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What are three things you want to do before you die?

Take over the world
Enslave human population
Become multi-trillionaire thanks to awesome world leader powers

*Runs away to plan downfall of the world*:O

1. See my future grandchildren.

2. Make sure I leave a sustainable business for my children to take over and profit from

3. Visit all the continents. Only have Australia and Antarctica to go.

breathe
eat
sleep

Yay! I am successful!

1. Discover immortality.
2. Use immortality.
3. Avoid death.

Get married.

1. Discover and/or purchase indefinite lifespan and youth (age 30-35 is good, that way I won't be carded for eternity). That makes everything else easier.

2. Travel the former Silk Road by foot from Damascus to Xi'an and back and also take a multiyear trip through sub-Saharan Africa exploring the cultures and traditions of the region.

3. Acquire a ZIL-111 limousine.

I'd also say become a fully artificial cyborg, but that's implicit in #1. I mean, humanity is great and all but it's useless in hard vacuum, anoxic environments or in the intense radiation of interstellar travel. I've got to get rid of most of my organic stuff before I visit the Kuiper Belt...I'm aiming for 2050 for that one, maybe later because it will still cost a fortune and I damn well know they won't accept frequent flier miles for trips like that.

1. Discover and/or purchase indefinite lifespan and youth (age 30-35 is good, that way I won't be carded for eternity). That makes everything else easier.

2. Travel the former Silk Road by foot from Damascus to Xi'an and back and also take a multiyear trip through sub-Saharan Africa exploring the cultures and traditions of the region.

3. Acquire a ZIL-111 limousine.

I'd also say become a fully artificial cyborg, but that's implicit in #1. I mean, humanity is great and all but it's useless in hard vacuum, anoxic environments or in the intense radiation of interstellar travel. I've got to get rid of most of my organic stuff before I visit the Kuiper Belt.

I would have went for 21 - 30.

Dive with a whaleshark and try acid.

I'd quite like to replay Fallout 2, but, y'know, I won't cry if I don't. Finally finishing Baldur's Gate and then playing its sequel might be nice, too.


...I'm not really good at "aims" or "ambitions", sorry.

take a multiyear trip through sub-Saharan Africa exploring the cultures and traditions of the region.

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I have done this on a smaller scale (2 mo) I would highly suggest it to anyone that is thinking about it. It changes ones perspective real quick on things.

Have sex and get high.

Knotthole Glade;12921212']Have sex and get high.

Good choice! Might have a hard time with the first one though :p

Live. *nod*

1) Propose to my girlfriend (would do it now if I could afford a ring)
2) Have kids
3) Jump in a car from a plane with 3 of my friends (with parachutes preferably)

i would like to play in the main even in the world series of poker. an acheivable goal for whenever i have $10k that i dont mind losing.

stolen from other people...

travel the silk road
do the subsaharan africa thing (should africa ever become peaceful enough)
be near a whale shark in the wild.

1. Visit all the micronations of Europe.
2. Married and kid.
3. ???
4. Profit.

(Yes, I ran out of ideas. Braindead summer job FTW!)

What are three things you want to do before you die?
in this order.

Become a multimillionare
Find true Love.
Spend all my money (yes, the multi millions.)

What are three things you want to do before you die?

Jump in the LaBrea Tarpits
Write and publish a novel
Pie snipe the President of the United States.

Get my own special on the Crime channel. I keep leaving my bloody finger prints at the scene but the police keep trying to pin my work on those who have committed that most heinous of crimes.... being Muslim.

Jump in the LaBrea Tarpits
Write and publish a novel
Pie snipe the President of the United States.

Not in *that* order...right?

Not in *that* order...right?

Simultaneously. :)


...

Okay, maybe not. :p

Write and publish a novel

TG for ya.

Take over the world
Enslave human population
Become multi-trillionaire thanks to awesome world leader powers

*Runs away to plan downfall of the world*:O

*puts roofie in Maldorian's drink, takes over world in a single step*

Get Married
Have kids
Travel to Stonehendge and Brazil

to complete the plymouth-dakar rally and/or ride to south east asia on a motorbike.

to fall in love and not the unrequited kind.

to earn a living as an archaeologist.

I intend to die on Mars. Preferably while base jumping Valles Marineris.

Write a piece of music I am happy with and feels like I don't need to keep tinkering with it for years.
Have that piece performed by a professional ensemble.
Find something/someone that makes me happy.

I intend to die on Mars. Preferably while base jumping Valles Marineris.

oh yeah, base jumping, thats another thing i want to try. got to beat the vertigo somehow.

1.) Have an amazing psychedlic experience.

2.) Marry.

3.) Write a hit single and become famous.



I'm schizophrenic.

Thug#1: Paint a self portrait.
Thug#2: Build a House!

Jack: uh I .. I .. I don't know nothing, nothing, c'mon get in the right

Tyler: You have to know the answer to this question. If you were to die right now how would you feel about your life?

Jack: I don't know I wouldn't feel anything good about my life is that what you want to hear?

--Near Crash--

breathe
eat
sleep

Yay! I am successful!

You win the thread.

Me? I'd like to discover the Fountain of Youth before I die.

You win the thread.

Me? I'd like to discover the Fountain of Youth before I die.

wouldnt that mean you'd die after finding it? Like realizing it was a hoax or a so-anticlimactic ending of being whacked on the back of the head by whatever/whomever was guarding said fountain with a 2 by 4?

1. See Earth from above the atmosphere.

2. Punch out a horse (or maybe a bear).

3. Build a tomb of horrors (plenty of traps) and spread rumors of treasures buried within it, and leave orders to have my corpse mummified and encapsulated within.

wouldnt that mean you'd die after finding it? Like realizing it was a hoax or a so-anticlimactic ending of being whacked on the back of the head by whatever/whomever was guarding said fountain with a 2 by 4?

Ooo, didn't think of that. Well, I do have two other things to do before I die. Therefore, the next two things after discovering the real Fountain of Youth (assuming magic is real and the fountain is real) would be to take a drink and therefore become immortal.

Your mum.
Someone had to say it...
Anyways space might be interesting, I want to try something crazy like skydiving at least once, and get married.

Yer mam!

Dive with a whaleshark and try acid.
Ooh .. at the SAME TIME!

Great idea!!!


And as per the OP :

1. Learn to live
2. Live
3. Forget to live and move on.

Good choice! Might have a hard time with the first one though :p

Not if:
*you do them in reverse order
*you don't have picky standards
*you have enough extra cash to handle both the situations simultaneously

Find something/someone that makes me happy.
How can you NOT be happy as an extreme ironer?
:confused:
http://www.wetasschronicles.com/ExtremeIroningMicrolight.jpg

In no particular order:

* Be first in the World for something in NS

* Write a Book and get it published

* See the New Seven Wonders of the World

it really doesn't matter 'cuz i'm going to live forever, and so far so good :p

How can you NOT be happy as an extreme ironer?
:confused:
http://www.wetasschronicles.com/ExtremeIroningMicrolight.jpg

Well, it's because I don't go extreme ironing enough and haven't got anyone special to go extreme ironing with. Maybe I should start a society at my uni...

1. Leave a dirty dish out overnight.
2. Punch my father in the face.
3. Turn my life into Questionable Content (it's a webcomic).

What are three things you want to do before you die?
Three? Pshh.

-build the world's tallest sky-scraper
-get a drink thrown in my face
-touch a live shark
-see the last 10 minutes of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
-jump out of a plane (depending on presense of parachute, this may need to be moved to the bottom of the list...)
-give Jennifer Love Hewitt a piece of my mind
-invent a new flavor of Kool-Aid
-start a fist fight with a hand model
-change my last name to "The Conqueror"
-lose a race around the world to Henry Rollins
-break my foot off in the ass of whoever invented the Cosmopolitan Martini
-learn to juggle fire

Three? Pshh.

-build the world's tallest sky-scraper
-get a drink thrown in my face
-touch a live shark
-see the last 10 minutes of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
-jump out of a plane (depending on presense of parachute, this may need to be moved to the bottom of the list...)
-give Jennifer Love Hewitt a piece of my mind
-invent a new flavor of Kool-Aid
-start a fist fight with a hand model
-change my last name to "The Conqueror"
-lose a race around the world to Henry Rollins
-break my foot off in the ass of whoever invented the Cosmopolitan Martini
-learn to juggle fire
You can touch a live shark at that aquarium in LA. I didn't care do it, it's probabvly infested with aquatic parasites. But you can.

You can touch a live shark at that aquarium in LA. I didn't care do it, it's probabvly infested with aquatic parasites. But you can.
Yeah, it's weird that one is still on my list. I just never seem to get around to it.

I'm also surprised I haven't had a drink thrown in my face yet. I've had one dumped over my head a couple of times, and I've had people spill on me plenty of times, but I want the real classic drink-throw. Not quite sure how to provoke somebody specifically into doing that.

Yeah, it's weird that one is still on my list. I just never seem to get around to it.

I'm also surprised I haven't had a drink thrown in my face yet. I've had one dumped over my head a couple of times, and I've had people spill on me plenty of times, but I want the real classic drink-throw. Not quite sure how to provoke somebody specifically into doing that.
I've had a bottle thrown at my face. Does that count?

I've had a bottle thrown at my face. Does that count?

I don't remember being thrown at you...

Perhaps it was a flask you're thinking of?

I don't remember being thrown at you...

Perhaps it was a flask you're thinking of?
What, like you're the only bottle in existence?

Before I die, I'd like to figure out the secret to self-resurrection. Seems like a handy skill. *nod*

What, like you're the only bottle in existence?
All bottles are but different faces of the One True Bottle.

Okay, if you want to laugh, do it, but I want to be candidate in an election, I want to learn Turkish to a level of fluency similar to my knowledge of English and I have a list of places, I want to see, İstanbul, Mandalay, and New York are on it (among others).

All bottles are but different faces of the One True Bottle.
Well, I guess you weren't looking out of this particular face when it shattered after narrowly missing my head.

All bottles are but different faces of the One True Bottle.

:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7U5ESekYk

You're a LOLcat! :eek:

All bottles are but different faces of the One True Bottle.

I almost want to sig that...

...almost. :p

I'd like to live for a few years in a foreign country, and then preferably run it.

Write the novel of the century
Travel the world, including war zones, as a journalist/photojournalist
Marry somebody I really love and who really loves me

What's with all the "marriage" ones? I can see why marriage might occasionally be useful, but why would it be an ambition?

What's with all the "marriage" ones? I can see why marriage might occasionally be useful, but why would it be an ambition?

It's an ambition for me because I already know who I want to marry

What's with all the "marriage" ones? I can see why marriage might occasionally be useful, but why would it be an ambition?

it's socially expected.

When my mom mentions that she has a 25 year old daughter at her old lady red hat socializations the first question from the other purple dress ladies is "is she married yet?" mostly because they are trying to get rid of their sons.

Luckily I have been married a while, and so, I don't have to meet these boys.

it's socially expected.

Speak for yourself. I listed it because I want to find somebody I love enough to spend the rest of my life with. Marriage seems like the logical extension of this because of all the perks it comes with.

I'd go dancing in the rain where nobody can see me and sing the happiest song I can think of.
Then I could die, I guess.. .

When my mom mentions that she has a 25 year old daughter at her old lady red hat socializations the first question from the other purple dress ladies is "is she married yet?" mostly because they are trying to get rid of their sons.

"Get rid of"? Eh? But surely they're likely to move out before then, if at all possible?

And I don't think that many 20-something blokes would really appreciate their mothers' help in hooking them up :/

But OK, socially expected I can kind of see, amongst some groups. Although I don't think that's a good reason to make it an ambition, but ho hum.

You can touch a live shark at that aquarium in LA. I didn't care do it, it's probabvly infested with aquatic parasites. But you can.

i have to say parasites is the last thing i'd be worried about given the opportunity to touch a shark full of pointy pointy teeth.

- Get kicked out of a casino for winning too much
- Get out of the house and live on my own
- Jump into a body of water with a knife in my mouth, and actually have a reason to use it.

Smoke a cigar with Fidel Castro,

Drink too much vodka with Vladimir Putin and a few of his Kremlin buddies, while they chat about the old days :D

Visit the Arctic and Antartica while there's still snow!

prefeably in this order:

Find someone to spend the rest of my life with

get a job

get a degree in political science

Punch out this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kirby_%28journalist%29) (yeah I support the autism rights movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_rights_movement))

Well, it's because I don't go extreme ironing enough and haven't got anyone special to go extreme ironing with. Maybe I should start a society at my uni...

I think Cobbleism would be up to it, if s/he were there.
*nods*
Heck, i'd try it once or twice.

Your mum.
Someone had to say it...
Anyways space might be interesting, I want to try something crazy like skydiving at least once, and get married.

That made me laugh for some reason. At first I thought that the skydiving and getting married were related.

Well, why can't they be? :p

Take over the world
Enslave human population
Become multi-trillionaire thanks to awesome world leader powers

*Runs away to plan downfall of the world*:O

If it were me, I would insist on being a multi-quadrillionaire

Get married.

Ditto here!

1. Discover and/or purchase indefinite lifespan and youth (age 30-35 is good, that way I won't be carded for eternity). That makes everything else easier.

Won't work in Tennessee; over here, if you try to buy alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption, you're carded no matter HOW old you are, even if you appear to be over 100 years old; it's a new state law since July 1.

Knotthole Glade;12921212']Have sex and get high.

Good choice! Might have a hard time with the first one though :p

Ditto here, unless by "getting high" you mean on narcotics or anything like that.

Take a piss on the moon. Do you know how high of an arc that would get?

Live a good long while.

Learn a couple instruments.

That's about it. :)

Thug#1: Paint a self portrait.
Thug#2: Build a House!

Jack: uh I .. I .. I don't know nothing, nothing, c'mon get in the right

Tyler: You have to know the answer to this question. If you were to die right now how would you feel about your life?

Jack: I don't know I wouldn't feel anything good about my life is that what you want to hear?

--Near Crash--

Technical note: The narrator's name isn't Jack. He uses the name from those "I am Jack's [insert body part here]" articles he found... he can't have a name. It would demean the meaning.

I will not consider my life complete until I have been kicked out of a small country and told never to return.

Money is a silly life goal. I want to be able to walk into a shop and and be asked to please take what I want and spare the proprietor's miserable life. *nods*