-Submitted by Sherril L.-
Ed. note; Not wishing to crack wise here, but there's nothing like using a little cheeky humor to get to the bottom of an issue that has plagued womankind for many moons...
To all the girls who are in a hurry to have a boyfriend or get married, a piece of Biblical advice: "Ruth patiently waited for her mate Boaz." While you are waiting on YOUR Boaz, don't settle for any of his relatives: Broke-az, Po-az, Lyin-az, Cheating-az, Dumb-az, Drunk-az, Cheap-az, Lockedup-az, , Goodfornothing-az, Lazy-az, and especially his third cousin Beatinyo-az. Wait on your Boaz and make sure he respects Yoaz.
-Submitted by Sherril L.- Ed. note; Not wishing to crack wise here, but there's nothing like using a little cheeky humor to get to the bottom of an issue that has plagued womankind for many moons...
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The MMC grad get-together at Triple B's on Friday was a smashing success. The most exciting aspect of the evening was seeing all the first-timers in the mix, those grads who hadn't appeared at any of our previous reunion functions. The twin towers, Diane and Delores, aka the Smerches, were there with their mates, Keith and George. Funny, they don't appear imposingly tall to us grown men any more, though they're still rockin' that chic fashion look. Arriving with them was diminuitive gal-pal Pat K. (S), who could still pass for a teenager. Also making his first appearance was perennial babe-magnet Jim C., who was swarmed immediately upon arrival. Sorry J and J, ya missed him!
Richard G., retired corrections officer and now long-haul trucker was there too, as was the ever-bubbly Karen V. (P) and her hubby Rick. Other first timers, who also happen to be retired (yippee!), were Karin B. (S) and her man Steve, Dave K., and Danny B. and Ray W., along with their lovely spouses Pat and Joanne. The veteran group of grad partiers included Eleanor H. (G), Nadine K. (S) and hubby Art, Denise D., Sherril L., Rick and Cheryl B., Glen B. and France (his wife, not the country), Ron H., Ronna M. (F) and Ron, Marnie K. (S), Jeff D., Al F., Rick S., Doug B., Neil B. and Debbie, Bev S. (W) and Doug. Rounding out this good-natured group was the irrepressible Ms. Deborah R. (F) and the affable Val R. (K), aka The Nacho Fairy, whose lovely daughter Kira was serving us throughout the evening. Not only was this get-together a "blast from the past", it was indeed a blast in the present. If you missed it, you MUST come to the next one, or we'll be bringing the party to your house ;) Cheers, M P.S. Hats off to Sherril L., aka Sherrilock, for her diligence and effort in tracking down all the new-comers, and for gettin' this party started. All the girls had ugly gym uniforms and wore tennis shoes, not $200 Nike's? It took three minutes for the TV to warm up? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance?You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . ..and they did it? When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car... to cruise, peel out, lay rubber, and people went steady? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '? Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? . .. summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar? Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat? Doesn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'? I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale,Trigger and Buttermilk. How Many Of These Do You Remember? Candy cigarettes Wax Coke-shaped bottles with coloured sugar water inside? Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers? Newsreels before the movie? Telephone numbers with a word prefix. ( Edison-1449)? Party Lines? Peashooters? Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records? Do you remember a time when decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest? It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'? Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot? Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense? War was a card game? Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life . . I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya! Ed. note; This was shared with us by Andy H. Awww, Andy, you old softie you... If you're not there we're going to talk about you;) Okay, kids. This is your final boarding call for the Miles Mac grad get-together at Triple B's, 1873 Henderson Hwy., Friday, Sept. 23, from 7:00 p.m. til midnight-ish. It's going to be a beautiful evening, and you owe it to yourself to c'mon down and share in the fun and friendship with your former classmates, even if it's just for an hour or two. See you there! Here's an interesting Winnipeg Free Press letter to the editor from our good friend and former MMC classmate Martin Entz, a classy guy who, as I remember, was considered somewhat quiet and reserved. When I last spoke with him many years ago he was studying agriculture at the University of Manitoba, and now Martin is a professor of agronomy there. As evidenced by his letter, Martin is deeply concerned with the integrity of our food production system and modern industrial farming practices. What is being done to our food, especially at the growing stage, is a real eye-opener for many of us. You can read his letter by clicking on the link below, which will open up in a new window. Thanks for sticking up for us, Martin...
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/a-failure-of-biotech-129637158.html The Mother of All Ethnic Jokes
An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a southerner, a New Englander, and a Californian) an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovakian, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, a Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Kyrgyzstani, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, a Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian and 47 Africans walk into a fine restaurant. The maître d' scrutinizes the group one by one and bars their entrance, saying, "Sorry - you're not allowed in here without a Thai." -Submitted by Peter W.- Here are the Minutes from Monday's meeting, along with an updated Agenda, in PDF form, at the bottom of this column. Please circulate the Agenda to your friends, family, neighbours and co-workers and encourage them to attend the 60th Anniversary weekend and to get their tickets early. -Maureen Silk, Recording Secretary- Miles Macdonell Collegiate Alumni Association 60th Anniversary Committee Monday, September 12th, 2011 – Room 33 In attendance: Jim Smith, Chair, Ron Storozuk, Debb Brethauer, Susan Tighe, Filippo Zimarino, Vivien Laurie, Gordon Fritzsche, Donna Cudmore, Tracy MacDonald, Shelly Makus, Adam Johnston, David Chan, Craig Oliphant, Cindy Feduniw and Maureen Silk as Recording Secretary. Meeting called to order at 7:00 p.m. Vivien advised Cindy has volunteered to assist with setting up an order sheet for merchandise to be sold. She had a slide presentation of the items available, which include duffle bags, hoodies, raglan sleeve baseball shirts, short and long sleeve t-shirts, Capri and regular sweat pants, men’s beach shorts, ladies yoga pants, fleece jackets, golf shirts, flannel boxers, pyjama pants and baseball caps. Cindy showed two logos that she created, one being the letter ‘M’ with the word ‘Buckeyes’ on top, and the other a ‘Buckeyes nut’. Discussion was held that most of the alumni from the 50’s and 60’s would not purchase anything with ‘Buckeyes’ on it as that name was attached to the sports teams. Vivien advised that everyone in the school is now a Buckeye – sports teams, music students, art students, etc. Cindy will create a third logo using the new stylized compass with ‘M.M.C.’ written across it. This will be a more retro look and should appeal to a lot of older alumni. Craig suggested instead of indicating “60th Anniversary” we could copy what Aeropostale does and have “est. 1952” in small letters. It will cost approximately $100 to have this logo set up and the Alumni Committee offered to cover this cost. Cindy feels at least 20 items would have to be sold with this third logo to make it viable. A PDF catalogue will be available online, along with an order form and alumni can choose which logo they want on the product. An order can be placed in the Fall of 2011 and again in the Spring of 2012 and Cindy is willing to co-ordinate this. It was decided that instead of having a lot of extra clothing produced for sale during the event weekend, samples would be shown and alumni could place an order. If they live in the City, they could pick up their order, and if they are out of town, shipping and handling charges would be added. This way the school and Alumni Committee won’t be left with a lot of odd sized products that they can’t sell. Discussion held regarding the event weekend. Ron circulated a budget summary and Donna circulated a draft agenda. A ticket price of $35.00 for the whole weekend was established. Craig suggested anyone wishing to attend the school events on Saturday only could pay $10.00, which would include food. Vivien feels the school should be open to everyone at no cost. If they want to eat or drink anything, they can pay for it separately. It was decided that the pancake breakfast would only be available to alumni who purchase a ticket for the whole weekend. Food vendors could be booked to sell the hotdogs, cotton candy and ice cream outside for those who wish to purchase anything. That alleviates the need for a number of volunteers to be cooking and serving food, along with the uncertainty of how many people to cook for. Vivien will check with the School Board to see if vendors can set up on school property or if they have to be on the public sidewalk or street. Vivien decided that instead of providing wraps and dainties at the tea, a couple of large cakes could be purchased and served. Craig asked if a Silent Auction would be held and Ron suggested the Wine and Cheese Reception would be a good venue for that. Vivien suggested the Alumni Committee produce another newsletter indicating the tickets would be available for purchase in January. As two musical shows will be held and the seating capacity is only 225 people per show, it will be stressed that alumni will have to act fast in order to get their tickets. Vivien also advised the unveiling of the Legacy Wall will take place on Saturday, June 23rd at 2:00 p.m. and this should be advertised as it may encourage more alumni to attend. Ron advised the school will be having their Open House on Thursday, September 15th and members of the Alumni Committee were asked to come and assist with preparing and cooking hotdogs from 3 to 6 p.m. Gord advised he has some information regarding the registration process and will email it to the Committee. Meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m. NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 2011 AT 7:00 P.M. IN ROOM #33
OMG! It's PARTY TIME!!! Summer is fast disappearing in the rear-view mirror and even though the weather is still amazing, that delicious sense of care-free living is on the wane. Well, fear not. We have the perfect antidote to your back-to-work/-school/-whatever blues: A rockin' good time with all your old high school friends at Triple B's lounge, 1873 Henderson Hwy., on Friday, Sept. 23 from 7pm to 12am. The last one in June was a blast, and with 60 new names added to our list of found grads it should prove to be too much fun to miss, so don't you dare! Come one, come all, and bring your significant others. Pass this invite on to any Miles Mac grads you happen to be in touch with and we'll see you there... Fabulous...!! It looks long but read right to the end....so good! -Bev A (S)-
FARM KID AT SAN DIEGO MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING Dear Ma and Pa, I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled. I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m.But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing. Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much. We go on "route marches," which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks. The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none. This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes. Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake . I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds and he's 6'8" and near 300 pounds dry. Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in. Your loving daughter, Alice Oh yeah, we all need one of these! Thanks to Peter W. for sharing |
Born In ‘74!
Melanie Jane Chisholm, Sporty Spice of the Spice Girls Kevin Duran, Canadian Actor Kate Moss, Model (Calvin Klein) Steve Nash, Canadian born basketball star for NBA's Phoenix Suns Kimbo Slice, mixed martial artist Jenna Jameson, porn star Victoria Beckham, Spice Girl Posh Penelope Cruz, actress Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank Zappa, rocker Jewel, singer Steve-O, TV personality, Jackass star Hilary Swank, actress Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skier and Olympic gold medalist Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress Bryan Chiu, CFL defensive tackle (Montreal Alouettes) Ryan Phillippe, actor Caroline Aigle, First female French fighter pilot (d. 2007) Xzibit, rapper Jimmy Fallon, actor and comedian Chris Pronger, NHL defenceman (Team Canada Oly-1998) Dale Earnhardt Jr, NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver Joaquin Leaf Phoenix, actor (Russkies, Space Camp) Nelly, rapper Saku Koivu, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens, Oly-B-98) Meg White, drummer (The White Stripes) Ryan Seacrest, television host It Happened In '74
Inflation continued to spiral out of control around the world, reaching 11.3% in the USA and 12.6% in Canada, as the global recession deepened. The famous skeleton of "Lucy", who lived between 3 and 3.9 million years ago is discovered in Ethiopia . More and more smaller digital based consumer products appear in stores and the earliest forms of Word Processors appear which resemble a typewriter more than a computer. After the findings of the Watergate Scandal Richard Nixon becomes the first US president forced to resign from office.
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