The Bard March, 2016 Tim Casey, Editor From the President Hello Everyone! IT S ALMOST HERE!!!!! And I m not talking about spring. I m talking about our ANNUAL FUNDRAISER at the ICHC on March 6th from noon to 6:00 PM! Please accept my thanks to everyone for all their hard work. So much time and effort went into this event, from organizing the entertainment, having signs/posters printed, the raffle, making up the baskets, hand delivering fliers, organizing food, cleaning, set-up and the list goes on. So, THANK YOU all! Julie Smith will be appearing on Channel 58 with Denise Held from COPS, as my proxy, to advertise our event. Thank you to the Flemings for organizing it, as I am attending to my ill mother. For those that missed the last meeting, the Flemings have organized entertainment for all three areas this year. Upstairs by the raffle and food area will be added entertainment. Great idea! The food will be prepared and sold by Dugout 54. REMINDER: When you come to the fundraiser, please remember your orange ticket to receive your free 25 th anniversary coin! The coins were designed by Gary Schneider and are terrific! We will have a special table for members to pay membership fees and receive your coin. If you would like to purchase additional coins, there will be a table set up in the parlor along with our annual T- Shirt (designed by Josh Morgan), and coins for purchase. I can t wait to see you all there. Cross your fingers for great weather! SPEAKING OF WEATHER. The Bard,March, 2016 Page 1
How many of you made a New Year s resolution to get in better shape??? I have the best FREE workout options for you. WALKING IN THE ST PATRICKS DAY PARADE! But wait as an added BONUS, if you walk in the Blue Mound Road parade, you will receive 2 tickets for beer or soda at Dugout 54. As Ken Donovan explained in his message, the first parade kicks off downtown on Wisconsin and 3 rd street at noon. Our sashes have been dry cleaned and we will be ready to impress! The Blue Mound Road parade starts at 3:30 PM, next to Balistreri's Bluemound Inn. Our Irishmen of the Year are our founding Members! Again, our next meeting is on Monday March 7 th at 7:00 PM at Dugout 54. As always, feel free to contact me with your concerns at carolann.kashishian@wisc.edu. Slainte, CarolAnn Guinness disobeys the laws of physics. Science has finally figured out just why Guinness is so different. Unlike other brews, the bubbles in Guinness go down rather than up. Lucky members of the Royal Society of Chemistry investigated a selection of pints in London. They used a super-fast camera that magnified the bubbles to 1000 percent of their normal size and zoomed in on their behavior. They found that the bubbles rose rapidly at the center of the glass, pulling the surrounding liquid with them and setting up a circulating current while the outlying bubbles moved downwards. Senior researcher Dr. Andrew Alexander, who lectures in chemical physics at the University of Edinburgh, said he had wanted to do this experiment since drinking Guinness as a student. ''I'd wanted to try and capture the bubbles going down as I had obviously wondered whether it really did happen, having drunk a few Guinness during my time at university, or whether it was an optical illusion created by the waves in the drink that don't contain any bubbles. Nobody had carried out the experiment before. ''To capture the image, we had a camera which uses 4,500 frames a second and a zoom lens of times 10. When we saw the bubbles really were going down, I was immeasurably happy. The Bard,March, 2016 Page 2
''We then filmed it as a colleague pointed out that people might have said all we did was turn the photos upside down. But it's true. The circulation cells in the glass provide the same effect like you see in a tornado.'' A spokesman for the RSC said: ''Guinness is good for this experiment as the bubbles are small, due to being released at high pressure by the widget and therefore easily pushed around. 'The gas in the bubbles is also important. In lager beers, the gas is carbon dioxide which is more easily dissolved into the liquid. The gas in Guinness bubbles is nitrogen - not so easily dissolved and therefore not prone to grow larger. ''Finally, the contrast between the dark liquid and the light cream bubbles make the bubbles much easier to see. We're pleased to have finally solved this mystery in time for St Patrick's Day when many people will no doubt be enjoying a pint or two.'' May I have your attention? ESW FUNDRAISER: Volunteers are needed urgently for set up this Saturday at 10:30 AM at the ICHC. A WEE BIT O IRISH HUMOR An MPD officer was on exchange in County Tipperary in Ireland with the Garda as part of a new law enforcement program between the two jurisdictions. One day the sergeant informed him they d be stopping cars looking for suspicious characters. The day was going along with nothing to report until an older man pulled up in a small Ford van. He seemed agitated and the MPD officer was immediately suspicious. Where are you travelling to today? asked the officer. The older man angrily mumbled something the officer couldn t understand and tightened his hands on the wheel. The alarm bells went off in the officer s head and he reached for his baton, backing away from the car and saying, Sir, I can t understand you could you please step out of the vehicle. At this the man became quite angry and turned to the officer, yelling at him, I SAID I ve just come from KILLING A MAN and now I m off to KILL A BOY!! Now feck off and let me on with me business!! The Bard,March, 2016 Page 3
The officer immediately arrested the older man on suspicion of murder and brought him in for questioning. Instead of the praise he expected, the Garda sergeant uncuffed the suspect as soon as he saw him and, after just a few words, let him go with an apology before taking the MPD officer aside. That man is Paddy O Loughlin, said the sergeant, he s well known to ourselves, runs a local delivery business. He s harmless. But what about his confession to murder?! protested the yankee officer. The sergeant hefted a tired sigh. Paddy might not be a very polite man and he shouldn t have yelled at you but you really need to learn the names of the local areas here. The sergeant then pointed to a map on the wall where the American saw his mistake. The MPD officer had stopped Paddy directly on his daily route between Kilnaman and Killaboy, County Tipperary. A man was recently flying from New York to Dublin. He decided to strike up a conversation with his seat mate. "I've got a great police joke. Would you like to hear it?" "I should let you know first that I am a firefighter." "That's OK. I'll tell it really slow!" Pat was in his squad covering a quiet beat out in the sticks when he was amazed to find a former lieutenant covering the beat. He stopped the car and asked, "Why, Mike, this wouldn't be your new beat out here in the sticks, would it?" "That it is, "Mike replied grimly, "ever since I arrested the judge on his way to the masquerade ball." "You mean you pinched his honor?" mused Pat. "How was I to know that his convict suit was only a costume?" demanded Mike. "Well," mused Pat, "there's a lesson in this somewhere." "That there is," replied Mike..." 'Tis wise never to book a judge by his cover." Three highly decorated police officers die in a wild shoot out with narcotics dealers and go to heaven. God greets them and asks, "When you are laid out in your casket, and your fellow officers and family are mourning you, what would you like to hear them say about you? The Italian cop says, "I would like to hear them say, that I was the bravest cop on the force." The German police officer says, "I would like to hear that I was a terrific cop who died in the line of duty." The Irish cop replies, "I would like to hear them say... Look, He's moving!" The Bard,March, 2016 Page 4
The Bard is the official publication of the EMERALD SOCIETY of WISCONSIN P.O. Box 24, Milwaukee WI 53201-0024 and is published as often as we have something important to say. Dues are $25.00 per year. First year dues are waived for any recruit, cadet or student enrolled in a state-certified or federal basic law enforcement program. Web site: www.emeraldsociety.us E-mail: The Bard - pog.mo.thoin.boyo@gmail.com President CarolAnn Kashishian - CaGriffin@wisc.edu Calendar of Events Sunday, March 6, 2016 Emerald Society of Wisconsin Fundraising Event Irish Cultural & Heritage Center Monday, March 7, 2016 Emerald Society Meeting Dugout 54, Milwaukee, WI General Membership Meeting 1900 hours Board of Directors Meeting 1800 hours Note: All dates and times are subject to change NEXT MEETING Monday, March 7, 2016 Dugout 54 7:00 P.M Board of Directors Meeting: 6:00 P.M. Emerald Society of Wisconsin Officers Past Presidents President Carol Ann Kashishian Dennis Moroney Immediate Past President Gary Schneider Tom Fischer Secretary Jim Antisdel Ken Donovan Treasurer Josh Morgan John Isely Quartermaster Elizabeth Hanson Pete Fleming Historian Pete Fleming Bill Sullivan Chaplain Bill Sullivan Tom McKale Rev. Terry Brennan Kevin Lynch Jim Sanfilippo Pat Dunn John Finnegan Gary Schneider Board of Directors: Kim Miswald March 2017 Betty Grinker March 2017 Julie Smith March 2015 John Harrington March 2015 Steve Roufus March 2016 Dean Newport March 2016 The Bard Editor: Tim Casey The Bard,March, 2016 Page 5