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I received my first ever emailed LGC newsletter today. It looks and reads great! Congratulations to all who produced it.

(For those who haven't seen it, it has mostly information about the Annual Mtg in Portland and general membership info, etc.)

But about the title of the newsletter, "Phalanx"....

The term has many meanings and connotations, some of them political, as shown in this Wikipedia disambiguation page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_(disambiguation)

But for me, there is only one outstanding political connotation -- the Spanish Falangist party of Catholic fascists who propped up Franco for 40 years. Other right wing religious fascists elsewhere have also called themselves, or been described by others as Phalangists (e.g., in France, Lebanon, and U.S. filth like Pat Buchanan).

So, notwithstanding other connotations which might be OK for Liberals (like the Fourier inspired utopian communities called phalanxes), I don't feel it is an appropriate term to associate with this group.

So what's my better suggestion? Gimme a minute, I'm working on it...

larrymod wrote:I received my first ever emailed LGC newsletter today. It looks and reads great! Congratulations to all who produced it.

(For those who haven't seen it, it has mostly information about the Annual Mtg in Portland and general membership info, etc.)

But about the title of the newsletter, "Phalanx"....

The term has many meanings and connotations, some of them political, as shown in this Wikipedia disambiguation page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_(disambiguation)

But for me, there is only one outstanding political connotation -- the Spanish Falangist party of Catholic fascists who propped up Franco for 40 years. Other right wing religious fascists elsewhere have also called themselves, or been described by others as Phalangists (e.g., in France, Lebanon, and U.S. filth like Pat Buchanan).

So, notwithstanding other connotations which might be OK for Liberals (like the Fourier inspired utopian communities called phalanxes), I don't feel it is an appropriate term to associate with this group.

So what's my better suggestion? Gimme a minute, I'm working on it...

Agreed. The first thing that the word phalanx brings to my mind is this:

Ok..... well, lets here some ideas. It was called that way back when I used to send them out more often. Of course, only in this group of historians would I get flack

Gimme something better. My thought was that it was an organized group of people leading a charge... in this case against right wing crap. Clearly, that message didn't resonate.

Now, I have also learned that this thread will quickly devolve into splinter groups with wildly different ideas leaving no consensus and me back where I started - a semi-crappy title and nothing to do about it. Of course someone will also chime in about how they think newsletters are stupid and why don't I just put it all up on facebook, and they don't like the color blue, or my name.

Don't take this the wrong way, I love feedback and I truly love you guys and gals.... but........experience has told me where this is going

BUT.... thanks for the kind words. Glad you are getting it. Sending out the newsletter before was a much larger pain - the new system is much better. And there was no way for users to selectively remove themselves from the newsletter yet still remain members, etc. Where we are going with this will make all of our lives easier in the long run.

Look for more newsletters in the future. In fact, once I get the software tweaked I am likely going to ask someone to help - which will just entail finding some links in the forum to post and write a sentence or two about.

The paladin

Paladin wrote:The paladin

Or in your case "Have gun, need to travel"

Paladin wrote:The paladin

ha.

How about "your irregularly published letter of news and information"?? lol

The other question is has anybody clicked on the link to get a password and have it work? I am hoping I did that correctly.

The Liberal Gunner Times

Shooting Liberally

Non-crazy firearm owners

So... which one is it?

lemur wrote:

So... which one is it?

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind but I figured the context would rule out the phalanges. :p

How about something simple like, MERGE as in merge together brothers and sisters.....

KVoimakas wrote:The Liberal Gunner Times

Shooting Liberally

Non-crazy firearm owners

How about LGC Monthly

ErikO wrote:

KVoimakas wrote:The Liberal Gunner Times

Shooting Liberally

Non-crazy firearm owners

How about LGC Monthly

Except that there is no way I will post one monthly. the LGC occasionally?

mark wrote:Ok..... well, lets here some ideas. It was called that way back when I used to send them out more often. Of course, only in this group of historians would I get flack

Gimme something better. My thought was that it was an organized group of people leading a charge... in this case against right wing crap. Clearly, that message didn't resonate.

Now, I have also learned that this thread will quickly devolve into splinter groups with wildly different ideas leaving no consensus and me back where I started - a semi-crappy title and nothing to do about it. Of course someone will also chime in about how they think newsletters are stupid and why don't I just put it all up on facebook, and they don't like the color blue, or my name.

Don't take this the wrong way, I love feedback and I truly love you guys and gals.... but........experience has told me where this is going

The solution is simple... let me pick the title and ignore everyone else.
I'm surprised you haven't thought of that allready.

ErikO wrote:

Paladin wrote:The paladin

Or in your case "Have gun, need to travel"

Have gun, need rest.

mark wrote:

lemur wrote:

So... which one is it?

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind but I figured the context would rule out the phalanges. :p

I think the Greek phalanx is the right definition we are a prickly defensive bunch.

Awake wrote:

Ubercreepy.

How about, "The Left Flank?"

Inquisitor wrote:
I think the Greek phalanx is the right definition we are a prickly defensive bunch.

I'm a Noob, but:

"The Porcupine"?

or, how about something ironic, like "Reasonable and Sensible Gun Nuts"?

No idea other than this.

Resist the urge to get too clever.

You could call it "The Liberal Gun Club Newsletter"

Porcupine is sort of nice.

Fukshot wrote:Porcupine is sort of nice.

Prickly, I like it.

And yeah, guitar, you are definitely right.

mark wrote:

Fukshot wrote:Porcupine is sort of nice.

Prickly, I like it.

And yeah, guitar, you are definitely right.

And too many different points to easily count, like many of our discussions.

hedgehogs are likewise prickly but much cuter. just saying.