The dumbest thing I ever did while drunk: got behind the wheel of a car. A local constable made that point for me, and a Waukesha County, Wis., court commissioner reinforced it with a 3-month license suspension and a fat fine about 20 years ago I have to say the boys turned my life around, and I'm grateful. I like a drink, but I don't drive drunk anymore. The possibilities are too tragic.

My crazier days involved LSD; I'm thinking specifically about two hits of two-way Purple Haze at a very early Pink Floyd concert. I'm afraid I can't translate that into words, and in retrospect, I'd probably have halved that dose. Still get off on listening to the band's recordings from that period, though.

Russ