I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.
What tinfoil?" he asked.
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.