Check the elbow action among the Altar Guild ladies of your local Catholic, Lutheran or Anglican/Episcopalian/CofE church -- you know, the place with the brass chandeliers, eagle-shaped lectern, six-foot candlesticks, and mile-long altar rail. Oh, and the three dozen memorial plaques on the walls.

When they've finished all that, they get stuck into polishing the silver communion vessels, clean the lamp chimneys and the racks for the votive candles, and then they go home and launder, bleach and iron the altar linen!