Fraternity Reunion 2016

Fraternity Reunion 2016

This post will be pictures of a bunch of old people that most readers do not know, so you are welcome to skip it.  If you are interested in how old people celebrate stuff, welcome to:

The 17^th Annual DTD Lafayette Reunion

This year was our 17^th annual Fraternity reunion class of ‘67/’68 in NJ.  There was a very nice dinner Friday Night and a few drinks after.  (No Pictures) Next day it was off to the beautiful farm of brother Captain Don (Formally known as Squeak.) 

The venue included:

Cattle

Dogs

Fishing

Even FISH!

Old Friends

Some wives of Old Friends

Old People debating stuff

Old people  talking about old times

Grilling



 





We had a band

Food



Old people dancing



More Old People dancing

Even a conga line

We had Sunday brunch

Sunday clean up crew



The band was "The British Invasion" and they played all the music from the 60's.  It was a frat party for old people.  Terrific band, you can hear them here if you don't believe me: 

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=british+invasion+tribute+band&view=detail&mid=43A813E5DC0D43A6414743A813E5DC0D43A64147&FORM=VIRE

Well that's about it, suffice to say it was a great weekend as always.  Next year we will be off to Daytona Beach where the hosts will be "Fast Freddie" and his lovely wife "Jazzy Janet."  It will also be a great time, because with great old friends you can only have a good old time! 

Passing the flag

Captain Don getting frisky while passing the flag to "Jazzy Janet" and "Fast Freddie" Mrs. Captain Don is holding the other end. 

One final note.  Back in the day this crew was guilty of perhaps a bit  too much of the spirits as most college kids are.  Now some 48 years later there is still some imbibing, but as you can see from the last picture taken after the band, at some time the imbibing turns to something else.

Oh you crazy kids with the water bottles and sprite...still no hangovers in the morning!

Once again, thanks to Captain Don and his terrific and beautiful wife Peggy for a great time at a great venue.

Oh, one final picture of the whole crowd

The Whole Crowd!

(Almost the whole crowd, "Take a bow" Al had to leave early)













LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

This cranky re-run is from September 2013

My cyber friend Scott, who blogs at “Flight Plan,”http://lowandslow01.blogspot.com/,  is learning to speak French.  It occurs to me that learning to speak a foreign language is a good idea.  As I get older I need to keep the mind working, I need to exercise the brain. Learning a language might be a good way to work out the old grey matter.

I don’t want to learn French.  I don’t like berets.  I don’t like stinky cheese.  I don’t plan on visiting Paris or Montreal any time soon.

I don’t want to learn Spanish.  I already know all I need to know: No fume, salida, sala los de hombres, cerveza, gracias, no lo se, and por favor.  Well I know these when they are accompanied by little stick figures.

Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, all of these require learning a new alphabet…I’m not that smart.  Besides, I want to learn a language I can use every day. 

I want to learn the secret language of woman…Womanese.

This language would come in handy in many situations.  Have you ever been at a party where you and your wife chatted for twenty minutes with a perfectly lovely lady only to have your wife comment as you move to another corner of the room,

“What a bitch, do you believe what she said?”

“What? She said it was nice to see you and your hair looks great.”

“First of all, my hair doesn’t look great, so that was just mean; secondly, did you not hear how she said 'it was nice to see me?'  Did you even see her eye brows?  Are you completely oblivious to voice inflections?”

“No, no I didn’t, and yes, yes I am…I do not speak Woman.”

Maybe if I spoke Womanese I would not have been divorced twice.  If I spoke the language I might have known when something I thought was trivial was in actuality really important.  Where I often think, “Why don’t you just tell me what you want,” it has never occurred to me that maybe they are telling me exactly what they want, I just don’t speak the language.

The problem is I don’t know where to find a school or even a book that teaches Womanese.  How do women learn? 

There must be a pamphlet somewhere that teaches “Basic Inflections 101.”

Where do I find “Eye movements, facial expressions, and body language for Dummies?"  It is not sold at Barnes and Noble or Amazon.

How about “Rosetta Stone,” can this program teach me when“You look so pretty” is a good thing, and when it means “F-off bitch?”  Why is “Have you been working out?” sometimes such an awful thing to ask?

There are so many phrases, and so many different meanings; so many inflections, so many facial, shoulder and hand movements.  Every combination of phrase, inflection, and body movement conveys a completely different meaning. How do women learn them all?

Mrs. Cranky told me, “It is really quite easy, I could teach you everything you need to know about speaking Womanese; you just need to learn to listen.”

I wonder what she meant by that...  

STUPID HEADLINES 100216

STUPID HEADLINES 100216

I guess there are no rain delays when he pitches

It is time again for

Stupid Headline Sunday

This week’s stupid headlines and my stupider, sometimes sophomoric comments. 

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California man gets 30 years for trying to join ISIS – His defense was “It depends on what the meaning of IS IS.”

Could another person's feces help you lose weight? – Well this headline caused me to lose my breakfast, so I guess Yeah!

Domino's customer discovers $5,000 in a chicken wings box – And they deliver within 20 minutes or the wings are free!

Mexican smuggler gets 4 years in prison for crashing into Texas military installation – He may not be the sharpest cube of beef in the taco.

'Decoding the Civil War': Tech unlocks Union telegrams – Mr. President…stop…The show is horrible…stop…stay home it is not worth the money…stop…

University of Michigan professors instructed to stick to 'preferred pronouns' – OK, I know I’m a Neanderthal and I didn’t know what a ‘preferred pronoun was, and how are Professors going to remember which ones to use for each student.  I Googled it: https://www.ccsu.edu/lgbt/files/PreferredGenderPronounsForFaculty.pdf

And then I threw up a little in my mouth.

Michigan student successfully changes preferred pronoun to 'His Majesty' on class roster – I get it now.  I would demand to be referred to as M’Lord!

Can robots write a song in the style of the Beatles? Yes, apparently – “I Want To Hold Your End Effector”

Bystander expects to record police brutality, ends up helping officer – So the guy got beat up by the cop and the bystander?

What is the meaning and history behind your last name? – Apparently one of my relatives had a really big hedge!

Your Toxic Co-Workers Now Have a Legal Right to Be Jerks at Work – Does that go for Husbands also?

Dindim the penguin returns to the man who saved his life – And the feel good headline of the week is:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/americas/dindim-penguin-trnd/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool

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