Next General Membership Meeting

Friday, January 13th at Reed Farm Condo’s Clubhouse, Rt. 22, Brewster, NY.  Doors open at 7:30pm and the meeting will begin at 8pm.  Please, don’t forget to sign-in.  

 

 

A Message from the President

The holidays are over and we are now looking forward to a winter without snow (we can dream).  In the next couple of months we will be involved in a lot of activities with most of them in March.  We hope that everyone will participate in all or some of those activities.

 

Member News

We are pleased to let you know that Martin O’Reilly is home and doing well following a brief stay at Putnam Hospital.

 

Emerald of the Year

We are happy to announce our Emerald of the Year for 2012 is Katherine (Kitty) O’Connor.  You will have an opportunity to extend your congratulations and good wishes via an ad in our Journal.  The details on that will be forthcoming shortly.

          

Patrick’s Day Parade

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is scheduled for March 11, 2012 in Mahopac.  To help defray the cost of this undertaking there will be a raffle.  It will be held at the Awards Night in late March or early April.  You received some tickets in the mail, if you need more see me or Pat Brophy at the meeting.  The prizes are: $1,500, $500 and five prizes of $100.

 

Grand Marshal Installation

Russ Lavan will be installed as Grand Marshal of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on February 3^rd at the Centennial Golf Club in Carmel.  The cost is $30 per person and includes: buffet dinner, beer, wine and soda as well as coffee, tea and dessert.  It is scheduled to run from 6 to 9pm.

Trips:  The Emeralds are offering a river cruise on the Mississippi round trip from New Orleans on June 4, 2012 for 6 days that includes a free day in New Orleans at the Westin Canal Place Hotel.  Ports of call in addition to New Orleans are St. Francisville, Oak Alley, Natchez and Baton Rouge.  Inside cabins run from $1,795-$2,2095pp; outside cabins w/verandas run from $2,295-$2,395pp; single cabins are $1,995pp.  American Airlines round trip from JFK to New Orleans is approximately $223pp.  Freebees are excursions, wine w/dinner, nightly cocktail parties, shows, transportation from hotel to ship.  If interested, please contact Rose Kelly ASAP, 845-279-2298/roseybabe1@verizon.net; deposit of $350 is required

Did you hear the one about?

My boss was complaining in a staff meeting the other day that he wasn’t getting any respect.  Later that morning, he went out and got a small sign that read, “I’m the Boss”.  He then taped it to his office door.  Later that day, when he returned from lunch, he found someone had taped a note to the sign that said, “Your wife called.  She wants her sign back.”

 The train was quite crowded, so a U.S. Marine walked the entire length looking for a seat, but the only seat left was taken by a well-dressed, middle-aged, French woman’s poodle.  The war-weary Marine asked, “Ma’am, may I have that seat?  The French woman sniffed and said to no one in particular, “Americans are so rude.  My little Fifi is using that seat.”  The Marine walked the entire train again, but the only seat left was under that dog.  “Please, ma’am may I sit down?  I’m very tired.”  She snorted.  “Not only are you Americans rude, you are also arrogant!”  This time the Marine didn’t say a word: he just picked up the little dog and threw it out the train window, and sat down.  The woman shrieked, “Someone must defend my honor!  This American should be put in his place!”   An English gentleman sitting nearby spoke up, “Sir, you Americans often seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing.  You hold the fork in the wrong hand, you drive your cars on the wrong side of the road, and now, sir, you seemed to have thrown the wrong b!#@% out the window.

 One night, my friends asked me to go out with them.  I told my wife I would be home by midnight.  Hours passed and the beers went down way too easy.  Around 3am I headed home.  Just as I walked in the door, the cuckoo clock chimed three times.  I quickly cuckooed 9 more times.  I was really proud of myself for coming up with a quick-witted solution.  The next morning my wife asked me what time I had gotten in.   I said, “Midnight, like I said.”  She seemed fine with my answer, so I thought that I had gotten away with it.  Then my wife promptly told me that we needed to get a new cuckoo clock.  I asked why and she said,  “Well last night our cuckoo clock cuckooed three times, said “Oh crap, cuckooed four more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed three more times, giggled, cuckooed two more times, then tripped over the coffee table and passed gas.”

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