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Re: NEXT SYDNEY MEET....????
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Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:28:15 GMT
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> Is there an Agenda or does it all happen ad hoc.
To give you a general idea, here are the minutes for the last STUDS meeting;
admittedly these are the unauthorised minutes as the minutes need to be
formally ratified at the next meeting by a quorum of 3/4 of the membership
present at the previous meeting.
08:30am Sergeant-At-Arms James Howse enters the chamber of Wollongong RSL
bearing the STUDS mace
09:00am President Richard Parson opens the meeting with speech of welcome
09:30am Secretary Kev Hall reports on apologies and calls the roll
10:00am Secretary Kev Hall reports on correspondence inwards
10:30am President Richard Parsons calls for discussion on inward
correspondence
11:00am Secretary Kev Hall reports on correspondence outwards
11:30am President Richard Parsons calls for motions of censure re
correspondence outwards
12:00am Member Pete White arrives apologetically due to traffic delays in
Penrith Toys R Us carpark
12:30pm President and Viking Leader Richard Parsons briefs Member Pete White
on Secretary's report on inward/outward correspondence
01:00pm Secretary revises meeting apologies re Member and Cardinal Pete
White's late arrival
01.30pm Member Dave Low puts a motion to recess for luncheon, Member Richie
Dulin seconds the motion
02:00pm Discussion re luncheon motion
02:30pm President Richard Parsons calls for vote on luncheon motion; motion
passes.
03:00pm Meeting recesses for luncheon
04:00pm Meeting resumes after luncheon recess
04:30pm President Richard Parsons welcomes delegates returning from luncheon
05:00pm Secretary Kev Hall leaves apologetically due to long drive back to
Gosford
05:30pm President Richard Parsons calls for nominations for interim
Secretary due to Kev Hall's absence
06:00pm Member Dave Low puts a motion to nominate Pete White for interim
Secretary; Member Richie Dulin seconds the motion
06:30pm Discussion re interim Secretary nomination motion
07:00pm Member Pete White refuses nomination for interim Secretary, but
thanks Members Dave Lowe and Richie Dulin for their nomination and show of
support
07:30pm Member Santosh Bhat studies the Memorandum and Articles of STUDS and
reports that a meeting is not required to fill the role of Secretary if
there are less than 6 hours remaining of the day's meeting, this time having
elapsed at 6:00pm at the latest
08:00pm President Richard Parsons calls on Members Dave Low and Richie Dulin
to withdraw their motion
08:30pm Members Dave Lowe and Richie Dulin announce that their motion is
withdrawn, noting the lack of public-spiritedness shown by Member Pete White
in refusing to accept the role of interim secretary, given his fondness for
girlie Bellville sets
09:00pm Member Pete White raises a point of order of personal privilege,
President Richard Parsons consults Roberts Rules and reports that Member
Pete White is in order to raise a point of order of personal privilege if
his reputation may have been sullied by previous remarks
09:30pm Members Dave Low and Richie Dulin withdraw their remarks about lack
of public-spiritedness of Member and Girlie Pete White, but refuse to
withdraw their remarks about his fondness for Bellville sets
10:00pm Member Pete White confesses to his fondness for girlie Bellville
sets, and accepts the censure of the Train Heads of the group for his desire
to acquire trans-pink vanity accessories
10:30pm Member and Train Head Eli Donati raises a point of order of personal
privilege, objecting to Member Pete White's pejorative use of the term
"Train Heads", noting that it has been previously recorded that the correct
designation is "Lego Model Railway Enthusiasts"
11:00pm Member Pete White withdraws his use of the term "Train Heads"
substituting his desire to provide Member and Lego Model Railway Enthusiast
Eli Donati with a nasally-inserted bogey (12V).
11:30pm Sergeant-at-Arms Jamie Howse calls for Brickwars to commence;
opposing forces convene at either end of the ping-pong table
12:00midnight Round 1 of Brickwars -- no casualties
1:00am Round 2 of Brickwars -- no casualties
2:30am Round 3 of Brickwars -- no causalities
3:45 am Round 5 of Brickwars -- no causalities
5:00am Member Santosh Bhat raises a point of order of personal privilege,
relating to the loss of his team's Round 4 movements
5:15am Member Peter Callaway objects to the point of order, as Member
Santosh Bhat and his team members were asleep and failed to take advantage
of their Round 4 movements. Discussion ensured -- one dead, two minor
injuries, three asleep.
6:00am President Richard Parsons rules that it is now Round 8, penalising
both teams for a loss of a term. Discussion ensues -- the remaining awake
member agrees this is a fair thing.
6:30am Member Richie Dulin awakes, and objects to the loss of Round 7, the
traditional beer-drinking round
7:00am President Richard Parsons, having removed his belt in a somewhat
threatening manner, rules that the loss of Round 7 cannot be re-instated and
rules that it is now Round 14, again penalising both teams, and taking
BrickWars to the second traditional beer-drinking round
7:30am Meeting recesses for Round 14 beer-drinking recess
8:30am Meeting resumes. Round 15 commences.
9:30am Member Peter White returns apologising for being delayed in the pub
carpark.
10:10am Sergeant-at-Arms Jamie Howse calls for censure motion of Member Pete
White for deliberate delaying tactics, having removed his Bellville fairy
princess army during the Round 14 beer-drinking to avoid their inevitable
loss due to Member Richie Dulin's strike force of Millennium Falcons
10.20am Member Pete White denies removing his Bellville fairy princess army
for any other reason than for vital rest-and-recreation, noting that Member
Richie Dulin has been previously minuted as having been too cheap to
purchase any Millennium Falcons due to a lack of 40% discount sales in
remote cities, and hence that his army of Bellville Fairy Princesses were
under no threat
11:10am Member Richie Dulin admits he does not have a strike force of
Millennium Falcons, and calls for censure motion of Sergeant-at-Arms Jamie
Howse for alleging that he did
11:30am Sergeant-at-Arms Jamie Howse denies making any such allegations,
suggesting that the allegation was in fact made by a holographic projection
of himself
11:50am Member and Biological Specialist Dave Low reports that a holographic
projection is beyond our conventional technology, but draws the meeting's
attention to the strange matter of the presence earlier of Member Pete
Callaway, widely known to be resident in the UK
12:00noon President Richard Parsons calls on the Secretary Kev Hall to
review the Attendance and Apology minutes regarding the presence or
otherwise of Member Pete Callaway
12:10pm Member Eli Donati raises a point of order, noting that the position
of interim secretary which did not require to be filled in the remaining 6
hours of the meeting of the previous day, did indeed need to filled from
midnight of today, and proposes a motion that he be appointed interim
Secretary for the necessary duration to inspect the minutes relating to
Attendance and Apology to confirm or deny that Member Pete Callaway was
present.
12:30pm President Richard Parsons is asleep but after violent application of
some large WW2 convoy escort vessels about his head calls for a vote. Motion
passes. Interim Secretary Eli Donati reads the Attendance and Apologies from
the earlier minutes, and reports that Member Pete Callaway is neither
present nor absent.
1:00pm President Richard Parsons calls on Member and Biological Specialist
Dave Low to comment on the apparent contradiction of these findings. Member
and Biological Specialist Dave Low announces that he must leave immediately
for Florida.
1:20pm Member Santosh Bhat proposes a motion that the simultaneous lack of
presence and absence of Member Pete Callaway despite the reports of his
presence by those members awake and the reports of his absence by those
members asleep is a phenomena familiar to players of the ancient computer
game Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, with consistent parallels with the
dual concepts of having tea and no tea, being the result of removing the
particle of common sense from one's own brain having been teleported there
by a freak incident involving a heated argument between galactic leaders,
one of whom is wreathed in green smoke and the other of whom wears only
jewelled battle shorts, while in quest for four pieces of fluff needed to
fertilise a pot plant that will give rise briefly to a sperm whale and a
bowl of petunias.
1.40pm Member Pete White comments "Oh no, not again" and proposes a motion
to exile Member Santosh Bhat to Melbourne. Motion carried, Member Santosh
Bhat carried off to Post Office, placed in padded postal bag and mailed to
Ben Whytcross.
2:00pm Member and Wollongong Meeting Host David Drew arrives apologising for
his late arrival from Brisbane due to delays in several toyshop carparks on
the Pacific Highway.
3:00pm Member and Wollongong Meeting Host David Drew decides that not having
seen any other members for at least one hour, declares the meeting closed
and returns to Brisbane.
3:01pm Member Pete Callaway objects to the meeting closure as he is there.
8:10pm Member Pete Callaway gradually fades away.
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) ... (...) ... (...) Kerry, you have obviously been to WAY too many meetings lately (and not the Lego kind either), and I think it was past your bedtime when you posted this. Have a nice long sleep, and remember to play with your watch (Lego (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
| | | Re: NEXT SYDNEY MEET....????
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| (...) .. .. .. snip .. .. .. (...) Ok, so now I am SORRY that I asked. BTW, are you are court reporter Kerry or a parliament minute taker? Sheesh! ;-) Ed. (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
| | | Re: NEXT SYDNEY MEET....????
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| (...) ROTFL! It seems like you must have been there! But you're not minuted as being an official observer, so you obviously couldn't have been there. Cheers Richie Dulin Parsimonious Patrician of Brick Morpork (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Sounds OK to me (in theory). Is the Uni _the_ most central location? How many of "us" are there that might attend? Is there an Agenda or does it all happen ad hoc. Remember - treat me gently as I'm a newbie AFOL, ok? Ed. (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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