The "-miş" tense

The Turkish language is a wonderful thing. It has fairly rigid semantic rules such that even a novice like myself can attempt entirely new constructions and find them to be grammatical. This unfortunately was not the case with my new word "nefretçi", which was my attempt at translating "hater" (nefret is 'hate', -çi is akin to the English "-er", as in builder or worker. A good Turkish example would be saatçi, a 'watch repairman/clock maker', since saat means 'watch').

In any case, one of the best and most wonderful things about Turkish is the "dubitative" or "reportative" tense, the "-miş" tense. This is the tense you use in order to report what someone else has told you, to deliver information second hand.

For example:
[I heard] There are two Americans in Uşak.
İki tane Amerikalı Uşak'ta varmış.

Now, this might not seem all that exciting until one realizes that it can be used in the first person to describe actions that you yourself did in the past but that you have no recollection of doing. The "-miş" tense is ideal for forgetful people, but even moreso, and more hilariously, for drunks. A friend of mine half-jokingly called it "the drunk tense", I prefer "the hangover tense".

For example:
I was drunk.
Sarhoştum.

[I was told that] I kissed every man and woman at the party.
Partide herkesi öpmüşüm.

[Supposedly] I danced on a table.
Masada dans etmişim.

Oh Turkish language, is there anything you can't do? I hope "nefretçi" makes it in to the popular parlance, as it will be my token of appreciation to the Turkish language after I return home.