DID YOU KNOW
- The American League of Physical Culture, the first nudist organization in
MONTHLY SINCE 1995 the United States, was founded on December 4, 1929.
R.C.L. BRANCH 98, SAINT LAURENT, QUEBEC, CANADA
- The term, “hush money”, meaning a bribe to keep someone form revealing
CANADA’S MOST RE-CYCLED LEGION BRANCH NEWSLETTER scandalous or damaging information, was first used in the early 1700’s.
DECEMBER 2006 VOLUME 13 NUMBER 10 - Cosmetics queen, Helena Rubenstein, provided the money to help artist,
Marc Chagall and his wife flee the Nazis and move to New York City in 1941.
“QUOTE…..UNQUOTE”
- In 1892, Emile Berlinger, developed the master disc, from which several
GIVE A MAN A FREE HAND AND HE’LL RUN IT ALL OVER YOU. copies of a record could be made on vulcanized rubber. Before then, singers
had to repeat a song for each copy of a recording.
MAE WEST (1893 – 1980)
- The first known pizza shop, Port ‘Alba in Naples, opened in 1830 and is still
GENERAL MEETING open today. Gennaro Lombardi, opened the first pizzeria in North America, in
1905 at 53 1/3 Spring Street in New York City.
Please be advised that the next GENERAL MEETING and EXECUTIVE
- In the 1980’s, music executives estimated that within two weeks after an
ELECTION will be held on Saturday, January 27th, 2007, beginning at 11:00
am. Please make an extra effort to attend. appearance on “Saturday Night Live” by a rock group, sales of its albums
increased by 300,000 copies.
REUNION GENERALE
- The raccoon derives its name from the Aboriginal word meaning “he who
La prochaine REUNION GENERALE et ELECTION GENERALE aura lieu scratches with his hands”.
samedi, 27 janvier 2007 a 11h. Votre présence a cette réunion sera
grandement apprécie. - Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly
walk across a titled ceiling.
RESERVE FUND
- The world’s largest coffee pot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It
Donations to the Branch 98 RESERVE FUND are always more than welcome. measures 24 feet (7.3 meters) tall, is made of sheet metal, and could hold
There is a container located on the sign-in table before, during, and after each 150,000 8-ounce cups of coffee.
General Meeting. Please be generous.
- The Nile has frozen over at least twice, in 829 and 1010 A.D.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
NOUS NOUS SOUVIENDRONS D’EUX
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Is a confidential, bilingual, listening support and referral telephone service
- Children’s Christmas Party, Sunday, December 17th starting at 1:00 pm. offered to seniors who are victims of psychological, physical or financial abuse,
as well as neglect. The line is also open to concerned family and friends who
-The next Branch 98 General Meeting and Executive Election will be held on know, or suspect, a situation of abuse involving a senior. The line is open
Saturday, January 27th, 2007 beginning at 11:00 am. Please make an extra Monday to Thursday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Friday
effort to attend!! from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. Call (514) 748-6381.
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31st, starting at 8:00 pm. Live Entertainment, Door Prizes, Cold Buffet and H4L 1B2.
Champagne at Midnight. Donation of $15.00 per person is requested.
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- Branch 98 Senior’s Dart League, every Tuesday, starting at 1:00 pm. Enjoy
a friendly afternoon of Darts for seniors 50 and over, a donation of $3.00 per
Takes place here at the Branch every second Thursday. For further
player is requested.
information, please call the Branch at (514) 336-8790
- Cribbage takes place here at the Branch every first and third Sunday of
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And that was a look at the world during the month of December 2006 through
Cooke, John A. MacDonald, Jackie Dunlop, Bruce (Too Tall) Taggart,
the eyes of all of us here at The 98 Review. We sincerely hope that you have
Theresa Walters, Maggie Rabideau, Wolfgang Senf, Joanne Dawson, Yvon
enjoyed reading this edition of The 98 Review, and we thank you all for your
Deslauriers, Diane Sheehan, Doug Sheehan, Harold R. Coon, (Fabreville,
continued support. We would like to remind you that we are now available on-
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line at, www.legion98.com. We will return on January 27th 2007, with another
Morin Heights Legion (Branch 171), Julien (Cliff) Smith, Chomedey, Qc.),
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Until then, please be good to each other and keep a happy J. Upland (Regina, Sask.), Sidney Firth (Georgian Bay, Ont.), Dick Newby,
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WELCOME TO THE BRANCH
SENIORS DART LEAGUE 50 PLUS
On behalf of all members of Branch 98, we wish to welcome both Brenda
The Branch 98 Seniors’ Dart League is a well-balanced, mixed Dart League Smith, (Associate) and Michael Pequeno, (Non-voting) to the Branch.
for seniors 50 years old and over. It takes place Tuesday afternoons from
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm. (Holidays and special Legion functions excluded). The THE FIRST CHARITY CHRISTMAS CARD?
cost is a minimal $3.00 per week, and you DO NOT have to be a member of the
Royal Canadian Legion to play Darts with us. Come on and try something The first charity Christmas card was produced by UNICEF in 1949. The picture
new. Who knows, you might even be good at it. Every Tuesday starting at 1:00 chosen of the card was painted not by a professional artist, but by a seven-year-
pm. Hope to see you there!! old girl. The girl was Jitka Samkova of Rudolfo, a small town in what was then
Czechoslovakia. The town received assistance from UNICEF after World War
WE “THANK YOU” FOR SUPPORTING BRANCH 98
II, inspiring Jitka to paint some children dancing around a maypole. She said
her picture represented, “joy going round and round”. -Triviatime
FROM ALL OF US AT
AND NOW YOU KNOW
THE 98 REVIEW
Yes, bad things happen to good people. Bad things sometimes also happen to AND
famous people. In a 4 part series, we feature some TRUE NORTH PRODUCTIONS GROUP
well-known people with something unusual in common:
they all accidentally killed someone. MERRY CHRISTMAS – JOYEUX NOEL – FELIZ NAVIDAD
VESELE VANOCE – SUNG TAN CHUK HA – HAUSAKAA JOULUA
ONLY IN GILOTSAVT KRIST’ES SHOBAS – JWAYE NWEL – BUON NATALE
LAIMINGY KALEDU – MO’ADIM LESIMKHA – VESELE VIANOCE
THE 98 REVIEW EFTIHISMENA CHRISTOUGENNA – GOD JUL – NADOLIG LIAWEN
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CHECK US OUT. WE DARE TO BE DIFFERENT BIOGRAPHIES OF WORLD WAR II
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CHRISTMAS TRIVIA ? (Note: These are by no means the definitive accounts of these people, but
rather a thumbnail look at their place in World War II and how they were
One notable medieval English Christmas celebration featured a giant, 165 perceived.)
pound pie. The giant pie was nine feet in diameter. Its ingredients included 2
bushels of flour, 20 pounds of butter, 4 geese, 2 rabbits, 4 wild ducks, 2 GENERAL REINHARD HEYDRICH (1904 - 1942)
woodcocks, 6 snipes, 4 partridges, 2 neats’ tongues, 2 curlews, 6 pigeons, and
7 blackbirds. (Fine dining wouldn’t you say folks!!). December 25th was not After joining a “Free Corps” group in 1918, Heydrich learned the practices of
celebrated as the birth date of Christ until the year 440 A.D. The popular gang fighting during post-war Germany, then joined the Navy in 1922. He
Christmas song, “Jingle Bells” was composed in 1857 by James Pierpont, became a lieutenant, but resigned in 1931 so he could concentrate on his
and was originally called, “One Horse Open Sleigh”. In Britain, the “Holy newfound interest: the Nazi Party. Hitler made him chief of the political
Days and Fasting Days Act” of 1551, which has not yet been repealed, states department of the police in Munich, which also gave him control over the
that every citizen must attend a Christian church service on concentration camp in Dacha. In 1934, he was made Berlin’s SS chief, and
Christmas Day, and must not use any kind of vehicle to get to the service. during the war he took the job of suppressing the numerous uprisings in the
-Triviatime Reich, where he ordered countless executions of his enemies, earning him the
nickname, “The Hangman”. On May 27, 1942, he felt the wrath of those he
THE BRANCH 98 CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PARTY sought to oppress as Czech partisans attacked his car on the way to Prague,
where he died a week later. In retaliation, the Nazis liquidated the town of
The date for the Branch 98 “Children’s Christmas Party” has been changed. Lidice and stepped up their brutality.
It will now take place on Sunday, December 17th at 1:00 pm.
We would like to thank everyone for their support of this event. PLEASE DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE.
IT’S A LAW WE CAN ALL LIVE WITH.
NEZ ROUGE (514) 256-2510
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AND MUCH, MUCH, MORE.
MIDNIGHT ZAMBONI RUN PROMPTS FIRINGS
CHECK US OUT. WE DARE TO BE DIFFERENT.
Two employees of the city’s ice skating rink have been fired for making a
midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis. An anonymous tipster reported
seeing the two big ice-resurfacing machines chug through a Burger King drive- AND NOW YOU KNOW PART 4 OF 4
through to the rink around 12:30 a.m. on November 10, 2006. The squat,
rubber-tired vehicles, have a top speed of about 5 mph in all. (Yes, bad things happen to good people. Bad things sometimes also
happen to famous people. In this 4 part series, we feature some well-
The Zamboni operators, both temporary city employees whose names and known people with something unusual in common: they all accidentally
ages were not released by the Park Department, had to negotiate at least one killed someone.)
intersection with a traffic light on their late-night creep from Idaho Ice World.
Running from trouble with the law over his illegal drug use, William S.
“They were fired immediately”, said Parks Department Director, Jim Hall. Burroughs left New York for Texas in 1946. He sent for his common-law wife,
“We’re pretty sure it was just the one time after we interviewed them, they didn’t Joan Vollmer Adams, and together they lived in Texas until 1948, when they
seem to be too concerned about it. I don’t think they understood the moved to New Orleans. Again in trouble with the law over narcotics charges,
seriousness of it”. they moved to Mexico City in 1949 and continued to fuel themselves with
booze and Benzedrine. On September 6, 1951, during a party of sorts,
Hall said neither of the $75,000 Zambonis, nor their $10,000 blades appeared William decided to show off his pistol skills and called Joan to help him with his
damaged, but the city could charge the two ex-employees with operating an “William Tell Act”. She placed a glass on her head and turned to the side and
unlicensed motor vehicle on a public street. –By John Miller, Associated William fired the pistol. The bullet hit Joan in the head and killed her, and
Press Writer William was charged with criminal imprudence, then was released on bail. He
sent his infant son to stay with his parents in Florida, and he lit out for South
WE THANK YOU FOR HELPING SUPPORT THE BRANCH 98 America and Tangiers. Burroughs later claimed that he never would have
“CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PARTY”. become a writer had he not shot Joan in the head.
YOUR DONATION WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!
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MONTHLY FEATURE
IN MEMORIAM
DINOSAUR NEST SELLS FOR $420,000
WILLIAM (BILL) WHITLOCK
1914 – 2006 A 65 million year-old nest of dinosaur eggs has sold to an unnamed buyer at
auction in Los Angeles for $420,000. The nest contains 22 broken eggs, 19 of
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING… which are in embryonic form, with some of the tiny raptors clearly visible. The
nest was discovered in Guangdong, southern China, in 1984, and scientists
MARITIME DISASTERS OF WORLD WAR II there had appealed of Bonhams not to allow the auction. A Chinese dinosaur
By George R. Duncan expert quoted on state new agency Xinhua, said the nest should be returned for
research.
CITY OF GUILDFORD
RESTORED
(March 27, 1943) Ellerman Lines passenger/cargo ship of 5,157 tons, en route
from Alexandria to Tripoli, North Africa, carrying aviation spirit and munitions, The top estimate by auction house, Bonhams & Butterfields, for the nest was
was sunk by the U-593 (Kotit, Gerd Kelbling, Knights Cross) near Derna. $220,000, but it almost doubled that. The name of the buyer would not be
Sixty-eight of her crew, 11 gunners and 46 passengers were lost, a total of 125. released, the auction house said. The nest, encased in sandstone, dates to the
There were 13 survivors. The U-593 was sunk on December 13, 1943 in the Cretaceous-era and was sold in 2003 to an American collector, who restored
Mediterranean by depth-charges from USS Wain and HMS Calpe. All her crew it. Xing Lida, a dinosaur expert with the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology
survived. and Palaeoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, had
urged Bonhams not to proceed with the auction. He said Chinese fossils were
CELEBRITY STALKING ? often broken up to make them easy to conceal and carry out of the country,
destroying important scientific information. Xinhua quoted a dinosaur expert at
The first-ever recorded case of a celebrity being stalked and attacked by an the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Gerald Grellet-Tinner,
obsessed fan occurred in1949. A baseball player named Eddie Waitkus was saying the nest should be housed in a museum in China. –BBC News
gunned down in his hotel room. The assassin was a woman, who had set a
place for him at her dinner table every night, though she had never met him. IMPORTANT NOTE FROM THE MANAGEMENT
Celebrity-stalking attacks were still uncommon in the U.S., except for those
involving government leaders or political activists, until the 1980 murder of This is to inform the individual (male) that continues to insist that they
former Beatle, John Lennon in front of his New York apartment by Mark “Permanently Borrow” various supplies from the men’s bathroom.
David Chapman. And then, according to researcher, Tom O’Neill, “all hell (ie. Paper Towels, Air Fresheners, and whatever else you may find not
broke loose”. –Triviatime nailed down). The Management of this establishment knows who you are.
Please consider this your first and final warning, or your name will be made
WE THANK YOU, THE “READER’S” FOR MAKING public in THE 98 REVIEW.
THE 98 REVIEW, (A word of warning: Please do not take this lightly, this is a promise!!”)
ON THE LIGTER SIDE
MAN FINED FOR TOSSING PIG AT HOTEL
WATCH OUT FOR FLYING…..?
West Point, Miss.- When pigs fly, indeed. Kevin Pugh, 20, of Cedar Bluff, has
Two men in a Dodge Neon were seriously injured in a rollover accident on been fined $279.00 for tossing a pig over the counter at the Holiday Inn
Interstate 75 near Toledo, Ohio, in October after a red bra flew from the radio Express in West Point. Pugh pleaded guilty in city court to a charge of
antenna of another car, startling the Neon driver and causing him to swerve and disturbing the peace. West Point Police, Lt. Danny McCaskill, said Pugh
lose control. The Ohio Highway Patrol later learned that the owner of the bra didn’t know the employees of the hotel. There was no evidence intoxication
had hung it from the aerial after she realized that it had broken due to her dog’s was a factor. No one was hurt, including the pig, officers said.
having chewed on it earlier that day. A prosecutor said a misdemeanor littering
charge would be filed against the woman, but was exploring whether there had “This was the silliest thing I’ve ever seen”, McCaskill said. “Almost every officer
been out-the-window socializing between the cars’ occupants before the we had was involved, because the incidents kept happening at different hours”.
rollover. –Toledo Blade. McCaskill, said Pugh was accused of walking into the hotel and throwing the
60-pound pig over the counter.
THE 98 REVIEW “REJECTED” LAUGH OF THE MONTH
“He said it was a prank”, McCaskill said. “It must be some redneck thing,
MEDICAL CONCERN ? because I haven’t ever heard of anything like it”. McCaskill said there have
been four late-night incidents involving animal-tossing at West Point
An elderly couple go to the Doctor. He asks the husband if sex is still good, and businesses. Twice a pig was tossed and two of the incidents involved possums.
if he has any questions.
Pugh is accused in a second animal-throwing incident at a Hardee’s restaurant.
“In fact, I do”, said the old man. “After having sex with my wife, I am usually hot He has pleaded innocent to disturbing the peace in that case and will appear in
and sweaty, and then, after I have sex with her the second time, I am usually court in December. –CBS News, Associated Press
cold and chilly”.
Surprised he can still do it twice, the Doc then sees the wife. TO ALL MEMBERS / A TOUS LES MEMBRES
After examining the elderly wife, the doctor said, “Everything appears to be fine. MERRY CHRISTMAS
Do you have any medical concerns that you would like to discuss with me?” The JOYEUX NOEL
lady replied that she had no questions or concerns. The doctor then said to her,
“Your husband has an unusual concern. He claims that he is usually hot and PATRICIA CRICHTON
sweaty after having sex with you the first time, and the cold and chilly after the
(HOCHELAGA DISTRICT COMMANDER)
second time. Do you know why?”
(COMMANDANT DE ZONE D’HOCHELAGA)
“Crazy old fart”, she replied. “That’s because the first time is usually July PAULETTE COOK
and the second time is January”.
(PRESIDENT QUEBEC PROVINCIAL COMMAND)
National Maritime Museum. In a period of 5 months this cat survived three
(PRESIDENTE DE LA DIRECTION PROVINCIALE)
sinkings! Now do you believe a cat has 9 lives?
AVENUE ROBERT-BOURASSA
THE 98 REVIEW LAUGH OF THE MONTH
(The following article appeared in the “Mirror” in the month of December
2006.) AN ACCIDENTAL ENCOUNTER
Seems people power doesn’t count for shit in this town. Despite the tens of A man is in a hotel lobby. He wants to ask the clerk a question. As he turns to
thousands signatures and warnings by the mayor’s own local councilors, City go to the front desk, he accidentally bumps into a woman beside him and as he
Hall decided to go ahead and vote to rename Parc Avenue, after an okay-ish does, his elbow goes into her breast.
premier 10 years in the grave. Amazingly, the mayor managed to corral his
troops into getting the motion passed 40 votes to 22, and ditch a 123 year-old, They are both quite startled. The man turns to her and says, Ma’am, if your
perfectly serviceable and completely appropriate name. Forget the fact that heart is as soft as your breast, I know you’ll forgive me”.
hundreds of thousands of people, many of them immigrants, grew up on and
around Parc and remember the name fondly; this move is a gross example of She replies, “If your penis is as hard as your elbow, I’m in room 436”.
abuse of power, and should be remembered come re-election. Long live Parc
Avenue! MAN IMPERSONATES COP TO GO BOWLING
FROM THE BISMARCK TO THE ROYAL NAVY ! Savannah, Ga.- A Savannah man went to jail for impersonating a sheriff’s
deputy so he could go bowling. Jeffrey Eugene Ferguson, 46, pulled up to a
(The following was published in the German-Canadian paper “Das Echo” gate at Hunter Army Airfield, and showed a guard a driver’s license that was
in December 2006. Translation provided by Wolfgang Senf.) cracked in half, police said.
The story of “Oskar”, the cat mascot on board the Bismarck. On May 27th, When the guard requested a second form of ID, Ferguson pulled out a
1941, 700 miles from the French port of Brest, the Bismarck was sunk. From Chatham County sheriff’s lieutentant badge. The guard called Savannah-
the 2200 souls on board, only 115 were rescued. One of the survivors was Chatham Metropolitan Police, who responded and discovered Ferguson’s
spotted on a piece of wreckage. It was a cat. The crew of the “Cossack” license had been suspended for failure to pay child support, according to police
rescued the cat, and named him “Oskar”, On the 10th of November 1941, the Sgt. Mike Wilson. Ferguson, who was jailed on charges of impersonating a
“Cossack” was also sunk. Well yes, you guessed it. The cat survived again. police officer, later told authorities he found the badge at a work site.
After that, the crew of the “Ark Royal”, adopted the cat, and he became a
member of the Royal Navy. He told them, he was not trying to get any special police privileges, just to get
on the military post to go to its bowling alley.
But his stay on the “Ark Royal” was short lived, when she also was sunk by U- – Associated Press, ABC News
81, not far from Gibraltar. There was one fatality. No it was not “Oskar”, he
survived again. He became the pet of the harbor Master in Gilbraltar. Later, he YOU’RE READING THE 98 REVIEW.
became the mascot at the home of seaman in Belfast, where he finished his
days and died in 1955. There is a picture of “Oskar”, in the Greenwich
YOUR PASSPORT TO NEWS, VIEWS AND EVENTS IN BRANCH separate entrance to the house, so he could come and go without meeting
anyone. In the end, he insisted on dying alone.
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‘BIG PAPA’ ACCUSED OF GIVING STOLEN GIFT
Merrillville, Ind.- Instead of impressing “Honey Bunny” on Christmas
morning with a 42-inch plasma television, “Big Papa” is facing of theft.
Richard Perez, 43, of Lake Station, was charged with stealing the TV and a
Sleep Number bedding system from a hotel where he worked as a a security
officer.
Security video showed Perez, walking into a room at the Radisson Hotel with
an empty luggage cart, then leaving minutes later with a full cart covered with
cloth, Merrillville police Detective Donald Toth said.
Police said they searched Perez’s Lake Station home and found the Sleep
Number system installed on Perez’s bed and the TV underneath the tree,
wrapped in green, Santa-themed paper.
The attached card was addressed to “Mom, Honey Bunny from Big Papa,
Daddy”, Toth said. “I’m not sure if he’s the Grinch or I’m the Grinch, because
I’m the one who took the items back”, Toth said.
Perez, who has been fired from his hotel job, was released after posting a
$10,000 surety bond. –Associated Press, ABC News
THE 98 REVIEW TRIVIA QUESTION: NAME BASEBALL’S FIRST
“ROOKIE OF THE YEAR” ?
WHO WAS HENRY CAVENDISH ?
Henry Cavendish, one of the great scientists of the 1700’s, was painfully shy
and could barely speak to one person, never to two. He was so timid in the
presence of women, that he communicated with his female servants by notes
only. If one crossed his path in his house, she was fired on the spot. He built a
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