In this Issue: Tips & Tricks What s Cooking Jesters Court Welcome to the Spigo USA newsletter. It is our hope that this will be an easy way to keep our members informed with news, good or sad, about their friends here should the need arise. In the mean time we will publish Tips, Recipes and jokes to hopefully entertain you. March 2017 We're very sad to have to tell you that Bubbles.is.bad has asked to step down from being an Administrator. She's now working full time so can't be on site as often as needed. We're sorry to see you go Bubbles.is.bad but you have to do what's right for yourself. We wish you all the best for the future and the team will miss you. For the time being Susan49 will be our only Administrator, but she'll be helped by our great team of Player Helpers (and jinxd with the big green C) There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
Page 2 Tips and Tricks Remember we have Fun tournaments in Banko on Friday and Saturday nights at 5:30PM CST with gold days and spigos for the top players. Watch the game chats for the announcements of which game to be in. Spigo Gold Days If you win gold days, and would like to give them to another player once you win them in a gold tournament, please write a letter immediately after you win to Susan49. Gold days are usually given out the following day so please let her know immediately so she can give them out to the player you choose. The results of Fun Tournaments will no longer be available on Bubbles.is.bad's profile but will now be available in the Game tips Folder. (see next page for details on this folder.) Weeklies Weekly Achievements On the weekly achievement games, or on any achievements needed in the games that require you to complete them with another human you do not have to wait for an admin to help you. Please ask your friends to help you out if an admin is not available. Any problems you may be having game wise or chat wise, Please contact Customer Service, and if they can not help you out at the time they will be sure that an admin knows about it, and in turn they will either get you an answer or make it right. Please be aware that C/S (Help/Customer Service) is not only for complaints but it is also available for any suggestions you may have about the site or ATTENTION PLAYERS We will try to publish the newsletter when there is news of importance to share (there may not be one every month), please check the Newsletter site to see if the next edition is available as we may not be able to always announce it. In order to keep this newsletter active we need your input! So please feel free to contact Shyanne through Spigo mail (with newsletter in subject line). Please send any news, recipes, game tips, or other items of interest.
Page 3 Tips and Tricks You will now find a button on all players helpers profiles that will take you to a page that includes several Game Tips for the games on the site. We want to thank all who contributed to this, and a special thanks to Miniboo for organizing them all for the players here. It will look like the one below, just click the button on any players profile and it will take you to the page where it is located. Firefox users and Java With the latest update on Firefox, the browser no longer supports Java - this means it is not compatible with the software that our games requires. However, we do have a solution! You can use Internet Explorer, Safari, or for those that wish to still use Firefox, you can: - Download Firefox 52 ESR from this link: (click below) https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.0esr/win32/en-us/ - Install the downloaded file - Resume playing your favorite Spigo games! If you have any difficulties with this, you can contact our Customer Support section or admin team.
Page 4 What s cooking? Corner Ingredients: 4 eggs 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil 2 cups white sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 3 cups grated carrots 1 cup chopped pecans (optional) Frosting 1/2 cup butter, softened 8 ounces cream cheese, softened 4 cups confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup chopped pecans (optional) Carrot Cake Prep time: 30 min Ready in: 2hr Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan. 2. In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan. 3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. 4. To Make Frosting: In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake.
Page 5 Jesters Court Lena had a wooden leg, and to insure it in Arizona was $2,000.00 per year!!! When they arrived in Minnesota they went to Sven, their Insurance Agent, to see how much it would cost to insure the wooden leg. Sven looked it up on his computer and told the couple, "$39.00." Ollie was shocked and asked why it was so cheap here in Minnesota to insure it because it had cost him $2,000.00 in Arizona!! Sven turned his computer screen toward the couple and said, "Vell, here it is direct from the Minnesota Fire Insurance Company, it says: Any wooden structure, with a sprinkler system over it, is $39.00." A man was at the bar the other night and overheard three very hefty women talking. Their accent appeared to be Scottish, so he approached and asked, "Hello, are you three lassies from Scotland?" One of them angrily screeched, "It's Wales, Wales you bloody idiot!" So he apologized and replied, "I am so sorry. Are you three whales from Scotland?" And that's the last thing he remembers. Joey frequently attends his church Bingo club, where every week a gag door-prize is given out. One week, Joey is presented with a toilet brush. "What the hell is this?" he asks the pastor. "Why, it's a toilet brush." "Ooh, I see," says Joey. A couple weeks later, the pastor jokingly asks Joey how the brush is working. "Well, it's okay, but I think I'll go back to using paper." My collection of vintage kitchen utensils includes one whose intended purpose was always a mystery. It looks like a cross between a metal slotted spoon and a spatula, so I use it as both. When not in use, it is prominently displayed in a decorative ceramic utensil caddy in my kitchen. The mystery of the spoon/spatula was recently solved when I found one in its original packaging at a rummage sale. It s a pooper-scooper.
Page 6 Jesters Court I ve given up social media for the New Year and am trying to make friends outside Facebook while applying the same principles. Every day, I walk down the street and tell passersby what I ve eaten, how I feel, what I did the night before, and what I will do tomorrow. Then I give them pictures of my family, my dog, and me gardening. I also listen to their conversations and tell them I love them. And it works. I already have three people following me two police officers and a psychiatrist. Man using the Siri app on iphone. Man: Siri, call my wife. Siri: Samantha McLaughlin is not in your contacts. Man: Samantha Gibbs is my wife. Siri: I ve added Samantha Gibbs as your wife. Man: Call my wife. The closest I ve been to a diet this year is erasing food searches from my browser history. Little Johnny walks into a pharmacy and brings a box of tampons to the register. The cashier looks at the boy and says, "Hi. Are these for your mom?" Little Johnny thinks for a moment and says, "Umm, no." The cashier says, "Oh. Then they're for your sister?" Little Johnny says, "uh-unh." Finally she asks, "Well, what are you going to do with them?" Little Johnny says, "Well, I'm not sure yet. But on TV, they said if I buy these I can go fishing. Siri: Which wife? Nothing ruins a great Friday more than realizing it s actually Wednesday. A juggler, driving to his next performance, is stopped by the police. "What are these matches and lighter fluid doing in your car?" asks the cop. "I'm a juggler and I juggle flaming torches in my act." "Oh yeah?" says the doubtful cop. "Lets see you do it." The juggler gets out and starts juggling the blazing torches masterfully. A couple driving by slows down to watch. "Wow," says the driver to his wife. "I'm glad I quit drinking. Look at the test they're giving now!"