While writing an article on the lucrative endorsement career of Olympic skiing champion Jean-Claude Killy, Hunter S. Thompson was standing around a Detroit auto show when two kids came up to Thompson and asked if he was Killy. "That's right," he said. When they asked he was doing, he held up his tobacco pipe and said, "I'm smoking marijuana." When the children appeared incredulous, he added, "That's what makes me ski so fast."