*This is an abstract only. No full paper is available for this abstract.* Teaching the Theory of Sampling (TOS) at all levels at university and being engaged in many outreach activities in the broader society for almost two decades (standardisation, regulating authorities and non-governmental organisations - NGOs) has resulted in accumulating a wide range of experiences/examples of good versus bad sampling approaches (procedures and equipment). These, more or less, comply with TOS but the latter sadly dominates; however, there is tremendous didactic potential in learning from incomprehension, mistakes, trials and errors to correct the understanding and application of TOS. Hence, there is potential for significant room for improvement'. The author here presents excerpts from his personal collection of gross neglect or misuse in sampling, as well as emblematic examples of good, creative and innovative solutions that honour TOS. This presentation is a sneak-preview of coming attractions (Esbensen and Minkkinen, in press). But, instead of waiting for this (unfortunately much delayed) textbook to arrive, it is time that these examples are presented with a special focus on the world of new, would-be samplers to perhaps bypass a painful personal learning process. Examples from these two chapters from a wide swath of application fields are here brought to bear with their full didactic potential. This presentation should evoke the full gamut of emotions from incredulousness, shock-and-awe, tristesse, doom and despair_x000D_
to (rapt) attention, titillation, inspiration, joy and respect. Here follows a few examples to represent a flavour of the full presentation (and of the two future chapters).CITATION:Esbensen, K H, 2017. Sampling hall of fame versus sampling hall of shame, in Proceedings Eighth World Conference on Sampling and Blending , pp 305-306 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).