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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. kalantha

    kalantha Sixth Year

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    After reading through the "How would you want to die?" thread, I was kind of intrigued as to what exactly those things were that people wanted to get done before they died. So, what are the top ten things you want to accomplish before you die?

    Mine are:
    1. Go sky diving and cliff jumping
    2. Invent something (it doesn't necessarily have to be useful) and get a patent for it
    3. Fall in love and get married (possibly have kids)
    4. Learn how to whistle
    5. Make enough money to successfully support myself and pay my parents back
    6. Travel the world and visit places like Turkey, India, Alaska, and France
    7. Eat dog (just for the bragging rights of saying I did it)
    8. Write a published work
    9. Ride a motorcycle
    10. Travel across the country to visit vineyards and taste wine
     
  2. Myduraz

    Myduraz Headmaster DLP Supporter

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    1. Complete military training.
    2. Find Osama Bin Laden.
    3. Shoot him on live TV.
    4. Win the lottery.
    5. Become financially independent.
    6. Fuck someone famous.
    7. Blow something huge up.
    8. Scream Yippie kay yay m-fucker while spraying on automatic.
    9. Write a book.
    10. Get a better life-plan.
     
  3. Perspicacity

    Perspicacity Destroyer of Worlds ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    1. Complete an Ironman triathlon.
    2. Be named a Fellow of the IEEE or the American Physical Society; become a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
    3. See my son finish college.
    4. Get a novel published.
    5. Become fluent in Mandarin.
    6. Visit space; barring that, take a parabolic flight.
    7. Travel--so many places I wish to visit, but haven't yet.
    8. See fusion for energy purposes realized.
    9. Learn to appreciate opera.
    10. Chef school. (I'm a decent cook, but burn water compared with my friend, a CIA-trained chef).
     
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  4. Jangel

    Jangel Earl of Someshit

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    1. Learn to fly
    2. Directly save a life
    3. Get something named after me (from an achievement, not because of money)
    4. Get certified for scuba diving
    5. See a penguin in Antarctica
    6. Enjoy a foreign language enough to become fluent in it
    7. Cook in a restaurant
    8. Be in a weightless environment
    9. Be completely free of debt
    10. Really, really like the place I live
     
  5. Krogan

    Krogan Alien in a Hat ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    For the record kal dog tastes fucking horrible

    Alright my list

    1. Go to Antarctica
    2. Blow something up with a tank
    3. Go see my favorite show being filmed
    4. Go diving with whales
    5. Be on a nuclear submarine when it dives
    6. Fly a fighter jet
    7. Write a book
    8. Go hunting with a newspaper crossbow
    9. Buy a Gemini 33 Catamaran boat
    10. Sail down to the Carribean on the boat and retire
     
  6. Mercenary

    Mercenary Snake Eater

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    1. Be a ninja
    2. Visit the Poles
    3. Write the next great programming language
    4. Build the next OS
    5. Find someone that I want to marry and have kids with
    6. Live within my means
    7. Build something like a house. I dont know
    8. Make someone's life Awesome.
    9. Save a life
    10. Be Awesome.
     
  7. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    1) Get a doctorate.
    2) Eat a million dollar meal.
    3) Lose my virginity. x:
    4) Become fluent in German.
    5) Pay my parents back in some way for everything they've done for me.
    6) Get a bionic eye with all sorts of nifty features.
    7) Form a band that never quite takes off, but is awesome nonetheless.
    8) Backflip.
    9) Jam with one of my guitar idols (Billy Gibbons, Tom Morello, Zakk Wylde, Gary Moore or Paul Mahon).
    10) Live to see a space elevator.

    I am a man of simple ambition and unassuming expectations. :v
     
  8. Vir

    Vir Centauri Ambassador ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    1. Get a Phd
    2. Get a SJD
    3. Clerk at the Supreme Court
    4. Be appointed to the Supreme Court.
    5. Watch humanity expand to the stars (colonize space)
    6. Get married
    7. write a book
    8. be named to the Order of Canada
    9. Win a medal
    10.Make more than $100,000 / year
     
  9. Sorrows

    Sorrows Queen of the Flamingos Moderator

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    Always amazed at how many people want to write a book, that being said.

    1. Write a successful novel
    2. Find a job that a am really good at, love doing and pays really well
    3. Achieve something that I am remembered for and is worthy of respect
    4. Live in another country
    5. Learn another language
    6. Get into a good university
    7. Have a happy marriage and family
    8. Meet an alien
    9. Get my gliding license
    10. World domination
     
  10. Red

    Red High Inquisitor DLP Supporter

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    Hola, me llamo Jose. >.>

    Sorry. Anyway, the things I would do before I die and not necessarily in any particular order are;

    1. Go to the Heart of Africa, wait for the sun to rise and play the opening from Lion King on some giant speakers. What, you wouldn't?
    2. Travel, lots of countries/places I want to see.
    3. Learn a language.
    4. Skydive.
    5. Write/Publish a novel.
    6. Achieve something significant.
    7. Draw/write a manga.
    8. Own a hamster(neglected childhood)

    Eh, thats all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll edit if I think of two more.
     
  11. Blaise

    Blaise Golden Patronus

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    1. 5-hour work week
    2. Pay It Forward in a huge way.
    3. Write a screenplay
    4. Build a website on par with FMyLife.
    5. Contribute to the search for viabale "green" fuels.
    6. Play for the Liberian (or) US National soccer team.
    7. Be a better father than mine is.
    8. Pilot's license.
    9. Have a woman propose to me, and mean it. Doesn't mean I'll marry her, but still.
    10. Get my brother to care about something other than money.
     
  12. Lyndon Eye

    Lyndon Eye Minister of Magic DLP Supporter

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    1) Fall in love, have 2 kids.
    2) Meet Tiger Woods and/or Roger Federer (maybe even at the same time?? :D).
    3) Enact educational reform of some kind.
    4) See a Barcelona game live.
    5) Watch the Olympics live.
    6) Become a partner at a litigation firm.
    7) Teach 6th graders for a few years.
    8 ) Learn to golf.
    9) Enjoy retirement.
    10) Learn to swim.
     
  13. Krogan

    Krogan Alien in a Hat ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    This is actually fairly easy to do as long as your not trying for jumbo jets or anything, I got mine in a touch over 3 months.
     
  14. The Santi

    The Santi Professor

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    1. Graduate Law School
    2. Join the JAG core
    3. Publish a book
    4. Get a PHD
    5. Help shape Public Policy
    6. Master a second language/ live in a foreign country
    7. Be named a US Ambassador
    8. Have a kid
    9. Become half the man my father is
    10. See the world change for the better
     
  15. Silens Cursor

    Silens Cursor The Silencer DLP Supporter

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    Hmm, interesting...

    1. Run a marathon
    2. Sing on stage in front of a crowd larger than one hundred people
    3. Get an MBA
    4. Finish my electricity generator project
    5. Write and publish a novel and finish all my fanfiction projects currently in progress
    6. Light and throw a good Molotov Cocktail
    7. Speak before either the US Congress, Senate, or Canadian Parliament
    8. Travel into space
    9. Find a way to make a GOOD Warhammer 40k movie
    10. Be happy
     
  16. reggin

    reggin Filthy Half-Breed DLP Supporter

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    1. Become president.
    2. Be filthy rich.
    3. Have an orgy of 5+ women.
    4. Create the first servant robot.
    5. Further continuing my richiness.
    6. Slap the shit out of The_Lord_Of_Chaos
    7. Pay nonjon to write more lulzy fics.
    8. Buy DLP from the Admins.
    9. Not have to work.
    10. Not getting booted from IRC by Xiph0 for stupid shit.
     
  17. vlad

    vlad Banned ~ Prestige ~

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    1) Hike the Appalachian Trail in one go.
    2) Visit pre-radioactive Seoul
    3) Person #21412521339 to suggest 'write a book' but it's true.
    4) Not have kids
    5) Retire before 50

    I'd continue, but the rest would either be ridiculously obvious that they don't count, things I could easily work towards accomplishing now if I really gave a shit, or things that aren't so much goals as things that would be kinda cool.
     
  18. Xiph0

    Xiph0 Yoda Admin

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    Some of these assume I don't get to the others, don't bother pointing it out, I know.

    1. Attain political office.
    2. Move out of the US; either to Ireland* or Argentina at this point.
    3. Have a custom house built on land my family owns.
    4. Get my Bachelors degree.
    5. Move to San Jose.
    6. Get a good job in my field.
    7. Obtain a FN-FAL.
    8. Get into a firefight [not necc. related to 7]
    9. Attend a SJ Earthquakes Playoff game [one of these years...]
    10. Harem. [Wut?]

    That's all I can think of for the time being.

    *Track Oz down and teach him how to backflip.
     
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  19. Lyndon Eye

    Lyndon Eye Minister of Magic DLP Supporter

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    pffft. That's just the teenage male talking. :p

    Scary thought: In 10 years, the vast majority of people on DLP will have children. :eek:
     
  20. Aekiel

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    1. Own a library of at least 1,000 books.
    2. Write my own book/series.
    3. Get a job paying over £100,000 per annum. (being realistic, otherwise I'd go for millions)
    4. Attain political office.
    5. Own a supercomputer.
    6. Live to see humanity colonise Mars.
    7. Live to see AIDS/cancer cured.
    8. Marry, have kids.
    9. Go into space.
    10. Get a PhD.