Weekly Cartel Update - Apr. 28

Considering the Cartel didn't meet last week, the turn out this week was rather disappointing with only two members being able to make it. And so it was that LED and I found ourselves the only members willing to make the sacrifice to keep the tradition alive. But eat and drink we did.

LED, having just flown in from Egypt ( and boy were her arms tired ), presented the Wild Wing staff with a most amazing Salt & Pepper set. LED had gone to great lengths to make up for error of trying to pass off a bogus Salt & Pepper set two weeks ago. As can be seen here, Crystal is attempting her best Egyptian lion impression by trying to eat the set - in order to prove to herself that the set is made from real gold.

Speaking of Crystal, two weeks ago Crystal was sworn to secrecy when Dr. DC and I tried to make amends for the bogus Salt & Pepper set by showing up the following day with a 'real' Salt & Pepper set. Well it took Crystal all of 6.5 minutes before she told LED about the secret mission of Dr. DC and myself. As I have stated in previous blogs, women can't be trusted and our favourite Crystal is no exception to the rule.

After dining, LED and I were off to the movies to see RV with Robin Williams. Not a bad movie, in fact LED gave it 5 snorts on the laughter scale.

Weekly Cartel Update - Apr. 14

The full cartel membership was in attendance this week. The meeting had been moved up to Friday since some members had family commitments on the Saturday - something to do with Easter I believe. The meeting was filled with much emotion as D and LED almost got into a cat fight about which movie to see - as if they had a choice - they seem to forget that every week Dr. DandyCube chooses the restaurant and I choose the movie. This is the way it has always been - a tradition of sorts. Speaking of tradition - the tradition of presenting a Salt & Pepper set was continued with the presentation of two cute little dogs. Here we see the lovely Charlene holding the dogs. There were a few tense moments as well when Tanya mistakenly assumed that one of the cartel members had insulted her - something to do with her hips. Though an apology was quickly offered, Tanya is still considering whether or not to accept same.

OK OK - I can not let this lie continue any further. Although the female members had sworn us ( the truthful, upstanding, tradition upholding male members ) to secrecy, I can no longer abide by the deceit imposed upon us by the female members of the cartel. As one of the originating members I must put my foot down and demand the truth be told. In truth, we did not present a Salt & Pepper set to the staff at Wild Wing. The two cute little dogs are nothing more than ornamental decorations with absolutely no holes in their cute little fire helmet heads for the dispensing of salt & pepper. LED had told us that she would supply the salt & pepper set for this week but when she brought them out we all realized that they were not salt & pepper shakers. Of course Dr. DC and I wanted to tell the truth and apologize immediately to the staff for our error but the female members initiated a plan to dupe the poor unsuspecting staff. As you can see here, D is using a pen to draw in the 'holes' to make it appear as if the dogs are a salt & pepper set.

I must apologize on behalf of the entire cartel for this horrid deception. As the originators of the cartel, I and Dr. DC must make amends. We must right the wrong. We can not allow the 125 week tradition we have established to die simply because of a mistake compounded by outright deception. We will not allow the females to destroy what we have built! The legacy (see pictures below) must live!

Weekly Cartel Update - Apr. 8

At long last, due to the combination of illness and travel plans of our female members, the original male members of the cartel were finally able to get in some uninterrupted, quality Menschkeit time. Our discussions mainly centered around women and their affect upon mankind (both positive and negative) and by the end of our evening at Wild Wing we had solved most of the world's problems.

Given that Easter is upon us it seemed only fitting to present the staff with a Bunny and Egg Salt & Pepper set this week. Pictured here is Crystal who was a trooper and agreed to have her picture taken even though she was suffering from a cold and, in her words, didn't look her best. Our thanks go to Crystal for keeping the tradition alive.



Also adding to our dining pleasure was our favourite Charlene, pictured here with Suji one of the owners of Wild Wing. It was Charlene who provided the Cartel with some insider information about the menu at Wild Wing. She informed us that Wild Wing was going to expand their menu next week to include a selection of wraps, apparently in response to the demands of women who are concerned about their carb intake. I suppose this is the price we must pay for progress but really - if you are concerned about your carbs get your butt to some salad joint or stay home! Why interfere with the business of men?

Our original plan for the evening had been to go see the movie Lucky Number Slevin but our plans had to be altered with the arrival of a beer "on the house" courtesy of our esteemed host, Suji. What could we do? One does not refuse a beer - especially during Menschkeit time. Several beers (and carb loaded fries with gravy) later we finally left Wild Wing in search of a movie. Given that our selection of a movie was based entirely upon what was playing when we got to the theatre, it was not surprising to find ourselves watching a crappy remake of a Wes Craven movie entitled, The Hills Have Eyes. My recommendation - don't even rent the DVD if and when it comes out. But it could have been worse I suppose, if we had gotten to the theatre 10 minutes later we would have been forced to choose Brokeback Mountain!

Weekly Cartel Update - Apr. 1

Another week and another successful meeting of the group of four. This week Darlene surprised us with our very own personalized, engraved Cartel knives. These female members of the Cartel keep raising the standard with each passing week. Dr. DandyCube and I have come to the conclusion that, in order to keep up, next week we are going to have to supply the Cartel with personalized thongs from Victoria Secret.

This week Wild Wing was staffed by the lovely Ali and Tanya who were presented with Watermelon Salt & Pepper shakers. In fact they were presented with two identical sets (which when put together formed an entire watermelon) since Dr. DC and I had our wires crossed. Ali and Tanya are pictured here trying to eat the watermelons - you can add your own comments here as I'll get in trouble with Tanya if I put in what I want to say about this picture.

After Wild Wing we were off to see Basic Instinct 2. Though not a favourite of the critics I found the movie excellent. For someone who is 48 years old, Sharon Stone has an amazing body! It also amazed me that she could pull off basically the same role some 14 years after the first - one sexy lady.