The "I Bet You Never" Meme:

[mightyjesse]

Rules: Post five things you've done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done. Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.
1. Gave the guitarist from Black Label Society and the movie Rock Star a bloody nose.
2. Been paid $20 to assault a member of the WWE. ($20 were courtesy of the poor man with the bloody nose in item 1.)
3. Been babysat by a serial killer.
4. Arranged to smuggle a $10,000 device into a middle-eastern country for the purpose of showing a "forbidden" play. (I had to specify "arranged to smuggle" because one of the other people that helped with the airing of "Nathan the Wise" in Qatar is on this f-list. In other news, the play "Nathan the Wise" is illegal to perform or posess recorded copies of in Qatar.)
5. Performed with the Bolshoi. (I was 8 years old. It was the Nutcracker. So, nowhere near as fabulous, yet just as fabulous as it sounds. This was back when Solviet treasures defected to the US from time to time. Sadly I never got to meet Baryshnikov.)

Comments

[fencert.livejournal.com]

Those are pretty good. But a couple fall under the heading of: I can get away with this because I'm a sexy stripper. No fair. I'll see what I can come up with-- I think I've done some kinda meme like this before. I'll check my archives and post my five forthwith!

[without-within.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who's dad was babysat by Ed Gein, does that count?

[gwyneth1362.livejournal.com]

Which serial killer?

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

That'd be Milwaukee's own Mr. Dahmer. His father was my father's boss between 1982 and 1986 ish... I don't remember it, personally, but when he was arrested, my parents were good and freaked.

Vbrick mule

[royal-scam.livejournal.com]

So I'm that person. And if anything, I’m entrenched even more deeply in the shadowy cabal that provides the forbidden. As you so well know somewhere, in an underground and windowless room, we smoke our Dunhills and clink together our Cognac glasses while plotting what er... illumination... to bring forth next. But the very nature of our work, this time, has turned on me. I had no idea that you had your own black-ops to perform on that particular assignment. Well done, well done indeed.

Re: Vbrick mule

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

While I knew the device was perfectly legal over there, I was also aware that it takes us (on average) 3 MONTHS to get anything of a "hi-tech" nature through customs.

With only 2 weeks head's up before the production, I was forced to take the smuggling option. I dumped the vbrick into a laptop case and put it in someone's checked luggage. Generally, the airport people will wave the "unexplained gleaming lights and flashy things" through as long as there doesn't appear to be any explosive payload attached. They'd rather get you out of their hair than wait for someone technical enough to explain to them that we weren't lying when we explained what the V-brick was for and assured them that it was in compliance with the laws of the country.

Also, Roman formerly of the Qatar team is on my flist, but not involved in that particular smuggling operation.