In Washington the other day I walked by a building with a sign announcing that housed inside was the "Society of Association Executives." I just love that. If they had embraced their "meta" status as they should have instead of trying to smooth over it, they would have named themselves the Association of Association Executives, or alternately the Association Executive Association.
Which makes me wonder: are they the only association of their kind? It could be true that there are a number of them. And, if the executives of those associations one day decided they needed to organize, we might see - yes! - the Association of Association Executive Association Executives.
If you have trouble parsing that, this might help:
Association of [Association Executive Association] Executives
What a beautiful thing that would be!
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