While playing a round of poker with Wilson Mizner one evening, a friend of the writer's hauled out his wallet and added it to the pot. "I call you," he declared. Mizner calmly removed his right shoe and added it to the pot as well. "If we're playing for leather," he declared, "I raise!"

[According to the rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, St. Hubbins is the patron saint of quality footwear.]