Unissued membership card for Gerry Martin's Interstellar Association of Turtles Club (Outershell Division), 3.75 x 2.25, signed inside in ballpoint by 'High Potentate' Wally Schirra. The card additionally bears the pre-printed signatures of Schirra and Martin. Also includes a damaged International Turtle Club membership pin. In overall very good to fine condition.
The 'Interstellar Association of Turtles' grew out of an informal 'drinking club' between World War II pilots, self-described as 'an honorable drinking fraternity composed of ladies and gentlemen of the highest morals and good character, who are never vulgar.' To be initiated, one must correctly answer a riddle where the answer seems vulgar, but is actually inoffensive—for example, 'What does a cow have four of and a woman only two?' To a Turtle, the answer is: 'Legs.'
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