Things You Want To Do Before You Die

Get fabulously rich, and create a company dedicated to start-ups that are silly or fun.

Fill my house with those playground balls you find at mc-donalds.

Go on a cross country road trip, and film the whole thing.

Take part in an Improv Everywhere.

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

• Reach a level of competency in a striking-based martial art. It's something I've been wanting to do since I was about three, but due to being broke and very clumsy, I've made no headway with it.
• Record a hip-hop album or two and help write a rock opera.
• Keep a ferret as a pet. Seriously, seeing one of these things in action would just brighten my day, whatever the circumstances.
• Move far away from Tennessee or at least past the Mason-Dixon.
• Learn to cook actual food, not this fratboy shit I've been subsisting on for the past couple of years.

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.

^ Ferrets:

Had a friend who had one. Devious little things. You learn to blouse your pants into your socks real quick.

Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.

Some of mine:

• Keep loads of chicken breeds for aesthetic purposes (German langshan◊ Naked neck◊ etc)
• Drink/eat at the Giger bar in Switzerland
• Be injected with a longevity vaccine.

By the powers invested in me by tabloid-reading imbeciles, I pronounce you guilty of paedophilia!

Hmm, I'd love to do a hell of a lot of traveling. Can't say I'd have one place in mind. But, let's see. . .

• Visit the Kokedera Temple. I'm a bit obsessed with moss and lichens and such. Speaking of lichens. . .

• Finish my designs for a miniature lichen landscape. Saikei with trees just isn't cutting it.

• Find a CORAL ROOT ORCHID. Little bastards are non-photosynthetic, so they blend in with the leaf litter, and appear for only a few days out of the year. Been hunting for one for years. A picture is all I ask of it.

• Excavate the old community well at New Echota. Amazingly enough, according to park employees, the well, which sits right in the middle of the old town, has never been excavated. I've found glorious little artifacts just digging through old shit in dumpsites, so just imagine what might be found in there.

• Finish my degree. I haven't decided on a specific field, but I want one, damn it.

• Breed an endangered species of fish or two. Actually doable right now, if I only had the funds and the time. Something I want to do eventually though.

• Find a wild American Chestnut tree.

• Live to see the day we set foot on Mars, at the very least.

• Find an intact Selu fetish. They used to be everywhere, but most of them have been snatched away and sold over the years. Finding an intact one would be a real prize for both me and the local museum.

So many things, so little time. C'est la vie.

-edit, Ooh, I think I know some people who breed those naked necked chickens.

edited 13th Oct '11 4:44:40 PM by carbon-mantis

• Own a squirrel
• Own a fox
• Own a skunk
• Own a rat
• Own a tarantula
• OWN MORE ANIMALS
• Become a Buddhist nun for at least a month and a year at the most
• Visit Japan and live there for a short period of time
• Own more animals
• Visit Thailand
• Acquire more pets

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

Now that Aon mentions animals, I forgot a big one: Breed the perfect cross between Dobermann and Rottweiler, in terms of size, strength, agility and smarts.

edited 13th Oct '11 5:00:25 PM by SavageHeathen

You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.

Go full-scale safari hunting in Africa with an armed military jeep and a Barret .50cal anti-materiel rifle.

"Hello tiger, meet explosive shell."

~bang~

I am now known as Flyboy.

Good luck with finding a tiger in Africa, USAF.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Right, it would be lions, wouldn't it?

Well, I'll add Asia to the list, too. Big animals are in Asia, too, right?

Hell, let's go 'round the world, and find big things to kill with big guns! It'll be fun, in a perverse, homicidal fashion...

...

Wait a minute...

edited 13th Oct '11 5:08:46 PM by USAF713

I am now known as Flyboy.

Come to Colorado, I'll take you to a few. We have 57 of them above 14,000 feet after all.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

From what I've heard/read, they don't make very good pets, because they can't be housebroken and they both stink. The artists of the Fox Paux webcomic have some resources on their website on how to/not to deal with foxes.

If not for your current location , I'd say join the Navy and ensure it's part of your signing contract.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw

What's with many of you talking about Japan in your posts?

^ Because it's the place to go. I myself would go there if I could.

One could say it's the Troper equivalent of Mecca. Every Troper should go there at least once in his/her life just like every Muslim should go to Mecca at least once in his/her life.

edited 13th Oct '11 6:29:14 PM by MajorTom

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

I'd rather go to Mongolia.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Why? Not much there besides the Gobi Desert and the northern reaches of the Tian Shan mountains.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

{You, personally, Joyflower. Not other people. Not generalizations about entire groups. —Madrugada}

edited 13th Oct '11 7:44:35 PM by Madrugada

I'd rather go to Britain, Canada, and Australia, personally. Japanese culture is alright, but I honestly don't care much for it, past the odd anime here and there.

I have no love for their food, either. Or at least, nothing I've tried so far...

I am now known as Flyboy.

^ Tempura. You must try tempura. And yakisoba.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

USAF@Plus authentic ramen in my opinion is great.

It would be fun to hook up with a Japanese boy because those dudes look so fine.I don't know why but Asian guys are underrated and believe me I think a lot of them are hot espically Japanese men.

...I don't know what those are.

I would love to go to Australia. It sounds like you could just get lost in the outback. Literally. Probably would need a team for that. Still, just to go out exploring for months on end? That would be awesome.

I don't think I'd go to any country just to admire/attempt to have sex with the locals. There's more to a nation than sex, people.

edited 13th Oct '11 6:57:00 PM by USAF713

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{Not a thread for talking about other posters. —Madrugada}

Besides I still think Japan would be a great place to go to and provided that I stay in places away from the Japanese hornet.

I still think you should visit Ghana in Africa because its one of the more safer and stable coutries in the continent.

edited 13th Oct '11 7:11:23 PM by Madrugada

Heh, unless you're gay.

Mmm, more places to visit? Think I'd hit up the Shetlands, get a chance to see if my great grandfather's old farm is still there. Forests of Eastern Europe might be another nifty place to go see. Maybe check out the Vltava river while I'm at it.

Oh, it'd also be awesome to scavenge the Northern Sahara for tektites. The ones from the region usually have a really neat pale-amber coloration about them.

edited 13th Oct '11 7:09:10 PM by carbon-mantis

{Please don't make this personal. —Madrugada

All in all, Japan just isn't an attractive place to visit to me, personally. I wouldn't mind a general trip to Europe, I suppose. Russia would be cool, too. Assuming I can avoid the criminals... and the police...

edited 13th Oct '11 7:10:32 PM by Madrugada

I am now known as Flyboy.