by JT 79 Replies latest jw friends
Ah, memories ...
Were the housekeepers still instructed to do bedsheet checks for "wet dreams"? That was the dread of the less than fastidious.
In the early Playboy days, the books in the old Bethel library on such arcane subjects as "The History of Phallic Worship" were extremely well worn.
M
porn in the bathroom ventshaft?? is this for real?? is this like 'community' porn? take it out if you need it but put it back when you're done. wink-wink nudge-nudge?
mox
Michael3000 says
JT - this G-job thread is a pisser! Sophie! Her thing was, no matter what you were sick with, she would always make you gargle with warm salt water! That brought back memories. I was convinced that the system of "checking in" on you while you were sick didn't just ensure that you weren't faking it - it kinda made you NOT want to stay home when you're sick.
#### man you knew never to stay home sick on a Monday cause she would indeed ask you
Did you know Alan Galina? I did a G-job with him, painting & polyurethaning the home of the guy who owned that liquor store in Brooklyn Heights (I think it was on Cranberry?).
########yep I knew him- did you know Wilford Simmons
Metatron says
Now that I'm older, I can have more
understanding for guys like Willy Walker - they're scared
to leave - it's like putting a bird in a cage - eventually
you can leave the cage door open, they're too scared to
leave it.
@@@@@@@@@ that is so true do you recall John Erricatte he was a missionary up in Alaska back in the day when they use the sail boat, single man
this guy I worked with in the bindery was in his hall and one day asked him : How do you stay single all these years' he said -----sometimes you have to slam "IT"in the window-- smile
. You can tell people about Bethel all day, but
unless you've been there,they'll never understand what
a strange place it is.
#######this is so true and that is why it is good that we tell what we saw and heard ,cause otherwise all bethelites are told NEVER tell anything bad about bethel to the bro on the outside
Remember bro's hangin' small copies of porn in vent shafts
in the 124 bathroom? - just keepin' it handy, in a way that
can't be traced back to its owner
####### I heard about it but could never find a copy - smile
do you remember when each year the New boys would get called down to the mailroom in the home where George Couches wife worked and they would get DOGGGGGGGGGGGGGED FOR the Swim Suit Edition of Sports Illustrated
they had to leave that issue down there-------------
max says
Were the housekeepers still instructed to do bedsheet checks for "wet dreams"? That was the dread of the less than fastidious
Hey max I got one for you- I can't remember the year but all the guys up here who were there will remember this happening
Annoucement was made a week in advance that NO OUTSIDE GUEST WOULD BE ALLOWED to attend the Monday night wt lesson- so everyone knew it was a Special bethel talk
Then after the wt lesson ALL THE SISTERS WERE TOLD TO LEAVE
AND Dan the man Sydlik gave the talk on MASTURBATION
TOLD THE guys not to drink before bed – to sleep on their side instead of their back or stomach
It was so deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Stuff like that YOU NEVER FORGET
JAMES
I'm screaming with laughter, so many rembrances.
Danny Sydlik would hold up his right index finger almost straight up at 11 o'clock and say, shoulders back, deep WBBR radio voice, "Boys, I go to bed at night like THIS!" Puts his hand down and puts it back in the identical position. "And I wake up like THIS." Really had an eye for the ladies before Marina.
Another prominent Bethelite, also on the GB later who is now dead and I feel like protecting for a good reason, had private discussions with talented young men, posing for discussion the possibility that it might be better to masturbate rather than to marry and leave the Bible House! Didn't tell them what to do, but just put the idea there......
Were we shocked to see Danny on the governing body later on.
I'm saving for the book the details of Knorr's first new boy talk. Several of those attending are on the PA corp today. Pulled out all the plugs and microphones so no sisters could overhear at WBBR. There were a few boys from the cornfields who became ambidextrous after that one too!
John Erichetti. There was a time when nitrates were put on the table in salt shakers (it was called saltpeter!) because Knorr was told they did that in prisons to prevent horny boys from doing what came naturally.
Ah yes, Fern Couch..... Many of the early sisters were more like nuns in their treatment of wayward boys. George goes back to the first convention cafeteria food service days. Always had the best cuts of steaks, would not go to the lowly Bethel doctor, because he could afford the finest specialist.
We've got to plan a reunion, gang.
Maximus
Afterthought, added to edit: What I hope comes across from this thread is not titillation--sure it may be so to the uninitiated--but the full force of the truth that very flawed men are in control of JW life. It is these men who permit pedophic policies and the deadly blood policy that is even more evil, in that it kills innocent children.
M
The rumor I really want to track down was Barbara Grizzuti's
claim that bro's in the Rutherford era got regularily serviced
at a local brothel. This isn't as crazy as it first sounds -
in Rutherford's day they had a very "wink-wink, nudge-nudge"
attitude about stuff like this - Rutherford himself may have
had some on the side - divorces could happen discreetly - too
much morality (and not enough preaching) was derided as "character
building".
metatron
Then after the wt lesson ALL THE SISTERS WERE TOLD TO LEAVEAND Dan the man Sydlik gave the talk on MASTURBATION
As if women don't masturbate!
>>Did you know Alan Galina? I did a G-job with him, painting & >>polyurethaning the home of the guy who owned that liquor store in >>Brooklyn Heights (I think it was on Cranberry?).
########yep I knew him- did you know Wilford Simmons
>>Alan was a pisser! I was in a wedding band with him & 3 other Bethelites. We only played JW weddings, of course. I remember how we couldn't tell the "friends" who hired us that there was a set "fee" for us - but we did say, "Others have given this much or that much" - a mere suggestion, see? I was also the dude that got busted playing his sax near Times Square, back in '87. Ahh, the memories of youth...
I don't remember Wilford Simmons - but one of my overseers at the factory was Rob Simmons. He and Nathan O'Blennes ran a tight floor (or at least they tried). They were the first 2 to tell me that someone had seen me blowin' my horn in Manhattan (I wonder to this day who it was that was spying on me), and that they had to go before the Factory Committee and give a report. This would determine whether or not they'd let me stay. I was about a month away from making my first year, so I knew I was sunk. Funny thing was, I stayed in Brooklyn & Pioneered - then re-applied for Bethel! AND GOT ACCEPTED!! So, I was a Bethelite for almost a year, and a Commuter Bethelite for a year. Man, Commuters really got NO respect from most of the "regular" Bethelites. That pecking order was reinforced by the Society's own set of protocol - for instance, at lunch. Commuters had no assigned seating, so guess how they got a seat for lunch? Unless you were buds with someone who would actually TELL you that someone at their table is out sick or on vacation, you had to wait around almost until the opening prayer started to beg for a spot at a table (and you had to wait for the table head to give the OK). Come to think of it, I think after a while, the Society had a seniority-based deal where they would assign commuters seats).
I ramble, but those were interesting days...
--Michael
About Barbara Grizzuti (Harrison), for metatron.
She had impeccable connections, as you know. Few are still alive who could verify this, but it has the ring of truth from all I know. I did note above the discussions about "better to masturbate than marry and leave the Bible House." Wish Art Worsley were still alive.
I can vouch for her accuracy on just about everything, and she was not wont to write what was untrue. Heard her on National Public Radio, suddenly opening up about being abused by her beloved father ... Awful.
M
MAXIMUS WROTE: I'm saving for the book the details of Knorr's first new boy talk. Several of those attending are on the PA corp today. Pulled out all the plugs and microphones so no sisters could overhear at WBBR. There were a few boys from the cornfields who became ambidextrous after that one too!
...now, when is that book gonna be completed?? THAT sounds like a story that would be worth the list price of the book!! ;-)
This thread is AWESOME!!! I had no IDEA that all of this sort of stuff went on up in Bethel!!! *YIKES*
Take care, and many thanks for the eye-openers!!!
Pooh
max
Art Worsley
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this guy was walking history when i was at bethel-- you could never forget that raspy voice
james
