The world is brimming with oddball societies. There’s Boston University’s People Watching Club, The Anti-Flirt Club, Hollywood Vampires Drinking Club, Oxford’s Private Dining Club for Repressed Anger and The Paris Rejects Club. Applicants for The Caterpillar Club must have parachuted out of an aircraft which failed naturally and adrenaline junkies and military trainees need not apply. The UK also boasts The Dull Men’s Society, The Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain, The Georgian Farting Club and The Secret Cambridge Club of Rooftop Climbers. I have a favorite such society - and when I tell you what it is, you’ll understand the Olympic size pool of irony in which I swim. Read on.
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