President: Jennifer Newton OAM
District Governor: Robert Shore
Editor: Laurie Lewin
Rotary Club of Leeton Bulletin
Volume: 86          Edition: 10         Date: 28 August 2025
Stories
An Evening with Ted

In the Chair  President Jennifer

Members:       12

 

It was a relaxed evening of fellowship with two light TED talks to entertain the members.

Despite some early tech issues, Greg managed to negotiate the difficulties to make the system work well.

 

The first talk was by Maz Jobrani – an American comedian of Iranian background. His talk was titled: ‘A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar.’ 

 

The talk can be viewed on Ted at:

Maz Jobrani: A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar ... | TED Talk

The second talk was by American comedian Sarah Jones.  She impersonated many characters from diverse backgrounds to make her points.

 

 

This talk can be found at:

https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_jones_what_does_the_future_hold_11_characters_offer_quirky_answers

 

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Brain Teaser

 

A person arrives at a secret club's door and hears a voice from inside that says "twelve." The person responds with "six," and is allowed in. Another person arrives, hears "six" from the voice inside, responds with "three," and is also allowed in. A third hopeful attendee arrives, hears "ten," and based on the pattern they've observed, responds with "five," but is denied entry. What should the third person have said to enter?

 

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Director’s Reports

  •  President Jennifer
    • The machine that makes our dinner badges is defunct.  We may need to think of an alternative. (Alan believes he can fix it).
    • The potential band for the Ball will be performing at Circa on Sat 6th at 7pm
  • Greg
    • Next week – Ruby Miller – deaf Olympics representative
    • Week after – tba
    • 18th. Alanna Rolfe
    • 25th – Andrew Whitehead – Metal sculptures.
  • Laurie
    • Market day is Saturday 6th.

 

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Sergeant Laurie

 

Least said – soonest mended.

Raffle was won by Alan.

 

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A Technology Story

 

Dear Tech Support,



Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend to Husband and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend.

In addition, Husband uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance and Personal Attention and then installed undesirable programs such as Rugby, Football, Motor Racing and Continuous TV.

Conversation no longer runs, and Housecleaning simply crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging to fix these problems, but to no avail.



What can I do?



Signed,

Desperate



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Dear Desperate,



First keep in mind, Boyfriend is an Entertainment Package, while Husband is an Operating System.

Please enter the command: 'http://I Thought You Loved Me.html' and try to download Tears.

Don't forget to install the Guilt update.

If that application works as designed, Husband should then automatically run the applications Jewellery and Flowers, but remember - overuse of the above application can cause Husband to default to Grumpy Silence, Garden Shed or Beer. Beer is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.



Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources). Also, do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband.



In summary, Husband is a great system, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. It also tends to work better running one task at a time. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Food and Hot Lingerie.



Good Luck,

Tech Support

 

A: Say "three." The trick is to count the letters in the number you hear. "Ten" has three letters.

 

 

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March 28, 2025
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The Rotary Club of Leeton meets each Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Historic Hydro, Chelmsford Place, Leeton.
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