# Semi-significant things to do before I die.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 9, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367 "2004-05-09T23:59:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/1 "2004-05-09T23:59:52Z")
“Things to do before I die” such as bungee-jump parachute jump, helicopter ride are all cliches, significant things. Last night I was thinking I must listen to vivaldi’s four seasons on my dad’s mega-expensive (£10,000 according to my brother) music system. This is a not so significant thing. I realized that there probably hundreds of less significant things I would like to do at least once before I kick the bucket.
So I am opening this thread, it’s a free for all for not quite so significant things you’d like to do at least once before you die. I am going to add to my own list as I think of them. **feel free to do the same** (Keep adding things as you think of them) Maybe we’ll like eachother’s ideas and want to do those things.
Also, don’t worry if it _is_ significant, add it all the same. It can range from sticking your tongue out at a police man to walking on the moon.
Here is my initial list…
Listen to vivaldi’s four seasons on my dad’s mega expensive music system.
Have a go at archery (or take it up fully).
Drive a fast car round a racing circuit.
Baloon ride.
Take a motorboat (under my control) once round the Isle of Man.
Visit London just for the sake of it.
Walk to the top of snaefel[sup]1[/sup] from douglas[sup]2[/sup] and back.
Write a short story.
Write a script for a favourite show.
[sub](1 - highest peak in the Isle of Man, 2 - Capital, where I live)[/sub]
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### Author:  [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/2 "2004-05-10T01:53:54Z")
Learn fluent Latin, Russian, Spanish and Japanese
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/3 "2004-05-10T02:00:47Z")
Sex with Japanese twins
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### Author:  [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/4 "2004-05-10T02:12:31Z")
> [@](#):
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> Sex with Japanese twins
I like this one. I think I’ll add it to my list.
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### Author:  [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/5 "2004-05-10T02:19:47Z")
Make it with a blind woman.
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/6 "2004-05-10T02:59:16Z")
Get married. uh…, I think.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/7 "2004-05-10T03:09:08Z")
Get married. Not just to anyone – a _good_ marriage.
Visit all of Spain’s 17 autonomous communities, and all 4 of Catalonia’s provincial capitals.
Do drag. With advice from a drag queen about how to do it well.
Have a translation published.
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### Author:  [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/8 "2004-05-10T03:31:37Z")
Witness a total eclipse of the sun – check.
See the northern lights – check.
Go to French Polynesia – check.
Learn to fly an airplane – check.
Hot air balloon – check (ride \*and \* crew).
Hmm. Think I’m done, here. Except for one: do it all again.
No, wait: There are still Polynesian islands I haven’t been to, not to mention all the Caribbean ones. And there’s another good total solar eclipse due in 2 years. Not to mention the hybrid solar next year in the Pacific. And of course I didn’t see a _red_-tinged aurora, although I did ride in a dog sled.
I better add fjords to the list; haven’t seen those yet.
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/9 "2004-05-10T05:17:29Z")
About a year and a half ago I had a major operation for a serious medical problem, and I promised myself that if I lived there were a few things I was gonna do:
\*Graduate from college with my class – check.
\*…Without dropping either of my majors or my minor – check.
\*Write a screenplay – check.
\*Take a sightseeing tour of Bavaria – check.
\*Get a job teaching English in Japan – check.
But what do I do now? That’s what I’ve been thinking about recently. Here’s my tentative list:
\*I’ve already sung “Bohemian Rhapsody” on three continents, and I’d like to try for a fourth!
\*See Iggy Pop in concert.
\*Visit Australia. (I guess I could get three in one if I attended an Iggy Pop concert in Australia and sang along as he covered “Bohemian Rhapsody”.)
\*Write a second screenplay.
\*_Sell_ a screenplay.
\*Have a movie review published that I actually get paid for. In money.
\*Go to graduate school.
I’ve done a few of the things mentioned by other posters (although not sex with Japanese twins, despite living in Japan), and I can say that visiting London and doing drag are both great fun!
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/10 "2004-05-10T05:47:49Z")
Fuck a famous actress.
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/11 "2004-05-10T09:36:40Z")
•Read _The Aeneid_ and _A Brief History of Time._
•Fly in an SST.
•Finish the stories I’ve been writing.
•Build a replica of a 1st Century Roman galley, and sail it from Morocco to Brazil. (And back, maybe.)
•Visit Europe. Specifically:
-The Colosseum in Rome. The Emperor’s box, in particular.
-The Interlaken region of Switzerland.
•Find True Love
[I’ll probably have better luck with the Roman ship, or the SST.]
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### Author:  [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/12 "2004-05-10T14:38:55Z")
I should write this down, but I’ve got a ton of things I want to do.
See all 50 states by motorcycle. And before anyone says you can’t ride to Hawaii I already know this, I was planning on putting fins on the bike. 😉 I’ve already done the lower 48 so I’ve only two to go.
Have sex in all 50 states, hopefully with the same woman.
Climb Devil’s Tower.
Travel through all 360° of longitude. I’ve been from California to Moscow so I don’t have a whole lot to do.
I’d like to learn to fly a bi-plane, but that’s the only kind of plane I want to fly.
Learn to hang glide.
There are way to many places I’d like to see to even start listing, but I want to see the pyramids, the ancient sites of Rome and Greece.
I still have three bands/people I’d like to see live. Golden Earring, who I’m seeing the end of this month! Gary Moore and Mark Knopfler.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/13 "2004-05-10T16:11:16Z")
Direct the stage premier of my Mary Magdalene drama.
Read Dante’s Divine Comedy, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Tolkien’s The Simarillion.
Pastor a small church.
Have marital sex with blind Japanese twins who are famous actresses.
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### Author:  [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/14 "2004-05-10T16:12:44Z")
Get married.
Have at least one son or daughter.
Get an article published. (If I die before I get something published after I complete my journalism degree course I’m gonna be pissed. 🙂 After all the money it’s costing me, I expect to have at least one article to my name.)
I want to go back to Egypt.
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### Author:  [@woodstock989](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstock989)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/15 "2004-05-11T03:03:10Z")
Bungee jump in New Zealand (plan to do that next year)
Have a rug rat or two and have some semblance of a family life
(…who the hell said that? and what are you doing in my body? :eek: )
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### Author:  [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/16 "2004-05-11T05:58:04Z")
Besides typical stuff like see the great sights of the world, I would definitely like to go into space sometime in my life.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/17 "2004-05-11T07:16:49Z")
Finish ‘Crime and Punishment’ by Dostoyevsky.
Lobsang- you live in the Isle of Man and haven’t been to London?
😕
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/18 "2004-05-11T07:46:56Z")
[ul]
[li]Post in one of the “famous doper” threads about myself. :D[/li][li]Marry the girl sitting behind me (she’s not reading this, not that it’s a secret) ;)[/li][li]I’m going out on the road for a few days with the Derek Trucks Band later this year. I don’t just want to do the story I’ve been assigned, I want to write a book about it. A couple of days probably won’t be enough material, so I’ll need to find a publisher or something…[/li][li]Actually, there are a bunch of other stories I’d love to do. One would be a profile of Andre Agassi, interspersed with desriptions of myself playing a set with him.[/li][li]The ‘travel to every state and write about it’ thing has probably been done to death, but ther’s no harm in one more person trying it.[/li][li]Try my hand at standup comedy.[/li][li]Boy, am I setting myself up here! :eek:[/li][li]A more modest one: survive the last few weeks of college and find a friggin’ job.[/li][/ul]
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/19 "2004-05-12T03:59:26Z")
•Watch a manned spacecraft launch.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semi-significant-things-to-do-before-i-die/244367/20 "2004-05-12T14:33:35Z")
> [@Cicero](#):
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> Finish ‘Crime and Punishment’ by Dostoyevsky.
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> Lobsang- you live in the Isle of Man and haven’t been to London?
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> 😕
It’s quite common for citizens of the UK (let alone the isles) to have not visited London. Britain being so densely packed with urban areas probably makes it quite easy to never visit London.
That said. I have been twice, as a kid. But I would like to visit as an adult, under my own steam, so that I can appreciate it more fully.
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