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Perlle's "? Things to Do Before You Die"

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From Dane Sherwood’s book, 2,001 Things to Do Before You Die.

There are some really interesting things in this "book" and other things that are absolutely impossible to measure. How does one <i>absorb</i> or <i>rage agaist the dying of the light</i>?

Other things are not applicable as times have changed. For example getting on the show <i>Friends</i> is out-of-date.

Still others are so trivial it seems like very few would go through the effort of making them happen. Or the goals directly contradict one another (e.g., <i>never be old enough to take up golf</i> followed by <i>take up golf</i>.)

So in attempt to discard all the irrelevant goals, this list is based on the book but some things have been altered…to make the list more pertinent.

Therefore, this list will be much shorter than the original.

  1. 1.
    ?
    be an extra in a movie

  2. 2.
    ?
    see a green iceberg

  3. 4.
    ?

  4. 5.
    ?

  5. 6.
    ?
    skywrite a message to someone

  6. 7.
    ?

  7. 8.
    ?
    hang glide in Chamonix

  8. 9.
    ?
    watch the sun set on Santorini

  9. 12.
    ?

  10. 13.
    ?

  11. 14.
    ?
    build a tree house

  12. 15.
    ?

  13. 16.
    ?
    spend one month completely alone

  14. 18.
    ?
    unicycle

  15. 19.
    ?
    ride an ostrich

  16. 20.
    ?

  17. 22.
    ?
    go on a silent retreat

  18. 23.
    ?
    take a natural mud bath

  19. 24.
    ?
    ride in a dune buggy

  20. 25.
    ?
    travel alone

  21. 27.
    ?
    go on a scientific expedition

  22. 28.
    ?
    shoot a crossbow

  23. 29.
    ?
    attend the Olympics

  24. 30.
    ?
    leave someone a $100 tip

  25. 31.
    ?
    hot-air balloon over a desert

  26. 32.
    ?
    invent or patent something

  27. 33.
    ?
    do a backflip on a trampoline

  28. 35.
    ?
    Read Invisible Man

  29. 36.
    ?
    Read Alice in Wonderland aloud

  30. 37.
    ?
    Ride Space Mountain

  31. 38.
    ?
    Read Dante's Inferno

  32. 39.
    ?
    make your own ice cream

  33. 40.
    ?
    watch Spinal Tap

  34. 41.
    ?

  35. 42.
    ?
    stay at a Spanish parador

  36. 43.
    ?
    sit in first class

  37. 46.
    ?
    read Lady Chatterly's Lover

  38. 47.
    ?

  39. 48.
    ?
    stomp grapes in Tuscany

  40. 50.
    ?
    take a bateau ride on the Seine

  41. 51.
    ?
    trek the Himalayas with a Sherpa

  42. 52.
    ?

  43. 53.
    ?
    drive a Maserati

  44. 54.
    ?

  45. 55.
    ?
    ride an elephant

  46. 57.
    ?
    ride a gondola in Venice

  47. 59.
    ?

  48. 61.
    ?
    Learn Sign Language

  49. 62.
    ?
    visit Ayers Rock in Australia

  50. 63.
    ?
    kiss the Blarney Stone

  51. 64.
    ?
    sing and dance with gypsies

  52. 67.
    ?

  53. 69.
    ?
    ride a camel in the Negev Desert

  54. 70.
    ?
    restore an old house

  55. 71.
    ?
    rent and operate a bulldozer

  56. 72.
    ?
    have bookcases built in

  57. 73.
    ?

  58. 74.
    ?
    live in Tangiers

  59. 75.
    ?
    have a house on the ocean

  60. 76.
    ?
    win a trophy

  61. 77.
    ?
    splurge at Tiffany's

  62. 78.
    ?
    rent a Virgin Island

  63. 79.
    ?
    attend a Hollywood premier

  64. 82.
    ?
    design a garden

  65. 83.
    ?
    take a wine-tasting course

  66. 84.
    ?
    run for office

  67. 85.
    ?
    write a play

  68. 86.
    ?
    make angels in the snow

  69. 87.
    ?
    watch a hummingbird

  70. 88.
    ?
    bike through Amsterdam

  71. 89.
    ?
    take a milk bath

  72. 93.
    ?

  73. 95.
    ?
    see Shiprock at sunrise

  74. 96.
    ?
    Christmas carol with candles

  75. 97.
    ?
    sleep on sun-dried sheets

  76. 100.
    ?

  77. 101.
    ?
    start a tradition

  78. 102.
    ?
    visit a biosphere

  79. 104.
    ?

  80. 105.
    ?
    catch a snowflake on your tongue

  81. 106.
    ?

  82. 107.
    ?
    close the bar

  83. 108.
    ?
    dance till dawn

  84. 109.
    ?

  85. 110.
    ?

  86. 112.
    ?
    play croquet

  87. 113.
    ?

  88. 114.
    ?

  89. 115.
    ?
    start a wave at the stadium

  90. 116.
    ?

  91. 117.
    ?
    ride a cable car in San Francisco

  92. 118.
    ?

  93. 119.
    ?
    board the river tour in Chicago

  94. 121.
    ?

  95. 122.
    ?
    have a hideout

  96. 123.
    ?
    ride in a cherry picker

  97. 124.
    ?

  98. 125.
    ?
    have a vegetable garden

  99. 127.
    ?
    slide down the brass fire pole

  100. 128.
    ?
    use a chainsaw and a woodchipper

  101. 129.
    ?

  102. 130.
    ?
    walk across a suspension bridge

  103. 132.
    ?
    give a keynote address

  104. 133.
    ?
    fence

  105. 134.
    ?
    learn to use a gun

  106. 135.
    ?
    wander in the Scottish heather

  107. 136.
    ?
    whale watch

  108. 137.
    ?

  109. 138.
    ?
    read Rainer Maria Rilke

  110. 140.
    ?
    hike in the Swiss Alps

  111. 141.
    ?
    enter a Pro-Am tournament

  112. 142.
    ?
    pan for gold

  113. 143.
    ?
    go down in a coal mine

  114. 145.
    ?
    walk on stilts

  115. 146.
    ?
    pick a lock

  116. 147.
    ?
    take a hansom cab ride

  117. 148.
    ?
    roll on a log

  118. 149.
    ?
    see all fifty states

  119. 150.
    ?
    pilot a plane

  120. 151.
    ?
    travel route 66

  121. 152.
    ?
    skydive

  122. 154.
    ?

  123. 155.
    ?
    read the Marquis de Sade

  124. 157.
    ?
    own your own plot of land

  125. 158.
    ?
    learn morse code

  126. 159.
    ?
    serve on a jury

  127. 161.
    ?
    mourn the dead at Auschwitz

  128. 163.
    ?

  129. 164.
    ?
    skip rocks

  130. 165.
    ?

  131. 166.
    ?
    wear a lei

  132. 167.
    ?
    ride the orient express

  133. 168.
    ?
    see the Black Hills

  134. 169.
    ?
    carve a jack-o'-lantern

  135. 170.
    ?
    go down in a submarine

  136. 171.
    ?
    spend the night in a pyramid

  137. 172.
    ?
    learn braille

  138. 173.
    ?
    get backstage

  139. 174.
    ?
    volunteer at a hotline

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