Guerilla Croquet Attack!
The Journal of the Metropolitan Society of Croquet Commandos
Journal created:
on 20 August 2006 (#10955325)
Updated:
on 16 November 2010
Name:
The Metropolitan Society of Croquet Commandos
Location:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
The (Electric) JOURNAL of the METROPOLITAN SOCIETY of CROQUET COMMANDOS
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Being a Full and Peculiar Accounting of the GALLANT, REVOLUTIONARY and FANTASTIC
Exploits of a Band, or Clique, or INSURGENCY,
Which seeks to bring CIVILITY, PROPRIETY, NOBILITY
and PROPER DRESS to an Un-Deserving World
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Our patron Muse, Roquetetta.
Oh, the scandal!
"As each player goes through the first hoop, as he undergoes a metamorphosis . . . [t]he male antagonist becomes a creature too vile for language, the decency of womanhood has disappeared by the third hoop."
"It is not long before every honorable feeling, every dictate of morality has become obliterated. In place of refined and upright people are two pairs of gruesome moral monstrosities, full of bitter loathing and antagonism, of low devilish cunning and muderous passion, each plotting some nameless revenge upon the other. The poison of croquet eats deeper and deeper into their souls."
— "The Immorality of Croquet," from The Living Age, 1898
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