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While rummaging through my closet earlier, I found a blank copy of Richard Horne's 101 Things To Do Before You Die amongst a number of other pointlessly interactive Urban Outfitters books, and I felt completely obligated to transfer it onto here.

  • write a best-seller
  • swim with...
    • sharks
    • whales
    • dolphins
    • tropical fish
  • win an award, trophy or prize
  • catch a fish with your bare hands
  • make a discovery
  • throw a house party when your parents are out
  • be part of a threesome
  • realize your childhood dream
  • learn that instrument
  • leave your mark in graffiti
  • storm chase a tornado
  • get a piece of art into an exhibition
  • meet someone with your own name
  • ride the world's biggest rollercoasters
  • stage dive or crowd surf
  • get into the Guinness Book of World Records
  • own a pointless collection
  • study the Kama Sutra and put theory into practice
  • master poker and win big in a casino
  • get backstage and get off with a band member
  • be a human guinea pig
  • go up in a hot air balloon
  • get arrested
  • see a space shuttle launch
  • capture the moment in an award-winning photograph
  • bungee jump
  • see an erupting volcano
  • skydive
  • meet your idol
  • stay in the best suite in a five star hotel
  • experience weightlessness
  • see the aurora borealis
  • score a hole in one
  • design your own cocktail
  • play a part in your favorite tv show
  • visit every country
  • make a fire without matches
  • see these animals in the wild
    • panda
    • rhino
    • hippo
    • grizzly bear
    • elephant
    • hummingbird
    • giraffe
    • koala
    • manatee
    • gorilla
    • lion
    • monkey
    • penguin
    • kangaroo
    • tiger
    • crocodile
    • orangutan
    • eagle
    • polar bear
    • coelacanth
  • see a dog race
  • get a free upgrade on a plane
  • be friends with your ex
  • hit your targets
  • throw a dart into a map and travel where it lands
  • attend a film premier
  • do a runner from a fancy restaurant
  • scuba dive
  • milk a cow
  • be present when your country wins the world cup
  • see both eclipses
    • solar
    • lunar
  • write your name over a star on the walk of fame
  • learn another language
  • read the greatest books ever written (the following are what I HAVE read on this list):
    • 1984, George Orwell
    • Animal Farm, George Orwell
    • The Art of War, Sun Tzu
    • The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
    • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
    • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
    • Holes, Louis Sachar
    • Lord of the Flies, William Golding
    • The Odyssey, Homer
    • The Illiad, Homer
    • Of Mice and Men, John Steinback
    • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
    • The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
    • Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
    • Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
  • complete a coast-to-coast road trip across america
  • make at least one huge purchase you can't afford
  • score the winning goal/try/basket
  • crash an A-List party
  • see the all-time greatest films (once again, the following are what I HAVE seen on the list):
    • Amadeus
    • Back to the Future
    • The Breakfast Club
    • A Christmas Carol
    • Donnie Darko
    • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    • Fight Club
    • Jaws
    • The Jungle Book
    • The Omen
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    • Raiders of the Lost Ark
    • The Ring
    • Se7en
    • The Shining
    • Shrek
    • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    • Toy Story
    • Toy Story 2
  • live in the place you love
  • leave a job you hate
  • take part in a police lineup
  • get away with the perfect practical joke or hoax
  • join the mile high club
  • make the front page of a national newspaper
  • drive a car at top speed
  • shout "drinks are on me!" at a pub/bar
  • be part of a flash mob
  • visit one of the world's most famous sights
  • save someone's life
  • in various languages, learn to:
    • say hello, goodbye, please and thank you
    • order beer
    • swear
    • insults
  • invent a word that makes it into the dictionary
  • have adventurous sex
  • have enough money to do all of the things on this list
  • stand on the international date line
  • learn to fly a plane
  • get a tattoo and/or piercing
  • invent something
  • learn astronomy and read the night sky
  • drink a vintage wine
  • answer a personal ad
  • spend christmas on the beach
  • get barred from a pub or bar
  • build your own house
  • skinny dip at midnight
  • sell all your junk on ebay and make a profit
  • visit one of the world's tallest buildings
  • run a marathon
  • conquer your fear
  • get married unusually
  • cook a meal for yourself
  • join the 16-mile high club
  • create a cult website
  • own an original work of art
  • complete the monopoly board pub crawl
  • get something named after you
  • get revenge
  • be an extra in a film
  • live out of a van
  • go on a demonstration
  • confess
  • reach 100 years of age
  • continue your gene pool
dec 27 2009 ∞
jan 16 2010 +