I had to do this for our high school physics class. Each duo's task was to see how far your car could transport a can of soda using the mousetrap. My partner and I won, but we got our asses handed to us by the teacher, who'd been perfecting his design for the past 25 years.

Eddie Izzard got it right:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8

"Hello, hello. What do you do? You're a plumber. What on Earth is that?

I worked at a used book store for most of high school and a little after college and we had to lock up anything dealing with Freemasonry, as well.

Vaguely related: My girlfriend and I were in Austria last fall and there was a cafe near our hotel named Amadeus. Their decorating sense was pretty great.