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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First obvious thing
Date: 2003-03-20 02:54 am (UTC)http://www.footlights.org/past/1947.html
Re: First obvious thing
Date: 2003-03-20 02:57 am (UTC)http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/year-rep-list.html
So it should be pretty straightforward to contact Mr. Orders (MBE) through the college to find out whether he is the real source of the letter.
However, if it's him perpetrating the hoax that won't help much.
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 03:18 am (UTC)Heh, my Google is faster than your Google.
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 03:26 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.
no subject
Date: 2003-03-20 05:47 am (UTC)Oh, alright then, BLUFF.