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Variant, v. 1, issue 3, September 1947
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IMPRESSIONS OF SOME PART OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE PSFS--- PROBABLY "OLD" OR "NEW" BUSINESS A MEMBER: I'd like to ask if any member has seen the new movie "A Pile of Horrors" yet? B. DOOLING: I'm in favor of it. Let's have one every week. J. WILLIAMS: (aside). Shut up, Dooling. A MEMBER: I'd like to make a motion--- B. DOOLING: (enthusiastically) Second! I'll second that motion! (Talkative member, buzzing vigorously in writhing victim's ear, catches attention of entire club. All stare. President pounds gavel. T.M.'s voice becomes lower and more confidential. Victim's writhings increase. Club's attention returns to "old" or "new", as the case may be, business.) PHILLIPS: (rising). I'd like to inquire if anythings' been done about club subscriptions to fanmags--- A MEMBER: (excitedly) It's been passed! It's been passed! Four years ago we passed a motion to subscribe to fanmags, and what's been done about it? Nothing! I think--- PRESIDENT: (addressing club). Shall I call for discussion? JACK MCKNIGHT: (bouncing up). Hey! There's a motion on the floor. Bens: Dooling has a motion on the floor! You gotta dispose of that before you take up anything else. A MEMBER: (slightly confused): That wasn't a motion---it was a resolution. PRESIDENT: Bens:, will you restate your resolution as a motion? DOOLING: (bewildered, but in there fighting). I make a motion my resolution be recognized. (Victim escapes from Talkative Member, who, lost, stares about, catches the phrase, "I make a motion," and immediately seconds, to show he's been listening all the time.) J. WILLIAMS: (disgustedly). It wasn't Bens: made the original motion (sit down, Bens:!) it was somebody else. He only seconded it. PRESIDENT: Who made the original motion, and what was it? (Mover has forgotten in subsequent excitement. To keep record straight unknown motion is officially tabled.) (3)
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IMPRESSIONS OF SOME PART OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE PSFS--- PROBABLY "OLD" OR "NEW" BUSINESS A MEMBER: I'd like to ask if any member has seen the new movie "A Pile of Horrors" yet? B. DOOLING: I'm in favor of it. Let's have one every week. J. WILLIAMS: (aside). Shut up, Dooling. A MEMBER: I'd like to make a motion--- B. DOOLING: (enthusiastically) Second! I'll second that motion! (Talkative member, buzzing vigorously in writhing victim's ear, catches attention of entire club. All stare. President pounds gavel. T.M.'s voice becomes lower and more confidential. Victim's writhings increase. Club's attention returns to "old" or "new", as the case may be, business.) PHILLIPS: (rising). I'd like to inquire if anythings' been done about club subscriptions to fanmags--- A MEMBER: (excitedly) It's been passed! It's been passed! Four years ago we passed a motion to subscribe to fanmags, and what's been done about it? Nothing! I think--- PRESIDENT: (addressing club). Shall I call for discussion? JACK MCKNIGHT: (bouncing up). Hey! There's a motion on the floor. Bens: Dooling has a motion on the floor! You gotta dispose of that before you take up anything else. A MEMBER: (slightly confused): That wasn't a motion---it was a resolution. PRESIDENT: Bens:, will you restate your resolution as a motion? DOOLING: (bewildered, but in there fighting). I make a motion my resolution be recognized. (Victim escapes from Talkative Member, who, lost, stares about, catches the phrase, "I make a motion," and immediately seconds, to show he's been listening all the time.) J. WILLIAMS: (disgustedly). It wasn't Bens: made the original motion (sit down, Bens:!) it was somebody else. He only seconded it. PRESIDENT: Who made the original motion, and what was it? (Mover has forgotten in subsequent excitement. To keep record straight unknown motion is officially tabled.) (3)
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