Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let’s Talk About Our Feelings about the Let’s Talk About Our -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (4420)	12/3/2007 8:11:47 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 5290

I think 18th and 19th century European masonry was different from anything in America or what they are now. I used to work for a guy who took his masonry fairly seriously. He owned a print shop and every Good Friday he'd shut down all the departments and have a barbecue at noon. Attendance was mandatory, you couldn't go home. It was all meat, no veggies or potato salad or anything. He once got a mutual acquaintance of ours to join up. When I saw him afterwards I asked how it all went. He said, "Tell Wilson I still think I kissed that goat's ass." I said something along the lines of "What? What are you talking about?" He said, "Just tell him that, he'll know what you're talking about." So I told him that. My friend laughed his usual boisterous hearty laugh and explained that the inductee is brought out blindfolded and told to kneel down. Then they bring out a goat, back it up to near the face, put a stinking old rag in front his face, tell the inductee to kiss it, take the rag away, remove the blindfold, and the guy thinks he's kissed a goat's ass.