[the dale list] the tendency to club and the philosophy of inclusion

My MCC days, now sadly relinquished, were a perfect example of the tendency ‘to club’ and they do throw some light on the UK blogosphere. I was fortunate enough to have been proposed, at birth, by the then secretary and seconded by I can’t remember who and then came the eighteen year wait on the now largely discarded waiting list and then provisional membership, each successive stage conveying certain membership rights but not others. There were always key inside references one made in conversation which rendered the tie itself largely irrelevant. So it appears to be in the blogging world.