# What's the most interesting thing you've ever done?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-thing-youve-ever-done/744207>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 25, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-thing-youve-ever-done/744207 "2016-01-25T21:30:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-thing-youve-ever-done/744207/41 "2016-02-08T21:56:37Z")

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I had dinner with Gene Roddenbery at a Star Trek convention in 1974. Tickets to the con and the dinner were less than $200.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-thing-youve-ever-done/744207/42 "2016-02-10T07:54:34Z")

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It’s way over the cost limit, and you’re probably all tired of me mentioning it, but it’s got to be the sailing trip I took about nine years ago; from Nova Scotia to Grenada as a trainee on a traditional barque.

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**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-thing-youve-ever-done/744207/43 "2016-02-10T08:37:25Z")

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> [@bump](#):
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> So… “instant glue”? What you had there son, was ghetto napalm. Two thumbs down to not indiscriminately setting all sorts of random shit on fire with it, and instead using it to steal books from the library.

Our recipe for napalm is circa Vietnam War, and it doesn’t use dissolved styro.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-thing-youve-ever-done/744207/44 "2016-02-10T09:21:13Z")

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[A friend and I canoed down a river of no return out onto the arctic ocean:](http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeper/KattawagamiRiverPics.html)

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> Hour after hour, day after day,  
> we paddled and sang and slept  
> under the hot sun on the northern ocean,  
> wanting never to return.

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