Tuesday, March 13, 2007

100 things you should do before you die

This was in some australian bank ad. Pretty clever since most of these require money.

1. Kiss a movie star
2. Swim with a dolphin
3. Take the next taxi to the airport and catch the next plane to anywhere
4. Run a marathon
5. Love your body
6. Travel from coast to coast across Australia
7. Own a tailor-made suit
8. Plant a tree
9. Do something you fear
10. Do a stand-up routine at a comedy club
11. Bungee jump
12. Eat something you've caught
13. Skydive
14. Run with the bulls in Pamplona
15. Learn to tango
16. Make fire without matches
17. Teach someone to read
18. Watch a lunar eclipse
19. Have your portrait painted
20. Win a premiership
21. Brew your own beer
22. Go to the opening night of a ballet
23. Buy cowboy boots in Nashville
24. Be an extra in a film
25. Become the next internet phenomenon
26. Walk the red carpet at an awards night
27. Grow a moustache [What if you're a girl!!!]
28. Be able to take compliments
29. Shower under a waterfall
30. Fall in love in Paris
31. Break up in Rome
32. Sit for a day in the gallery at Parliament House
33. Go to the film festival in Cannes
34. Spend a night in a haunted house
35. Write a song
36. Read a book in one sitting
37. Go to the World Cup final
38. Visit Gallipoli
39. Have a white Christmas in Lappland
40. Grow your hair long
41. Hug a stranger every day for a week ["Free Hugs"!!!]
42. Go white-water rafting
43. Dance in Grand Central Station [Why not in Flinders St?]
44. Score a hole in one
45. Talk to a stranger on the bus
46. Ride a motorbike on the open road
47. Learn to juggle
48. Collect something pointless
49. Own a convertible
50. Play air guitar on the steps of Madison Square Garden
51. Learn to fly a helicopter
52. Yodel on a Swiss mountain
53. Drive the Monaco GP circuit on a Vespa
54. See all of Billy Wilder's films
55. Create a cult website and sell it for millions
56. Join a dig for dinosaur bones
57. See the Wallabies play England at Twickenham
58. Ride the biggest roller-coaster in the world
59. See a killer whale in the wild
60. Coach a kids' sports team
61. Memorise a poem
62. Become someone's nemesis
63. Shoot a short film
64. Start your own business
65. Visit Stonehenge and recreate the Stonehenge scene from Spinal Tap
66. Buy a share in a racehorse
67. Walk the Kokoda Track
68. Get a tattoo
69. Learn CPR
70. Sit courtside at a Lakers game
71. Play lead guitar in a band
72. Meet someone with your own name
73. Shape your own surfboard
74. Gallop a horse on a deserted beach
75. Play petanque in Marseille
76. Work in a soup kitchen on Christmas Day
77. Have a star named after you
78. Drive along Route 66
79. Experience weightlessness
80. Live overseas
81. Run up the rocky steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
82. Watch Boca Juniors play River Plate at La Bonbonera
83. Drink tequila in Mexico
84. Create a world record
85. Invent the next must-have Christmas toy
86. Be a contestant on a game show
87. Learn the piano accordion but vow never to play it
88. Go on safari
89. Become your team's mascot
90. Enter the Archibald prize
91. Pay it forward
92. Milk a cow
93. Become carbon neutral
94. Get your dream job
95. Fly in a hot air balloon across the desert
96. Own an original work of art
97. Shout the bar
98. Dive with sharks
99. Grow your own vegetables
100. Design your own cocktail

Dammit, I've only done 20 of these. Unless someone notifies me that they loathe me with a passion, and then I'd be someone's nemesis, so that would be 21.

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