<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Dear Sir or Maddam,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">is the Gentleman's Club meeting today online? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto">Jochen </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jon Zingale <jonzingale@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 5/15/20 02:23 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: friam@redfish.com </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] Gentleman's Club </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.44px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Glen astutely begins:</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px">"We talk a lot about </span>filosofy<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px">, culture, and politics on this list. And we quote a lot of old white guys. Sporadically one of us will lament..."</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.44px">From a wonderfully humorous wikipedia article on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club" style="font-size:13.44px" target="_blank">The Gentleman's Club</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.44px">:</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px">"</span></font><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">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></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">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" title="Samuel Johnson" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">Samuel Johnson</a>).<sup id="m_-6052124750471604781gmail-cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">[2]</a></sup> This newly-expanded category of English society came to include professionals who had to earn their income, such as doctors and lawyers.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">"</span></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Is it possible we are a gentleman's club? If so, I suspect I am <i>unclubbable</i>.</span><br></p></div>
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