Ja gewiss. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, May 14, 2020, 11:33 PM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir or Maddam, > > is the Gentleman's Club meeting today online? > > Cheers, > Jochen > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Jon Zingale <[email protected]> > Date: 5/15/20 02:23 (GMT+01:00) > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FRIAM] Gentleman's Club > > Glen astutely begins: > "We talk a lot about filosofy, culture, and politics on this list. And we > quote a lot of old white guys. Sporadically one of us will lament..." > > From a wonderfully humorous wikipedia article on The Gentleman's Club > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club>: > "An increasing number of clubs were characterised by their members' > interest in politics, literature, sport, art, automobiles, travel, > particular countries, or some other pursuit. In other cases, the connection > between the members was membership of the same branch of the armed forces, > or the same school or university. Thus the growth of clubs provides an > indicator as to what was considered a respectable part of the > "Establishment" at the time. > > By the late 19th century, any man with a credible claim to the status of > "gentleman" was eventually able to find a club willing to admit him, unless > his character was objectionable in some way or he was "unclubbable" (a word > first used by Samuel Johnson > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson>).[2] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club#cite_note-2> This > newly-expanded category of English society came to include professionals > who had to earn their income, such as doctors and lawyers." > > Is it possible we are a gentleman's club? If so, I suspect I am > *unclubbable*. > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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