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    Foosball, pool tables, and televisions.

    The person describing this to me would be around my age: roughly sixty. In the 1970's through the 1990's he would have been twenty years to forty years old. Not a geezer at all. And did you miss the part about the DeMolay? Those would have been teens. I also noted that housewives...
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    Masons on sight

    I don't see a forum member with the handle "BC&Y". I read the whole thread and I understand that not all Grand Lodges recognize being "made on sight". I saw several participants who seemed irritated by the very suggestion of someone being made a Mason "on sight". My contribution was to...
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    Foosball, pool tables, and televisions.

    My own home lodge building has a pool table in the social hall, long disused. Several neighboring Lodges likewise have such, and at least one particularly enormous lodge has a foosball table in what was once the DeMolay Room. One of the brethren commented that, until the late 1980's and early...
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    Masons on sight

    I am wondering aloud if the practice of making a Mason "on sight" were not originally intended for extraordinary circumstances such as an unanticipated impending demise. As in: someone in a dangerous profession petitions a Lodge. A police officer, soldier, firefighter, etcetera. An...
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