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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