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Our guest speaker last week was Jessee Hansen, who just graduated from Fossil Creek High School.
Can you see the thing in his hand? That's a $650 custom made bullwhip! He ordered it from Australia, where the best whips are made from kangaroo.
Jessee put on a demonstration with TWO WHIPS that was awesome to behold! If you weren't there, you just can't imagine! |
Woody had 5-$2 brags (a "whole sheet" of brags):
1. Rocky Mountain state boys championship ~ a clean sweep in state championships!
2. John Stouffer's grandson, Jordan, and Woody's grandson, Cory Wood, were both on that team.
3. 8 years ago, 7 members of this team were the Lug Nuts we sponsored. They grew up and became varsity members of Rocky Mountain. This brag was for the club for having the foresight and good sense to help sponsor these guys.
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Dick Acott bragged on his daughter, Lori Acott Fowler. She is doing a project called
"Women With Wings".
This project involves 400 local women who made 30 "totems", personalized with special items. They'll be at CSU June 19th, for a month. Sponsorships are still available. Lori will give a short presentation to US on the 19th. BRING YOUR WIVES, if you'd like! |
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Nathan Scott bragged that 1 year ago today, "he packed up his clan into a Uhaul that topped out at 45 mph and moved from Illinois out here." Today. his wife has a great job, he loves his job, and he's happy to be a member of Sertoma.
Bill Benton told us about some junk mail he got recently with big green headlines: "ARE YOU OVERFEEDING YOUR PROSTATE AND STARVING YOUR PENIS???" For some reason, he considered this a brag, and paid a buck to tell us about it. At one point he was fined for bragging, but someone chipped in with the money so Bill could continue.
Jim Bernecker told us how the Coopers managed to have sex with their son in the apartment.
It was discovered, in the nick of time, that Ron Young handed the wrong flag bag to Dick Acott for flag delivery (You did put your flags up, didn't you??). This was discovered when it was reported that another flag area's bag was missing. Dick Acott spoke up and said "He handed me the bag last week . . . I didn't inventory it". Sounds like a fine in the making, eh????
Jim Nutt, Bill Green, Ken Borrett, and Lee Cord were the lucky winners in the Turning Point golf tournament. They'll pay $50 to play in the tournament at Fox Acres.
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Lee Cord bragged that he and his wife went to Coors Field, where he had a run-in with a foul ball. The guy he took to the game caught it. Ouch! |
The Computer Roundup is NEXT Saturday, the 9th.! If you signed up, BE THERE! If you didn't sign up but want to help, BE THERE! Front Range Community College, 7:30 a.m. 'till 3-ish Carl said that there is good news and bad news ~ He recognizes most of the names as those who always volunteer. He says "some of the young bucks should sign up, as well." He also mentioned that our club is being advertised as a major sponsor.
Ed Caffrey had a garage sale. If you're just now hearing about it, you missed it!
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Is this cool, or what? Brent Vandervliet, the executive director of product development with Seagate Technology, spoke with us a coupla' weeks ago, and had some giveaways. Tad and Ken BOTH won a drawing for 750 GB Seagate Hard Drives! The third lucky winner was Larry Scheinost. (Those who were drawn but didn't win were, in order or drawing, Frank Johnson, Dave Williams, Tom Kula, Rod Arndt, and Lee Cooper)
Did you know that a terabyte is one trillion bytes, or one thousand gigabytes? |
Ed Caffrey told us about a book signing he had last week at Starbucks.
Dan Kaup bragged that his poor wife Cheryl has stuck with him for 30 years now, and that they recently went to Mexico to celebrate. On the way home, I think he said, they ran into the Shannon's at the airport. Dan also had a birthday recently, and ended up donating $86 to the Sertoma Foundation! Happy Birthday!
Brad Burns had a $10 brag for all his military retiree friends
Dick Acott watched his "baby boy" walk for his PhD in Physics!
Terry Danielson says that at 92 1/2, his dad is "motivated" to get our of Centre Avenue Rehab. Terry suggested we all find a central location (like Rigden Farm) for Sertoma's concentrated health care needs in the future.
Just a reminder . . . if you were one of the four lucky winners of the drawing to play at Turning Point's golf tournament at Fox Acres, get your $50 "entry fee" to Nathan Scoot ASAP! (This IS a fund-raiser!)
Ken Borrett had a brag on Ed Caffrey's new book, The Black Fox. Said "he loved it!"
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The lovely Brooke
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Don Simecka had another brag for his daughter, Brooke. She ended up 3rd IN STATE in tennis! He told us she only took up tennis in the 9th grade, and went 20-2 this year! |
Ken Borrett tells us there will be a $10,000 hole-in-one possibility on #8, and a 50-foot putt for $5,000. He told us that, actuarially speaking, one would have a 1-in-100 chance of making this putt.
Ed Stoner told us that the artist from Zimbabwe, Collen Nyanhongo, had a HUGE, 15-ton chunk of white marble delivered on the south end of Old Town Square . . . . it seems that this fellow is going to be carving on it for a while. You can watch the work beginning at 10 a.m. Monday, according to the Doloradoan.
While he was speaking, Ed told us a bit about Brian Soukup's accident that occurred while Brian was transporting a headboard in Wyoming. I can't begin to imagine what Brian must be going through, but Ed tells us he's just devastated. Our prayers will be with Brian and the family of the woman who was killed in this tragic accident.. Story
As of Friday, there were 68 turned in and paid for golfers for the tournament. Bradford said he had four others interested, and said that there is still room for more. Call him if you'd like to play.
Timmy Miller related an interesting story concerning Diane Nutt, a funeral with two hearses, a woman clad in black with a dog on a leash, and 200 women following behind her. You shoulda' been there!
Shawn Dunnigan bragged on how he just finished his first Triathlon! WOW!
Ed Caffrey bragged that his 16th wedding anniversary is on Saturday.
Rob Allerheiligen bragged on a beautiful two weeks in Hawaii. And "Oh yeah, his son got married!"
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A few weeks ago, out "soup" struck me as being really interesting. Thought I'd share.
Did anyone try this? And was it good?
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Memorial Day
Here I sit, an old man,
Thinking of days and wars gone by
The politicians argue,
Which is a just war?
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****** Slightly Twisted ****** |
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bob kopplin
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Please welcome Bob Kopplin when you see him. He is our newest member, thanks to Dick Ziporlin.
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Subject: Just a little bit of important trivia......
A 2006 study by Texas A&M found that the average American walks about
900 miles per year.
Another study by the American Beer Institute found that Americans drink
an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. [beer]
This means, on average, Americans get approximately 41 miles per gallon.
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Do you know what happened this week back in 1850, in California?
California became a state.
The State had no electricity.
The State had no money.Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gunfights in the streets.
Basically, it was just like California today, except the women had real boobs and the men didn't hold hands.
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While you're out and around . . . .
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Now this, while being pretty reactionary and uses plain ol' scare tactics, is a pretty interesting read ~ maybe a MUST READ: http://www.usawakeup.org
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The heartbeat of the blue-throated
hummingbird has been measured at 1,260
beats per minute.
Link to Casa Golf Tournament Major Donor Form