Who's a Gentleman?

[LesMTS]

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".

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.

[Quiz Bhoy]

How about Laurance "I am just going outside and may be some time." Oates, the Antarctic explorer.

If he's not nobby enough for you, you could always go with Robert Falcon Scott instead.

Doctor Livingstone might be another possible, or how about Prince Albert or Otto Von Bismarck

Are they not menat to still be alive? That way they can be sent letters..

[LesMTS]

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.

[bugpowderdust]

Ah, so 'alive' is not a requirement? In that case - Jeremy Brett.

[Hammer]

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.

[MarkMono]

Ironic considering the ostracisation and persecution that characterised his latter days. He died in France living under an assumed name I believe.

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.

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.

[LesMTS]

Steady, no-one wants a bacchanalia.

Bacchanalian was suggested but the word was considered too ugly.

[XMachina]

Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.

[LesMTS]

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.

[Westy]

Gentlemans Clubs are quality. My Gentlemans Club handshake is legendary.

I'd go with Richard Gere.

[Draven]

A splinter group prefers the adjective "Promethean".

Frankenstein?

What exactly, pray tell, is a "gentleman's club"?

[LesMTS]

Frankenstein?

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.
We have a bebo page with photos: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4954592757

[Shannow]

J. Robert Oppenheimer

[MarkMono]

Might be tricky getting mail to him.

[LesMTS]

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
Possibly the most poignant entry ever written in a lab book.