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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: hero_bash on August 17, 2010, 11:45:04 am
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What's the meaning of this quote:
"I would never join a club who would have me as a member"
I've been thinking about what the exact meaning is.
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it's self-deprecation
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meaning?
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meaning you resent yourself
do you hero bash
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Perhaps the individual doesn't feel worthy enough to be apart of a club.
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woody allen quoted this once, it's basically what guys like woody allen feel about themselves every agonizing minute of their disgusting days
edit: basically it means you can't stand yourself, so you wouldn't want to ever be part of a club that would include someone as shitty as yourself (because it means they must be a shitty club)
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oh i see. the first meaning that came to my mind was that the person doesn't want to join a club that just readily accepts anyone or wants anyone to join as he could be a useful asset. I thought he was wanting to join a club where he isn't wanted and where he would work hard to get into it.. hmm..
so it's just self-deprecation after all
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it is a groucho marx quote actually
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yes nobody said otherwise.
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it's hard to get a table for 1 at chuck-e-cheese when you look like i do
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Actually, I'm fairly sure it means that you are so full of yourself, that you'd refuse to join any club unless it was specifically too good for the likes of someone like yourself.
Although if you look at the man who said it, I'm pretty sure you can draw a correlation that distinctly distinguishes the act of hating oneself from the sensation of not ever wanting to be part of a group similar enough to yourself to want someone like you to actually join.
The former is too general and can be wrongly applied, anyone can feel that way at any time. It's the latter I can always relate to, regardless of how much I happen to like or hate myself at the moment.
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nope, doesn't mean that. it's definitely self-deprecating, every time i've heard that quote or similar quotes its in a deprecating manner.
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coincidentally i just finished reading his autobiography and the tale that birthed the quote; it's not a particularly interesting story
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yeah there is no doubt that it's self-deprecating, if you think otherwise you misunderstood it buster
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what happened?
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just gonna quote it:
"Some years ago, after considerable urging, I consented to join a prominent theatrical organization. By an odd coincidence, it was called the *Delaney Club. Here, I thought, within these hallowed walls of Thespis, we would sit of an evening with our Napoleon brandies and long-stemmed pipes and discuss Chaucer, Charles Lamb, Ruskin, Voltaire, Booth, the Barrymores, Duse, Shakespeare, Bernhardt and all the other legendary figures of the theatre and literature. The first night I went there, I found thirty-two fellows playing gin rummy with marked cards, five members shooting loaded dice on a suspiciously bumpy carpet and four members in separate phone booths calling women who were other members' wives.
A few nights later the club had a banquet. I don't clearly remember what the occasion was. I think it was to honor one of the members who had successfully managed to evade the police for over a year. The dining tables were long and narrow, and unless you arrived around three in the afternoon you had no control over who your dinner companion was going to be. That particular night I was sitting next to a barber who had cut me many times, both socially and with a razor. At one point he looked slowly around the room, then turned to me and said, 'Groucho, we're certainly getting a lousy batch of new members!'
I chose to ignore this remark and tried talking to him about Chaucer, Ruskin and Shakespeare, but he had switched to denouncing electric razors as a death blow to the tonsorial arts, so I dried up and resumed drinking. The following morning I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER."
*"Delaney," was an in-joke throughout the book, using it as a pseudonym for anything he didn't want/care to name
so you can see initially he just used it as an excuse, but otherwise it's self-deprecating
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Two words: Freudian lens.
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Two words: Juris shit.
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it is a groucho marx quote actually
how have you been?
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woody allen quoted this once, it's basically what guys like woody allen feel about themselves every agonizing minute of their disgusting days
edit: basically it means you can't stand yourself, so you wouldn't want to ever be part of a club that would include someone as shitty as yourself (because it means they must be a shitty club)
it's groucho marx fucker man
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woody allen quoted this once
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let's give the jews even more credit! let's give them all the credit in the world! let's give them the credit for everything except for the one thing they deserve credit for: 9/11.
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let's just collect all the credit in the world and put it in a big camp. and we'd put stickers on the credit to identify it - this credit belongs to the jews! don't touch! property of israel! and we'd round up all this credit, and maybe we could call it a credit pogrom, and give it to them on a cake with a candle for each piece of credit on it. and there'd be a lot of fire on that cake - maybe even a holocaust - so it might get out of hand. but they'd have their credit.
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So you just want to give credit where credit is jew?
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the jews have been handling credit for thousands of years
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yeah i know it's groucho marx (which is why i said QUOTED) but i used woody allen because if there was ever a person who took this quote to heart it's him (he's a miserable sack of sacks)
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turns out the marx brothers were jewish. and apparently groucho WASN'T his real name???
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wow his mustache wasnt real either!!! that' crosses the line. fug everyting........
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*Glares at Sludgelord* Putz. Something tells me you're over-billing us when it comes to credit.
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the jews have been handling credit for thousands of years
well played
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the jews have been handling credit for thousands of years
True, but it took us a long time to get any change. . .
And it seems new antisemitic thorns may be sprouting. . .
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are people in this topic taking the quote seriously when it's clearly just a throwaway groucho joke or is my own joke detector broken
halp.
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i think it's more to do with woody allen taking it seriously
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I think the people who claim the quote are basically groupless because they won't be able to join any group.
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oh my god what are you people doing
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oh my god what are you people doing
there ain't no sanity clause