This is serious thread creep, but I just have to share this:

Sometimes, although it hasn't occurred to you, you've done something that invites your audience to abuse you. My band was playing awhile back at a sea festival in front of San Francisco's Hyde St. Pier (Chanteyranger's park). We were clustered in front of the park entrance, under a sign that announced our band's name.

So as we're playing, someone walks up to our mandolin player and says, "Excuse me, would you please hold my dog while I go out onto the pier?"

We were stunned. Our mandolin player just stood there, holding the leash he'd been handed and trying to find words to express how rude the guy had been.

That's when we all realized the sign that announced our name read -- quite accurately -- "The Dogwatch Nautical Band."

Claire