Member of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus. Gold Rush-era parody lodge that mocked the Masons by inventing titles like Noble Grand Humbug and Damfool Doorkeeper, then went out and marked the history Chambers of Commerce skip: brothels, tin-can bars, forgotten camps, sailors, whatever needed a plaque. Motto: Credo Quia Absurdum — I believe because it is absurd. Red shirts, Levi’s, can-lid medals. Meetings in the Hall of Comparative Ovations (the back room of a saloon). All officers of equal indignity. They claim widows and orphans. They deliver the next round and another monument in the desert.

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