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    Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party

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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    Women? Minorities? What the fuck, Bonesmen. I'm putting in a call, and you know who I'm calling. I expect changes next fall.
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    Image of SultanaEleusis SultanaEleusis
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    What a grungy bunch of secret rulers. Don't they get a Brooks Brothers credit card when they join?
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    Image of twoeightnine twoeightnine
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    Lindsay works at Google so there is some connection to the NWO.

    [www.linkedin.com]
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    I was actually in one of the societies at Yale, though not S&B or one of the other really old ones. There's a culture that goes along with it. The point is to form bonds with a small, diverse group of people who will become your trusted confidantes for life. This is mostly facilitated by drunken "meetings" where you take turns giving your bios, reciting silly pledges and going away on booze and pot-fueled retreats. Most people, like myself, join to have a good time. I didn't know many people who took it very seriously (with a few exceptions, of course).
    Skull and Bones as you can see is no longer all-white or all-male. It's well known that there was a huge falling out when the society went co-ed in '92. Many of the old alums fought tooth and nail against it and as a result stopped funding and supporting the club. That's why the properties look so run down. Supposedly, in order to promote diverse and intellectual debates and experiences, the society also moved away from tapping nothing but conservative dicks and legacies and began tapping women and minorities in high profile positions -- the leaders of the black caucus, the head of the chicano group, head of the liberal society, etc.. Once these groups got their "seats" at the table, they started their own legacy traditions where every year they tapped their successor at their campus group to take their spot and keep the chain going. Plus some of the more conservative seats were pushed out. There used to be a seat for the Editor in Chief of the Yale Daily News, for example, but the paper lost its "seat" a few years back when an EIC was tapped one year and refused to join. Same thing happened with a couple other seats that traditionally went to white conservatives.
    Anyway, that's why you see so many diverse faces in those photos. If you go to the album on facebook and click on some of the other names of kids in the society, you'll see most of them are fans of Obama and other democrat/liberal icons. Skull and Bones gets a bad rep because of its terrible history and secrecy, but ironically, it's probably one of the most diverse groups on Yale's campus today. Ultimately, however, it's just a bullshit waste of time. I gained a few friends from my time in society, but I'm under no illusion that it was anything more than an excuse to drink and party. Interestingly, we did have some "connections" among former members who went on to careers in finance. But guess where they all worked?
    Bear Stearns. In the end it didn't work out too well for the kids who milked those connections.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/14/09

    @El_Gato: i can't help myself but my curiosity has been sufficiently piqued. I doubt we were in the same one but PM me and we can trade!
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    12/14/09

    @Helio: Sweet. What year were you? I was '03.
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    Image of fatmonalisa fatmonalisa
    12/14/09

    @El_Gato: That's awesome. My sister was in Scroll & Key and basically did the same things you said.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/14/09

    @El_Gato: '09. Hmm, i figured when you mentioned bear stearns, there would be a bit of a difference, but i still wanna know.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    12/14/09

    @El_Gato: oooh I was 2005! Maybe we are best friends and don't even know it!
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    12/14/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: It's very possible ... How do we figure this out ...
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    12/14/09

    @Helio: Take a couple guesses and I'll let you know if you're on the right track.
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    Image of volcanoes001 volcanoes001
    12/14/09

    @Helio: '09? which society- might we know one another
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/14/09

    @El_Gato: hrm, these guesses are, admittedly very random as your clue was quite vague, but I'm guessing your society wasn't landed (maybe they are now?): Spade and grave, Aurelian, Nathan Hale or Gryphon are my first guesses.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/14/09

    @volcanoes001: it was one of the ones in my first group of guesses.
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    12/14/09

    @Helio: Are you familiar with Sage & Chalice?
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/15/09

    @El_Gato: I'm familiar with the name only but I didn't have any friends in that particular society.
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    Image of whateverthisisbs whateverthisisbs
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    Ha! Is that this Victor Cazares? [gawker.com]
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    12/14/09

    @whateverthisisbs: Oh my God, GAYS TOO?!
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    Random: I met Crystal before (#19). Very nice person, actually.
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    Ha, 'Beloved'. Feel a presence of an absence, y'all.
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    Image of set_it_and_forget_it set_it_and_forget_it
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    how come this looks like a pre-orientation trip for biology majors instead of a gathering of atristocrat WASPs? i guess David Brooks was right about about the beautiful, dumb, and well-born being replaced by the smart and motivated. but! more likely: nobody gives a shit about skull n' bones any more. the aristocrats work their connections behind the scenes, and the immigrants and middle class blowhards study hard and join passe social clubs that have been abandoned long-ago by the swells that made them famous.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/14/09

    @gabbo: Badda Bingo.
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    12/14/09

    @gabbo: You are 100 percent correct.
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    Image of Mr. Secrets Mr. Secrets
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    These photos look to me like they might have been photoshopped. For example, look at photo 12. The liquor bottle and copy of the New York Times Magazine in this shot look to me somehow "off."
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/14/09

    @Mr. Secrets: The John McCain (?) photo was planted there with the booze (mouthwash?) to make it look like a funny staged photo they were going to embarrass him with later. The plastic wrap is disconcerting. If it wasn't covering the sofa, perhaps they brought it with them to wrap the bodies in?

    We really need higher resolution or better equipment if we're expected to properly analyze these photos.
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    Image of afterpartyblog afterpartyblog
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    Oh life...I went to Exeter with John Mittermeier. I would be proud of him for becoming a member of an "elite secret society," except that these pictures make it look more like the multicultural chess club got into daddy's liquor cabinet by accident.
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    Image of NathanSt NathanSt
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    "burnt out buildings on Deer Island as metaphor in reference to our nation's crumbling infrastructure"

    going once, going twice..
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    Edited by NathanSt at 12/14/09 2:58 PM NathanSt was starred NathanSt was unstarred
    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    This looks cold and miserable, and makes me happy that I am a grown-up and can drink my Busch Light in the privacy and warmth of my home.
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    Image of Blactor Blactor
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    You say Skull & Bones.
    I say Funk & BO.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    12/14/09

    @Blactor: What have you done with Wagnalls?
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    12/14/09

    @SidAndFinancy: ...or the Reading, Pennsylvania or Short Line railroads?
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    Image of Blactor Blactor
    12/14/09

    @SidAndFinancy: theres a mayonnaise jar around here somewhere.
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    Image of atotalcad atotalcad
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    Back in my day we looked much more dignified when we were totally blitzed.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/14/09

    In reply to Ain't No Party Like a Skull & Bones Party
    Is this Victor's dad? If so, Carlos Slim is gunna be pissed!

    [www.amw.com]
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