Ginger! My mother-in-law is in P.E.O., finally talked her daughter into joining after I punked out. She told me to tell people it stands for "philanthropic educational organization" but that it wasn't really true and only members could know the real name. One of Greg's nieces went to their junior college in Kansas. I still have no idea what the name means, despite having gone to a meeting.
edit for spelling.
edit type question: Is ground breaking one or two words in this useage?
As the January groundbreaking approaches...
(talking about a new building)
Wikipedia offers several possibilities, but I suspect that we're not talking about the Professional Engineers of Ontario.
Yeah, even Wikipedia didn't know what P.E.O. stood for. Now that's some secret if Wiki didn't even know it.
Funny Wiki X-post.
I'll bet PEO doesn't mean anything.
And in now knowing that, I couldn't be a member. As soon as I was told what it was for, I'd sell the secret on eBay so I could by my Ren Faire garb.
IIRC, there is a 33rd degree "secret" level that, per my FiL, is just really a party group.
Are you sure that wasn't a Simpsons episode?
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do, we do!
(And now, thanks to Veronica Mars, I get slightly icked whenever I picture Steve Gutenberg.)
that's what I suspected, thanks brenda!
(And now, thanks to Veronica Mars, I get slightly icked whenever I picture Steve Gutenberg.)
Teppy, you'll appreciate my filk, then.