# Silly groups you belong to (just for the fun of it) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114 "2001-08-06T13:53:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/1 "2001-08-06T13:53:01Z")
Hello all! I recently got back from Abbott’s Magic Get-Together. It was great and very much like a large family reunion. At this convention, there is a group of us that always have a bonfire on night 3 of the convention. We call ourselves the International Sacred Order of the Racoon Zombie (ISORZ). Our organization is dedicated to anarchy, and complete stupidity. We have a short list of rules, the first being, “There are no rules”. The second: “In an emergency, refer to rule #1.” We also have the ritual of vanishing the “Sacred Scotch” which, by the way, may not be scotch. Every year we induct new members by not voting for them because only members not present may vote. Anyway, this is just a silly group of us that love to get together during this convention every year and spread some crazy silliness. This years gathering was awesome and much falling down ensued. It got me wondering what silly groups do SDMB members belong to just for the fun of it (Excluding any regular Dopefests… we all know about them.) ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/2 "2001-08-06T14:54:10Z")
Oh, sure. Let’s see… I’m an elk, a Mason, a communist. I’m the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance for some reason… ah, here it is. The Stonecutters. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/3 "2001-08-06T14:58:24Z")
Besides the S.D.M.B.? No member of any silly group has considered having me as a member yet. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/4 "2001-08-06T15:05:48Z")
I’m a member of the Gilles Lupien Fan Club. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/5 "2001-08-06T15:06:40Z")
Well, I go to a non-denominational church. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/6 "2001-08-06T15:49:54Z")
I went to [www.ulc.org](http://www.ulc.org) and became a minister, even though I’m agnostic. I figure it’s like a “get out of hell free” card. ---
**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/7 "2001-08-06T16:36:03Z")
I would have been a member of the Burger King Kid’s Club had I ever sent in my temporary membership. I am also a Lifetime member of the World Footbag Orginization. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/8 "2001-08-06T16:41:01Z")
Newest pikeman for the [Army of Gustavus II Adolphus](http://users.erols.com/lnorberg/GIIA.html) here. It’s another group of historical reenactors but they do Thirty Years War instead of the American Civil War. Also kinda fun since they do a couple events around the history of Swedish colonies in and around Delaware. It don’t get much more silly than that, but I can’t wait to get in costume. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/9 "2001-08-06T16:53:04Z")
Back in my university days, I shelled out 10p for life membership of the _Junularo Esperantista Skota_, or Young Scottish Esperantists. A sillier organization I have yet to come across. And I’ve been involved in mediaeval reenactment. (Hmmm. I wonder what happened to the rest of them? _\_) ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/10 "2001-08-06T16:53:21Z")
I used to moderate at…god this is humiliating… A Jeff Hardy fan site. I’d watch over teenage girls as they obsessed about his newest hair color or the fact Lita was standing to close to him. I’ll go dig a hole and hide myself now. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/11 "2001-08-06T17:01:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > \*\*I went to [www.ulc.org](http://www.ulc.org) and became a minister, even though I’m agnostic. I figure it’s like a “get out of hell free” card. \*\* I did that too. I doubt it’s authentic, but I like to think of it as a nice conversation starter. I happen to be atheist. I’m the webmaster of an Inspector Gadget site. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/12 "2001-08-06T17:19:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Olentzero \* > **Newest pikeman for the [Army of Gustavus II Adolphus](http://users.erols.com/lnorberg/GIIA.html) here…** Oooh, I want to see a picture in uniform! Glad you found the re-enactment group. Myself, former member of Blackwell’s Third Company (English Civil War). And currently the [SCA](http://www.sca.org). Formerly a member of the Interdenominational Non-Sequitur Society - our motto: “We don’t make sense but we love pizza.” ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/13 "2001-08-06T17:32:36Z")
I totally spaced giving you a tip o’ th’ pin for that one, **screech-owl**. My apologies! ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/14 "2001-08-06T18:21:00Z")
I run with “Hansestadt Hamburg Hash House Harriers (Hummel Hummel)” or H7 for short. Hashers are “drinkers with a running problem”, we meet to run, drink, sing hair-curlingly dirty songs and misbehave in general. Sometimes we travel abroad to meet other hashers and run, drink, sing etc. etc. Good fun, hard on the body. Once a year I go to the Skanderborg Rock Festival in Denmark to hang out with “Buskbrölerne” (“the Bush-Roarers”, it seemed funny at the time) - it’s really nothing but a pitiful excuse for a bunch of IT people in their thirties to meet and act as if they can still drink like they could in their twenties. Apparently there’s some music as well. (It’s less than a week away, YAY!) DNRC, of course. I guess that’s it, really. S. Norman ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/15 "2001-08-07T00:01:11Z")
Besides the SDMB, just DNRC and X-Wars. Although a friend of mine and I are considering putting together our own version of the Them. She’d be Adam, I’d be Pepper, we’d just need a Brian and a Wensleydale. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/16 "2001-08-07T01:04:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Steve Wright \* > \*\*Back in my university days, I shelled out 10p for life membership of the _Junularo Esperantista Skota_, or Young Scottish Esperantists. A sillier organization I have yet to come across. And I’ve been involved in mediaeval reenactment. (Hmmm. I wonder what happened to the rest of them? _\_) \*\* _Pardonu min?_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/17 "2001-08-07T01:23:02Z")
Well, I’m Founder and Co-President of the Joel Hodgeson/Mike Nelson Estrogen Brigade! Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![boomvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@boomvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boomvark)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/18 "2001-08-07T02:51:05Z")
I’m a founding member of our [company name self-censored] Morale Enhancement Action Team (MEAT). We get really drunk and tease sharks, although not necessarily in that order. Our slogan: “Our MEAT can’t be beat!” Come to think of it, there might be some fairly morbid undertones in there someplace. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/19 "2001-08-07T03:12:30Z")
Naturally I’m a DNRC member. I’m a member of The Daily Drool, a newletter/email group of basset owners. I rarely actually read it though. I think I signed up for a Jelly Belly fan club once. And because my husband, in a fit of largesse, signed us up for a joint lifetime membership, I’m a member of the International Wood Collectors Society. That’s actually a serious organization, but I find my membership in it a hoot. I guess you could also count Jr League, since the image is the antithesis of everything about me and it’s fricking hilarious that I’d be a Junior Leaguer. But the organization is hardly a joke, and I take it seriously because we accomplish a lot and damn, it’s expensive. Also, I was once a paid member of the Society for the Restoration and Preservation of Red M & Ms. Remember when they pulled them off the market? ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114/20 "2001-08-07T03:36:27Z")
Well, dragwyr, the only silly group I am a member of is the International Brotherhood of Magicians. We have this ritual where if we need to show someone we have four playing cards, rather than just spread and show them, we count them one at a time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-groups-you-belong-to-just-for-the-fun-of-it/75114.md?page=2)