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re: How long until Rex and Comus are on the clock?
Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:20 pm to red sox fan 13
Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:20 pm to red sox fan 13
Rex is a civic organization and agreed to sign the city’s non discrimination affidavit. They don’t mask at their ball so everyone can see their face. They’re not a mystic organization as such.
Comus is so secret that the members don’t even know one from the other
Comus is so secret that the members don’t even know one from the other
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Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:27 pm to SlidellCajun
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Rex is a civic organization and agreed to sign the city’s non discrimination affidavit. They don’t mask at their ball so everyone can see their face. They’re not a mystic organization as such.
Comus is so secret that the members don’t even know one from the other
It’s amazing how you are always so wrong about everything you post. It’s like you’re doing it on purpose just to troll
Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:35 pm to SlidellCajun
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Comus is so secret that the members don’t even know one from the other
How the hell would this even work?
Members know each other...
Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:49 pm to ellishughtiger
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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.
Actually there are way more post college grads moving back to the city now compared to the 1980’s-early 2000’s.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:52 pm to ned nederlander
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but I think these clubs will struggle to really engage the younger generation in their current form.
Ehh I highly doubt they’ll have a problem. Said the same thing 30 years ago. Keep in mind these are very small organizations relatively speaking.
This post was edited on 6/1/21 at 4:53 pm
Posted on 6/1/21 at 4:58 pm to red sox fan 13
We went through this in the Dorothy Mae Taylor days. Comus got cancelled. Rex does just enough to keep from getting cancelled.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 5:04 pm to geauxpurple
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We went through this in the Dorothy Mae Taylor days. Comus got cancelled.
How come Hermès can parade but not Comus?
Posted on 6/1/21 at 6:13 pm to SlidellCajun
In order to parade the Krews had to sign documents verifying that they do not discriminate. Rex and Hermes signed. Comus told the city to go screw themselves.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 6:24 pm to geauxpurple
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In order to parade the Krews had to sign documents verifying that they do not discriminate. Rex and Hermes signed. Comus told the city to go screw themselves.
It wasn't even about letting a token black in, IIRC. It was about even entertaining the idea of the City having any input into or knowledge of their membership whatsoever.
Solid move IMO.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 6:41 pm to USMEagles
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It was about even entertaining the idea of the City having any input into or knowledge of their membership whatsoever.
Correct.
Comus isn’t dying. Quite the opposite, actually.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 6:57 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
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Rex has African American members.
Interesting… I did not know this.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 7:16 pm to RadThibodeaux
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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.
There is a lot of truth here…
Posted on 6/1/21 at 7:23 pm to tigahbruh
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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.
Case in point:
Posted on 6/1/21 at 7:33 pm to SlidellCajun
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Comus is so secret that the members don’t even know one from the other
Nah that’s retarded. Half the reason to be in comus is to know and be known by the other people in comus.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 7:33 pm to JackieTreehorn
Everyone that I’ve ever met who is involved with these organizations is very conservative FWIW.
This post was edited on 6/1/21 at 7:40 pm
Posted on 6/1/21 at 7:49 pm to ElderTiger
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There is a lot of truth here…
Absolutely there is. The complacency of people here is amazing. I keep a place in Houston for work during the week and then I drive back here to this oasis because my wife’s family is here.
Congrats on having a modern day Memphis anchor our state as a “major city”.
Edit: I know a member in comus and personally have ridden in Endymion. I love Louisiana and wish it want going to the shitter.
This post was edited on 6/1/21 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 6/1/21 at 8:05 pm to lsut2005
I think you are probably right, and frankly I hope you are. One difference though between now and 30 years ago is the old guard clubs don’t have such a grip on participation. 1990 Mardi Gras was Rex, comus, proteus, momus, hermes with Bacchus and morpheus thrown in.
Today there are so many more parades and marching groups. There are former queens of comus that spend their Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras days marching because, frankly, it’s a lot of fun while a twelfth night or proteus or Mithras or comus ball is a pretty boring affair for a lot of attendees. I’m not sure this generation will produce the marathoners who are willing to do a different ball each night. Comus will survive. I could see a proteus die.
Today there are so many more parades and marching groups. There are former queens of comus that spend their Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras days marching because, frankly, it’s a lot of fun while a twelfth night or proteus or Mithras or comus ball is a pretty boring affair for a lot of attendees. I’m not sure this generation will produce the marathoners who are willing to do a different ball each night. Comus will survive. I could see a proteus die.
This post was edited on 6/1/21 at 8:22 pm
Posted on 6/1/21 at 8:13 pm to ned nederlander
I dabbled in the fringes of these high society things a long time ago.
Then like ten years later I had a friend telling me about how he’s in like some tuxedo club? And he takes the Debs out to their ball? And he is ALL about it. And I told him “you do realize nobody in New York or anywhere outside of this city cares about this stuff”
Then like ten years later I had a friend telling me about how he’s in like some tuxedo club? And he takes the Debs out to their ball? And he is ALL about it. And I told him “you do realize nobody in New York or anywhere outside of this city cares about this stuff”
Posted on 6/1/21 at 8:17 pm to red sox fan 13
When I was a kid, the masked riders on horseback looked like Klansman to me.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 8:21 pm to RadThibodeaux
100 years ago New Orleans ran the state economically, politically and socially. Now it's mostly irrelevant. The people moving to New Orleans aren't Louisianians. They're hipsters from the coasts.
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