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re: How long until Rex and Comus are on the clock?
Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:10 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:10 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
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Rex has African American members. Not sure if any of them ride.
They have a few that ride
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Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:12 pm to NOLA Tiger
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They have a few that ride
The ones that dont ride in Zulu
Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:27 pm to vl100butch
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Comusites is dying and these children are having to leave NOLA to find work...
Seems like the children of many of these types attend college out of state and end up staying there or elsewhere other than Nola. On one hand, can’t blame them. On the other hand, their parents are likely a big cause of that stagnation.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:33 pm to lsut2005
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LOL you are so... sooooo so wrong about this.
Educate us.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:34 pm to red sox fan 13
Rex ain’t being cancelled any time soon.
This post was edited on 6/1/21 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:38 pm to USMEagles
Haha I mean not much to be educated about really. Fact of the matter is that these are small, exclusive originations. They are in no way “dying.” Prior to covid most carnival organizations were thriving and I’m sure it will return that way this year.
This post was edited on 6/1/21 at 2:39 pm
Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:39 pm to Havoc
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Seems like the children of many of these types attend college out of state and end up staying there or elsewhere other than Nola. On one hand, can’t blame them. On the other hand, their parents are likely a big cause of that stagnation.
kind of what i was getting at. when they leave the Nola bubble, stuff changes. if that stops a new generation, i don't see something like Comus opening up (from how this board describes it. i obviously have no ideal of what it's like IRL)
Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:46 pm to lsut2005
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Haha I mean not much to be educated about really. Fact of the matter is that these are small, exclusive originations. They are in no way “dying.” Prior to covid most carnival organizations were thriving and I’m sure it will return that way this year.
You don't suspect Comus is becoming more geriatric and less relevant over time?
Posted on 6/1/21 at 2:48 pm to USMEagles
I have no idea.. unless you’re a member I’d imagine there’s no way of knowing.
This post was edited on 6/1/21 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 6/1/21 at 3:22 pm to vl100butch
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Over the years I've gotten into a few arguments on this board about how Comus is dying because they won't let new blood in...
There's enough money involved to where they will never "die". They don't parade anymore, and they can afford to throw whatever ball they want, so...
The only thing that would ever cause a stir would be for Rex to refuse to bow down to Comus... that would be some shite...
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I know I'm not the only one glad they're not parading anymore, it was really a crappy parade with very few marching units and cheap arse members who didn't throw much of anything...my guess is that an Endymion rider throws more on a block than they did for the whole parade...
Those floats would FLY down the route to get to the ball as quickly as possible. Honestly, their standing probably went UP when they stopped parading...
Posted on 6/1/21 at 3:31 pm to red sox fan 13
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How long until Rex and Comus are on the clock?
Some on the O-T might mock this... but NOLA has, of any major American urban city, the BEST race relations.
There's reasons we don't have the race riots that have been happening in other major cities.
Everyday blacks and whites know both how to get along with each other, and know what their roles/places are.
The only reason they even tore down those four statues is because Half-Moon wanted to appeal to liberals in anticipation of a presidential run. Very few blacks gave a crap. Very few blacks care today, very few care about changing names, etc. That's why the vast majority of plans to change street names / school names (Norman Francis Parkway being an exception, and an extreme case).
Look, the whites have Rex and Comus, the blacks have Zulu and the Original Illinois Club. Rex and Zulu will accept anyone with enough money and influence... Comus and OIC are all about heredity.
I mean... Zulu has been in whiteface for 100 years... everyone here knows what is what and it all works.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 3:43 pm to vl100butch
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Comusites is dying and these children are having to leave NOLA to find work...
Their kids are going to really good schools around the country then taking finance jobs in bigger cities. After a few years some may come back to raise a family or take over a family business but those numbers are dwindling down more as time goes on.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 3:44 pm to red sox fan 13
The forced integration is why Comus no longer parades
Posted on 6/1/21 at 3:46 pm to SlowFlowPro
Have you ever read the bios for their debs? Over the last decade it has become who can out SJW who, and most if fake. Daddy paid some prison warden or gave big bucks to a SJW org to vouch for their activity.
My wife knows at least half the mothers every year and laughs her arse off reading the bios
My wife knows at least half the mothers every year and laughs her arse off reading the bios
Posted on 6/1/21 at 3:49 pm to SlowFlowPro
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they're going to die out at some point b/c the yutes will be cancelled outside of Nola for the association
those girls will be persona non grata at Georgetown and Amherst for being involved. They'll be stuck with bawettes from LSU as royalty.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 3:51 pm to USMEagles
Like all social clubs and associations today they run the risk of not capturing the time and attention of younger generation.
There are plenty of young people “participating” and if anything membership is more geographically diverse than its ever been as more and more of the younger generation find husbands and wives outside of New Orleans.
But are 30 somethings today as interested in spending their lunch hour at the pickwick and Stratford clubs or getting all atwitter about ball themes and invitation design? Or in having their daughters be debutants? Some will out of family tradition and/or to please the older generation still paying bills, but I think these clubs will struggle to really engage the younger generation in their current form. Who knows though nostalgia and tradition are powerful forces, as is the need to separate oneself as better than.
There are plenty of young people “participating” and if anything membership is more geographically diverse than its ever been as more and more of the younger generation find husbands and wives outside of New Orleans.
But are 30 somethings today as interested in spending their lunch hour at the pickwick and Stratford clubs or getting all atwitter about ball themes and invitation design? Or in having their daughters be debutants? Some will out of family tradition and/or to please the older generation still paying bills, but I think these clubs will struggle to really engage the younger generation in their current form. Who knows though nostalgia and tradition are powerful forces, as is the need to separate oneself as better than.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 3:52 pm to Havoc
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Seems like the children of many of these types attend college out of state and end up staying there or elsewhere other than Nola. On one hand, can’t blame them. On the other hand, their parents are likely a big cause of that stagnation.
Having a cliquish elite that considers anyone whose family arrived after 1840 an interloper will tend to do that.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:00 pm to ned nederlander
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But are 30 somethings today as interested in spending their lunch hour at the pickwick and Stratford clubs or getting all atwitter about ball themes and invitation design? Or in having their daughters be debutants? Some will out of family tradition and/or to please the older generation still paying bills, but I think these clubs will struggle to really engage the younger generation in their current form. Who knows though nostalgia and tradition are powerful forces, as is the need to separate oneself as better than.
It depends.
I have a guy I know who has family in Comus. They are extremely wealthy, very very old money. Owns lots of local real estate and has ownership interests in a lot of old, local companies.
He is of average intelligence. He went to a very, very good, elite school in the NE (not quite an Ivy) and then went to an Ivy for business school. He then got a job in finance in NYC, worked there for about 10 years, and now is a higher up in a local bank in NOLA, living in a home owned by his family.
He met and married a wonderful, smart lady who is also from NOLA and whose family wealth outclasses his.
There will always be people who come back to NOLA because their family name and reputation will get them high jobs here that they will not be able to get elsewhere.
Will they sit at the Pickwick and play bridge all afternoon? No. But they will eat several times a week at the clubs, they will work out at NOAC, and they will attend balls.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:05 pm to glassman
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Truth is, much of their incompetence and apathy is what killed the city. Unlike their predecessors, who had national clout running a major global port city, these turkeys seem content maintaining their pitiful illusions that they actually matter to anyone outside New Orleans city limits while playing a big role in the city's downfall. Inside Orleans Parish, though, they are still a powerful players. Tiny fish in a microscopic pond. It would take outsiders who don't give a shite about them or social/political status within New Orleans. I would love to see it happen, frankly. Most of that has-been faction are part of the woke movement anyway. They've been given the rope to hang themselves with for several decades now. Time is ripe.
fricking this...
Sorry New Orleans people, while you and your parents were going out of your way to tell everyone how important your family is/was.. Louisiana turned into a shithole that only you think is cool.
As an “outsider” from Houston going to high school in Lafayette and then LSU... the “jewel city of the south” is a Southwest Airlines town comparable to San Antonio or Albuquerque. At one point they were important hubs in the southwest in the 1800’s.... get where I’m going with this?
You’d swear some of them live in the hills next door to Stephen Spielberg and Jerry Seinfeld.
As someone in oil and gas, your apathy towards politics because it was beneath you got your arse. Upstream oil & gas took its high paid engineers to Houston, which then made places like eastover worthless. How long do you really think our continual decline as a state keeps anyone worth a frick still here? Lake Charles folks and our college grads (engineers, cpas, doctors.. not overpriced toilet paper liberal arts degrees) are shagging arse to Houston
And no, there’s no saving this shite hole state. The oil you bank and taxed the frick out of on the shelf is bombed out and depleted. Congrats on going from a once vital part of this country to the butt of intelligence jokes, but it’s ok because the food is good and family is here.
This post was edited on 6/1/21 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:13 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Look, the whites have Rex and Comus, the blacks have Zulu and the Original Illinois Club. Rex and Zulu will accept anyone with enough money and influence... Comus and OIC are all about heredity.
Most truth in this thread. Will add at one point you needed to pass the paper bag test to be an OIC debutante and if you find some old b&w deb pictures without any context it wasn't hard to believe everyone was white. It's not exactly that way anymore.
And Rex had some black debutantes recently, but I think they were adopted.
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