Today's Topics:
Fun With Masons [long...but worth it if we infiltrate...]
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 01:10:08 EST
From: Jesus Christ On XTC <crimson@wpi.wpi.edu>
Message-Id: <9201160610.AA04036@wpi.WPI.EDU>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Fun With Masons [long...but worth it if we infiltrate...]
ok, so I forget WHERE I got this digest address from, but now that I am
subscribed, I cannot HELP but share it with you, my fellow HOLY mens,
whoa-mens, yetis, and random mutants...
...please give this fellow something `interesting' with your subscription
request...i sent an ascii compass-and-square...
hee hee -- he's been a mason less time than i've been in The Church! ;-)
>Date: Wed, 15 Jan 92 16:18:37 EST
>From: Peter Trei <ptrei@mitre.org>
>Subject: Introduction to the Masonic Digest.
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> I'm 34, married with a baby daughter. I've been a Mason since
>1988, when I was raised in Courland-Centennial Lodge #763 in New York
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>Leominster, Massachusetts, USA. I am also a Companion in the
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> Peter Trei
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