Farnham: the slight communal indrawing of breath heard when the fifth bodhrán player joins the session.

Sandwich: an invention discovered as a partial antidote to a Farnham (q.v.)

Deal: the process of offering a Sandwich (q.v.) to a bodhrán player in order to avoid a Farnham (q.v.)

(My only excuse for this piece of idiocy (apart frpm being a serious Douglas Adams fan) is that these are all real placenames in England that I've lived in...:-)

-mike-