What the hell is the Flipper Lunch Club?
Founded in the fall of 2003, the Flipper Lunch Club is a Whitehorse-based fraternal gambling organization that meets every Wednesday at noon in a local restaurant or lounge. The Club began with five original members and shortly expanded to six, all of whom remain members in good standing. (Membership is now closed). The Club has survived two federally-funded junkets to Paris, one federally-funded junket to Central America, and the attempted resignation of one member during a rancorous period when the Club’s sole topic of discussion was its own ever-expanding list of rules and related punishments. Each Club meeting consists of a consumption phase, followed by a gambling phase in which coins are repeatedly tossed until some loser has to pay for everyone’s lunch. That loser is then upgraded to “host” the following week when he eats for free in the establishment of his choice. For less information about the Flipper Lunch Club, visit www.flipperlunch.
Founded in the fall of 2003, the Flipper Lunch Club is a Whitehorse-based fraternal gambling organization that meets every Wednesday at noon in a local restaurant or lounge. The Club began with five original members and shortly expanded to six, all of whom remain members in good standing. (Membership is now closed). The Club has survived two federally-funded junkets to Paris, one federally-funded junket to Central America, and the attempted resignation of one member during a rancorous period when the Club’s sole topic of discussion was its own ever-expanding list of rules and related punishments. Each Club meeting consists of a consumption phase, followed by a gambling phase in which coins are repeatedly tossed until some loser has to pay for everyone’s lunch. That loser is then upgraded to “host” the following week when he eats for free in the establishment of his choice.
