I heard a story once of someone doing his PhD Thesis defence, sitting in a room with a group of very eminent academics, all trying to pick holes in his thesis.
He sat there for the allotted time, and as they were wrapping up and congratulating him, he reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of 20 year-old single malt. As he poured himself a shot, he invited all present to open his thesis, and read the footnote on page mumblety-eleven, which stated that the bottle went to the first person to mention that footnote during the defence.
