If it is a slang name for some military organization, this might be a helpful link; I don't have time to cruise it tonight, unfortunately.

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I find it bizarre that an obit has former employers listed.

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Technically it's a "funeral notice," which in our paper means that we charge the survivors a fee and print whatever the heck they want; it's just one step down from a paid advertisement.

But, yes, bizarre. You'd be surprised what people are proud enough of to include in their obituaries. For some folks, their work was a significant part of their life -- even beyond simply defining their identity by their career, they wear employers like a badge of pride.

To each their own ...

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It's like a resume!

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A resume FOR GOD.

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"Begone from my sight and into the infernal Temp Agency, reserved for the Devil and his cheap labor." -from the New Proactive Management Bible for Leaders

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n/t

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Um, possible mishearings, hmm... cooties, codies, codeys, codes, goodies, goonies, code-talkers, kudis, kurds, hoodies, cudeeze, QDs, cue-tees... um... Wrong generation to be a code-talker, but QD might be something. *looks it up on Acronymfinder.com* No, I guess it's not QD, whatever it is!

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QTs, perhaps? I think that's a military acronym, but not sure for what.

It's also possible the name was accurate but contained a typo. Deleting an "extra" O would leave "codies," but the Google search for that seems like it's in the wrong industry.

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Where'd you get this icon from? It reminds me of a game that I've played...

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Very perceptive, young Padawan.

(The character is a Mediator.)

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Not Cooties? Might make sense...

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I have no earthly idea. No unearthly ideas either that point at anything. :/

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Is there any way you can contact the family, and maybe they'd know? Meaning no disrespect to the dead or their service organizations, "The Coodies" sounds like a group from the '60s.

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Subsequent Google-fu results:

COODIES, The (IN U. S. HISTORY), a small faction of federalists in New York city in 1812, opposed to DeWitt Clinton and in favor of supporting the war with England. The name was given from the signature, Abimalech Coody, assumed by their leader, Gulian C. Verplanck, in his communications to the newspapers. [1]

... uh, I'm thinking not it.

... But here's another obituary with the same "Coodies" organization listed! In West Virginia, yet. Curiouser and curiouser.

... Waaaaaait, this military profile uses the phrase "Military Order of the Coodies". Shifting Google search from "Coodies -palm -girls -boys" to that.

Only the single result I just linked, and "Did you mean: 'military order of the cooties'." *click*

Holy shit, there we go.

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Woah, cool. I just called one of the guys up there, and it seems that I'm either crazy or retarded enough, to qualify. But, I'll worry about it when I get to Wisconsin. :)

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After speaking with some of the guys in the Cooties, I discovered quite a bit of history for the organization. For now, I'm just going to say that they were a secret organization until 1997. That and they were named after the one thing most of the initial members had in common - body lice.

Not that having body lice is a requirement for membership. It was a WWI fact for many soldiers. But if it was a requirment, you'd see me asking for some post-haste to join!

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To be honest, I kind of figured that with a name like that, they were a semi-secret and not-taking-themselves-too-seriously fraternal organization of some sort. "Order of the Cooties" and their titles like "Horny Toad Chairman" and "first Seam Squirrel of the Pup Tent" (in their most recent news post) remind me a lot of our local group of Clampers (E Clampus Vitus secret society), with titles like "Noble Grand Humbug," "Roisterous Iscutis," "Grand Imperturbable Hangman," etc. (Wikipedia article on them.)

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Indeed, they don't take themselves too seriously, and they're quite an interesting group. Some things VFW members do, to make you go 'hmm'.

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... but, yeah, keep me posted if you find out (and feel like typing) any more. Interesting find.

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