Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Weekly Poop 2/19/14



Roost #44 Poop
  • Dates to Remember:
  • Friday – WCS Meeting @ …
  • March 15 - Ocean City St. Patty's Day Parade - Saturday, March 15th - 12:00 sharp.  Members participating in the parade (those who signed up) will meet at Beach Copy parking area (5901 Coastal Hwy, O.C., MD)  on Saturday, March 15th anywhere between 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.; Hat/Beard Combination (green hat and green beards)  and tuxedo t-shirts will be given out prior to the parade.  Those that have signed up to participate in the parade should wear black pants/jeans, purple long sleeve shirt for under the tuxedo  t-shirt (to support Raven's colors) and black or white sneakers.  We will be throwing beads again this year along the parade route and Frank has generously offered to lead the parade in his truck while supplying festive music.  Special thanks to Beach Copy for allowing us to gather at their place of business and thanks to all who are assisting in making the parade a success.  As always, no parking is available @ Beach Copy.  Cindi Brought, Parade Chair.
  • April 5 - 4th Annual Fund Raising Dance Benefiting Roost Activities & Local Charities, 7-11 PM, Featuring the Band TRANZFUSION.  Ocean City Elks Lodge Hall -137th St. Bayside.  $ 25 pp incl. Beer, Wine, Soda, Snacks & Cash Bar with Door prizes & Money Wheel.  Tickets will be available at all Roost Meetings & also by contacting: Ron Apperson 302-436-4790 or Mary Kendall 302-934-7210.  ronapperson@msn.com; mkendall@mchsi.com.
  • May 30 - Ravens Roost #44 17th Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament @ Ocean Pines Golf & Country Club.  Registration forms can be had here.
  • Dues are due.  From Jo Ann: Dues are past due - if you haven’t paid by now you are in arrears.  Mail them to me at:  Jo Ann Elder, 126 Pine Tree Rd., Ocean City, MD 21842. If you have any questions, please e-mail me at: jelder10@verizon.net, or call me at 410-250-5124. Thanks.

Ravens Poop
  • Good daily dose of Ravens news notes and nuggets here. It’s getting to the point where I can hardly stand ESPN, but I do go Jamison Hensley’s Blog here to stay up to date with all of the AFC North news.
  • All the best Orioles news notes and nuggets at Britt's Bird Watch here.

Local Poop
  • Tomorrow - Love for Berenice | Presented by The Pink Ribbon Pinups, Pickles Pub.  Love For Berenice | A Fundraiser for Berenice.  Berenice Alejandro-Morales is a local 7 year old who is battling terminal brain cancer.  The adorable little girl, who loves school, horses and Barbie Dolls is currently receiving hospice care.  Her family is in need of funding to help them through this very difficult time.  

Our supportive local community members have banded together to help Berenice and her family. The Helping Berenice Fund is currently collecting donations.    In addition, Pink Ribbon Pinups, a local non-profit dedicated to raising money for friends in need – specifically those battling cancer, have organized the Love for Berenice event, to be held at Pickles Pub, Thursday, February 20 at 6pm.   Money raised will help cover costly funeral expenses, and the remainder will be distributed to Berenice’s family – her parents and her younger brother. All donations received and funds raised will be deposited into the Helping Berenice Fund at the Bank of Delmarva. The event will include food, a silent auction, 50/50 raffle and Cooler of Cheer Raffle.

For More Information Contact 443-614-2620
  • Friday, Saturday & Sunday - Reach the Beach School Nationals | Recreation and School Cheerleading Team, Roland E. Powell Convention Center.  Recreation and School Cheerleading Teams from around the world gather to compete at the one and only Reach the Beach!  Experience the thrill of competing under amazing concert lighting and professional HD Sound System.  Teams will feel as if they were a part of an incredible Broadway Production in New York City!  Our fantastic, professionally choreographed awards ceremony, and the sheer fun of Ocean City, Maryland, combine to make this the best National competition your team will attend!  Prize money, fabulous individual and partner stunt awards, the unbeatable atmosphere, unstoppable fun and more, make this the premier Cheerleading National Championship!  After the competition, experience Ocean City's beautiful beaches, the world famous boardwalk, seafood restaurants galore, and outlet shopping!  Do not miss this sell-out event.  Admission: $20 Adults, $14 Children & Seniors.  Registration for competition.  7:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.  For more information, visit www.acdaspirit.com or www.theepicbrands.com.  Participants should contact the official housing bureau for this event: http://www.globaljbs.com/event/rtboc13  http://www.globaljbs.com/event/rtbocas13
  • Tuesday - Harlem Globetrotters, Wicomico Youth and Civic Center.  The world famous Harlem Globetrotters have been thrilling families and millions of fans for 88 years, all the while innovating the game in exciting new ways. Last year, the Globetrotters did something unparalleled in the history of sports and entertainment, letting fans vote on new rules to be used in actual games. It was so much fun, we are doing it again, and there are cool new rules to choose from on our 2014 “Fans Rule” World Tour:
    • Hot Hand Jersey – A player wearing this jersey gets double the points when scoring.
    • Make or Miss – The quarter starts with 2 players on each team. When a team scores, a teammate may enter the court. When they miss, a teammate must leave the court.
    • Trick Shot Challenge – The team’s challenge each other to make trick shots, with 5 points awarded to a team the makes a trick shot, and 5 points given to the opposition if the shot is missed.
    • Take your kids to www.harlemglobetrotters.com/rule to vote for their favorite, craziest rule. Then, get your tickets to the game, where you will see the winning rules put into live action.
Tickets can be purchased at http://wicomicociviccenter.tix.com/

Funny Poop
  • A tourist wanders into a back-alley antique shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. Picking through the objects on display he discovers a detailed, life-sized bronze sculpture of a rat. The sculpture is so interesting and unique that he picks it up and asks the shop owner what it costs.

"Twelve dollars for the rat, sir," says the shop owner, "and a thousand dollars more for the story behind it."

"You can keep the story, old man," he replies, "but I'll take the rat."

The transaction complete, the tourist leaves the store with the bronze rat under his arm. As he crosses the street in front of the store, two live rats emerge from a sewer drain and fall into step behind him. Nervously looking over his shoulder, he begins to walk faster, but every time he passes another sewer drain, more rats come out and follow him. By the time he's walked two blocks, at least a hundred rats are at his heels, and people begin to point and shout. He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot as multitudes of rats swarm from sewers, basements, vacant lots, and abandoned cars. Rats by the thousands are at his heels, and as he sees the waterfront at the bottom of the hill, he panics and starts to run full tilt.

No matter how fast he runs, the rats keep up, squealing hideously, now not just thousands but millions, so that by the time he comes rushing up to the water's edge a trail of rats twelve city blocks long is behind him. Making a mighty leap, he jumps up onto a light post, grasping it with one arm while he hurls the bronze rat into San Francisco Bay with the other, as far as he can heave it. Pulling his legs up and clinging to the light post, he watches in amazement as the seething tide of rats surges over the breakwater into the sea, where they drown.

Shaken and mumbling, he makes his way back to the antique shop.

"Ah, so you've come back for the rest of the story," says the owner.

"No," says the tourist, "I was wondering if you have a bronze lawyer."

Etcetera
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  • Life is short. Focus on the good.
  • Saturday is National Margarita Day.  Just sayin...


Frank


Baltimore Ravens, let’s go
And put that ball across the line
So fly with talons spread wide
Go in and strike with Ravens pride
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Ravens dark wings take flight
Dive in and show them your might
For Baltimore and Maryland
You will fly on to victory

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