People think that everything in Freemasonry is all serious and no fun but I beg to differ. In my last degree, I had something I thought was funny happen. I got hit in the head by the door( just for those lurking…it didnt hurt) when the SD opened it, lucky for me it hit the hardest part…LOL. Afterward, he was apologizing like crazy and I kept giving him a hard time about it.
I am sure I will get to experience more fun things in the Lodge besides getting hit by the door but I havent been in long enough yet and I found it to be quite humorous….
What funny things have happened to you or in your Lodge?
Interesting Question, as One might think that “lodge Business” is serious stuff.
Can’t top the head and Door story, but: Maybe five years ago my Lodge greeted 15 visitors from England, south of London. Great group! In the Middle of the Work of the evening, and with distinguished guests present, The Senior Warden ( we’ll now call Wor. Bob) standing at his station, while delivering important instruction dropped his truncheon. No problem, but, while jerking to retrieve it jammed his middle finger into the Marble pilaster at his left. The finger was dislocated on the spot. We are resourceful. Our wonderful Medical Doctor Worshipful
Master went to the west, realigned the finger with a crack, and the work finished. During the dinner all marvelled at the upturned finger of Wor. Bob; the other hand closely griping a double Single Malt glass. The visitors were very amused. We await the next event like this regularly.
Ronald Doucette - Forum Moderator
I can see the humor in that, having had my finger dislocated a few times in HS playing football. I will get to go to my second stated meeting tomorrow so, I have seen mostly serious business have been through two degrees and one stated meeting. I did have a Brother get a bit confused with who was who because in my everyday life I am addressed by my middle name but they use my proper name during the degree work…and he came up to a group I was in an asked who “James” is….and everyone looked at me an laughed. I had to explain that growing up, “James” was my Great Grandfather and I was called by my middle name. Thats not as humorous as the door but I though it was kinda funny…..
So going thru my FC degree I stubbed my toe on the object in the middle of the room, when we passed by again I could tell my conductor was stepping up on the object to go by it. It must have looked very humorous.
So going thru my FC degree I stubbed my toe on the object in the middle of the room, when we passed by again I could tell my conductor was stepping up on the object to go by it. It must have looked very humorous.
Sounds like that could have been a wooden block used for the Senior Deacon to wrap his staff on. Those things are always underfoot.
Good to see you again on the Forum. I suppose that in every lodge, the doors open outwards; I think it’s a fire code requirement. That means that when we start training new Stewards, one of the first things we teach them is that when the candidate has given the required knocks on the door, they have to make him step well back so he doesn’t get smacked by the door when the JD answers. I’ve seen that happen more than once.
As to funny things: many years ago, when I was a Steward, I was doing the SD for the first time in the MM degree (we used to work two chairs ahead in those days). I had learned and practiced the part and had it down pat. The lodge was well attended that night—60 or more members present and also the Grand Inspector. In my youthful exuberance, I was rolling along through the degree and feeling good about it. But, alas, pride goeth before a fall. I was zinging through my report to the WM and ended by telling him, “Whereupon, we rushed in, seized the Russians, bound them, ....” Needless to say, that caused an outburst of laughter, and I didn’t hear the end of that for a long time.
Then there was the time when my RA chapter was doing the Most Excellent Master degree. At the most solemn part of the degree, the RWM was standing before the veil of the Sanctum Sanctorum, the organist was softly playing the Chapter’s old pipe organ. At the exact moment when the RWM raised his hand and said, “The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness”, smoke started pouring out of the organ pipes. Everything stopped, the organist switched off the organ, and someone, inadvisedly, opened the door of the closet where the blower was located. Immediately, a cloud of smoke poured out so that you couldn’t see anything in the room. We opened the windows, but it took a half hour before we could proceed. A truly memorable degree. It turned out that the brushes in the 1910 blower motor had caught fire.
We await the next event like this regularly.
Ronald Doucette - Forum Moderator
That is one of the wittiest statements I’ve read in a long time. Very amusing thanks for laugh, I needed it…
Reminds me of a verse that for some reason still makes me smile when I think about it..
Exodus 4:3 “And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:”
All of this going on while the fate of a nation rests on his shoulders, man… poor Moses… if it wasn’t one thing it was another…
He dit it though! Against all odds and by ^^^ he did it!
We await the next event like this regularly.
Ronald Doucette - Forum Moderator
That is one of the wittiest statements I’ve read in a long time. Very amusing thanks for laugh, I needed it…
Sadly, it wasn’t that witty. Just true. Since this post the same man has been hit by a truck while sitting in a restaurant, fell off a boat (in a drydock) while cleaning it, had a massive bone infection, accidentally put a knife through another brother’s hand, and almost had his eye fall out…..and these are just the incidents I can think of at the moment!
So we really do just wait until the next calamity.
We await the next event like this regularly.
Ronald Doucette - Forum Moderator
That is one of the wittiest statements I’ve read in a long time. Very amusing thanks for laugh, I needed it…
Sadly, it wasn’t that witty. Just true. Since this post the same man has been hit by a truck while sitting in a restaurant, fell off a boat (in a drydock) while cleaning it, had a massive bone infection, accidentally put a knife through another brother’s hand, and almost had his eye fall out…..and these are just the incidents I can think of at the moment!
So we really do just wait until the next calamity.
You know that you can’t just leave us hanging about the guy accidentally stabbing another brother’s hand or the eye falling out thing. Wow.
Believe me my Brothers, all of these other things had perfectly reasonable explanations. And this brother actually considers himself very lucky. As does his impaled brother. And although it hurt, the dislocated finger in Lodge was funny.
Dear Wor. Brother Robert:
You are the Lodge cat with Nine lives. Hey, are you forgetting the “hit by truck” included the attending rescue folk placed you in bed of Poison Ivy on the side of the street. Ouch!
You are a survivor.
Bro. Ron D.
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 asks a spectator watching from the side-lines. The other replies “It’s a match between the Masons and the Knights of Columbus.” “What’s the score?” asks the first man. “I don’t know, it’s a secret.”
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 asks a spectator watching from the side-lines. The other replies “It’s a match between the Masons and the Knights of Columbus.” “What’s the score?” asks the first man. “I don’t know, it’s a secret.”
Hey Raly, How’s it going?
I actually laughed when I read your joke and I’m glad to see that your recent posts are not antagonistic. What you will learn, when and if you decide to petition the fraternity for membership, is that we don’t compete; with-in our own Lodges, or with any other organization.
One of our biggest secrets is that we helped Mrs. Jones last week to feed her family and we don’t want any recognition or compensation for our actions. Is that so hard to understand? We don’t care what the score is and I don’t think the Knights of Columbus cares either!!! Our secrets have been published for hundreds of years, so in essence, our next secret is only who shall we help next. As Brother Dan has said so many times, ” To live your life as a Mason “,
and as our SECRET Ritual states, ” Do good unto ALL men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. ” Raly, I, Myself have been in the deepest depths and also on the highest peaks. What I can offer you ,man to man, is take nothing for granted, give sincere thanks for what you have been given, give much, expect nothing, and many blessings will come your way.
This may not be the proper thread to post this reply, but since you opened the envelope, I thought I might jot down a few lines. I wish you the best. Jay.
my lodge has alot of different sides many of them very funny
Probably don’t mean much to the others and even tho I’m not a member nor completely welcome in this particular forum, I appreciate your contribution to this particular thread as small as it may be…
From you I detect a significant amount of innocents…
No venom at all…
