What is Bunko?

These vixens in our class have been having this coven every other week and I really want to know what it is all about. Initially the plan had been to dress up as girls with wigs and all and to show up to their oh-so secret meeting. But my teammate blew it off so it didn’t happen.
My only resort was to use the greatest tool on hand: the Internet, to find what this secret women’s society was all about.

Wikipedia tells me that Bunko is one of three things:

- Bunkobon, a Japanese book format (obviously not that)

- A slang term for Fraud (hum, interesting, are they preparing some large scale scam using their charms? – I’m sure there’s already a list of volunteer guinea pig candidates circulating on our yahoo group)

- Bunko Kanazawa, a Japanese adult film actress (This is funny because I actually lived in the city of Kanazawa in Japan, charming city by the way)

So is Wikipedia just a bunch of useless knowledge?


Answers.com is more insightful:

bun·co also bun·ko (bŭng'kō) n., pl. -cos also -kos.
A swindle in which an unsuspecting person is cheated.
[Probably alteration of Spanish banca, card game, from Italian banca, bank, of Germanic origin.]


This probably indicates why the infamous Moore IMBA Bunko Society is so secret and closed to non-invited members.


After a ingenuous questioning of the head sorceress this afternoon, I have stumbled on information about these enigmatic gatherings. The information is still classified and sources have not been cross checked yet, but it does seem that high heels, underwear and pillows are part of the get-together.


Dear avid readers of this blog, Detective A-Lex shall pursue his relentless search for the truth behind these unorthodox gatherings and shall report to you as soon as more information surfaces the murky waters of Gossiptown.