Bobcat Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Do any PIO residents in Perth ride the goat? We have a Rose Crois Sovereign Chapter meeting at Kingsley tomorrow evening and are looking for new members. We only meet 4 times a year and tyle at 19:15 hrs................. festive board down in the south afterwards. Penguin suit attire.............. but as it is summer long sleeved white shirt and dickey-bow is okay. PM me if anyone qualified is interested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Ill be the first to admit that for one teeney weeney minute i actual thought you really rode a goat !!!lol ,,but after deep descussions with hubby,,,,well ,,i still havnt a clue what you mean ! lol Cal x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wardy Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 You and me both cal he does have a paddock so I believe so its not a far stretch. :err: Must be funny handshake business......or he really could ride goats. :huh: Kaye x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gollywobbler Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I'm as baffled as Cal & Kaye. What on earth is goat riding? Cheers Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Its got to be a mason type thing ,,thats my guess?? Cal x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keily Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 IS THAT NOT WHAT KP DOES IN HIS SPARE TIME - LMFAO [sORRY KIM] DONT MEAN YOU LOL :biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wardy Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 my thoughts exactly cal:wideeyed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scots-in-oz! Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 So exactally waht is it then?? Was going to Google search it, but I'm worried about what might come up!:shocked: Mags x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobcat Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 So exactally waht is it then?? Was going to Google search it, but I'm worried about what might come up!:shocked: Mags x Ssssshhhhh....................... it's a secret! :wideeyed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gollywobbler Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Its got to be a mason type thing ,,thats my guess??Cal x Hi Cal I've never seen a goat big enough for me - a small-built woman - to ride, never mind a hunking great man. However, if Bobcat is a Freemason then I have to say that I have utter respect and admiration for Freemasonry. My late father was the District Grand Chaplain of the Eastern Archipelago. When he died, Kinta Lodge asked if they could have his regalia for their museum. Mum was too distressed to part with it, so I agreed with the Lodge Secretary that Elaine and I will return the regalia once Mum has passed on. He said he quite understood and didn't mind waiting. My late Bank Manager was a Freemason. So is my accountant. Nobody has ever told me what it is about but I have seen them do some fantastically GOOD work. Kinta Lodge is in Ipoh, Malaysia. I remember Dad muttering about a local child who needed an eye-operation that could only be done in Russia, apparently. Dad and the others got together and raised the money to send the child and his parents to Russia, plus paid for the treatment and the accommodation for them all. An old dear who I know in the UK (and adore) has sadly gone gaga. I gather from her daughter that Ruby has developed senile dementia. She was a complete danger to herself in her house in Hamble, near Southampton. I walked into her kitchen and there was so much food lying around that was totally past its sell by date that I hid the lot in the back of the freezer. My chum John took a much firmer line when I told him about the food. He went round and binned it to prevent Ruby from trying to eat any of it. . The situation really was potentially dangerous but Ruby's son is a Freemason. He got her into a Care Home run by the Masons. They are looking after her wonderfully well. Her sense of reality won't return because something has gone wrong in her brain. But she is in VERY safe hands, so please let us not mock Freemasonry because they do some damned fine work. Cheers Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobcat Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 Hi Cal I've never seen a goat big enough for me - a small-built woman - to ride, never mind a hunking great man. However, if Bobcat is a Freemason then I have to say that I have utter respect and admiration for Freemasonry. My late father was the District Grand Chaplain of the Eastern Archipelago. When he died, Kinta Lodge asked if they could have his regalia for their museum. Mum was too distressed to part with it, so I agreed with the Lodge Secretary that Elaine and I will return the regalia once Mum has passed on. He said he quite understood and didn't mind waiting. ......... so please let us not mock Freemasonry because they do some damned fine work. Cheers Gill Thank you for those kind words................. we have taken a lot of stick over the years (bit like real estate agents eh) but we are still around. I am on a recruitment campaign as our numbers here in Perth are a little thin........................ the Lodges have perhaps only themselves to blame for that because until recently everyone was kept in the dark and shrouded in secrecy...........as to what our orders are all about? We have been hounded and persecuted for centuries (back in 1989 along with fellow brethren I was kicked out of the Solomon Islands due to my involvement with the Lodge in Honiara........................ that was because the then ill-informed Prime Minister was under the impression we were up to no good so he closed down our Lodge and revoked the visas of all expat Masons living in that beautiful country............ and with a surname like mine I didn't really have too much going for me?) Anyway........... our numbers are somewhat thin so if there are any unattached brethren residing in Perth please PM me. Thank you Bro John (Bobcat) Mason 30th Degree Heres a bit of the stick we have had to take over the years.......... :- When one compares famous Masons with famous Anti-Masons, it's no match whatsoever! One thing is quite clear: Freemasonry has survived the test of time, while most of the organizations who have attacked it (including some of the so-called religious organizations of today) have not. Some well-Known Evil Doers who also opposed Freemasonry include: Hungary's Béla Kun who, in 1919, proclaimed the dictatorship of the proletariat in Hungary. One of his first decrees ordered the dissolution of the Masonic lodges. Spain's General Primo deRivera, their first dictator of this generation, ordered the abolition of Freemasonry in his country. Benito Mussolini was more methodical than some of the others and in 1924 decreed that every member of his Fascist Party who was a Mason must abandon one or the other organization. In 1925, he dissolved Freemasonry. Hermann Goering who in his capacity as Prime Minister of Prussia, when the Nazis took over power in 1933 wrote that "... in National Socialist Germany, there is no place for Freemasonry." Dr. Joseph Goebbels as Reichsminister for propaganda and national enlightenment under Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, he inaugurated in 1937 an "Anti-Masonic Exposition" to display the booty seized by the Gestapo. Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, another Nazi apostle who attempted to demonstrate the racial superiority of the Germans over all other peoples, wrote openly and virulently against Freemasonry, indicting Freemasonry for the idea of equality! He was convicted of war crimes by the trial at Nürnberg and executed in 1946. General Francisco Franco Dictator of Spain from 1939 until 1975 in 1940 sentenced all Freemasons in his country automatically to ten years in prison. By the 1950s, even elements of the Catholic Church were opposing his totalitarian rule. Francisco Xavier Mier E. Campello, Bishop of Almeria and Inquisitor-General of Spain who in 1815 suppressed Freemasonry and denounced the Masonic lodges as "societies which lead to sedition, to independence, and to all errors and crimes." He then instituted a series of persecutions which caused many of the most distinguished persons of Spain to be arrested and imprisoned in the dungeons of the Inquisition on the charge of being "suspected of Freemasonry".(1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wardy Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Me :unsure: I would never mock Bob, source of inspitartion and information :wubclub:....dont know enough about Freemasonary to do that. Had a look at your website Johno now I can put a face to a name. Kaye x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobcat Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 Me :unsure: I would never mock Bob, source of inspitartion and information :wubclub:....dont know enough about Freemasonary to do that. Had a look at your website Johno now I can put a face to a name. Kaye x G'uday Kaye Not bad for a nearly 60 year old eh? Have you made your mind up yet? What's it to be............. Cairns, Tassy, Gold Coast, or Perth? I see your mob are at Blackpool tomorrow.......... should be a good game. Poor old Blackpool's wheel seems to have fallen off......... I saw them at Bloomfield Road earlier this year and they were good to watch.......... much more exciting than North End and a far better atmosphere than at Deepdale. We are away at Hull City tomorrow........... wheel seems to have fallen off at North End too? Have to go............ gotta go see a man about a goat. Gonna miss Perth Glory beat Newcastle (not your version) tonight.......... bugger. regards Bro Johnno :daydreaming: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wardy Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Yes thats right Blackpool here we come had a bad result other night we should have finished off Stoke we were winning but ended up loosing 3 - 2 :arghh: Job prospects are still tempting in Perth one of hubbies mates is on the way there now to validate his visa and check out the job situation, he is staying in Freemantle should arrive today now I think about it. When we eventually get there we are going to stop off initially in Perth see whats what and book from there onwards to explore the situation in Cairns. Dont think the kids not going straight into school will kill them going to relax a little and have an adventure. Kaye x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Gill , my old boss was a freemason and i know they do lots of good work and not only for the elderly,people may laugh and joke about ''the secret circle' etc but it was the expression ''goat riding'' that intrigued me to look closer at the post ,,i was just intrigued to know if i was correct ,, i was far from taking the mickey out of Bob as im sure he knows!!! Cal x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gollywobbler Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Hi Bobcat I'm glad that you have come out with it because although I know absolutely nothing about The Craft, as I believe it is called, I do know - absolutely for certain - that if there was anything remotely sinister about Freemasonry there is just NO way that my late father would have got involved with it. I'm sure you are the same. I hope that you are successful in recruiting new Brethren for your Lodge. Very best wishes Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gollywobbler Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Gill , my old boss was a freemason and i know they do lots of good work and not only for the elderly,people may laugh and joke about ''the secret circle' etc but it was the expression ''goat riding'' that intrigued me to look closer at the post ,,i was just intrigued to know if i was correct ,, i was far from taking the mickey out of Bob as im sure he knows!!!Cal x Hi Cal Rest assured. I was NOT criticising anyone, least of all you, honey. I am as intrigued as you are about where the term "Goat Riding" comes from because I've never heard the term before. Maybe Bobcat will enlighten us abut this bit?! I think that one of the problems is that the Masons get SO much completely un-founded stick that they end up having to lurk in the dark and do the Good Works without being seen to do them. That is a pity because it is a society with secrets, not a secret society. I've heard all sorts of wild rumours about freemasonry, frankly. They range from the feasible to the ridiculous. One of them is that the Masons have the Ark of the Covenant or at least know where it is because they were involved with the Crusades, Their involvement with the Crusades is well documented. Then you get the stupid stories like they supposedly roll up one leg of their trousers. I can assure the world that my father used to get togged up in the black tie for their big monthly meetings and when he came home his trousers weren't creased, so I do not believe that bit. What IS true is that he used to come home at around midnight with about a dozen other masons and they all hit the Scotch in the drawing room till about 3am! Mum, Elaine and I used to go to bed and leave the men to it! But so what? The Big Bash was always on a Saturday night and they all had drivers who sat outside sleeping in the various cars and stayed sober. An American client did once scratch the palm of my hand with his little finger whilst shaking hands with me. I wondered whether this was the rumoured masonic handshake. However, I thought, "If you are a Mason, why would you be telling me about it, knowing full well that I don't know what the signs are? It is just as likely that you are just a lecherous old goat to judge from the wolfish grin on your chops." I hadn't told him anything about Dad's involvement with the Masons. In my experience, Masons do not come out of the woodwork unless I mention Dad's involvement with it, so to this day I don't know where the American was coming from! But hey ho! Don't start me off on my Arab clients! One of them took me out "for dinner." When we got to the restaurant, he announced that he had already eaten and his only plan that night was to watch me eat something followed by trying to grope me on the dance floor in the dump. My reaction was, "Right, chum. Revenge. I'm going to have caviar followed by lobster because they are the most expensive things on this menu and YOU, chum, are footing the bill. How DARE you be so blinking rude as to drag me here and then tell me that you had dinner before you came out?" I'd starved all day ready for this dinner so that I would eat it all instead of leaving half of it on the plate, so as not to risk offending the esteemed client! Jeez!!!!! The waiter muttered, "Ma'am, are you sure you want two fish courses and nothing else?" "Yep. I don't eat anything except fish." That shut the waiter up. Cheers! Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 So, Bob, you brininging the goat to the meet?? lol Ali Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gollywobbler Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 So, Bob, you brininging the goat to the meet?? lol Ali Yes, yes, Ali! INSIST on the goat, I suggest! Let us question the goat to within an inch of its life..... The Man won't utter a word but the goat might....! Cheers! Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 well we went for a meal last night and the pub was advertising cane toad racing ,,so i guess anythings possible ,lol!!! Cal x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobcat Posted November 10, 2007 Author Share Posted November 10, 2007 well we went for a meal last night and the pub was advertising cane toad racing ,,so i guess anythings possible ,lol!!! Cal x Enjoyed a good night out too.............. got home at a reasonable hour for a change ............ we had a very good turnout plus 8 visitors.......... followed by a decent meal and lots of fraternal harmony.:wubclub: Enjoyed it all the moreso as for a change I didn't have to study anything to learn verbatim lengthy charges.............. got a night off in that respect which made a very pleasant change. Missed watching Perth Glory on Foxtel surprisingly down Newcastle 4-1 away from home to notch up their first win of what has been an abysmal season to date............ but it was a small sacrifice to pay for such a good night out. Yours Aye Bro Johnno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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