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Dick and shirt
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Last week, our new Social Chairman, Peter Ziporlin, asked us if we would be interested in buying shirts so we can have (if you'll excuse the pun) a uniform look at Sertoma functions. Seems that 28 of us said "yes", so today he took names and sizes.
If you're interested in this cool green shirt with a yellow half-moon "Sertoma" over the pocket, be sure to contact him SOON.
astoriaz2@msn.com or 226-4217. By the way, the cost is $12, as I recall. |
Game time Saturday is 3:30 ~ Be there by 1:45 for beer sales!!!
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E. Scott Billington, patriotic ex-B-58 fighter jockey |
Convair B-58 Hustler
Our own E. Scott told us some hair-raising stories, and had a pretty cool video his son-in-law put together for Friday's program.
Standing alone in its class, the B-58 could fly faster than twice the speed of sound, pinpoint targets from an altitude of 60,000 feet, and excelled at avoiding radar in low-level near-supersonic flight at 500 feet and below. All that, PLUS, it had a nuclear capacity of four "small" nukes! And they let Scotty fly it! Gulp! |
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Th' DA tells us that there will be a 3 hour fraud-prevention seminar on October 9th at the Marriott. The cost is $25 per person. Call Capital West bank to reserve a spot with a credit card. The Attorney General will speak at the seminar, as well as several other specialists. Larry also spoke, for the record, saying that the DA's office is NOT corrupt, and does NOT frame people! He promises that some day he'll tell us the real story involving a recent case!
Ryan Kruse had (just) a $1 brag today, because he became "a dad for the second time, on Saturday". He would had coughed up more, 'cause he's a pretty proud dad, but that brings us to:
The second part of his brag, which was that he had another girl, which involves "X" amount of prom dresses, AND a wedding.
Poor Julie ended up having NATURAL childbirth (that's without benefit of anesthesia!!) because the epidural was not effective. (Does anyone know a good attorney???) Ryan told us he learned a little bit more about his wife than he wanted to know, and suspects that the anesthesiologist may be re-thinking his career about now. (hang in there, Julie!)
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Norm Rehme thanked everyone who gave him words of encouragement and support with the passing of his mother last week.
In her honor, he had a check to the Sertoma Foundation for $83. |
Brad Burns had a $5 donation to the Foundation in honor of his "wonderful photograph" in Norm's e-roster. He also thanked everyone who made his "girlfriend", Terry, feel comfortable after last week's meeting.
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Take 5 minutes and check out this (newly-released) video of the F/A-22 Raptor. You'll be amazed!
Subject: The New F/A-22
Fast (super-cruise*) and stealthy, and integrated avionics are cool, but what’s really impressive is the F/A-22s low speed stability and maneuverability. In the late 40s and to early 60s aeronautical engineers were going nuts on how to shape intakes to handle both subsonic and super-sonic air flows, without stagnation or compressor stalls. Supersonic in itself was a big challenge because you had to use shock waves to slow the intake air mass to sub-sonic before it hit the compressor blades, or they would stall. The engineers figured it out, but the solution was keeping a lot of air going in the front end to make sure the all hot air kept going out the back end. As you watch his Mach 2 airplane suspend motionless in air and do tail slides, be aware of the truly amazing performance of the engines and intakes..
Some used to think the Su-27 / Su-31 “Cobra” maneuver was the epitome of 3rd to 4th generation fighter maneuverability. That snap maneuver doesn’t hold a candle to what this two-dimensional vectored-thrust fighter with fat independent horizontal stabs can do at low speed. There must be far more tricks up its sleeve in the high subsonic dogfight speed range.
The video is about 5 minutes long but the last 30-40 seconds are priceless.
CLICK HERE |
Has EVERYONE responded to Norm's request for information for the Directory he is publishing? If not, contact him! norm@rehme.com
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Someone made the mistake of picking up a bottle of Moose Drool while within camera range. Sounds tasty, doesn't it??? |
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I think th' Doc's good for it!
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Dancin' John McLean bragged that he "just turned 68, and survived 7 months with Sophie".
He went on to say that he and Sophie have picked a wedding date, December 17th. He says they just "haven't picked a year yet".
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John K, in the beer czar's absence, told us that SoDexHo ,in a radical departure from past procedure, has already sent us a check for the last game we worked! He also told us that parking passes will be passed out next Friday for the Air Force game, which will be in TWO WEEKS!
Bill Green asked for (and GOT!) a round of applause for John K, who continues to do a yeoman's job in orchestrating the beer sales. NOT an easy job!
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Who IS this mystery woman we discovered with Brad? I guess we all know by now, don't we!??!
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Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid,
aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are,
the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?
yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
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The SOW
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OUR SOw, part deux This was such a quick turnaround that I had to put the SOWs back-to-back in the same newsletter. gimme a break!
1.
. . . lives in the city limits of Fort Collins, and has never visited Maine.
2. . . . was born in the USA between 30 degrees and 49 degrees north latitude.
3. . . . had a first job as a bus boy in a private club where waitresses wore bunny-type costumes. He was fired for Grinning.
4. . . . was addressed as "captain" for a period in his life.
5. . . . was born in a city with a population of over 100,000, but is now about 80K.
6. . . . was the fourth youngest of 5 children, with his parents being barely older than he is.
7. . . . campaigned for Kennedy in the eighth grade, because his parents were in the DFL party.
8. . . . his best subject in High School was math, but he earned an "F" in the last quarter of his senior year.
9. . . . has visited the 49th and 50th states, and an area its residents like to claim as the 51st state.
(After each clue, there was dead silence. Eye contact was NOT made with the person giving the clues. At this point, no one knew who the SOW was. And with such GREAT clues!) 10. . . . has traveled to NYC, Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Madison, Denver, Minneapolis, and Houston while in college.
11. His favorite quote is "Life is what happens while you make other plans" . . . John Lennon
12. . . . Was once Vice-President of a Fortune 500 company. Fortune later redefined their criteria.
13. . . . has three children, all younger than he is. Huh?
14. . . . has proudly served as a Sertoma President. And is the only Sertoman to have run a backwards meeting.
15. . . . does some of the "important things" in his life left handed. Well, do you know who this is? NO ONE DID, until after the last clue was named, and even then it was just yelled out.
At this point, I can add to the list of clues "the only Sertoman to be the SOW two consecutive times by choice". Does that help? Click HERE to find out who it is. |
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| 2007 CSU Rams Football Schedule |
| DATE |
OPPONENT |
RESULT/TIME |
| 09/08 |
California (Ag Day) |
L, 34-28 |
| 10/06 |
San Diego State University
(Homecoming) |
L, 24-20 |
| 10/13 |
Air Force (Hall of Fame) |
3:30 PM, Sat |
| 10/27 |
Utah (1870 Weekend) |
3:30 PM, Sat |
| 11/17 |
Georgia Southern (Band Day) |
12:00 PM, Sat |
| 11/23 |
Wyoming (Border War) |
12:00 PM Fri |
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THESE COLORS DON'T RUN!
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Our next flag day will be
Independence Day
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A Freudian slip is when you say one
thing but mean your mother.
