The Resignation Joke

 

Do you belong to any writingorganizations for crime writers or general writing groups—MWA? Sisters inCrime, International Thriller Writers? If not, why not? If so, what value havethey been for you? 

 

This question makes me think of Groucho Marx and his famous‘Resignation Joke.’

 

“I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as amember.”

 

It’s classic Groucho for self-disparagement, barbed wit, anda clever tactical maneuver to extricate himself from ...