Friends Don't Let Friends Drive With Cod in Their Trousers
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(Ooh, look, the newsletters are now into the double digits. Scary, eh?)
The Revolution has begun! We now have members in influential positions of government. Ok, so it's the Cordova High Drama club government, but it's a start. Noah, that guy whose position I can't recall, is President, and Jennifer, who doesn't seem to have a position but is really cool anyway, is Vice President. I already approached them about becoming a puppet government controlled from behind the scenes by a shadowy figure known only by the enigmatic title L who uses the powerful Drama resources for FDLFDWCTT interests, but they said no. They aren't quite as verbose as I am. Noah said I could be a puppet dictator once in a while, though, so I'm happy.
My next issue is, please write me something! Please, I'm begging you, give me feedback! I'm on my hands and knees imploring you, which is making it quite difficult to type!
Ok, in an effort to ellicit some sort of response from you apathetic people I'm going to do a rehash of what this organization stands for, our various procedures, customs, tenets, and the running tab on how much you owe me.
First of all, we are the FDLFDWCTT, which stands for (pay attention, there may be a quiz later) Friends Don't Let Friends Drive With Cod in Their Trousers. This means, in a nutshell, that friends shouldn't let their friends drive with cod in their trousers. We make no specification as to whose trousers they are, but I should think it would be especially offensive it somebody were driving around with cod in your trousers. That may just be me though.
One of our basic tenets is to feel a strong dislike for our rival organization, which calls itself the Free Choicers or some such and consists primarily (exclusively actually) of Christina and Janet. Our policy is to make odd faces and gutteral noises whenever we see them, thus conveying our feelings of aversion in a mature and professional manner.
There is also a procedure to be used when a member sees another member, called the Secret FDLFDWCTT Leg Shake. It is best described in this excerpt from Newsletter 8, starring the ever popular Member 1 and Member 2: Member 1: Sees another Member. Runs to intercept, tripping over numerous roots on the ground and almost falling several times. Member 2: Sees Member 1 almost fall and falls down himself, clutching his stomach and chortling. Member 1: Sees Member 2 laughing and proceeds to kick Member 2 repeatedly in the hindquarters. Member 2: Writhes in pain. Ok, now notice the kicking motion Member 1 is making? This is the sort of motion you will want to get going, only sideways away from your body, and preferably not making contact with Member 2's nether regions. This symbolizes the shaking out of cod from the trousers.
Let's see, what's another tenet? Hhhhhmmmm. Oh yeah, another tenet is to use your spare time to do creative stuff that's sort of club related. My contribution was, well, to start this club and write these newsletters, and I've also designed a web page, a memebership cod, and a backpack patch. I guess this is more of a personal tenet, except that Marcie's also gotten into the act by creating FDLFDWCTT magnets, which were really cool.
Another personal tenet is to charge you people money to cover the free web page and email, and to not charge you for ads I do actually pay for in my school play's programs.
The last custom is to respond to the guy who takes time out of his busy schedule of not studying for his spanish final to write these newsletters (hint:that means write me something).
Well, that's all the tenets I feel like listing in this newsletter, which is getting pretty long, other than to say that Evie has joined our rightous movement.