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Top Ten Things You Want to Accomplish Before You Die

Discussion in 'Flash and Spam Games' started by kalantha, Sep 3, 2009.

  1. malaga

    malaga Auror

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    1. Get at least one PhD
    2. Make an archeological find of some significance
    3. Spend a million dollars in Vegas
    4. Own my own restaurant
    5. Meet someone before they become famous
    6. Write a TV script
    7. Truly understand quantum physics
    8. Work out how to smile and have my eyes open at the same time in pictures
    9. Clone my cat
    10. See the Nazca markings from hot air balloon.
     
  2. JWH

    JWH Unspeakable

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    1. Write a book
    2. Get married, have kids, be as good a parent as my own were
    3. Learn to play the piano
    4. Learn a few languages more
    5. See Paul McCartney live [before he dies, actually]
    6. Live in another country for a year at least, Travel the world
    7. Make a movie
    8. Own a fuckload of books, music and movies
    9. See cancer cured
    10. Win the lottery so I have the time and money to do all this.
     
  3. Erotic Adventures of S

    Erotic Adventures of S Denarii Host

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    1) Live in a Castle

    2) Start my own private primary school, high school, university.

    3) Build a city for the world smartest people to live, tax free, in luxury so they can devote themselves to research, hopefully help out in my university.

    4) Punch my current boss in the face really really hard.

    5) Get one million dollars and lite it on fire.

    6) Own a quantum computer.

    7) Ride a space elevator

    8) See a space born collony.

    9) Get hit my lightning and survive.

    10) Pet a Tiger.
     
  4. Skeletaure

    Skeletaure Magical Core Enthusiast ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    In no particular order...

    1. Obligatory: Write and publish a successful novel. Or several.
    2. Be filthy rich.
    3. Not just get a PhD, but also advance my field such that my stuff is still taught to students in 1000 years.
    4. Cliche: Fall in love with a beautiful woman (said love must be reciprocated).
    5. Have perfect kids.
    6. Get to see humanity's technology go nuts: nanobots, genetic manipulation, mind-computer interfaces, AI, quantum computers, space elevators, virtual reality, etc.
    7. Learn the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. E.g. the answers to pre-Big Bang cosmology. Is there a multiverse? What caused the Big Bang?
    8. See utopia.
    9. Achieve wisdom.
    10. Not die.
     
  5. Nemrut

    Nemrut The Black Mage ~ Prestige ~

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    1. Marry happily
    2. Have two kids ( a daughter and a son)
    3. See that the two kids grow up happy and successful
    4. Write at least one successful book
    5. Study psychology
    6. Travel to all the places I want to see
    7. Own a big, comfortable house for my family
    8. Learn at least two more languages
    9. Accumulate enough wealth to live all my dreams
    10. Become a good teacher
     
  6. Xanatos

    Xanatos Professor

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    1. Go on a road trip of America with 3 of my buddies from high school when we're all 21.
    2. Learn Japanese fluently.
    3. Move to Tokyo.
    4. Marry someone hot.
    5. Learn to drive.
    6. Play 11-a-side football for a team as a striker
    7. Learn Muai Thai.
    8. Right a novel.
    9. See Heart of Midlothian FC win the SPL.
    10. Pay my parents back and live very comfortably for the rest of my life.
     
  7. Xiph0

    Xiph0 Yoda Admin

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    lol. Sure we will.
     
  8. kalantha

    kalantha Sixth Year

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    Okay, everyone but Xiph0 will have kids. No, but seriously most people on here will have kids in 10-15 years.

    /me shudders
     
  9. Blaise

    Blaise Golden Patronus

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    Heh, uh...we're capable of having kids, but the chances of that are fairly slim.

    /me rolls at the thought of Taure's, Oz's, and Zombie's future sprogs.
     
  10. Chime

    Chime Dark Lord

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    1. Troll somebody on national television
    2. Publish something I've written (book, poem, doesn't matter)
    3. Play Duke Nukem Forever
    4. Study in China

    I can't really think of anything past that. Sure, I'd like to have money, a cool job, whatever, but I don't think that's in my future. I'll be satisfied even if I can't do any of those things.

    OT: Taure's kids would be snape and draco fans.
     
  11. Xiph0

    Xiph0 Yoda Admin

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    Oh my god I'd shit huge bricks if I saw a baby with eyes spaced like Taure's.
     
  12. Sagita

    Sagita Fourth Year

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    Interesting topic!
    I want to...

    1. Get married to my actual GF (on the way)
    2. Have twins!
    3. Get a six pack (not beer related!) (on the way)
    4. Attend the final match of a Football World Cup
    5. Become a plastic surgeon (just 7 - 10 years...)
    6. Buy my own Mini Cooper Convertible
    7. Buy my own house
    8. Visit Europe
    9. Live in another country (Canada/Spain/Italy)
    10. Create my own USEFUL surgical procedure
     
  13. Krogan

    Krogan Alien in a Hat ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    Lmao Zombros kids, little scalping peyote smoking half pints...anyone else just get a horrible shiver down their spine?
     
  14. Skykes

    Skykes Minister of Magic DLP Supporter

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    Graduated from college.
    Get Dive masters certification.
    Become fluent in Spanish.
    Live on a different planet.
    Have enough money to afford basic needs.
     
  15. Militis

    Militis Supreme Mugwump

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    1. Take a road trip that allows me to hit as many of the historical markers (in the US) as possible.
    2. Visit the birthplace of my great-great-great-great-grandparents. (Somewhere in Scotland for one, and Germany for the other.) (Probably wouldn't mind visiting the birthplace of my 1-3xGreat either.)
    3. BUILD the worlds fastest super-computer.
    4. Write my own OS that can run Windows games, but have the stability of Linux. (Yeah right...But it would be awesome, no?)
    5. Think up six more things that I'd like to do before I die. Erase this line.
     
  16. Dareycow

    Dareycow Fifth Year

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    1. Ride in a jet
    2. Own a house
    3. Knock up some chick and get married (hopefully to same chick)
    4. See the snow
    5. See the Great Pyramid of Giza
    6. Think of 5 more things. Kinda sucks I don't have any real list, I could live without doing most of that stuff except No. 3. Dam I need some real dreams.
     
  17. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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  18. Dareycow

    Dareycow Fifth Year

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    Yeah, I'm from the outback. I think I crossed the border to New South Wales once in my life for a birthday when I was around 7, otherwise I've been stuck in Queensland my whole life. Lived in Windorah (edge of a desert) then Longreach (3 hours north of the edge of the desert) then Townsville (tropical town). So yeah, no snow for me.
     
  19. Grubdubdub

    Grubdubdub Supreme Mugwump

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    1. Become a professional ninja.
    2. Befriend a head of state.
    3. Own someone.
    4. Manage to convince a religious person God doesn't exist.
    5. Start my own Fight Club.
    6. Own a super-computer... and watch porn with it.
    7. Invent something useful.
    8. Win a life time supply of pizza.
    9. Read 100,000 good books.
    10. Write a will.

    Edit:

    You ninja'd me!

    You read The Ultimate Power?
     
    Last edited: Oct 5, 2009
  20. Dareycow

    Dareycow Fifth Year

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    Way to aim for the impossible.