Come on, you esoterics...
Mar. 20th, 2003 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaI've just had the following email from my Mum (she's a journalist):
"The boss has had letter-to-editor from a d'Arcy Orders claiming to be archvist for the Ancient Order of Kalithumpians - a dining club founded in 1920 - may have Cambridge (?univ) connections. We're not sure if it's a wind-up."
Google turns up no hits for "Ancient Order of Kalithumpians".
Anyone have any light to shed?
"The boss has had letter-to-editor from a d'Arcy Orders claiming to be archvist for the Ancient Order of Kalithumpians - a dining club founded in 1920 - may have Cambridge (?univ) connections. We're not sure if it's a wind-up."
Google turns up no hits for "Ancient Order of Kalithumpians".
Anyone have any light to shed?
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the guy existed
Date: 2003-03-20 03:16 am (UTC)Of course, if I was hoaxing I'd pick a real name too, but it's a step.
"1947
May Week Revue
Company: David Eady, Kenneth Poolman, D'Arcy Orders, Ken Willis, Bernard Langley, John Boston, George David"...
Re: the guy existed
Date: 2003-03-20 03:18 am (UTC)Re: the guy existed
Date: 2003-03-20 03:19 am (UTC)Also, the names of real Cambridge University dining clubs are not in any way distinguishable from the names of imaginary Cambridge University dining clubs...
Re: the guy existed
Date: 2003-03-20 03:22 am (UTC)Re: the guy existed
Date: 2003-03-20 03:18 am (UTC)Heh, my Google is faster than your Google.
Re: the guy existed
Date: 2003-03-20 03:26 am (UTC)(cf "loosened the jar")
Ancient Order of Kali... spells out "A OK", incidentally. A nice acronym for a bunch of chums, but one which apparently didn't hit circulation til the 1960s. Just a thought.
Re: the guy existed
Date: 2003-03-20 03:28 am (UTC)Kalithump is where hits start dying...
Re: the guy existed
Date: 2003-03-20 03:35 am (UTC)Re: the guy existed
Date: 2003-03-20 03:35 am (UTC)But Callithump(ian) are words.
Kaitha too
Date: 2003-03-20 03:36 am (UTC)Re: Kaitha too
Date: 2003-03-20 03:41 am (UTC)My dictionary thinks that the Latin name for Manchester is Mancunium. No idea if that's what it was ever called by any genuine Romans, though.