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<p class="MsoNormal">I get the feeling there’s a pitch coming about buying into a timeshare.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Prof David West <profwest@fastmail.fm><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 5:40 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"friam@redfish.com" <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] Gentleman's Club<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Should FRIAM aspire to "club" or to "salon?" I would hope the latter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 14, 2020, at 6:27 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You are eminently clubbable wrt Friam, Jon.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:22 PM Jon Zingale <<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="font"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Glen astutely begins:</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">"We talk a lot about
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#333333">filosofy</span><span class="size"><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><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">From a wonderfully humorous wikipedia article on </span></span><span class="font"><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><span class="size"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">:</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">"</span></span><span class="size"><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></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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="qt-m_4946763654084528344m_-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="size"><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>
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<span class="size"><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>
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