Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:52:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, N Lynch wrote:

>   They [Shriners] are usually older men
> who have an established identity rather than the
> everything lumped together as SF cons are.

I understand that you don't just go out and join the Ancient Order of
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; you sort of graduate into it by passing
through the Free and Accepted Masons, which requires a few years of
community activity at the very least.

-- Dick Eney