h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Every (not-so-)secret society should have a name that one member can call another member - like communists calling each other 'Comrade', and priests calling each other 'brother'.

So - what should the SBVM use, if anything? Answers, on a postcard, to the usual address

"Vocs." Rhymes with folks. Being small and a minority are important, but wouldn't be worth mentioning if we weren't so dad-blasted VOCAL.

Dude.

Having just seen "The Big Lebowski" again, I reckon "Dude" serves the purpose well.

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Dude sounds good - or 'doode', as Hoovooloo would no doubt say...

'Doodle' has a certain something.

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How 'bout the classic first syllable abbreviation method used by US Intelligence community like "CoIntelPro" or Russian "ComIntern"?

Small But Vocal Minority would become "SmaBVocMin"?

...No, I don't like it either. What real life person or celebrity would best exemplify the spirit of the Small But Vocal Minority? The dude from Network? MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE! Eugene Debs? Mother Jones? I keep thinking of Leftists opposing the oligarchic majority, but right-wingnuts can be as small and vocal as left, so it's just my prejudice coming through.

Anyhow, if we could think of a real historical figure who was a solid ideal example of Small But Vocal Minority, we could appropriate that person's name?

If we need one of those abrevs, then I vote for voxmin - 'vox' being latin for 'voice'. Pretentious enough for ya?

Does this mean we can't all be 'Debs'? What if I can't find the receipt for the dress? (The shoes I'm gonna keep no matter.)

Forget Debs. If we emulate Mother Jones, we could all be MOTHERS!

Does anyone know what the name of the messenger was who was killed after bringing the bad news? He would work.

There's always Urk, the man who told Og that his wheel had some severe design faults.

But why stop with history?

Alfred Jarry gave us Doctor Faustroll, pataphysician, though I'm not sure that his politics and principles are quite right. And, who want's to be known as pataphysicians anyway?

What was the name of the child who told the Emperor that his new clothes weren't what they should be? Probably, Bobby or some such. Pretty confusing to call everyone Bob but suitably hermetic.

Consider Prometheus, the prototypical being of principle? (I have to think that Lucifer would be a bad choice and completely misunderstood though some seem to think that Satan is the patron saint here.) Prometh me you won't use this one.

Why not just go ahead and accept that this is the *Small* But Vocal Minority and use 'Tiny' or be brave and use 'sbvm' (pronounced 'sbuvum')

Barton

Having now almost fully recovered from my latest contrition / vitriolic anti-social rant, and found sufficient clarity to discover it came pretty close to the full moon I wonder if something like

Council for the Repatriation of Excruciating Emotional Pain (C.R.E.E.P.) might send the right positive message..?

Excuse me. What the hell am I doing here. I don't belong here.

very vitriolic I see - keep up the good work...

Elsewhere Chris M asked to be removed from the SBVM list, so I've done so. See you around Chris - have fun on h2g2

Cheers

Um .... I dunno. How about "Unworthy, untrustworthy schmucks, f**ks, nauseous and hurtful so-called friends"?

a "gentlewoman and a person of integrity" called Ben

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Hmmm, I think I prefer "dude", though...

how about 'George'...you can invent something to make it look like an acronym later on to impress people too

It'd confuse people too...they'd read a thread thinking 'whose this George?' little knowing it stands for..ummm...something

Ok...maybe not

'Lackey' might give us some fun things to play with...

"My fellow Lackies!
Spread the word - oh, yes we mus' -
Even though they think we wacky.
When they don't agree with us,
we'll give them such a smackey!"



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agcBen,

As you know, sarcasm doesn't always translate well in writing. Did someone in SBVM wrong you so much that you meant all those things?

Um. No.

They were from the heart, addressed to a group which includes a lot of the SBVM. They referred to me and one or two other people who are also either members of or sympathisers with the SBVM.

I assumed that most of the people reading this thread would know that they were said about me, and not said by me. And I thought about posting them or not posting them for about a week before I did eventually press the button and commit them.

However, they were said.

Ben