Brian Regan has a great DVD called “I walked on the moon.” The idea was that if he were one of the astronauts who actually walked on the moon, he could just save it up until he had an insufferable braggart at a cocktail party going on and on about his exploits, at which point BR would say, “Oh yeah? I walked on the moon…” Impossible to trump. :-)

So when I hear someone say (as I have a few times) “When I was on Everest…” I usually have to stifle the impulse to say “Which Everest? The big one or the little one? ‘Cause the one in Nepal is baby shit compared to the mountain the Albanians call “The Frozen Mouth of Kali and Her Spawn.”