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Greetings! (I always recommend that when reading this you click above where it says: "Having trouble viewing this email? Click here" This will expand the e-NEWS to fit your monitor!!)
The last 2 editions of the MSN Weekly Entertainment Notes, we covered Chanukah which started on the 20th and is celebrated for 8 days and then Christmas (tree) of course on the 25th -- now it is Kwanzaa which starts today, the 26th and is celebrated for 7 days.
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Did You Know?
Facts, Figures & Folklore About Kwanzaa Did you know that Kwanzaa is a week-long African American holiday celebrated from December 26th to January 1st? Did you know that 2011 will mark the 45th celebration of Kwanzaa? The holiday was developed in 1966 by activist Dr. Maulana Karenga to celebrate African American culture. Did you know that as many as 18 million African Americans will celebrate Kwanzaa this year? Did you know that Kwanzaa celebrants light a candle during each day of the holiday? The first candle is black, symbolizing the African American people. The next three are red, representing the struggles of the black people. Next are three green candles, which symbolize hope for the future. The candles are lit from left to right. Did you know that each day of Kwanzaa is represented by a different life principle? In order, these principles are: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith. Did you know that the name Kwanzaa comes from a Swahili phrase "matunda ya kwanza," meaning "first fruits of the harvest"? During the holiday of Kwanzaa, many people exchange greetings in Swahili. Did you know that on the last full day of Kwanzaa celebrants enjoy a large feast? This feast, called karamu, is the high point of the holiday. Did you know that the official colors of Kwanzaa are black, red and green? These colors, represented in the candles lit each night, also are included in home decorations. Other decorations feature traditional African items, such as baskets, cloths, and harvest symbols. 
Now this leads our celebrations right up to the New Years Eve Party time -- everyone knows what that is all about -- a big ball dropping in Times Square!! Everyone have a safe and Happy New Year -- hopefully 2012 will be a better year for all of us. Make a New Years Resolution to participate in and host or help with any M.S.N. events that interest you -- got an idea for something new?? LET US KNOW!!
Sincerely,
Thom Goodrich Men's Social Network
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Events of the Coming Week
| Dec 26 | Mon |
| Bowl with our friends, The Prime Timers. Merle can give you all the information you need.
The Monday match starts at 9:30AM, cost is $5.00, this includes 3 games, shoes, ball and a ticket for a free soft drink. You can't beat this deal!! | | Dec 28 | Wed |
| BOTOP Coffee Night, CRAVE Coffee Bar | | Dec 29 | Thu |
| Join The Prime Timers group and have some bowling fun. It all begins at 1PM on Thursdays, it costs $5.00 for 3 games and ball, shoes are extra. Contact Merle for more information @ 888-7264. | |
| Triangle Tribe is a topic driven discussion group for gay, bi, and questioning men of all ages. Each week, a group leader presents a topic for discussion. Group leaders and topics generally change weekly.
This group is an outgrowth of the Mankind Project and has met weekly in various forms for the past several years. | | Dec 31 | Sat |
Entertainment
12:00am - 12:00pm Have a Safe and Happy New Year
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Card GameLocation: Depends on who is hosting -- call host for the day you are interested in playing.7:00pm - 9:00pm Pinochle
| NO PINOCHLE ON FIRST SATURDAY OF MONTH. Then on Second Saturday Contact Jim @ 408-0908; Third Saturday Contact Steve @ 664-2076; Fourth Saturday Contact Marvin @ 745-0304; Fifth Saturday (if there is one!) Contact David 883-7668 | | | | Jan 1 [1] | Sun |
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| Please contact to attend. Davis wilcoxgay@gmail.com 325-4754
www.urbanspoon.com/r/59/641383/restaurant/East-Tucson/Sweet-Tomatoes-Tucson
What can I say about Sweet Tomatoes that hasn't already been said? There are almost always coupons and the food is both good and plentiful...and probably a bit more healthy than many of our choices. Come and join us! | | Jan 2 | Mon |
| Bowl with our friends, The Prime Timers. Merle can give you all the information you need.
The Monday match starts at 9:30AM, cost is $5.00, this includes 3 games, shoes, ball and a ticket for a free soft drink. You can't beat this deal!! | | Jan 4 | Wed |
| "Who Shot Rock & Roll" is the first major museum exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music.
www.tucsonmuseumofart.org/exhibitions/who-shot-rock-roll-a-photographic
The tour will be preceded by lunch @ Cafe Ala Carte, on the grounds of Tucson Museum of Art. Please contact me for reservations - Joseph @ 505-6560. | |
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FREE PASSES TO TMA
Join the MSN guys at lunch on Juanuary 4 at Café A La C'arte.
We will have a drawing for two free admission passes to the Tucson Museum of Art (TMA).
Then we will go to meet our docent in the museum lobby for a tour of WHO SHOT ROCK AND ROLL.
Here is a link to the exhibit site: http://www.tucsonmuseumofart.org/exhibitions/who-shot-rock-roll-a-photographic . Larry and I have been to the exhibit twice, so far. It is not just an historical look at rock and roll, but is an exhibit of very good photographic art. So you can see it on more than one level.
Give me a call @ 505-6560, 576-4273, or email @ jkintucson@gmail.com. This way I can let Café A La C'Arte know how many to expect for lunch.
Have a great day!
Joseph Keller
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Looking Ahead
 Our Monthly Pot Luck and Social will be held on Saturday, January 7th beginning at 7PM. The theme for January is "Coffee, Tea or Me."
You ask -- what???? That's right, you read it correctly! "COFFEE, TEA OR ME."
In addition to bringing your usual favorite dish or dessert to share with fellow members and guest, I am requesting that everyone attending bring their special Coffee or Tea Cup OR their favorite "UNIQUE" brand of COFFEE or TEA in it's container. Having one or more of these items will let you off the hook and will enter you in a special drawing for a free prize from the Prize Table. OFF THE HOOK?? What is this you ask?? Well, if you don't bring a qualifying item, you will be asked to tell us all about yourself OR sing us a song if you don't want to talk!!
Really a simple little twist to our fun filled Pot Luck and Social -- be sure to plan attending.
Oh, about the Prize Table -- we are asking members to donate anythng that is NEW or LIKE NEW that you have no use for and are looking for a worthy place to "donate" the item to. We will be holding some kind of free drawing every month -- the prizes will be items that have been donated by members or other sources. Last month we just about gave away all of the Prize Table so we are in desperate need of any items anyone can donate!!! (If you had Holiday Gifts that you are not going to use -- donate instead of re-gifting, remember "one mans j--k is anothers tre----e!!"
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Jokes from Lloyd - -
OLD " IS WHEN ... Your friends compliment you on your new alligator shoes and you're barefoot. "OLD" IS WHEN . A sexy babe catches your fancy and your pacemaker opens the garage door.
"OLD" IS WHEN . Going braless pulls all the wrinkles out of your face.
"OLD" IS WHEN . You don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have to go along.
"OLD" IS WHEN . You are cautioned to slow down by the doctor instead of by the police.
"OLD" IS WHEN "Getting a little action" means you don't need to take any fiber today
"OLD" IS WHEN . "Getting lucky" means you find your car in the parking lot.
"OLD" IS WHEN . An "all nighter" means not getting up to use the bathroom.
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The Constitution
On Wednesday, March 1st, 2006, in Annapolis at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at American University, was requested to testify.
At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: "Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?"
Raskin replied: "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."
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Meat on Fridays
Lars, a Norwegian from Cook County in northern Minnesota, was an older, single gentleman who was born and raised a Lutheran. Each Friday night after work, he would fire up his outdoor grill and cook a venison steak. Now, all of Lars's neighbors were Catholic, and since it was Lent, they were prohibited from eating meat on Fridays. The delicious aroma from the grilled venison steaks was causing such a problem for the Catholic faithful that they finally talked to their priest. The priest came to visit Lars, and suggested that Lars convert to Catholicism. After several classes and much study, Lars attended Mass, and as the priest sprinkled holy water over Lars, he said, "You were born a Lutheran and raised a Lutheran, but now you are a Catholic." Lars's neighbors were greatly relieved. But when Friday night arrived, and the wonderful aroma of grilled venison filled the neighborhood, the priest was immediately called in and, as he rushed into Lars's yard, clutching a rosary and prepared to scold Lars, he stopped in amazement and watched. There stood Lars, clutching a small bottle of water which he carefully sprinkled over the grilling meat, and chanted, "You were born a deer, and raised a deer, but now you are a walleye.
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I wish that I had thought of some of these!!
This year's 10 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest, AKA "Dark and Stormy Night Contest" (run by the English Dept. of San Jose State University), wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel:
10) "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it."
9) "Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens."
8) "With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned, unblemished oval face framed with lustrous thick brown hair, deep azure-blue eyes fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that vied for competition, and a small straight nose, Marilee had a beauty that defied description."
7) "Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on his mind as he crept along the East wall: 'Andre creep... Andre creep... Andre creep.'"
6) "Stanislaus Smedley, a man always on the cutting edge of narcissism, was about to give his body and soul to a back alley sex-change surgeon to become the woman he loved."
5) "Although Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it did not keep her from eeking out a living at a local pet store."
4) "Stanley looked quite bored and somewhat detached, but then penguins often do."
3) "Like an over-ripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with cottage cheese, the corpulent remains of Santa Claus lay dead on the hotel floor."
2) "Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who didn't know the meaning of the word 'fear'; a man who could laugh in the face of danger and spit in the eye of death -- in short, a moron with suicidal tendencies."
AND THE WINNER IS...
1) "The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved aside darkness, crept along the greensward, and, with sickly fingers, pushed through the castle window, revealing the pillaged princess, hand at throat, crown asunder, gaping in frenzied horror at the sated, sodden amphibian lying beside her, disbelieving the magnitude of the frog's deception, screaming madly, 'You lied!"
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GREAT LITERARY TAUNTS
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." --- Stephen Bishop
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." -- Winston Churchill (about Clement Atlee)
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." --- Irvin S. Cobb
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." --- Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." --- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." --- Samuel Johnson
"He had delusions of adequacy." --- Walter Kerr
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." --- Groucho Marx
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." --- Thomas Brackett Reed
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." --- Forrest Tucker
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." --- Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." --- Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." --- Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." --- Oscar Wilde
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." --- Billy Wilder
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Non blond joke
Bubba and Junior were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up. A blond lady walked by and asked what they were doing. "We're supposed to find the height of the flagpole," said Bubba, "but we don't have a ladder."
The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts, and laid the pole down. Then she took a tape measure from her pocket, took a measurement & announced, "Eighteen feet, six inches," and walked away. Junior shook his head and laughed. "Ain't that just like a dumb blond? We ask for the height, and she gives us the length. Bubba and Junior are currently doing government work supervising the reconstruction of those New Orleans Levees.
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A Very Genteel Southern lady
A very genteel Southern lady was driving across the Savannah River Bridge in Georgia one day. As she neared the top of the bridge, she noticed a young man fixen {getting ready} to jump. She stopped her car, rolled down the window and said, "Please, don't jump; think of your dear mother and father." He replied, "Mom and Dad are both dead; I'm going to jump." She said, "Well, think of your wife and children." He replied, "I'm not married and I don't have any kids." She said, "Well, think of Robert E. Lee." He replied, "Who's Robert E. Lee? " She replied, "Well, bless your heart, just go ahead and jump, you dumb-ass Yankee." |
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