Talk:Handlebar Club

A fact from Handlebar Club appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 December 2008, and was viewed approximately 19,700 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Handlebar Club (member pictured), a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/December.

Wikipedia

Fashion Mid‑importance

	Fashion portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Fashion, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Fashion on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.FashionWikipedia:WikiProject FashionTemplate:WikiProject Fashionfashion articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

London Mid‑importance

	London portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject London, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of London on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LondonWikipedia:WikiProject LondonTemplate:WikiProject LondonLondon-related articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Ha[edit]

I know that a Wikipedia talk page is no place for this sort of comment, but I can't help myself: this is by far the funniest fucking page I have ever read on Wikipedia! Hahahaha!!! Good work to whoever put this together. :)--Pericles of Athens^Talk 20:52, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I enjoyed writing it even more than you enjoyed reading it, I'd wager. Pip-pip! Skomorokh 21:27, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You know what? I still think this is fucking hilarious! Hahaha! My God this is good. I wish there were more articles like this. It's almost like something out of Uncyclopedia, only it's true!--Pericles of Athens^Talk 01:36, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requirements[edit]

"The club's sole requirement for membership is "a hirsute appendage of the upper lip and with graspable extremities";[2] beards are absolutely forbidden." obviously if a beard is fofrbidden there are more requirments than the article suggests.

jcm

I am not a native speaker (or writer for that matter) of English, and I thought that "requirement for" is something one had to have, while a beard is something one must not have; so two requirements but only one requirement for. Is this incorrect? If it's obviously wrong to a fluent English speaker, please feel free to alter the phrasing. Thanks for the comment, Skomorokh 21:27, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Economic Times source in the article reports that "London’s Handlebar Club was founded in 1947, its only qualification for membership being “a hirsute appendage of the upper lip and with graspable extremities”." Skomorokh 21:29, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]