[FRIAM] Gentleman's Club

[Frank Wimberly]

Ja gewiss.

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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 <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> Dear Sir or Maddam,
>
> is the Gentleman's Club meeting today online?
>
> Cheers,
> Jochen
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com>
> Date: 5/15/20 02:23 (GMT+01:00)
> To: friam at redfish.com
> 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*.
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