BS & Thread creep:'Spaw likes to mock my low taste in American thick-ear literature (the sort PeterT parodies so well) so I'll take advantage of his absence to quote from the one I'm reading at the moment: Tom Perotta's The Wishbones (about a wedding band who'd rather be playing rock etc):
"Dave looked up and saw a husky, middle aged guy with long hair and a Hawaiian shirt standing behind a mike stand...his name must have been Pat, because people kept shouting it until it turned into a kind of chant."
Doesn't say if he played possum though!
RtS