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.
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.
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.
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.
dr_dolittle_rwc about 11 years ago
And once you do, you wish you hadn’t!!
Varnes about 11 years ago
Humans don’t invent things, they discover how things work and what can be done with it…Paraphrased from Buckminster Fuller….
Varnes about 11 years ago
That place would do better with some prominent young women….But, hey, baby steps…..
palos about 11 years ago
The invention of ego… bouncers, shades and the penultimate velvet rope.
watmiwori about 11 years ago
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.
Aussie Down Under about 11 years ago
Love the pony tail.
pawpawbear about 11 years ago
I know a couple of truck drivers that look just like the door warden. Genetics? I mean, pony tail and all.
bluskies about 11 years ago
Marketing 101: create the illusion of exclusivity and they’ll do or pay anything to be part of the “in” crowd.
edclectic about 11 years ago
That was a mistake, not an invention.
tripwire45 about 11 years ago
This works in so many social agendas.
William_Zhu about 11 years ago
Curiosity kills the cat, and a bunch of cavemen.
puddlesplatt about 11 years ago
it’s nothing, once you pay and get inside, and it’s just like the outside. chump
lonecat about 11 years ago
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.
keenanthelibrarian about 11 years ago
Ah, the temptation. I can resist anything but. (apologies to Oscar Wilde)
Intophaloblue about 11 years ago
The pony tail says it all.
keenanthelibrarian about 11 years ago
Maybe it’s the Green Door?
sarah413 Premium Member about 11 years ago
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.
Digital Frog about 11 years ago
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…”
dabugger about 11 years ago
Well, not really ego….there are larger things, think about it….
Justice22 about 11 years ago
After a night in there, you ask your buddy, “We had a good time, DIDN’T WE?”.
Cavebum about 11 years ago
There’s plausable deniablity until the pictures hit Facedbook
alan.gurka about 11 years ago
The secret to their exclusivity? There’s a bear inside. Nobody who goes in comes out, thus maintaining the secret.
bransom about 11 years ago
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”.
Diane Lee Premium Member about 11 years ago
Which is basic human nature and explains why more Blacks and other minorities voted in the last presidential election then ever before in history.
dflak about 11 years ago
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.
dogday Premium Member about 11 years ago
A sub-plot of the Pandora’s Box story.
TheAuldWan about 11 years ago
too true…
Vet Premium Member about 11 years ago
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.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 11 years ago
That’s not ego, that’s curiosity.
Please be more careful in defining terms.
hippogriff about 11 years ago
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
Caddy57 about 11 years ago
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.
edclectic about 11 years ago
Nogos?