Lots of starch or something? Canvas?

With a pointy stick?

Knock on the door frame and yell "hello, anybody home"?

You go over to Temple Depot and buy a bunch of cheap rubber mallets.


You make like Tony Orlando and knock three times on the ceiling if you want entry into the CK. Twice on the pipe if the veil worker has bad breath.

So you dont actually knock on the door?

Nope. At least years ago this is how I remember it...

The temple worker who stands by you as you prepare to "enter through the veil" lifts a mallet from the doorframe and taps the door frame three times.

They have this goofy fabric shower curtain thing with slits cut into it to do the secret handshakes with the clown playing god on the other side.

When you have carefully provided the verbiage to pseudo-god (Health in the navel marrow in the bones, blah blah) and given god the right handshake, they pull the curtain aside so you can enter the CK (which strangely looks like granny's living room on steroids).

Is that how others remember it?


It's all so laughably stupid as I look back on all those times I attended thinking I was so special!

That pretty much sums it up.

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> (which strangely looks like granny's
> living room on steroids).

LOL! That's the perfect description.

That's exactly how I remember it. In the future Cyber version, you will left click 3 times and then copy-and-paste the verbiage while doing the secret handshake on yourself.

Rent a door?

In Argentina we clapped our hands loudly.

I wondered if anybody else would mention this. When I read the initial question, clapping was the first thing that came to mind.

After 33 years, it's still lurking in my brain.

Clapped in Brazil also.

I knocked on my wife's fabric door last night.

She responded, "What is wanted?"

To converse with spouse beyond the fabric.

"you may enter"

Had a great time in the celestial room.. ;)

Pictures or it didn't happen.

The way the mishies did it in Japan. You slide the screen-type door a little and holler "Moshi Moshi." Wouldn't it be fun to be a veil worker and do that so someone instead of knocking three times.