sniffnoy | I think I may have finally come up with a way to explain to people what the Freemasons are

This is a problem that has come up several times recently, where I have mentioned the Freemasons to someone, and it turned out they'd never heard of them, and I had to try to explain it, only to find that it's hard to actually explain! But I think I've got it: The Freemasons are an organization about pretending they're about something. :P

...OK, sure, they're not exactly an organization per se, but still...