Mark my Words!!

Dan: the Yankees won't even have a SNIFF at a playoff spot!

Coffee cures gout

Coffee cures gout
TheStar.com - Health - Coffee cures gout
May 25, 2007
Boomer men at risk for gout should wake up and smell the coffee. And consider imbibing many cups of the beverage.
B.C. researchers found the risk of gout was 40 per cent lower for men who drank four to five cups a day than for non-coffee drinkers. The news in today's Journal of Rheumatology comes just in time for summer: It's been shown that drinking two or more beers a day can increase the risk of gout.

A form of arthritis, gout mostly strikes men over 40, predominantly in their big toes. It's made worse by eating liver, kidney, shellfish and scallops.

And should anyone with arthritis have trouble opening that jar of coffee, Maxwell House is introducing a new Arthritis Society-endorsed EZ Grip Lid, citing the needs of boomers who represent one-third of Canadians.

Given that Kraft Foods is adjusting to the needs of gouty, arthritic, aging but influential boomer consumers, how long can it be before Labatts and the like offer Arthritis Society-endorsed EZ Grip caps and snaps on beer cans?

Man's Best friend - and Steve's Too!?!?

This employee dogging it

Ken Wightman Sun Media -- Scratch the border collie works the early morning shift keeping the Canada geese off Storybook Park walkways, where they leave their droppings and pose a potential threat to small children. And so Scratch sits, almost daring the large waterfowl to leave the pond.

By IAN GILLESPIE
One of the city's newest employees is smart, highly qualified and gets along well with her co-workers.
But she hasn't been fixed yet.
Meet Scratch, a three-year-old border collie hired by the city to roust the gangs of geese from the grounds of Storybook Gardens.

"She's an employee," says Tom Hudecki, assistant zookeeper at Storybook Gardens. "But you want to treat her like a pet, too."

The problem, more specifically, is goose poop.
Stroll a short distance through Storybook Gardens or Springbank Park and you'll almost certainly encounter green blobs of goose crap.

"It's a big concern for our patrons," admits John Riddell, manager of Storybook Gardens. "Last year, it showed up on our surveys as one of the top things that annoyed our guests."

There's not only the unpleasant -- and potentially unhealthy -- side-effects of goose feces. There's also the chance that a goose -- particularly one guarding a nest of eggs this time of the year -- might react aggressively to a curious child.

"They do nip at you and they will give you a pretty good whack on the back of the head," says Hudecki, adding the geese will hiss, bite and even strike a perceived predator with a wing. "We had a (nesting) pair that was so aggressive, the gardeners didn't want to go anywhere near them."

EZ Ryder Cup Fall Location and Possible Date

Capitalizing on the 'off the chart!!' success of our Spring 2007 version of the EZ Ryder Cup [Hairy vs. Shiny], the drum is already beating for the next event in this long line of prestigious competitions: EZ Ryder Cup Fall 2007: Suits vs. the Dungarees!

The weather vane swings west this time, and the suggestion has been made that we move to "Royal" Oxbow Glen Golf and Country Club http://www.oxbowglen.com. Seconders?

To quote from the Oxbow Glen website:

"There are few more exhilarating sites in North West London than the view from the 11th tee at Oxbow Glen Golf and Country Club. This mature, well-treed vista stretches across an inviting valley with the fairway rising up to a wooded horizon. It winds its way through open links land, through richly treed woodland and crosses ponds and creeks on land belonging to the Graham clan since Confederation."

I think they left the part out where what you look down on is the 11th green with a large whale buried under it, but never mind…

JUST TO THROW A DATE OUT THERE: Saturday, September 29th, the Saturday of UWO Homecoming

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JUST TO THROW ANOTHER DATE OUT THERE: September 15th

Once again a quote, this time from golf course booker extraordinaire, Lee Smithson:

"Someone need to flea bath their dog that morning, spousal objections(objections from your spouse not objections about your spouse or any others), Forgot they were flying to Paris that day, forgot that Sunday is the day after Saturday or day before Monday therefore not a good day to be engaging in this sort of activity???"

Let the to'ing and fro'ing commence!

We will now be able to Blog on the course

Good news! ..I think….

We will now be able to add to our Blog WHILE we are on the course via email, so that the world at large can keep pace!

Rob, give Tommy heck, the emails bounced back. If we're going to sponsor Tommy & Ronnie's, he needs to give us a valid email address..

It's a Travesty - an ANDY Travesty...

Suits vs. Dungarees

vs.

After laborious thought and effort. And beer. HOORAY Beer!! We have a suitable proposal for the theme for the next EZRyder Cup - and as a bonus - a sponsor - and a very suitable one at that!!

Proposal: Suits vs the Dungarees.

[Theme music by D.O.A. (Takin' care of Business).]

We are also proud to announce that for the first time the EZRyder Cup will involve a Sponsor!

For this event, and hopefully on into the Future, the EZRyder Cup will be sponsoring Tommy & Ronnie's BBQ Shak in beautiful downtown Kilworth!!

Division of teams will be conducted by Tommy (the Judge) Judge in a rigorously conducted "Suit-off", dun agreeably and where teams will be divided suitably.

Unleash the email Reply-to-Alls!!

Sincerely,

Your EZRyder Cup organizing committee.

Now...why didn't we think of this?

Gerry has to have enough back hair to pull this one off...

Terminologie du golf - Lexique anglais-français

http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/bibliotheque/dictionnaires/golf_terminologie.html

A sample:

double bogey, v. o. double bogie, double bogy

boguey double n. m.