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9th May 2008, 12:03pm
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#16 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by MarkMono  I'm sorely tempted (I do sit up late thinking of practical and rational excuses to go to Dundee.) though I'm more of a Naughty Hellfire Club sort. | They're mainly in Fife, it's my Fife mates who set the club up.
We're thinking of changing the name from W.A.C.A.B.A.S. to The Dionysian Forum, but we haven't consensus yet. A splinter group prefers the adjective "Promethean". Quote:
Originally Posted by bugpowderdust Sir David Attenborough. Or perhaps Richard Dawkins. | One of my mates has already announced his intention to nominate Dawkins tomorrow, but Attenborough is a good shout.
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#17 | | Shalom Moderator
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Originally Posted by Hammer | Are they not menat to still be alive? That way they can be sent letters.. | |
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9th May 2008, 12:05pm
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#18 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by Quiz Bhoy Are they not menat to still be alive? That way they can be sent letters.. | We sent a letter to the estate of Edmund Hillary. | |
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9th May 2008, 12:06pm
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#19 | | Infrequenter
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Ah, so 'alive' is not a requirement? In that case - Jeremy Brett.
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9th May 2008, 12:07pm
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#20 | | Moderator Moderator
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Originally Posted by Quiz Bhoy Are they not menat to still be alive? That way they can be sent letters.. | All the best Gentlemen are dead. You just don't get the sheer arrogant cadishness in people these days.
Oscar Wilde is considered a Gentleman in some circles. | |
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9th May 2008, 12:08pm
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#21 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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Ironic considering the ostracisation and persecution that characterised his latter days. He died in France living under an assumed name I believe. Quote:
Originally Posted by LesMTS They're mainly in Fife, it's my Fife mates who set the club up. | I was just looking for an excuse to come and see you. My friends easily fall into two categories: Those I neglect and I don't really care about in the final analysis, and those I neglect and feel a little raw about as I really should be in contact more often. Quote:
Originally Posted by LesMTS We're thinking of changing the name from W.A.C.A.B.A.S. to The Dionysian Forum, but we haven't consensus yet. A splinter group prefers the adjective "Promethean". | Steady, no-one wants a bacchanalia.
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9th May 2008, 12:09pm
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#22 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by MarkMono Steady, no-one wants a bacchanalia. | Bacchanalian was suggested but the word was considered too ugly. | |
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9th May 2008, 12:23pm
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#23 | | The man from Del Monte
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| Re: Who's a Gentleman?
Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
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9th May 2008, 12:25pm
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#24 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by MarkMono I was just looking for an excuse to come and see you. My friends easily fall into two categories: Those I neglect and I don't really care about in the final analysis, and those I neglect and feel a little raw about as I really should be in contact more often. | I'll let you know when and where the next one is. presumptously assuming I fall into the latter category here
What about Richard Feynman? Too much of a cad and not enough gentleman? I'd really like to nominate him. Might nominate him for "alternative person of the month" in Stews thread. He helped create the atomic bomb, drank like a fish and stood up for strippers and prostitutes. | |
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9th May 2008, 12:58pm
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#25 | | He's awright.
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| Re: Who's a Gentleman?
Gentlemans Clubs are quality. My Gentlemans Club handshake is legendary.
I'd go with Richard Gere.
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9th May 2008, 1:01pm
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#26 | | EVIL/NICE.
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Originally Posted by LesMTS A splinter group prefers the adjective "Promethean". | Frankenstein?
What exactly, pray tell, is a "gentleman's club"?
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9th May 2008, 1:07pm
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#27 | | tired and emotional Editor
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What exactly, pray tell, is a "gentleman's club"? | We sit around in a gazebo listening to classical music, each member brings a bottle of single malt whisky and some cigars, we wear tweed and drink eachother's whisky and smoke eachother's cigars until unable to stand. We vote on who brought the best whisky, which of the members has the best facial hair and who should be gentleman of the month, and generally have good banter.
I guess it's supposed to be ironic, but a few of our members have started taking it scarily seriously.
That's about it.
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9th May 2008, 1:22pm
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#28 | | Aurë enteluva Gallery SuperMod
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J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
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9th May 2008, 1:23pm
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#29 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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Might be tricky getting mail to him. | |
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9th May 2008, 1:26pm
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#30 | | tired and emotional Editor
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Originally Posted by Shannow J. Robert Oppenheimer | "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
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