[7060] in APO-L
Re: Are you a Turtle?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Amanda Dickerson)
Thu Oct 28 00:23:37 1993
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 00:18:50 -0400
Reply-To: Amanda Dickerson <axd19@po.cwru.edu>
From: Amanda Dickerson <axd19@po.cwru.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In a previous article, ru@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu () says:
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>Note the crossposting firstly.
>
>I don't know which would be the correct newsgroup to ask this question,
>but alt.folklore.[college,urban] seem fairly close, as weel as soc.college.
>
>The question is: Are you a Turtle?
>As every good Turtle knows, the correct answer is: You bet your sweet ass
>I am.
>
>The origins of the (Royal) Order of Turtles apparently were with test
>pilots predating the US space program. There is a short mention in the book
>The Right Stuff. Someone also told me that there is a membership card for
>the Interplanetary Order of Turtles in the Air and Space Museum in
>Washinton DC.
>
>I would like to know anything you can tell me about the Order of Turtles,
>especially the reference to President Truman and UCLA; no one I know
>seems to know anything about that story.
>
>There are other stories involving famous people who were Turtles, and
>the way they get told does make it seem very much like folklore (though
>not necessarily urban folklore.)
>
>Thanks
>
>...Ru "You bet your sweet ass I am!"
> ru@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
>
>
Anybody else see this? ..... got it off of usenet.
Anybody want to expand on this?
Amanda
