Monday, August 6, 2012

Skagit Hoo-Hoos




I found this article in the Sept. 14, 1899 issue of The Skagit County Times and thought it was sort of a  Dada joke, complete with a naughty Hoo-Hoo name and plenty of other double entendre wordplay.

But guess what? It is for real. To this day there exists a group called The International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo and they continue to be a service organization with a sense of humor influenced by Lewis Carroll.

What I don't understand is that this group is a service club devoted to the wood products industry. I'm a Washington State native, have grown up surrounded by timber people, and this is the first I have ever heard of this Hoo-Hoo Order.

Learn somethin' new every day.