: "Proud to Say, I Have Never...
By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 22/11/2006
By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
Your view: tell us what you're proud never to have done
Join our society of rebels and non-conformists
It was Groucho Marx who best summed up that nagging feeling we all periodically suffer from: that we don't really like the rest of mankind.
'I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members,' he said.
Today, The Daily Telegraph, inspired by our readers, launches a new club for people who, like Marx, want to stand out from the crowd and are strongly inclined to go against prevailing fashions.
They do not buy iPods because their neighbours have them, and they certainly do not 'drizzle' truffle oil on their carpaccio because Nigella Lawson tells them to.
It was Bryan Dixon of Winchester, Hants, who started it. Sorely provoked by the wall-to-wall praise from the media for the new West End production of The Sound of Music, he wrote to The Daily Telegraph in clarion tones.
'Now is the time to bring to the attention of music lovers The Society of People Who have Not Seen The Sound of Music and Have No Intention of Doing So. I believe that I am the only member of this society.'
His letter was published last Friday and it quickly became clear that he was not alone at all. The letter was a lodestone and, ever since, readers have deluged our website and letters page.
Not only have they written in about Rodgers and Hammerstein's singing nuns, but to declare their intense dislike of many other modern cultural icons, modes of behaviour or consumer wizardry.
Gathering themselves around the umbrella of what we have deci"
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