So, We Thought We Could Dance!!

THE STARS SHINE AT MUTTON!!

MLCAMLers and their guests from all eras joined many Celebrities who were out in full force for the first ever Mutton Lake Dance Party.  Many celebs returned from the dead for the occasion in fact.  Big shout out and thanks for making the effort to MJ, Madonna, John "what's this switch for?" Denver, Patsy Cline, Betty Boop, the Fonzie gang and of course, The King himself!!

Well, there is not much more to say, so we can let the pictures do the talking.  Big thanks to Poolhouse Steph for sending in these photos, as these are the only ones sent to MLCAML Blog Central. 

Betty Boop (I think?), The King and one of the Fonzies!

Some Hippie and Micheal Jackson rockin a Tilley!

Elvis and his shiney daughter, Mepps #8.

Fonzie #2 and Gay Fonzie.

Fonzie #1, Madonna and some Hippie.

Some Hippie and his 'ol lady!

When line dancing goes wrong!

John Denver, MJ, The King and Patsy Kline!

Gay Fonzie steppin it up a notch!

The Romainian gymnastics team looks on!!

That's right, people actually dancing!!

Ted (enough said!)

Patsy on clean-up duty after the "incident", which had nothing to do with Gay Fonzie whatsoever!!

Some Hippie with his other 'ol lady!

A Dance Crasher being shown the door!

More dancing!

And even more dancing!

AND NOW, TIME FOR THE AWARDS PRESENTATIONS!!

Best Costume: Ray as Elvis!! (Great Elvis Ray, just stay off the toilet and you should be fine!)

Most Original Costume: 6 way tie! Fonzie #3, Fonzie #2, Gay Fonzie, Fonzie #4, Wife Beater Fonzie, and Fonzie #1

King and Queen of the Hop:  Bob and Max!  (turns out the dance crasher loves to dance and dare I say, one of Maxine's prouder moments?!)

DANCE PARTY INVITATION

SATURDAY NIGHT SWING*

Come dressed to your favourite music era and dance under the stars.
Put on your bobby socks & blue suede shoes and
show off your best dance moves!

When: Saturday, July 10, 2010
Where: Lodge Deck
Time: 9:30pm

Prizes Awarded for:
• Spot dances
• Best Dressed Dancer
• King & Queen of the hop

 An MLCAML Sponsored Event       Rain Date TBA        *Remember – don’t drink & jive...

FORE!!

(or "four" as Sam texted to me menacingly on the eve of the big match!)

The 1st annual Mutton Lake Cottage Association of Mutton Lake Links Challenge (MLCAMLLC) took place on May 15th, 2010 at the Parry Sound Golf Club. Participants were chosen via a complex qualification system akin to the selection process for the Masters. In other words, Poolhouse Rob had a coupon and the first three other people to hear about it became eligible to reap the benefits of Rob's offer to share the wealth!! In the end, the field was Poolhouse Rob, Lodge Ron, Lakehead Tom and Wannabe Sam. The toughest test this group would face was the tee time………………….8:00 am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some unbelievable golf was displayed throughout the round, however the scorecard has gone mising and the results have been lost forever! Though I am pretty sure that Tom won as Sam put all his golf balls and few others into the same pond on the same hole, I believe Rob is still in the bunker we lowered him into at the 12th before realizing there was no way he was getting his ball, or himself back out, and Ron was last seen trying to find the puny head on his puny driver!! Photographic evidence below……………...

The MLCAML Blog Returns!!!!

SPRUNG!!

Well, I finally made bail and am free to blog once again! All appeals have been exhausted and the Google decision (degooglecision) stands. NO MONEY FOR YOU!! EVER!!

Whatever, who cares, all the advertisers were scammers and thieves anyways.  So, where were we????

Blog Master being led into court.

Looks like prison life agreed with him!

AQUA CADABRA!!

Anyhoo, well I was gone, Mutton Lake nearly ran out of water!! We experienced record low water levels during the last week of May and the first couple weeks of June.

How low was it?  It was so low that Kenny walked to the Island!!

Photo: Ken half way to Island. Nice Tan eh!!??






My theory is that Google Goons were stealing our water as an act of revenge for the perceived blog "ad-scam"!

But if it was not Google Goons, where did all the water go? The Falls at Lakehead, being one of our major inputs have been running strong, and the beaver dam down the river has been doing its job, so…where did all the water go?. The answer, Evaporation.

EVAPORATION - Here are the facts:

• Mutton Lake contains exactly (that's right, exactly) 810 Million litres of water (that's 98,973,607 cases of beer!).
• Under the following conditions: 12c water temps, combined with 18c air temp and relative humidity of 45%, Mutton Lake would lose about 1.2 million litres of water a day (that’s 146,627 cases of beer), or about 2.75cm of water depth. 11 Days of these conditions and Mutton Lake would lower about 1 foot.
• Evaporation increases as humidity drops and temps rise. Evaporation stops at about 70% relative humidity.

Obviously there a many factors, but you get the point, lots of water can be lost to evaporation when we don't have the rain to replace it. So there, believe it or not!

THE SPIRIT OF RADIO
The Sted Manco Radio Hour has returned and renewed itself as a Saturday night classic, entertaining all MLCAML members. During the season premier a couple of weeks ago, Sted introduced us all to his very own theme song to open the program, which in itself, is worth tuning in for. This past Saturday was a Karaoke edition of the popular radio show AND Sted introduced us to an exciting new addition to the broadcast, weatherman Parry Hooter! Although Parry sounded a little nervous during his first appearance on the show, I think I speak for all listeners when I say we look forward to hearing more on the spot weather conditions, mafore codes, forecasts and especially, in which direction the wind is NOT blowing!! Welcome Parry!!

HIGH TECH OFF GRID
Parry Hooter of the Sted Manco show comes live to us from the newly installed Mutton Lake Meteorologic Centre of Applied Meteorology of Mutton Lake (MLMCAMML). This is a high tech weather station designed to provide MLCAML members with specialized, localized and approximized weather conditions and forecasts. The facility was financed in a part by some members of the Mutton Lake Cottage Association of Mutton Lake (MLCAML) and installed as a group effort. The centre will be known simply as the MLCAML-MLMCAMML.

This is not a photo of the MLCAML-MLMCAMML weather station.

OTHER RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Poolhouse's Chris nearly killed himself while wakeboarding due to a high speed dropoff too close the dock! Captain Drive Safely would have been so proud! Glad to report, no serious injury, but some cuts and bruises and a really cool story. Rumour has it there are photos, and Blog-land would love to see them, so cough them up if you have them! treed1872osl@gmail.com

The first annula MLCAML Golf Tourny was held back on May 15.  More on this in a future post.....

Stay tuned,

See ya!

Blog Bust!!

Breaking News!
It looks like the much anticipated MLCAML Blog Docktail party, to be funded by Blog Ad earnings, will not happen.  After what appears to be an intensive investigation (probably) involving multiple levels of government (maybe) in what may well have been an international sting operation, the MLCAML blog has been accused of "invalid activity" regarding ad clicks.  All funds earned to date have been refunded to the "alleged" advertisers and the MLCAML Google Ad account has been closed.  When contacted for comment, a representative of the RCMP had this to say:    "...for service in English please press 1 now".  Exactly.  The whole thing reeks of a cover up!  The Blog Master could not be reached for comment, but his out of office reply stated that he was not available as he was busy "Aclickinforcash", whatever that is?  Probably trying to match homeless people with good jobs or some other charitable cause, God Bless him.  The Blogmaster has yet to hire a lawyer, but they certainly would be exploring any and all avenues for an appeal and to restore the good name of the Blog Master and all of the Blog Followers, who are probably the real criminals in this case anyways.
So, until the appeal is heard and won, there will be no more ads appearing on the MLCAML Blog.  I for one say thank goodness.  The pure art that appears on this Blog in the form of witty comments, photos, valuable education and health and safety tips should never have been sullied by the corporate pigs and greed bred from a capatalist society and their shameless advertising and corruption of innocence.  Good riddance. 

APA

The Blog Master's reaction when told of the "invalid activity".

(Identity concealed due to publication ban)

Stay tuned for further developments in this story.  Donations are being accepted and will be used for the defense of the alleged allegations.

Associated Press Association

Boats Ahoy!

Emma Lee Floats!!
It was a very exciting weekend amongst those MLCAMLers who were there. Here are some highlights!

Greg made his first appearance of the year as he prepares for his prolonged exile at Baywatch. Oddly enough, chief among his concerns was internet access! This from a man who said to me"….f^*k, well, I don't know how to start an email from scratch, but I can reply to one that was sent to me…..". Hmmmmm?

Poolhouse housed a complete and total STAIN, who shall remain nameless, except to say it rhymes with Blob! There also appeared to be some sort of work going on over at Poolhouse, but I didn't get close enough to see exacxtly what was happening…..

Lakehead  launched! Thanks to Baywatch for the use of his home…er, I mean his truck, and Poolhouse for providing the launch facility!

And the most exciting news of all….The Lodge picked and Launched their brand new 17', 90hp Legend named the "Emma Lee". Apparently it took a lot of work to get her into the water, but I didn't get close enough to see exacxtly what was happening, but it is in and she is a beauty. Ron was a little confused however, he had no idea where to spray the quick start to gett'er goin!  Anyways, she rides like a dream with nary a sound……..even the radio is quiet!! 
Less quiet was the Birthday celebration for Kerri that followed.  It was a very special evening with the traditional cake and scotch!  Through tears, Kerri said it was the best birthday ever...or something like that, I wasn't really listening.........good times!

CAPTAINS CORNER
Fresh off his his spring boat shows tour and with 2 of the MLCAML boats in the water and the rest soon to follow, Captain Drive Safely wishes to pass on some of his Boating safety tips to ensure everyone gets the absolute most enjoyment from there favourite activity involving liquid!!

Captain Drive Safely Safety Tips

• Ensure all cup holders, the drivers in particular, are clean and obstruction free.
• Be prepared! Always carry a surplus of beverages, you never know when you might have a spill or pick up some babes along the way. (or dudes)
• Plan ahead. When traveling by boat to a party, one is always well stocked for the trip over and the party itself, but do NOT forget about the trip home! Leaving a full beverage in the cup holder when you arrive is an easy way to ensure you have the "one more" you need when you hop aboard for the late night, long journey home! 
• Speaking of the late night journey home…..just because it is dark, that is no reason to reduce speeds. Whether you are traveling fast or slow, it will remain dark! Since it is a known fact that the more time you spend on the water, the greater your risk of drowning, it only makes sense to always go fast and get the hell off the water and on to dry ground where it is safe!
• The amount of beer required to operate a power boat is directly and positively proportionate to the amount of horsepower of the vessel you intend to drive.  10hp requires 1 beer, 20hp-2 beer......90hp-9 beer......and so on. 
•  And always remember; canoes, kayaks and peddle boats are not really boats and therefore do not belong on our prestine lakes.  If you should encounter any of these lake menace, pass them closely and at full throttle.  This display of speed and power will be sure to leave the occupants of these "obstacles" in awe and may inspire them to get out of their death traps into the safety of a "liquid" powered wake maker

So Happy Boating everybody, and remember....
Scotch in your water, beer while you steer!!

CDS

MLCAML Trivia Answers

Well, I have to say that the Trivia Contest stirred quite a reaction, and a lot of unwanted hostility!!
I seriously considered not ever revealing the answers, but that just would not be fair to the decent folk.  So below you will find not only the answers, but the proof of each answer as I am sure the skeptics would be raging in the absence of such proof! 

The Pride Rock ordered stewards inquiry did reveal one small itsy bitsy error on the quiz master's part, HOWEVER, this did not affect the outcome as no one correctly answered all of the questions as required to claim the surprise prize!!

But, even though no one correctly answered all 10 questions.....we do have a WINNER.  The Lodge scored 9/10, however have been rewarded 1 bonus point for declaring the Quizmaster to be Awesome!!!  Congrats Lodgers, well done!  Be on the lookout for your Surprise Prize!!

1.  Answer, b) Mutton Lake has a surface area of 45 hectares. 
Proof:  I am a professional measurer, it is what I do and I am almost always sometimes right about these things!

2. Answer b) The first MLL Horshoe tournament was contested in 1981.
I actually though it was 1980 and graded all of the answers that way........no matter, just add 1 to your loser score if you answered 1981.
Proof: Ask Ron, or visit the Lodge and have a gander at the trophy.

3.  Answer c) There 6 cottages in the Mutton Lake Cotage Association of Mutton Lake which make up the 6 member Cottages of the Mutton Lake Cottage Association of Mutton Lake.
Proof:  See map above, which shows all of the member cottages of the Mutton Lake Cottage Association of Mutton Lake, and count them.  (note, this will require both hands!)

4. Answer a) As the boat floats, it is 640 metres from the Lakehard Dock to the Lodge dock.
Proof:  See photo below.

5. Answer a) As the boat floats, it is 640 metres from the Lakehard Dock to the Point dock.

Proof: See photo below.

6. Actually that question contained an error, as Brier never pees in the lake......I on the other hand do it all the time!!  So the question is still valid re the science of it all..........Answer is indeed d) Elgin dives into my pee all of the time, and so do the rest of you!!!!!!!!  (sucks to be downstream!)

Proof:  You really don't want to know!

7. Answer, c) The 2 flags that fly at Pride Rock have a total of 2 different colours.

Proof:  Pride Rock proudly flies the Canadian Flag and the Flag of Mother Egland!

8. Answer, d) Sam is a Jack Ass for all the reasons listed in the question plus so many more!

Proof:  Knowing Sam.

9. Answer a) or b) The Moutton Lake super duo, the Lava Lamps only have 1 talented member.

Proof:  Ask anyone who has heard them play.

10. Answer a)  At the time of posting there was 37 more sleeps iuntil the next long weekend!!

Proof:  The Julian Calendar and my ability to use a calculator.