This raised a smile the other day, was mooching round the college workshop/lab (its more than an ordinary workshop this one, its got some electronics stuff in as well) while waiting for people to fininsh with the DC bench PSUs and mulimeters (we had some daft assignment to do with hooking resisters up in parralel and series and taking measurements) one of the boards on the wall of a booth (most of them were testing rigs) was showing switch fuses feeding fixed equipment, looked a bit closer at one of the loads and it was a metal box labeled "Basset Oscillator" and it had a transparent side at the front and inside you could see a bit of veroboard and on this veroboard was mounted liquiorace alsorts with bits of wire poked through them, and a bit of thought had gone into making them look like real components, like the black cylindrical ones were done like axial capacitors. Mentioned it to the lecturer and apparently its one of the other lecturers "blowing a raspberry at his electronics textbooks"
I couldn't believe it when the Box Brownie would not let me make a phone call. 
