Lunch for 10, please: The Renaissance Worthington Hotel has an employee cafeteria that serves more than 300 free meals a day. It also feeds students nearly every day from adopt-a-school Riverside Middle. So, what’s a few more, asked always jubilant Jane Svehlak, sales sensational for boss Bob Jameson. She says the Worthington has fantastic office holiday luncheons and since ’tis the season, why not offer one up. You and nine office ogres will dine fine as a lunch bunch at Vidalia's this holiday season.   On your side: About 20 years ago, in a previous life, Mr. B OK’d the hiring of Star-Telegram columnist Dave Lieber, who never had written a column in any previous life. He struggled – writer’s bloc – before gaining friends and a foothold, and now watches over all of us as a corporate watchdog … with teeth. Dave has had two books published – Watchdog Nation and The Dog of My Nightmare – and we have one of each autographed and a CD of Watchdog Nation for your reading or listening pleasure.   19th hole antics: Before its annual fundraiser golf outing, Lena Pope Home held a sponsor reception at Nike’s R&D facility in Fort Worth. Former PGAers Lanny Wadkins and Bruce Devlin were on hand: Lanny: “Tiger may be the best athlete the planet has ever seen.” Bruce: “I beat Jack Nicklaus by six shots at St. Petersburg (Fla.) and won (all of) $3,000.” Lanny: “We used to call Nicklaus Karnak. (Tom) Watson was Karnak Jr.” Bruce: “When the two of them were together, it was all answers, no questions.” “Lanny: “Watson borrowed a spare driver from me ($35) and went on to win eight majors with it. He never even paid me back.” We asked LPH gal pals Marilyn, Susan and Kathy for any “leftovers” from the golf day and they pulled together one man’s and one woman’s gift packages that each include a travel bag, golf balls, a golf shirt and golf towel. They said go ahead and “Just Do It.”

PICTURE OF THE WEEK         Tony Shuman, YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth, offers chocolate footballs to Traci Lawless and David Campbell of TranSystems at last week’s Central Area Council luncheon featuring Roger Staubach. The Omni Fort Worth Hotel donated the centerpieces, which were "bubble gum" dispensers shaped as footballs and filled with chocolates. But Tony, how many miles on the treadmill do we have to log to walk off those chocolates?     Sponsored by

Sweet! It could be bitterness or it could be jealousy, but Mr. B is wondering about the Chamber’s two-ticket giveaway to its suite Nov. 7 for the O’Reilly Challenge during the Dickies 500 NASCAR weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. Two empty spots = Mr. B and son NoBGood. A perfect equation. But, nooooooooooo. Boss Miserly Mistress says the pair of suite tickets has to go to a Newz-E-Letter reader and she knows NoBGood can’t read. So, drivers, start your engines.

Mea culpa: Last spring, Mr. B received an unmarked envelope and stuck it inside the inner pocket of his tweed coat, figuring it was a payoff for something or other. And when you earn 39 cents an hour, who needs money. Well, the tweed coat came out of the attic this week, and lo and behold, the moth-eaten envelope had tickets to the omnipotent Omni at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. Yikes, they expire this weekend!!! So, if you're available and want to see the coolest movies in the sky, then your ticket could be waiting.

Small world:  Community Bank President and CEO Jimmy Campbell worked for the father of Donnie Sherwood of Integra Realty Resources at Cleburne State Bank. Donnie’s nephew, Andy Sherwood, also at Integra, worked for Jimmy when he owned a hardware store as a side business.

Prayerful studies: Super Bowl XLV President Bill Lively is a history buff. He has read 28 books about Lewis & Clark and calls the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth his “church.”   I’ll trade you…Don’t forget tomorrow’s Tarrant Area Trade Show, from 4 - 8 p.m. Twenty-one restaurants, a tasting from Coors plus a cash bar. All the info is right here.

Awestruck at The Ashton: Last Thursday and Friday, for 48 hours, Mr. B stood outside The Ashton Hotel, hoping, by osmosis, that the genius of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and other Berkshire Hathaway board members would escape the brilliant boutique hotel and waft softly into his brain. Natch, nothing happened for Mr. B. The Ashton's Debbie Rubin fared better.  "Mr. Buffett was truly a delightful man and very accessible…..no security guards, visiting with everyone, etc...," she said. "Debbie Bosanek, Mr. Buffett’s assistant, told him that since he didn’t have any security guards like Mr. Gates, she deemed myself and our catering manager, Angie Moors, as his security. Every time he came down to the lobby he’d say “Okay…where are my security guards…they’re better lookin’ than Bill’s! ” "After we took a picture, Mr. Buffett said, 'Now let’s take a funny one' – he pulls out his wallet and says 'You be Anna Nicole Smith and act like you’re taking my wallet.' We took the picture and I asked him if I got to keep the wallet and he said 'well no…..you’re not Anna Nicole Smith!'” Mr. Gates was very low key, but attended everything and even chatted with some restaurant (Six Ten Grille) guests on Saturday evening.

Setting priorities: Newleywed Billye Preston, a consultant with Jos. A Bank, says her hubby promised her a safari honeymoon "I would always remember. He took me all the way to Fossil Rim, where we stayed in the rhino tent and went on a behind-the-scenes tour. I actually petted a 4,000-pound rhino. John declared it the best honeymoon ever because he was home in time for the Dallas Cowboys kickoff.”

Remembering Jack LaLanne: TrekDesk, the office supply offshoot of Star Trek, reports that sedentary desk jobs are one of the leading causes of rising adult obesity rates, now at 28.3%. So, get off your duff and walk, run or bike to the Chamber’s Health Care Summit Nov. 2.

Happy birthday: Texas Wesleyan’s law school is 20 years old and has had 2,800 graduates.

Dance band: State Farm agent Sloan Clark has a band/art project called Sloan Automatic, and it has been selected by Contemporary Dance Fort Worth to perform three original songs as part of CDFW’s fall event Nov. 13-14. Sloan Automatic also has been commissioned to create the final piece of the evening, which Clark says will include surprises for those in attendance.

It’s a wrap: We submitted daughter MisBehavin’s college artwork, but Richard Maxwell of The T said it was a bit too graphic and she lost out to the Kimbell, Carter and Modern museums, whose paintings and other artwork wrap T buses. The promotion includes discounts to museums by showing transit fare or passes through November.

Lead, or get out of the way: Author, consultant Chris Fuller presented a seminar for Chamber members last week from his “Iditarod Leadership” book. Some highlights: Leaders are learners. Lead yourself first. You lead people; you manage things. Winning leaders are winning communicators. Close a meeting with “Who does what by when” or don’t bother meeting.

Don’t tell anyone: Before he became director of Government Relations for Charter Communications, Kevin Allen had a satellite dish. He installed it hisownself. Talk about poor reception…  

Did you know? Crescent Real Estate still operates as a stand-alone company, is still headquartered in downtown Fort Worth and still owns The Crescent in Dallas? It’s no longer publicly traded after having been purchased by Morgan Stanley.

Real estate for $200: Dallas has 30 million square feet of office space in downtown; Fort Worth has 7.7 million. Average lease space in Dallas is $22 and it is $28 in Fort Worth.

Lonely on loans: Turned down by area banks, Mr. B was on Shark Tank last week asking for $1 million dollars to buy giveaways for Newz-E-Letter readers. The sharks laughed louder than the banks. If you, too, are having trouble getting a small business loan, you might try the Tarrant County College Small Business Development Center’s free seminar Nov. 5 from 9-to-noon. It’s at the TCC Trinity River campus in the Energy Conference Room. For info, call (817) 871-6028.

Duh! According to a ConsultNet Staffing Report, the hottest job industries in Texas are 1. Social Media; 2. Cable/Satellite TV, Wireless Telecom; 3. Renewable Energy; 4. Health care; 5. Cloud-based computing solutions; and 6. Government Contracts. Social media may be hot, but seems as if very few can make money in it. And aren't we all a little cloudy when it comes to computing solutions?

Super salesman: Ex-Cowboys QB great Roger Staubach got a standing O before he spoke at last week’s Central Area Council Chamber luncheon. “OK, I’m gonna run for Governor,” he opened his remarks. That drew another loud ovation. Ever the politician, Staubach said two of his kids were “born not in Fort Worth, but close by” and he joined the “Fort Worth Cowboys in 1969.” And there’s more…

• “You win some, you lose some. It keeps you humble. Glad to have won two Super Bowls, lost two Super Bowls. Keeps you humble. Yeah, right!”
• “Adversity reveals genius and prosperity conceals it.”
• Staubach, Executive Chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle Americas and Chairman of the Host Committee for Super Bowl XLV, on the Super Bowl ticket situation: “Not sure you’ll get a ticket, but if you’re a client of ours, you’ll have a better shot.”
• Super Bowl XLV is a year-long celebration and kicks off with a Faith Hill concert in March, followed by Sting in April. “Faith personally asked for me to pick her up at the airport,” Roger said.

Tourists are back: Our grackle gawker Jennifer Bailey at D.R. Horton reports: “When I came in one morning last week about 7:15, they were roosting in our downtown parking lot.  There were literally hundreds of them!  I felt like I was in a scene from the movie The Birds.  It was hilarious!” 

Slow dash for dollars: The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk last Saturday drew 4,000 walkers and raised an astounding $600,000 for local use. There’s an associated 5K run and Balcom Agency top traffic cop Lynne Swihart ran and “was thankful I wasn’t last.” But she wouldn’t miss the event. “My husband has diabetes, so this cause is close to my heart.”

Catcalls: Here is some Howl-oween humor, courtesy of Whisker Washers Mobile Pet Grooming. Who did Frankenstein take to the prom? His ghoul friend. Where do baby ghosts go during the day? Dayscare centers. What does a witch ask for in a hotel? Broom service.