# Which are the secret societies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114 "2015-12-10T20:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/21 "2015-12-11T23:46:56Z")
The [redacted] [redacted] of [redacted] meets every [redacted] at [redacted]. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/22 "2015-12-12T00:48:59Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I’m a member of a group called Fight Club. But unfortunately the first rule is… …never wear White after Labor Day? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/23 "2015-12-12T00:51:53Z")
And Ancient Lovecraftian Cult? [The Cult Of Dellorkcir.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) It been around a while. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/24 "2015-12-12T01:02:57Z")
Duh! The Illuminati! Also E. Clampus Vitus, but I’m not so sure how “secret” it really is. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/25 "2015-12-12T02:21:58Z")
The most secret of all is fnord ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/26 "2015-12-12T03:22:10Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Piker. My fraternity not only had the secret handshake, we also had the secret code phrase so that you could tell whether someone was _really_ a member, or an impostor trying to pose as a member for some nefarious but ill-defined purpose! I’m betting the code phrase whispered to you at your initiation was _“Psst, ummm, no one’s been able to find the book with the secret phrase in it since 1987, sorry, dude…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/27 "2015-12-12T07:38:51Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Piker. My fraternity not only had the secret handshake, we also had the secret code phrase so that you could tell whether someone was _really_ a member, or an impostor trying to pose as a member for some nefarious but ill-defined purpose! Are you a Turtle? ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/28 "2015-12-12T11:07:17Z")
G.r.o.s.s. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/29 "2015-12-12T11:33:44Z")
I head a secret society that is so secret, you can’t know any details about it until you are accepted as a member. There is a $1000 application fee, refundable if you are not accepted. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/30 "2015-12-12T12:50:43Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Are you a Turtle? You bet your sweet ass I am. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/31 "2015-12-12T14:17:09Z")
I really doubt you would hear about them on this forum. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/32 "2015-12-13T01:26:55Z")
Does the Mod forum count as a secret society? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/33 "2015-12-13T01:32:49Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’ve always wanted to join a group like Fred Flintstone’s (“Water Buffalos”?). I want to be able to tell the wife “I’m off to my lodge meeting. Can’t tell you where or what we’ll be doing or when I’ll be back!” > > Btw, our fraternity didn’t have an initiation, or a hell week, or anything (buncha potheads, late 60s/early 70s). But we made a big deal out of having a [reverb] Secret Handshake [/reverb]. > > In fact, you didn’t get to learn the [reverb] Secret Handshake [/reverb] right away. The wait was excruciating. Finally, you and your ‘brothers’ all walk out of town one lonely winter midnight, and on a derelict railroad track in a potentially haunted forest, you are brought into the forbidden knowledge … that the [reverb] Secret Handshake [/reverb] is just like an [reverb] Ordinary Handshake [/reverb]. Alpha Delt? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/34 "2015-12-13T03:42:31Z")
> [@WF\_Tomba](#): > > G.r.o.s.s. **G** et **R** id of **S** limy Girl **s**? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/35 "2015-12-13T04:56:24Z")
You bet your sweet ass I am also! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/36 "2015-12-13T04:58:38Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > **G** et **R** id of **S** limy Girl **s**? Get Rid Of Slimy girlS, please. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/37 "2015-12-13T05:30:18Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Get Rid Of Slimy girlS, please. 😉 Is that like the He Man Woman Haters Club? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/38 "2015-12-13T13:43:59Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Is that like the He Man Woman Haters Club? It’s the club that Calvin and Hobbes (well Calvin really) created to exclude Suzy Derkins. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/39 "2015-12-14T00:23:01Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Are you a Turtle? You bet your sweet ass I’m a Turtle! ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114/40 "2015-12-14T02:19:11Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’m betting the code phrase whispered to you at your initiation was _“Psst, ummm, no one’s been able to find the book with the secret phrase in it since 1987, sorry, dude…”_ Actually, it involved saying our Greek letters _in a different order_! This would surely baffle any intruders! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-the-secret-societies/740114.md?page=3)