Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 30, 2013

And once you do, you wish you hadn’t!!

Humans don’t invent things, they discover how things work and what can be done with it…Paraphrased from Buckminster Fuller….

That place would do better with some prominent young women….But, hey, baby steps…..

The invention of ego… bouncers, shades and the penultimate velvet rope.

Corollary invention, The Cleaners; that’s where you’ll be taken iff you do get in. Especially once they figure out aboutthe nubile young women.

Love the pony tail.

I know a couple of truck drivers that look just like the door warden. Genetics? I mean, pony tail and all.

Marketing 101: create the illusion of exclusivity and they’ll do or pay anything to be part of the “in” crowd.

That was a mistake, not an invention.

This works in so many social agendas.

Curiosity kills the cat, and a bunch of cavemen.

it’s nothing, once you pay and get inside, and it’s just like the outside. chump

Also the Triangulation of Desire (See Rene Girard, “Deceit, Desire, and the Novel”) — if someone else wants it, it must be good, so I want it, even if I never knew I wanted it before. The secret to about half of advertising.

Ah, the temptation. I can resist anything but. (apologies to Oscar Wilde)

The pony tail says it all.

Maybe it’s the Green Door?

Cue the Groucho Marx remark. “Any club that would have me a member, I wouldn’t want to be a member of.” Or, something to that effect.

A guy goes into an auto parts store and asks if he can get a windshield wiper for his Yugo.The clerk replies “Sure, sounds like a fair trade…”

Well, not really ego….there are larger things, think about it….

After a night in there, you ask your buddy, “We had a good time, DIDN’T WE?”.

There’s plausable deniablity until the pictures hit Facedbook

The secret to their exclusivity? There’s a bear inside. Nobody who goes in comes out, thus maintaining the secret.

Funny, but the punch line sounds like a paraphrase on Nancy Pelosi’s infamous line, “we have to pass it so we can find out what’s in it”.

Which is basic human nature and explains why more Blacks and other minorities voted in the last presidential election then ever before in history.

It’s interesting that people have no interest in something until they are told they can’t have it! I think the first recorded instance of this phenomenom is in Genesis.

A sub-plot of the Pandora’s Box story.

too true…

Other cave man miss point.Open new club across dirt path.Flashier and more trendy. Draw his customers away.Make it Red Neck Heaven with clothing optional night.Cave men will go there quick.Drink goo and hoot at barely clad women.Buffalo pterodactyl wings only 1 clam a wing. Good deal.

That’s not ego, that’s curiosity.

Please be more careful in defining terms.

Varnes: Of course humans invent things: war, New York City, and digital watches, while all dolphins do is much around in the water having fun. Douglas Adams

Exclusive Clubs just aren’t my bag!….give me a dark bar that has smiling faces of people you know when you walk in the door….even tho the first thing said by one of them is “The coffee is on” Because these are people who know me well enough to know I don’t drink alcohol.

Nogos?