:
1. Visit the RI
website to read how tens of
millions of Indian children were recently immunized
against Polio - details.
2. Visit the website of Rotary International President Jonathan Majiyagbe - details. 3. The 95th Rotary
International Convention will be held in Osaka from 23-26
May, 2004 - details..
Rotary Information: The Rotary "Classification" Principle: Virtually all membership in Rotary is based upon a "classification." Basically a classification describes the distinct and recognized business or professional service which the Rotarian renders to society. The principle of Rotary classification is somewhat more specific and precise. In determining the classification of a Rotarian it is necessary to look at the "principal or recognized business or professional activity of the firm, company or institution" with which an active member is connected or "that which covers his principal and recognized business or professional activity." It should be clearly understood that classifications are determined by activities or services to society rather than by the position held by a particular individual. In other words, if a person is the president of a bank, he or she is not classified as "bank president" but under the classification "banking." It is the principal and recognized activity of a business or professional establishment or the individual's principal and recognized business or professional activity that determines the classification to be established and loaned to a qualified person. For example, the permanently employed electrical engineer, insurance adjustor, or business manager of a railroad company, mining company, manufacturing concern, hospital, clinic, etc., may be considered for membership as a representative of the particular work he or she may be doing personally or as a representative of the firm, company, or institution for which the professional service is being done. The classification principle also permits business and industries to be separated into distinct functions such as manufacturing, distributing, retailing and servicing. Classifications may also be specified as distinct and independent divisions of a large corporation or university within the club's territory, such as a school of business or a school of engineering. The classification principle is a necessary concept in assuring that each Rotary club represents a cross section of the business and professional service of the community. Advice
from the Geek:
In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a compacted conciseness, a clarified comprehensibility, a coalescent cogency, and a concatenated consistency. Eschew obfuscation and all conglomeration of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and voracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolificacy, and vain vapid verbosity. In other
words, "Be brief and don't use big words".
Who Am I?
What is the more common name of veteran American actor Charles Carter? Clue: Moses. The answer appears at the bottom of this issue. Golden Smile: An elderly couple, both in their 80's, went on a sentimental holiday to the place where they first met. While they're sitting together having a quiet drink,
the husband said to his wife: "Do you recall the first time we were
intimate, over fifty years ago? We went behind the barn, you leaned
against the fence and I made love to you".
"Yes," she says, "I remember it well."
"OK," he says, "How about taking a stroll over there to
see if we can do it again, for old times sake?"
"Oh Henry, you devil, that sounds like a wickedly good
idea," she answers.
A young man sitting at a nearby table overheard the
discussion and, having a chuckle to himself, thinks 'I've got to see these
two old timers having sex against a fence', so he decides to follow
them.
The old couple walk haltingly along, leaning on each
other for support, aided by walking sticks. Finally they get to the back
of the barn and make their way to the fence. The old lady lifts her skirt,
removes her knickers and the old man drops his trousers. She then turns
around to face the fence while the old man moves in closer.
Suddenly they erupt into the most furious, athletic sex
anyone has ever seen. They are bucking and jumping like eighteen-year-olds
and the old woman is yelling "Ohhh God!" as the old man is
hanging onto his wife's hips for dear life. Finally, they both
collapse in a heap on the ground.
The young man is amazed. He thinks he has learned
something about life that he didn't know. He starts to think about his own
aged parents and wonders whether they still have sex like this. After
spending 45 minutes on the ground recovering, the old couple struggle
to their feet and get dressed.
The young man thinks that was the most amazing
thing he's ever seen, so he decides to ask the old man what is the
secret to such an active sex life at their age.
As the couple passes, the young man says to them, "That
was something else. You must have been going at it for about twenty
minutes. How do you manage it? Is there some sort of secret?"
"No, there's no secret," the old man says, "it's just
that fifty years ago, that damn fence wasn't electrified."
Silly Stuff: OK, this is going to drive you crazy ....... While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off
the floor and make clockwise circles.
Now, while still doing this, draw the number "6"
in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change
direction.
Quotable Quotes:
Martin Luther King Jr.
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