Since we seem to be inhabited by musical folks ...

A lady called the Los Angeles musicians union to inquire about the cost of
booking a five piece band with a singer for a wedding... The AFM rep says
"Off the top of my head, roughly two thousand  dollars"...
She says "WHAT ? FOR MUSIC ?"...
The rep responds "Ma'am... I'll tell you what. Call the plumbers' 
union and ask for six plumbers to work from six to twelve o'clock on  a
Saturday night. Whatever they charge you, I'll work for half of that."
She called back and said "I get your point".


Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+