RE: Zero tolerance and the drinking policy

[Guest guest]

How about adding a " Zero tolerance " policy to that tacky public poker

game that certain members play right in front of the ballroom at every

conference?

Afterall what kind of image are we portraying there?

Gambling, drinking and smoking...

Hmmm, wonder why certain former Presidents condone that?

[Guest guest]

Very Good !!!!

I keep forgetting about all the screaming mimis on this list.

Karin

[Guest guest]

It sounds like a good time to me, Tony. Adults play too and play is a

good thing, at any age. Do you really want kids thinking that adults

never have fun and that becoming an adult means you're always serious

and all sour and business like? Now there's a role model! " Set you goals

in life high, my son. Achieve a personality similar to highly refined

cardboard. " Oh, that's certainly got to be enticing to any fun loving

child.

I wonder if they'll let me pull up a chair and watch that game or maybe

even sit in a hand or two. I know a little comedian that would love to

play (watch out, she'll take everyone's money) and as a fully grown

adult, like me, she dislikes reading material that's censored to a 4th

grade comprehension level or spending hours watching inane cartoons and

purple friggin' dinosaurs.

I raised my children with lots of play that was appropriate to them as

they grew but I didn't hide the fact from them that adults have a

different and more sophisticated idea of play. I also raised them to

become adults, to understand adult challenges, to be able to grow into

adult pleasures, like chess or the satisfaction that one earns from

doing superior work in a field that gives one pleasure and of adult

play. I didn't hide from them the fact that adults have play as well or

that we, as human beings in a modern society, enjoy play above most

everything else.

It worked very well and my now adult children are very happy,

intelligent and well adjusted. In fact I submit that the poker game you

speak of is a very good and important example for children to see. They

need to see that old decrepit folks like us, with one foot in the grave,

still have a lot of fun, enjoy life and that life isn't over once you've

turned the overripe age of 21.

Marty

Re: " Zero tolerance " and the drinking policy

How about adding a " Zero tolerance " policy to that tacky public

poker

game that certain members play right in front of the ballroom at every

conference?

Afterall what kind of image are we portraying there?

Gambling, drinking and smoking...

Hmmm, wonder why certain former Presidents condone that?