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What do we know about the masons?

22:14 / 10.03.04

does anyone have any knowledge on this group?

22:30 / 10.03.04

does anyone have any knowledge on this group?

Yes they do but it's very hard to know what's the truth. All you can do at the end of the day is guess. I gave up trying to work them out so much after i fully realised that i'm not interested in joining any secret society/group of initiates etc. I was intersted at one point after reading things connected with magic (which may also be a myth) but have never been bothered since i worked out that i can do magic by myself.

If you want the beans spilling, i don't think it's gonna happen.

22:54 / 10.03.04

You may be right, I have done some basic research, but I keep going in circles.

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:14 / 11.03.04

Apparently, they run the country. And stuff.

01:18 / 11.03.04

Charlie wasn't a very nice man.

02:12 / 11.03.04

Charles Mason wasn't a nice man? But he's one of my heroes!

...maybe you mean maNson...

02:53 / 11.03.04

"Isn't it against the rules of the Masonic Order to wear in public any mark of membership?"- Nick

"Absolutely not. They've always worn special watches or cufflinks or tie-pins or bustiers or whatever. It's just a businessman's association. You read too many comic books and I'm sending a gang of toughs over to your house to rip them all up.

It's for your own good."- Massyks2004!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:38 / 11.03.04

Ah, the Masons. Lovely couple.
She's a doctor, you know. Such a shame about his leg, isn't it?

06:23 / 11.03.04

No, that's the Mason-Billerington-Smythes, with the leg. The Mason's kept a low profile after she had the operation, you remember.

08:55 / 11.03.04

they wear aprons, but hate cookery.

weird.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

08:57 / 11.03.04

My dad was a mason.

09:14 / 11.03.04

According to U.S. Department of Labor:

Brickmasons, Blockmasons, and Stonemasons

# Job prospects are expected to be excellent.
# Most entrants learn informally on the job, but apprenticeship programs provide the most thorough training.
# The work is usually outdoors and involves lifting heavy materials and working on scaffolds.
# More than 1 out of 4 are self-employed.

09:30 / 11.03.04

In the first job I ever had my immediate boss was a Mason and one of the things I had to do, quietly (because his boss, and my ultimate boss, wasn't) was typeset the weekly programme for the meetings and run out mitiple copies for all attendants. I was, by the way, under constant pressure to join as my immediate boss seemed to think that I was a likely candidate for the group. I have never understood this, although I did want to fuck his daughter and I knew it would help if I did join. If I were to look at myself from the outside, as I constantly do, I would be the LAST person that anyone would imagine would be likely to join such a group. I say this as someone who has had some considerable insight as to the weekly activities of the Masons. I even had to typeset the rulebook for new members, including an explanation of the handshake and its meanings and permutations, as well as their basic philosophy and all the gumph that accompanied it.

Basically it's rubbish and not worth our time or interest. Honest. At no point in my efforts on my bosses behalf did I come across the words "goat" or "sacrifice". If I had, I would tell you.

09:36 / 11.03.04

And, by the way, I did get to sleep with his daughter eventually, although by "eventually" I mean something like 20 years later, by which time he was no longer my boss, had divorced his wife (something the Masons would NOT approve of) and had retired to a hippy commune in Tasmania.

I don't know if this aside is relevant but it was important to me.

09:55 / 11.03.04

James Mason was a god and major muse to Eddie Izzard.

10:06 / 11.03.04

Hmmm, this site enumerates and debunks systematically all the most usual conspiracy theories about these stout building tradesmen. Apparently, they're more like the Plushies than Smersh. They just bake scones and swap knitting patterns.

10:35 / 11.03.04

so they do like cookery!

what a web of disinformation they weave!

10:46 / 11.03.04

Perry Mason???

?!?

11:48 / 11.03.04

sorry, no goat stories but this made me laugh http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3500022.stm

12:04 / 11.03.04

...maybe you mean maNson...

I know what I mean. Did you actually read the site you linked to?

Mason, Charles ( Apr. 1728-25 Oct. 1786), and Jeremiah Dixon (27 July 1733-22 Jan. 1779), British astronomers and surveyors, were responsible for establishing the Mason-Dixon Line. Charles Mason was born at Wherr (now Weir) Farm, Oakridge Lynch, Gloucestershire, England, the son of Charles Mason, a baker, thief, low down dirty vagabond, miller, killer, and all-round nasty piece of work, and Anne Damsel Mason.

16:24 / 11.03.04

the dirty piece of work was Charles Mason Sr.!

Mason Jr.'s the cool one... well, at least Pynchon makes me think so...

16:32 / 11.03.04

The make the best canning jars ever!!!