Welcome to the Funis Web Page

The BFSNSL, though an honoured and revered Society, is not one of those clandestine efforts like the Masons or the Lions, replete with secret signs, handshakes and passwords. No, we're much more public about what we do, so we've started a WebPage to tell you all about "The Funis".

The first question most people ask is "What does all that alphabet soup at the top of the page stand for?", so we'll explain that first:

B = Benevolent - Kindly, generous, not-for-profit 
F = Funipendulous - Hanging by a string or rope 
S = Society - Duh! 
NS = of Nova Scotia - It's where we live! 
L = Logotechnicians - People who work and play with words

For obvious reasons, we have come to be known by our briefer nickname, "The Funis".

Mission Statement

• To preserve and promulgate any and all forms of logotechnology, including bafflegab, tautology, circumlocution, obfuscation and related polyergic forms of ideolectical verbal synthesis; 

• To combat genetotrophism through consuetudinary methodologies, constituting pantophagy and compotation at periodical concourses of the Sodality, concurrent with diversionary homiletics or homological activities. 

Any questions? No? We thought not.

The Funis have been a registered Society in Nova Scotia. Although our activities lately have been limited to a once-yearly weekend meeting at Gillesian Fields (in Paradise and just East of Eden), we reserve the right, at any time and without further notice, to stage dinners, pub tours and similar events. You have been warned!