"she frankly avers that she does not care two pins for the food lists on her menus..."
― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)
"they receive a limited number of young ladies for high-class education."
― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)
Esteban and his great aunt enjoy their sorbet course. He must address her in upper-case, as she is quite hard-of-hearing and refuses to use an ear-trumpet.
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)
I saw the NYPL live exhibition of these menus and it was great!
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)
The font on that Freestonecutters menu! Magic Mushrooms as a starter, anyone?
― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)
Who, exactly, dined at the 13 Club?
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)
A quick rummage around on Google reveals that the 13 Club was a secret society founded at The University of William & Mary In Virginia.
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)
did you know... On December 5, 1776, students at William and Mary College founded a secret society, Phi Beta Kappa. A second chapter was formed, at Yale, in 1780. The anti-Masonic movement in the United States during the 1820s held groups such as Phi Beta Kappa in a bad light. Because of pressure, the society went public. This is noted by some researchers as the direct cause of the appearance of Yale's Order of Skull and Bones.
In The Cyclopedia Of Fraternities, a genealogical chart of general Greek-Letter college fraternities in the United States, shows Phi Beta Kappa as "the parent of all the fraternal systems in [American] higher education." There is only one "side" lineal descendant: the Yale chapter of 1780. The line then continues to Skull and Bones in 1832, and on through the other "only at Yale" senior societies, Scroll & Key and Wolf's Head.
Phi Beta Kappa is the "first three Greek letters, for 'Philosophia Biou Kubernetes' or 'Love of wisdom, the helmsman of life'." A skull homophone is scull, a quick, gliding boat and part of Skull & Bones first nomenclature.
― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)
haha PBK! better pay my dues, shit.
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)
fourteen years pass...