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The title "Grand Poobah" was used recurrently on the television show The Flintstones as the name of a high-ranking elected position in a secret society, the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. Similarly, Howard Cunningham, a character on the TV series Happy Days, was a Grand Poobah of Leopard Lodge No. 462 in Milwaukee. [4]
Young was also well known as the "Grand Poobah" of The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes in The Flintstones series. As of March 2003, Young had been doing freelance voice work in Seattle, Washington. In 1969, Young married Eileene Mary McKay. They remained married until she died in 2007. They had two daughters. [2]
To counteract this and show the Buffaloes were not subversive to the interests of the state, the Order described itself as the "Loyal Order of Buffaloes". The addition of "antediluvian" (meaning before the time of the flood in the Bible and referring to the Order's principles) [16] occurred in the 1850s. Hence the honorifics of "royal" and ...
Sam Slagheap – The Grand Poobah of the Water Buffalo Lodge. The Hatrocks – A family of hillbillies, who feuded with the Flintstones' Arkanstone branch similarly to the Hatfield–McCoy feud. Fred and Barney reignite a feud with them in "The Bedrock Hillbillies", when Fred inherits San Cemente from his late great-great-uncle Zeke Flintstone ...
The references to Grand Poobah in those shows were numerous and ongoing and involved the lead character of The Flintstones and a key supporting character in Happy Days. We cite sources that clearly explain the importance of these references in these TV shows.I removed the rapper from the article, since the reference does not verify that his ...
"Grand Poobah" is a term derived from the name of the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (1885), and used recurringly in The Flintstones as the name of a high-ranking elected position in a secret society, the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes.
An "aggressive" water buffalo escaped from its owner in Iowa over the weekend and remained on the loose Tuesday, with police urging residents in and around Des Moines to keep their eyes peeled and ...
By the end of the 20th century, most fraternities had been wound up except for the Freemasons and a few lodges of the Buffaloes. Many fraternities also offered insurance to their members and as membership declined, these operations were either combined with other non profit insurance companies or sold with the proceeds being distributed to ...