Dear Members, Guests and Friends,
TM Chris had us make some importune choices. We found out that..,
* DTM Jim D. prefers planes over trains, especially since Wilbur and Orville are no longer flying them and in spite of no leg room in the middle seat.
* TM Randolph chooses action movies with a touch of comedy because he likes to... escape to the movies!
* TM Marie chooses a one piece bathing suit because she is a very serious swimmer and definitely categorically emphatically robustly persistently NOT an exhibitionist.
* TM Tom prefers phone calls because they are more meaning and most importantly, non-evidentiary. It's he said/he said or he said/she said.
* TM BeckyJo avoids TikTok because the Chinese are spying on us although she does not really know what they're spying on but it must be how often she eats Peking Duck.
* TM Jim G. definitely prefers glamping, hooking up the camper fridge to get his beer and wine at precisely exactly correctly the right temperature.
* DTM Mary Helen has always been a sandal girl but on her latest trip she went for tennis shoes to climb any mountain, scale every tree, scrape any terrain and bathe in the sea.
* TM Emmanuel plays it safe at restaurants and always orders salmon to avoid any unpleasant surprises. Predictability is the name of the culinary game..
* TM Pam reminisced about days of yore when harassment in the workplace included mandatory dress code of skirts and nylons - and now her brown-haired daughter does not even know what nylons are.... She Won Best TAble Topics Award.
Having explored all our choices, we moved on to our prepared speeches...
* Inveterate world traveler TM Jose inspired us to move to Cairo, a city of 23 million with no traffic lights, and start up Bob's Barricades (to be renamed Habibi Barricades in Cairo) as a lucrative, life-preserver venture.
* TM Aleta explained euphemisms and acronyms, otherwise known as unintelligible jargon that no one understands. Would you rather experience a revenue enhancement or suffer a tax hike??? Ah my friends, that is the question! She Won Best Speaker Award.
As far as evaluations go...
* TM Marie praised TM Jose's inspiring travelogue and encouraged more gusto to describe the powerful Egyptian Queen who built her own Mortuary Temple to spite the male Pharaohs from the other side. She Won Best Evaluator Award.
* TM Randolph loved TM Aleta's outfit and begged her to create a Book of Acronyms as a handout because he's still dizzy - and that's only from the ATM variations.
The Word of the Day was
IMPORTUNE, verb
to bother, pester, annoy. TO press another with troublesome persistence.
(Note: In TM Aleta's unabashed dictionary, it means to approach someone for sexual favors. Ahem).
Example: It's importune to be inopportune - and also quite confusing.
We received an invitation to join Chris and Jim on a Hawaiian cruise in January 2024 and to join Jose (in groups of 3) on his 18-foot dinghy in Javea, Spain, to sail to a nearby cove - dog permitting.
See you next week!
Ana I.
Recap Writer
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