The band or the brewery?
Oh yeah? Well I once FLASHED Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts (accidentially) and got a great picture of him staring down from the wrestling ring at my bra… :o
The band.
Damn…now I’m going to have to go try and swipe some from the brewery, just because “Both” would’ve been a much cooler answer.
Been chased through the basement of a Unitarian church by a pack of Russian wolfhounds.
Given birth at home
Assisted with the production of a Tom Brokaw live TV news event
Received a gift of candy from David Sedaris
Chatted with President Clinton
Shaved my head to celebrate a big birthday
Spent the night in jail on felony drug charges (not guilty)
Typed the letters that went out to recipients of blood products from an SF blood bank informing them that they may have been exposed to a new virus called HIV.
Walked underneath the Exxon Vadez while it was in drydock readying to repair the shredded hull
Been on board almost every type of surface ship in the US Navy and sketched everything from the highest platform to the bowels of the engine rooms
Been scuba diving while on LSD
Had my face licked by a giraffe (and it’s true about that 18" purple prehensile tongue)
Swam out of my living room window to escape rising water in my house from a storm surge caused by a hurricane
Taken a helicopter ride to the top of a volcano
Gotten a round of applause from a group of old men as I walked out of the ocean (I’m sure they were drunk, but hey, I’ll take it)
I have ridden a motorcycle in:
all 48 of the lower states
13 European countries, from England to Romania. I broke down in Hungry.
Had a Romania hitch hiker hop on the back of the bike when I asked for directions.
Ridden in the 2001 Iron Butt Rally.
Played a jazz concert with Louie Bellson. I got quite a laugh out of giving him a dirty look for playing ‘Nice and Juicy’ at well over 220.
I’ve seen Golden Earring twice, in 2004, in The Netherlands, on two different trips. I still think they are one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen.
Driven a Zamboni.
Saved a significant portion of the ground war effort in Desert Storm (took an entire C-5A, someone would have figured it out later but I figured it out first:D)
Been to all the 'stans during deployments to Afghanistan theater.
Been within a foot of a wild African bull elephant… while asleep in a tent, without really waking up,
Sung ‘I’m a little teapot’ with 6 half-naked Maori guys in a sweat lodge,
Been rescued from a monorail car by the fire brigade,
Bottle fed a baby marmoset, also bottle fed a mara,
Been bitten by a marmoset,
Stiltwalked on fire,
and
Hitchhiked all the way around New Zealand’s South Island without once paying for any transport.
You win the thread (since it’s my thread after all).
-Been a member of the first group of linguists to professionally document a rare Southeast Asian language
-Run out of money on a different continent
-Peed on a building in Rome (I was drunk)
-Escorted Cal Ripken, Jr. up an elevator
-Bought a pair of dress shoes at a Chinese restaurant
-Lived in a house for 3 months with no furniture save a bed
-Had Brit Hume tell me over the phone that I am “a good man”
Jumped out of a car doing 40.
Been beaten by cops while handcuffed.
On the same night.
Been in a police line-up.
Now this makes me envious. The only thing that could make it more awe-inspiring is if he played “Skin Deep” as part of the set.
…given a lecture to FBI agents
…looked out over Easter Island on Christmas Day
…written and performed sketches with Eddie Izzard
…lectured by invitation at both Oxford and Cambridge universities
…chatted with Penn & Teller in their ‘green’ room after a show
…seen the view from the top of the Petronas Towers
…taught Derren Brown how to give someone a psychic reading for a TV show
…been to Komodo Island to see the giant lizards or ‘dragons’
…seen ‘Onegin’ performed in the Marinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg
…flown in a hot air balloon over Cappadocia in Turkey
…performed at the Glastonbury Festival
…flown a millionaire’s personal helicopter over Sydney Harbour
…made crop circles that were featured in magazines and on a T shirt
…had a full head cast made from alginate and plaster
…had root canal surgery with no anaesthetic
…sheared a sheep
…been inside the ‘Turning Torso’ building in Malmo, Sweden
…been to Lance Burton’s house
…lectured to the Ministry of Defence
…been stopped by Russian police officers
Done that as well- on two different contintents, come to think of it.
…been followed by both the KGB and the Stasi.
…helped investigate the betrayal of American secrets by a senior American diplomat (Felix Bloch) at the embassy in Vienna in 1989. Coincidentally, this was during the same time that Nadia Comaneci made her defection by way of Hungary and Vienna.
…was in Moscow providing support during the 1988 summit talks between Reagan and Gorbachev.
I was once asked by a local police in Asia, “Do you guys do this in your country?”, as he was looking at a white guy drinking out of a beer bottle and peeing on the side of a very nice building.
I didn’t sense the cop being sarcastic at all… he was fascinated and genuinely curious.
Oh, great! I win! 
(I generally don’t win much…)
A few I forgot last time (and it looks like riding an elephant wasn’t very unusual in this crowd!):
[ul]
[li]Been profiled in Forbes magazine[/li][li]Did a bit onstage at a Whose Line is it Anyway show with Ryan Stiles[/li][li]Had a New York Times bestselling author (Greg Mortenson) stay at my house[/li][li]Been inside the circle of stones at Stonehenge at dawn on the solstice[/li][/ul]
Shot a .50 BMG rifle in the standing (offhand) position.
Spent two hours down inside a Minuteman III silo in Wyoming.
Worked in a building that was seven stories underground.
Been inside a C-5 cargo aircraft.
Set up a satellite uplink at the White House Communications facility.
Started a citizen’s militia group, and held monthly training sessions for seven years.
Had a .308 rifle blow up in my face, resulting in thousands of tiny blood dots all over my face.
Dropped a 60-pound cannonball on my left pinky. It became permanently deformed as a result.
In 1988, my supervisor and I gave Barry Goldwater a tour of our lab.
My wife and I (after we were married) served on the same jury.