Rotary Log: March 31 (Joke Day)

Rotary Log  March 31, 2011

            April Fools Eve and it's joke day!  More on that later.  President-Elect Tony ran the show today. 

(See, it's getting funnier already! -webmaster) 

 After introduction of guests and visiting Rotarians, we had an inspirational vocational minute by Realtor and former club President, Shannon Aldrich, who challenged all of us to dig deeper into Rotary and learn about its history and opportunities. 

            We had a slew of announcements today.  Lisa Mills encouraged us to keep our attendance up and to report Rotary meetings that we attend to get attendance credit…the golf tournament is coming up quickly on June 24^th and we are still in need of golfers and sponsors…the auction is this Thursday at the Marriott Residence Inn where there will be great live and silent auction items and tickets are $17.00…May 12^th is the Senior (Citizens) dance put on by the high school kids of Interact, at Wentworth Connections…Dr. Gray just returned from Guatemala where he did over 100 surgeries and will present his experiences later this year.

THE PROGRAM     

            Fine Funny Finemaster Butch presented “joke day” and got the Program on course when he teed-off with the following funny:  Two guys are playing golf, but are not happy at how slow the two ladies in front of them are playing.  One says to the other: “I’ll go up and see if I can get them to move along faster”.  He comes back in a few minutes and says:  “I have a problem.  One of them is my wife and the other one is my mistress”.  The other golfer says “I’ll go up and talk to them”.  He comes back in a few minutes and says:  “I’ve got the same problem”. 

            “Dear Noah:  we thought the boat was suppose to leave at 5pm.”  Signed:  The Unicorns…an engineering student rode up to a friend on a brand new bicycle.  The friend asked where he got the bicycle.  The guy on the bike told him that a woman rode the bicycle up to him, jumped off, tore her clothes off, and said you can have whatever you want.  The other engineering student said:  “Yeah, the clothes probably wouldn’t have fit anyway…a wife asked her husband for something that is shiny and silver and goes from zero to 180 in a split second.  The husband got her a scale.

            The professional funny man Joe Yenetti then entertained us courtesy of Cousin Richard. 

 He let us know at the outset that our jokes were keeping him in business…a Priest says to a Rabbi: “When are you going to start eating pork”?  The Rabbi said:  “at your wedding”….he found it ironic that our club photographer is also a radiologist…a blonde cop pulls over a blonde driver and asks for her license.  The driver can’t find her license and pulls out a make up mirror, looks in it and says: “oh, this must be it” and hands it to the cop.  The cop looks at the mirror and says:  “why didn’t you tell me you were a cop”?...a cop gets into an elevator with a rattlesnake, Bin Laden and a lawyer.  He only has two bullets.  He shoots the lawyer twice.

            We really ought to do this kind of program more often!

This week’s Trivia question is:

Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have

notches, while pennies and nickels do not?

In our last Log, we asked the following question:

Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?

And the Answer is:

A: Long ago, dishes

and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called 'pygg'.  When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.