Thursday, March 3, 2011

Interesting, Jim . . . But what is it?

You’ve probably decided, all by your lonesome, that this is a Food Wheel. It could be nothing else, you tell me.
True, and it’s the salvation of those individuals who aspire to be a Refreshment Chairperson or find themselves in that exalted office because they winked at the wrong time and were railroaded into the job. 
The RC in any organization is responsible for guaranteeing that there will be a variety of delicacies available at all meetings. The Southern California Cartoonists Society used this device for years and neatly avoided our repasts consisting of nothing but bags and bags of chips and soda pop.
Here’s how the Food Wheel works: Its outer circle is divided into five sections; each section contains letters of the alphabet, scientifically allotted to each section. The inner wheel, you’ll note also has five sections; four of them feature food groups. The fifth, Raffle Stuff. Not usually edible. 
Imagine that you can turn the inner circle clockwise so that each of its sections will line up with a section of the outer wheel. (Roughly) At this point each group of letters is related to a new group of food . . . Or Raffle Stuff. Everyone knows what to bring to the table because she/he saw the Wheel in the emailed newsletter. 
In this example, my name being Whiting, I have to bring a stuffed pig. Well, that’s only a symbol. I’d probably bring a can of Spam.
Feel free to use this Food Wheel for your own functions. You might even want to add another category: “Wash and dry the dishes and put the cat out.”
The SCCS Food Wheel was created by Terry Van Kirk and me.
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The guy behind this Monthly Missive blog tends to be overly loquacious at times so we’ll move right along to another episode in the exciting life of VINCENT.


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Please check in next week, bring your friends and Click on the orange thing at the top of this posting.
Jim

1 comment:

  1. That Wheel O Food is brilliant! So how come everybody just brings cookies?

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