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196103 [2016/02/09 15:37] tyreless196103 [2016/02/10 11:15] tyreless
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 Well, you know how people like to collect souvenirs from each place they visit, typical of that place. I thought perhaps I might be able to get in Reno a commodity which is really typical of the area - a divorce. Now divorces are easy to get in Reno as you've no doubt read, but unfortunately I wasn't able to satisfy my desire, because - you have to be married first! Well, you know how people like to collect souvenirs from each place they visit, typical of that place. I thought perhaps I might be able to get in Reno a commodity which is really typical of the area - a divorce. Now divorces are easy to get in Reno as you've no doubt read, but unfortunately I wasn't able to satisfy my desire, because - you have to be married first!
  
-ARE YOU WALKING?+=====Are You Walking?===== 
 - Eric Adcock. - Eric Adcock.
-The suggestion at the last general meeting that the members of the Committee each prepare a black book of their recipes seems to me a veiled hint that we are like the lesser parts in Macbeth. Education is our only defence to this thinking. Even a black book in a filing cabinet containing what, when, and how is not going to be sufficient to let a prospective committee member know what he is in for. There is a need far an even more general education. This could be considered a disadvantage in some cases but in the case of the Walks Secretary   + 
-The job of Walks Secretary is a very obvious one. Three times a year the Walks Programme has to be filled with the results of blackmail and extortion. In each case, for a period of about six weeks previous to the appropriate committee +The suggestion at the last general meeting that the members of the Committee each prepare a black book of their recipes seems to me a veiled hint that we are like the lesser parts in Macbeth. Education is our only defence to this thinking. Even a black book in a filing cabinet containing what, when, and how is not going to be sufficient to let a prospective committee member know what he is in for. There is a need far an even more general education. This could be considered a disadvantage in some cases but in the case of the Walks Secretary... 
-member, one has to flit around the Club alighting on unsuspecting people and closing one's talons before they have a chance to escape. + 
-You hint, suggest, ask, urge, entreat, threaten and if need be, batter, people into submission. Finally they sign their name or put their mark and promise a -walk one dawn and fortynine to go. It is fortunate indeed that there are +The job of Walks Secretary is a very obvious one. Three times a year the Walks Programme has to be filled with the results of blackmail and extortion. In each case, for a period of about six weeks previous to the appropriate committee member, one has to flit around the Club alighting on unsuspecting people and closing one's talons before they have a chance to escape. 
-members of the Club mho lead more than their share of walks and actually volunteer + 
-their names. As Confucius once misquoted "May their tribe increase"+You hint, suggest, ask, urge, entreat, threaten and if need be, batter, people into submission. Finally they sign their name or put their mark and promise a walk one down and fortynine to go. It is fortunate indeed that there are members of the Club who lead more than their share of walks and actually volunteer their names. As Confucius once misquoted "May their tribe increase". 
-Persuasion, or Sheer persistence, can be helped considerably with a little plotting. Approach and surround the victim, holding up a sworn statement that he had during a moment of pressure before the Comittee said he would become a leader + 
-of walks l_ A display of the Walks Secretary's professional tools - thumb screws, +Persuasion, or sheer persistence, can be helped considerably with a little plotting. Approach and surround the victim, holding up a sworn statement that he had during a moment of pressure before the Committee said he would become a leader of walksA display of the Walks Secretary's professional tools - thumb screws, rack, noose and branding irons is often enough to clinch the matter. 
-rack, noose and branding irons is often enough to clinch the matter. + 
-17. +An office such as this ideally suits the members of the fairer sex! It represents chance for them to exercise their added persuasive powers as well as their innate vocal advantages developed from generations of practice. It is interesting to note that the aborigines have a legend describing how the two gods, the Moon and the Crow, combine their efforts to make people. It is the crow that predominates in the making of females. 
-An office such as this ideally suits the members of the fairer sax! It represents d,chance for them to exercise their added persuasive powersas well + 
-as their innate vocal advantages developed from generations of practice. It is interesting to note that the aborigines have a legend describing how tbe two +The other major duty of the Walks Secretary is to report at the Club each month all the interesting "goings onin the last four or five weeks. The obtaining of all this information is again often a reason for producing the thumbscrews. Even the official sheets that should be turned in by all leaders do not give the interesting snippets - those peculiar happenings on trips, or people lost, or shot, as they were too maimed or weak to return under their own steam, or people left for the betterment of mankind. 
-gods, the Noon and the Craw, combine their efforts to make people. It is the crow that predominates in the making of females. + 
-The other major duty of the Walks Secretary is to report at the Club each +Like the removal of a heavy pack, it is a wonderful feeling of relief when the programme is handed over for the final typing and printing. This feeling of elation is only marred by the odd blanks representing the weekends that are friendless and leaderless. That night you are relaxing when the 'phone rings. "You wish to lead a walk!" "No". "Two". 
-month all the interesting "goings on in the last four or five weeks. The obtain- + 
-ing of all this information is again often a reason for prodKcing the thumbscrews. Even the official sheets that should be turned in by all leaders do not give the interesting snippets - those peculiar happenings on trips, or people lost, or +It happens, not once, but twice, sometimes more, until you become a lump of quivering jelly. Next time you will rope up each person in turn and ... 
-shot, as they were too maimed or weak to return under their own steam, or people left for the betterment of mankind. + 
-Like the remotal of a heavy pack, it is a wonderful feeling of relief when the programme is handed over for the final typing and printing. This feeling of elation is only marred by the odd blanks representing the weekends that are friendless and leaderless. That night you are relaxing when the 'phone rings. Tcu wish to lead a walk:" "No". "Two"+=====Walking Guide.===== 
-It happens, not once, but twice, sometimes more, until you become a lump of quivering jelly. Next time you will rope up each person in turn and   + 
-WALKING GUIDE+(See also Day Walks...
-(See also Day Walks   + 
-MARCH 24-25-26 +|March 24-25-26|Yalwal, Bunbundah Creek - Point Possibility - Ettrema Rim - Ettrema Trig - Yalmal. A trip for the energetic. Unspoiled creek and gorge scenery. Spectacular cliffs and sheer dropdowns at Point Possibility... Car to Yalwal - see the remains of the old Gold workings. Some rock hopping and scrambling up Danjera Creek, over the pass into Bunbundah Creek and up onto the Ettrema plateau. See the views from the Point and along the cliffline - look down into Ettrema Creek. Circuit the tops and return to Yalwal. Map: Yalwal Military. Leader: Will Hilder (See leader early re transport.)| 
-Bunbundah Creek - Point Possibility - Ettrema Rim - Ettrema Trig -Yalmal. +|March 25-26|__Instructional__. Otford - Burning Palms - Lilyvale. Easy pleasant walking, good camping. Coastal scenery, swimming. Map: Port Hacking TouristLeader: Dick Child.
-A trip for the energetic. Unspoiled creek and gorge scenery. Spectacular cliffs and sheer dropdowns at Point Possibility .. Car to Yalwal - see the remains of the old Gold workings. Some rock hopping and scrambling up Danjera Creek, over the pass into Bunbundah Creek and up onto the Ettrema plateau. See the views from the Point and along the cliffline - look down into Ettrema Creek:. Circuit the tops and return to Yalta,Map: Yalwal Military. +
-Leader: Will Hilder (See leader early re transport.) +
-MARCH 25-26 Instructional. +
-Otford - Burning Palms - +
-Easy pleasant walking, good camping. Coastal scenery, swimming. Map: Port Hacking Tourist +
-Leader: Dick Child.+
 MARCH 29-30 -) APRIL 1-2-3 ) MARCH 29-30 -) APRIL 1-2-3 )
 EASTER - EASTER -
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