What's the weirdest thing you've got in a hat?

[Orange]

hey, what are some of the weirdest things you've discovered in your hat after a show? i've got: a dose of extacy (yikes, that's scary to me), a package of 4 AA batteries, one of those fake ice cream cones where the end pops off, girls phone numbers (oh yeah!), a bottle of coke... um... other things i can't remember right now. i'm sure many of you can beat me easily, though. let's hear about it.

[Jim]

- A $100 dollar bill (US)
- An 1821 dime (US)
- A half-drank can of beer
- A tube sock filled with pennies from a homeless guy.
- Last summer I got my first ever US Silver Dollar

Cool topic!

[Peter Voice]

A 24 carat solid gold wedding ring (men's).
A packet of "Twisties".
A carton (1 litre) of milk, which went off in the sun.
A can of dog food.
A diamond engagement ring.
A solid gold King George IV souvreign dated 1790.
2 grams of very fine (so I'm told) coke and finally a very nice pair of aromatic gun-metal grey coloured lacy knickers.

[Dan The One Man Band]

A VCR

[Todd]

a $50 and a $20 from the same guy

what looked like a $20 folded in 4ths that turned out to be a smaller piece of paper in half that looked like a $20 but when you opened it it read"DISSIPOINTED!! NOT IF GOD IS ON YOUR SIDE!!"

a check for $2 from someone who wanted to but had no cash on them

A pretty collection of origami money from a guy in Ohio. Ties, a two piece dog, a crane, a bunny, a bear, a shirt........

A photographers card who offered my partner and I a free sitting at his studio. (clothes on and everything)

The buisness card of a Rabbi who does circumcisions.

[Butterfly Man]

100 yen note (paper money from Japan pre WW 2 )
American Express Gold Card (still valid for almost another two years)
Inmates Canteen Card (San Quentin)
condom (with a safety pin attached)
Painting (of me, flying out of San Francisco, juggling the sun, moon, earth, Saturn and a rose.
Coupon (handmade) for 1 free blowjob

[stickman]

1: Candy from children (often actually).
2: $90 aus to stop working for 10 mins.
(Gave a girl on a bench $50 to prove to
me, he didn't care about money. Just
wanted to see someone else make money for
doing nothing.
3: beer, wine, liquor and a nightly pint of Guinness. (I like Guinness)
4: $1 cheque ($20's from all the guys who
heard him bragging in the bar afterwards)
5. Hand carved soapstone statue of a lion.
6. Cool Glass pendant hand made by the guy who gave it to me.
7. Hundred dollar notes multiple countries.
8: WAY TO MUCH DRUGS!! (DON'T NEED THEM)
9. Drawings, pictures, phone numbers.
10. Casino chips for roulette. (Cashed them in after one roll)
11. Lottery tickets.
12. Pamphlets (mostly Christian)
13. Business cards from restaurant owners/chiefs offering me free fine dining.
14. A coupon from a lady of the evening for free ... (unclaimed)
15. A long letter from an American explaining why I should be ashamed to be an American. (Obviously missed the over sized Canadian flag on the front of my show box)
16. Job offer to work for Cirque Du Soleil.
17. Hugs, and once a long line of women who took me for a kissing booth.
18. Flowers. Bunches both bought and hand picked.

[Frisbee]

This is a great topic:

-an 1875 silver dollar.(this is my favorite)
-a little pewter statue angel
-a 100$ bill (I wish would happen more!)
-a mcdonalds cheeseburger

-Frisbee

[ALAKAZAM]

Hey folks
Yeah we all get crazy shit from crazy people.
-A money clip with $146 U.S in it.
-A list with about 20 middle aged womens phone numbers who are willing to pay for sex.
-"$50 and i'll go home with you" got a 50 and actually shagged the girl.
-an egg from the ground after tom comet had been on,it was sick.
-a pair of socks and a t-shirt,wrapped in christmas wrapping paper with a card saying"dear don,merry christmas you bastard,love christine"
-Lots of under age girls phone numbers
-A tampon applicator.
-And the best one:a used condom[which i carefully placed in my suitcase and 2 days later used it to scare away a heckler who tried to tell me there was nothing i could do to make him leave]
Cheers
Al

Oh yeah-$375 american from a disabled man.

[Daniel Forlano]

a gourd
proposition for sex

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stitches

[martin ewen]

The manditory very old coin

$100 given to me by a dead person.

Torn off half a loaf of bread from a peasent.

The nun photo thats on my website under past victims.

anonomous poetry

lots and lots of pebbles (Damn those Cork brats)

ebola

occaisionaly money

[Todd]

It didnt go in the hat, so I'm not sure if it counts, but a sculptor who like the show made me a samll statue that is of two wild thrilled faces. He said his insperation was from watching people watching my show

[Airborne Dan]

Weirdest thing in the hat? You pick.

- Cold beer from a redneck.

- Pocket lint.

- A few joints.

_ A condom with a phone number attached to it.

- Drawings from children.

- An incense burner from a homless guy.

- A job offer to sell cars at a Mercedes Benz dealership.

- A Canadian quarter!

- A can of Spam.

- Tickets to a Joe Jackson concert.

- Political buttons / bumperstickers.

- A rabbits foot.

- A nude picture of Bobarino Gravittini.(Wearing only red shoes)

- A four leaf clover.

- An enchilada.

- A kitten.

- An Irish Passport.

- A 9 volt battery.

- And another nude pic of Bobarino.

[Dan The One Man Band]

Hey Airborn, why did Canadian quarter have an exclamation mark beside it??? None of the other objects had one.....Canada's not too far from Boston

[Airborne Dan]

Dan The One Man Band'

Good Question! The reason the Canadian quarter had so much significance to me was because when I received it, I was recovering from a year and a half of living in Houston, Texas. I could not book my show to save my life in that town. I ended up doing stand-up comedy instead of my normal juggling show to make a living.

Spending a year as a stand-up comedian began as a humbling experience but eventualy served to broaden my abillities as a performer, especially after achieving a modocum of success as a comedian with no props.

When I returned to Boston with my wife and son I was energized in an entirely new way to get out on the pitch and do my juggling show.

That very first show, upon my return to Boston, yielded a Canadian quarter in the hat. Something I hadn't seen for a while (there aren't as many Canadian coins floating around Texas as there are in the north).

So anyway I kept the quarter, I still have it, it's somehow worth more than 19 cents to me, or what ever the exchange rate is for a Canadian quarter, which by the way is practically the same shape and size as a U.S. quarter, but for some reason won't work in any of our vending machines.

Airborne Dan