League of Gentlemen

There’s an article in today’s Globe and Mail about something called “the Royal Society for Adventurology.” It does not, alas, seem to be available online, but I found them mentioned in a weblog with a few pictures here. Seems it’s a group of fellows in Toronto, let’s describe them as “confirmed bachelors,” who stage bicycle polo matches and tricycle regattas and so on. They wear Edwardian clothes and take on various alter egos: Vicar Rudyard “Ruddy” Tempers, the Earl of Puntings, Oscar Wildeflower III. (They also claim to be working on “unpowered flight.”) The Globe headline was: “Pip, pip! Care for a spot of frippery? Young chaps in jodhpurs are spreading old-fashioned fun without the snobbery.” Also noted in the Globe article were their rivals, the Upper Canada Chap Society.

Now why do I feel like this is something that_cad and my_tallest should be aware of? Of course, for that_cad, the snobbery is probably half the point.