Three things to do, before you die. Tell us.

[praxiz]

I'm an aspiring author, so I'm just curious. Looking for material, or at least - some filling.

So, you have three things left to do on earth before you die.

What are they?

What would they be?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. get married, own my own apartment, have a pet for their entire lifetime

[praxiz]

2. Gee, I feel inspired.

You're my fucking hero.

(a cat, right) :)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. yes.

i would like to write a book but if i dont get to do that i wont die with regrets

[praxiz]

26. No offence, but try to spell "write" correctly, before you start writing.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

28. get off your high horse

and try to understand posting in the lounge is different from writing a book.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Okay, here goes

Fly in a hot air balloon

Visit Enlgand

Get a book published

[praxiz]

6. Im going to assume you ment England.

Ok, before you get anything published, you gotta start small.

Write short-stories.

Got any stories? Write them down.

Anything odd happen to you today? Write it on a note and save it.

Other than that, you're on your own ... i hate heights and I've already been to the UK.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. Uh yeah...ENLGAND I MEAN ENGLAND

Thing is, I already wrote the book. Actually four of them. Want to get them published!

[praxiz]

27. Add sex. :-) (nt)

[Fenris]

5. Get married

Have a child

Do something good

[praxiz]

9. "Get married"

F**k you.

:)

[Susang]

64. Are you always so eloquent?

"F**k you." How original. And uncalled for. :eyes:

[DS1]

7. Skydive into a hole in the ground that turns into a giant cavern

It's been done, it can be done again

[Fenris]

16. And you're just the man to do it

[Graf Orlok]

8. Get married

get wicked rich
help the helpless

[proud patriot]

10. 1)Raise my son to be self suficient

2) hold my Grandchild

3) write lyrics for a musician

[praxiz]

13. Lets deal with 3) later, but ..

Any reason why you cant do 1) and 2)?

[mainegreen]

12. Write video game

and stop writing just engines, getting bored and quiting.

[praxiz]

15. Holy crap - you write video game engines?

T E L L M E H O W

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mainegreen]

22. Well not the whole engine per se

but I've spent time working with DirectX. I have this sprite engine I'm really proud of. Time based animation, proper control of volume, and one very slick core joining the whole together.

If you want to write games you have many methods:

1 - Build your own engine around some graphics engine such as OpenGL or Direct X (direct X is good because is has a very slick built in input and sound interface). You'll need to spend a lot of time with the SDK for whatever method you choose, but its very rewarding.

2 - Buy a built in engine and focus solely on game programming (much easier). For this you might try something like DarkBasic.

I keep getting stuck on graphics. Me and photoshop are only on so-so terms.

[praxiz]

29. You are way .. WAY too smart for me .. (NT)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Three things......hm........

See my grandson grow up...he's three years old right now....

Help the Dems take the White House back, and keep it for awhile......

Sorry, the third one is a secret.......

Let me substitute something for it.......


Lose 20 more pounds, and along with them, my awful belly......


:shrug:


:hi:

[praxiz]

18. let's deal with 3) first :

my secret? Bananas. (and water)

one banana and a glass of water is so totally fucking filling.

(for about an hour)

errm ... can't help you with 2) .. thats another story, I think.

No. 1 -- .. well im never going to have a grandson so .. i dunno .. color yourself blessed.

[skygazer]

17. Own my own home

Travel outside the United States.

The only other thing I can think of is to see my dog again but hopefully that will happen after I die.

[praxiz]

21. Hmm! I would like to visit the US but ...

Mr. Skygazer, travel these days is only an expensive way to visit airports.

And your dog... well .. I've lost a lot of cats in my life ... and .. I'm guessing they don't want to be where you and your dogs end up .. so... I guess .. GOODBYE's are in order.

:)

[skygazer]

31. That's Ms. Skygazer

That's an interesting view of travel you have there - I tend to travel in pretty unorthodox ways. I've travelled the U.S. by way of my thumb, for the most part and seen a lot of out of the way places in the process.

As for the dog, she absolutely loved cats. She loved anything that was small and furry, treating one and all as if they were a beloved puppy (everything from an actual puppy to my son's guinea pig which she essentially adopted). So who knows? We may run into each other. ;)

[Mizmoon]

19. Visit Rome and touch the Coliseum

Drive cross-country in the US
See my young one graduate

[praxiz]

23. I'm with you on no. 2 -- but I have no lisence, so ...

maybe -- when I visit the U.S., you and I can go Burroughs? ;)

(not the gay stuff, though)

[skygazer]

35. Since you seem to enjoy correcting others' spelling

I shall correct yours. It's "license", not "lisence." :shrug:

[HEyHEY]

20. Have an epic adventure, write a movie script, see the canucks win the cup

[praxiz]

24. Canucks? I'm a moron here .. please explain (NT)

[HEyHEY]

25. Vancouver Canucks, NHL, Stanley cup - holy grail of sports

Ring a bell? ;-)

[praxiz]

30. I hear bells, yes ... but I don't think they are about sports. (nt)

[HEyHEY]

43. Yeah, time for you to take your meds I guess?

[mainegreen]

*Stanley cup - holy grail of sports*

:rofl:
Followed up by CURLING!
:P

[HEyHEY]

42. Hey, it's the most sought after sports trophy in the world after the WC

of Soccer..that's a fact

[Southsideirish]

32. Great question! I would like to be on speaking terms with my

immediate family (rabid right wingers included), have a peaceful, comfortable home with a garden and be able to include as many homeless pets as I can afford, and be able to "give back" for the many blessings I have received.

[Ikonoklast]

33. Three things, hmmmm.....let's see

One. Punch Rushbo in the c**ksucker.
Two. Wipe the snot and blood off my fist. Do it again.
Three. Laugh.

[praxiz]

37. Here's one out of three.

(3)

A drunk Norwegian guy comes up to a priest, and he says (sort of):

"EYH! PRIEST I wanna know.. do they have soccer in heaven?"

The priests says: "Ehm, actually I dont know. But I'm praying this evening and I'll ask Him, ok?"

Next day, the Norwegian meets the priest again:

"So, did you get an answer to the soccer-in-heaven-question?"

Priest says: "Yeah, I got good news and bad news. Good news is, there IS soccer in heaven.

Bad news is, you're playing short-stopper upcoming saturday."

[anarch]

34. Let's see...

1. Take over the entire world, and then renounce all power.

2. Invent faster-than-light propulsion, so as to take over other planets, too (and refuse to rule them as well).

3. Become immortal.


Not necessarily in that order.

[praxiz]

38. I think you watch too much sci/fi ... (nt)

[anarch]

40. I notice you don't say that's too ambitious...

Edited to add:

1. Get married

2. Have a kid

3. Buy a house and shit

:P

[flvegan]

36. 3 things? Okay...

1. 21" biceps;
2. Establish well-funded trust to care for my animal rescue and it's future so there's no need for charitable begging;
3. Write a book. I have the idea, the title and the content. I just can't put it together.

[BlueJazz]

39. Be an excellent Jazz player, Murder Rush and try to make my future

..wife happy.

[eyesroll]

41. 1. Post a thread asking what three things to do before you die.

2. Shit all over everyone's earnest goals in life and point out typos while making a few of my own.
3. Except for the ones who say things about video games. Games rock.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

45. eyesroll rocks!

:yourock:

[praxiz]

46. Consider yourself sued.

Just kidding ;)

[anarch]

48. hahaha

:thumbsup:

[Susang]

66. Best post of the thread!

:yourock:

[ZombieNixon]

44. Become president, win a Nobel Prize, write a fantasy/sci-fi epic.

Either books, video games or movies. I could do any of them.

[HEyHEY]

47. Get my underwear back from your mother's

Then I guess I'll go from there.

[bettyellen]

51. could you get mine while you're at it?

:rofl:

[HEyHEY]

52. I'll try, but I don't wanna go sifting through the whole pile

[bettyellen]

53. black lace hotshorts, just sniff for whiskey and you'll find em.

[greatauntoftriplets]

49. Win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Bring peace to the Middle East.
Not get pissed off when you insult me, as you have others on this thread.

[Inspired]

50. Find Jesus

in case it is all true.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

54. when you find him...can you ask him a question for me?

why the fuck did he leave writing the bible upto his friends? couldnt he have done it himself?

would have helped i think!

[Name removed]

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[Prisoner_Number_Six]

56. I have high ambitions

1. Travel to the southern hemisphere so I can see for myself which way the water rotates as it drains. I also want to look up and see the Andromeda galaxy in the night sky while I'm there.

2. Travel the US on a good motorcycle, hitting every state and Canada.

3. Write the perfect science fiction novel (I don't even care if it gets published or not)

[Scoots]

57. Before I die I want to have.....

1. World Peace
2. A pony
3. A bust of Margaret Thatcher sculpted out of EZ Cheese.

[wildhorses]

58. Well, I would drop old dreams

and watch them shatter
to find true love...
with thanks to Hal Ketchum
but since that will NEVER happen
1. Own a 5-gaited buckskin saddlebred stallion
2. Water-ski slalom and SCUBA for the rest of my life
3. Travel the world far and wide

[halobeam]

59. Write and play some music

with Jackson Browne... wait a minute, does it have to be obtainable????

I'll give you my other two...

have my writing edited and put in order and have a really long vacation with my husband and children.

[indigo32]

60. limiting to 3

somewhat reasonable goals

1. Own my own house
2. see a woman be President
3. run a 5K

there is much more I'd love to do and see.

[bearfan454]

61. Well

Watch the Chicago Bears win another Super Bowl.

Make sure my granddaughter will be well taken care of.

Shoot another nice buck, 10 points or better.

[RushIsRot]

62. Experience an earthquake, see the Aurora Borealis and

discover a comet.

[Wapsie B]

63. Things that occupy my thoughts constantly

1. For the first and last time of my life find true love

2. Run a successful business

3. Find happiness and stop observing life and start living it

[Lorien]

67. The same things; except I'd change #2 to "a successful business THAT

I LOVE". I've had a successful business, but it sure wasn't my dream job. I want to write and illustrate a bestselling children's book. Got the illustration part down, got a publishers-just have to find the time to do a job that pays crap instead of the decent wages that I earn as a commercial illustrator.With the * economy, that's tough.

[Wapsie B]

68. You're so right. Loving what I do is important.

I'm glad you've at least got an idea of your dream job. I have no idea. That's the frustrating part. I can't work towards a goal if I have no idea what it is I want in a business.

[Lorien]

69. Attend one of Barbara Sher's idea parties

(try Google). I went to a taping on one at a PBS station when I had come to a dead end in my search for a publisher. I had a publisher within one week of the taping. Many people in attendance were exactly where you are now, and the majority of them went away having a better idea of what their dream job might be, and how they could attain it.

[Wapsie B]

70. I've gone to her site

and have several of her books. I love her philosophy of life. I'm trying to work my way through "Live the Life You Love." But nothings rung my bell yet. The one thing refreshing about her is her telling you that you're good enough to have what you want right now.

[WCGreen]

65. When I was a kid, I promised myself three things....

That I would make money doing the three things I love...

Music, Writing and Politics....

Now by no stretch of the imagination am I a wealthy man other than in spirit and good thoughts...

But I made enough money in Music to pay for every instrument I ever bought... Enough to have to actually declare on my income tax a positive income for two years....

In Writing, I have made, over the years, two full years of good, middle Income salary.....

And in politics, I made my primary living for almost three years and still do free lance work to this day....

So I attained my goals....

Of course I believed I would get rich when I was young, but that is really not important....

I am just Glad that I was able to stick with what I wanted to do with my life and actually get paid for following my dreams....

[RFKHumphreyObama]

71. My choices

1. Be in a relationship and experience real love
2. Visit the US again
3. Make more friends

[bertha katzenengel]

72. Bertha's:

swim with fishes in clear blue water

publish a book (I'll be happy with one)

camp in the Shenandoah for several weeks

(I'm a simple woman)

If I could have a fourth: share a meal with Carol Burnett

[MissMillie]

73. Safari

Walk the Great Wall of China

Hold a great grandchild.

[eyesroll]

74. 1. Post a thread like this that somehow gets resurrected five days later.

Actually, that's it...

:wtf: