Words For Your Enjoyment: The Ambassador’s Club
August 25th, 2006
My in-box has been inundated as of late.
Readers of WFME picked up on a mention of the WFME’s Ambassador Club a few weeks ago and have been wondering how to get into it, what the requirements are, in what countries such Ambassadorian features are available and generally what the entire kit-and-kaboodle contains.
It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve decided that today is the best day to finally reveal the true details of the most groundbreaking blog club to ever come along.
Now that you’ve clicked into the rest of this post, let’s be honest with each other. Didn’t I make the Ambassador’s Club sound truly amazing? I must have, because it made you want to read more. And that, my friends, is just what getting into the Ambassador’s Club is all about: panache.
Besides the typical requirements for getting into the club (which I’ll discuss at the end of this post), it’s about commenting with panache, style, humor and poise. It’s about exuding the kind of royal pedigree none of us have (since we all rebelled against the Crown in the early 1800’s) but which we can turn on and off like a light switch. Being in the Ambassador’s Club here at WFME isn’t about belonging. It’s about pretending to belong.
And if you get that, you get me.
Membership into the WFME’s Ambassador’s Club (which is being opened to the general WFME public today) requires a certain amount of prior participation from you, where the following requirements have been met:
- Ambassador applicant must have posted at least twenty-five (25) comments
- Ambassador applicant’s comments must have mentioned the name “Paul” or “Pauly” at least three (3) times in the above twenty-five (25) comments
- Ambassador applicant’s blog (if they have one) must contain a link to WFME
- Ambassador applicant must know WFME’s all time favorite television show theme song title
- Ambassador applicant must be willing to “throw down” in a real-world bar brawl with other blog commentors from a soon-to-be included list of nemesai-blogs
- Ambassador applicant must have a “theme song title” and “catchy WFME slogan” (that represents what they think the blog is)
- Ambassador applicant must know the answer to the question, “What isn’t Pauly afraid of?”
If you believe you actually meet the requirements for the Ambassador’s Club here at WFME, your next step is to e-mail your name, e-mail address, and proof of the above requirements to ambassador at paul davidson dot net. You will receive notification withing 2-10 blogging business days if you have met the requirements and will then receive a digital “patch” that looks something like the above image to use in whatever way you choose (on your blog, on your head, on your bruised thigh).
Once the initial membership has been accepted to the WFME-AC, you will also be provided with a WFME-chosen title that may range from VP to Messenger to All-Around Good Guy. It’s a crap shoot, really — but it’s bound to be entertaining nonetheless.
So good luck, thanks for reading, and Happy Friday!
I was so ready to sign up, Pauly…but I don’t know your favorite theme song. I suck. I’ll just hide out in the corner with the other All-Around Lame-Os. Sigh.
Comment by annabel lee — August 25, 2006 @ 9:25 am
Paul -
I don’t qualify in the slightest. However, doesn’t my undying love and devotion count for something?? Or, how ’bout if I just record myself singing your favorite TV theme song & send it to you? Then would I qualify?
Comment by cdub — August 25, 2006 @ 9:37 am
before i decide whether i want to be in your little club, i have to questions for you, pauly: 1) what is your favorite tv theme song? 2) what are you not afraid of?
thank you for your interest in my interest in your club. once i receive your answers, i will notify you within 2-10 days about my intentions to apply.
Comment by dgm — August 25, 2006 @ 9:40 am
AL - We don’t think of you any less because of it, just so you know.
cdub - Undying love and devotion do count. Unfortunately, while we would still love to receive this song of yours, in order to be fair to everyone else we have to stick to the rules.
Dgm - You ALMOST had me.
Comment by Pauly D — August 25, 2006 @ 9:53 am
oh Pauly, you will always be my sun, moon, and stars.
Comment by Kathleen — August 25, 2006 @ 10:00 am
That’s a lot of stinkin requirements Paul, but worth the effort nontheless. Don’t know about the 25 comments stipulation but I am good for the rest.
One question… Is your patch waterproof?
Comment by Jeff — August 25, 2006 @ 11:03 am
I’m already a member, Pauly. And for that, I thank you from the depths of my black heart. Heh…
Comment by Amy — August 25, 2006 @ 11:04 am
Paul,
Please tell me there’s also a pyramid scheme involved with your cult, er, club…
As long as we don’t have to mutilate our genitals and wait for a comet, I’m in.
Comment by The Centaur — August 25, 2006 @ 11:43 am
Jeff - Totally waterproof.
The Centaur - No gential mutilation, FYI.
Comment by Pauly D — August 25, 2006 @ 11:57 am
Chaos Coordinator is in the house!
Comment by monkeyinabox — August 25, 2006 @ 12:04 pm
Wow, I’m very far from qualifying for membership. Way to keep the riff-raff out, Paul. And by riff-raff, Pauly, I mean me.
Oh, and out of curiousity, as it doesn’t seem to specify, does this post alone meet the at least three mentions of Paul or Pauly rule? Huh, Paul?
Back to lurker mode I go…
Comment by James Cooper — August 25, 2006 @ 1:07 pm
25 comments??
Commence drivel.
Comment by Mark K — August 25, 2006 @ 2:27 pm
How are we supposed to know how many times we’ve commented? And we will need to get any medical shots before being accepted?
Comment by Neil — August 25, 2006 @ 6:04 pm
Ok…the only thing I’m missing is a theme song. Hmmm Very Ally McBeal. Liking it very much Pauly D.
I soooooo hope that if I get accepted to your Aclub that I get some really panche/royal title. My freshly mani’d fingers are crossed. Ps…the pedi was sooooo RELAXING. LOL. You really need to try my girl for a good experience.
Comment by thoughtsgalore — August 25, 2006 @ 6:36 pm
Gee… the burden of proof is on ME to join the club? Harsh! Can’t you just take my word for it?
Comment by Dave2 — August 25, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
Shit, Paulie, you’re turning into a full blown megalomaniac now.
Comment by treespotter — August 26, 2006 @ 5:46 am
Ahahaha–
You are the Zodiac Octopus.
Comment by JM — August 26, 2006 @ 4:40 pm
Ah, crap. I want to be an embarrassador. I would think you would be afraid of those frikken pedicures. How a-paul-ing.
Wait a minute…do I smell mutiny?
Clearly I must be riff-raff. Le sigh. I must bring this up in my therapy session, right after I discuss my mortal wounds from being picked last in dodge ball.
I suppose this means we all have to go buy the damned book to figure this maze out? Or read every.blessed.entry.since.the.dawn.of.WFME.creation.
Coffee. I need coffee.
Comment by Julia Farley — August 26, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
Not only am I a bonafide member of the WFME’s ambassador club, but I am also holding not-so-official claim to presidency over said club due to the fact that not only do I meet the statutes entailed above, but I exceed those with my daily promotion of you, your blog, your books and your podcasts, and that I have publicly stated my undying support for you in, but not limited to,at least 3 of the over 25 comments I have left here. With that being said, I am hereby exempt from submitting to you the items required above.
Comment by jacquie — August 29, 2006 @ 7:25 pm