Fun At The Santa Ana Elks 2012

A Great Evening With Friends

Fun Fun Fun

Did You Know? - Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. ~From Scooby-Doo

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Cher and Sonny showed up

Did You Know? - Sonny & Cher were an American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers made up of husband-and-wife team Sonny and Cher Bono in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s as R&B backing singers for record producer Phil Spector.

The pair first achieved fame with two hit songs in 1965, "Baby Don't Go" and "I Got You Babe". Signing with Atco/Atlantic Records, they released three studio albums in the late 1960s, as well as the soundtrack recording for an unsuccessful movie, Good Times. In 1972, after four years of silence, the couple returned to the studio and released two other albums under the MCA/Kapp Records label.

In the 1970s, they also positioned themselves as media personalities with two top ten TV shows in the US, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and The Sonny & Cher Show. The couple's career as a duo ended in 1975 following their divorce. In the decade they spent together, Sonny and Cher sold 80 million records worldwide.

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Lasagna this evening

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Spooky indeed

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Great makeuop

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First of our group on the floor

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Line dance..... Zot, Greg takes center stage

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Sam Conti playing great dance music

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Vince and Carri take to the floor


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Greag studies the steps

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Miles of smiles

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The serious look

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Marianne got a new costume for the evening

Did You Know? - The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period.

Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a fancy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.

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The varsity high school team served this evening

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Time for a collection

An observation - Nice young men and well mannered! They worked hard and moved about the members with ease! They were a delightful addition to the party!

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The proud parents were here to assist

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Marianne and Craig are dressed to the nine's

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The magic hat

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After three minutes it made people act goofy.... With Bob, only took 4.5 seconds!

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It was a natural with Craig.... Watch for the flashing lights...

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The smile generates tghe electrical signal that fires off the lights

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The LED hat...

Did You Know? - A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source. LEDs are used as indicator lamps in many devices and are increasingly used for other lighting. Appearing as practical electronic components in 1962, early LEDs emitted low-intensity red light, but modern versions are available across the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared wavelengths, with very high brightness.

When a light-emitting diode is forward-biased (switched on), electrons are able to recombine with electron holes within the device, releasing energy in the form of photons. This effect is called electroluminescence and the color of the light (corresponding to the energy of the photon) is determined by the energy gap of the semiconductor.

An LED is often small in area (less than 1 mm2), and integrated optical components may be used to shape its radiation pattern. LEDs present many advantages over incandescent light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved physical robustness, smaller size, and faster switching. LEDs powerful enough for room lighting are relatively expensive and require more precise current and heat management than compact fluorescent lamp sources of comparable output.

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Craig is flashing us.... Big smiles... Big flashes

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The hat works well!

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Someone won the 50/50....

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Rich beyond all imagination

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Shares with husband... That is good

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The Elks are responsible...No overdrinking here! But the sign is funny....

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He doesn't look like a pirate?!

Did You Know? - The origin of the pirate flag has been lost. It is thought that pirates originally used a red flag, which was also common in naval warfare, to signal that no quarter would be given. This red flag was called Joli Rouge (pretty red) by the French, and may have been corrupted into English as Jolly Roger.

From the red flag it seems that individual pirates began to develop their own personal flags in order to terrify their foes into a quick surrender. In contrast with the well known red flag, they used the black and yellow flag of Quarentine(often called the yellow jack) and disease as the base, and then modified it by adding other emblems indicative of that pirate. The skull and bones was also used in captains' logbooks to indicate the death of a sailor.

Not everyone agrees on this. Some historians[who?] think the term Jolly Roger is more likely a reference to the English use of 'Roger' as a term for fornication. Stud bulls in England were commonly named Roger. This implied that if the victim did not surrender, they would be 'Rogered'.

A third possibility is that Jolly Roger derived from 'Old Roger' as a term for the devil. That the "Jolly Roger" flag was called the "Old Roger" flag in 1723 supports the third proposed origin. A news report in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer (London, England), Saturday, October 19, 1723; Issue LVII, page 2, col. 1 reads: "Parts of the West-Indies. Rhode-Island, July 26. This Day, 26 of the Pyrates taken by his Majesty Ship the _Greyhound_, Captain _Solgard_, were executed here.

Some of them delivered what they had to say in Writing, and most of them said something at the Place of Execution, advising all People, young ones especially, to take warning by their unhappy Fate, and to avoid the Crimes that brought them to it.

 

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Boo!

Sonny & Cher Made Their Entrance


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Cher was out and about

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Sonny or Groucho?

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Boobies!

Oh Oh.... Greg Eyed A Dance Partner

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What is Greg doing with the sketeton .... "May I have this dance??"

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"Tilt to the left... Tilt to the right"

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"You are so very lite on your feet"

Did You Know? - The skeleton (From Greek σκελετός, skeletos = "dried-body", "mummy") is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism .

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OMG... I think he is quoting Shakespeare to the sketeton!

Did You Know? - The human skeleton consists of both fused and individual bones supported and supplemented by ligaments, tendons, muscles and cartilage. It serves as a scaffold which supports organs, anchors muscles, and protects organs such as the brain, lungs and heart. Although the teeth do not consist of tissue commonly found in other bones, the teeth are considered bones and are a member of the skeletal system. The biggest bone in the body is the femur in the upper leg, and the smallest is the stapes bone in the middle ear. In an adult, the skeleton comprises around 14% of the total body weight, and half of this weight is water.

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She is a bit noisy in the joints

Did You Know? - The human skeleton consists of both fused and individual bones supported and supplemented by ligaments, tendons, muscles and cartilage. It serves as a scaffold which supports organs, anchors muscles, and protects organs such as the brain, lungs and heart. Although the teeth do not consist of tissue commonly found in other bones, the teeth are considered bones and are a member of the skeletal system. The biggest bone in the body is the femur in the upper leg, and the smallest is the stapes bone in the middle ear. In an adult, the skeleton comprises around 14% of the total body weight,[2] and half of this weight is water.

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"OUCH! Greg... You stepped on my toe!"

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Greg's shoulder was taped by Count Cracula

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A one fanger....

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"Just a little kiss??"

Did You Know? - Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. The novel touches on themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film and television interpretations.

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TIme to dance...

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It's 10:00 and the crowd is dissipating....

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The Phantom of the table.... Marcia has tricks and treats

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Bye bye Elks... Great dance

Did You Know? - Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. ~From Scooby-Doo