Crest and Motto

The motto of the Anonymati:
Praedicatio, Adhortatio, Inritatio*

The crest of the Anonymati:


*"Publication, Exhortation, Irritation"

Rites of Initiation*

I

Give yourself seven papercuts.

II

Acquire seven rejection letters in which the word "however" is used.

III

Drop a dictionary or other weighty reference work on your foot. Utter seven profanities.

IV

Bow to the seven points of the compass and vow to abjure henceforth all nitwitery, knuckleheadery, and jackassery. Yes, those are words. Shut up.

*Many Anonymati will find they have completed some of these rites already.

Secret Handshakes

fig 1 "The Immaculate Semicolon"

fig 2 "The Guerdonless Caret"

fig 3 "The Beginning of New Paragraph"


fig 4 "WTF?"

Code Phrases

Phrase: "The squirrel has being napped when the acorn fallen awoke."

Incorrect response: "Excuse me?"

Correct response: "Precipitation in conspicuous large nuts."


Phrase: "I'm looking for a book about dogs and shrill winds."

Incorrect response: "Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers?"

Correct response: "Walter the Farting Dog Gets a Whistle?"


Phrase: "What words suffice when bosom friends are parted?"

Incorrect response: "Fare thee well, my beloved friend. Henceforth we must be as strangers though living side by side. But my heart will ever be faithful to thee."

Correct response: "Ta ta, ta-tas."

Induction

You are hereby inducted into the ranks of the Anonymati.

As a Knight of the Order, you are entrusted with knowledge and common sense, and with the sacred duty to fight ignorance and nitwittery wherever they appear; to spread information; to patiently correct the innocent idiocies of those eager to learn; and to soundly heckle the recalcitrant idiocies of the lazy and arrogant.

Go forth upholding these precepts.