You notice I'm being good, not derailing a topic, setting a good example...... 
When I was Director of our local Buick club, it behooved me to also serve as chairman of our yearly Fall Festival. The Fall Festival was an all-Buick car show, hosted and sponsored by a local Buick dealership, held in October, after the new models had arrived. This particular year was 1994 and was being hosted by Childress Buick in Phoenix and was attended by Al McCoy, the "Voice of the Phoenix Suns". A pretty good piano player, but I digress.....
Our Fall Festival was the largest single-make car show in the Valley in its heyday. The GTO's took that spot eventually. Childress was especially accomodating, since it was their idea to start an all-Buick car show held at their dealership. They went all out, pulled out all the stops. They got Al McCoy, got him to record "commercials" telling about the aspects of the show, something about certain cars, interviews with the owners, that kind of thing. They would clear off their used car lot where we could set up a decent sound system and could park 100+ old Buicks with enough room to open the doors without bumping the car next to you. "Space, line" parking, if you will. Utilizing our speakers and the ones on their lot, that area had the best sound and stereo separation I have ever seen in an outdoor venue.
There was a little cassita with an arch that led from the new car lot to the used car lot. We normally used that archway as our "office", where we set up our ballot counting area and where we had our sound system. It was out of the way and centrally located. The year in this story, the fire marshal said this was a fire exit and we would have to move our operations. We moved to the east porch of the dealership building. The building was built on grade about a story above the lot. They would run cars up the ramp onto the porch to put them on display in the showroom.
One of the features of the show was a dunking booth, sponsored and manned by the personnel from the service department. Proceeds from the dunking booth went to a charity, typically the children's hospital. Normally, the dunking booth was right next to that archway. This year, they set it up right under where we had the sound system. I had taken lots of guff by people for having an "Old" tube amp on the sound system. Tubes are not crabby about wonky speaker wiring. I kept spare output tubes with the sound system just in case.
Everything went "swimmingly" that day, both with the dunking booth and with the show. It was a beautiful day, lots of old Buicks, Al McCoy was mingling. They dunked the service manager, somebody donated $25 for his bath, then the service writers, then they started on the service guys. Everything went fine until one particularly rotund gentleman had his turn. When he got dunked, a drop of water went high enough to land square in the middle of the four 500 degree output tubes in the Dynaco SCA-35 amp. There was a noise from the speakers that sounded like a cannon had gone off, glass went flying, and a puff of smoke came from the amp. I hit the power switch and prayed for the best. I waited a couple of minutes, pulled the broken tubes, inserted the four GE mismatched tubes that are still there, flipped the switch, and we had music once again. I never got any more grief about using an old tube amp.
