# Skull & Bones Society

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skull-bones-society/38653>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 27, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skull-bones-society/38653 "2000-10-27T20:28:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Obvious\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Obvious\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obvious_Guy)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skull-bones-society/38653/1 "2000-10-27T20:28:21Z")

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George W. Bush was one, as was his father. For those who don’t know The Skull & Bones are this secret society group at Yale University. The movie “The Skulls” was loosely based upon it. So my question is what exactally do they do and why are they so secret about it??

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skull-bones-society/38653/2 "2000-10-27T20:38:21Z")

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{stands up and leaves the room}

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**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skull-bones-society/38653/3 "2000-10-27T22:00:49Z")

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Rumor had it that my tech college also had a “Skulls” society for the top students (obviously, I wasn’t good enough). It seemed more like an Urban Legend though.

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**Author:** ![jcgmoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skull-bones-society/38653/4 "2000-10-27T22:05:49Z")

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I can’t answer your questions but you can find some info here:

[http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/01/21/bones/index.html](http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/01/21/bones/index.html)

PS–Ike, I’m glad to see some people still have standards.

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**Author:** ![xdbzx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/db5fbb/32.png) [@xdbzx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xdbzx)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skull-bones-society/38653/5 "2000-10-27T23:01:42Z")

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CLICK HERE TO LEARN SOME COOL INFORMATION

[abuse@alexchiu.com](mailto:abuse@alexchiu.com)

\*\*Moderator’s note: I’ve replaced the link with a hotlink to the abuse email address of alexchiu. Please feel free to email them as many hundreds of thousands of times as you wish. Be sure to include the username of the person making this post, as it is also their ID over there. -manhattan

[Edited by manhattan on 10-27-2000 at 06:24 PM]

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skull-bones-society/38653/6 "2000-10-27T23:04:15Z")

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\*\* HEY MODS \*\* seems to be another one of those damned alex chu links here… (I’d have e-mailed but my outgoing is on the fritz)…  
Hopefully we all know not to click on it, so eventually, we’ll be a “no win” site for them to post on. (on which to post? is a dangling participle the sign of immortality?)