The Monty Python sketch is 'classic'.
I joined in the 70's to 'please' my Grandad.
It doesn't 'open doors'
The charities they collect for are 'Their Own'
The initiation ceremony is 'Humbling' and Bloodcurdling.
But it is really an excuse for loads of 'backslapping' and a good booze up at the end of Lodge meetings, or Lodge of Instruction.
And...............................I have got a second hand apron