The Second Hundred Years (film) in their underwear. After a brief chase, Stan and Ollie are marched back to their home behind bars. Chapters — called "Tents" — of The Sons of the Desert, the international Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society, all take their names from L&H films; there is a "The Second Hundred Years Tent" on Long Island, New York. The Second Hundred Years (film) The Second Hundred Years (a.k.a. The Second 100 Years) is a 1927 American silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a
The Sons of the Desert social organizations. Stan Laurel endorsed and humorously revised the document; he suggested that members might wear a fez or blazer patch with the motto "Two Minds Without a Single Thought." Founding member Kilgore created a logo with the motto in Latin (in the spirit of Laurel’s dictum that the organization should have “a half-assed dignity” about it) as "Duae tabulae rasae in quibus nihil scriptum est" (literally: "Two blank slates on which nothing has been written"). The first public Sons of the Desert meeting was held in New York City in 1965, shortly after Stan Laurel's death. McCabe's group quickly