My friends Jocelyn and Terry were in London recently and found this awesome antique stamp at a street fair. They know I’m a Freemason, so they bought it and sent it to me, which I thought was really sweet and thoughtful.
However, when you consider all the people who must have handled the package to get it from their hands into mine, this means that dozens — perhaps hundreds! — of people cooperated to send an item halfway around the world. Which wouldn’t normally mean anything, but since the item is Masonic I’m pretty sure it’s proof of a nefarious Masonic conspiracy. Possibly with Cargo Cult implications.
I’m searching it for microfiche and/or demon ichor as we speak. I’ll report later if the Black Helicopters don’t pick me up.
If you don’t hear from me, please contact the proper authorities.
(But seriously, isn’t this thing cool? It makes me want to write a proper written-on-real-paper letter to some Masonic friends, just so I have an excuse to use the stamp.)
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November 2, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Brendan
Re: ‘proper authorities’ – rest assured, they must already know. 😉
November 2, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Jenifer
which would those be? i would think the proper authorities in this case would be the mason’s themselves, and i don’t know the appropriate hand-shakes and question/answers. perhaps the master of the local lodge could put it into a dream for me, with a puzzle to solve, too (because i have time on my hands, you know), and then, should something happen to you, i could–like a hero in a dan brown novel–save the day.
or is there an alternative authority whom i should inform? Gordi perhaps?
November 2, 2010 at 3:33 pm
dafydd
Have you ever compared a picture of Dan Brown with descriptions of his lead character, Robert Langdon? I call his books Mary Sues for a reason… 😉
November 2, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Mike Ezell
Waaaaay cool. Did it come with the fingerbone of Tom Hanks?
November 10, 2010 at 11:10 am
Gillian
Do you need us to send you some sealing wax so that you can use this stamp? How cool that would look on your letters to Masonic friends. (This reminded me that my paternal grandfather sealed his mail with a family crest, I wonder what happened to it.)