From here via here via here, 99 things I have or haven't done.
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life (I prevented several suicides when I was a counsellor, I think)
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
Some notes:
No 29: Total solar eclipse, with my naked eyes.
Nos 46, 77 and 78 are all the same event (although I broke a bone as a kid, too)
No 80: two books, actually...
No 85: Even the begats and most of the Apocrypha
No 91: Does Cliff Richard count? Billy Connolly?
Many of these things are very hard for an Australian to do, on account of their not being next doorish.
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No 29: Total solar eclipse, with my naked eyes
Generally considered a Bad Idea, you know. I viewed mine (1972 @ Gaspe, Quebec) through heavy welder's glass, or by projection. OK, I suppose I occasionally glanced at it. It was pretty cloudy.
(I note it doesn't specify solar or lunar. I have, of course, seen lots of the latter, so it hardly counts).
91. Met someone famous
No 91: Does Cliff Richard count? Billy Connolly?
If "famous" means anything at all, then Cliff is famous. There are some people in GB who think that he is second only to the Queen. In fact there are some people who think that he is more important than the Queen. Then again there are some people who think he is a Queen!
Rats, I've only done 38 of these things. Maybe 39 - does going part way up one of these count?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fell
And how speedy did the motorcycle have to be? I was never in a movie, but my picture is in the "Hotel California" songbook, on the "Victim of Love" page. I know that doesn't count, but it's something.
I've done 55. More than half way. 100 should be "seen a comet". Just a suggestion. :) And just to nit pick, Perhaps you fathered a baby, not HAD one.
38 items for me.
Same comment on "had a baby".
On 28, I have the distinction of visiting Venice and NOT riding in gondola.
98 - I didn't think Australians had cellphones; we have mobile phones (both names are silly - the Indonesian version is "handphone" - much better).
64 - can you donate platelets without blood?
86 - does going past the White House in a tourist bus count?
91 - does meeting an Australian Prime Minister count?
I didn't think bouncing a check was something to be proud of, though maybe these days it's more normal - anyway, done that too.
49 and 79 - didn't know they made personal appearances.
Over all, you've done more things than I have, which is not surprising. But I have watched whales and got chickenpox (not simultaneously).
"Got flowers for no reason" is too ill-defined, because surely if someone wanted to give me flowers, then that is automatically a reason. I have never had a flower appear in my hand through fluke quantum-mechanical thingies.
Well, looking at the list and the post #44 "Visit Africa" (a rather large continent), I must say that if you had been equally vague on Europe (or at least condensed the Italian posts to "Travel Italy") you would have had less things to do. At least on the list. But semantics aside, it is really interesting to see the thing you've done and want to do, and compare that to the things I've done and want to do. If we combined our forces there would only be a handful of posts left on the list :)
Bummer that you couldn't visit the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre when you were in Paris, though.
It's a fun game to picture which of these besides 46, 77 and 78 were all the same incident. I particularly like 58 and 97.
I get 46 or 47 depending on how you define the answer to #29. I stood in my yard in the pouring rain and observed the cloud behind which the sun was being eclipsed with one eye whilst watching the sun being eclipsed live on television in a more friendly climate, through the living room window, with my other eye!
If that doesn't count, I have observed a very spectacular comet with a long tail and a transit of Venus both under perfect conditions.