Our Claims on Antarctica.

[By now you've all seem my CLOG Post on Platrix's Claim to portions of the Moon -- Tranquility Base to be exact.]

By now you've all seem my CLOG Post on Platrix's Claim to portions of the Moon -- Tranquility Base to be exact.

But it seems to me that if Platrix (and Queho Posse) can claims rights on the moon, why shouldn't our noble traveler, "CCF" Bob Clemensson be able to claim Tierra del Fuego on our behalf?  Afterall he's been there and done that -- which is way more than either Platrix or QP can claim about the moon.

In fact if nonphysical forms of connection are enough to give these chapters claims to portions of the moon, I think Bob's traditional form of claiming territory by actually going there is more than enough to give us territorial rights over Tierra del Fuego and its contiguous zones -- and those would include the entire South, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as Antarctica.

And while I acknowledge that Antarctica is a whole separate continent from South America we've certainly gotten alot closer to it than either Platrix or Queho Posses have come to setting foot on the moon.  Just keep in mind that the moon is a "mere" 250 million miles away while Antarctica is a relative spitting distance from Tierra del Fuego.

So I think we should start a campaign to get out claim to Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica recognized at the next Grand Council.
  
Are there any volunteers out there to carry this cause forward?

If you're going ahead with this project, be aware of the penguins there.  They can be very dangerous and crafty.

Hello 1866

I just read the minutes from GC 6015 concerning the honorific Platrix has been granted, “Stewards of Tranquility Base and Protectors of the Moon”...

I see that you're asking for volunteers to help move forward the idea that PxL be granted some sort of recognition vis-a-vis Tierra del Fuego. I can't help you there, but, in your CLOG post, you proposed to annex Manhattan...

I belong to a Bindlestiff Brotherhood, "Hobo's" of E Clampus Vitus, an Unrecognized, Unauthorized and Unacknowledged band of Traveling Vituscans (Under the Protection of St. Vitus, the patron saint of actors, comedians, dancers, and epileptics; who protects against lightning strikes, animal attacks and oversleeping, and is the patron saint of Bohemia; also, the patron saint of the city of Rijeka in Croatia, the towns of Ciminna in Sicily, Forio on the Island of Ischia, in Campania, Italy, the contrada of San Vito, in Torella dei Lombardi, in Avellino, Italy, and the town of Winschoten in the Netherlands; Blessed Bee The Name of Vitus, Amen)...

At the moment, We are encamped near the island of Manhattan, and have been Ambling About Aimlessly on the town (as Hobo's tend to do). I'd like to offer a Report...

E Clampus Vitus Was Here...

General Ulysses S. Grant, Clamper Extraordinaire, is buried on the island. Brother Mark Twain gambled, smoked cigars, drank and walked the streets of Manhattan. Clampers George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette fought here during the Revolution. Teddy Roosevelt was born here in Manhattan, before he went West, became a Clamper and lived a cowboy life. Countless Clampers have Trod this island.

Although there is Clear, Solid Evidence of ECV activity in the Distant Past, there is Precious Little known fraternal activity of the Vituscan Order currently taking place.

Therefore, the Hobo's of ECV wholeheartedly endorse the idea of a move to Annex Manhattan.

Huzzah...

Huckleberry

Hail Huckleberry!

I am most impressed by you eloquence, and I believe you might be of assistance in our endeavors to annex Manhattan, and  at least gain a foothold for Peter Lebeck on the U.S. eastern seaboard. 

SO what I propose is to petition our Humbug to recognize you provisionally as "Vituscan Expeditionary Hobos of the Order of the Angry Bear -- PXL, ECV 1866."

To gain permanent status you'd have to provide information as to your current standing as members of ECV, as well as create some official bond between us to help legitimize our inchoate claim to Manhattan (such as an application for PXL associate membership by your team leader), but this relationship appears promising, and who can argue with missionary support?  While permanent establishment of an ECV Manhattan chapter will likely require actually residence over time, photos showing PXL Vituscan Missionaries standing before various landmark in the Big Apple would be very useful in advancing our cause. 

To this end I can email you a copy of the PLX Logo suitable for display so that you may unfurl it in our honor at any recognizable landmarks while you are photographed, en masse,  before it, in all you blazing glory.

Mike


 

I, Ptomaine Timbo, PXL 1866 Noble Grand Humbug, hereby and forthwith declaim that the Yankee known as Huckleberry shall be recognized as the Peter Lebeck Grand Territorial Procurement Executor, and as such be granted all rights and privileges therunto deserved. Given under my hand and bottle this 5th day of August, 6015.   

[MGM]

Tim, don't you mean "declaim AND decree?"

Anyway Huckleberry...TAG!  Sounds like you're it. 

Let me know how I can be of assistance. I can make up pretty much anything in the way you'll need as far as graphics go.  Just let me know how to get them to you.  If you prefer electronic tansmission, then make sure I have an idea as to Maximun file size and needed print size.

MGM

Huck, there's a great kosher-style deli there called "Ben's".  I think it's on 8th Ave.  Other than that, there's not much on the island of interest.

To gain permanent status you'd have to provide information as to your current standing as members of ECV, as well as create some official bond between us to help legitimize our inchoate claim to Manhattan (such as an application for PXL associate membership by your team leader), but this relationship appears promising, and who can argue with missionary support?  While permanent establishment of an ECV Manhattan chapter will likely require actually residence over time, photos showing PXL Vituscan Missionaries standing before various landmark in the Big Apple would be very useful in advancing our cause.  

To this end I can email you a copy of the PLX Logo suitable for display so that you may unfurl it in our honor at any recognizable landmarks while you are photographed, en masse,  before it, in all you blazing glory.

Mike


 

Gentlemen...

Greetings from the land East of the Appalachian Mountains...

I received the Staff on April 13, 6007 at the TriChapter doin's held at Indian Rock. Since then, I've sponsored about 25 guys, from places such as British Columbia, Texas, Indiana, Kentucky, Australia, South Korea, Washington, Ohio, Arizona, Nevada and, of course, California. It is this Core Group that call ourselves "Hobo's". We travel extensively; many of us are Tour Leaders by profession. Probably the chapter's Doin's we go to most is Squibob's. We most recently made the last 4 way Southern Alliance doin's at CalNevAri. One of the guy's who went through that initiation is here with me now, so, he's technically a PxL Brother. Myself, the closest claim I have to PxL is my Dickhead membership. I've met D.H. on several occasions...

We are willing and able to make a Mission this evening to Document a Vituscan Presence on the island of Manhattan. We shall Sally Forth to Various Places on the island and Stake Claim to it under the Authority Granted to Us as "Vituscan Expeditionary Hobos of the Order of the Angry Bear -- PXL, ECV 1866" - (Provisional)

If you guys want to email me some sort of PxL Graphically Charged item this afternoon, we'll take it with us and photograph it in front of Lots of Places. Unless something happens in the next 12 hours or so, Manhattan is Ours!

Huck
"Peter Lebeck Grand Territorial Procurement Executor"

P.S. - Although I'd never Claim to be an expert in All Things Lawyerly, I do believe that what is presently being proposed is quite clearly covered in Item 3 of the official By-Laws of E Clampus Vitus, which, I'm sure everyone remembers, is:

BY-LAWS
Traditional and historic damper by-laws--an organization with an absolute minimum of organization.
1. All members are officers.
2. All offices are of equal indignity.
3. Etc., etc.
(Revised By-Laws were adopted 6/1/1957, and later amended)

Dickhead, comments?

Sounds good to me, Huck.

And I think that ought to satisfy Dickhead, and, if not, I'm sure he can be bribed if you have Ben's FEDEx him a a Mile High on Rye (lightly toasted), with extra Russian dressing on the side. His arteries would also likely appreciate a thick coating of schmaltz, and his sinuses a doppup of grated horseradish.

I'm at work so I'll have to scrounge for something PXLish, but I'm on it!

Thanks.   

OK, Huck.

It's what I could do at work (my graphics are at home).

Hope this helps.

I'm with you all the way, Huck!  See if you can find some Indians to buy back the island for $24.

I Hope this still helps.

Beautiful, baby, just beautiful. Book 'em, Crocker!

I'm with you all the way, Huck!  See if you can find some Indians to buy back the island for $24.

If you need to find some Indians in Manhattan (the Native American kind not the South Asain kind), you need to look up.  Just fiond the nearest unfinished skyscraper, climb to the top and ask an ironworker.  A lot of them are Indians. 

Just watch your step.

(Rivet..rivet.)

That's the worst impression of Kermit the Frog I've ever heard!