I once had a beer with an Australian cowboy in a Russian restaurant in Calgary.

[Swede]

He just leaned over and asked me for directions. I didn't know the Deerfoot from the Crowchild I said,I too was passing through,so we shared a beer. He was off to a work on a ranch. His hand was like treebark when we shook and went our separate ways.

[csziggy]

1. Was it a German beer? n/t

[Swede]

4. Domestic Canadian beer.

The food was excellent.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Around 1975, I saw a SCOTTISH Dixieland Jazz band playing a store's grand opening in West Berlin n/t

[trof]

3. I met 2 fellow Alabamians in an Aussie bar in Rapongi District, Tokyo.

The bar was Matilda's Revenge.
I'd never met the guys before, but as soon as they started to talk I knew they were from Alabama.

[Old Troop]

5. I was once yelled at by a Nigerian truck driver in the mountains

between Saudi Arabia and Jordan because the US embassy in Cairo wouldn't give him a visa to the US.

[Iggo]

6. "....and his hair was perfect!"

Ah-WHOOOOOOO! Werewolves of London. Ah-WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Iggo]

7. I met a German girl in England who was goin' to school in France...

...said we danced the Mississippi at an Alpha Cappa dance.

It wasn't me.

[pink-o]

8. I was once in a Chinese restaurant in Athens, Greece...

With my friends who're from Birmingham, England, but are African-Caribbean and play Reggae. 7 of them were Second-Generation Jamaican, one was from St Kitts-Nevis, and then there were 2 Greek women, my very good Irish-American friend and me: the Ashkenazi Jewish girl. The Owner was a woman from Shanghai who married a Greek bloke and she performed a Zorba cum Fan Dance for us at the end of the meal.

Truly cultural fusion overload.