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ACJ

Holy… I’ve done at least 70% of that list, and I’m only 23. Heh.

jxn

15/31 for me. Don’t ask which ones.

Miranda

I have:

touched a snowflake.

left the country.

driven a car by myself.

broken a bone.

been interviewed.

gone blind in one eye.

been through an airport checkin.

gone mad. (well, not mad, but…)

tried sushi.

baked a cake.

gone skinny-dipping.

delivered on a pipe dream.

swallowed my pride. (many times)

I have not:

graduated

played a gig

even begun to read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

owned a television.

coined a buzzword.

been arrested.

been with a redhead. (I AM a red head though! hehe)

seen someone die. (but I have seen many animals die, and that makes me sadder than I think seeing a person would)

hired a bodyguard.

teleported/visited the moon/travelled through time.

signed a cheque.

arranged a doctor’s appointment. (but I have had them arranged for me)

clocked that computer game I co-developed.

solved a non-trivial Rubik’s Cube puzzle.

grown up. (why would anybody want to?)

kicked the bucket.

written a novel. (but I shall)

Also - I have not yet represented Australia in dressage at the Olympics… one day

I am so much more accomplished than Joseph! :P

Peter

The first time I touched a snowflake was when I went tobogganing as a child. I fell sideways into icy cold water and cried when half of my body filled with stony numbness.

I first left the country when I was four. The last time I left the country was a couple of months ago. I was right here for most of the intervening time.

I drive a car by myself quite often, but the radio helps to take away the pain.

I have broken a bone, but never officially. I broke a bone in the little finger of my left hand while playing basketball as a child, but I was such a little hypochondriac that my mother thought I was crying wolf. Consequently, I now have a crooked finger.

I have graduated, sort of. Well, I have a statement of results to say that I have completed the necessary subjects to graduate. No mortarboard for me, though.

I have been interviewed by journalists from the Herald Sun and The Age after asking a precocious question of Bronwyn Bishop when she came to my high school during the Federal Election campaign of 1996. I think I was the only person in the hall who looked more smug than her.

I have played a gig, of sorts. I was the support act of my girlfriend’s punk band, a few years ago. A friend and I created self-indulgent electronic music while people sat and watched.

I have never finished reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Nor have I started. I probably should. One day.

I have gone blind in one eye, albeit temporarily. At the Big Day Out of 1994 I lost all vision before collapsing next to the $5 “Smart Drink” stand. I had no money. I awoke to somebody saying, “let’s take his shoes”.

I own a rickety old black and white television, but more as an accessory. I use my computer as the TV.

I coined the buzz-phrase “had-to-trad”. It is a rather sophisticated corruption of “hot-to-trot”, cast in the past-tense. It did not catch on as much as one would have hoped. It gives me a buzz, though.

I have been through an airport checkin, and had scissors confiscated.

I have never been arrested, but I have come very close. When drunk in public, I once tried to give alcohol to a young uniformed schoolchild who was innocently trying to walk through the park on his way home. He called the police when he got home.

I have never been with a redhead.

I went temporarily mad a couple of times when life became too much. One of these times, I was drunk for 6 weeks.

I have tried sushi. I have eaten a live prawn in the same dish.

I have never seen someone die.

I have baked many a cake. Once I cheated — at least 3/4 of the volume consisted of whole Arnotts biscuits. It worked remarkably well.

I have hired a bodyguard. I had a party in Year 11 or 12, and my Dad became so paranoid that he insisted that I organise a 7-foot tall and 6-foot wide crowd controller to follow him around just in case things got out of control.

I have never teleported/visited the moon/travelled through time.

I have never signed a cheque.

I have arranged a doctor’s appointment. I am surprised that neither you, nor Miranda, Miranda, Miranda, have ever done this. Are you remarkably healthy, remarkably untrusting of doctors, or do you have servants?

I have never clocked that computer game I co-developed. In fact, the only computer “game” that I have co-developed was an artificial life simulation (with the author of this site). So clocking doesn’t really apply, methinks.

I have gone skinny-dipping, as a drunk, I’m-so-wicked-this-has-never-been-done-before first year University student.

As Joseph’s link will attest, I have never delivered on a pipe dream.

I have rented a hotel room, but have never trashed one.

I have solved a Rubik’s Cube puzzle, but consider all such pursuits trivial.

I have, I think, grown up. Or I have changed. Or something. Get me out of here!

I have kicked the bucket. Until 3pm last Friday, my toilet was broken. Passing motions required a bucket of water to be manually placed in the cistern. I got it fixed, and oh - the luxury!

I have never written a novel. And I shan’t, unless this comment counts.

That gives me 22/31 and makes me reigning champion! Woo hoo! And I have never swallowed my pride.

Wazkun

What’s wrong with you Joe? You should definitely try sushi. There is a very good sushi restaurant in Glen Waverley of all places, run by a long time Japanese resident. Also. does your list imply, like Rob Lowe, you have made an underage sex video?

Robert

I have touched a snowflake. My earliest memory of snow is throwing snowballs at my dad when I was about four years old; we lived in Dublin. Since then I’ve been skiing in NSW and Victoria, but I want to go to New Zealand and Canada.

I have left the country. I was born in Dublin. I have been on one trip back to Ireland in the last 15 years.

I have driven a car by myself. And written one off, too.

Thankfully, I have never broken a bone.

I haven’t yet graduated — that depends on at least two more years at law schol — but I have fulfilled the requirements for an arts degree with first-class honours.

I have been interviewed several times, by community newspapers, the West Australian, and on radio.

I have played a gig, if my high school concert band counts (I played the flute). If it doesn’t, then I haven’t.

I haven’t finished reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

I haven’t gone blind in one eye (thankfully).

I don’t yet own a television, but it’s first on my list of “things to buy when I leave home”.

I’ve never coined a buzzword.

I’ve been through several airport checkins. It’s a real hassle, but I suppose the extra security measures are necessary. Interestingly, the least secure checkin I’ve been through was to board the VIP jet, an Air Force plane full of politicians.

I’ve been arrested. After dragging out the proceedings, the police eventually dropped the charges. Oh yeah — that’s another time I was interviewed, for the TV news and later by print journos.

I’ve never been with a redhead, though I’ve had crushes on several.

Have I gone mad? It’s difficult to judge that one.

I’ve never tried sushi, nor will I.

I’ve never seen anyne die.

I’ve baked a few cakes, but I’m not much chop in the kitchen.

Who needs a bodyguard?

Okay, this one’s just silly: “teleported/visited the moon/travelled through time.”

I’ve signed several cheques, on behalf of organisations that I’ve been involved in over the years. I don’t have a cheque account of my own, though.

I’ve never arranged a doctor’s appointment (thanks Mum!).

I’ve never developed a computer game (half-arsed efforts at an AGI adventure notwithstanding).

I’ve gone skinny-dipping.

I’ve rented a hotel room. Actually, no I haven’t. I’ve rented several “serviced apartments” though.

I’ve never solved even a trivial Rubik’s Cube puzzle.

I hope never to grow up.

I’ve kicked buckets in the literal sense, but (obviously) not in the figurative.

I’ve never written a novel. Who has an attention span long enough for that?

I swallowed my pride once. Nearly four years later I’m still with her!

deanna

seeing as i am 22, and have never been to Europe, i feel that listing the things i HAVE done will make me feel better about myself and my current situation…so here goes…

I HAVE…

touched a snowflake…being Canadian and all, this one’s hard to avoid

left the country.

driven a car by myself.

graduated…4 times!!!

been interviewed a trillion times

played a gig a million times

owned a television.

been through an airport checkin.

gone mad.

tried sushi.

baked a cake.

hired a bodyguard.

signed a cheque.

arranged a doctor’s appointment.

delivered on a pipe dream.

rented a hotel room.

written a children’s book…not a novel

I HAVE NOT

broken a bone

read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

gone blind in one eye…but my dad has…and my best friend’s boyfriend…oh! and my cousin Sam too

coined a buzzword.

been arrested.

been with a redhead.

seen someone die.

teleported/visited the moon/travelled through time.

clocked that computer game I co-developed.

gone skinny-dipping.

solved a non-trivial Rubik’s Cube puzzle.

grown up.

kicked the bucket.

Joseph

For what reason did you hire a bodyguard?