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SEPTEMBER 2010 1 September 2010
From President Vince Davies
The newsletter will
be a bit late this month. I can confirm that the President is not on
strike, but still has to work for a living, draining swamps in his
territory to control the alligators. His apologies.
Minis in October
With 3 mini
tournaments taking place in October, it will be a busy month. Hopefully
Milnerton’s notorious winds will behave during the Cape mini on the 4th
and 5th. Host chairman of WP, Malcolm McDonald is happy with the
progress they are making. He is determined to put one over the Bolanders
who has a habit of walking off with the silverware.
Howick and
Boschhoek hosts the KZN mini the week thereafter and on the 18th
and 19th Waterberg presents the northern mini at Koro Creek
which according to rumour (and personal experience!) is quite challenging.
From the NMC
A lot of effort has
gone into gathering a complete record of financial statements for Sages as
a whole and for the branches. We plan to prepare a consolidated financial
statement for the whole of Sages. This is not so easy as some branches have
been negligent in submitting records, while others have different
year-ends. The format and quality of the branch financial documents vary
from complete and substantial to incomplete and flimsy. Please change your
year-end to 31 December. The NMC also hopes to
submit guidelines for the returns from branches.
35th SANLAM SAGES NATIONAL TOURNAMENT IN RAND PARK
The 35th National Tournament will take place from 4
to 8 April 2011 at the Rand Park
course in Johannesburg. The Sunday, 2nd
April, is a practise day.
Brian Randall and Tom Buckle are confident that
it will be a memorable event. If all their plans come to fruition, it will
indeed be a grand event. They have already had to increase the field.
So, if you are not likely to play for your branch, now is the
time to tighten up your game and do the necessary to score brownie points
with the selection committee.
KANSA/CANSA
Natal Central has submitted their return for their Cansa day,
showing the magnificent return of R21 860. Well done Gaston and your team.
Many branches have their golf days in the next few weeks. May they all be
highly successful.
Die wenners van verlede jaar Verre Noord (alweer), Outeniekwa
en Grens (alweer) stuur elk een persoon na die finaal van die Sanlam Kanker
Uitdaagtoernooi in Sun City op 25 en 26 Oktober. Vir die gelukkige manne en
onse Prez Vince wag daar groot lekkerkry van Sanlam. Gary en sy mense hang
regtig uit en laat jou regtig voel asof jy behoorlik bederf word. En dis
ook goed om te sien hoeveel waardering daar is van Sanlam en die finaliste
vir die uitstekende bydrae wat Sages tot die stryd teen kanker maak.
Stuur asseblief die vorm met opgawes van jul Kansadag na die
nasionale tesourier. Die geld self, soos gewoonlik, gaan na die Kansa tak
in jul omgewing.
HUMOUR FROM THE NEWSLETTERS
Die teraardebestelling is pas voltooi toe is daar geweldige donderweer
en weerlig, met nog onheilspellende gerammel in die hemele.
Die ou omie kyk na die dominee en verklaar plegtig: “Wel
dominee, dit lyk my sy het daaar aangekom.”
Bring back any memories? (submit your score on the questionnaire at
the bottom. If you don’t score 10, you’re too young for Sages)
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you
were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing
up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained.
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together
at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I
was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I
had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if
I'd figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf
course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably
50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after
playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there
was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local
people...
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line.
Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you
didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers
--My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get
up at 6AM every morning.
Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films.
There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced
for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost
anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want
to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just
don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he
brought me an old Woodroofe’s Lemonade bottle. In the
bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it... I
knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She
thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I
knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to
'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons.
Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
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Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there
until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels
[if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!
I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best
parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....I just did!!!!!!!!!
(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)
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