That's pretty funny! There is a word in English, "freelancer", which is a person who works for himself by selling his expertise to whomever will pay for it. I imagine the original freelancers were mercenaries who sold their services and lances to whichever warlord paid them.
I don't French at all, but I wonder if there was some confusion between "freemason" and "freelancer". On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Nicolas Bergé <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I really wanted to share this short story with you. It probably doesn't > have any special interest. Strangely enough, it still today makes me laugh > a lot. Perhaps it's worth sharing the laughs. Here's the story : > > It happened early this week. A member of Les Satellites came to me after > lunch to talk about projects he has in mind. During the discussion, he > suddenly remembered that he heard something really funny about us outside > (this wasn't the purpose of the discussion, he just remembered this). These > was his words (translated from French) : "Ah, by the way, Nicolas, you > should know that the first dark legends about Les Satellites are in the > air. A friend of mine told me yesterday on the phone to be cautious about > coworking and Les Satellites. This place, he said, is - *AND THESE ARE > HIS PROPER WORDS *- *full of dangerous freemasons*". > > Wonderful, isn't it ? I laughed immediately. And I urged myself to spread > the words throughout our entire community. They were all puzzled about this. > > Then I thought about it. There is three things I think. > First is the "dangerous" part. It could be linked directly to freemason, a > sort of pleonasm. But it could not. I can easily imagine "good" freemason > and "bad" freemason as well as "good" people and "bad" people. Nah, the > thing is that I sometimes imagined what could be the rumours about > coworking and everything related to community, social gatherings and every > stress we put on words that are valued to us. I imagined everything from > communism to hippies and utopians. Everything that wouldn't surprise me as > much as this. I like being dangerous by my impact, my values, my > independance. I don't like being dangerous because what I do, what we do, > is unclear - I won't say secret. > Second, of course, is freemasonry. Actually I strongly believe that the > person who starts this gossip doesn't know much about freemasonry *and* > coworking. Point. > Third is the laugh. I laughed because I consider this as a good joke. I > don't want to spend any piece of time I have on struggling this rumour. > What for ? Sharing it with you is like telling a friend a good joke about > what is said on coworking and its members. "Hey do you know what is said > about coworking..." You should try this with your coworkers and see what > occurs. Rumours are great, I know it now. Every kind of rumour. Because it > is told as a story full of imagination. It's light and *should'nt* harm. > > And this is it. What do you think ? > I think it's always worth telling good jokes : ) > > Nicolas Bergé > Les Satellites > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/6finTUweuJgJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- twb member, Workantile <http://workantile.com/> @twbrandt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
