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Re: [OM] Coworker alert of the day

Subject: Re: [OM] Coworker alert of the day
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 06:32:01 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     Right you are!

>
>Get it right! -
>
>       • I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I 
> DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY 
>CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER".
>               • Telegram to the Friar's Club of Beverly Hills to which he 
> belonged, as recounted in 
>Groucho and Me (1959), p. 321
>       • [Variant:] "Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to 
> any club that will have 
>me as a member".
>               • As quoted in The Groucho Letters (1967) by Arthur Sheekman. 
> The sentiment predates 
>Marx by 61 years, however; it likely originated with John Galsworthy in The 
>Forsyte Saga. In Part I, 
>Chapter II, "Old Jolyon Goes to the Opera", it's said of Old Jolyon that, "He 
>naturally despised the 
>Club that did take him." after another refused him because he was in a trade.
>


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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