I've been invited to join the Kiwanis. Should I?

I Should Coco · Jun 19, 2009

JayFarrar said:

So I went.
They meet every Thursday for lunch.
Surprisingly, at 39 I was not the youngest guy there.
Lots of banker types, who I think have to join one social organization as part of their jobs. Most people seemed to be in their 40s or early 50s.
They also had women folk there, I was surprised since I thought it was dudes only. Anyway, they want me to come back.
I may beg off and say that I can't because my boss won't let me, I don't know yet. I think I would need to run it by him no matter what.
We can be kind of weird about such things here.
*shrug*
The lunch place has Galaga, which might be enough of a reason for me to join.
Love me some Galaga.
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Do they still sing the Kiwanis song??

(I had to attend a meeting or two back in my editor-of-a-small-weekly days)

Seriously, if you like the idea of a service organization, and there are other people there you like, go for it. Just pay your own annual dues.

MU_was_not_so_hard · Jun 19, 2009

Just in case anyone's curious, you still have to be a Mason before you can be a Shriner. You can't simply become a Shriner.
Masons have more of a religious overtone to them, but most of the Shriner related stuff is fairly secular.

txsportsscribe · Jun 19, 2009

MU_was_not_so_hard said:

Just in case anyone's curious, you still have to be a Mason before you can be a Shriner. You can't simply become a Shriner.
Masons have more of a religious overtone to them, but most of the Shriner related stuff is fairly secular.
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but can you become a shiner?

MU_was_not_so_hard · Jun 19, 2009

Piss off someone bad enough, and yes, you can go straight to Shiner's Club.

Iron_chet · Jun 19, 2009

The details around this are unfortunately slim.

One of my buddies dads gave me the full account - a full on sex room, hookers naked except for the Fez, chanting, etc.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20010130/ctvnews83022/20010130/?hub=CTVNewsAt11&subhub=PrintStory

bagelchick · Jun 21, 2009

txsportsscribe said:

MU_was_not_so_hard said:

Just in case anyone's curious, you still have to be a Mason before you can be a Shriner. You can't simply become a Shriner.
Masons have more of a religious overtone to them, but most of the Shriner related stuff is fairly secular.

I gotta check with my dad on this. He's a Shriner, but I don't think he was ever a Mason.
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but can you become a shiner?
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