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** Interestingly enough, this trope became their downfall: in the 1940s, when the Klan was on the verge of a major comeback, a turncoat leaked details of all their secret rituals to the ''[[Superman]]'' radio show. Once everyone knew that these guys gave themselves titles like "Great Titan" and "Imperial Wizard", held "Klovocations" and read from the "Kloran", people started taking them much less seriously and their popularity plummeted. |
** Interestingly enough, this trope became their downfall: in the 1940s, when the Klan was on the verge of a major comeback, a turncoat leaked details of all their secret rituals to the ''[[Superman]]'' radio show. Once everyone knew that these guys gave themselves titles like "Great Titan" and "Imperial Wizard", held "Klovocations" and read from the "Kloran", people started taking them much less seriously and their popularity plummeted. |
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* Belive it or not, the Illuminati were basically what happened when a number of eccentric scholars and philosophers (read: 18th-century nerds) decided to form one of these. They ''tried'' to become an [[Ancient Conspiracy]], but how well they succeeded depends on which [[Conspiracy Theorist]]s you listen to. |
* Belive it or not, the Illuminati were basically what happened when a number of eccentric scholars and philosophers (read: 18th-century nerds) decided to form one of these. They ''tried'' to become an [[Ancient Conspiracy]], but how well they succeeded depends on which [[Conspiracy Theorist]]s you listen to. |
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* [http://www.redhatsociety.com/ The Red Hat Society] |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100428081834/http://www.redhatsociety.com/ The Red Hat Society] |
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* The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalo. Whether they predate the Flintstones example, I couldn't say. |
* The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalo. Whether they predate the Flintstones example, I couldn't say. |
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* The Odd Fellows—a fraternal organization of men who ''didn't belong to any fraternal organization.'' |
* The Odd Fellows—a fraternal organization of men who ''didn't belong to any fraternal organization.'' |
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