Hee. My family /was/ actually descended from carnival workers, one of my direct ancestors was an Irish princess who ran away with a coachman, and my mother is better than call display for telling people who's calling before she's answered. Not to mention they said "everybody down Stubbins (Stubbins Lane, where my father's family grew up) knows that Halls' (Hall being my grandmother's maiden name) is not right." So I'm drawing a wee bit from experience here, but extemporizing hugely.