UQ used to have a Market Day during O-Week where the various clubs would all gather in the Great Court to recruit naive first year students. Clubs ranged from the Melrose Place Appreciation Group (kids: Melrose place was a very popular TV show at the time, but the club was an excuse to drink beer and hit on college girls) to the Beer Appreciation Club (which had the advantage of being honest about it's raison d’être - drinking beer and hitting on college girls). More jaded students would simply gather for the free food and condoms.
One year we found an empty table sitting in one of the cloisters. Between several other clubs - maybe a simple logsitic miscalculation, maybe a club who thought better of the whole affair, perhaps the High Society simply got wasted and forgot what day it was.
Upon this table we placed a large sign saying:
UQ Apathy Society... and we walked away. We'd already come very close to caring with the whole sign-writing business.
And yes, I know that procrastination and apathy aren't the same.
I just needed an excuse to amuse myself with this story. I am procrastinating at work.
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