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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>No. You don’t get off that easy, Jon. It’s a club of unclubbables. Perhaps we should change the name. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>TheUnclubbables.com. It’s available for 0.99. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clark University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jon Zingale<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2020 6:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Gentleman's Club<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>Glen astutely begins:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>"We talk a lot about </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#333333'>filosofy</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>, culture, and politics on this list. And we quote a lot of old white guys. Sporadically one of us will lament..."</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>From a wonderfully humorous wikipedia article on </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#333333'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Gentleman's Club</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>"</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122'>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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" target="_blank" title="Samuel Johnson"><span style='color:#0B0080'>Samuel Johnson</span></a>).</span><sup id="m_-6052124750471604781gmail-cite_ref-2"><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club#cite_note-2" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0B0080'>[2]</span></a></span></sup><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122'> This newly-expanded category of English society came to include professionals who had to earn their income, such as doctors and lawyers.</span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#333333'>"</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#333333'>Is it possible we are a gentleman's club? If so, I suspect I am <i>unclubbable</i>.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>