41 people join in.
Each person upvotes every answer, other than theirs, to this question.
Once we have 41 answers and votes, I will systematically accept each answer in turn.
41 people get the "Oh the Horror" and "Marauder" hats.
Easy.
Who would refuse a free hat? Actually, quite a few people would, but not me.
The first rule of Hat Club is...
Everyone in Hat Club talks about Hat Club.
Right now I'm wearing the boat hat. This works out well for me because snail and also boat. Unfortunately, there are no hats on meta :-(
Bonus haiku senryū:
俳句をね
面倒くさい
ムズすぎよ
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Well, if you are selling hats, then I consider this the perfect business opportunity, because I am buying hats.
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'
-- Marilyn Monroe
Mmmm, smells good. Is it hat yet?
Hey, while we're waiting, how about a little Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat?
Forty, you say? Forty’s not so much, provided that they’re only goblins, as any bear can tell you:
‘. . . I killed a goblin or two with a flash—’
‘Good!’ growled Beorn. ‘It is some good being a wizard, then.’
‘— and slipped inside the crack before it closed. I followed down into the main hall, which was crowded with goblins. The Great Goblin was there with thirty or forty armed guards. I thought to myself “even if they were not all chained together, what can a dozen do against so many?” ’
‘A dozen! That’s the first time I’ve heard eight called a dozen. Or have you still got some more jacks that haven't yet come out of their boxes?’
If we do that we could lose our upvoting capacity for real questions, mightn't we? isn't it limited ? Have a safe journey, anyway.
Sign me in! It is interesting that though I tried to qualify for some (secret?) hats on English & Usage site looks like without a single post (or maybe an answer) I can't get any hat.
I've got nothing better to do today anyway, I guess.
... but won't we need 41? Can't upvote your own answer.
I think that this is a fantastic idea. In fact, now that I am in, we only need 40 others.
This is indeed a great idea. I am in!
So, if I'm reading the Guru badge requirements right, does this mean you plan to accept all the answers in turn?
(Even if the hat thing doesn't work, this club will at least generate a bunch of badges.)
Edit: Ah, throwing in the Marauder hat confirms the game plan.
Haaaaats! And I've always wanted a pirate hat.
Dunno if I want Jeff Atwood's hair, though. Is that a required part of this endeavor?
Not being witty enough to pass muster, I take the lazy man's way out. Oh, and I'm in. The quote should be gender neutral.
"There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat."
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
It'll never work... Count me in!
A young man sat down by the waters
his thought, to create some Marauders
He posted his plan
And so it began
To work, though, the scope must be broader.
We've gone too far. We might as well continue into the darkness.
An interesting experiment in hat-testing-to destruction (is there a single word for that?).
There was an old person of Fratton
Who would go to the church with his hat on.
'If I wake up,' he said,
'With a hat on my head,
I will know that it hasn't been sat on.'
Please save me from having no alternative other than wearing a menorah on my head! That is my only hat at the present time. I would like a better hashed haberdashery.
That makes no sense, none at all. I apologize. I covet StackExchange hats.
I'm not a hat hater, I just don't like SE hats. (My answer will make it 20 which is my favorite number.)
If this is not a great idea, I don't know what is!
Lucky me, there is still room.
Wow. I'm almost out of votes for the day here. This better work!
There was an epic cornet.
With a hat and a wig to get,
He posted an answer
and said he'd look fancier
with a patch and cap to boot
That's a lot of work. Will enough people really go to the trouble?
I'm answer No. 13. Which is fine, because in Italy it's 17 which brings ill fortune.
Please, may I have that black wig, the horror one, it gets so wearisome dying my hair. A wig would solve all my problems, ta very much!
Is this whole thing really a good idea? Is this how we want posterity to remember us, grubbing after votes and slavishly pressing +1, +1, +1 ... for more than a whole minute? And getting exposed to dangerous signs like "You haven't voted on questions in a while; questions need votes too"?
I'm probably late to the party but, 'duh.
The hat that I had would take a hit, but I hid under a hood, that was hot in the hut.
Hot like hell, oh the horror!
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. -- H.P. Lovecraft, and everyone in this thread.
I want a hat. I so want a hat. Hat me.
Almost there!
Oh, come on.