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Post by offramp on Apr 26, 2018 14:45:59 GMT
There are a few things that Freemasons do that get on my nerves. I started this thread so as to write them down when they occur to me.
1. At the Festive Board, instead of clapping, some masons bash the table like a good-'un.
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Post by peter2 on Apr 26, 2018 21:51:04 GMT
I suspect that is a military tradition. In one of my lodges the DC would announce that as "Eyes right, brethren" and the brethren would hit the table in unison with their right hand.
Another version that I have not seen live is banging glasses along the table in sequence. Is that called a Scotch Fire?
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Post by boreades on May 2, 2018 23:04:08 GMT
Isn't the Scotch Fire a naval tradition? Where all the toasts were (are?) done sitting down. Because lots of jumping to attention in old ship' cabins meant lots of heads banged on low oak beams.
I have to confess I've grown weary of all the Festive Board. Too much false bon-homme, forced laughter at terrible jokes, too much food late at night, when I have to get up early and go to work (some brethren still have day jobs)
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Post by peter2 on May 3, 2018 0:04:46 GMT
>I've grown weary of all the Festive Board
My difficulty is that the brethren are primarily social Masons. There is no interest in Masonic Science.
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Post by Roy on May 7, 2018 14:26:31 GMT
In my order they bang their spoons on the table. Knocking on the table with the hands I also saw.
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