Real Spoofs!?
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on September 28th, 2006 at 7:38 pm Yes, you read that right: Real Spoofs. Most of us know what spoofs are. They’re patches produced by private individuals for trading purposes, often with pop culture or humorous themes.
However, sometimes lodges get into this game themselves, producing flaps of their own with similar themes. Here are a few of my favorites.
In 1996 Tschitani 10 issued a simple bi-color NOAC flap, making fun of the various “Home of the National/Region Chief/Vice Chief” flaps produced by the lodges of newly elected national officers. Think about it, every lodge could issue their own flap!
Ajapeu 33 decided to encourage brotherhood conversions while making fun of those ubiquitous “Got Milk?” commercials. Unfortunately they didn’t think this idea through completely and instead of making an hilarious flap, created one of the few “text only” flaps.
Imagine if they produced a flap with their deer totem with a milk mustache, wearing a brotherhood sash, and the “Got Brotherhood?” logo either above or below it! (Anyone from this lodge reading this? 
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Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens 374 also produced a text-only flap parodying the “Got Milk?” campaign for their 2005 Jamboree flap, but in a slightly more colorful manner. They chose to poke fun at the punctuation of their lodge name.
Tahoma 348 is the last lodge highlighted here. They issued two flaps showing their pride in their own lodge, but in a definitely PG manner. I wonder how these issues got past the advisers… and whether there was any fallout from it. Nothing more needs to be said.
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