Originated at the New York Athletic Club in 1923, 110 members were initiated in one day into “Banana Bunch No. No one could claim there was anything subtle about this organization. It’s so hard to just pick ten, when there are gems like Prudent Patricians of Pompeii of the United States of America, the Military Order of the Cootie, the Supreme Order of White Rabbits, the Solar Spiritual Progressive Fifth Order of Melchizedek and the Egyptian Sphinx, and the Royal and Exalted Order of Fleas that had to be left off of the list. As new fraternal groups developed, it quickly became something of a challenge to find new, untapped sources of inspiration for names, rituals, costumes and traditions.
The mid-1800’s were a period of explosive growth for secret and fraternal societies in the United States, and another wave happened in the 1920’s. ♦ Discovering dubious dens of derisive doofuses Ten Secret Societies With The Goofiest Names So, here is what was at one time Chapter 19 of Conspiracy Theories & Secret Societies For Dummies: The result is that lots of good stuff gets cut.Ĭase in point was one of our favorite "Parts Of Ten" chapters. So when we get told that our manuscript is supposed to be 348 pages long, we turn in 460 pages anyway. Writing a For Dummies book requires a certain amount of discipline, and neither Alice nor I have any.
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