How do I join the Mrf Club?

It's really quite easy. Send e-mail to Troutdog (at) mrfs (dot) net (The official MRF club mascot). Give us your name and your email address and that's all there is. After that you'll be an apprentice MRF member.

What do I get?

Well, you get added to a practically lifeless mailing list, just in case something exciting happens, and if someday you create your own set of mrf pictures, then it will be linked to (or located on) this site. Whee!

What do I do next?

Eventually, you might wish to be promoted from an apprentice member to a full fledged member. To do this, you must 'discover' your first natural mrf occurrence. There are some ground rules for this of course:

• The 'mrf!' should be constructed of all natural ingredients. An elaborate cardboard construction, while interesting, isn't really in the spirit of things. Remember that after you find and photograph the 'mrf!' you'll be leaving it there for others to enjoy (or puzzle at). [note: Alphabet soup is not a naturally occurring substance!]
• Don't do anything illegal. Slightly furtive is perfectly acceptable however. If you absolutely must do something illegal, don't blame us for it.
• Don't destroy anything living. Clubbing baby harp seals to death and lining them up on an iceberg would be a good example of this. Do not carve "mrf!" into living trees either. Previously dead things (like driftwood) are perfectly acceptable.
• Location is integral. The whole idea is to take advantage of a locale and its contents. Carrying a dozen roses to the middle of the Sahara Desert would indeed have stunning visual contrast but it would lose points on the indigenous factor.
• Creativity is also important. Anyone can stack rocks up in the sand. Okay, the very first MRF! is stacked rocks in the sand. But it was the very first MRF! after all. Subsequent mrfs should be new and exciting, because that's the way they are.
• The more isolated and exotic the location, the better. Your backyard would rate very low on this scale. The backyard of a Buddhist monk living in Bhutan would rate very high.
• The exclamation point is not strictly necessary but it's a nice touch, don't you think?
• The good 'mrf!' sighting should be a rare and refined thing. It is not an everyday occurrence, so be patient and wait for the correct moment and place. (i.e. Don't send us a picture every 3 days.)

Anything else?

Yes, if we get enough active members we can have exciting functions like the 'Mrf of the Year Awards', so tell your friends, but only if they're weird enough to enjoy something like this.

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