So the next day off he went to the shop. After strict
examination, the owner pulled a curtain to reveal three parrots. The
first was wearing a Master's apron, the second had on a MM apron,
and the third bore a Grand Lodge apron.
"It was postponed." He replied. "The wife of the Generalisimo
Grand Exalted Invincible Supreme Potentate wouldn't let him attend
tonight."
With a somewhat confused look on her face she asked what he
meant. He explained, "Well, I couldn't see anybody in the room and
was guided around. I would stop then somebody would talk. Then I was
guided around by someone else, was stopped, then somebody else
talked."
His wife then asked, "That explains the walkers and talkers ...
what about the preachers?"
He pondered for a moment then finally replied, "Well, often when
somebody finished talking I would hear some other people whispering
'Oh, God!'
"How many Past Masters does it take to change a light bulb?" "Why
change it...it always worked before?"
1 to order the brass memorial plate and have it inscribed.
A man is
walking through the recreation ground of his local park when he
notices a huge fight in full fury on the football pitch he is
passing.
"What's going on?", he askes a spectator watching from the
side-lines.
The other replies "It's a match between the Masons and the Knights
of St Columbus."
"What's the score?" asks the first man.
"I don't know, it's a secret."
Police officer, writing a speeding ticket: "I see by your car emblem
that you are a Fast Master..."
or
Police officer, writing a speeding ticket: "I'm afraid you aren't
going to make it to Ethiopia..."
Whilst visiting a newly iniciated brother at home one day, his wife
took me to one side and said her husband had started behaving very
strangely since joining. I enquired in what way?
"He locks himself in the toilet for hours on end mumbling to
himself with his little blue book."
As the evening proceeded I turned the talk to lodge, and asked
him how he was getting on.
"Oh fine was his reply." I asked him about his behavour and if there
was anything wrong.
"No", was his reply.
"So why only read the book in the bathroom?
"Well," he said "Its the only TYLED room in the house"....
Bro. John and
Bro. Mike are getting dressed and ready for a lodge meeting. When
John takes his apron out of the case, Mike notices a pair of silk
stockings unrolling and hanging out of the case.
Mike asks: "I say, John, what's this with the ladies stuff?"
John gives a quick look and whispers, "You remember the
installation meeting last year?"
Mike acknowledges and John goes on, "On the way home I stopped at
the pub on where I met this lovely lady. Apparently she lost her
stockings in my car, and my wife found them. I told her I was passed
to a higher degree, and ever since she takes 'em out of the case
washes them and puts them back in with my gloves!"
It seems one of our Past Masters went to Heaven and met with St.
Peter.
He identified himself as a member of the Craft and St. Peter
asked, "What Lodge?"
Proudly the Master replied, "Simon W Robinson".
St. Peter immediately took him to the Masonic Clock Room. Each
clock had a Lodge's name on a brass plate and, strangely enough,
each clock was at a different time.
The Master asked why the clocks were all out of sync. St. Peter
informed him that the hands only moved when someone in that Lodge
made a mistake in the Ritual.
The Master then asked where his Lodge's clock was as he couldn't
see it. St. Peter replied, "Oh, yours is in the kitchen, of course."
"The kitchen?!", asked the Master.
"Yes, you see, we needed a new fan."
Pat & Bill had
been Lodge Brothers for many years. They had promised each other
long ago that the first to go to the Celestial Grand Lodge above
would return to tell the other whether there really were Lodges in
Heaven and what they were like.
By and by, it came to pass that Bill died first. One day shortly
after, Pat was working in his garden when he heard a whispered
voice. "Pssst Pat!"
He looked around but saw nothing. A few moments later he heard,
now quite clearly "Pat! Its me, Bill!"
Pat exclaimed, "Are you in Heaven?"
"Indeed I am", said Bill. Pat paused for a while to get over the
shock and then said "Well, Bill, are there Lodges up there in
Heaven?"
"There certainly are, Pat. There are Lodges all over and they are
quite magnificent, equal or better to Great Queen Street. The
meetings are well attended, the ritual is word perfect, the Table
Lodge fantastic and the spirit of Masonic Fellowship is all
pervasive."
"My goodness, Bill," said Pat, "It certainly sounds very
wonderful! But for all that you seem rather sad. Tell me old friend,
what is the matter?"
"Well, Pat, you are right, there is one thing... I have some good
news and some bad news."
"OK. Whats the good news?"
"The good news is that we are doing a 3rd this coming Wednesday."
"Great!", said Pat. "So what's the bad news then?"
"You're gonna be the Inside Sentinal! "
A story that made the rounds a few years ago as "gospel truth".
A Brother on a hunting trip in the wild of Maine. Day after day
of his vacation went by without bagging a deer.
On the last day, as he was about to give up in desperation, he
heard a crashing in the woods and saw a glimpse of brown and fired.
Silence. Rushing over to where he fired, he found that he had killed
a bull moose, which is protected from hunters to save it from
extinction.
As he stood there staring at the dead moose, a Game Warden
stepped out into the clearing.
Our brother found his hands involuntarily raised in a certain
position.
"What shall we do with the body?"
"Cover it, you damn fool," said the Warden, "and make your
escape!"
A man had been convicted of murder and was about to be hanged. Just
before the sentence was executed, the hangman asked the man if he
had any last words.
"Yes" came his reply, "I hate Masons!"
"Why do you hate Masons?" asked the hangman.
"The man I killed was a Mason," explained the murderer, "the sheriff
who hunted me down was a Mason, the Prosecutor who tried my case was
a Mason, the Judge who presided at the trial was a Mason, and all of
the men on the jury who found me guilty and said I should be hanged
were Masons!"
"Is that all?" asked the hangman.
"Yes" replied the convicted murder.
"Then you will advance one step with your left foot..."
A Mason is on a Business Trip. One day he comes to a small village,
somewhere in the north of England. Our Brother is curious to know
whether there is a Masonic Lodge or not, so he takes a walk through
the village and after some time he finds a path called "Mason's
Road".
Thinking that the path might lead to the Masonic Temple, he
follows it. At the end of the pathway he sees a building, which
looks somewhat rotten and seems to have been out of use for quite a
while. Our Brother tries to open the door and, surprisingly, it is
not locked. He goes inside and finds dust and spider webs
everywhere. In front a door there sits a skeleton, wearing an apron
, a collar and holding a sword in its hand.
"O my God", thinks our Brother and enters the Lodge room. In
puzzlement, he sees skeletons with collars and aprons everywhere.
The W.M., the Wardens, the Organist, Deacons - all skeletons. He
looks around and goes to the seats of the Secretary and Treasurer.
Under the hand of the Treasurer he finds a small piece of paper,
a little note, which he seems to have passed to the Secretary. So
our Brother picks up the note, blows away the dust and reads: "If
nobody prompts the W.M., we will sit here forever!"
Have you heard the story about that fellow who wants to go hunting?
He needed a dog and consulted a Brother. That brother, who sold
dogs, gave him one, called JW. "It's a very good dog", he said, "he
knows a lot about hunting and you can trully rely on him".
Our fellow took that dog. One week later he returned. "It's not
too bad, but he doesn't seem to be very experienced. Haven't you got
another dog?"
"Sure I have", said the Brother. "This one for example is called
SW and he's a bit more experienced. Try him and if you don't like
him, feel free to come back."
Indeed, our fellow returned the dog two weeks later. "He's quite
good actually, but he's not what I'm looking for. Still I need a dog
which is more experienced." "Well", said the Brother, "I can offer
you a really experienced dog. He's called PM and you'll have good
time with him."
So our fellow took the animal. Just one day later he returned.
"What's wrong with him?", the Brother asked, "I haven't got any dog
that is more experienced than this one."
"Well", our fellow said, "he might be experienced, but all he's
doing is sitting there and barking!"
As the story
goes here in the east, two friends were riding the train to work.
Harry said to jim, "did you ever notice the conductor never takes a
ticket fronm that guy wearing that funny ring. I've seen those rings
in the pawn shop in Hoboken, I think I'll get me one and see what
happens".
The next day Harry was flashing his new ring when the conductor
came up and asked him, "Will you be off or from?"
Harry thought for a moment then replied "I'll be off".
The conductor told him he was right, he'd be off at the next
station.