Chuckling with impure puerile thoughts, I've avoided this thread, but finally decided that since it had lasted this long I ought to at least check it out. What a pleasant surprise!

Back in my days as a starving grad student, we hosted a party at the "house", but spent all our money on the keg, and thus had no funds for "entertainment." There were a couple of other students that played guitar and knew some bawdy collegiate type songs, but they and their repertoire were pretty well worn out by that point in the semester, so we were desperate for something else. In a moment of brilliance (well, that's haw I choose to remember it, but it might well have been a moment of insobriety), we decided to invite the Tupperware lady. We conveniently forgot to tell her that she was the "entertainment" for a pretty typical keg party, until she showed up. She was a good sport, and a hell of a good sales rep, 'cause she put on a fine "show" and sold a ton of stuff, mostly to the wives and girl friends of the students (there weren't very many female grad students in those days).

The funniest experience I've had as a musician came a few years ago when we were playing for the tv-cameras in a "promo" photo-op in support of teh upcoming local Highland games. We had set up under a beautiful live oak tree to avoide the unique tuning problems of sunshine on the strings. It was really pleasant, and the canopy captured the sound and gave a really nice effect. Right in the middle, a wee gust of a breeze blew through the trees, and dropped a ton on acorns on us. We all started laughing and covered our heads, while the acorns produced a brilliant symphony on my hammered dulcimer. One Above was in a playful mood that day.