The Lemon Order
The Purpose of the Order as we understand it would be to seek large grants from corporations dealing in mystical lemon-type products (such as Lemon Pledge etc.) to sponsor the Order by paying generous sums to all who participate in our rituals, primarily consisting of long dour marches wearing lemon coloured derbies, drab suits, and sashes with medals, through places of no historical interest (if possible), holding aloft, rampant or couchant, fresh lemons in hands sinister, accompanied by eerily discordant brass bands, followed by irresponsible feasting, etc. One patron-saint of the Order would be the French 'utopian socialist' Charles Fourier, who believed that if Civilization could be overthrown and replaced by the society of Harmony (in which all Passions and manias would be encouraged) the ocean would spontaneously turn to lemonade. The Irish patron of the Order is Lord Glendale, best known for his ingenious escape from Dublin Castle via tunnel in 1798; later as an enthusiastic horticulturalist he made several unsucessful attempts to introduce lemon-farming to West Cork and Kerry. Another Irish patron would be John Toland (d. 1720), freethinker, pantheist & druid, who founded a pseudo-masonic Order of the nights of Jubilation in Holland in the early 1700's, devoted to eating and drinking.