, and asked me if I knew what hymen-e-us beta was... I though she was asking about a vitamin since... that's our work. I asked her to repeat the name and she said "oh...(smile) ok. forget it. you don't know." Thinking this was some new, improved form of health supplement that I'd benefit from hearing about I pressed her to inform me of this new thing. She said that if I didn't know than she couldn't talk about it.Turns out she was quizzing me on my knowledge of Aleister Crowley and the OTO.
It gets better.
She, still smirking, said that it was the name given to the head of the OTO. I told her that, even if I'd come across it I'd never have committed it to recall. When I asked what the dude's real name was she told me it was a secret. At this point I informed her that my only attraction to Crowley and anything he was involved in was his philosophy on "no more secrets" and that I had no interest in the secret handshake games so it made sense that I didn't know what the heck she was on about.
She then did a backtrack and said that the only secret was that there was no secret. So I summarized that the OTO apparently has a secret commander but the secret is that there is no commander... then laughed and thanked her for making my day. That's exactly the kind of Crowley humour that made me like the guy.
WTF?
What kind of problem must a person have to just come up with that crap for no reason? I never talk about spiritual stuff at work.
The final joke is that I looked up "Hymenaeus Beta" when I got back and it turns out secret dude has a wikipedia page
