If you were to start a club

I'm starting a club. You don't need to know the purpose, you don't need to know where we'll meet, you don't need to know when we'll meet, you don't need to know who the other members are, you don't need to know why the club was formed. We will be just that exclusive. I'll be posting some rules that all members must read and obey. Sign up sheet will be posted somewhere. Believe me.

 

I'd start a club where the members spy on politicians, government employees and the officers of corporations. We'd consolidate all of the information secretly, and without regard to party. The whole point would be to make the connections between them all regardless of politics. My basis for this is that between the two parties in the US we don't actually have a functioning government at all. It's in a slow freefall.

So we're stuck with this, much like anyone who is working two jobs. They're working two jobs because they can't find one good job. Naturally there will be a scoring system with points being issued for discovering specific events or linkages. So finding out a republican and a democrat are teaming up to manipulate a stock would be worth so many points, outing a love triangle would be so many etc. Or digging deeper and finding out that a couple of politicians were in the same high school with someone they're running against.

Since this is research based, it will have to exist partially in social media, so a coding system will have to be established. Every subject gets a code name. While I'd like to call Trump "Golden Combover", it's too obvious, so he'll probably be simply "Cheeseburger". Bernie will be "Lorax", Hillary will be "Baby Jane", Melania will be "Joan", Maxine will be "Peaches", McCain is "Zombie", Coulter will be "Godiva", Ryan will be "Cheese" and of course Bill Clinton will be "Blunt". Naturally those are just a sample, we'll need hundreds of designations, so expect Disney characters, video game characters, Vikings and demons.

Now, what do we call such a club?

 

hmmm.. something light, I suppose.. perhaps someone could illuminate us with some ideas....

 

Russia

 

A treehouse/gardening/running club.

 

^the most perfect use of that gif i've ever seen

 

Naaaaa, we won't be spying on our neighbors.

 

Eh any chance to see that magical smile

 

a club for players of r.p. games without combat systems.

 

i think that's more members than hipforums has these days.

 

The "EloiseAtThePlaza" appreciation society. You get a badge of her avatar which is renewed as it changes, a monthly newsletter chronicling her extensive travelling, and a special Christmas 45 single. This year she is recording "I Should Be So Lucky" by Kylie Minogue. PM for details how to join.

 

I'm dreaming
You fell in love with me
Like I'm in love with you
But dreaming's all I do
If only they'd come true

I should be so lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in love
I should be so lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in love

 

Fits.

 

When I was a kid, I remember my friend and I started the 7up club. Only for kids ages 7 and up. We did it only to keep our younger siblings from pestering us. And it worked well.

 

S Club 7

 

hell, I'd join. I already appreciate her anyway.

 

I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one I have never asked to be a part of.

 

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and that's how you know you've arrived as a club.. when the basis of your fandom says 'go away, I never asked for this!'

 

• Club dissolves due to embezzlement. 45 inch single becomes rare collectors item. Eloise free from contact.

 

gods, reminds me of the star trek fan club I was part of in my early teens. we were actually a branch chapter of the worldwide 'starfleet' fanclub..

the chapter president suddenly closed it one day, took the whole chapter treasury, ran off, bought himself an RV and went travelling. ruined our good time, I tell you. of course, I can understand why he ran off and hid on the road.. imagine a swarm of 40ish teenagers, filled with geek rage, rpg gamers, with access to medieval weaponry and knows how to use it.