Strange Clubs and Societies

[Ming the Merciless]

The Alfalfa Club

They exist solely to throw an annual banquet dinner on the last Saturday of January. The president of the United States is traditionally invited to give a speech, with some of them coming more than once.

 

[nickyboy]

Cucumber Growers Association – Supporting the UK Cucumber Industry

"Looking after the collective interests of the UK cucumber industry"

" We have a wide range of CGA banners, leaflets, novelty items and T-shirts"

Cucumber-related novelty items, now there's a thing

 

[bruce1530]

When I was a student, there were of course lots of weird and wonderful and obscure societies. In fact my flatmates and I may have founded a couple.

The reason was simple - if you had an official "society" and got it affiliated to the Student Union, then you were eligible to host an event or two, and student union supplied the meeting room and some beer.

Free beer - the ideal reason to form a society.

This was all just at the tail end of punk, and the punks and anarchists felt a bit left out - everyone else was getting free beer and they weren't.

So they decided to form an "Anarchy Society". Which of course is anachronism, but you can put up with that as long as the beer is free.

However, when the Anarchy Society tried to register itself with the Union, they were told that they needed a written constitution. Which was a problem for anarchists.

So the Anarchy Society simply adopted verbatim the constitution of the Tennis Club, adding a final clause "no member will be bound by any of the above clauses".

 

[Salty seadog]

View: https://youtu.be/LFrdqQZ8FFc

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Then of course, there's The Flat Earth Society

Apparantly, with members all around the Globe!

 

[Profpointy]

International badger club.

To swap and chat about Badgers,Badger Meets,Wants, etc.

I wonder if the badger who visits our garden most nights is a member ?

 

[Profpointy]

Then of course, there's The Flat Earth Society

Apparantly, with members all around the Globe!


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I'm sure it's been posted before but the late Patrick Moore was a member as it appealed to his sense of silliness and whimsy. Apparently he left soon after when he realised some of the members actually meant it !

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm a member of the 5.5mm Society, which is based in the UK and exists to make models of narrow gauge railways to a scale of 1:55. This is so obscure that there are less that 200 members worldwide with I suspect no more than fifteen or twenty of us actually building models.

They have an AGM but obviously I don't actually attend, because that would mean, you know, being sociable...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'm a member of the 5.5mm Society, which is based in the UK and exists to make models of narrow gauge railways to a scale of 1:55. This is so obscure that there are less that 200 members worldwide with I suspect no more than fifteen or twenty of us actually building models.

They have an AGM but obviously I don't actually attend, because that would mean, you know, being sociable...

That's like the club in the marvellous animation 'Daria'

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The UK roundabout appreciation society

 

[Biker man]

The UK roundabout appreciation society

What!!!

 

[Venod]

The Pylon Appreciation Society.

https://pylons.org/

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The suburban bush trimming society

 

[Dolorous Edd]

The Pylon Appreciation Society.

https://pylons.org/

Keen followers of the Pylon of the Month web page. Phwoarr!

https://www.pylonofthemonth.org/

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Ancient and Noble Order of the Gormogons