National Australia Bank (or nab if you're hip and in the 'hood) have a campaign going at the moment. As part of it, there's a list floating around that details '100 things you should do in your life'. Without making a deal of what should and shouldn't be there, have a crack at pulling out your Top 5 from things you haven't done up to this point.
1. kiss a movie star
2. swim with a dolphin
3. take the next taxi to the airport and catch the next plane 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. bunjee 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 the 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
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 in 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. got to the World Cup final
38. visit Gallipoli
39. have a White Christmas in Lapland
40. grow your hair long
41. hug a stranger everyday for a week
42. go white-water rafting
43. dance in Grand Central Station
44. score a hole-in-one
45. talk to a stranger on a bus
46. ride a motorbike on the open road
47. learn to juggle
48. collect something pointless
49. own a convertible
50. play a guitar on the steps of Madison Square Gardens
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 sellit for millions
56. join a dig for dinosaur bones
57. see the Wallabies play England at Tickenham
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 sometone's nemesis
63. shoot a short film
64. start your own business
65. visit Stonehenge and recreate the scene from Spinal Tap
66. buy a share of a racehorse
67. walk the Kakoda 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 patanque
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. climb to Everest Base Camp
83. drink tequila in Mexico
84. create a world record
85. invent the next must-have Christmas toy
86. be a contestant in a game show
87. learn the piano accordian but vow never to play it
88. go on a 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 the sharks
99. grow your own vegtables
100. design your own cocktail.
Pick five. Any five. So long as you haven't already done it.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Top 5: Things you gotta do
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13. skydive
24. be an extra in a film
70. sit courtside at a Lakers' game
76. work in a soup kitchen on Christmas Day
79. experience weightlessness
1. kiss a movie star
3. take the next taxi to the airport and catch the next plane anywhere
20. win a premiership
37. go to the World Cup final
38. visit Gallipoli
I didn't get down to 100 as these 5 seemed pretty tops as it is.
4. run a marathon
17. teach someone to read
33. go to the film festival in Cannes
37. got to the World Cup final (can I nominate the sport?)
93. become carbon neutral
29. shower under a waterfall
61. memorise a poem
28. be able to take compliments
80. live overseas
92. milk a cow
3. take the next taxi to the airport and catch the next plane anywhere
15. learn to tango
27. grow a moustache
67. walk the Kakoda Track (Mark Beaman's doing this soon!)
83. drink tequila in Mexico
4. run a marathon
22. go to the opening night of the ballet
43. dance in Grand Central Station
76. work in a soup kitchen on Christmas Day
97. shout the bar
1. kiss a movie star
6.travel from coast to coast across Australia
30. fall in love in Paris (wierd hey considering I am from there...)
33. go to the film festival in Cannes (nearly did)
96.own an original work of art
3. take the next taxi to the airport and catch the next plane anywhere
5. love your body
61. memorise a poem
69. learn CPR
99. grow your own vegetables
63. shoot a short film
93. become carbon neutral
95. fly in a hot air balloon across the desert
96. own an original work of art
99. grow your own vegtables
3. take the next taxi to the airport and catch the next plane anywhere
4. run a marathon
33. go to the film festival in Cannes
46. ride a motorbike on the open road
51. learn to fly a helicopter
1. Kiss a movie star
4. Run a marathon
17. Teach someone to read
24. Be an extra in a film
49. Own a convertible
Can i please make it six!!??
26. walk the red carpet at an awards night
no
look, if Claire is gonna mess with the formula then I want to take the next taxi to the airport and catch the next plane anywhere...
we're making a mockery of the fundamental premise of a "Top 5".
true - but there's been flagrant disregard for the notion since the get-go.
I'm happy to submit to boundaries though Brad. So long as people like Claire are prepared to toe the line as well.
Claire, you can have one of my extra spaces if you want... I’ve apparently had a complete adventure bypass, I can only find one thing on the list that motivates me at all.
62. Become someone’s nemesis.
There’s an Agatha Christie novel that has a fun scene where Miss Marple (fluffy-aged-knitted-pink) is found to be the nemesis of a Wicked And Foolish Young Man... One day...
i think karyn has afforded us an amicable resolution to this conundrum. on reflection i'm more concerned with the cumulative total of things one must do, rather than the discrete distribution of people's top 5.
Well if that's the case can I grab one of the spare spots and include 79) experience weightlessness???
When did we revert to a barter economy?
oooooooo im sorry okay!!! i guess ill just have to give up number 17. Teach someone to read. so you all better start feeling pretty bad that some poor person is going to have to live the rest of their life without knowing how to read just because it had to be a list of 5 instead of 6. but thats okay i will be driving my convertable to the awards night whilst kissing a movie star. oh and thankyou karen for your generous offer.. brad and simon- you both smell!
Don't worry Claire, I've already chosen to teach someone to read so I've got it covered for you. Turns out it was more important than kissing a movie star but, hey, we all have our priorities don't we...
He he
okay well you can bring your friend who you taught to read to the film festival in Cannes where i will be walking the red carpet with my movie star who i was earlier kissing in my convertable and dont worry, i'll make sure i wave.
Claire: you're heaps funny!
Don't listen to anyone else in that house where you're living.
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