Minutes

Rotary Meeting Report – Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Something of a limited meeting report this week as I get into the swing of things and find myself dictating it five days after the event. Our Club guest was Roger Leaske from the Rotary Club of Essendon to explain the background to the prestigious Royce Abbey Award, and to then present Royce Abbey Awards to Maclolm McPherson and Jame Mephan. Congratulations to both Malcolm and James on these richly deserved awards. Malcolm for his great work in relation to the Rotary auction, and James for the amazing enthusiasm and involvement he has shown in overseas aid work in the short time he has been a member of Rotary.

By way of background Roger explained Royce Abbey was an incredibly enthusiastic and active member of the Rotary Club of Essendon who went on to be a very, very successful Governor of Rotary International some years ago. It was something of a pity that we treated Roger to what I think was the worst meal ever served up to us. A massive dose of what I think was simply mince paste with an attempt to describe it as shepherd’s pie. Whilst I won’t always be negative, even if I can never hope to match the culinary literary standards set by Tony Davies, there was no humour in this meal and I think we should broach something with management.

In a quick fines session from the floor Penno fined someone for sending into the wrong church (Seventh Day Adventists or something) last week. No organ there Penno. It should be noted however that Penno is our only other Club Royce Abbey awardee, although there was some attempt to suggest Ludeman had not only a Royce Abbey Award, but oak leaf cluster.

Finally, James Mephan advised members that there is a position available for an observer on an Interplast mission to the Pacific, all expenses paid, with applications closing on 18th August. Members are invited to consider.

Andy’s fast facts

Last week we covered the topic of kissing in Denmark and France. Now, before continuing with random and other facts in relation to these two great countries, Fast Facts would like to make the following disclaimer:

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The preceding disclaimer has now taken up nearly all available space and the writer’s attention span for this week. So we will resort to a table:

Comparative Average Petrol Prices in Australia, Denmark and France for the period 9 April to 16 July 2018

[Andy – I have been plagiarising sources, failing to acknowledge sources, printing factual errors, logical errors, mathematical errors, spelling mistakes, punctuation mistakes, defaming people, getting their names wrong, and generally offending people for years in this publication and I never worry about it at all. Keep up the good work – Ed.]

Human reason 101

Central Spoke anthropologist Lew Officer sends us this report from the lab;
We had to have the garage door repaired. The repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener.
I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower.
He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower.'
I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'NOOO, it's not. Four is larger than two.'
We haven't used that repairman since.
Happened in Bankstown, NSW.