SOS Brigade Minutes for 10/12/2012

[notjohnsmith]

Officers:
Brigade Chief, Suzumiya Haruhi
Second-in-Command: Koizumi Itsuki
Penalty Secretary: Kyon.

Recurring Members:
John Egbert
Kate Bishop
Allison Argent
Stiles
Nico Minoru

New Members (here willingly):
Scott McCall

Not In Attendance:
Sayaka-chan

Old Business:
-Secretary instructed that if there's anything new with Old Business it will be brought up in new business, and if not we can’t afford to be dwelling on the past!!  IF we’re ever going to get things done our attention should be on the future!  Every meeting should be moving ahead and building on the past, or we’ll never be able to keep up!  Are you taking notes, Kyon?  You’d better be sure to write this down word-for-word!  Don’t waste inspirational material!  Besides, there might be a quiz later, I haven’t decided yet!  Yes, of course you need to be putting the exclamation points in, otherwise no-one will understand the emphasis!  Go back and put them in!  One or two more even!!!  You’d better make sure not to miss anything else important that gets said during the meeting, either!

Secretary’s Note:
While this kind of Red Queen Hypothesis might be true in evolutionary biology, in the real world it’s better to remember what’s happened recently as well, so that the mistakes of the past aren’t repeated.  Also, when every sentence ends in an exclamation point, there isn’t any special emphasis delivered at all.

Kyon, are you paying attention!  Don’t write things that have nothing to do with the task at hand!!

New Business:

-Party recap (too lengthy to reproduce in full; please feel free to add highlights of the dissection -- ah, the discussion -- in the comments).

-Assignment review: apart from the unfortunate observation that New Moore unironically has a late-night cable channel literally titled Skinemax, no definitive findings.

-Kyon’s new roommate looks totally sketchy!  He’s definitely some kind of suspicious character and needs to be investigated right away.  Yes, write it down!  Write it all down!

-Secretary’s Objection: since apparently Haruhi’s roommate has been hoarding guns, and we haven’t yet investigated her, is this kind of reaction really necessary based on snap character judgment?

-Objection overruled!!!!!!!!!!!

-Assignment:  For that matter, everything about this totally suspicious crime wave and power-outage needs to be investigated, down to the smallest detail.  We’ll begin by having every club member compile a complete record of everything unusual that’s happened to them since the beginning of the month.  Don’t leave anything out!

-Investigation into the release and disappearance of Sayaka-san.

Grounds: even if disappearances like this happen all the time, they shouldn’t happen to Brigade members!    We can’t let a cute kohai character like that just slip through our fingers!

Sub-assignment: Formulate possible hypotheses,ask around about people who’ve gone missing before.  And Kyon, get one of those whiteboard thingies!  We can’t conduct an investigation without one, that’s just common knowledge!!

-Question from Miss Argent: does the Brigade have any specific plans for Halloween?
    Several suggestions made, meeting adjourned to give Brigade Chief the time to properly consider them all.  Please submit any new ideas for consideration below.

After-club activity: board games

Comments

[ofone]

An actual one, right? Not like a Mean Girls one, where I have to show up in my underwear?

[notjohnsmith]

An actual costume party. This isn't that kind of club.

[ofone]

Okay, cool. We can bring people who aren't in the club, right?

[notjohnsmith]

While this club has a long history of conscripting friends and acquaintances to take part in events, and I can't see any rational objection to continuing it now, my fate at the past several meetings has convinced me that I clearly lack the authority to answer such questions.

Haruhi?

[themelancholyof]

Okay, but no one boring!!

[notjohnsmith]

Hopefully, that answers your question.

[themelancholyof]

[dontmccallmyname]

Wow, I really hope no one has to show up in their underwear, actually.

[ofone]

Same.

[themelancholyof]

[dontmccallmyname]

Um. You're not thinking what I think you're thinking...

Right?

[themelancholyof]

Oh, I hope so!!

[themelancholyof]

Speaking of which, I've drawn up some sketches for a butler costume but we'll need to take your measurements.

[dontmccallmyname]

[please don't be a stripper butler costume please don't be a stripper butler costume]

Uh. Sure. Could I take a look at them first?

[themelancholyof]

[OH PLEASE SHE'S TOO CLASSY FOR ok never mind but. don't worry scott. at least she's not putting you in puppy ears yet.]

I don't see how that's necessary, but okay!

[dontmccallmyname]

[why this: a short story of scott mccall's life]

I think you forgot to sketch a shirt.

[themelancholyof]

You think you need a shirt?

[dontmccallmyname]

Don't butlers usually wear shirts? I mean, I don't know, I've never had a butler.

[themelancholyof]

I don't know, until pretty recently I was mostly into maids.

[dontmccallmyname]

Oh.

[themelancholyof]

But since you're new to the club I thought I'd ease you into things, since someone keeps telling me I need to exercise a little more delicacy!

[dontmccallmyname]

Um, no shirt is fine! I bet there's totally butlers that don't wear shirts.

[themelancholyof]

No, no, you're right. Maybe less is more!! Overt sexualization might not actually even be the point of butlers, maybe it's more subtle.

[themelancholyof]

But you know you don't really need a shirt, right!!

[notjohnsmith]