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Mensa E-Mail 3/04 Volume 13 • Number 3 March 2004 SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT MENSA CHRONICLE If you or someone you know would like to be a speaker at our monthly dinner, please contact Activities Coordinator Nancy O’Neil at [email protected] or 203-791-1668. The dinner is held the third Saturday of the month. AMERICAN MENSA LTD. NEEDS YOUR HELP to correct a technical inconsistency in its Certificate of Incorporation. The Board of Directors of AML wants to change the Articles of Incorporation to permit elections and referenda to be conducted by mail. In order to do so, they need your proxy vote. So please take time NOW to give your proxy by visiting http://proxy.us.mensa.org. ARCHIVED COPIES OF THE CHRONICLE going back a year to July 2002 are available on the Internet at http://www.44ellen.com/mensa. You can download the latest e-mail version of the Chronicle there, as well as previous issues. All issues are in read-only Adobe Acrobat format so there is no chance of viruses accompanying the files. TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Schedule of Southern Connecticut Mensa Events Schedule of Connecticut and Western Mass Mensa Events Happy Hours & Get Together’s 4 Regional Gatherings 5From The Vice Chairman 6 On the 20th Century 8 Kick Irrational Comic 9Word Origins 10 Poetry Corner 11 Noted and Quoted 12 Editing Ugly English 13 Good Wine Cheap 14 Puzzles and Questions Ruminations 15 Chapter Notes Member Advertisements Change of Address Form 16 List of Officers 1 Volume 13 • Number 3 MENSA CHRONICLE March 2004 SCHEDULE OF CHAPTER EVENTS FOR MARCH CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS Friday, March 12, 7:00 MENSA CHAPTER UPCOMING EVENTS Southern Connecticut and Connecticut/Western This is not a complete listing WE - Weekly Event, Massachusetts Joint Dinner ME - Monthly Event, YE - Yearly Event This is the new date for this monthly dinner at CT & W. Mass Calendar Editor Gisela Rodriguez, the Old Sorrento Restaurant, Newtown Road, (860) 872-3106,email: [email protected], DANBURY, CT Interested Mensans should con- tact Ward Mazzucco at (203) 744-1929, ext 25, [email protected], or Rev Bill Loring at (203) Mensans on the Radio: C&WM Mensan Janine 794-1389, [email protected]. Bujalski is on the airwaves every 2nd & 4th Friday 6-10 AM on 89.5FM, WPKN in Bridgeport, CT. There is a limited internet broadcast — about 25 Saturday, March 20, 7:00 can listen simultaneously at www.wpkn.org. Monthly Dinner From 6-9 AM there’s jazz, blues & music from John's Best Restaurant, 85 New Canaan Ave. (Rte. Brazil and from 9-10 AM the music is from 123, just off Rte. 7), NORWALK, 06850, (203) 847- Louisiana, mostly cajun & zydeco. 7414. COME TRY OUR NEW MEETING PLACE! Vice LocSec Will Mackey is hosting Friday DIRECTIONS from I-95: Merge onto US-7 N via exit Evening Classics from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. number 15 toward NORWALK/DANBURY. Take the weekly on 91.3 FM, WWUH, in West Hartford. CT-123/ NEW CANAAN AVENUE exit - #2. Turn RIGHT ontoCT-123/ NEW CANAAN AVE. (0.30 miles). Turn The name of the program is “What You Will” RIGHT onto CT-123/ NEW CANAANAVE. (0.09 mi). and its focus is chamber music. John's is on the left after Wendy's and the bank. What better company to get out of the week FROM DANBURY: Take US-7 / CT-33/ DANBURY RD and ready for the weekend? down to Norwalk. Turn RIGHTonto GRIST MILL RD/ US- 7. Continue to follow GRIST MILL RD. 0.16 miles Turn MARCH LEFT onto the US-7 S. highway and go 1.68 miles to 4, 11, 18, 25 Friday 5:30-8:00 pm Exit 2. Turn RIGHT onto CT-123/New Canaan Ave and Scrabble (WE) Ann Polanski, at Emmanuel follow to John's Best.Dress is casual. Please contact Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford. Nancy O'Neil, [email protected], 203-791-1668, for Ellen Leonard, (860) 667-1966 (Please call first to information and reservations. make sure this is happening today). TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR APRIL 5 Friday 5:30-8:00 pm Saturday, April 3, 8:00 Happy Hour (ME, first Friday) at the Ramada Inn, Theater Event: South Pacific Meriden Ann Polanski, (203) 269-4565 We warm- at the Kweskin/Curtain Call Theatre, 1349 ly welcome newcomers, and it's less than a mile Newfield Ave., (Norht) Stamford, CT., 06905 from the I-91 and I-691 interchange. Tickets are $20. Contact Jim Mizera at (203) 522- DIRECTIONS: From I-91 north or south, or Route 15 north or 1959, [email protected], for info or reserva- south, take East Main St (Meriden) exit, head east (away from Meriden Center) After the I-91 interchanges, take a tions. right at the next light There is a small Ramada sign at the corner After you pass the Meriden Cinema Complex and the road curves to the left, take a right into the Ramada Friday, April 9, 7:00 Southern CT and CT/Western Mass.Joint Dinner Admitted in CT, NY & OR See above listing for details. Saturday, April 17, 7:00 Sharon Oberst DeFala, Esq. Monthly Dinner Place to be announced. GENERAL PRACTICE OF LAW Law Offices Office (203) 866-4646 Gary Oberst A Professional Corporation Home (203) 852-9571 111 East Avenue Fax (203) 852-1574 Norwalk, CT 06851 [email protected] 2 Volume 13 • Number 3 MENSA CHRONICLE March 2004 parking lot Inside Silver City Grill, ask the host/hostess for Menu ranges from toasted cheese sandwich to the Mensa table - they know us well! steak and fish dinners. Basic bar menu available, no happy hour prices, but the food is good and very reasonable. Please contact Nicole Michaud 5 Friday Prime Time at (860) 434-7329 or email [email protected], FOX special, Test the Nation Subject: Diner Dinner Mark Your Calendars for Test the Nation 2. Last June, thousands of people across the country tested their intelligence during the two-hour 26 Friday 5:00 PM FOX special, Test the Nation. The show was so Happy Hour, (ME, 4th Friday) successful that FOX has scheduled Test the Colonial Tymes, 2389 Dixwell Ave, Hamden. Nation 2 to air on Friday, March 5. American Located about 1/2 mile north of Exit 60, Wilbur Mensa's supervisory psychologist Dr. Frank Lawlis Cross Parkway. We have been able to sit at a will once again be a guest on the program to nice big table and enjoy the good free food for a discuss Mensa and intelligence. This would be a few months now. Come on down and join us. great time to get together with your Mensa We also seem to be going out to dinner after, so friends! Special thanks to proctors Martha if you plan to come and want dinner, too, let us McKeon, Dave Felt, Elissa Rudolph, Dan Burg, know so we can reserve. Gail Trowbridge (203) and Cindy Olgilvie who have been busy this past 877-4472 or [email protected]. I send out week helping FOX test their test. an e-mail reminder every month. Let me know if you'd like to be on the list. And for those who want to watch together rather than at home, there's a special one time Happy Hour! We will start at 5:30 PM at 31 Wednesday Noon George's Restaurant at the Quality Inn at 51 Middlebury Lunch (ME, last Wednesday) Hartford Tpk. (Rte. 83) in Vernon, CT (near exit Good food and good conversation available! 64 on Rt. 84 and the golf course). Before "Test Where? At Maggie McFly’s in Middlebury, visible the Nation 2" airs there will be time for some of on the right from Rte. 63 just south of the Rte the munchies provided by George's, or a real 63 and Rte 64 intersection. This intersection is at meal served right there. They have big screen the end of a long ramp at Exit 17 on Rte 84 west. TVs and enthusiasm to see how we do. This is From this exit, turn left at the 63/64 intersection. the first event on the Eastern side of Hartford in If you use Exit 17 on Rte. 84 east (heading a long time. We're looking forward to seeing toward Hartford), turn left off the exit ramp and you there. Contact Bob Smith 860-872-3106 or see Maggie McFly’s on your left. When? On the [email protected] last Wednesday of any month from 12 noon to about 1:30 p.m. The number of attendees is growing; so, join the fun. Become a McFlyer. 6 Saturday 9:30-11:00 PM Maggie, in goggles and leather helmet, flying a Mensa Qualification Test red biplane, soars over your head. She is either A supervised test for membership in Mensa will your wingman or she provides ground support as be held from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM at the you advance into your lunch! Please call Richard Windsor Public Library, 323 Broad Street (Route Fogg at 860-274-2370 if you will attend for the 159 at Batchelder Road, south end of town first time. This will give him time to scramble for green), Windsor, Connecticut. Please bring a larger table, or a longer lunch trench, as need- $30.00, check to American Mensa, Ltd., cash, ed. Visa, or Master Card. If you have any questions you may call proctor Dick Dolliver at (860) 688- 0484 or email [email protected] Save these dates! The Leadership Development Workshop (LDW) 19 Friday 6:00 PM-8:00 PM or so for Region 1 is shaping up to be a terrific Diner Dinner (ME, 3rd Friday) resource for our membership, and it's happening at Olympia Diner, Rte 5, Newington, just north of Friday through Sunday April 2-4, 2004, at the the Berlin town line and North East Utilities.
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